A 5-Day Immersion Into Healing, Embodiment & Inner Restoration
Hidden in the heart of the jungle, this gathering is an invitation to return to your body, soften what has been held for too long, and meet yourself with truth, tenderness and depth.
Over five intentional days, we will work gently and deeply with plant attunements, somatic therapies, devotional movement, breath, sound and nature. Every layer of the experience is curated to support safety, nervous-system repair, emotional release and embodied integration.
This is not a retreat for the mind, it is a space for the body to speak, unwind and remember its original intelligence.
“You don’t have to know how to heal, only trust that healing is possible. Your body holds ancient intelligence, your breath is the bridge, and every moment of softness creates space for transformation.”
This retreat offers a powerful and deeply supportive container where somatic trauma work, sound healing, breath, movement and devotional Sufi practices come together to create meaningful transformation. Held in the heart of the jungle, this experience invites you to slow down, exhale and gently reconnect with what is true inside you. As the environment softens the nervous system, you may begin to notice what the body has been holding and what is finally ready to be released.
Through guided practices, compassionate facilitation and therapeutic support, emotional imprints and stored memories can rise with clarity and be processed with care rather than overwhelm. You do not have to force anything. Instead, you are supported to allow healing to unfold at the pace your body knows is right.
Throughout the retreat you will receive personal one on one support, somatic tools and embodied practices you can continue using long after the retreat ends. Many people find that this work does not just create insight. It creates change you can feel in your breath, your body and your life.
This experience is designed to feel spacious, intentional and safe. Every element honors consent, pacing, nervous system safety and personal agency. Whether you are longing for release, clarity, nervous system repair or a return to your inner truth, you are welcome. There is space for you exactly as you are.
If something in you feels curious, hopeful or quietly ready, that may be the part of you that already knows:
You are not meant to carry this alone. Healing is possible.
Day 1 — Arrival & Opening Ceremony
Theme: Grounding • Trust • Threshold Crossing
Arrival and settling into the land
Opening circle
Intention-setting ritual
Retreat orientation and agreements
Preparation practices for nervous-system grounding and emotional readiness
First plant meditation ceremony (evening)
Day 2 — Silence, Rest & Integration
Theme: Listening • Stillness • Witnessing
Silent day
Rest, journaling and time with nature
Nourishment aligned with dieta
One-on-one integration sessions with Ashira
Day 3 — Somatic Processing & Sound Integration
Theme: Unwinding • Expression • Release
Morning Ashira Active Meditation
Somatic exercises for emotional processing
Rest and reflection time
Sound healing session (evening)
Day 4 — Embodiment & Devotional Movement
Theme: Expansion • Presence • Devotion
Slow and intentional morning
Integration circle and guided reflection
Sufi Whirling Session
Spacious afternoon for journaling or rest
Evening ceremony
Day 5 — Tools, Empowerment & Closing Ceremony
Theme: Continuation • Integration • Return
Grounding practice
Group EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)
Final one-on-one integration sessions
Journaling and somatic tools for long-term care
Closing ceremony and final reflections
WHO IS THIS FOR?
This retreat is for individuals who feel called to work deeply with: unresolved emotional trauma chronic stress, burnout or nervous system overwhelm. Autoimmune or chronic illness connected to emotional imprinting. Grief, transitions, or PTSD. Ancestral and intergenerational trauma. A desire to return to embodiment, clarity and presence . No prior experience with ceremony or somatic work is required — only readiness.
MEET YOUR GUIDE : ASHIRA DARWISH
Ashira Darwish is a somatic trauma practitioner and founder of Catharsis Holistic Healing in Palestine. Her work focuses on nervous system regulation, trauma recovery, and healing intergenerational patterns through embodied therapy, breath, movement and ceremonial work. She is the creator of Ashira Active Meditation, a modality weaving somatic trauma practices with Sufi contemplative lineage. Her approach is grounded in lived experience, including her own recovery from full body paralysis. Ashira has facilitated trauma-informed healing spaces internationally and offers her work in both Arabic and English.
Cacique Paka Chay Kamãnawa
Born on the banks of the Gregorio River, Paka Kamãnawa inherited more than a name—he inherited a responsibility. "Spear" in Nokevana, his name was chosen by his mother as both blessing and burden, shaping him into what his people needed: a spiritual warrior for a culture under constant pressure to disappear.
At seven years old, while most children learn through play, Paka entered the ceremonial world of Uni. Under the tutelage of Romeya Koshti, one of the most respected elders, he has completed four traditional dietas—intensive periods of isolation, fasting, and communion with plant teachers that forge healers and wisdom keepers.
Paka belongs to the Kamãnawa clan, the People of the Jaguar, and now leads Timbaúba Village following in his father's footsteps. But his leadership extends beyond village governance. As a txana, he has received over 63 songs directly through the medicine—ancient prayers that emerge through him in moments of deepest ceremony. What makes Paka remarkable is not just his ability to channel these ancestral songs, but his innovation in adapting them to guitar, making traditional Txirîti accessible to both his own community and the outside world without losing their sacred essence.
He is both keeper of the old ways and bridge to the new, ensuring that the songs of his ancestors continue to be heard while teaching them to the next generation. He lives this dual role daily in Timbaúba village with his wife Rora and their three children, embodying the delicate balance of preserving a culture while allowing it to evolve.
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Rora Varinawa
At 26, Rora embodies a quiet revolution. She is the first woman in Noke Koî history to break into the traditionally male domain of ceremonial music, not through confrontation but through such undeniable skill and calling that tradition itself made space for her.
Born into the Varinawa clan—the People of the Sun—Rora has walked paths that were not meant for women in her community. Under the guidance of Romeya Pajé Kochti, the most senior spiritual leader, she completed a sacred plant dieta that typically prepare only men for ceremonial roles. Her dedication earned her recognition as a medicine server, a position that requires years of discipline and spiritual study.
What makes Rora's story remarkable is not just that she broke barriers, but that she did so while becoming a mother of three and partner to Chief Paka. She has managed to honor her roles as wife and mother while carving out space for her own spiritual leadership—showing other women in her community that tradition can expand without breaking.
Her art flows through multiple expressions: painting, jewelry, guitar, and song. For two years, she has traveled throughout Europe and Costa Rica, carrying the visual language of her people through the traditional Kene patterns that have adorned Noke Koî bodies for generations. These are not decorations but sacred geometries, each pattern holding meaning and power.
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TIERRA VALIENTE | BRAVE EARTH
Brave Earth is located between San Ramon and La Fortuna, nestled in between Arenal Volcano and the Children’s Eternal Rainforest, the largest reserve of protected wildlife in Costa Rica.
As a living lab, we have experimented with different building modalities using AirCrete and materials sourced on the land including bamboo and adobe. We have implemented biophilic design, closed-loop systems and permaculture design principles. Ornamental, food, and medicinal gardens surround the center as well as hiking trials to a nearby river, and a natural swimming pond.
CULTURES OF TRANSITION
The impulse for Tierra Valiente stems from an awareness of our civilizational trajectory within the dominant culture with its source code of extraction, domination, commodification, colonization, control, entitlement, and separation from the living world.
We are both informed by this critical lens and inspired to create outside of the old values and incentive landscapes to build a culture based on reciprocity, regeneration and resiliency.
In this collective transition - whether you call it the Anthropocene, the Kali Yuga, late-stage capitalism or capitalist modernity - our intention is to become more attuned to this cultural context in order to decolonize the conditioning of the dominant system and be in deeper service to our collective potential.