GATHERINGS
We are so happy to welcome you to Yacumama. This pristine place offers a deep immersion into nature - just being here connected to the pure energy of the land and waters is healing in itself.
The space has been created to bring community together, for hosting our immersions, and for hosting other experiences that are in alignment with our values. If you would like to bring a group, please reach out to us.
We are passionate about creating spaces and experiences that allow people to connect with themselves, nature, and each other on a deeper level. You can find our current schedule below as well as open dates for you to create an experience at Yacumama.
UPCOMING GATHERINGS
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SAMÁ
November 23 - December 3, 2025
with Maestra Lila & Maestro Damian
Shipibo
Master Plant Dieta
This is a special opportunity to take part in a traditional Amazonian practice involving deep communion with specific plants, known as master plants, under the guidance of experienced Shipibo shamans coming from ancestral lineages of healers and medicine people.
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In this tradition we work with Ayahuasca with four ceremonies as a part of the dieta to deepen our spiritual work and help open us to receive the more subtle teachings of the plant we are dieting.
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You will have the opportunity to diet Bobinsana or if you're feeling the call to diet another master plant / have already dieted Bobinsana, please reach out to discuss available options.
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A master plant dieta is a profound experience that nurtures your connection to the sacred medicine of Ayahuasca, the plant queendom, the living earth, nature and your true nature.
Roots & Rivers
A men’s retreat merging ritual, brotherhood, nature, and personal growth.
December 7 - 12, 2025
For Men seeking initiation, clarity, and community. Roots & Rivers is more than a retreat,
it’s a Rite of Passage for modern men.
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In a world where many of us were never truly initiated into mature masculinity, we often find ourselves drifting without purpose or carrying unprocessed wounds. By following a rites of passage framework, honoring our roots, crossing the river of challenge, and returning with vision, this gathering offers men a powerful way to reconnect with themselves, with brotherhood, and with life’s deeper flow.
DECEMBER 30 - JANUARY 6, 2025
New Years Full Moon Celebration in Yacumama with Kuauhtli Vasquez & Delfina Mun
Fulfilling our ancestors’ prophecies— uniting the prayers of North and South in the heart Center.
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8 days/7 nights immersion in the lush jungle mountains and pristine waters of Yacumama, guided by sacred plant medicines and the ancestral wisdom of living lineages.
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The Condor, Eagle, and Quetzal gather to weave a prayer of harmony — Root, Mind, and Heart in one sacred song.
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Together under the Full Moon, we walk the beauty way, hand in hand, offering our prayers for a new time on Earth.
SHIPIBO MEDICINE COUPLES IMMERSION
January 8 – 14, 2026
Start the New Year in devotion to your Beloved Partner.
Soar into the World of the Plants, hand in hand with your beloved, as you expand your capacity for Love & Union within yourself & your relationship.
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Join us for a 7-day Immersion with incredible Shipibo Maestros and their students, Mariana & Dylan for a very unique weaving of Relationship Inquiries, Practices and Ceremonies with the Amazonian Plants and the Shipibo Healing technologies.
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This Immersion is for the partners seeking to restore strength and harmony in their Relationship.
DIVINITY PATHWAYS RETREAT
January 18 – 25, 2026
Everything has been lovingly curated to support deep transformation—physically, emotionally, and spiritually. From ancestral ceremonies and daily embodiment practices, to nourishing meals and ongoing support, this journey is designed to guide you home to yourself in a safe, grounded, and heart-centered space.
Wixárika Ceremonial Immersion
with Don Eugenio
January 27 - February 2, 2026
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You’re invited to join our community around the sacred fire to pray, heal, purify, learn, sing, and commune with Great Spirit. It’s truly an honor to welcome the indigenous people of the Wixárika Nation (also known as the Huicholes) from Mexico to receive the blessing of their ancient wisdom.
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There will be the opportunity to stay at Yacumama and enjoy the pristine land and waters, with daily yoga, connection and integration practices with amazing farm to table organic meals.
