About us

Aymara / Caroline van Hamme

• Co-founder TribeWoman
• Retreat creator / facilitator
• Certified Yoga Teacher
• Holistic Community Visionary
• Social Sustainability Designer
• Coach, Speaker, Musician
• Ancestral Medicines
• Project Manager / Coordinator
• International Networker

Ligia Mora Shepherd

• Co-founder TribeWoman
• Retreat creator / facilitator
• Founder Ghee Happy
• Holistic Community Visionary
• Soul Poet
• Amazing mum
• And much more

Aymara Caroline

Born and raised in Belgium, Caroline van Hamme (Aymara) is a multi-versatile humanitarian at heart and Karma/Bhakti Yoga practitioner actively being and catalyzing the change she wants to see in the world. She is a nomadic soul who speaks 6 languages, traveled to over 70 countries, lived and worked in every continent and is literally “at home” all over the planet for the past 16 years. After completing two university master’s degrees (Criminology, and International Relations Development Cooperation), she worked professionally for several years for international humanitarian NGOs, such as the International Red Cross and Oxfam, mainly in South America and Africa. She was also actively involved in communities and eco-villages around the world and studied ‘Sustainable Design’ at Gaia Education. Her ardent search for answers to existential questions and for a greater meaning in life and humanity led her on a path through many indigenous cultures and traditions, spiritual lineages, and ancestral wisdoms from all over the world. Within a holistic approach, she studied various philosophies, spiritual practices and healing, connection and well-being techniques, such as yoga, tantra, shamanism, ayurveda, reiki, deeksha, astrology, Pathwork, Life-coaching and Theta-healing. She is trained in two different lines of yoga: Hatha-Tantra Yoga and Kundalini Yoga, she ran a yoga school and taught both yoga and yogic philosophy in India, and has given Tantra and Sacred Sexuality workshops in several countries in Europe and Latin America. Caroline lived for 2 years in India, where she has received the blessing of crossing paths with teachers and gurus from multiple traditions of this deeply spiritual country. She also worked very actively and passionately with women’s circles and for a true sisterhood and transformation of women globally, has a long journey behind and ahead on the ancestral indigenous wisdom and medicines path, and is also an astrologer. Since 2019, Puerto Vallarta and Cabo Corrientes have been her loving and beloved sweet home. For nearly 3 years she’s been the general manager of the Museum of Art, History and Culture of Yelapa and coordinator of the museum’s monthly holistic event calendar as well as of multiple development projects in the community (such as organic gardens, ecological awareness and ‘clean Yelapa campaigns’ with the local schools and government). Yelapa is still her home base and she is well rooted within the community where this unique retreat will take place.
She is also a musician and will be playing on the first Medicine Music Festival in the Puerto Vallarta region in March 2024 (Sonar de Xiutla). Her unique music is woven with wisdom and spiritual lineages from diverse cultures, from mantras and kirtans from India to shamanic co-creations from Brazil and Latin medicine music with the magical touch of Mexico. Aymara has been the voice that guides ceremonies of sacred indigenous medicines, reaching the heart with Venusian beauty, devotion and varied rhythms that ignite the flame of inner power.

Ligia Mora Shepherd

Born and raised in Mexico, Ligia is co-founder of Ghee Happy and the first House of Ghee in Mexico. She began her spiritual path from childhood with tarot reading parents, but her healing path began with a kidnapping event when she was 16 years old that led her to live on the streets for 3 years. Her journey is a testament to the transformative power of resilience and faith. Believer and practitioner of ancient alchemy. In contact with ancestral wisdom, constant work with medicine from Mother Earth and healing therapies as her lifestyle and choice in every lived moment. Guided by divine grace, she nurtured a successful company focused on health and wealth, where abundance flowed effortlessly and miracles became commonplace. With each step forward, she has manifested greatness and shared the wisdom gained from her journey with those still navigating the shadows. Now, standing in alignment with her highest purpose, she radiates true joy and fulfillment, a testament to the transformative power of healing and the unwavering light within us all.