Spiritual Work
Antonella Piston
Antonella Piston
Integrative Therapies, Massage, Reflexology, Gem & Flower Bath Therapy
Ancestral Work, Breathwork, Massage, Physical Body Work, Spiritual Work
Beatriz Benavides Hilgert
Beatriz Benavides Hilgert
Energy Healing Specialist & Trainer
Ancestral Work, Psychological, Spiritual Work
Nelson Heredia
Nelson Heredia
International Ancestral Tattoo Artist
Ancestral Work, Physical Body Work, Spiritual Work
You can meet Nelson Heredia for:
PRIVATE SESSIONS
Nelson Heredia is a degreed architect and tattoo artist. Originally from the Valley of the Spears in Colombia, Nelson’s journey has been one of exploration and self-discovery. In 2019, Nelson left his homeland with his life partner, Andry, in search of new opportunities to nurture his artistic and personal skills. However, their plans were disrupted by a global pandemic. Despite the challenges, Nelson’s perspective on life transformed, and they found solace in the sacred Valley of the Wilcos, where their second son, Sumáq, was born.
In 2021, Nelson, Andry, and their family embarked on a new venture called Ancestral Ink. Located in Vilcabamba, this enchanting space serves as a sanctuary for self-discovery and a platform to connect with individuals. Nelson’s professional journey as a tattoo artist began eight years ago, and he has since dedicated himself to perfecting his craft.
With each canvas, Nelson strives to capture stories on the skin, approaching his artistry with discipline, appreciation, and unwavering respect. Through Ancestral Ink, Nelson and his family aim to leave a lasting impact on the lives and stories of those they encounter.
Nelson is an international tattoo artist who brings a unique perspective to his craft. With a deep understanding of trauma healing and spirituality, he believes that tattoos can be a powerful tool for personal transformation and healing. Nelson recognizes that the process of getting a tattoo can be cathartic and empowering, allowing individuals to reclaim their bodies and express their inner selves.
Drawing inspiration from various spiritual traditions and therapeutic practices, Nelson creates meaningful and custom tattoos that serve as symbols of strength, resilience, and personal growth. Through his art, he aims to provide a safe and supportive space for individuals to embark on their healing journeys.
Zita-Maria Bär
Zita-Maria Bär
Ayurveda-Therapist & Sacred Sound Practitioner
Ayurvedic Systems, Physical Body Work, Psychological, Spiritual Work
You can meet Zita-Maria Bär for:
Group Activity
Zita-Maria Bär is an Ayurvedic therapist and Sacred Sound practitioner. She studied Ayurvedic Medicine at the naturopathic school HPS Lucerne in Switzerland. Since 2019, she has taken several trainings and continuing education courses with Patrick Moulin and became a Sacred Sound therapist. It is one of her greatest joys and heartfelt desires to bring more love, harmony and healing into the world through her work and especially, her voice.
GROUP ACTIVITY
Sacred Sound Journey with Crystals
This deep, healing sound journey takes place with participants laying on yoga mats, with pillows and cozy blankets to support them. The interplay of sound and silence or sound, crystals and silence gives a unique experience ranging from deep relaxation to expanded, transcendent states of consciousness. Sacred Sound journeys strengthen the connection to your true nature and allow for deep rebalancing on all levels. These methods have been practiced in the earlier parts of Atlantis and before. In a Sacred Crystal Sound treatment, crystals help to deepen the space of stillness and presence. Activity length: 90-minutes.
