Women’s Shamanic Medicine Retreat
March 12-16,ย 2025ย ย
in Todos Santos, Baja California, Mexico
Women’s Shamanic Medicine Retreat
Are you feeling the callโฆ
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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 magic by working in a womensโ container?
- Are you longing to connect with the Earth Mother, the Divine Feminine, the Four Elements and your innate cyclical wisdom through authentic shamanic and Earth based ceremonies?
- Do you want to remember and reclaim your 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 inspiration and intuition?
- Do you wish to learn about Womb wisdom?
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 invitationย from myself and co-facilitator, Alyse Romano, for you to journey with us outside of linear time and co-weave new realities in sacred sisterhood. With support of the Elements, we are blessed to do this work on the generous land in Todos Santos as She is actively welcoming us here to do our healing work and reclaim our power. So that by integrating our parts and remembering our power, 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 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 practices and conversations with Marilu
-Fire Ceremony with local medicine men Luis & Chris
-Therapeutic Yoga & Dance for tending the body, somatic release and sacred expression with Alyse
-Hapeh (Sacred Amazonian Tobacco) and Sweat Lodge ceremonies with local medicine family Yaya, Andrea & Chris
-Womb Steam ceremony with local bodyworker and medicine woman Alexandra
-Delicious nourishing meals prepared by Alyse and local chef and restaurant owner Luz
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.
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. ย 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 welcomed into each new day with the gorgeous sunrise and lulled to sleep by the crashing of the mighty Pacific Ocean waves. ย 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.ย The strucuture and flow of the retreat will allow ample time to receive customized support from your retreat facilitators.
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First Day Fire Element Dayย
ย Arrivalsย
Fire Ceremonyย at the beach facilitated by Luis Jade and Chris Cano symbolizing the divine masculine with the Intention of protecting our retreat container and to ask for permission for our sacred work.ย
Casting our Circle of Protection and our Intentions into the night
Dinner fish tacos at home
Bed time.ย
Water Element Day
Breakfast follow by Yoga Practice Honoring the Water Elementย
Connecting with the Land and with Each Other.
Drum Sound Guided Shamanic Journey Water and Womb Medicine Theme to link to the ocean and the waters around us.ย
Honoring the Medicine of the Sacred Womb: Yoni plant steaming facilitated by Alexandra
Light lunchย
ย Water Flower Mandala Ceremony at the beachย
Dinner
Bed time
Earth Element Dayย
Breakfast
Movement: Earth Elemental Yogaย
A Conversation about the prophecies of the New Earth and how to live and be the prophecies.ย
Light lunch and hydration in preparation for the sweat lodge.ย
Hape Tobacco Ceremony paired with medicine songs offered by local medicine women, Yaya and Andrea Cano follow byย Shamanic Temazcal (sweat lodge) limpia and rebirthing with fresh healing herbs.
Book Reading, Women Who run with the Wolves
ย Dinner and bed time
Air Element Dayย
Breakfast
Yoga and Air Breathwork Meditationย ย
Downtown vist for shoppingย
Lunch out (not included in your exchange)
Dance somatics symbolizing the fluidity of the Air Element.ย
Evening practice: Integrating the Woman: Soul Retrievalย Air Element Theme.ย
ย Dinner
Bed time






Exchange:ย Two payment options, as follows.
(Option 1) $ 2,650 full payment, consisting of a non-refundable deposit of $ 650, and $ 2,000 paid in cash in USD upon arrival and before the beginning of the retreat.
(Option 2) $ 3000, paid in six equal payments of $ 500ย (6 -month payment plan) Plan begins at the time of registration.
Retreat is held from Wednesday through Sunday.
ย Dates: March 12-16, 2025
ย If you have any questions, or need a different payment arrangment, please email me atย kawakenergymedicine@gmail.com
March, 2025
More details
Dear one,ย 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 11 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 making your own bed as well as helping with the clearing of common, shared areas. Self responsibility is part of the medicine.
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.
ย 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 sharpย ย
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?ย ย
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 Earth centered ceremonies. 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 or massage you may book. 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 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 shamanic, psycho-somatic retreat is deeply rooted in the Earth-Centered Traditions of the Americas, providing tools and sacred ceremonies intended for alchemy and personal empowerment. For integration of who you are Becoming.
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.
Testimonialsย
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 ourย Querida Pachamamaย 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 –ย 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.ย
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.ย
Highly recommend this experience.
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marilu.shinn
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