Retreat Highlights

Sacred Location

Spend 10 days and 9 nights at Munay Sonqo – A luxurious and nurturing retreat space and haven for transformation and connection. Nestled in the heart of the Sacred Valley of the Incas in Perú, Munay Sonqo is more than just a retreat center, it is a Sanctuary and an experience where we will be inspired to expand, heal and transform.

Embodiment and Integration

Guided by masterful facilitators in embodiment, conscious dance, and trauma-informed plant medicine, you’ll be held in a sacred weave of ritual, prayer, and ancestral wisdom. Through movement, meditation, and the living intelligence of your own body, you are invited to remember yourself as altar, where the sacred speaks not only through vision, but through breath, sensation, and song.

Ceremony & Ritual
Throughout our journey together, we will be held in a sacred field of ritual and ceremony, guided in part by our beloved Q’ero medicine carriers, Ruben and Nancy who share their ancestral ways with deep reverence and generosity. Together, we will engage in three Huachuma ceremonies, traditional despacho offerings, water blessings, altar building, song,  and practices of communal connection. These sacred acts invite us to slow down, listen deeply, and remember our place in the great web of life.

Mythic Practices
Through the alchemical languages of voice, movement, and presence through deep listening, we will enter into intimate dialogue with the animist and elemental forces that live within and around us. These mythic practices offer a path to reeignite your relationship with nature, spirit, and the deep remembering of who you truly are

Applications Now Open

Once we receive your application, we will invite you to join us for a short interview via zoom to ensure this retreat is a good fit for you and the constellation that is gathering. Upon acceptance into the retreat, we will require a $500 non-refundable deposit to secure your place, as spaces are limited.

Who Is This Retreat For?

 Those ready to explore or deepen their relationship with the profound healing wisdom of master plant teachers.

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 Individuals seeking to integrate plant medicine experiences into embodied daily living, in service to their families, communities, and the world.

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 Therapists, coaches, counselors, mentors, and facilitators who wish to take time out of holding space for others, to deepen their own embodiment and ritual practice to more effectively support client preparation and integration.

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 Anyone called to engage in courageous self-inquiry, personal and ancestral healing, and the restoration of our collective web of connection.

Facilitators

Our retreat will be guided by a team of skilled and experienced embodiment facilitators and plant medicine practitioners, ensuring a supportive and enriching experience for all participants.

Phoenix Onesong Marolda

Dancing Freedom, Embodiment & Holistic Integration

With over 25 years of experience working with master plant teachers, Phoenix has a deep knowledge and embodied wisdom of several traditional lineages from the Americas. She is an apprentice of these ancient ways of working in ceremony and being in dialogue with the more than human world. Her experiences through an array of healing modalities and the cultures that hold them, has taught her that deep personal and ancestral healing happens through the body.

She advocates for embodied doses, supported by ritual, ceremony, an understanding of prayer, and somatic practices; in the plant medicine realm, as the foundation for long-lasting, balanced, and healthy relationships to self, others and life.

Phoenix emphasizes the importance of pre- and post-ceremony preparation and integration, as well as creating safely held spaces for deep personal and transpersonal transformation to occur.

Phoenix firmly believes that each of us has a unique role to play in our evolving culture and in shifting the current paradigm. She has dedicated her life to creating spaces and opportunities for people to unite, allowing them to bring their unique threads of our shared tapestry together. Combining her passion for dance, speaking her truth, ritual and ceremony, organizing intentional events, and communing with nature, Phoenix contributes to weaving our collective dreaming into the interconnected web of life. Her purpose is to inspire and empower others to share their gifts and reconnect with the unique role they are here to play. As both a lifelong student and teacher, Phoenix shares her vision for global synergy and collaboration.

Phoenix holds a Master’s degree in Education and Creative Arts in Learning from Lesley University. She is the co-director of Dancing Freedom and both an empowerment and psychedelic integration coach. Before leading Dancing Freedom, she spent 15 years as a school teacher, working with children from ages 3 to high school. She also founded Root to Rise: Rites of Passage, a journey for young women to transition to adulthood in a conscious, supported, and embodied way. Phoenix has taught classes, workshops and trainings to thousands of people around the world, including in the USA, Japan, Australia, Central/ South America, and Bali.

 Caitlin Wood

Open Floor, Embodiment & Holistic Integration

of praying, through various teachers of mixed lineage. These interweaving paths have been a source of profound personal healing for myself, and allowed me to contribute to the tending of the sacred and a deepening of soul work in the communities I work with. With the support of Indigenous teachers from North and South America, I have learnt so much about the interconnectedness of the human and non-human worlds, about healthy community, boundaries, and self-care, about how to support healing for others in individual and group experiences, and what it is to live a life of devotion and service to something much greater than myself.

I feel that working somatically with the body is vital in order to ground the experiences of plant medicine ceremony. The movement practices of Dancing Freedom and Open Floor are well designed to support connection and learning and help to bring what we learn in these spaces into lived experience. I have been offering the medicine of dance through Dancing Freedom for 11 years and Open Floor for 5 years, with movement classes, DJ sets, workshops, retreats and one-on-one sessions in Australia, online and around the world.

A foundational training in Transpersonal Art Therapy back in 2012, with much professional development since has supported me in creating trauma-informed spaces that bridge the needs of those from modern Western cultures with the ancient wisdom of Indigenous traditions of healing.

My work over the last 13 years has led me to understand and value the importance of integration and preparation for working with plant medicines, including how to build frameworks of personal and community support in order to apply what is learnt in these spaces into daily life and lived experience. I am a strong advocate for community supported engagement with plant medicine traditions, as well as ecological and social reciprocity, giving-back to the communities and cultures that protect these plants and the ecosystems where they live.

I offer my respect and thanks to all of the Indigenous teachers and lineages that I have been honoured to learn from, and to the elders and traditional custodians of the lands on which I live and work.

Ruben and Nancy Quispe Pumayalli

Huachuma Ceremonies & Teachings on the Altar

Together, Reuben and Nancy embody balance. They hold ceremony with integrity, warmth, and devotion, creating a space where we are invited to remember ourselves as one family—learning, healing, and growing in harmony with these powerful ancestral ways.

Ruben and Nancy live in Chinchero and operate under their banner Pachamamma Sonqo offering ceremonies and tours of the Sacred Valley.