Join Hidden Garden teachers and practitioners for a transformational and educational Ancestral Medicine Retreat!

Central and Caribbean Costa Rica

February 10 – 17, 2024

 

Cost of $2200 includes 1 private healing session, 7 nights lodging, transportation, all activities & 2 meals/day

 

Receive a 20% discount for signing up by November 15th! 

 

Hold your place by paying your $300 deposit here*.

* Non-refundable. Please feel free to send us an email to confirm your payment.
Ancestral Medicine Retreat Teachers

Making Friends in the Forest

Cachabri Plant Tour

Womens Wellness Retreat

Learning with Elders

Mountaintop Meal with Victor Umaña

Healing Drinks

Toucan at Hidden Garden

Red Head Flower

Planting Rafael Ocampo’s Clove Tree

Indigenous Herbalism

Bri Bri Excursion

Sloth at Hidden Garden

Hidden Garden Plant Walk

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Itinerary

Day 1 San Jose

Check-In from 3 – 6 pm

Welcome Dinner & Introduction to Ancestral Medicine with Carmen Ivankovich

Day 2

Shamanic Voyage Workshop with Jane Segleau Earle

Day 3

Breakfast & Learning from Elders with Carmen Carhuamaca

Travel to Caribbean Coast

Herbalism in Latin America and the Caribbean with Rafael Ocampo

Day 4 South Caribbean

Plant Walk at Hidden Garden with Wilfred Cornwall

Forest-to-Table Lunch with Victor Umaña

Free Time

Day 5

Bri Bri Indigenous Reserve Tour

Talk, Ceremony and Lunch with Ricardo Morales

Day 6

Sweat Lodge with Mary Mullen

Free Time

Day 7

Farewell Breakfast

Check-out & Airport Shuttle

Join the multi-dimensional ancestral medicine retreat to learn from these amazing elders, while experiencing Latino and Caribbean healing traditions and connecting with your own ancestral path to wellness.

Wilfred Cornwall

Wilfred Cornwall is a local Afro-Costa Rican herbalist, who serves his community and its visitors in the traditional way of…

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Carmen Ivankovich

Carmen Ivankovich is a psychologist with a doctorate in Education and a passion for Indigenous healing traditions. She has traveled…

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Ricardo Morales

Don Ricardo is an Awa – the Bri Bri word for shaman or medicine man. He is one of the…

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Mary Mullen

Mary Mullen has been leading healing ceremonies for decades. She is a community elder, a Sundancer, a sacred pipe carrier…

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Rafael Ocampo

Rafael Ocampo is one of Central America’s leading ethnobotanists. He has written numerous books over the past 30 years, including…

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Victor Umaña

Victor Umaña grew up with the stories and home remedies of his grandparents and village elders like Miss Sam. Unlike…

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Jane Segleau Earle

Wrote the popular book on medicinal plants of Costa Rica: Plantas Medicinales del Tropico Humedo. After graduating from the Costa Rican Technological…

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