The Inner Pilgrimage
Ape Chimba Collective
February 2, 2026
Join us for a special ceremonial transmission from the legendary Ape Chimba, a visionary sound weaver who creates sonic portals weaving ancient rhythms, divine melodies, and mystic vibrations.
Ape blends African rhythms, Flamenco, Indigenous folk & Arabic flavors with electronic beats guiding us from deep reflection to ecstatic celebration!
In the lush embrace of Costa Rica’s jungle, where the river sings and the ocean calls, we invite you to step into a sanctuary of music, ceremony, and community.
This is more than a retreat - it is a journey into the sacred. Together, we will weave song, prayer, and devotion in a land alive with ancient wisdom.
a Sacred self-care + Healing Immersion
February 11 - 17, 2026
Join your sisters for Return to Source is a sacred pause for women led by Sasha Lang of Yoga, Meditation & Feminine Ritual. Guided by the currents of regeneration: the life-giving energies of cleansing and release, intuition and listening, creativity and compassion, and a deep communion with nature.
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Woven within these currents are also the threads of integration, whispering the sacred importance of stepping away to take rest, replenishment, and return.
February 17 - 23, 2025
Yawanawa Retreat
with Chief Nixiwaka & Family
Join us for a deep connection with the ancestral culture of the Brazilian Amazon with the Yawanawa tribe. This is a very special opportunity to be in an intimate container with the spiritual leaders of the Yawanawa people - Chief Nixikawa and family.
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The ancient songs of the Yawanawa are like anthems for humanity, they bring us home to our hearts with so much joy. Each day we will study and sing the chants and for those who play guitar there will be an opportunity to learn the chants on guitar as well. This will be a powerful experience bringing the transmission community & family.
PREVIOUS GATHERINGS
Rites of Passage Institute
Leadership Training
first time in Costa Rica
July 25 - 27, 2025
Reconnect with What Matters. Discover the Power of Rites of Passage Leadership.
Step away from the noise of daily life and into a space of reflection, clarity, and purpose. This immersive three-day training, led by Dr. Arne Rubinstein OAM, Founder of the Rites of Passage Institute, explores the structure and power of Rites of Passage through experiential learning, storytelling, and group connection.
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You'll gain practical tools to design and lead transformational programs, reconnect with your purpose, and join a global community of over 5,000 changemakers across 20 countries.
Metamorphosis Women’s Immersion
w/ Areli & Friends
April 4 - 10, 2025
Metamorphosis is a 7 day / 6 night transformational retreat for women. It’s a space of deep feminine nourishment, connection to nature and true sisterhood. Come discover the magic of Costa Rica and allow your inner light to fully blossom.
Yawanawa Immersion
with Nixiwaka, Puttany & Family
March 12 - 18, 2025
Join us for a deep connection with the ancestral culture of the Brazilian Amazon with the Yawanawa tribe.
​This is a very special opportunity to be in an intimate container with the spiritual leaders of the Yawanawa people - Chief Nixikawa, his wife Puttany and their family.
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The ancient songs of the Yawanawa are like anthems for humanity, they bring us home to our hearts with so much joy. This will be a powerful experience bringing the transmission community & family - held by six of the most incredible healers and musicians of the Yawanawa. We will also be joined by a very special healer from the Marubo tribe.
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The Well Nourished Woman
Online Container Feb 23-April 2
Costa Rica Immersion at Yacumama March 3-9
with Maria Teresa Chavez, Ixchel Munay & Friends
Unlock Your Eros & Creativity to Actualize Your Dharma
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Join us in the lush tropics of Costa Rica for a transformative retreat designed to help you access and harness your fullest life force energy.
Unlock your true potential, channel your dreams into reality, and step into your dharma—your true path of service and purpose.
Through a unique blend of ancient wisdom and modern embodiment practices, you'll leave with the tools to bring your passions to life.
This experience will guide you to embody the balance of yin and yang energies, connecting deeply to the elements of fire, earth, water, and air.
This isn’t just a retreat—it’s a call to revolutionize how you live and lead, inside and out.
