WOMAN | MEDICINE | ARTISANS
This retreat is a sacred space for women seeking to reconnect with their deepest essence. Whether you're on a journey of womb healing, exploring your sacred cyclical nature, honoring ancestral memories, or simply longing to remember your innate connection with the Earth, here you will find refuge. We honor all feminine experiences—joy, transformation, grief, and renewal—for every womb is a territory of power, and every woman carries ancestral wisdom.
The presence of Judy Jacanamjejoy, a Kamëntsá medicine woman holds the heart of this retreat: through her songs, prayers, and sacred guidance, she opens portals of deep healing—reminding us that our womb is sacred territory. Her medicine, woven with plants, memories, and living ancestral wisdom, invites us to reconnect with the Earth, our roots, and the creative power within. Through her cosmovision, we awaken ancient memories that bring us back to the body, to sisterhood, and to the sacred mystery of the feminine.
A letter to you
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Dear Woman,
I invite you to share a space of natural connection, arising from the beautiful feeling in our wombs and hearts. This is an opportunity to truly listen to ourselves, to embrace the present with love, and to consciously walk together on the path of healing our spirits. We will honor the sacred company of women, remember and call forth the teachings of our ancestors, and cherish the heartbeat and conscious breath of life as the infinite gift from the universe that it is.
Judy Jacanamejoy Chicunque
Medicine Woman, Kamëntsá Indigenous Community, Colombia
I invite you to join us on this journey, to weave together a space of love and care among us. I wish that during this gathering, we may reconnect with the greatness of our spirits, feel held, mothered, and liberated, and thus receive clarity to continue walking our paths. I long for your breath to hold us, to welcome the strength and wisdom carried within each of your words and experiences. I desire for the infinite love dwelling in your heart to bloom, for you to feel deeply heard, held, accompanied, cared for, and embraced. And may you, through rest, deep listening, silence, the movement of your body, the presence of other women, and sacred plants, find shelter for your heart
Maria Alejandra Chaves Narvaez
Co- Founder, Latido
About this Retreat
Healing is a return to our essence—a journey of recognizing the pain we carry and gently clearing what creates imbalance in our body and spirit. It is a path of remembering who we are and restoring harmony within and around us.
Through sacred rituals with plants, oils, baths, and vaginal steams, we access deep memories and invite the wisdom of each medicine to guide us back to balance. Offerings to the Earth and to our own bodies as sacred territory help us release, express gratitude, and ask for clarity and protection.
We gather around the fire to share stories, sow words in the heart, and hold each other in empathy and sisterhood. Movement becomes prayer—awakening the spirit within the body, and clearing what no longer serves.
With the loving presence of Judy Jacanamejoy, Kamëntsá medicine woman and guardian of womb wisdom, we are held in a space of trust and care. She listens deeply—to your breath, your body’s energy, your emotions—and with sacred plants, songs, and healing hands, she helps you dissolve burdens, mend energetic threads, and rekindle your inner fire. Under her guidance, healing becomes a return to harmony with the elements and with the life force that flows through us all.
Sacred Portals of Transformation
Let us feel again the pulse of our wombs, where we hold and care for the memories of our foremothers, the seeds we gestate, and our capacity to create and weave new paths.
Opening Circle and Seed Planting in the Territory
We begin by opening our hearts in sisterhood, giving thanks to Mother Earth for holding us in her embrace. Guided by the Kamëntsá cosmovision—where the womb is seen as the heart of a woman and the Earth as a living body—we offer seeds to the land as symbols of memory, gratitude, and commitment. In this act, we honor the deep bond between our bodies and the territory, remembering that we are part of the same living web. As we release burdens and weave our intentions, we root ourselves in the Earth’s womb, renewing the sacred covenant that unites us with life.
