Join us for an intimate immersion into the living Mazatec healing tradition, guided by Curandera Alejandrina Pedro Casteñada from Oaxaca's Sierra Mazateca.
In this ancestral practice, healing restores harmony within
the wider web of life. We will work with Ndi Xhito—the sacred mushrooms—as conscious teachers illuminating the hidden architectures of psyche, nervous system, ancestral field, and living Earth itself.
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In the lush Rainforest of Ojochal, Costa Rica,
experience the symbiotic vitality of these lands and an
intercultural weaving with the local native Boruca Community.
There is an intelligence older than language, deeper than thought, a consciousness that moves through soil and synapse, connecting all living systems in an elegant web of reciprocity. The Mazatec people of Oaxaca's sacred Sierra Mazateca mountains have been in conversation with this intelligence for millennia, through their relationship with Ndi Xhito, the sacred mushrooms that fruit where lightning touches earth.
This is an invitation to be dreamed into deeper remembrance by the mushrooms.​​
A remembering of the mycelial
intelligence that lives within you.
The Mazatec understanding of healing
goes far beyond the individual.
It recognizes that we are fruiting bodies of a vast underground network, that our traumas and transformations ripple through the collective field, that true healing requires us to remember our place in the intricate web of life.
Through limpias (energetic cleansings), auratherapy, traditional veladas (night ceremonies), and bioculture teachings, we will learn to read the subtle language of energy, to work with the intelligence of decomposition and renewal, to understand ourselves as participants in earth's continuous regeneration.
This immersion is for facilitators, healers, and sincere seekers who recognize the mushroom not as a tool but as a teacher of fundamental life patterns — death and rebirth, dissolution and renewal, and our shared remembrance within the larger mycelial body of the Earth.
You will experience
Two Sacred Veladas
Traditional Ceremonies guided by Mazatec Curandera - one in evening darkness, one in daylight - each offering distinct portals into mushroom consciousness and the healing it makes possible.
Mazatec Cosmovision
Dive into the living relationship between the Mazatec people, their mountain homeland, and the sacred fungi that have co-evolved with their culture across generations. Learn how Indigenous Bioculture offers a blueprint for ecological reciprocity and regenerative living.
The Sacred Table
Learn the Art of Mazatec altar-building, the language of sacred beings, and the ritual preparation that creates a container for profound transformation. Understanding that ceremony begins long before the medicine touches your tongue.
Healing Practices
Receive limpias, auratherapy, and biomagnetism sessions—ancient technologies for reading and shifting the subtle body's energy field, clearing what no longer serves, and restoring harmonic flow.
Mycelium as Teacher
Explore fungal intelligence as a model for consciousness itself, how mushrooms teach us about network thinking, social tipping points, regenerative systems, the alchemy of decomposition, and what it means to be in right relationship with the more-than-human world.
Integration & Embodiment
Guided preparation and integration sessions that help you metabolize the medicine's teachings. Embodiment practices including yoga, meditation, and somatic release. Circles for sharing and collective sense-making.
Your guide
Alejandrina
Mazatec Curandera, Oaxaca Mexico
Alejandrina is a Mazatec Curandera (healer), Cultural Guardian and Elder from Huatla de Jimenez, Oaxaca, Mexico. She works with Ndi Xhito, the mushrooms as well as doing auratherapies, traditional egg readings and other rituals.
+ Supporting Team
Ryan Ra James Kemp
Founder & Steward of Sixth Sun
Ryan is a systems futurist and cultural integration specialist who has spent 14 years across 60+ countries studying at the edges of transformation, from co-hosting psychedelic healing immersions in the Amazon and Mexico to facilitating foresight strategy in global boardrooms.
As the founder of Sixth Sun Immersions, he bridges Indigenous wisdom, regenerative systems, and Earth-aligned leadership through immersive biocultural experiences. Ryan works directly with Mazatec wisdom stewards in Oaxaca, learning from the ancestral lineages that have long held the ceremonial and medicinal knowledge of psilocybin mushrooms.
His work synthesizes ancient ways of being with innovation, guiding organizations and individuals into futures rooted in coherence, cultural intelligence, and planetary healing.
Marisa Franco
Steward of Sixth Sun
Marisa is a plant medicine facilitator, poet, writer, and somatic listener whose work weaves connections back into the places trauma and societal wounds have frayed.
Initiated into the Bwiti tradition of Gabon and shaped by years of cross-cultural study and lived devotion, she guides people through transformation, loss, and renewal with reverence, clarity, and deep listening.
