Upcoming Retreats

We are a collective of Ceremonialists. Artists. Initiates. Servants and Guides. We have dedicated our lives to raising our consciousness; to study and share knowledge, healing, art and service. We walk this path as students of the Universal Initiatic Tradition, guided by Taino elder, Maestro Manuel Rufino and the Intertribal Altar.

Woven Retreat is a collaboratively created journey intended to guide you into the paradise of your own heart and life mission. Together we will explore the place where ancient spiritual wisdom and creative expression intersect. Each of us has a unique passion and expertise to offer to you as we make a week-long elemental journey of ritual, expression, creativity, purification and awakening.

With the vibrant coast of Guanacaste, Costa Rica as our backdrop, Eco-Resort, Rayos del Sol will be home to this unique and life affirming container. Woven incorporates a vast spectrum of offerings, including ceremonial work, dance, music, sacred art, and reciprocity practices, as well as daily movement, meditation, and cleansing nutrition.

The daily practices are simple and recommended, and each day we will have one or two workshops connected to our collective focus for that day. Working in harmony with the Initiatic Medicine Wheel, our 7-day journey will move through the four elements: Air, Fire, Water, and Earth, and the three hearts: Heart of the Heavens, Heart of the Earth, and the Heart of Humanity. Among all these amazing offerings will be downtime and space to enjoy the natural beauty of the land, the ocean and waterfalls. This immersion serves as both a retreat and an opportunity to hear and empower your calling in life.

This is an invitation to rest, relax, release, reflect, reconnect, regenerate, renew and recommit.

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The Journey

Daily Meditation Classes

Yoga and Movement practices

World-Class Regenerative Cleanse

Organic, Locally Sourced Vegetarian Cuisine

Traditional Heat Purification Ceremony

Cacao Ceremony and Sound Meditation

Flower Bath and Blessings

Planting Ceremony

Sacred Art, Music and Song Classes

Song Circles, Healing Works, and Fireside Teachings

Dancing through the Medicine Wheel

Integration Circles to ground your experience

One-on-One Healing and Coaching Sessions (optional, additional cost)***

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The Guides

Jerry Walsh
Jerry has been deeply walking the path of dharma and meditation for 16 years and has been a student of the shamanic traditions for over 12 years, undergoing intensive initiations under the guidance of various Native elders, guided by his teacher, Taino elder, Maestro Manuel Rufino. He is a member of the sound meditation ensemble, Dream Seed, and has traveled to over 30 countries on five continents, spending a year studying Buddhism and traditional Himalayan culture in India, Nepal, and Bhutan from 2010-2011. He has spent the last decade supporting and facilitating meditation and healing retreats, sharing music, dharma, spiritual disciplines, and creating community throughout the world.

Ixchel Prisma
Ixchel Prisma is a student and initiate of the intertribal path. She has been guiding healing work for 10 years and is a life-long musician. She has traveled the world studying with traditional healing practitioners and learning cultural arts practices. Ixchel's intention in carrying this healing work forward is to bring the full spectrum vibration of the “Rainbow People” to the global community: honoring and carrying the foundation of the many ancient lineages, while incorporating practices and energies that are both relatable and applicable in the modern world. She is an initiate of the sacred herbs and elements, a trained sound healing practitioner, a songwriter, artist and a mother. It is with deep reverence and honor that she walks this path of leadership and service.

Nicole Adriana Casanova
Nicole is of Taino descent and a devoted student of Maestro Manuel Rufino, the Universal Initiatic College and the Intertribal Tradition. She is a servant to the Earth, the Great Spirit and Humanity. Nicole has been studying, practicing and teaching different traditional health, wisdom, and healing modalities for over 15 years, offering transformational workshops, training, and retreats all over the world. Nicole is the Creator of Words As Prayer Oracle Deck and Author of Forces of Nature (2025). In 2020, Nicole founded Root to Heaven, a 501(c)3 organization that has planted almost 100,000,000s of trees and plants across 2 continents and many nations. Root to Heaven is Nicole's prayer for the Sacred Waters of the Earth and all of her public and private healing work supports her mission to help rehabilitate ecosystems all over the world.

Joel & Aiste Gazdar

Joel and Aiste Gazdar are wellbeing mentors, community magnetisers, conscious entrepreneurs and full spectrum alchemists leading a movement of embodying Paradise in all areas of our lives. They have founded plant based restaurant’s and a wellbeing school Wild Food Cafe and are authors of the innovative plant based and wellbeing book “WILD: Plant Based Recipes & Rituals to Nourish your Wild Essence” (Penguin, Random House 2019).

Combined, they have over 35 years of personal and professional experience in integral practices of wellbeing, including multiple modalities of plant-food, herbalism, nutrition, cleansing, astrology, yoga and other holistic movement and personal development practices. Their inter-disciplinary training brings a wealth of knowledge and a sense of all-inclusivity, playfulness, ease and integration of varying (complementary, although at times seemingly contradictory) approaches to unravelling our potential and thriving.

Joel & Aiste have been fortunate enough to travel in all four directions and have been apprenticed to many traditional peoples of knowledge from different cultures of the world, from Ayurveda in India, Tibetan and traditional Chinese medicine, European herbalism, African herbalism and the global shamanic cornucopia and plant medicines of South and North America.

Alyona and Sheian Alegria

Alyona & Sheian are students of the Earth, initiates, walking in reverence of Great Spirit & Nature. They are on a joyful mission to uplift humanity through healing, happiness and harmony using the ancient practices of the sacred traditions of humanity.

They both have a yoga background, 25 years together. Alyona, a student + teacher of alignment based Hatha Vinyasa, pranayama and Sheian a student/teacher of Kundalini, breathwork and Wiimhof. Currently Alyona is a lead teacher on a 500 hour yoga training and sharing weekly classes in Hampstead. Sheian is and entrepreneur creating O’rise while writing a book on meditations after having won awards from the UK government for most Innovative Health Program. They both work privately with a group of people that are deeply committed to transformation and daily practice.

Their relationship blossomed under the guidance of Elder and Teacher, Tutu Yu Abi with whom they have traveled, supporting the building of Conscious heart centered communities around the world. With his guidance they have studied with and supported Indigenous of the earth throughout Europe on tours + festivals. Most recently with the Huni Kuin and Mayans. Alyona carries songs from all sacred corners of the earth, Sheian is a song writer and takes care of the fire.

Together they carry the intertribal alter working to uplift the hearts of humanity to shine bright like the sun.

The Location & Investment

Nestled on the shoreline of Guanacaste, Costa Rica, our backdrop for this unique container is Eco-Resort, Rayos Del Sol. Rayos del Sol is located 10km north of Nosara and Guanacaste is one of the world’s 5 Blue Zones.

With 13 spacious rooms equipped with comforting amenities like air conditioning, jungle, and ocean views. Common areas and homes are Wi-Fi enabled with high-speed fiber optic connection and include the restaurant, bar and lounge, meeting areas, pristine pool, and sunset viewing deck. Meals are offered daily with breakfast, lunch, and dinner preprared by a private chef.