THE SACRED SESSION
WOMEN'S HEALING JOURNEY
WITH SHIPIBO MAESTRA LAURA LOPEZ SANCHEZ
THE SACRED VALLEY, PERU
JUNE 24-30, 2025
When women gather - we connect to ancestral ways of relating, we remember how to weave the intricacies of life and activate our feminine wisdom for the betterment of humanity. We are honored to create a space for women to nourish the personal and collective evolution of our feminine wisdom.
Through the inquires of Self Mastery, Embodiment & Sovereignty, we partner with the elements of nature, sacred plant medicine and indigenous technologies to learn, heal and begin to peel back layers of beliefs, stories, trauma, programming and social concepts so we can remember who we are and uncover our truest expression.
We have the honor to be guided by renowned Shipibo healer Maestra Laura Lopez Sanchez who has dedicated her life to the study of master plants- dieting and investigating deeply into the wisdom of the plants in ceremony. She shares her medicine with incredible strength and insight, we are excited to support you in this deep healing journey!
Our program was created and will be facilitated by an all woman team - Jessica Begin & Karina Turtzo– feminine leadership and embodiment guides and students of Maestras Laura with decades of experience in group facilitation and medicine work.
Workshops and daytime sessions aim to support and inform the work in ceremony and create a deeper connection to the energetic realms of the plants, and the Shipibo culture.
Our container aims to support you to free your authentic expression, nourish joyful creativity and learn to connect to the elements of nature to create health, harmony and balance in your life.
Join us to explore the following:
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3 Shipibo Healing Ceremonies
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INKA Indigenous Wisdom Teachings
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Decoding Soma - Alignment and Reclamation of your feminine wisdom & leadership
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Elemental Medicine - Wisdom teachings of the elements of creation Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Ether
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The Way of The Altar - Connect to ancient technology to cultivate reverence and connection
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Alchemy Breathwork - Transformational sessions to support somatic integration of the medicine
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Voice Activation Workshops - Find your authentic expressions
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Organic meals for nourishment
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Transcending limiting beliefs and accessing free and joyful expression.
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Opening to playfulness and connection
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Igniting your creative fire and building your reservoir of creative “juice” and inspiration
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Using embodiment practices as tools to clear, repair and restore your vibratory field
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Practicing reciprocity with nature and nourishing life with creative beauty
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Learning about Shipibo ancestral wisdom
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Discovering the intelligence of your own energy anatomy
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3 Community Integration Zoom Calls
Our setting is a very special healing center in the Sacred Valley of Peru. We will be in circle with 15 participants.
This transformative experience is meant to awaken the best of the human spirit — so that we may offer our wise selves to our communities at home.
With nature as our guide and with deep reverence for the ancient teachings and the elders we are so privileged to learn from - together we tap into powerful wisdom and create space to become fully present.
MAESTRA LAURA LOPEZ SANCHEZ - MASTER HEALER
Maestra Laura is the eldest daughter of Onaya Healer Maestra Ynes Lopez Sanchez. From an early age, Maestra Laura has been deeply immersed in the world of plant medicine. Laura was given small diets by her grandparents from the age of 10 years and by the age of 16 began her apprenticeship to learn about ayahuasca.
At 20, Laura traveled throughout Peru with Ynes, sharing medicinal plants and ayahuasca ceremonies for local Peruvians. She has also worked extensively with her mother, both in Peru and abroad. She brings an incredible wealth of knowledge that has been passed down for generations in her family line.
Laura works closely with her sister, Lila, and both have dedicated their time to sharing their medicine with the wider community, they have been guest speakers at several international gatherings and conferences.
Laura is known for her beautiful ikaros, (healing chants) that pour out of her with love and devotion to each of her patients.
JESSICA BEGIN
Program Director & Lead Facilitator
Jessica Begin is an artist, dancer, singer/songwriter, movement and voice teacher, plant medicine integration coach and a student of life. She holds the firm belief that the re-awakening of humans to our authentic power lies in turning to the ancestral practices which remind us of the joy and interconnectivity of being alive. Jessica’s passion is to inspire others to the free and uninhibited expression of their deepest heart’s longing through voice and movement.
Jessica has been supporting ceremonial healing work for the past 15 yrs. She has worked as a facilitator at some of the leading medicine healing centers in Peru and Costa Rica, including the Temple of the Way of Light, Niwe Rao Xobo and Soltara Healing center. Fluent in Spanish, French and Portuguese, Jessica is passionate about bridging cultures - she has worked globally as a translator and interpreter in many international indigenous and environmental gatherings. As a student of Maestra Ynes, she currently works closely with the Maestra and her family at their center, Niwe Rao Xobo, as program director, facilitator and integration coach. Along with Maestra Ynes, Maestra Lila and Maestra Laura, Jessica hosts Master Plant diets and retreats in the Peruvian Amazon as well as abroad. As a teacher, she brings to her work precision, clarity, artistry, sensitivity, care and passion.
KARINA
Program Director & Lead Facilitator
FOUNDER OF THE SACRED SESSION
Karina is dedicated to the journey of collective liberation through the practice and remembrance of earth medicine healing arts. As a bridgekeeper and student of indigenous wisdom teachers, she serves as a certified holistic health, transformation, and integration guide and facilitator focusing on nurturing regenerative relationships and fostering culture shifts and systems change for a more harmonious world.
With a rich tapestry of cultural heritage that includes Taino, Afro-Caribbean, Spanish, French, and Ecuadorian lineages, Karina embodies a beautiful fusion of traditions and histories, celebrating the strength and resilience of her ancestors. She is the founder of the wellness platform Sovereign by Nature & non-profit The ARC and healing container for women The Sacred Session.
