Sacred Earth Women’s Retreat
March 7-11, 2026
in Todos Santos, Baja California, Mexico
Sacred Earth Women’s Retreat
Are you feeling the call…
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- To shed and release old patterns, stories, and limiting beliefs holding you back from radiating your true essence and highest service to the world?
- Do you wish to heal wounding around belonging, sisterhood and the magic of the unseen by partaking in an intimate womens’ retreat?
- Are you longing to reconnect with the Earth Mother, the Divine Feminine, the Four Elements and your innate cyclical nature through the sweetness of Earth based ceremonies?
- Do you want to remember and reclaim your innate power so you can fully step into your role as a steward of the Ancient Future?
- Are you yearning to rekindle your inner fire, your juicy inspiration and intuition?
- Do you wish to deepen your connection to your body, spirit and your womb?
Welcome dear sister! This highly curated and intimate Earth centered retreat is held and facilitated in my native homelands of Mexico and in sacred collaboration with local medicine people. You will receive healing modalities directly from the descendants of those ancestral practices and in harmony with the local nature, land and the culture.
Alyse Romano and myself are looking forward to continue to weave the sacred silver threads of healing, collective liberation, and repair for the body of Gaia, and hence, and simultaneously the body and hearts of our fellow sisters, women. This retreat is intended, more than anything, to welcome you as you are, to support your current iteration and expression, and to witness you in your divine, sacred flow as Woman.
We are deeply listening to the whispers of the Great Mother in our intention to hold sacred, safe space for women as together we continue to remember our innate, deep connection with the living Mother and the Web of Life.
We are here at this time to nurture and open the hearts of our fellow sisters and to further advance their personal inner work, including the integration of inner child, soul pieces and high visions for the future as we continue to dream the New Earth and the Indigenous prophecies into being.
This Women’s Retreat is not your ordinary retreat focusing on self-image or ego-soothing, but a sacred journey into authenticity within and through Earth-based shamanistic ceremonies including soul retrieval, fire and plant medicine ceremonies intended to support your current path. In this space, we live and be the imprints of reciprocal relating that we desire to see in the world.
This intentional retreat is open to 12 women only to allow proper time and space to slow down, lean into the work, and receive the medicine of intimate sisterhood. With leisure time for activities such as visiting the town, going to the beach, resting in the beautiful home, and enjoying local Mexican food.
This is a heart-felt invitation from myself and co-facilitator, Alyse Romano, for you to reconnect to your true essence and co-weave in sisterhood. Divinely guided by the Four Sacred Elements with the Baja desert landscape as our backdrop.
With support from local medicine people, we are blessed to do this work on the generous land of Todos Santos as She is actively welcoming us here to do our healing work and reclaim our innate wisdom, power and embodiment; so that by integrating our soul’s parts and remembering our beauty, we may integrate New Earth frequencies into the lines of the land wherever we call home. Yes, we have five days together on retreat, but the work we do as we coalesce in this time will continue resonating and unfolding within each of us even after we close and return home. Over the five days and with support of the five elements, we will be sharing:
-Visionary shamanic soul retrieval, shamanic journeys and platicas/conversations with Marilu
-Fire Ceremony with local medicine man Luis
-Cacao Ceremony with Ivonne
-Sacred Dance, Yoga, and Body Temple tending with Alyse
-Hapeh (Sacred Amazonian Tobacco) and Temezcal (Sweat Lodge) ceremonies
-In home Womb Steam ceremony with local bodyworker and medicine woman Alexandra
-Delicious, organic nourishing meals prepared by Alyse, Ivonne, and local chef and restaurant owner Luz
–Food Medicine Workshop: making tortillas by hand
Between planned ceremonies and activities, you will have space to rest, journal, connect with sisters, and just be. There will be plenty of nourishment as we share group meals at breakfast and dinner with light lunch and snacks in between. In the evenings, we will read from feminine wisdom books like Women Who Run With the Wolves and Her Blood is Gold for integration. You will be welcomed into each new day with the gorgeous sunrise and lulled to sleep by the crashing of the mighty Pacific Ocean waves. Please note that the sample schedule is just an example and we will always adapt to the flow of what the Divine Feminine is orchestrating. The strucuture and flow of the retreat will allow ample time to receive customized support from your retreat facilitators. Important Note: All ceremonies and activities are optional and we honor your flow.
