Zahara de la Sierra, Spanien
Up to 5 in group
September 16 - 20, 2026
About this Retreat
Metsa Yaka holds a clear and grounded space where what lies beneath the surface can be seen and felt.
With a precise ability to perceive patterns, blockages and unspoken dynamics within both humans and animals – often before they are consciously recognized – she supports others in coming into honest contact with themselves.
Her work brings attention to what is usally avoided: unresolved emotions, protective mechanisms and deeply rooted trauma.
At the same time she recognizes the deeper potential within each being – beyond conditioning and learned identity and supports others in reconnecting with their authentic expression.
Through her work with Horses, Animals and the Plant Medicine she translates subtle processes into direct, embodied experience.
This work is not about comfort – it is about honesty, precision and real transformation – not through force, but through presence, clarity and the willingness to meet what is true.
For over 25 years, Selva has been a guide on the path of self-awareness and personal development. As a breath and meditation trainer, transformation, life and soul coach, shamanic consultant and medicine woman, she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her work.
She has traveled the world, learning from teachers and masters in India, Poland, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and South America. She has also studied at both traditional and alternative institutions, gaining a deep understanding of various healing modalities. Her practical experience includes facilitating group workshops, women circles, music circles, rituals and healing ceremonies, sweat lodge ceremonies, vision quest and individual sessions.
She holds a degree in cultural anthropology, where her passion for shamanic traditions began. Furthering her education, she completed postgraduate studies in Process Psychology and a shamanic school under the guidance of Arvick Baghramian and Daan Van Kampenhout.
Her approach helps individuals reconnect with lost powers and visions, awaken their inner potential, establish a deep connection with their soul and spiritual guides. She supports people on their journey of transformation, healing, and achieving personal wholeness.
Sanken Tsoma (born 1979 in Germany) has been devoted to the path of sacred plant medicine and shamanic healing for over 12 years. His journey has been shaped by intensive, ongoing work with a wide range of plant medicines and shamanic practices from both the Amazon and Europe.
Through deep study in various Master Plant Dietas, he was initiated by teachers from both the Shipibo-Conibo and Q'ero-Inca traditions, receiving profound insights into the art of healing with plant spirits and energies. His main teachers include the Shipibo Maestro Inkanima from the Peruvian Amazon and Don Eduardo Chura Apaza, a Q’ero healer from the Inca lineage in the Andes. In 2017, he was honored to receive the Shipibo medicine name “Sanken Tsoma” from Maestro Inkanima, along with the initiation from both of his teachers to share this sacred work with the world.
He is strongly connected to the Inkanima lineage of the Shipibo tradition and is spiritually guided by the ancestral forces of this lineage - Abuelo Inkanima and Abuela Ronin Wesna - from the non-physical realms.
Since 2013, he has been co-creating and facilitating plant medicine retreats across Europe together with Metsa Yaka. In 2015, they co-founded the School of Mysteries, which served as the platform for their retreats until 2019. That year, they established Visiones, a non-profit association that now forms the foundation of their work.
Since 2017, Sanken Tsoma has been residing in Andalusia, Spain, where he has continued to deepen his plant medicine journey. In 2024, together with Metsa Yaka, he co-founded a dedicated retreat center in Andalusia focused on transformational healing.
Following a deep inner calling, he has dedicated this lifetime to his own healing, growth, and liberation. His mission is to support others on their journey of inner healing, personal and spiritual development, and profound transformation. With a big heart, he serves as a channel for the transformative energies of the sacred plants.
He creates spaces for healing – both on an energetic level through retreats, ceremonies and treatments, and on a physical level through the creation of a retreat center devoted to this sacred work.
Details of this retreat
This is a Journey into your Essence. Into what is already alive within you beneath conditioning, emotional noise and old identity patterns.
A space to reconnect with your inner truth, your gifts and your unique expression in life. Not as a concept or idea, but as something that becomes tangible in your body, your perception, your choices and the way you move through life.
At the core of this retreat is the reconnection with your essence – remembering what is truly yours, what wants to be expressed through you and the direction your life naturally wants to take. This is a guided ceremonial field where inner experience meets embodied integration.
Through Plant Medicine, Shamanic and Somatic work, we move beyond internal confusion into clarity, alignment and grounded direction.
Many women today move through deep inner processes, insights and emotional openings, yet often struggle to translate their experience and their visions into lived reality.
There is a gap between insight and embodiment. Between knowing and living. This retreat is created to bridge that gap. By bringing what is revealed into the body, the nervous system and lived experience.
The focus is transformation that becomes visible in how you perceive, respond and move through life with greater inner stability.
- The Journey -
Before arrival – From the moment you sign in, the process begins. You receive reflective questions and guidance to start your inner alignment.
Retreat immersion – A ceremonial space of deep inner work with Plant Medicine, Horses, Shamanic and Somatic Practises awaits you. You meet what is ready to be seen, felt, released and realigned.
Integration – Begins during the retreat and continues afterwards through a 1:1 integration call and a Whats App support group, helping you in bringing what has opened into your daily life.
