7 Day Women's Healing Retreat in Ecuador
With Shiram Ucucuy, Paulina, Leonor and Sandra Elena Pardo
September 6 - 13, 2027
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Dear sister, in the space between thought and silence lies a profound medicine. We invite you to step away from the endless doing and striving, to discover what emerges when you soften into presence.
This is a call to connect with the primordial state of being that allows you to receive guidance and remember your true essence. It is not a program. It is a container, held by women who have done this work themselves.
Join us for our 7 Day Women’s Healing Retreat in Ecuador, September 4-13, 2027, at Nuestra Tierra Aldea Creativa, an off-grid community in the Mindo cloudforest (52 hectares of primary and secondary cloud forest at 1,400 meters). There is no wifi, no cell signal and no urban noise. Just the forest, the river, and the space to hear yourself again.
The retreat includes two ayahuasca ceremonies (one daytime, one nighttime), an all-night Water Dance vigil on September 12th, two temazcal (sweatlodge) ceremonies, rapé circles, and a Gestalt integration workshop with Paulina Quilla Pakari, certified Gestalt therapist and founder of Mujeres de Luna. The container is held together with Achuar Grandmother Leonor Suárez, Shiram Ucucuy, and Sandra, whose live music accompanies every ceremony.
Price: $1,500 per person, all-inclusive, shared accommodation. Pay in full and save $200 (total $1,300). Group of self-identifying women only, maximum 15 spaces.
This annual retreat is only held once a year. If it’s calling to you, reach out now.
This retreat is for you if you want to:
Quiet the mind and awaken your heart’s intelligence
Heal from trauma and return to inner peace and self-love
Work with sacred plant medicines in an authentic ceremonial context
Surrender to transformation guided by experienced women healers
Connect with a sisterhood that lasts long after you leave Ecuador
What you will leave with:
Profound clarity and a renewed sense of purpose
Emotional integration tools for lasting change
Ancestral connection and a deeper relationship with the spiritual realm
A strong sisterhood and a supportive community
Our approach: ayahuasca is a serious medicine with real contraindications. We screen every participant and sometimes decline people. No prior ayahuasca experience is needed. Please read our safety and screening page and diet guidelines at almahealingcenter.com before registering.
About the Leaders
Shiram Ucucuy
Shiram Ucucuy is a carrier of ancestral medicine. She has been working with native rituals and power plants for 10 years. She is a conductor of temazcals and a co-founder of the group Mujeres de Luna. Along her path, she has worked with the feminine energy and the obsidian mirror. She accompanies the work of […]
Learn more about Shiram UcucuyPaulina
This retreat is led by Paulina, an Ecuadorian medicine woman dedicated to supporting others in their healing journey. She has worked with plant medicine for more than 15 years, including ayahuasca, San Pedro (Huachuma), peyote and mushrooms. She was adopted by the original peoples of Shuar nationality (indigenous tribe in the Amazon); their elders gave […]
Learn more about PaulinaLeonor
Leonor is a 60-year-old Achuar elder and single mother of two, embodying the strength and resilience of a true warrior woman. Having faced life’s challenges on her own, she has carved out a path of wisdom through determination, forgiveness and grace. Her deep connection to the natural world and her people’s ancestral knowledge have shaped […]
Learn more about LeonorSandra Elena Pardo
Sandra Elena Pardo is a queer Peruvian and Dutch artist that expresses herself through music and clay. Sandra is a vision quester and has been following the plant medicine path for nearly a decade, giving her voice and musical talents as offerings to the Great Spirit.
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