Para español, seleccione la bandera en el menú. This retreat holds the intention to create a safe space for Spanish-speaking women from the Americas who live in Colorado and want to reconnect with their indigenous roots through the healing and wisdom of Mother Earth. Please apply here. For any questions, please contact Bianca Acosta at Email: [email protected] or Phone: 720-447-4107
RETREAT DETAILS
This four-day retreat for womxn, descendants of Indigenous peoples, focuses on the central role womxn play in healing families, communities, and the land. The retreat leaders view land rematriation as a powerful way to restore balance and heal from the wounds of colonization, emphasizing the importance of returning to Indigenous ways of life and viewing all beings as relatives. Participants will engage in Earth-based ancestral healing practices aimed at healing ancestral trauma, reclaiming languages and ceremonies, and adapting restorative land practices to address the climate crisis. This process of healing is not only about personal transformation but also about revitalizing the land and its ecosystems, as Indigenous wisdom plays a vital role in safeguarding biodiversity and promoting sustainable environmental stewardship.
Held at the Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center (RMERC), this retreat will provide a safe, restorative space for womxn of all backgrounds to gather, share, and learn. Through a combination of solo time in nature, movement, guided rituals, affinity group work, and peer-to-peer dialogue, participants will explore ways to deepen love for each other and the land, heal ancestral wounds, and engage in the rematriation process. The retreat will be facilitated in Spanish and can accommodate up to 30 participants, creating an intimate environment for profound healing and connection. The leaders of this retreat aim to provide lasting resources rooted in Indigenous knowledge, empowering participants to bring transformative practices back to their communities.
- If you self-identify as indigenous and are interested in the climate and/or racial justice movement.
- If you feel burnt out and/or overwhelmed and need to recharge in an emotionally safe space in the mountains of Colorado where we gently witness and honor each other’s experience.
- If you believe we can build a climate justice movement that is rooted in our deepest indigenous values and truth and we can engage in justice advocacy as an integral part of our spiritual and emotional growth.
- If you feel silence, movement/dance, and empathetic emotional connection and Earth based practices and ceremonies with others can help release internalized white supremacy and other stresses lodged in our bodies.
SCHEDULE
Each day will include silent connection with Mother Earth, movement (Kundalini Yoga and somatic Qigong), traditional massage, relational practices in small groups or dyads, indigenous ceremonies by fire and water and short talks by the facilitators on indigeneity, permaculture and indigenous ways of being . The retreat sessions will discuss how our bodies store and remember trauma, how can we release these ancestral trauma through movement, rituals and group-work. We will do ceremonies to tap into our gratitude, express grief/anger or despair/fear and inspire actions.
Bianca Acosta (co-leader). Bianca Acosta is a trained teacher of somatic Qigong, traditional ecological design and farming practices (best known as permaculture), and Ecodharma ceremonies at the Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center. She is originally from Zacatecas, Mexico and has been living in Colorado for over 17 years.
She is proud of her indigenous roots and her life’s prayer is to be an active co-creator of a more beautiful world by sharing her gifts, being in synergetic relationships with Mother Earth, the diverse communities she is part of and embracing the multi-dimensionality of their being. She currently is in her last year of Capulli, a four year immersive program in curanderismo and ancestral/traditional healing. She envisions and leads healing retreats and ceremonies for Boundless in Motion including retreats for Indigenous women and for people of color.
Berta Navichoc (Co-Leader). Berta Navichoc, called Nana Berta by her community, is an elder from the Mayan nations based in Guatemala who has dedicated her life to protecting the natural world through cultural preservation, water and ecosystem activism, and promoting ancestral textile production to create economic opportunities for her community. She leads the “Guardians of the Lake” collective, which educates young people on the importance of connecting with and stewarding sacred waters.
She is also the director of Teixchel (Tejidos Ecológicos de Ixchel), an association in San Pedro La Laguna that produces textiles using ecological and natural dyes. Although Teixchel was formally established in 2009, its roots go back 40 years when Tz’utujil women artisans revived the traditional backstrap weaving technique. Over the years, the women formalized their efforts into an association that supports their families through weaving. Today, Teixchel comprises 30 single mothers, widows, and elderly women with limited resources who rely on the profits from their artisanal sales. They have since developed expertise in the design, production, and export of their products.
Nana Berta is a powerful example of how one person can positively impact both community and planet, uniquely intertwining climate action, Earth-friendly clothing, cultural resilience, and community support.
Miriam Novichoc (Co-Leader). Miriam Novichoc, also known as Nana Mimi, carries the authentic Mayan lineage and lives in Guatemala. She is invited by different groups in the U.S. to offer many different kinds of workshops and ceremonies around elemental pillars of Mayan culture: cacao, fire, tobacco, Mayan Astrology, and Mayan Womb Massage.
Nana Mimi unfolds the sacred traditions that have been a cornerstone of communal and spiritual life for over three thousand years. For example, “Cacao,” derived from the Mayan “Ka’kau” for “heart blood,” and “Chokola’j,” meaning “to drink together,” symbolizes profound community and spiritual connections. Mayans believed cacao to be imbued with the blood of gods and a divine gift to humanity, as “Food of the Gods,” essential for restoring balance and divine connection. Nana Mimi’s guidance through the ceremonial use of cacao, with songs and prayers uttered in her Mayan dialect, gives voice to the ancient belief that cacao serves as “food for the shift,” ushering in an era of love and peace and reconciling the imbalance between humans and nature.
