vereda los achiotes, Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia
Up to 7 in group
Apr 24 - 30, 2026
About this Retreat
Alan Christopher MA, has been a transpersonal psychotherapist and psychedelic guide since 2013. Raised near the peyote gardens of south Texas, at 16 he began taking annual trips to Wirikuta. After a decade of party life, Alan returned to the medicine path that led him to Dakota Sundance Ceremony in Standing Rock SD.
In California Alan focused on Restorative Justice with “at-risk youth” introducing ritual with local elders. His professors then invited him to NAC meetings and Niños Santos veladas. After being a psychedelic therapy client for 3 years traveling annually to Huatla working with Mama Julieta, one of the Counsel of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, he was asked to join what became the Consciousness Medicine Community training in 2012.
Because of his early life submerced drug culture, Alan moved to Mexico to work in the ibogaine industry co-founding Medicine Heart Recovery. His work focuses on building connection through practices informed by various traditions such as Mazatec, Dakota Sioux, Nimiipuu, Wixarika, Dagara, Vegetalismo, Vajrayana, IFS, Psicomagia, Reiki, Qi Gong, Hakomi, Holistic Sexuality, Sacred Body Rites, craniosacral, evolutionary astrology, breathwork, and other somatic mindful approaches to healing.
The wide array of global healing disciplines makes Alan’s work truly integrative to help optimize outcomes of the most challenging of conditions from addiction, autoimmune diseases, and heartbreak all of which have roots in acute and inherited epigenetic trauma.
Details of this retreat
You are invited to enter a cyclical cosmology deeply embedded in the lush Colombian Sierra Nevada coast to connect, heal and expand beyond subconscious inherited limiting beliefs about Love and Reciprocity. Join an intimate group of 7 people for a 5 day ancestral medicine journey to the Kogui lands’ Reserva Pájaro Jaguar where a sacred river meets the sea.
With the power of the elements we co-create sacred space to explore the ecology of relationship dynamics we are born into. Together we will reshape painful inner landscapes fortifying emotional sustainability and wisdom allowing you to cultivate the magical life connections you desire.
The tools and techniques to be used include:
Temazcal, Inipi, or sweatlodge is a foundational rebirthing ceremony to clear, open, ground, and drop into the ceremony space building the bond of community through prayer.
IFS, Family Constellations and Psychomagia. These techniques can rewrite your epigenetic inheritance softening any attachment wounds and liberating you from family curses rooted in betrayal that may have been repeating for generations.
Mambe and ambil open the channels of communication to speak from the heart as we talk story in the evenings before entering the dreamtime.
Eco-Therapy and Ritual because the language of the psyche is symbol and nature has the power to rejuvenate.
Embodiment Exercise like Qi Gong, tribal fusion dance, and group chanting activates your energetic field through creativity, resonance and frequency.
Niños santos, holy children, psilocybin are the sacrament most used by our ancestors from all over the earth with the power of psychosomatic mycorestoration - decomposing our psychological shadows into ripe soil for compassion and wisdom to flourish in you.
Bufo alvarious, sapo, 5-MeO-DMT can help flush your nervous system of its triggers of fight, flight, freeze or submit often connected to safety and shame. This experience has the potential to produce sensations of euphoric self-acceptance leading to a profound state of grace.
Your process begins with 2 pre-retreat video sessions to cultivate our therapeutic alliance and begin to unpack the inner children of your lineage.
Included is 1 post-retreat integration session
This event is being held in partnership with Reserva Pájaro Jaguar and my dear friend Catalina del Mar, in their residence and sacred medicine space.
By participating in this retreat, you are not only investing in your own growth and transformation but also contributing to a larger vision. Your participation directly supports Reserva Pájaro Jaguar in its mission to become a thriving community space, welcoming people from around the world and stewarding the land with love and care.
This retreat is an opportunity to co-create and help expand this vision while giving back to the people of the territory. Together, we are planting seeds for a brighter future rooted in reciprocity, connection, and sustainability.
This is a community space and we welcome single people, couples and families with children to co-create this experience.
Day 1
Arrival - Introduction to the family, the land, and your accommodations.
Ocean side temezcal/inipi sweatlodge ceremony and swim.
Dinner and Discussions.
Day 2
Chi Gong, movement, sound, meditation
Walk to the Kogui village, waterfall land blessing and offerings, return
2 Family Constellations
Mambe/Ambil - Story telling, fire ceremony
Day 3
Morning movement and meditation
2 Family Constellations
Eco-therapy sit spot
Niños Santos ceremony 5-6 hrs
Ancestral fire ceremony
Day 4
Morning movement mediation
Integration talking circle
1 Family Constellation
Individual bufo session - concurrent bodywork and stretching
Day 5
Beach walk, sand burial, ocean swim
Closing circle
Departure
We highly recommend you stay in the coastal area another 2 nights to give yourself space to acclimate to life outside the retreat container. We can recommend a friend's beach glamping just 30 min away or hotels/hostels.