Karina holds space from a place of non-judgement, she creates a divine container where others can shed, remember, integrate and grow. She believes that through deep understanding, reverence and unconditional love for the self we fuel present awareness and sovereignty. Through conscious action we improve our lives and relationships.
QOYA QORI QESPE WAYTA Wisdom Teacher
Qoya Qori is a leader and advisor of the Tawantinuyu, she was born and raised in Willka Mayu within the Sacred Valley of Inka Qosqo, in the Khalka nation of Antisuyu territory.
She descends from a long lineage of wise grandmothers, teachers, and healers who serve as guardians of the Inka traditional wisdom knowledge, and medicines.
These ancestors lived in accordance with the natural cosmic order, maintaining harmony and balance among the elements of existence - body, spirit, energy, and consciousness. As a member of both the Inka Solar School and Musuq Tawantinsuyu, Qoya Qori works alonside her partner, Inka T'ito performing spiritual work dedicated to transmitting ancestral knowledge.
PROGRAM DESIGN
EMBODIMENT
Come Home To Your Temple
The human body is the greatest technology we will ever possess- together we will dive deep to reconnect to our bodies, build resiliency and learn to navigate our internal landscape- mind, body and soul. By using framework to view our personal work through playful intelligence we are rewiring our social patterns and behaviors- we are learning to shed layers of cultural and ancestral conditioning stored deep within our bones. We are reprogramming our mind into a fierce ally. Empowerment at it's truest level- Integrity in it's purist form.
Dive deep into your inner landscape, find true presence, cultivate vitality and build resiliency. Movement, Breathwork & Voice Activation are some of the practices that will nourish us.
CEREMONY
Together we remember the ceremonial ways of life. It is time to refine our capacity to listen, to reconnect to community and to answer the call for global consciousness.
Through ancient traditions and wisdom practices we surrender to the messages that are meant for us and we reignite clear vision so that we may walk our path with confidence and with the support of nature and community.
We will participate in 4 Shipibo plant medicine ceremonies and many rituals to solidfy our prayers and intentions.
DECODING SOMA
Alignment & Leadership
The Earth is calling for women to lead - to remember our original instructions of stewardship, reciprocity and care.
We are born with a divine blueprint. We are encoded with purposeful gifts we are meant to share with the world. When we uncover these gifts we align with our purpose and we become magnetic - creating a life filled with inspiration.
Leadership starts with the quality of our relationships. How are we in relationship - with ourselves, with the earth and with the collective?
INTEGRATION
Integration is the culmination and implementation of insights and learnings acquired during your journey.
We are co-creating a supportive container with an onsite integration session during your journey, tools and resources to help you integrate upon landing and the support of our community for 3 live zoom calls.
Together we co-create a Culture of Care. A place of respect, compassion and non-judgement.
MEDICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR PARTICIPATION
PLEASE READ PRIOR TO REGISTERING
OUR HOME - HEALING CENTER
THE SACRED VALLEY, PERU
ACCOMMODATIONS
& PRICING- USD$
PRIVATE ROOMS- 1 BEDS / 1 Person Per Room: $2,900 per person + 4% Tax / Processing Fee (ONLY 1 LEFT)
DOUBLE ROOM - 2 BEDS / 2 Persons Per Room: $2,550 per person + 4% Tax / Processing Fee
TRIPLE ROOMS- 3 BEDS / 3 Persons Per Room: $2,350 per person + 4% Tax / Processing Fee (ONLY 2 SPACES LEFT)
SPACE IS LIMITED - INTIMATE CIRCLE OF ONLY 16 PARTICIPANTS
-Pricing includes accommodations, food, 3 healing ceremonies and all program activities, shared shuttle to airport
-Includes meals specifically prepared for ceremony
-Price does not include airfare or private transportation
-Transportation shuttle details will be provided when registering
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
-Journey start date is June 24th - we will have an opening circle before dinner around 5pm.
-Journey end date is June 30th - 10am departure after breakfast.
-Shared Shuttle round trip from the airport is included in your retreat, details will be shared with you upon registration. You may arrange private transportation at your own cost as needed based on your flight.
-We ask for a $1,000 deposit to secure your spot.
-We ask that you please bring $450 USD in cash as the medicine payment which will be collected upon your arrival and we will invoice you for the remaining total due 30 days prior to the retreat start date.
-PLEASE READ THE MEDICAL CONSIDERATIONS PRIOR TO REGISTERING. Please do not make travel arrangements until you have been medically cleared to participate. There will be a medical intake form emailed to you once you register. If you are deemed medically unsafe to participate your deposit will be refunded.
- Airport: You will fly into Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport (CUZ). There will be shuttle options shared with you upon registration. The center is located 1.5 hours from the airport. Please do not book flights until you have been medically cleared to participate.
-All logistics and additional information will be sent to you upon registration.
-We strongly advise purchasing travel insurance to cover potential personal, political, environmental, health, or weather-related incidents that may affect your travels.
-Due to the nature of this work, payments and deposits are non-refundable unless deemed medically unsafe to attend. They may be transferable at the discretion of the organizer. Please email karina@thesacredsession.com with questions.
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SCHOLARSHIPS BIPGM
We are dedicated to supporting access to this work for Black, Indigenous and People of The Global Majority (people of color). If you are interested in this work and would like to inquire about a partial scholarship please get in touch with us at karina@thesacredsession.com
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