Testimonials
Heide Leelavathi Auers
Heide Leelavathi Auers
Physical Therapist, Practitioner of Eastern and Quantum Healing, & Meditation Teacher, PT
Ayurvedic Systems, Physical Body Work, Psychological Spiritual Work
You can meet Heide Leelavathi Auers for:
PRIVATE SESSIONS
Heide Leelavathi Auers was born in southern Germany, but spent her childhood in Athens, Greece. From the very early age of 7 years old, she discovered a deep connection and fascination with using her hands for healing practices, and was naturally drawn to massaging and using healing touch for the family and friends around her – it was said by all that her hands were a “gift”. Following high school, Heide immersed in the Western, more traditional academic healing systems first and trained as a Registered Nurse and Physical Therapist in Munich, Germany in the mid 1990s. As the years went on, and being a passionate lifelong learner, Heide felt drawn to study modalities that were more quantum, spiritual and Eastern in nature. She pursued numerous additional courses in various therapeutic approaches, including: Manual Therapy, Kinesiology, Functional Movement Theory, Visceral Osteopathy, Craniosacral Therapy, Myofascial Release Technique, and Tuina. She also developed a significant interest in alternative medicine such as Tibetan Medicine and Ayurveda. Heide completed two six-month residencies in southern India, 1999-2001, where she studied Ayurvedic medicine and other healing methods at Amala Ayurveda Hospital and Sanjivani Holistic Health Farm. Witnessing remarkable healing transformations broadened her understanding of the potentialities of health and wellbeing. Heide’s career has spanned nearly three decades, working in various physiotherapy clinics from 1995 to 2008. In parallel, she established her own, private health practitioner clinic in Germany. However, recent changes in the German healthcare system prompted her to focus exclusively on her private practice, ensuring ample time for personalized care. Since 2005, Heide has trained with Aaravindha Himadra to become a meditation teacher and spiritual healer in the Solar Tradition. She learned unique healing techniques involving mantras and a needle-free acupuncture system, using touch, tone, and thought impulses. In 2022, she relocated to Ecuador, escaping the effects of 5G frequency pollution in Germany. Today, she continues her mission of supporting individuals on their healing journey, enthusiastically offering her deep reservoir of knowledge and skills.
Testimonials
Silvana Spanò
Silvana Spanò
Psychotherapist, Holistic Health Coach & Counselor, BA, MA
Ancestral Work, Health Coach, Psychological, Spiritual Work
You can meet Silvana Spanò for:
Workshop
PRIVATE SESSIONS
Silvana Spanò is an Argentinian-Canadian clinical counsellor, holistic health practitioner, writer and educator with a BA in Psychology from Canada, a Master’s in Counselling Psychology from the U.S., and a long-list of additional training in holistic health and healing techniques (physical and non-physical). As a health coach and practitioner, Silvana combines her formal studies with a hands-on training & apprenticeship in indigenous holistic health care. Silvana integrates nutritional counselling to both physical and psychological/cognitive care. She attributes the beginning of her understanding about natural health to her naturopath, the brilliant Dr. Jonn Matsen, ND, of North Vancouver, Canada. She is especially interested in women’s health and wellbeing — including emotional, cognitive and hormonal health. As a counsellor, Silvana focuses on guiding the client to find empowerment and inner liberation from perceived limitations. She’s a strong believer in personal sovereignty, and the power of inner growth at any stage of life. Silvana has a special interest in psychospiritual, social and cultural issues. Her chosen modalities include techniques from the new field of Energy Psychology, shamanic therapies, nutrition, detoxification, and more. She is a passionate teacher, counsellor, and health consultant with an unwavering belief in the holistic nature of life. She is a trained and experienced practitioner of Ama-Deus, Reiki, ThetaHealing, Psych-K, Mayan Therapies and other shamanic therapies. Silvana is one of less than twenty instructors in the world for the healing art of the indigenous Guarani people of South America (a powerful 6000 year-old tradition known as Ama-Deus). Silvana believes in merging heart and knowledge to create the solutions our world needs today.
WORKSHOP
Exploring Plant Medicine Safely: A Holistic Seminar for the Uninitiated Westerner
This is an updated, summarized version of a full 1-day seminar Silvana designed and has taught in Ecuador for many years starting in 2012 — when South America became very popular as a destination for exploring plant medicine. Silvana´s own personal experience with plants and other Nature elements spans over 20 years. All this time, she’s been consciously straddling the border between academic studies and first-hand ethnographic work in holistic health and healing. In this workshop, Silvana is ready to share insights learned along the way that relate to the traditions, context and practices of plant shamanism to help make your explorations safer and more beneficial to your overall well being. Workshop length: half-day.
