Women’s Shamanic Retreat
March, 2025 Dates to be Announce!
in Todos Santos, Baja California, Mexico
Are you feeling the call…
- To shed and release old wounds, patterns and limiting beliefs holding you back with the help of the Elements but feel that investing on yourself and your personal inner work is a luxury?
- Do you wish to experience authentic shamanic ceremonies and psycho-somatic practices proven to support your healing and empowerment but feel that taking time for yourself is somehow wrong?
- Are you yearning for a deeper connection to Earth and moon cycles and to your own inner wisdom as a woman?
- Do you want to be inspired, rekindle and supported within a sacred women’s container?
Welcome dear sister! This highly curated and intimate Shamanic retreat is birthed from my recent Pilgrimage through Italy and Greece, where I was shown that the grass is not greener on the other side of the Atlantic ocean, and that I already have access to land, in my native Mexico, where I’m supposed to continue to weave the sacred silver threads of healing, mending, and repair for the body of Gaia, and the body and hearts of my fellow sisters, women. My family has stewarded the sacred land where we will be holding our Shamanic Ceremonies for over 25 years and have offered many community, Earth-centered ceremonies.
On this recent journey, I also received further revelations, insights and knowing of what my purpose is at this time. The Great Mother wants me to continue to hold space for women, bring women together, helping them to remember their innate, deep connection with the living Mother and the Web of Life, to nurture and open their hearts, and to further advance their personal, inner work, including the integration of inner child, soul pieces and their visions for the future as we continue to dream the New Earth and the Indigenous prophecies. As such, this Shamanic Retreat is not your ordinary retreat focusing on superficiality or image, but a sacred and authentic journey with and through Earth-based shamanistic ceremonies including soul retrieval and fire and plant medicine ceremonies intended to support your current path and iteration.
This retreat is open to 10 women only, creating the time and the space to slow down, to lean into the work and offerings and to allow for leisure activities such as visiting the town, going to the beach, and enjoying local Mexican food.
This is a heart -felt invitation from retreat co-facilitator, Alyse Romano, and myself for you to experience authentic, visionary, shamanistic healing practices; trauma informed psycho-somatic therapies, and body focused somatic movement such as Yoga and Dance therapy in a grounded and natural environment. We will also partake in a hape (Amazonian tobacco) and medicine songs ceremony facilitated by local medicine women we are collaborating with.
This retreat is intended, more than anything, to support your healing and integration as an embodied woman and to help you discover what that means at this time of big collective shifts.
Our days will begin with movement in the form of yoga or beach walks, and breakfast, and will move into Earth-centered Shamanistic practices and trauma informed psyco-somatic therapies including fresh plant limpias and living ceremonies like shamanic journeys, hape, fire ceremonies and somatic dance therapy guided by Alyse and myself with space in between for light lunch or snacks and group prepared dinners. In the evenings, we will read from feminine wisdom books like Women Who Run With the Wolves and Her Blood is Gold for integration illuminated by a Fire Ceremony. You will be lulled to sleep by the crashing of the mighty Pacific Ocean waves.
The strucuture and flow of the retreat will allow ample time to receive customized support from your retreat facilitators.
Our Elemental Retreat Flow
First Day Water Element
Arrivals
Flower Mandala Water Offering Ceremony at the beach to ask for permission for our sacred work
Dinner out Organic Farm to Table
Connecting with the Land and with Each Other.
Casting our Circle of Protection and our Intentions into the night
Bed time.
Fire Element Day
Breakfast follow by Yoga Practice Honoring the Fire Element
Drum Sound Guided Shamanic Journey Fire Theme.
A Conversation/platice around the New Earth prophecies and the Medicine of Alchemy and Transformation through fire.
Light lunch
Guided Somatic Healing and Releasing session paired with music with Alyse
Fire Ceremony paired with book reading followed by dinner
Bed time
Earth Element Day
Breakfast
Movement: Earth Elemental Yoga
Tending to the Heart of Women, a Shamanic Temazcal (sweat lodge) limpia and rebirthing with fresh healing herbs.
Hape Tobacco Ceremony paired with medicine songs offered by local medicine women, Yaya and Andrea Cano
Light lunch
Evening Integration Circle by the Fire and book reading.
Group prep dinner and bed time
Air Element Day
Breakfast and Air Breathwork Meditation
Downtown vist for shopping
Lunch out (not included with your exchange)
Integrating the Woman: Soul Retrieval Air Element Theme.
Dance Somatic Release with Air Element Theme.
Free time for sunset at the beach and 1:1 healing sessions with me.
Group prepared Dinner
Bed time
Exchange: Two payment options, as follows.
(Option 1) $ 2,880 full payment, consisting of a non-refundable deposit of $ 850, and $ 2,030 paid in cash in USD upon arrival and before the beginning of the retreat.
(Option 2) $ 3,300, paid in six equal payments of $550 (6 -month payment plan) Plan begins at the time of registration.
Retreat is held from Wednesday through Sunday.
Dates: March, 2025
If you have any questions, please email me at kawakenergymedicine@gmail.com
March, 2025
More details
Dear one, this is a highly curated offering in collaboration with Alyse Romano and local medicine women who will be facilitating a hape ceremony (hape is a sacred Amazonian tobacco inhaled as a powder) and song medicine. This retreat is open to 10 women
Is this offering for you?
One important thing to notice is that this is not your ordinary retreat where you will be served in every detail, but rather a co-weaving and collaboration within our medium size group, where you will be expected to contribute in meal prepping and making your own bed as well as helping with the clearing of common, shared areas.
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 your arrival day we will go out to a seafood restaurant for dinner (not included in your exchange). For the rest of the evening 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 at home 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 12-2:30pm 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 departs at 10 am sharp
Once you decide to join, 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 home. You will share a spacious bedroom with 1 woman. The retreat home has panoramic ocean views, plus access to my primal and palm tree land for ceremonies.
Not included with your exchange are your flights, one dinner out on your arrival day, and one lunch out on the third full day, as well as any shopping or massage you may book.
The Intention: This shamanic, psycho-somatic retreat is deeply rooted in Earth-Centered Traditions, providing tools and sacred ceremonies intended for alchemy and personal empowerment.
We are honored and excited to welcome you in Baja, Mexico! ~ Marilu Shinn 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.
Yaya and Andrea Cano, a mother and daughter team, weave medicine songs, arts, crafts and adventures together. They both tapped into their innate gifts at a young age. Through self-expression and practice, they have explored and refined the medicine of voice and sound vibration. Yaya and Andrea have shared sacred plant medicine spaces and vocal expression workshops with many women over the last 8 years in Baja. They will be sharing the Hape Tobacco ceremony and Icaros with us.