Our Elemental Retreat Flow
First Day Fire Element Day
Arrivals
Fire Ceremony facilitated by Luis Jade symbolizing the divine masculine with the Intention of protecting our retreat container and to ask for permission for our time together
Casting our Circle of Protection and our Intentions into the night
Welcome Dinner
Bed time
Water Element Day
Breakfast
Cacao Ceremony
Sacred Dance Honoring the Water Element
Drum Sound Guided Shamanic Journey, Connecting to the sacred waters within and around us Centering the womb
Light lunch
Honoring the Womb Temple: Yoni plant steaming facilitated by Alexandra
Water Flower Mandala Ceremony at the beach
Dinner
Bed time
Earth Element Day
Breakfast
Sacred Dance and Earth Elemental Yoga Nidra
A Conversation about the prophecies of the New Earth and how to live and be the prophecies
Light lunch and hydration in preparation for the sweat lodge/temazcal
Temazcal (sweat lodge) limpia and rebirthing with fresh medicinal herbs.
Dinner
Bed time
Air Element Day
Breakfast
Sacred Dance and Breathwork Honoring the Air Element.
Downtown vist for shopping
Lunch out (not included in your exchange)
Integrating the Woman: Soul Retrieval
Food Medicine Workshop: making tortillas by hand, guacamole and fish tacos together in the kitchen.
Reading from book Women who Run with the Wolves
Bed time
Exchange: Two payment options, as follows.
(Option 1) $ 2,500 full payment, consisting of a $ 500 non-refundable deposit, and $ 2,000 paid in cash or check in USD upon arrival and before the beginning of the retreat.
(Option 2) $ 2,500, paid in six payments, consisting of a $ 500 non-refundable deposit, plus a 5-month payment plan (5 monthly payments of $ 400.
Retreat is held from Saturday through Wednesday.
Dates: March 7-11th, 2026
If you have any questions, or need a different payment arrangement, please email me at kawakenergymedicine@gmail.com
A $500 deposit is required by everyone, to hold your place at the retreat.
If you are not going to pay the full balance of $2000 before the retreat begins, you must also sign up for the payment plan.
March 7-11th, 2026
More details
Dear one, this is a highly curated offering in collaboration with Alyse Romano and local medicine people who will be facilitating Fire, hape and Temazcal, Sweat lodge Ceremonies (hape is a sacred Amazonian tobacco blown into the nose as a powder) and song medicine. This retreat is open to 12 women
Is this offering for you?
Self responsibility is part of the medicine and All offerings are optional.
On your Arrival and departure days and important notes: The first and last days (days 1 and 5) are your arrival and your departure days. On the evening of your arriving day, we will flow and get to know each other and the land and will cast our circle of protection and our intentions into the night. On your departure day we will have breakfast together, close our retreat circle and with ease and gentleness prepare for your departure.
Notice, you need to schedule your flight to arrive at the International San Jose Del Cabo airport within the window of 11-2:30pm local time. Transportation from and to the airport is included. The shuttle leaves the airport by 3:30 pm. Please book your departing flight after 1 pm local time. Shuttle leaves the retreat home at 10 am sharp
Once you decide to join us, we will be in communication via email at kawakenergymedicine@gmail.com for information about your flight number and any other pertinent details or questions you may have.
What is included with your exchange?
Nourishing, conscious and organic meals, airport transfer, all ceremonies and healing, customized support, and your accommodations in a beautiful brand new retreat villa. You will share a spacious bedroom with 1 woman. The retreat home is near the ocean. You are also invited to join us on zoom for a pre-retreat and post-retreat integration call as part of this container.
Not included with your exchange are your flights, one meal out at a restaurant, as well as any shopping. If your lifestyle and schedule allow for you to stay a few days after the retreat, there are plenty of local-owned air bnb’s you can book for yourself and schedule your own shuttle transport to the airport when you are ready to depart. Women in the past have done this for personal decompression and integration time.