Testimonials
Jay Schumacher
Jay Schumacher
Master Clinical Hypnotherapist, Counselor & Transformational Life Coach, CHT
Hypnotherapy, Psychological, Spiritual Work
You can meet Jay Schumacher for:
Workshop
Jay Schumacher, CHt is a Master Clinical Hypnotherapist, Counsellor, Transformational Life Coach, and specialist in the field of human potential. His private practice is focused on self-realization and personal empowerment via re-education and re-integration of the conscious and subconscious mind. Formally educated in Clinical Hypnotherapy, Jay’s practice of more than 20 years is a unique synthesis of therapeutic techniques and scientific principles. It is holistic and inclusive of hypnotic regression, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), bioenergetics, and gestalt therapy to name but a few. Jay’s techniques are continually refined to embrace contemporary knowledge from neuroscience, epigenetics, psychoneuroimmunology, and psychology. Other key components include bio/psycho accumulation and environmental optimization. Born and raised in the United States Jay has spent the last two decades traveling the world and living abroad. His work is primarily focused on individuals of influence aligned with sustainable evolution of humans and the planet. His practice tends to be focused “one on one” however he also is an educator and facilitator of group events and transformational retreats. Along with his professional practice Jay is currently involved in the creation of a unique nature-based sanctuary located deep in the Andes mountains of southern Ecuador and in his “spare time” is involved in writing a series of children’s books dedicated to healthy development of the child’s mind and brain function and nurturing the parent-child relationship. Over the recent years, Jay has slowly transitioned away from promoting himself online and working with the general public. His passion lies in cultivating the current clients and projects he has, and allowing new opportunity to find him more organically through synchronistic connection. (We were lucky to get his bio for this retreat website 🙂
WORKSHOP
Hypnosis & Beyond: Pivotal Perspectives on Human Potential and Personal Reality
Are you curious about the inner-workings of the human mind and how the patterns which constitute our personal reality are created, amplified and/or interrupted? Have you, or someone you love, ever felt: impossibly stuck, helpless, hopeless, like a victim of circumstances, un-lucky, or just not free to express the way you would most like to show-up in the world? Well, good news – change is possible! This workshop (aka a “playshop” of having fun exploring the mind) consists of a fluid blend of presentations, personally experiencing the techniques life, and Q&A. It is designed to provide participants with clear, concise information that potentiate transformation, optimal well-being, and a more harmonious collective reality. Topics of this playshop include: The Nature of Personal Reality; The Human Mind: Conscious/Subconscious/Superconscious; Mental Conditioning and Personal Transformation: how patterns that constitute one’s personal reality are constructed and/or deconstructed; Metacognition; Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy: what it is and what is possible va rare insights and case studies; The Power of Perspective: The Art Observation; Life by Design: intentionally stacking potentials. Workshop length: full day.
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Prem Anubuddha
Prem Anubuddha
Doctor of Meditation & Touch-based Healing. Founder of ARUN Conscious Touch, DM
Ancestral Work, Lifestyle Expert, Physical Body Work, Psychological, Spiritual Work
You can meet Prem Anubuddha for:
Workshop
Prem Anubuddha (or just Buddha, as he’s affectionately called) grew up in California where he specialized in athletics (Basketball scholarship to USD) and studied yoga. In 1976, he traveled to India to be with the Enlightened Mystic Osho… he lived and worked in Osho’s Ashram and Communes daily for the next 20 years. Under Osho’s direct guidance, he began teaching Osho Neo-Yoga and Active Meditations in the late 1970’s to international seekers. In 1980, he became one of the “founding lights” of Osho Rebalancing and trained over 1500 students in this revolutionary approach to Healing the Body-Mind. In the 1980’s, he began teaching “CranioSacral Sensitivity” and “Hara Awareness”, also under Osho’s guidance. In 1988 Osho chose Anubuddha to be his personal “Touch-based Doctor”, and he was with him for over 150 individual sessions. Anubuddha and Anasha (from France) have been living together intimately since 1985 (they met in Osho’s Communes). In 1994, they created “ARUN Conscious Touch” together… every year they travel the world teaching this amazing healing and meditative approach to the “Vibrating Electromagnetic Energy Field” and Consciousness as an Organic Unity… A & A presently live in their Healing Sanctuary and Food-forest in the sacred valley of Vilcabamba, Ecuador. Have been doing this “Sacred Inner Healing Work” consistently since 1976. There are so many beautiful stories and insights from people from all the world, of all ages… hundreds of Anubuddha’s students have gone on to be very successful bodyworkers, yoga and meditation teachers, and teachers of teachers.
WORKSHOP
Fundamentals of Conscious Touch & The Human Body as a Vibrating Electromagnetic Energy Field
A deeply immersive and hands-on experiential workshop that teaches ARUN conscious touch based healing that can be applied to yourself and others. This is a 30-year old technique that has been taught around the world to thousands of people. Demonstration and touch meditation exchanges focusing on neck, 3rd Eye, Heart Chakra area, and Hara Center. Learn further Touch-Based Healing Principles that focus on the sacral, pelvic, hip joint, and feet area. Live demonstration of discovering the “Energy Line” awareness of the body. Workshop length: two (2) half-days; it is recommended to attend both half-days for full benefit, but not mandatory.