Women in Earth Time:
Weaving Ancestral Memories
from the Womb
We will explore our feminine essence as a sacred bridge to the Earth and the ancestral memories held within. In the Kamëntsá cosmovision, the womb—like the land—stores memory. Through deep meditation, we reconnect with the stories of our mothers and grandmothers, honoring their legacy and healing what has been silenced. Like the Earth, women nourish from the root, harvest with patience, and weave support through sisterhood. In this space of love, forgiveness, and remembrance, the heart softens, and the spirit begins to remember
its purpose.
Yoga
We will connect with our bodies each morning and evening, creating daily moments to open our hearts and hips. Through conscious breathing, we’ll release pain, create space within, and invite healing to unfold.
In the mornings, we will practice Hatha Flow Yoga, a gentle, flowing sequence that blends breath with movement, fostering openness, ease, and balance in the body. Moving with awareness, we’ll release tension, build vitality, and finish feeling grounded and refreshed.
In the evenings, we will practice Yin Yoga, a slow, nourishing journey into stillness and release. We’ll rest in long-held postures, allowing the body to soften and the mind to quiet, emerging spacious, calm, and restored.
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The Womb as Sacred Territory: Remembering the Body as Earth
Our body is our first sacred territory—a living map where the stories of Mother Earth and our own intertwine. In this space, we will explore how the womb, as the center of feminine power and creation, holds emotions, ancestral wisdom, and the potential to bloom like fertile soil.
Through ancestral practices—such as the tsombiach (a traditional womb belt used to wrap and protect), womb massage to release tension and awaken energy, and a vaginal steam circle guided by plant spirits—we will honor and restore this sacred center.
Healing from the Root: Ancestral Reconnection Sessions with Judy
Our journey begins even before we gather in person—with a virtual circle to set intentions, attune to each woman’s energy, and prepare the inner soil for what’s to come.
You will have the opportunity to have a private session with Judy. With tenderness and deep wisdom, she listens to your story—your words, your dreams, the energy of your body, and your ancestral ties to the Earth. Through sacred plants, crystals, and her healing hands, she lovingly massages and repositions the womb, opening a dialogue with plant spirits to dissolve heaviness and restore clarity. Through ritual, prayer, and song, you walk together toward integration, reawakening your center of strength, desire, and creative power.
Earth Offering:
A Communal Act of Love
In the spirit of the Kamëntsá Minga — an ancestral practice of collective work and reciprocity — we will come together as women to offer our hands to the Earth. Through shared labor on the land, we will honor the sacred relationship between our bodies and the body of Mother Earth. This will be a time to root ourselves in presence, gratitude, and service — giving back to the same Earth that holds our prayers, tears, seeds, and dreams.
Weaving Wisdom Around the Fire: Ancestral Cleansing, Moon Cycles, and Word Circle
Around the warmth of the fire, we will gather in a circle of word—planting our voices, sharing our stories, and weaving ancestral wisdom into the heart. Guided by Judy’s presence and sacred songs, we will receive a group cleansing with medicinal plants—an ancient practice to harmonize and protect both body and spirit.
Together, we will reflect on the moon’s cycles and their deep connection to our own rhythms as women. This circle is a space of sisterhood, reciprocity, and remembrance—nourished by the Earth’s vitality and the sacred fire that calls us home.
My Life Project: Recognizing My Spirit’s Strength and Rediscovering My Purpose
We will hold a reflective gathering to express through drawing, song, or poetry the lessons and feelings that shape our life project. We will draw our wombs and place within them each of our dreams, focusing particularly on those that connect body, mind and spirit. Through this process, we will recognize, honor, and set intentions for our true purpose or mission on Earth - one that embraces health and wellbeing, peace, balance, and deep connection with nature, remembering we come from the Earth and to her we shall return. Each woman's artistic creation will be placed in a visible space at home, serving as a reminder of her journey and commitment to her heart and spirit.