She has supported individuals through addiction, trauma, and profound life transitions — including veterans and first responders — and lives in Central Mexico with her fiancé, three dogs, and a baby on the way.
"I am a woman who looks into the insides
of things and investigates...
There is a world beyond ours,
a world that is far away, nearby, and invisible.
And there it is where God lives,
where the dead live, the spirits and the saints." — MarÃa Sabina
ITINERARY
Alejandrina is supported in this journey by Ryan (Ra) James Kemp and Marisa Franco. They work by holding the group container, supporting ceremonies, facilitating sharing circles and adding in key integrative work that bridges the contexts of the indigenous world and the western mind.
March 8 – Day 1 | Arrival + Orientation
2:00 PM – Welcome Snack
Arrival + Opening Introduction Circle
Alejandrina’s Orientation workshop and Tobacco Registration at the Ceiba Tree
Dinner
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March 9 – Day 2 | Land, Limpias & Evening Velada
Breakfast
Limpias Begin With Alejandrina
Light lunch + Casual River Time for Those Not Receiving Limpias
Interactive Workshop with Ryan+Marisa: Mapping the Mycelial Mind
Evening Velada starts 7-8pm.
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March 10 – Day 3 | Altar, Cacao & Ceremony
Abundant Breakfast
Cacao with Boruca Abuela Ana
Free time in Nature, Waterfall walks
Light Lunch
Alejandrina Workshop: Building La Mesa Sagrada: The Sacred Table
Early Evening
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March 11 – Day 4 | Integration, River & Visioning
Sunrise Velada
Group River Time with Blue Clay
What is the Mushroom's Dream? Q&A with Alejandrina
Fire Circle
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March 12 – Day 5 | Closing & Farewells
Brunch
Closing Expression Circle
Embodiment & Integration Workshop: “Weaving the Medicine Into Life”
Offering the Altar to the River
Farewells & Departures
Four nights and five days held in the motherly embrace of Yacumama Eco- Village, a Living Sanctuary for Regenerative Culture and Indigenous Wisdom. Nourished by organic farm- to-table meals and surrounded by mountains, rivers, and the quiet intelligence of the natural world, you will be held by pristine Rainforest Waters to support your inner quest.
WHO THIS IS FOR
This immersion is designed for:
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Psychedelic facilitators and integration therapists seeking to deepen their relationship with mushroom medicine through indigenous lineage
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Healers and practitioners curious about traditional Mazatec approaches to energy work and ceremonial container
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Systems thinkers and regenerative culture practitioners exploring mycelial intelligence as model for collective healing
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Sincere seekers ready to move beyond psychedelic tourism into genuine study and reciprocity with indigenous wisdom
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Anyone feeling called to understand consciousness as fundamentally relational, ecological, and woven through all of life
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Small group size of 15 participants ensures intimacy and depth.
This is not a mass gathering but a deliberate circle of practitioners and seekers ready to go beyond consumption into genuine study, service, and transformation.
JOIN US
We are grateful that you are considering joining us for
When the Mushrooms Dream Us at Yacumama!
Please fill out this brief form for more info on accommodations and costs.
If a payment plan would be supportive, reach out to us to discuss further. Local Tico Prices are offered. If you have questions and would like to speak to our team, we’d love to connect.
ACCOMMODATIONS
We have a variety of accommodations all nestled in nature to connect you with the forest and inspire you with expansive views of the ocean, mountains and jungle. You will likely see blue morpho butterflies, hummingbirds, toucans, scarlet macawas, monkeys and more right from your room.​​
DREAMING THE DREAM OF THE CHILDREN
This Immersion is contributing to the Sixth Sun Community Initiative and longtime dream that Alejandrina has been stewarding for the children of Huautla de Jimenez, Mexico. Currently funds are being allocated in support of the building of a School to preserve the Mazatec culture and to provide accessibility of the Sacred Knowledge to the future generations.
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We thank you for dreaming this dream with us!
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LOCATION
Yacumama is in Ojochal, a small town near the Pacific Ocean, known for its international fine dining, which is part of the Ballena (whale) Coast.
We are 30-40 minutes south of Dominical and 15-20 minutes south of Uvita, where the Envision Festival has been held for the past ten+ years.
Yacumama is a 3-4 hour drive southwest of the international airport, SJO.
From San Jose or other airports in the country you can also take a 45 minute flight on a small plane with Sansa or even hire a small private plane to Quepos airport which is about an hour drive from Yacumama.