The Ancient Earth Women’s Retreat offers a deep journey into the creation of ceramic instruments, rooted in Mesoamerican traditions, and the art of musical expression — within a space that gently nurtures the natural unfolding of ancestral healing and women’s embodied wisdom.
VIANNEY LOPEZ
Vianney López is an artist and musician whose work is rooted in reflections of Mother Earth, Dreamtime, and Ceremonial visions. Guided by ancestral presence and unseen guardians, she weaves sacred instruments, voice, and intuitive expression into every creation.
Her artistry arises from a deep remembrance—a reconnection to nature and the ancestral wisdom carried within each of us. From a young age, Vianney was drawn to creative expression through music, movement, and visual arts, allowing her path to unfold through the language of dreams and the rhythms of the natural world.
Academic studies deepened her understanding of art’s many layers, while later initiations with sacred plant medicines reawakened ancestral memory, further anchoring her practice in earth-based wisdom and prayer.
Today, her creations span across music, ceramics, animation, illustration, and weaving—each piece a reflection of her devotion to the sacred and the unseen.
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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.