When the Mushroom Dreams Us
A 5-day Mazatec healing journey into mushroom consciousness, ancestral wisdom, and the mycelial intelligence that weaves through all living systems
Dates: March 8-12 [2026]
Location: Yacumama Ecovillage, Ojochal, Costa Rica
"I am a woman who looks into the insides of things and investigates... There is a world beyond ours, a world that is far away, nearby, and invisible. And there it is where God lives, where the dead live, the spirits and the saints."
— María Sabina
There is an intelligence older than language, deeper than thought, a consciousness that moves through soil and synapse, connecting all living systems in an elegant web of reciprocity. The Mazatec people of Oaxaca's sacred Sierra Mazateca mountains have been in conversation with this intelligence for millennia, through their relationship with ndi xhito, the sacred mushrooms that fruit where lightning touches earth.
This is an invitation to be dreamed into deeper remembrance by the mushrooms.
Our Mazatec Guardian
Alejandrina Pedro Castañeda is a Mazatec curandera (healer), cultural guardian and elder from Huatla de Jimenez, Oaxaca, Mexico. She works with ndi xhito, the mushrooms as well as doing auratherapies, traditional egg readings and other rituals.
The Web That Heals
This is an intimate immersion into the living healing tradition of the Mazatec people of Oaxaca’s Sierra Mazateca, guided by traditional curandera Alejandrina Pedro Casteñada. In this tradition, healing is not approached as a personal endeavor alone, but as a restoration of harmony within the wider web of life. We work with ndi xhito — the sacred mushrooms — as conscious teachers that illuminate the hidden architectures of the psyche, the nervous system, the ancestral field, and the living Earth itself.
Participants will take part in two traditional veladas (ceremonies), one in darkness and one in daylight, along with limpias, auratherapy, altar teachings, and bioculture transmissions. Through prayer, ritual, silence, and communion with nature, participants enter distinct portals of mushroom consciousness and embodied remembering.
This immersion is for facilitators, healers, and sincere seekers who recognize the mushroom not as a tool, but as a teacher of fundamental life patterns — death and rebirth, dissolution and renewal, and our shared remembrance within the larger mycelial body of the Earth.
The Itinerary
March 8 – Day 1 | Arrival + Orientation
2:00 PM – Welcome Snack
Arrival + Opening Introduction Circle
Alejandrina’s Orientation workshop and tobacco Registration at the Ceiba Tree
6:00 PM – Dinner
March 9 – Day 2 | Land, Limpias & Evening Velada
8:30 AM – Breakfast
Limpias Begin With Alejandrina
Light lunch + Casual River Time for Those Not Receiving Limpias
Interactive Workshop with Ryan+Marisa : Mapping the Mycelial Mind
Evening velada starts 7-8pm.
March 10 – Day 3 | Altar, Cacao & Ceremony
Abundant Breakfast + Cacao with Abuela Boruca
Free time in Nature, waterfall walks
Alejandriña Workshop: Building La Mesa Sagrad: the Sacred table
Light Lunch + Early Evening
March 11 – Day 4 | Integration, River & Visioning
Sunrise velada
Group River Time with Blue Clay
What is the mushroom's dream? Q&A with Alejandrina
Fire circle
March 12 – Day 5 | Closing & Farewells
Brunch
Closing Expression Circle
Embodiment & Integration Workshop: “Weaving the Medicine Into Life”
Offering the Altar to the River
Farewells & Departures
Supporting Team
Alejandrina is supported in this journey by Ryan (Ra) James Kemp and Marisa Franco. They work by holding the group container, supporting ceremonies, facilitating sharing circles and adding in key integrative work that bridges the contexts of the indigenous world and the western mind.
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Systems futurist and relational architectRyan works at the intersection of indigenous wisdom, regenerative design, and expanded consciousness. He creates containers for deep transformation, where complexity becomes clarity, and healing emerges through remembering our kinship with living systems. Ryan guides facilitators and change-makers in cultivating the embodied intelligence needed to serve planetary regeneration with humility, reciprocity, and reverence for ancestral knowledge.
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Co-facilitator
Marisa Franco is a plant medicine facilitator, poet, writer, intuitive chef, and somatic listener whose work weaves connection back into the places trauma and societal wounds have frayed. Initiated into the Bwiti tradition of Gabon and shaped by years of cross-cultural study and lived devotion, she guides people through transformation, loss, and renewal with reverence, clarity, and deep listening. She has supported individuals through addiction, trauma, and profound life transitions — including veterans and first responders — and lives in Central Mexico with her fiancé Ryan, three dogs, and a baby on the way.