MOTHERSHIP
A Samhain Forest Mushroom Retreat
October 29 – November 2, 2026
Woodbourne, new york
Earth is the original Mothership.
From her we came. To her we return.
As the veil between worlds grows thin and the leaves return to the Earth, we gather to honor the ancestors, enter into ritual communion with the living world, and remember the original Mothership —
the Earth herself.
Join us for an immersive ceremonial portal of wildly embodied magic, ancestral invocation, ancient earth ritual, and mycelial wizardry. Together, through the wisdom of the body and the living Earth, we'll awaken the ancient intelligence that has always lived beneath our feet... and within us.
A creative collaboration brought to you by Anam Cara Retreats, Bear House Collective, and Entheos Holistics
Before we journey with the mushrooms, we'll journey through the landscape of the body.
Here, the body is not something to transcend, but something to remember. A living landscape and microcosm of the Earth herself. At Samhain, as the veil between worlds grows thin and the Earth turns inward, we enter one of the oldest ceremonial thresholds of the year. a sacred threshold to honor our ancestors and remember the living intelligence of death, rebirth, and renewal. Through play, practice, movement, breath, somatics, embodiment, and the wisdom of the seven directions and five elements, we'll awaken the innate intelligence already woven in our bones.
As we prepare to journey alongside our mycelial relatives, we'll remember that the greatest Mothership we'll ever travel through is the one we've been living in all along. These practices create a fertile ground for playful and potent ceremony, and an embodied map to carry its wisdom home.
Crossing the threshold and returning to
right
relationship.
Somewhere along the way, we forgot that we belong to the Earth… not as visitors, but as part of her.
We forgot that the body is nature. That death is part of life. That our ancestors and unseen guides continue to shape us. That intelligence exists beyond the thinking mind.
The deepest medicine isn't found in a mushroom. It's found in what the mushroom remembers.
That the Earth is alive, that every forest is a conversation, that every mycelial network is built through relationship, that death nourishes life, and that every ceremony is ultimately an invitation back into the dance of aliveness.
MOTHERSHIP isn't a retreat from the world.
It's a ritual playhouse where reverence meets revelry, where beauty and grief feast on the same fire, where ancient ceremony meets wild embodiment, and mystery, mischief, and the unseen are welcomed as honored guests.
Come not only to heal. Come to feast, wander, play, grieve, sing, dance, and remember that the world needs you feral, enchanted, and fully alive.
The Land That will Hold our coven
A hidden forest sanctuary on 120 acres of ancient Catskills forest…
Within the Sanctuary
Where mist drifts across open meadows, bonfires crackle beneath star-filled skies, and winding forest trails disappear beneath towering maples and moss-covered stones. At its heart stands the MOTHERSHIP. A soaring geodesic temple tucked among the trees, where ceremony, movement, music, mycelial magic, and myth come alive. This is more than the place we'll just gather. Our retreat sanctuary is a landscape that invites wandering, witchcraft, wonder, and a deep remembering of what it means to belong to the Earth. Here, the forest is more than a backdrop… It is the oldest member of our coven.
Our space features:
120 acres of ancient forest
Sacred Mothership temple
Geodesic domes
Cozy luxury woodland cabins with private and shared rooms
Cedar sauna & cold plunge
Bonfire gathering spaces
Winding forest trails
Gong & sound bath temple
Seasonal, delicious, and organic communal feasts
Private swimming pond
Dark Starry Skies
For thousands of years before these forests became a place of retreat, this landscape was part of the ancestral homelands of the Lenape-Munsee people, stewards of the Rondout Valley whose lives were shaped by the forests, waterways, changing seasons, and the rhythms of the Earth. We enter this land with reverence, recognizing that we gather upon an ancient landscape that has held countless generations of stories, ceremonies, migrations, and prayers. We come not to recreate those traditions, but to remember our own responsibility to walk in relationship.
Throughout our weekend together, the land itself becomes one of our greatest teachers. Guided by the wisdom of the seven directions, we'll orient ourselves to Earth below, sky above, the four cardinal directions, and the living center within. We'll build ancestral altars, tend ceremonial fires, and descend into an extraordinary glacial cave where a spring still flows through stone shaped over millions of years — a sacred grotto that spans the vastness of both geological and human time.
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.
“The Black Madonna is the Mother who remembers us when we have forgotten ourselves, when we have left our body.
A woman who comes home to her body
is a revolution.”
“The moment she reclaims her flesh and her voice, her lineage exhales.
We carry our mothers inside us. Healing ourselves heals her, and those
who came before. When we turn back toward the Mother, the world turns
toward true healing.”
March 21 - 27, 2026
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
8-Week Virtual Immersion & Retreat (Shared Room) €4000
8-Week Virtual Immersion & Retreat (Private Room) €4500
