Retreats (English)

7 Goddesses 7 Generations – Healing

Yelapa Beach, Jalisco, Mexico

5 days / 4 nights
April 3 – 7, 2024

Retreat language: English & Spanish

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Summary

7 Goddesses – 7 Generations – 7 Sisters
Unique, deep and lush healing nature retreat in paradise

Inspired by Ancestral Wisdom:

Guidance of the 5 Elements, Mexican Purépecha Prayer, 13d rite of Munay Ki of the Amazons and Andes, Moon Dance, Vedas

5 DAYS / 4 NIGHTS
Starts 4pm Wednesday April 3, 2024
Ends 5pm Sunday April 7, 2024

We are at the dawn of a New, Feminine Era and in crucial times of great and rapid changes on our beloved Earth. In order for the new to enter, we must let go of the old. It is time to heal wounds carried and transmitted generation after generation, for hundreds of years. We unite in songs, prayers and hugs. Invoking the Grandmothers and Goddesses to guide our steps.

In between exquisite delicacies, baths of herbs and warm milk, oils and salts, we will hold space for the child within us, we will listen to her cry and we will sustain her anger. Helping to give birth to this New Era that begins with oneself, healing, caring and loving, in sisterhood.

We will initiate and close our retreat and our deep healing work and prayer with an ancestral temazcal (sweatlodge), a rebirth in the womb of Mother Earth. During the entire retreat Grandfather Fire will watch over us and we will be weaving in the threads of 7 Goddesses of all times and all cultures representing 7 universal feminine aspects into the 7 generations feminine lineage healing.

You will receive a Goddess Bath, a profound ceremonial ritual. Inspired by Aphrodite & Cleopatra and their wisdom and connection with Beauty and Pleasure. For 3 hours, in between petals, copal and essential oils, you will receive a bath of natural herbs selected especially for you. Then your skin will be prepared with oat milk and rice milk before receiving the most delicious bath of hot liquid gold, nourishing each layer. Seated in a hand-carved copper bath tub, you will be pampered with salts, massages, songs and affectionate hands. We will style your hair with flowers and your skin with ancestral makeup. 6 sisters will become antidotes and carry out this profound ritual full of magic in which they will witness the rebirth and awakening of a Goddess in their sister.

There will also be workshops, dance and singing circles with cacao and golden milk, an offering ceremony to the sea, flowers, gifts and souvenirs, and the most delicious and nutritous healthy food worthy to be served to Goddesses.

Beloved Sister

We are healing OUR WOUNDED CHILD together.
We are at the dawn of a New, Feminine Era and in crucial times of great and rapid changes on our beloved Earth. In order for the new to enter, we must let go of the old. It is time to heal wounds carried and transmitted generation after generation, for hundreds of years.
We unite in songs, prayers and hugs.

Invoking the Grandmothers and Goddesses to guide our steps.
Inspired by the little girl of water, of fire, air, earth and space.
In between exquisite delicacies, baths of herbs and warm milk, oils and salts, we will hold space for the child within us, we will listen to her cry and we will sustain her anger. Helping to give birth to this New Era that begins with oneself, healing, caring and loving, in sisterhood.

Sacred Space: TaraSana – Yelapa

This Retreat has the Blessing of the Masculine and the Feminine since before birth. TaraSana is a space that has been co-created to give life and sustain death, and is at service of creating and connecting. A divine space, from its deepest and wildest roots that connect with the crystalline and ever-changing sea of the magical town of Yelapa, to its finest and most elegant designs in its infrastructure. A place where the mother guides you and the father accompanies you. It is in this dream place that 7 sisters will become antidotes and carry out this profound ritual full of magic in which they will witness the rebirth and awakening of a Goddess in their sister.

We will initiate and close our retreat and our deep healing work and prayer with an ancestral temazcal (sweat lodge), a rebirth in the womb of Mother Earth. During the entire retreat Grandfather Fire will watch over us and we will be weaving the threads of 7 Goddesses of all times and all cultures representing 7 universal feminine aspects into the 7 generations feminine lineage healing of 7 different sisters.

For an impressive virtual tour of 360 degrees through TaraSana, click the link below:

https://www.insight-photography.net/vt/yg_tarasana/index.html

Goddess Bath

Inspired by Aphrodite & Cleopatra and their wisdom and connection with Beauty and Pleasure. We invite the Goddesses to come and inhabit our body, to bless us with their grace and abundance to be portals of their infinite beauty and ancestral wisdom.