The Intention: This Earth centered, somatic retreat is deeply rooted in the Shamanic Earth-Centered Traditions of the Americas, providing tools and sacred ceremonies intended for alchemy, healing and personal empowerment.
We are honored and excited to welcome you in Baja, Mexico! ~ Marilu Shinn, Ivonne Davey and Alyse Romano
Co-facilitated with
Alyse Romano is a movement artist dedicated to the path of authentic expression. Her background is in ballet, contemporary dance, and Yoga. She is a student of Marilu’s, as she studies and practices the wisdom and technologies of the Q’ero Lineage. She supports the deep shamanic work of these retreats by preparing simple and nourishing food medicine and guiding somatic journeys for embodiment and expression. Alyse creates clear spaces for women to open their hearts, release judgment, and allow their creative energy to flow abundantly through the use of movement, breath, and vocalization. Her deep intention is to serve the unfolding of our collective sacred expression and the expression of the Divine Feminine rising within the bodies of women.
Ivonne Davey carries the sweet medicine of Cacao in her hands and heart. She was initiated in 2018 by Tata Izaias of Lava Love in Guatemala to facilitate Cacao Ceremonies in integrity with Lineage and Tradition. Ivonne also has a natural devotional gift with food making and food preparation and she will be offering her gifts with us. She has served hundreds souls Cacao medicine inspiring and teaching them to Be in their Hearts and to approach life with child-like curiosity.
Testimonials
To put into words how potent the Medicine is where the desert meets the water, would dilute its potency. But what I can share is that I felt so deeply held by our Querida Pachamama and the wombyn present – a true Sisterhood formed over the years. The elements of fire, water, earth and air present in Mexico alchemized what was ready to be released for the healing and liberation of my maternal lineage and for the re-memberance of who I am – a fully embodied Wombyn, an Oracle, a Medicine Woman, a Truth Seeker, a Giver of Life. I can’t wait to go on the next retreat – for this is how wombyn lived in harmony with the Earth and when we are connected to who we truly are, we begin to birth the New Earth. May you answer the call
Testimonial
Marilu, that retreat was pure magic. I am incredibly grateful for you and Alyse and Vanessa, The Q’ero, the women on the retreat, the land and people in Todos Santos, Yaya and her daughter and Chris and the women who so beautifully held us in the ceremony of the Temazcal. Every moment of the retreat held such pure energy and was a balm for the soul.
Testimonial
Attending the Elemental retreat with Marilu and Alyse was transformative. I first heard Marilu speak at the BIPOC Herbalism Conference, and I knew I had to experience her work firsthand.
The retreat was everything I was searching for- deep, light, and soul stretching, all at once.
The truth is that words cannot fully capture what I experienced in the retreat hosted by Marilu and Alyse in Todos Santos, Mex. There is deep magic that unfolds and will continue to transcend timelines and eras of my life. This retreat is deeply intentional,-every detail is birthed with a purpose.- Experiencing all of the Earth elements is a visceral experience guided by medicine traditions from the Q’ero lineage and other indigenous tribes. The Earth based medicine recalibrates the nervous system through ceremony with the ocean, the fire, the food, the clean air in the desert, the sound of birds and critters that embraced us, and through being held in sisterhood.
Those medicines clear the noises of our everyday lives, the monkey -mind, and leaves space for higher consciousness and insights to come. Clarity seeps in slowly. This is my second retreat with Marilu. Many of the visions and innerstandings I received during my first retreat (ywo years ago) have manifested in my life. There is great power beyond this ordinary world that is accessed, and for that I’m deeply humbled and grateful.
Marilu is deeply in touch with her intuition and this helps her collaborate with other medicine women and men who walk this path with integrity and in right relationship with people and land. All of the facilitators, Alyse and Vanessa were kind, gentle and brought their own stardust to the table. The three of them created an incredibly safe environment for many women who didn’t know each other to feel safe enough to cry, and be held by each other, to share their deepest pains and most sacred dreams for healing. That is not easy to do as many of us have been conditioned to compete with each other.
The breakfasts, lunches and dinners that were provided were clean, light and deeply nutritious. This meal plan is intended to help the body work lighter in digesting so that we can work more clearly in the spiritual realm.
Highly recommend this experience.