A CHRYSALIS CONTAINER FOR ANCESTRAL REMEMBERANCE
November 17 – 23, 2024
Sacred Matriarch Creative is excited to welcome you to our first ever week-long retreat in beautiful Costa Rica!
Every step we take toward our own healing and reclamation impacts the next seven generations. We are called to remember what it means to be a present ancestor, how we are relatives to all the ancestral family on earth, and our own sense of belonging.
This retreat invites you into an ancestral practice of remembering, through the chrysalis embodiment of creating a sacred container for transformation. Amidst current realities that do not allow for a gentle enough pace to turn within, breathe, and connect with spirit – we have designed an ancestrally guided and protective experience to nurture your return to personal empowerment. As the outside world is making less sense, we are looking for new ways to understand and interpret the world; there is no time like the present to come back to earth based teachings. We are called to the lands and waters of Costa Rica, one of the greenest countries on earth and without a military… during the planetary transition of Pluto shifting from Capricorn into Aquarius, a once-in-248 year shift promising a monumental transformation of our world.
WELCOME TO THE LAND OF PURA VIDA
Welcome to Ananda Lodge, where eco sustainability meets luxury, tucked into the mountainside jungle of Playa Grande, Costa Rica. The property is 75 minutes from Liberia International Airport and just 20 minutes to the bustling tourist town Tamarindo. We honour and acknowledge the Chorotega tribe who are indigenous to this territory.
“Ananda,” in Sanskrit, encapsulates the profound sense of bliss, particularly after a transformative process of rebirth.
HEAL IN AN INTIMATE SETTING AT THE ANANDA LODGE
We invite you to come be held by nature. Allow the gentle breeze to caress your soul, find solace in the essence of the plants, and rejuvenate your vitality by aligning with the rhythms of nature and your innate circadian rhythm.
Stepping onto the property, immediately you feel an overwhelming sense of calm and peace. Removed from the noises of daily life, Ananda Lodge sits perched on the mountain with a picturesque view of the jungle and the Pacific Ocean. The sound of birds and monkeys fill the air and as you settle in a remembering of coming home, back to nature, can be felt throughout the body.
MEET YOUR FACILITATORS
ECKO ALECK
I am a Nlaka’pamux song carrier, digital shapeshifter, storyteller, and medicine womxn of many mediums. I live and breathe revolutionary acts of rest and play through ancestral healing modalities and curiosity through creative expression.
I have been through an evolutionary path from childhood that led me to the basket of well-being tools for whole human healing I now carry and share with you today. I was raised within and around Indigenous circle teachings. My parents were ceremony leaders who brought in medicine people from around the world. As the daughter of a residential school survivor, I was no stranger to a mix of harm and healing tools, all happening under the same roof. This environment became the launch pad for a lifelong journey into building a relationship with myself as a whole human, reconnecting with my ancestors and the ancestors of the lands I walk on, and perspective shifts to understand our interconnectedness with all living beings.
I have trained as a Ways of Knowing Facilitator, and am a traditional hand-poke tattoo practitioner. In 2019, I launched Sacred Matriarch Creative through ancestral guidance and began building out land-based business, healing, and teaching models. Working with Sami, our visions and practices have been intricately woven together from our ancestors, carrying us into spaces where our gifts can truly be received by those who are ready for the final crumbling of the current systems and the rising of the natural world and ways of being.
I began working in healing modalities with the body and meditation in 2009, teaching release-technique at the NW Classical Ballet. This technique encouraged listening to the body and its somatic impulses to learn how to move through experience; movement as liberation over discipline. From there, I began to learn about injury recovery and the relationship between trauma and stored somatic experience, studying with the Harkness Center for Dance Injuries, the Equinox Academy, The Brookbush Institute for Human Movement Science, and Yoga Vida’s Sexual Abuse Trauma Informed Training. I worked as a trauma informed movement specialist in NYC for over a decade, using my abilities to channel and intuit the body’s needs.
Gaining a vast understanding of movement, mechanics, and injuries I knew there was more to be learned about the connection between the spirit, the emotional body, and how the physical body functioned. I began studying under Mayan Quechua and Shipibo-Conibo elders and healers who taught me the body through a spiritual lens, and honed my craft as a channel and medicine holder. I have held space as a medicine facilitator and ancestral channel for nearly a decade which has included such experiences as a combined movement-healing + ancestral medicines and channeling retreat for the Divine Dark Feminine in the Berkshires, focusing on female-identifying populations with cPTSD, as well as working 1:1 with medicine clients. I have trained with EntheoNation’s Plant Spirit School, graduating in psychedelic integration in March of ’23, as well as Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing International’s Trauma for BIPOC practitioners. I’ve held channeling ceremonies to help business-owners and filmmakers with their endeavors.
Working with Ecko, we create healing containers that return humans to their ancestral and earth-based roots with a focus on environmental impact and community safety and inclusion.
OUR INVITATION
We are holding space for up to 22 like minded womxn and non-binary folks, 25 years and older, who have already started their healing/awakening journey and have become wildly aware of the impacts, harms, and burnout from colonization and capitalism. This is not an “intro to” type of retreat; you need to be ready to participate in your own healing and transformation. We’re here to create a container where it’s safe for you to excavate, explore, and fully nourish your highest potential.
PRICE OPTIONS
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL OFFER
The first 5 people to register will receive two private healing sessions: Finding Your Medicine with Ecko and an Ancestral Channeling Session with Sami! Combined value is $1000. Sessions will be via Zoom prior to the retreat.
Private Cassita (1 Queen bed)
Private – $5500USD per person, queen bed
Bring a Roommate – $5000USD per person, share a queen bed
King Room (1 King bed)
Private – $5000USD per person, king bed
Bring a Roommate – $4500USD per person, share a king bed
Twin Room (2 Twin beds)
Single – $4000USD per person, twin bed, meet a new friend
APPLY NOW
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