- What you will experience -
Plant Medicine Cermonies
for deep inner processing and expanded awareness
Rapé Ceremony
for grounding and mental clarity
Cacao Ceremony
for heart opening and emotional connection
Shamanic Drumming Journeys
for deepened perception and inner guidance
Inner Fire Embodiment
for integrating shadows aspects into embodied qualities
Somatic & process-oriented Integration Work
for lasting and embodied change
And more…
- What this journey offers you -
Emotional release and reduction of inner blockages
Greater clarity in mind, body and emotional perception
A deeper connection to body-based awareness and inner guidance
Increased inner stability and healthy boundaries
Alignment with your authentic path and inner direction
A renewed sense of self – presence, clarity and inspiration
- Who this Retreat is for -
This retreat is for you, if something within you is asking for more clarity, direction or expression.
If you sense that there is more to who you are and how you want to live your life, but find yourself caught in familiar patterns or losing connection in everyday life.
This journey will ask you to meet yourself honestly, to move through discomfort and to be willing not only to experience – but to change.
We hold a clear, grounded and conscious space for you – where what is no longer aligned can be seen, released and integrated and where clarity, inner connection and embodied presence can emerge.
If you feel the call, you are welcome to join us on this journey – we look forward to walking alongside you.
With love… Metsa Yaka & Selva
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- Plant Medicine Ceremony -
In these sacred Plant Ceremonies, you are called to connect with the ancient, powerful Spirits of the healing plants from the Peruvian Amazon – revered allies of healing, transformation, growth, awakening and deep inner wisdom.
By drinking the sacred Medicine, you step beyond the veil of the ordinary, entering the realms of the Master Plants, where the doors of higher consciousness are opening. Here, profound healing, purification, and transformation unfold, across every level of your being: physical, psychological, emotional, energetic, and spiritual. This potent Medicine holds the power to heal the deepest wounds, dissolve the chains of old patterns and release blockages not only from this lifetime but from others as well. The Spirits of the Plants guide you on a journey back to your own truth, reconnecting you with your higher self and awakening a deeper understanding of life’s blessings.
As you integrate the teachings and wisdom imparted by these sacred Medicines, this experience can mark the beginning of a profound shift within you, an opening to living a life of greater authenticity, in your power and divine purpose.
It is also possible to participate in the Ceremonies without drinking the Medicine, as you will still be surrounded by the powerful healing energy of the plants.
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- Cacao Medicine -
Cacao Ceremonies originated all the way back to the ancient Mayan and Aztec traditions of Central and South America, where the spirit of Cacao, known as Mama Cacao, was honored and invoked in sacred ceremonies.
Her medicine was revered for opening the heart, bringing clarity, restoring inner harmony and connecting us to the wellspring of our creativity. The heart-opening essence of Cacao has the power to unlock states of pure euphoria, releasing emotions long held within. It invites us to connect with our higher Self, our inner wisdom and the loving energy flowing through our bodies, while gently calming the mind.
For centuries, Cacao has been used as a sacred tool for healing the mental, physical, and spiritual body.
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- Rapé Ceremony -
Rapé (pronounced Hapee) is a sacred plant medicine, revered for its profound healing, purifying, and centering properties. For centuries, it has been used by indigenous tribes in Brazil, such as the Huni Kuin, Yawanawa and Nukini, as a tool for spiritual awakening and deep inner transformation. The indigenous peoples often sought Rapé before going out on a hunt, as a way to connect with the spirit of the animal, seeking allowance, guidance and harmony with the natural world.
Rapé is a finely ground mixture of Mapacho tobacco, combined with ash and other medicinal plants. It is ceremonially blown into the nose through a bamboo tube known as a Tepi. This powerful medicine works on both the physical and energetic levels, cleansing the body, clearing the mind, and purifying the consciousness. It opens the heart, calms the mental chatter, and clears the pineal gland, allowing for deeper spiritual connection and clarity. Rapé is especially effective in supporting focus and concentration, making it an invaluable ally for meditation and introspection.
It is often shared before or during ceremonies, creating a sacred space of focus and presence or in a more elaborate individual ceremony.
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- Shamanic Drumming Journey -
A powerful method for self-discovery, healing, and spiritual growth.
Shamanic journeying is a time-honored practice originating from indigenous cultures around the world. For thousands of years, shamans have used rhythmic drumming to enter altered states of consciousness, allowing them to connect with the spirit world for guidance, healing, and insight. This practice is a bridge to the extraordinary, where profound wisdom and healing await.
The Journey is led by the steady beat of a drum, echoing the heartbeat of the Earth and our own heart. This rhythm guides us into a state of deep relaxation and heightened awareness, opening the door to the mystical realms.
In these magical realms, you will meet your guardian spirit, spirit animals, wise ancestors, healers and teachers offering wisdom, protection, and healing.
These encounters can provide deep insights and answers to your most profound questions.
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- Inner Fire Embodiment -
This ceremony invites you into a deeper connection with your body as a gateway to self-awareness and embodiment.
Your are guided into exploring shadow aspects, inner blockages and old patterns that are ready to be seen and transformed.
Through this process you are supported in reconnecting with your natural energy, strength and inner presence.
What is held in the shadow can begin to move, release and integrate.
A clearer sense of inner power, clarity and grounded confidence can emerge.
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- Process and Integration Work -
Integration is the heart of transformation.
It is what allows insights and experiences to become lived reality in your daily life.
We support you in your inner process with approaches that help you deepen, process and integrate what arises during the retreat.
This may include elements such as breathwork, body-centered practices, emotional processing, and mindful self-inquiry – always guided by what is present in you.
This is not about doing or achieving anything.
It is about creating space for what wants to be felt, seen and released.
The integration work is adapted to you personally, supporting you in anchoring your experience in a grounded and sustainable way in your life.