7 Goddesses of all times and all cultures representing 7 universal feminine aspects.
3 Hours of personalized ritual where you are the chosen one and our focus of care and guidance.
There will also be workshops, dance and singing circles with cacao and golden milk, an offering ceremony to the sea, flowers, gifts and souvenirs, and the most delicious and nutritious healthy food worthy to be served to Goddesses.

About your Bath

The wounded child, the chosen one to heal. The generation that breaks beliefs and chooses to love.
6 sisters will prepare, honor and care for your bath. They will impersonate each of your ancestors with dedication, being part of this ceremony of initiation to your new life, to your new skin. Blessed with the grace and wisdom of the Goddesses and of your maternal lineage.
For 3 hours, in between petals, copal and essential oils, you will receive a bath of natural herbs selected especially for you. Then your skin will be prepared with oat milk and rice milk before receiving the most delicious bath of hot liquid gold, nourishing each layer.
Seated in a hand-carved copper bath tub, you will be pampered with salts, massages, songs and affectionate hands. We will style your hair with flowers and your skin with ancestral makeup. Your initiation ceremony and moment of rebirth in sisterhood will be consecrated with ritualistic photography.

Chosen to Heal

Information requested for a full preparation of your Ceremony and Retreat:
* Date of Birth for extraction of Birth Chart (Date, Time and Place). We complement with Kin Maya
* Name of: your Mother, Grandmother, Great-grandmother, Great-great-grandmother, Third Great-grandmother, Fourth Great-grandmother (if possible).
* ALLERGIES

Included

* Sleepover in a beautiful yurt on the grounds of TaraSana for 4 nights
* Opening TEMAZCAL (sweat lodge) & Closing TEMAZCAL
* FLOWERS, ancestral MAKEUP, GIFTS
* 3 special WORKSHOPS
* 3 ACTIVITIES of Offering and Gratitude
* YOGA & Meditation in the morning
* CAMPFIRE, MEDICINE MUSIC, Ceremonial CACAO
* FOOD & DRINKS during the retreat, 7 Tables of Venus Canapés, 3 Tables of Delights (Mediterranean, Mexican and Oriental), 4 Delicate Dinners & 1 Goddess Banquet
* GIFTS, SOUVENIRS and SURPRISES
* 1 Personalized ritual – GODDESS BATH

What makes this retreat special

This is a highly unique retreat, where women’s circles, ancient shamanic wisdom and ancestral practices, deep serious generational healing of the feminine individual lineage and the planetary multicultural collective, Goddess level beauty – luxury – food banquets – Venus treats – (Self)Love – bath with flowers-tea-milk-ghee, nature experience with the jungle and sea meet. All woven together in a very powerful ritual and prayer taking place in the Divine place TaraSana in a little paradise on earth, Yelapa (Cabo Corrientes, Jalisco, Mexico).

A unique combination of high level beauty, lushness and delights with nature connection and simplicity, while doing enjoyable but very deep healing work in a sacred safe space, in sisterhood and in a profound ancestral ceremonial ritual.

Benefits

Food: A Goddess Feast

The food during this retreat is a pure delight and will be truly worthy of goddesses. Not only there will be a rich diversity and variety throughout the retreat, it will also be extremely delicious, highly nutritious, very healthy, all handmade with love, an artistic pleasure for the eye AND plentiful. We are NOT exaggerating! Laura Albors, who used to have a succesful health focused vegan restaurant in Barcelona in Spain and currently lives in Yelapa, is our experienced artistic chef and conscious nutrition specialist in action.

Most of the dishes are very tasteful and nourishing vegan an gluten-free recipes, but we will also always have non-vegan options for the Venus Canapés, ghee and special bread on the table, optionally chicken for the Mexican dinner and optionally fresh fish for the banquet feast.

