An All-Women’s Ayahuacsa and Bobinsana Retreat
Living Waters
January, 2026
Southern Costa Rica
Immerse. Grieve. Nourish. Enliven.
Become the chalice for the living waters of Life
A potent medicine journey where we dive into the holy waters of creation to embody the heart, voice and womb of the Great Mother. Opening up to aliveness, and the eternal source of life within.
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Guided by Jane Mayer & Anam Cara Retreats
This January, we gather in the mountain watersheds and wild river waterfalls of Mt. Chirripo, a land dotted by bobinsana, and held by the lush jungle landscape of the Pacific. Here, we gather as a circle of women, laying prayers to meet our hearts’ grief, purge the womb stories of our ancestors, and awaken the power of the living waters of our bodies.
Become the chalice for the living waters of Life
Why Living Waters?
This retreat offers two pathways, supported by Marina, a grandmother of Shipibo plant medicine, alongside Jane Mayer, a long-time dietera and keeper of the Mother’s heart womb, and Francesca Barone, of Anam Cara Retreats.
Through this 8 day retreat, we will center Ayahusaca and the living, watery world of Bobinsana, and will offer an optional introductory dieta, for those who have experiencing walking the medicine path.
Her medicine is of water– and our time together will provide us ample opportunities for river bathing, flower baths, communal song medicine, and grief ritual.
Together, we ascend from the depths of the darkness, carrying with us the songs, devotion and joy to restore our sense of eros, aliveness and integrity, as women upon the Earth. Here, we allow ourselves to become chalices for the Living Waters of Life.
What You’ll Experience
An 4-Week Devotional Container
A virtual journey with Jane & Francesca that prepares your body and Motherline before Spain and supports your integration after—through myth, somatics, story, and community.
You’ll be supported to:
gain understanding into your Motherline themes
learn the myths, stories & symbols of the Black Madonna
open the body through somatic, womb & voice practices
cultivate the inner landscape to receive Shipibo medicine
stay connected with your sisters and teachings after Spain
integrate the revelations, shifts, and awakenings that unfold
Ancestral Shipibo Medicine & Ceremony
Held by your Anam Cara family of Shipibo maestros and maestras— renowned healers and lineage carriers who bring decades of Amazonian healing and devotion.
You will be held through ceremonies that:
illuminate and heal ancestral patterns
soften protective armoring around both heart and womb
restore your intuitive voice
heal blockages and reconnect you to your radiant feminine essence
learn about healing with ancient plant wisdom
In addition to our ceremonial work, you’ll receive healing plant baths, traditional herbal steams, and cleansing rituals that support your journey with traditional Shipibo medicine.
Somatic & Womb Work
Daily embodiment, breath, and womb-based practices to:
unwind inherited mother-wound and limited patterning
reawaken intuitive intelligence in the body
reconnect with desire, emotion, voice & truth
reclaim feminine power rooted in the body—not performance
activate authentic expression and the courage to speak from your womb and heart
connect to the authentic medicine you’re here to offer
Voice Reclaimation & Song
Through guided song journeys, devotional storytelling, and intuitive vocal practices, Jane will support you to:
open your channel
speak from your womb
unfreeze the places where you stopped expressing
remember the ancient feminine power of sound
learn to sing yourself and your lineage back into embodied aliveness
Community and Deep Sisterhood
An intimate container (limited to keep depth and safety) where women gather in rawness, prayer, humor, grief, and celebration.
This is a retreat for women who want real transformation, not spiritual tourism.
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
Jane Mayer
Jane Mayer is a medicine woman, creative, doula, and guide to the unseen realms, who delights in supporting humans and Earth in coming fully alive. Her life’s work has been greatly influenced by over a decade of medicine work and plant dieta with Shipibo elders, woven with other streams of indigenous medicine from Peru, Hawaii, and her ancestral home in Ireland. She holds a depth of knowledge in the nervous system, subtle body, and the somatic experience of awakening
Born in the church in the deep South, she has been on a life-long path of restoring The Mother to her rightful throne, and honors all of the indigenous lineages for weaving that memory through her body. She travels the world on these golden songlines, listening for the landscapes that want to share their stories and Mother medicine. She is humbled and honored that the Black Madonna has called, and to be collaborating with Francesca and Anam Cara.
She is a mama to an 21-month old son, (who she conceived and birthed naturally at 41), and a wife to a devoted medicine keeper. To learn more, visit iamjanemayer.com.
Leading up to the in-person event, Jane will hold a virtual community container of preparation orienting you to the landscape of the Mother wound, offering practices to prepare you to meet the medicine in your body, and weaving memory, myth and song of the Black Madonna. On retreat, she will guide visits to sacred sites, as well as workshops in womb healing and voice reclamation. Her son Oran, and husband Richy, will also be with her, periodically weaving in and out of our spaces to offer Spanish translation and fairy giggles.
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.
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.
As women, our wombs, hearts and voices hold immeasurable potential to become living chalices for Life..
We are designed to carry seeds of creation, of loving light, in our bodies – to sing their songs, and paint their portraits, and dance their threads of ecstatic love. This is, perhaps, our greatest legacy – to sow seeds of Life through our bodies onto the Earth, and to create with the source of Light.
And there are places upon the Earth– the deep, nourishing wellsprings, the star-shimmering waterfalls, and the wild, rushing mountain rivers, where these memories radiate. In the Amazon, home of Ayahuasca, the songs of the river mermaids and the spirit of Bobinsana, call us to cleanse our heart-wombs so that we may become these vessels for this possibility.
January 10-17, 2027
This immersion is intentionally intimate.
Spaces will fill quickly due to the collaboration with Jane and the rarity of this type of pilgrimage.
All-Inclusive Cost
4-Week Virtual Immersion & Retreat (Shared Room) €4000
4-Week Virtual Immersion & Retreat (Private Room) €4500
