Awakened Heart
Awakened Heart
An 8 day immersion into plant dieta practice and shamanic teachings
Bobiensana & Noyarao Dieta
Sept 16 – 23, 2024 | Nelson, BC
AYNI: Sacred Reciprocity
Private room + Private Bath : $2700 USD
Private room + Shared Bath: $2300USD
Shared room + Shared Bath: $2,000 USD
This Fall Equinox!
For those of you who are feeling the call to unplug, reset and drop into retreat as a way to be that much more resourced in the ceremony of everyday life, I invite you to join us here in the Kootenay mountains for a beautiful retreat.
For those of you who who live here or have visited, you know what a magical place this is.
We have literally found full quartz crystals in the rivers here! The glacier fed lake and purple hued mountains full of cedars and pine trees are such a healing energy to rest in while in plant dieta.
From September 16 to 23, we have a beautiful lodge we will be working out of in an area called Sproule Creek with beautiful forest trails. We also have a few different options for this container to make it accessible for you if you feel guided to be with us in this amazing potent work.
Dieta includes:
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- 8 day Bobinsana plant dieta (Noyarao additionally optional)
- 7 nights of accommodations at a beautiful Chalet in Sproule Creek
- Nourishing dieta friendly meals
- 4 Ayahuasca ceremonies led by Athena Naia and Jason Dornbush and Jeremy
- Facilitators on site to support integration
- 1:1 integration sessions during the retreat
- Icaros sung throughout the retreat
- Sacred plant baths, mapacho clearings, ayahuasca honey
- Soul retrieval practices
- Safe and nurturing environment for personal growth and healing
- Access to a nearby forest trail and creek
AYNI: Sacred Reciprocity
Private room + Private Bath : $2700 USD
Private room + Shared Bath: $2,300 USD
Shared Room : $2,000 USD
Any long term students of Athena please be in touch for student pricing.
To register, if it’s a yes in your heart and you have worked with us before, you can just send a deposit of $1000CAD via e-transfer athenasprayers@gmail.com (Canada account) or for USD please e-transfer graham@matchabar.co (US account)
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If you are new to the medicine Ayahuasca or new to sitting with us, fill out our online intake and medical forms so we can know how to best support you and your medicine journey.
Medical Form | Earth Temple Retreats
If you have any other needs or questions, please reach out to us:
:CONTACTS:
Graham Fortgang | me@brothergraham.com
Carolyn Wall | ccaarroow@hotmail.com
A little bit about Bobiensana
You can recognize Bobiensana by its bright pink almost fluorescent flowers that seem to explode with joy like fireworks. It tends to grow alongside water such as rivers and streams is a master plant teacher revered and honored in the amazon.
It is well known for its gentle stimulating effects and its ability to open the heart to greater compassion, strength, and guidance from the spirit realm.
In its herbal medicinal properties, its roots, barks and leaves are boiled down and used as a treatment for rhumatism. Its boiled down bark is also used as a contraceptive in many amazonian communities.
Bobinsana is a highly respected master plant teacher with diverse medicinal properties.
Considered a very creative feminine plant, Bobinsana’s teachings are focused on healing wounds of the heart from past relationships to release trauma, intense grief, loss and sadness.
It’s supportive for Healing deep wounds from childhood, romantic relationships.
It’s a benevolent kind spirit and often can just provide that lightening of heavy loads.
That said it also cleans the emotional body, so crying is often a way of purging.
It is well known for its gentle stimulating effects and its ability to open the heart to greater compassion, strength, and guidance from the spirit realm.
It is also beneficial for enhancing dream states or lucid dreaming, where emotional trauma can be healed.
The concept of a plant spirit may seem hypothetical to some, but when one undertakes this deeply traditional and intensive experience that is the dieta, you have a chance to know experientially what this really means.
Bobiensana is a beautiful gift!
A little bit about Noyarao
Noyarao also known as palo volador or the tree of light is an incredibly rare tree that grows in the amazon jungle that glows in the dark. There are many myths and legends of the Noyarao tree. And for many years it was passed down only energetically by those who had been in relationship with it.. Noyarao is a tree that is used for healing and also to help awaken the gifts of healers. It is considered an advanced dieta, Which is why many healers in the Amazonian tradition find it incredibly helpful for their work in the shamanic arts. It strengthens the energy body, amplifies gifts and psychic abilities. That said, because of its very high frequency it can also reveal things out of alignment and increase sensitivity. It’s said that from the world of Noyarao awakened masters have come as it comes from another universe. One beyond duality.
Fasting is the main offering of this dieta. As you will be fast from food and water on ceremony days.
Many healing traditions, religions, and indigenous societies would use forms of fasting to move into altered states and experience deep connection with the divine. Allowing one to move past the mind and the physical into the realm of spirit through this practice of offering, prayer and learning.
Though this work is not what one would call easy, after years of watching groups move through the process of dieta, we have seen incredible transformations and changes take place in people which is the only reason we continue to create spaces for people to come and retreat into the sacred journey of the soul in the context of ceremony.
Dieta is a traditional way to bring positive changes to your mind, heart, body, and soul. It offers an opportunity to connect with and cultivate a deeper relationship with the intelligence, spirit, and energy of master teacher plants. The profound and powerful transformations that occur from the deep relationships we build with the plant, ourselves, and each other allows us to walk with the spirit of love and courage, which is much needed to create the new world our hearts are praying for.
A Dieta is a deeper way of working with the medicine. When you decide to commit to dieta, it involves discipline and offering of fasting from certain foods, a series of ceremonies and the simultaneous partaking of another healing plant. It is the way all the Shipibo become healers; curanderos.
Athena Naia
has been studying forms of traditional healing and shamanism for over 15 years. And working with plant medicine since 2010. She has been recognized by the Grandmother Shipibo Maestras she works with and was given the cup to serve medicine after many years of apprenticing.. She has spent countless time learning from Elders, wisdom keepers and guardians of the traditions in North and South America. Athena creates a profound container of healing, inviting you into the world of spirits and opening our minds to the truth that miracles can and do happen.
Jeremy Sills
has been working with the plant medicine Aya since 2010, and studying the ancient form of sound healing: healing with Ikaros. Working with healers in the art of Traditional Shipibo Medicine rooted in the Amazon Jungle, when Jeremy first heard his first Ikaro, he was dedicated fully to learning this ancient art of healing through song.
Graham Fortgang
has worked in community building in the world of arts and entrepreneurship for the last 15 years. He will help guide the group in meditation, song/prayer, creative workshops and teachings on building a business and finding your voice. The week includes two 1:1 sessions with Graham for all participants at the beginning and end of the week to ground intentions and process integrations. As a student of Athena’s, Graham offers his creative and spiritual tool kit to support the plant medicine work throughout the week.
Jason Dornbusch
is an energy healer and shamanic herbalist whose work is akin to the Amazonian vegetalista tradition of physical diagnostics and plant protocols. Following the practice of herbal preparations and remedies for many years, Jason’s deep relationship with the plant nations began at a very young age. He will share his work as a channel, facilitator of ayahuasca and creator a herbal remedies which each participant will receive.
Carolyn Wall
is a compassionate facilitator with a deep calling to plant medicine work. She is a vocal alchemist, workshop facilitator, musician and wilderness explorer who weaves her gifts to be in service to participants’ spiritual growth. She is dedicated to the path of spirit and bringing forth the soul’s calling to live in a harmonious and loving world.