Food Description per day:

DAY 1: cacao, dinner
DAY 2: Venus Canapés and teas during the morning Goddess Bath, Mediterranean Table of Delights (lunch), Venus Canapés and teas during the afternoon Goddess Bath, Mediterranean Dinner, Cacao around the fire
DAY 3: Venus Canapés and teas during the morning Goddess Bath, Mexican Table of Delights (lunch), Venus Canapés and teas during the afternoon Goddess Bath, Mexican Dinner, Golden milk during evening dance workshop
DAY 4: Venus Canapés and teas during the morning Goddess Bath, Oriental Table of Delights (lunch), Venus Canapés and teas during the afternoon Goddess Bath, Oriental Dinner, Cocktail during evening workshop
DAY 5: Venus Canapés and teas during the morning Goddess Bath, Goddess Banquet Feast (lunch)

Meals Provided
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
• Snacks

Diets Catered
• Dairy-free
• Egg-free
• Gluten Free
• Low fat
• Organic
• Sugar conscious
• Vegan
• Vegetarian

Accommodation

GLAMPING
We will be sleeping comfortably, right next to the TaraSana building, in a beautiful, cozy and spacious Yurt, a white and round Mongolian nomad style tent, on individual mattresses. There is a private garden shower. The arrangements are designed to connect more deeply with nature and its elements, and with ancestral practices, yet at the same time providing comfort and coziness. There are outdoor dry toilets as well as an indoor toilet. The goddess baths, several workshops and circles will be held indoor in TaraSana, some activities will be outdoor, like the temazcales, cacao and music ceremony around the fire, clay sculpting etc.

The option of Private accommodation close to Tarasana is available at extra cost in case, for some reason, you can’t stay in the yurt. Please inform us about this.

Retreat Program

We will welcome you at TaraSana in Yelapa on Wednesday April 3d at 4 pm with cacao and flowers. At 5 pm we start the activities, and the same evening we will have our opening temazcal (sweat lodge). We will also close our retreat and our deep healing work and prayer with an ancestral temazcal, a rebirth in the womb of Mother Earth.

Every evening there will be an evening activity (workshop, circle, ceremony etc.) after a light but delightful dinner. Every morning we start with a short but refreshing yoga and meditation connection. In between the 7 Goddess Baths (3 hours each) we will have throughout the retreat and in which you will participate (1 of them you will be the full receiver of this deep healing gift), we have afternoon workshops, free time to integrate and rest, and amazing lunches which are a delight for your stomach, body, heart and eye.During the morning Goddess Bath there will be Venus canapés and teas that will be our breakfast. Also in the afternoon Goddess Bath we will have Venus canapés. On Sunday April 7th, the last day, will enter into the closing Temazcal after the morning Goddess Bath. Coming out fully rebirthed, a wonderful food Banquet will be waiting for us. There will be a closing circle, and by 5 pm on Sunday the retreat ends, on time to take the boat out to Boca de Tomatlán and Puerto Vallarta (last boat taxi leaves Yelapa at 6 pm), or you can stay longer in Yelapa in one of the many airbnb places or other accommodation options here. In case you want to come earlier to Yelapa before the start of the retreat, or stay longer after the retreat, we can help you with contacts and tips on accommodation in Yelapa.

During the entire retreat Grandfather Fire will watch over us (the same Fire will be burning throughout the entire retreat) and we will be magically weaving the threads of 7 Goddesses of all times and all cultures representing 7 universal feminine aspects into the 7 generations feminine lineage healing of 7 different sisters.

DETAILED PROGRAM

Day 1
• 4:00 PM
Welcome with cacao and flowers
• 5:00 PM
Opening circle and introduction
• 6:00 PM
Initiation Temazcal
• 8:15 PM
Dinner
• 9:00 PM
Personal time to get ready for the night
• 10:00 PM
Goddess Altar Activation – Women Circle inside TaraSana
• 11:00 PM
Sleeping time – lights off

Day 2
• 7:00 AM
Wake up
• 7:30 AM
Short yoga and Meditation
• 8:00 AM
Personal time to get ready for the rest of the day
• 8:30 AM
First Goddess Bath (including Venus Canapés)
• 11:30 AM
Personal Integration Time
• 12:30 PM
Table of Delights – Lunch (Mediterranean)
• 1:30 PM
Workshop – Clay sculpting
• 3:00 PM
Second Goddess Bath (including Venus Canapés)
• 6:00 PM
Personal Integration Time
• 7:00 PM
Dinner (Mediterranean)
• 8:00 PM
Fire, cacao and singing ceremony and circle
• 10:00 PM
Getting ready for bed
• 11:00 PM
Lights off