Closing Ceremony:
A Prayer to the Waters
This final gathering brings us together around the sacred element of Water, honoring the deep connection we share with it, from the womb where life begins to the inner waters that hold our emotions, dreams, and memory. Each woman is invited to speak from the heart in a collective act of gratitude for life, for the healing received, and for the waters that have carried us through this journey.
Guided by ancestral tradition, we will share a rapé ceremony, a sacred blend of tobacco and plants that centers the mind and opens space for deep connection. Through prayer, song, and silence, we honor the elements and release what no longer serves. Judy will offer a final cleansing to bless and seal the path ahead.
We leave with lighter hearts, strengthened wombs, and the quiet knowing that the seeds planted here will continue to grow with every step we take.
Weaving Together
About Judy Jacanamejoy
About Maria Alejandra Chaves
Descendant of a lineage of wisdom keepers and healers from the Kamëntsá community in Colombia's Putumayo region, Judy Jacanamejoy is a medicine woman whose life embodies the fusion of ancestral tradition and contemporary commitment. From childhood, she grew immersed in ceremonial chants, the fragrance of sacred plants, and the profound teachings of her elders, becoming a guardian of millennia-old knowledge she now shares with the world. As an anthropologist, artist, poet, and composer, she weaves multiple languages to express her people's living memory: her songs are prayers, her poems spiritual maps, and her ceremonies gateways to holistic healing.
A dedicated leader, Judy devotes her life to defending both physical and spiritual territory, understanding that protecting Mother Earth is intrinsically connected to honoring the womb as the first sacred space. She accompanies community processes with special focus on empowering women and youth, teaching that traditional medicine is both political and spiritual action. Rooted in Kamëntsá cosmovision, her work invites a return to origin: "Healing the womb means healing our relationship with Tbatsanamamá (Mother Earth)," she affirms, reminding us that every medicinal plant houses a master spirit, and every woman carries the power to transform wounds into roots of renewal.
María Alejandra, co-founder of LATIDO, was born in Colombia and has spent years weaving pathways to connect the world with the ancestral wisdom of its indigenous peoples. When she arrived in Colombia's Sibundoy Valley, her spirit resonated deeply with this land. Through her encounter with the Kamëntsá people, she found profound inspiration to amplify the voices and teachings of this community that guards the great womb of Mother Earth.
Mother to 4-year-old twins Alma and Violeta, María Alejandra experienced a birth journey that led her to seek healing in her roots. In early 2022, she received a postpartum closing ceremony guided by a Kamëntsá midwife, using sacred plants and ancestral practices to reconnect with her womb and release pregnancy/birth trauma. This ritual crystallized her purpose: creating spaces where women restore their wombs' vital energy through self-care, indigenous practices, and respectful dialogue with Earth and body. Today, LATIDO bridges Kamëntsá knowledge and collective healing, honoring the womb as life's first sacred territory.
About Doua Benhida
Care for the maternal womb, for within it dwell our heart, our thoughts, our emotions, and the very spark of life. My grandparents taught me that true evolution is a return to the origins of the Earth." — Judy Jacanamejoy
About Elouise Lakshya
Elouise has been sharing yoga for over 15 years, guiding students through movement, breath, stillness, and the deeper roots of the practice. She spent three years living and studying in a traditional Gurukulam in India, immersed in Sanskrit, Vedic chanting, and the wisdom of Vedanta. Having led more than 25 retreats around the world, her intention is always to create a space where you can slow down, reconnect, and feel at home in yourself.
Over the retreat, Elouise will guide two steady, breath-led Hatha Flow sessions to create a sense of openness, flow and balance to the body, and two slow, nourishing Yin practices to soften, release, and restore. Each class is designed with women in mind- honouring the body’s natural rhythms, creating space to listen inward, and leaving you feeling grounded, open, and deeply replenished.
Moroccan by blood, Colombian in soul, and born and raised in Doha, Doua embodies the essence of a third-culture citizen. She is a Mother, a Speaker, and an Advocate for both Cancer survivorship and Feminine energy. Her soul awakening began in 2020, a time when the world itself was forced to pause and transform.
