BACK to the ROOTS
a 5 day immersive journey to embody your elements
The Retreat
Back to the Roots is a 5 day immersive journey to dive deep into embodying the elements inside of your being.
We are energetic as much as physical beings. our being is made of the elements around us and in all original cultures it has been known that we are relational beings.
All of our relations are what allows for us to walk in an aligned or Mal-aligned path.
Because of this we invite you into days of practice with your elemental guardians.
Working with the earth, fire, water and air and allowing for these elements to come into balance on our alchemical day of coherence.
In order for you to feel fully alive inside, connected not simply with your own heart, but with the bigger purpose of life.
we invite you to join us in this dance of becoming.
Proposed Schedule
everyday
9am to 5pm
each day we dive into the embodied practice and forms of prayer to come into harmony with our elements.
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morning:
we meet the element of fire through mayan fire ceremony and the medicine of cacao
LUNCH & nature time
afternoon:
a journey into our own internal fire through activation of breath and danza ovarica
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morning:
we meet the element of earth by reconnecting with our own rooted nature through grounding breathwork and danza ovarica
LUNCH & nature time
afternoon:
a guided clay practice to commune with the Earth element and craft our unique elemental amulet
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morning:
water purification ritual and offering to the lake
LUNCH & nature time
afternoon:
danza ovarica
water blessing ritual, connection to the umbilical chord & yoga nidra with sound journey
dream time practices
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morning:
danza ovarica
shamanic drum and breathwork journey for healing and ancestral guidance
LUNCH & nature time
afternoon:
plactica (heart strengthening talk)
rattle cleansing and breathwork practice to clear stagnation and revitalize our energy
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integrating our elements into our hearts of hearts.
INIPI SWEAT LODGE CEREMONY
& integration circle
What is included?
5 full days of Immersive Elemental Practices and Prayers
Mayan Fire Ceremony & Cacao Reading
Clay Crafting Ceremony & Firing of your Piece (you will take your altar piece home with you)
Your personal Elemental Ritual Kit (all artisanal made in Guatemaya) so you can take your elemental altar with you
INIPI sweat lodge ceremony
Everyday nourishing lunch
THE INVESTMENT
We offer an equitable exchange model to ensure this retreat is accessible to people from diverse socioeconomic situations. Please take a moment to reflect on what price point feels most resonant with your current financial and material capacities.
SEED $999
SPROUT $1111
ROOT $1222
A $300 non-refundable deposit is required to reserve their retreat spot and goes towards the full cost of your retreat.
*if you are not able to afford this course, yet feel you and your family continuum are in need of receiving those teachings, please contact me at annika@annikawildrose.com with reference [SCHOLARSHIP “YOUR NAME”]
for each full course there will be max 3 spaces available for full | and or partial scholarship
Meet the Facilitators
Rosa Maya Cubides Sánchez
FacilitatorRosa Maya Cubides Sánchez was born in the Colombian Andes region of Boyacá. For over ten years, she has walked the path of traditional medicine within the Chibcha/Muisca, Maya, and Mexica territories. She is also a Moon Dancer in Mexico. For the past decade, she has lived in the territory of Guatemaya alongside her children and her partner. She has been practicing massage for as long as she can remember; her work focuses specifically on traditional therapeutic bodywork and healing massage. She also emphasizes how to care for the body using traditional methods rooted in the elements—including steam baths and Temazcal ceremonies. She supports women through their various life transitions, as well as during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. Her practice centers on reconnecting with the roots of our ancestral lands, applying the wisdom of herbal medicine and ancestral steam therapies, and—above all—maintaining harmony within our physical, mental, and emotional bodies.
Annika Rech
FacilitatorAnnika
Arielle Mesa
FacilitatorArielle Mesa is a Licensed Somatic Psychotherapist, Shamanic Practitioner, and Ceremonialist with over 11 years of experience supporting individuals in healing complex, intergenerational, developmental, and sexual trauma. She founded her practice, Sacred Space, to help the collective reconnect with their inherent healing capacities, restore inner harmony, and re-right humanity’s relationship with all living beings through individual therapy, healing retreats, and communal ceremonies. For eight years, Arielle has apprenticed and studied the path of Curanderismo with various teachers and elders of the Toltecayotl, Mexicayotl, Lakota, Yoeme, Shipibo, and Mayan lineages and traditions. As a trained psychotherapist and ongoing student on the path of Curanderismo, Arielle intentionally bridges the Western world of trauma psychotherapy with the ancient ancestral healing practices of Shamanism to curate multidimensionally supportive healing containers around the world.
Guest Teachers
Nana Ixquik Zavala
Nana Ixquik Zavala and their entire family have been strong allies for me in practicing in the Maya K’iche tradition, especially in the practice of the traditional fire ceremonies that are held to consult with and divine under the weaving of time through the sacred calendar Chol’qij.
Family Zavala come from an unbroken lineage of traditional mayan birth keepers [parteras], of pregnancy and post partum care.
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“transforming the way you breathe is to transform your life”
-Annika Wildrose