Day 3
• 7:00 AM
Wake up
• 7:30 AM
Short yoga and Meditation
• 8:00 AM
Personal time to get ready for the rest of the day
• 8:30 AM
Third Goddess Bath (including Venus Canapés)
• 11:30 AM
Personal Integration Time
• 12:30 PM
Table of Delights – Lunch (Mexican)
• 1:30 PM
Workshop – Ancestral Make-up
• 3:00 PM
Fourth Goddess Bath (including Venus Canapés)
• 6:00 PM
Personal Integration Time
• 7:00 PM
Dinner (Mexican)
• 8:00 PM
Chakra Activation Dance (with golden milk)
• 10:00 PM
Getting ready for bed
• 11:00 PM
Lights off

Day 4
• 7:00 AM
Wake up
• 7:30 AM
Short yoga and Meditation
• 8:00 AM
Personal time to get ready for the rest of the day
• 8:30 AM
Fifth Goddess Bath (including Venus Canapés)
• 11:30 AM
Personal Integration Time
• 12:30 PM
Table of Delights – Lunch (Oriental)
• 1:30 PM
Sea Ceremony – Bathing and Offering for the Water
• 3:00 PM
Sixth Goddess Bath (including Venus Canapés)
• 6:00 PM
Personal Integration Time
• 7:00 PM
Dinner (Oriental)
• 8:00 PM
Watercoloring and sharing circle (with alcohol-free cocktail)
• 10:00 PM
Getting ready for bed
• 11:00 PM
Lights off

Day 5
• 7:00 AM
Wake up
• 7:30 AM
Personal time to get ready for the rest of the day and start packing
• 8:00 AM
Seventh Goddess Bath
• 11:00 AM
Personal Integration Time
• 12:00 AM
Closure Temazcal – REBIRTH
• 2:00 PM
Goddess Banquet Feast
• 3:15 PM
Closing Circle – Gifts & Souvenirs
• 4:15 PM
Packing & Goodbye
• 5:00 PM
Closure

(DAY 5 we will have a professional photographer)

Retreat Guides

• CAROLINE VAN HAMME – AYMARA
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 performed 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, I am co-founder of Ghee Happy and the first House of Ghee in Mexico. I began my spiritual path from childhood with tarot reading parents, but my healing path began with a kidnapping event when I was 16 years old that led me to live on the streets for 3 years. My 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 my lifestyle and choice in every lived moment. Guided by divine grace, I nurtured a successful company focused on health and wealth, where abundance flowed effortlessly and miracles became commonplace. With each step forward, I’ve manifested greatness and shared the wisdom gained from my journey with those still navigating the shadows. Now, standing in alignment with my highest purpose, I radiate joy and fulfillment, a testament to the transformative power of healing and the unwavering light within us all.”

Languages

Languages used during the retreat:
English & Spanish
There will be translation of everything, if needed.

Location Information

You reach the paradise beach of hidden gem Yelapa by taking a boat taxi from Puerto Vallarta (1 hour boat ride) or from Boca de Tomatlán (40 minutes boat ride). There are two piers in ‘pueblo mágico’ Yelapa, you want to get off at the beach pier. The retreat takes place in TaraSana, a less than 5 minutes walk from the beach and a truly unique building in the world that seems to come right out of a divine fairytale. It really can’t get more ‘Magic Mexico’ than this!

You can get a glimpe of what to expect and walk virtually through Yelapa at the following link:

https://yelapaguide.com/

Seasonal Information
Yelapa is situated in a tropical climate and vegetation zone, with a dry season from October-November until the end of June, and a strong humid and rainy season in July-August-September. It has a very pleasant winter temperature, and can get pretty warm and more humid once spring is in the air. The average temperature in April is between 29 and 19 degrees Celsius (66 to 84 degrees Fahrenheit). The chances to get rain during our retreat are less than 0,5%, it is extremely unlikely, as it is still full on dry season.

Nearby Activities

• Fishing
• Hiking
• Horse riding
• Kayaking
• Museum visits
• Stand Up Paddleboarding
• Surfing
• Swimming
• Waterfalls
• Wildlife watching

How to get there

(Flights, Airport Transfers, Buses, Boats)

Airport: PVR – Puerto Vallarta
Aeropuerto Internacional Lic. Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
Transfer not provided by the retreat

Taxi, Bus, Boat (water taxi)
From the Puerto Vallarta International Airport, you can take a taxi/Uber to Puerto Vallarta (PV) Old Town (Romantic zone or ‘zona romántica’).

