After a nourishing breakfast of local food, we’ll have land blessing and attunement with Camilla. Then off to the archaeological site of Mitla, home to pre-Hispanic Zapotec priests. We’ll have a private tour and chance to join the many who over the years have left blessings and offerings here. Dinner at the Casa. 

Today we meet with a local curandero who shares with us teaching about his practice and the traditions of the limpia and temazcal. Experience the transformative power of this traditional spiritual “cleansing”.  Lunch at the Casa. Time to integrate, swim or journal before we head into town for a meal. 

Really special morning as we head out to the prehistoric caves of Mitla home to the people who first domesticated corn (and squash and turkeys). Our local guide Pepe share with us stories of this remarkable land, their uplifting community project and the flora and fauna that call this place home. Time with Camilla to sing, pray and attune in this sacred place with Corn Mother. Please note that as I write, a forest fire is raging in the hills near Mitla. It's unclear if the caves will be open. Pray for rain. 

Time to listen and tend to our body and soul intuitively. Most of the day we’ll stay at our retreat going deeper with Camilla and taking time to nourish and renew through self-care. We will have time to hike, journal, swim, read or reflect. Late afternoon we head out for a fun meal.

Today we head off to a small village to meditate upon their ancient Cypress Tree, long revered by the community. Rarely visited by tourists, we’ll attune with this Ancient One and its spiritual energy medicine and ask for blessings, healing, and give thanks. Then, if we are lucky, a chance to visit with the local candlemaker who will share the Zapotec rituals and traditions of candles with us. 

In the morning of Spring Equinox, we visit a Zapotec weaver and culture keeper. He shares his home altar with us and stories of Mitla. Afterwards we visit his award winning weaving studio and see backstrap and shuttle looms and have a natural dye demonstration.

Back at the Casa in the afternoon, Camilla shares the beauty of altar building as we build our Equinox altar with local flower, candles and cloth, and set our new intentions. We’ll celebrate Equinox with an evening temazal (traditional sweat bath) and stargazing. 

Today we focus on nourishing our bodies and learn about corn and cacao, two foods sacred to the indigenous people. We’ll have a beautiful meal with a local chef and a chance to use traditional tools and taste new foods. We’ll explore the many levels of “nourishment” , how we “feed” our bodies and how we draw energy from food. 

Today is about integration and inner-reflection with an Earth Ceremony to honor the people and place, our new alignment and soul awakenings, and our sacred time together in community. We leave tomorrow so this is a final land blessing before we go. 

Today we leave our sanctuary and head to Oaxaca City but not before stopping at Tlacolula, home to the largest indigenous market in the Central Valleys - a great way to “re-enter” the modern world. We’ll have a farewell lunch en route and drop you off at your hotel in Oaxaca.City. Plan your plane or other departure for the next day March 24. 

Camilla Blossom, our guide and teacher, embodies the consciousness of Mother Earth and is a voice for her and the elementals, trees and plants, and sacred places. Her magical fairy shamanism path immersed her in the medicine of Earth as a plant spirit alchemist, land alchemist, energy healer, ceremonialist, medicine woman, soul midwife, and voice for Nature. Learn more about her at CamillaBlossom.com.

Corn Mother brings us messages of abundance and nourishment. She teaches us how to tend to our bodies and souls so that we may go outward and nourish our

communities and the Earth. This trip is a spiritual and physical journey - it’s a portal to go into deeper communion, attune to, learn from and celebrate the Corn Goddess in the place where she first came into relation with humankind..

A message Camilla received from Corn Mother:  

“ I come to this land to create a light. A light to shine on humanity and all beings. Our harvest will be great in the future. We must plant the seeds of hope and nurture them with water and sun and love. Let our gardens reflect our lives. Let our food be medicine..”

We hope to make this the first of many pilgrimages and joyously welcome you if you feel the calling.