Join us September 11th–13th in Bloomington, Indiana for a small private women’s retreat where we will gather to reconnect with the body, soften the nervous system, open the heart, and return to deeper levels of truth, intuition, emotional healing, and feminine remembrance through ceremony, nature, embodiment, music, and prayer.

This retreat was intentionally designed to create a safe and grounded space where women can step away from the noise of daily life and give themselves permission to slow down, feel, heal, and reconnect to what is truly alive within them.

Women will gather by 5pm on the evening of Friday, September 11th, where we will open our time together with intention and prayer, begin connecting more deeply with one another and the land, and transition into our first nighttime ceremony together working with the Grandfather medicine of Huachuma — the sacred cactus of the Andes.

What makes this ceremony particularly unique is that Huachuma is traditionally worked with during the daytime, under the sun. In this retreat, however, we will intentionally be entering into a nighttime Huachuma ceremony — creating an entirely different energetic experience that allows women to journey inward in a deeper, softer, more intimate way.

Rather than being externally oriented through movement and activity, the nighttime space creates an opportunity to slow down, soften the senses, open emotionally, and connect deeply to the body, intuition, dreams, prayer, the subconscious, and the inner feminine landscape.

Huachuma is a profoundly heart-opening medicine that creates healing and clarity at all levels while helping individuals access greater authenticity, emotional truth, connection to nature, spiritual insight, and alignment with their lives.

This cactus comes from the Sacred Valley of Peru and is grown seed-to-cactus over the course of 7–9 years by my teacher. I then cook the cactus down over the course of 5 days, removing all plant matter and concentrating it into a tea that is extremely potent, beautiful, and easy to drink while greatly reducing nausea. It is a medicine I feel deeply honored and privileged to share.

On September 12th we will move into a slower integration-focused day devoted to rest, nourishment, nervous system regulation, embodiment, and connection. Throughout the day we will move through intentional embodiment exercises including yoga, stretching, nervous system regulation practices, intuitive movement, touch, and body-based healing work designed to help women safely reconnect with themselves through presence, softness, sensation, and authentic feeling.

Rather than pushing through healing mentally, this day is designed to support the body in slowly unwinding and releasing what has been held physically, emotionally, and energetically.

At 5pm that evening we will gather for our second nighttime ceremony working with Sassafras — a specially formulated alchemical plant medicine synergized to help open the heart and access deep blockages held within the emotional body, with the profound and unique capacity to do so without needing to go directly into the trauma itself — or the emotional reaction to it — as it helps quiet the amygdala, the part of the brain responsible for the fight-or-flight response. This is part of what makes this medicine so unique and so powerful.

In this ceremony we will also be working with the Master Plant Teacher Bobinsana — a shrub with bright pink flowers that grows by the fresh waters of the Amazon and carries the energy of the Cosmic Mermaid, La Sirenita.

Bobinsana is a deeply feminine heart-opening plant that fosters empathy, compassion, emotional connection, grounding, dreamwork, and connection to nature and spirit. She is known as a weaver of dreams, helping individuals receive teachings, insight, healing, and messages through the dream space.

It is said that the spirit of Bobinsana can provide comfort to those experiencing grief, heartbreak, emotional heaviness, or loss. She has also traditionally been used by curanderas to help dissolve the barriers of time and assist individuals in reconnecting with moments where fragmentation or trauma occurred — a practice often referred to as soul retrieval.

There will also be opportunities before, during, and after ceremony to receive Melipona — sacred eye drops similar to Sananga used to support clear vision, energetic cleansing, grounding, and the clearing of stagnation from the field.

On September 13th we will gather for breakfast, integration exercises, and a closing sharing circle to reflect on the work we have experienced together before formally completing our ceremonial container together. Women who feel called and are able to stay longer will also have the option to remain on the property afterward to continue relaxing, spending time in nature and integrating.

There is also an option to just join us for the first night of ceremony (Huachuma) for those women who cannot commit to the full weekend.

ABOUT THE WORK

One unique aspect of this retreat is that while the space is intentionally designed for women and centered around feminine healing, the ceremonies themselves will be held by both masculine and feminine facilitators — Ima will be leading the ceremonies and they will be supported intricately by Ally.

This was created with deep intentionality.

Many women carry profound wounds, distortions, protections, grief, fear, mistrust, or unresolved experiences connected to both the masculine and feminine. Often healing requires more than simply being surrounded by one polarity alone — it requires experiencing new forms of safety, presence, integrity, softness, receptivity, leadership, support, and relational balance between both energies.

Throughout the retreat, women will be held within a carefully created container where healthy masculine and feminine energies are working together in harmony rather than opposition.

Together, this creates a unique healing field where women are not only reconnecting with themselves internally, but are also given the opportunity to experience healthier dynamics between masculine and feminine energy externally as well.

For many women, this becomes an unexpectedly profound part of the healing itself, through the nervous system experiencing something different and a new somatic attunement to:

Safety.
Presence.
Integrity.
Softness.
Connection.
And genuine relational harmony.

2027 Waitlist

This retreat is already complete for 2026.

If you would like to apply for our 2027 retreat, you're welcome to book a call with Ima by clicking here.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

• 1:1 intake call with team member

• Huachuma ceremony

• Sassafras ceremony

• Structured embodiment exercises

• Microdose, movement and yoga

• Immersive live sound healing

• Fire Ceremony

• Time in nature to stabilize and integrate

• Sharing Circles (in-person)

• Group Integration Call (on Zoom)

• 1:1 Integation call with team member

CANCELLATION POLICY

Spots are limited and deposits and payments are non-refundable. Alternatively, if you are unable to attend for any reason, you are welcome to find somebody to take your spot on your own.

Ima

Ima weaves the wisdom of plant medicine with transformational coaching and retreats to support people to drop into a state of heightened focus, align with their truth and rise into the most authentic expression of their power and creativity.

He is a ceremonial guide, plant medicine facilitator, musician, and filmmaker whose work bridges healing, storytelling and truth. For over a decade, he has led immersive retreats and ceremonies all over the world. Having co-founded an international youth empowerment nonprofit; he is passionate about supporting our next generation while honoring our elders and indigenous medicine carriers. Ima is the founder of The Temple of the Eagle and Condor church and the creator of EMERGENCE - an 8 month Plant Medicine Facilitator Training Program. He is an initiated Huachumero, Mesa carrier and certified trauma-informed somatic facilitator.

Ally

Ally is a certified Level 1 and Level 2 sound healing practitioner and ceremonial guide devoted to the transformative power of frequency and intentional space. As a certified psilocybin facilitator with over eight years of experience in ceremonial settings, she supports individuals through deeply held and meaningful healing work. With a background in feng shui, Ally integrates her understanding of energy to create grounded, safe, and thoughtfully designed containers for inner exploration and transformation.