BOAT TO YELAPA FROM PUERTO VALLARTA: In the ‘zona romántica’ of PV you can take a direct taxi boat to Yelapa from the PV pier ‘Los Muertos’ (1 hour, 320 mexican pesos one way, 500 MXN retour ticket), there are 5 water taxis (‘pangas’) per day going from here to Yelapa: at 11 am, 11h45 am, 1 pm, 3 pm and at 5 pm.

BOAT TO YELAPA FROM BOCA DE TOMATLÁN: Another option to reach Yelapa, is by taking a water taxi from Boca de Tomatlán, about 35 minutes drive by bus (10 mexican pesos, leaves at the bus stand for ‘Mismaloya’ in the romantic zone in PV old town) or by taxi/Uber from PV. From Boca de Tomatlán (also called ‘Boca’) many more water taxis (13) are daily leaving to Yelapa (120 MXN for one-way): the first one at 8 am, the next leave at 9 am, 10 am, 11 am, 12h, 12h30 pm, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, 6 pm and the last one at 6h35 pm. It is perfectly possible to simply pay at the end of the ride one-way (without ticket) and it leaves you all the freedom to take any return water taxi to Boca, choosing your day and hour with flexibility.

Get off the water taxi at the Yelapa Beach Pier

Yelapa has 2 docks to get off: the town pier (where the church, museum etc. are), and the beach pier (this is the one to get off for the retreat, as TaraSana is very close to the main beach). From the beach pier, it is only a 5 minutes walk to get at TaraSana.

To go out of Yelapa

To leave Yelapa and go back to PV or Boca de Tomatlán, 18 water taxis are going out daily on a fixed schedule, the first water taxi leaves at 7 am and the last one at 6 pm. The last public water taxi to PV leaves at 4 pm, the last public water taxi to Boca de Tomatlán leaves at 6 pm. The same prices apply to go out than to come into Yelapa.

Payment

Payment scheme is possible. We offer 3,6,12 Months without interest
Paying with credit card

The total amount has to be paid by Sunday, March 24th, 2024
The option of Private accommodation close to TaraSana is available at extra cost in case, for some reason, you can’t stay in the yurt

Cancellation Policy
100% deposit refund for cancellation 26 days before retreat start date.
50% deposit refund for cancellation 18-25 days before retreat start date.
0% deposit refund for cancellation 0-17 days before retreat start date.
The remaining balance is due March 24th, 2024

Total value

1.999 USD – 34,015 MXN

For 5 days 4 nights all-in retreat

Included / Not included

What’s included in this package
• Accommodation (in the cozy sisters yurt tent)
• 3 daily delicious and nutritious meals
• Welcome drink
• Professional event photos
• Specialized workshops
• Daily morning yoga & meditation classes
• Water and tea served throughout the day

What’s NOT included in this package
• Accommodation other than the yurt (only if for some reason you can’t sleep in the yurt)
• Airport transfer and other transportation to and from the retreat
• Travel insurance
• Flights costs
• Visa fee

FAQs

• How many people will be on the retreat?
  7 participants only
  7 sisters, 7 goddesses, 7 generations

• Can you arrange an airport transfer? How far is it from the airport?
  The participants are responsible for their own transport to and from the retreat place in Yelapa. Puerto Vallarta is not a very big city, the distance between the airport and the central ‘romantic zone’ (where the PV pier and the bus stop to Boca de Tomatlán are located) is at a distance of 10 km or 30 minutes by taxi (depending on the traffic). We are very happy to provide more details and guidance once you are registered for the retreat.

• Is a shorter or longer stay possible?
  A shorter stay is not possible, as all is perfectly woven together.
  A longer stay in Yelapa is possible on your own expenses and organization, yet in another place than TaraSana. We are glad to help you out with tips and contacts regarding accommodation before or after the retreat.

• Are solo travelers safe / welcome?
  Solo travelers are safe and welcome!

• What is the average age range?
  All women are welcome to participate, between 18 and 77 years of age.