Oaxaca Ancestral Mushroom Retreat

LAND & SKY October 17-22, 2025
DAY OF THE DEAD October 24-November 3, 2025

There is a pulse beneath the surface of everyday life—a deep rhythm calling you back to something ancient, tender, and true.

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Through ritual, story, and ceremony—centering around a very special mushroom journey held in sacred reciprocity with the land and indigenous medicine keepers—you will enter a space where ancestral healing becomes possible. This is not a tourist experience. It is a reclamation. A homecoming. A deeply respectful immersion into a way of being that honors relationship over extraction, reverence over performance.

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Imagine yourself surrounded by a group of carefully chosen soul travelers in the hauntingly beautiful city of Oaxaca during the most special and sacred time of year, Day of the Dead. You’ve come to finally liberate yourself from ancestral patterns and celebrate life ecstatically through transformative power of a healthy friendship with grief and death. It is said, only when we become friends with death do we fully embrace life. That’s what this retreat is about, fully ecstatically embracing the gift of life and your own journey.

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This retreat is for you if you:

  • Long to connect with your ancestors and heal inherited patterns

  • Crave ritual and cultural depth that honors Indigenous wisdom, without appropriation

  • Have journeyed before but know there is a deeper layer still to touch

  • Are ready to live in right relationship—and human connection, with the Earth, the indigenous and with those who came before.

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The journey

Our journey begins in the cloud forest to meet with our indigenous facilitators in their ancestral land. Here you will experience several initiations. Starting with your own private session with a legacy curandera and zapotec elder. You will meet your spirit animals, evoke soul through dance, cleanse through the fire of temazcal. Finally you will leave the ordinary realms and enter your mushroom initiation. Even if you have journeyed before, the experience of fresh mushrooms on the land where they grow is beyond compare.

You will emerge from this experience fully connected to nature, your purpose and your own cosmology.

Why this retreat?

You’ve landed here for a reason. This is no ordinary retreat, and, I suspect, you are no ordinary person. Your depth may have you feeling misunderstood at times. The world doesn’t need more ordinary- she needs curse breakers and earth whisperers to create the change. Day of the Dead is an alchemical portal.

Something deep down has been calling you to adventure. Not just for adventure’s sake, but a true soul adventure to break ancestral curses, claim your strength, hear what the earth has been trying to tell you. By the end of this immersion you will understand your cosmological place. If you long to break away from the hypnotic rhythm of daily life into a mystical place of art, culture and profound biodiversity. This is your time.

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Water is life, and the ocean is our origin. For three days you will be in the care of expert nature integration specialist, Sarah Hope.

Embodiment

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From the Mountains we head to the beautiful beaches of Oaxaca to integrate with the ocean. You will be in the hands of expert integration specialist, Sarah.

Here you will get to engage in restorative integration practices, breathwork journeys, somatic practice and you will continue your integration work.

You’ll get an opportunity to visit the hidden tropical waterfalls deep in the jungle of Hualtulco, and visit a market dedicated to the medicines of the forest.

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Integrating with Sarah is a sacred, grounded, and soul-led experience. She listens deeply, asks the questions that unlock hidden wisdom, and holds space with fierce compassion. You’ll feel seen in your wholeness—grief, ecstasy, confusion, and clarity all welcome—as she helps you root insights from ceremony into your daily life. Her presence is intuitive, wise, and gently catalytic, guiding you to embody your transformation with integrity and purpose

Two women with elaborate skull makeup and traditional Mexican attire, including flower crowns and ornate headdresses, standing outdoors among dried plants and flowers.

Water is life, and the ocean is our origin. For three days you will be in the care of expert nature integration specialist, Sarah Hope.

Ancestral Activation

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Our final leg of the journey takes us to Oaxaca’s Day of the Dead, where ancestral remembrance meets vibrant cultural immersion. This is more than a retreat—it’s an invitation into a living tradition. You'll be welcomed into sacred spaces held by Indigenous elders, witness breathtaking altars, partake in rituals of honoring the dead, and feel the pulse of a people who remember how to celebrate life through death. This experience offers deep connection, not as an observer, but as a respectful participant in a lineage of wisdom that can help us activate the wisdom of our own ancestors and find peace with life’s cycles of death, transformation and rebirth.

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Music, Ritual & Connection

Being in Oaxaca for Day of the Dead is really something rare and special. You’ll be supported and invited, not as mere tourist but as a part of the celebration. Sarah and her assistant, beloved Oaxacan musician Beto Cruz, offer a joyful musical, soul-stirring journey. Together, they guide you through colorful markets rich with marigolds, incense, and ancestral foods, serenade your spirit with live music and traditional song, and lead you in personally meaningful rituals that open your heart to joy, grief, and belonging. Through dance, laughter, sacred ceremony, and deep cultural connection, you’ll not only witness the beauty of this ancient tradition—you’ll feel yourself as a part of it.