Through many challenges, life humbled her, but it also revealed her resilience and mental strength. Her greatest lessons have been in acceptance and surrender — otherwise known in Arabic as Tawakkul and Tasleem.
She once walked the path of a conventional corporate career but quickly realized it was not her calling. Instead, her gift for languages, and her ability to speak nearly five fluently, became one of her bridges - allowing her to serve not only as translator during this retreat, but also as a connector between two worlds: the world of communication and language, and the world of healing, feminine wisdom, and survivorship.
Doua is also certified as a Conditioning and Inner Child Practitioner, bringing both training and lived wisdom to her healing work. As a salsa dancer for over 17 years, she conducts workshops to help men and women reconnect with both their healthy masculine and feminine energies.
Doua is excited to join us at this retreat and shares:
“I cannot wait to meet you all, women from all walks of life. As a participant in several retreats myself, I know from experience that this will be a life-changing 72 hours. Together, we will awaken our souls, reconnect with our divine feminine, and honor our inner wisdom and intuition. We women hold so much power when we practice self-love. Here’s to healing, reconnecting, and loving yourself more today than you did yesterday.”
About Liberty Gelderloos
Liberty is a certified womb steam practitioner and menstrual cycle awareness educator dedicated to supporting women in reconnecting with their bodies and cycles. She combines traditional womb steaming practices with modern menstrual health awareness to offer practical, restorative ways of addressing imbalances and promoting overall wellbeing. Liberty also incorporates sound healing into her work, creating spaces that support both physical release and emotional balance. In addition, she facilitates WaterFlow therapy, a gentle aquatic bodywork that nurtures deep relaxation and nervous system regulation.
The Kamëntsá are an ancestral indigenous community inhabiting the Sibundoy Valley in Putumayo, Colombia - a territory where the Andes and Amazon intertwine. Their cosmovision centers on the sacred relationship with Tbatsanamamá (Mother Earth), whom they honor as the source of life and teacher of medicinal plants. For them, every herb, fruit, stone, and element is an allied spirit that teaches how to heal the body, balance emotions, and dialogue with ancestors.
Their philosophy of "beautiful thinking" (pensar bonito) guides every action toward harmony: living in reciprocity with nature, weaving community with respect, and protecting the territory as a collective womb. The Kamëntsá remind us that caring for the earth, body and spirit are not separate acts, but one unified ritual of gratitude for existence.
About the Kamëntsá Indigenous Community: Guardians of Mother Earth's Wisdom
We found a place that resonates in authenticity and alignment with the heartbeat of our retreat: GrassRoots Village, a life project co-created by Sima Basel and Marwan Ghunaim in collaboration with Mubarak, a long-time guardian of this land. It is an eco-farm rooted in the ancestral lands of the Hajar Mountains in Hatta, U.A.E., where we can return to simplicity and nature—bathing in natural waters, learning from the Earth’s cycles, and experiencing the rhythms of permaculture.
A space of stillness, where we honor our connection with Mother Earth and her elements. This land offers a visceral experience of the Earth’s vibration—through her soil, her waters, the wind, and the fire, she holds and nurtures our gathering. This territory is our medicine.
The Land
At Grassroots, food is not served—it’s shared. Our meals during the retreat are rooted in simplicity, generosity, and story. One evening, the food will be hosted by a local grandmother, whose hands carry generations of memory into every dish. Another night, we will gather in a community dinner—cooking, laughing, and eating together under the stars. All meals are vegetarian, made with fresh ingredients from the farm and neighboring lands. This is food that speaks slowly to the body, and deeply to the heart—a reminder that nourishment is a form of belonging.
The Food
Our home for the weekend is a quiet eco-village nestle in the mountains, a place where time slows down and life is lived close to the earth. You’ll stay in a rural cottage with options for private rooms, shared rooms, or a cozy camping area..