AWAKE EARTH FESTIVAL
4-day Music & Learning Festival+ 1-day Bitcoin Freedom Experience
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Awake Earth Festival Accommodation ​
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Join us for offsite accommodation at Yacumama during the Awake Earth Festival - five days of world-class music, profound talks & workshops, ceremony, art, yoga and conscious community in nature’s embrace. Featuring an incredible lineup of artists including Ayla Nereo, Equanimous, Yaima, Chancha via Circuito, Yemanjo, J.Pool, Guadalupe Urbina, Heather Christie & Vir McCoy, Samuel J, Sariel Orenda, Steffen Ki and many more-- and speakers and workshop leaders including Zamir Dhanji, Sarah Wu, Yozef Dragon, Derrick Broze, Vir McCoy, Clementine Casafina, Nico Rotundo and others.
This experience is shaping up to be incredibly unique. Are you ready for something beautiful? 🌿✨
Wixárika Ceremonial Immersion
with Don Eugenio
February 6 - 12, 2025
The spirit of the Blue Deer, Kauyumari, is coming to the Ballena Coast for the 5th year! You’re invited to join our community around the sacred fire to pray, heal, purify, learn, sing, and commune with Great Spirit. It’s truly an honor to welcome the indigenous people of the Wixárika Nation (also known as the Huicholes) from Mexico to receive the blessing of their ancient wisdom.
There will be the opportunity to stay at Yacumama and enjoy the pristine land and waters, with daily yoga, connection and integration practices with amazing farm to table organic meals.
We The Medicine Inner Alchemy Retreat
January 11 - 18, 2025
Embark on a Soul-Searching Journey to discover your inner alchemist through a profound 2-month odyssey of spiritual awakening and remembering who you are at source, Pure Unconditional Love.
This immersion is packed with a multitude of workshops in the healing arts, it will be a place where you can disconnect and RESET, you will become reconnected to nature through the art of surrendering and letting go of the mind and just BEING.
CURAWAKA
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YOZEF DRAGON | IXCHEL MUNAY
ANDREW SEALY | ALEX BUTA
JANUARY 2 - 4, 2025
Imagine singing and dancing every day, feeling life force and creativity flowing through your body, the heart expanding joy of authentic connection with amazing humans from all over the world.​​
Imagine waking up to a rejuvenating morning yoga practice, swimming in waterfall pools, massages, high vibe farm to table meals, opening your heart and voice in singing circle around the sacred fire, being moved by the music to dance your prayers, receiving the frequency medicine of sound healing - all in a community that is holding the space of presence, and radical acceptance or non-judgement for you to feel free to express yourself.
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This will be a very special way to set the energy for your entire year with vitality, expansion, joy and connection!​
Yawanawa & Madha Immersion
December 11 - 17, 2024
Join us for a precious opportunity to experience the depth of the Amazonian spirituality from the very source with Mana and Ratsuha Madha, a beautiful couple of elder pajés that are traveling outside Brazil for only the second time. Each person will receive individual healing sessions and possibly voice opening initiations with Pajé Mana Madha to clear any physical or spiritual illnesses and imbalances.
The Madha people have come into contact with the western civilization only about 40 years ago and carry a very rare and preserved knowledge not broken by colonization.
We will also be joined by an elder grandmother of the Yawanawa tribe Vesku, the older sister of spiritual leader Puttany and her son Runuiana Yawanawa who will bring the inspiring music with guitar of the younger generation.
Shipibo Bobinsana Dieta
November 25 - December 5, 2024
Join us for a 10-day dieta held in noble silence, a practice that allows participants to dive deep into the healing work without distractions. We will honor the teachings of Bobinsana through silent reflection, restricted interaction, and four traditional ceremonies guided by maestro Teobaldo Ochavano Lopez of the esteemed Mahua family of the Shipibo lineage.
MANifestation Men's Gathering
Find Your Seat Pt. 2
November 16, 2024
This isn't a mission for those still figuring themselves out -- this is for the men ready to step in, reclaim their SEAT on the THRONE of their life, and lead their people with courage, humility, devotion, clarity, beauty and truth. If that's you, then we'll see you in the arena on Nov. 16th.
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Let's get right to it - there is no more time to waste...