About this Retreat
As a plant medicine guide, herbalist, dancer and spaceholder, Dave Achula weaves earth-based healing, movement, ritual and sound into transformative spaces of connection and remembrance. His work is rooted in over a decade of direct relationship with plant teachers, both in personal practice and ceremonial facilitation.
Trained as a trauma-informed plant medicine facilitator, Dave holds space with deep reverence for the intelligence of the body, the land, and the unseen.
Dave’s path has been shaped by mentorship and learning with indigenous wisdom keepers in South Africa, including the Khoi and Sangoma lineages, alongside a deep respect for the shamanic traditions of the Amazon and Andes.
Details of this retreat
Journey Inward
Guided by Dave Achula, herbalist and ceremony facilitator who blends ancient shamanic wisdom with a grounded, safe and down-to-earth approach. Ceremonies can be booked as a solo or duo experience.
🌱 Healing in a Natural Way
In a safe setting, your system can finally relax.
When your body feels safe, it opens — allowing old tension, emotions or unprocessed experiences to rise to the surface.
Not forced, but at your pace.
You don’t need to do anything “special.”
You only need to feel what arises.
That is the healing.
🔥 Breakthroughs & Insights
The truffles act as a soft, wise mirror.
They show you the patterns that block you, where you hold yourself back, and where your truth is still hidden.
Many people experience a moment where everything clicks:
“Oh… this is who I am.”
No words from the outside but insight from within.
🌌 Connection with Yourself
(and the greater whole)
From a shamanic perspective, you are not separate from nature you are nature.
During the ceremony, this connection often returns as:
calm, clarity, peace, and the feeling of being held by something larger than your thoughts.
And still, the experience remains grounded:
you stay in your body, here and now.
🌾 A Reset for Your Whole System
Many participants report after the ceremony:
More inner calm
Less mental noise
Clearer boundaries
More energy
More softness toward themselves
It feels like you can breathe again.
As if your system has pressed “restart.”
A Three-Part Guided Process
In a carefully held journey preparation, ceremony and integration you travel inward, supported by breathwork, ritual, live music and somatic guidance.
✨ The Process
Step 1 – Preparation
📞 1:1 intake call
🎯 Setting your intention
🧘♀️ Body-based tools & resources
Step 2 – Ceremony
🍵 Truffle tea (macrodose)
🎶 Live music & sound journey
🌀 Sacred space & shamanic rituals
🥣 Warm, nourishing meal
Step 3 – Integration
📅 Daily check-ins for 1 week
💻 Integration call after 3 weeks
📓 Reflection & integration practices