We’ll embrace the beauty of simplicity, living close to the land, without luxury, but with the richness of presence, community, and connection. We’ll live gently, like the farmers who tend this land, waking with the light, moving with intention, and finding beauty in the small, essential things.
Accommodation
This will be an intimate gathering of a maximum 10 women, allowing each participant to be truly seen, heard, and held. This small circle opens sacred space for one-on-one connection with Judy Jacanamejoy, a medicine woman from the Indigenous Kamëntsá people, who will accompany each woman through individual healing processes with her words, her prayers, and her ancestral medicine.
Intimate Group
Retreat Offering:
Includes:
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Private healing session with Judy Jacanamejoy, Indigenous Kamëntsá Medicine Woman
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A virtual opening circle to harmonize our group energy and begin setting our intentions prior to the retreat
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All ceremonies and healing sessions described in the retreat program
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Womb steaming circle
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Morning Hatha Yoga & evening Yin Yoga sessions
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2 nights in a eco-village cottage with options for private rooms, shared rooms, or a cozy camping area.
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3 soul-nourishing vegetarian meals per day + permanent tea & coffee station
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1 community dinner under the stars
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Spanish-English-Spanish simultaneous translation throughout the retreat
Excludes:
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Transportation to and from Hatta (U.A.E)
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Travel Insurance and Visa
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Retreat Price: AED 4,200 + Accommodation
Accommodation bookings are made directly with Grass Roots Village:
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Tent: 100 AED per night
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Shared room: 200 AED per night
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Private room: 400 AED per night (subject to availability).
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A non-refundable deposit of AED 1,400 is required to secure your place.
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Your spot will only be confirmed once the deposit has been received.
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The balance must be paid in full by 31 October 2025.
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If booking after 31 October 2025, full payment is required at the time of registration.
Retreat Price
Booking & Deposit
Due to the intimate nature of this retreat, the logistics and the long-distance travel of our Indigenous Medicine Woman from South America, we kindly ask you to honor your commitment with mindfulness. The following terms apply:
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Deposit (AED 1,400): Non-refundable under all circumstances.
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Cancellations before 25 October 2025: Refund of any amount paid beyond the deposit.
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Cancellations on or after 25 October 2025: No refund will be issued. However, your booking may be transferred to another woman you nominate and who meets the intention of this retreat, subject to approval by the organizers.
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If the retreat is canceled by the organizers due to unforeseen circumstances, all payments, including the deposit, will be fully refunded. However, we are not responsible for other expenses such as airfare or travel insurance.
Cancellation Policy
Payment Methods
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Bank Transfer (UAE) – details will be provided upon request.
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Credit Card Payments – request a secure payment link.
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International Transfers – any bank or currency exchange fees must be covered by the participant.
We strongly recommend securing your place early. This ensures your participation and allows us to make the necessary ceremonial and logistical preparations in advance.
Retreat Offering:
Walking, Learning, and Weaving.
My path has led me through many mountains—literal, emotional, spiritual, and physical—teaching me I am and always will be a lifelong learner and walker. Life is woven step by step; with every challenge or knot along the way, we examine it, untangle it, resolve it, and continue weaving. This journey has brought me immense joys and blessings, beautiful moments of happiness, and humans I love deeply. Equally, it has carried profound sorrows and pains that still teach me—wounds I must keep releasing, forgiving, and liberating, ones that ask for air, deep breaths, and trust in my process. Meeting each of you at this time is an honor. Walking beside you, learning from and respectfully listening to your experiences is healing. Having the opportunity to weave with you—whether for days, years, or a lifetime—is a gift Mother Earth gives me. We’ve created this retreat with boundless love, gestated it from our wombs, and offered it to Mother Earth with the intention that this gathering becomes a beautiful walk—one rooted in love, deep listening, reflection, forgiveness, and warm embrace.
—María Alejandra Chaves N
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