Join us September 11th–14th 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 arrive on the afternoon and evening of September 11th, where we will gather for an opening sharing circle to orient to our time together, open the space with intention and prayer, and begin connecting more deeply with one another, the land, and the deeper reasons we have been called here.

That evening, we will enter into our first 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 teachers. 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.

Women will have the option to work with a gentle microdose of Huachuma throughout the day to support softness, grounding, emotional openness, connection to the body, and deeper integration of the previous evening’s ceremony.

Throughout the day we will move through intentional embodiment exercises including yoga, stretching, breathwork, 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.

We will also spend intentional time in nature, gather in sharing circles, and create space for reflection, nourishment, integration, and sisterhood.

That evening we will transition into an immersive sound bath designed to support restoration, emotional release, grounding, softness, and deeper connection to the heart and body.

On September 13th we will gather for our second evening 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 14th we will gather for breakfast, integration exercises, a closing sharing circle, and intentional space to reflect on the work we have experienced together before completing our time on the land and transitioning back into daily life.

Women are welcome to attend the full retreat experience or choose to attend only one of the two ceremonies if they are unable to stretch their schedules to attend both.

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 — including Ima alongside Ally and Christina.

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.

DONATION AND ACCOMODATION

The investment for this retreat is $1600-$2600 (tiered pricing based on lodging) and $100 off if you pay in full before May 21st. To reserve your spot you will make a $400 deposit and then either pay in full or set up a payment plan.

Spots are limited for this retreat and all of these gatherings sell out, so it is first come first serve and your spot is only reserved once your deposit is made. Some of the spots have already been filled and this will fill up quickly, so please do not delay your deposit if you’d like to join us.

Once your payment is made, I will send you an email with more details and specifics on the ceremonies (what to expect, what to bring). You will arrive by 5pm at the latest on August 27th and we will have dinner together as well as orient and answer all questions and provide information on the retreat structure. The exact address of the home will be provided the day before ceremony to ensure privacy.

Lodging options, pricing and availability are as follows (reserved beds have been removed):

King bed with shared bathroom: $2600 pp

Bedroom with loft (2 beds): 1 queen loft bed, shared bathroom: $2200 pp

Queen bunk bed room (2 beds): 2 queen sized bunk bed with shared bathroom: $2000 pp

Guest room on main level (2 beds): 2 tri-fold mattresses plus private bathroom: $1800 pp

*Shared accommodation in downstairs on tri-folds: $1600 pp

*If you choose the shared accommodation ($1600 per person) you will be sleeping in a large shared space (used as a movie theatre/entertainment room) on a trifold mattress, and all bedding will be provided for you.

In order to ensure safety, nobody is allowed to drive after ceremony or outside of the property at all until we have closed our final sharing circle. Our final sharing circle will be at 12pm the morning of the 30th, and we require all men to stay for this to close the space properly.

If you have any questions or would like to explore if this retreat is right for you, you're welcome to book a call with Ima by clicking here.

STEP 1 - MAKE YOUR DEPOSIT TO SECURE YOUR SPOT

Send $400 via Zelle to the Church

If code above doesn’t work, the registered Zelle email is:

ima@eagleandcondor.co (no “m” at the end)

• Once your donation is made, you must email Ima at ima@eagleandcondor.co to confirm.

STEP 2

Once your deposit is made and spot is confirmed, you will book an intake call with Ima. If you end up not being the right fit for this retreat (whether medically or otherwise) we will return your deposit to you.

If you have any questions please email me at ima@eagleandcondor.co

PLEASE NOTE

This ceremony and all work is housed and protected under The Temple of the Eagle and Condor - a lawfully established Private Ministerial Association and Church. Upon registering for this ceremony, you will receive a waiver to sign for your participation within the activity of the Temple as well as a membership agreement which enacts the protections. Membership with the Temple is required in order to participate in its activities.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

• 1:1 intake call with team member

• Huachuma ceremony

• Sassafras ceremony

• Structured embodiment exercises

• Microdose, movement and yoga

• Live concert from Ima and Briana DiMara (world class violinist)

• 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 Rao

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 Powell

Ally Powell 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.

Briana DiMara

Eclectic violinist Briana Di Mara brings her love of the instrument and its soulful expression to every performance. She was trained in classical music as a child and has since gone on to study and perform a wide variety of traditional styles including Celtic, Balkan, Turkish, Arabic and beyond. She harmoniously weaves these influences into her own unique genre-bending sound. She also plays santur, saz, and percussion. She is known for her evocative improvisations and skillful ability to play a broad range of genres from many different cultures.

Along with her band La Zuli and her own solo projects, she has also performed and recorded with numerous well known acts such as Stellamara, Dirtwire, Yaima, the National Arab Orchestra, Ali Paris, Beats Antique, Kr3ture, Bloomurian, Sharafat Parwani, Dan Cantrell, Moh Alileche, the legendary Lounès Kheloui, and many more! She has also collaborated with well known dancers such as Zoe Jakes, Rachel Brice, Miriam Peretz, Nicole Maria and Jill Parker. These projects have led her to perform in a wide variety of venues, theaters and festivals around the globe, inspiring audiences with her expansive interpretation of world music and exciting interaction with dancers.