AN 8 DAY SHIPIBO MEDICINE RETREAT
Dreamwalkers
December 1–8, 2026
With Erick Godsey & Anam Cara Retreats
Southern Costa Rica
Dreamwork, Mythology, & Medicine
An intimate retreat container bringing together the Shipibo lineage that Anam Cara has built its work around with Erick Godsey’s lifelong body of work exploring dreams, mythology, psychology, the psyche, and Dharma.
Guided by Erick Godsey and Anam Cara Retreats
What if Jung did this work?
Each day of the retreat we will sit in a dream circle and share our dream images. We will learn how to bloom dreams instead of killing them with dream dictionary interpretations.
The style of dreamwork I practice has complimented my Ayahuasca sits.
My intuition is that the magic of daily dream stoking paired with aya drinking will be unlike anything any of us have experienced yet. If you want to join the experiment with me, we're dreamwalking with aya Dec 1-8th.
Erick.
A Different Relationship With Your Dreams
By the end of this you'll never have to google or AI prompt what a dream means. Ever. Again.
You'll understand how to commune with your dreams, be guided by them, and unfurl their meaning without trampling them.
Learning to do this connects you with a holy guardian angel par none.
Kinkara
Santa Elena, Costa Rica
THE SPACE
Nestled in the lush mountains of Southern Costa Rica rests our eco-luxury sanctuary set across 800 acres of pristine jungle, rolling hills, and flowing waters at the base of Mount Chirripó. This intentional retreat space invites a deep return to nature, where biodiversity, stillness, and expansive landscapes create the foundation for profound healing and reconnection.
Thoughtfully designed as a regenerative environment blending comfort with wild beauty — featuring open-air gathering spaces, luxury glamping accommodations, natural swimming holes, waterfalls, and abundant gardens that nourish both land and spirit.
Nourishment is at the heart of the experience, with earth-to-plate cuisine sourced from on-site gardens and local farmers, crafted to support our bodies in cleansing with the medicine.
Whether gathering in community or journeying inward, this sacred land serves as a powerful container for our intimate retreats, authentic Shipibo ceremonies, and thoughtful experiences that awaken a renewed relationship with our true nature, and Mother Earth.
Your Guides
Erick Godsey
Erick Godsey is a writer, podcaster, and teacher. As a former founder of Fit For Service, he has been called a cult leader and he agrees. He has gone on to start a new cult called the Dharma Artist Collective, where he helps artists and entrepreneurs reclaim their focus from the infinite digital casino in their pockets.
He has taught thousands of students over the last decade, specializing in Jungian psychology, dreamwork, and how to live a soul-led life in a collapsing culture.
He is the host of The Myths That Make Us podcast and author of The Art of Dharma.
He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Caitlyn and their two huge cats, Arcana and Astraeus.
INSTAGRAM @erickgodsey
Francesca Barone
Francesca is a practitioner of ancestral and integrative healing, a trauma-informed somatic guide, and co-founder of Anam Cara Healing Retreats, where she has devoted her life to walking in deep relationship with Shipibo healers. Her work centers on helping others unwind the root causes of illness and emotional pain, and guiding them into the embodied clarity, connection, and freedom that emerge when the body is finally allowed fully express.
Alongside her plant-medicine work, Francesca is a dedicated feminine embodiment teacher, deeply influenced by her years of study with John Wineland and Nina Lombardo. Through this lineage, she has cultivated a practice rooted in presence, breath, erotic innocence, emotional range, and the truth-telling of the body. Her work centers on helping women reclaim their full-spectrum expression—grief, desire, rage, tenderness, joy, power, and devotion—as a path to awakening. She believes that women living in their full range of aliveness is one of the most needed medicines in our world: a restoration wildness, integrity, and the feminine intelligence that moves through each of us.
For the past decade, Francesca has guided hundreds of retreat participants through deep emotional, somatic, and spiritual transformation. Through Anam Cara, she supports others in unwinding lifelong protective patterns, reconnecting with their bodies, and remembering the deep truth of who they are beyond the experiences they’ve endured.
A defining pillar of Francesca’s own maturation has been her three-year journey under the mentorship of Jane Mayer, who has served as her somatic therapist, spiritual guide, and initiatory teacher. Jane’s influence has opened new dimensions in Francesca’s practice including womb awakening, devotional feminine mysticism, intuitive expression, mother wound healing, and the subtle-body pathways of descent and return. Their relationship is one of profound respect and shared devotion to the Mother. Co-facilitating this retreat together is a deeply personal offering for Francesca, marking a full-circle moment in her own healing and the deepest joy for her to share the incredible wisdom Jane has to offer with her Anam Cara Retreat Community.
Neils Nahm
Neils Nahm is a skilled plant medicine ceremony facilitator with over a decade of experience guiding others through safe and transformative healing journeys. His spiritual practice has been profoundly shaped by the 12 years he spent living in the Peruvian Andes and Amazon Jungle, immersing himself in the indigenous shamanic traditions of the Shipibo, Mestizo, and Quechua wisdom traditions.
During this time, Neils worked extensively with indigenous elders and maestros, deepening his understanding of ancestral healing practices and their sacred connection to Ayahuasca. He has directed and facilitated numerous Ayahuasca retreats across Latin America, supporting thousands of participants in navigating the deeply personal and spiritual processes that plant medicine awakens.
Known for his sensitivity and grounded presence, Neils brings a deep connection to earth, energy, and spirit to every retreat. His ability to create a safe and sacred space empowers participants to reconnect with their inner wisdom and uncover their own heart’s medicine.
Maestro Teo Ochavano Lopez
& Maestra Marina Sinti Reategui
Maestro Teobaldo began his training in medicine at the age of 13, learning from his uncles in the Shipibo community of Nuevo Zealand along the banks of the Ucayali River in the Peruvian Amazon. He was eager to learn to sing icaros, and his uncles taught him the process of dieting plants to understand the medicine that could help heal people in his community. Over the years, he assisted those around him, gradually forging connections with individuals from abroad, which allowed the message of his medicine and lineage to spread far and wide. To this day, Maestro Teo remains a world-renowned healer throughout the Amazon Basin and is celebrated for his incredibly joyful heart, humor, and devotion to preserving the wisdom of the Shipibo-Konibo lineage.
Maestra Marina first encountered the medicine when she was 24 years old, introduced to it by her husband Maestro Teobaldo. Although she was new to the teachings, the medicine was not entirely foreign to her, as she comes from a highly respected family of curanderos herself also. Marina grew up at the feet of her mother and grandmother who were incredible herbalists and plant-healers in their community.
Today, they travel together to various parts of the world, including Europe and the Americas, sharing their medicine and healing arts. Their son, Maestro Pio Teo Ochavano, began learning the medicine at the early age of 11 with his maternal grandfather, with whom he shares the same name. As his grandfather grew older, it was decided that Pio Teo would succeed him in the lineage of medicine. This beautiful family embodies the wisdom and teachings of their practice, radiating joy, positivity, courage, and strength. They serve as a profound inspiration in the realm of Ayahuasca curanderismo.
dreamwalkers
December 1–8, 2026 · Southern Costa Rica
This immersion is intentionally intimate. Retreat pricing, accommodation options, and application details will be shared shortly.