The Unwavering Heart
Week-long earth medicine mushroom retreat led by Sylvia Benito & Eli Rechtschaffen
July 6 - 13, 2024 at Blue Spirit Costa Rica
Join us for a week with the earth medicine mushroom!
Plant medicines have been with us since the beginning of our human journey, but today are taking an increasingly prominent role in the awakening of consciousness. This renaissance reflects our desire to accelerate our human potential in these turbulent times and personally contribute to a healthier and happier world.
The right use of these powerful medicines requires us to hold them in sacred ways that both nod to the lineages that have held them as well as integrate them with modern psychological modalities.
In this retreat, we invite you to experience this marriage of plant medicine and mindfulness by working with a team that has been weaving this vision together for many years. In this debut offering, our team will take the training we have received for nearly a decade with our teacher, Taita Juanito, in the yage tradition, offered with psilocybin in a frame of meditation and mindfulness.
Our teacher has himself seen that it is time to weave these paths together and it is our honor to bring this vision to a retreat setting. In this week, we will deepen into the stillness of the heart through a series of experiences.
You will experience two healings with sacred offerings of psilocybin, as well as other healing modalities including herbal steam baths, meditation, yoga, breath work, dance, and a sweat lodge. You can expect a week of rest and self-exploration that will help you refine your vision for your life purpose as well as support you in living at your fullest potential.
What you will receive
2 Healing Psilocybin Ceremonies
Community Connection And Support
Daily Yoga Classes
Somatic Breathwork Classes
Plant Technology Regeneration Steam Baths
Meditation and Awareness Classes
Dance Of Liberation Session
Sweat Lodge Ceremony
Our Team
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Eli Rechtschaffen
Medicine-man, Shaman and Guide
Eli was born in upstate New York and since a young age he has felt a strong connection with the spirits of nature. In his journey he found that the paths of meditation and shamanism have provided him the most supportive awakening tools.
Eli is a long-time practitioner of meditation where he has studied in many lineages and spent intensive time in retreats and in silence. He also has frequented the Amazon jungle and there he studied the medical plant medicines through the tutelage of the Ingano tribe. Eli is the founder of The Nature Within and leads medicine retreats in Costa Rica with the Taita Chindoy family. His life intention is to bring these sacred healing tools to all beings in order to support the collective awakening.
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Sylvia Benito
Medicine Woman & Psilocybin Therapist
Today calls for ‘embodied awakening.” We are no longer in the era when “enlightened” beings sit in caves, far away from society, abstaining from the pleasures of life. This is a time of duality and integration, when a mystic can also be a money manager, and when a spiritual aspirant can choose both a boardroom and a temple.
Sylvia Benito started her career as an aspiring healer, studying for a decade with shamanic and yogic masters. Driven by a desire to experience spiritual awakening, she explored everything form tantra, to long silent retreats, to plant medicine ceremonies – all purely in search of ultimate truths.
After a decade of searching, during a prolonged yogic journey to India, Sylvia discovered a deep union with awakened consciousness itself, and realized love as foundational. With this taste of enlightenment, she saw that the modern era needs to change the “enlightenment narrative. Upon her return from India, she decided to learn to manage investments as she became a Chartered Financial Analyst, with the hope of bringing together the world of consciousness and capital.
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Sathya Riveros
Breathwork teacher & healer
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Michelle Matthews
Yoga teacher & medicine-woman
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Michael Harbin
Musician & Healer
Where will our retreat take place?
In beautiful Costa Rica
Costa Rica is at the forefront of environmental stewardship in Central America. It is committed to a major initiative to decrease its ecological footprint and become a leader in the “green” movement, as the effects of global warming are becoming more pronounced and the environmental status around the world is worsening daily. The government has placed global warming at the top of its national agenda and has already implemented an extremely successful forestation plan. Costa Rica has initiated a program to become by 2021, the first carbon neutral developing country on Earth – and has already made significant progress in lowering its overall CO2 emissions.
At Blue Spirit Retreat Center
It provides an extraordinary setting to all who are dedicated to spiritual transformation, personal development, and environmental sustainability. Perched on a hilltop that overlooks the Pacific Ocean and a three-mile long white sand beach that is protected as a turtle refuge – Blue Spirit offers an extraordinarily beautiful and natural setting on one of Costa Rica’s renowned beaches, supporting your retreats, workshops, and trainings to be a deeply nurturing and unforgettable experience.
Your stay at Blue Spirit offers you a comfortable and elegant accommodation of your choice, delicious gourmet vegetarian cuisine, a salt-water infinity pool, koi pond, café, gift shop, spa and longevity services, outdoor excursions, and complimentary wireless service.
Safety Diet Guideline Tips
Tap into intelligence of your body & heart to find what will prepare & nourish you for this journey
Week before prepare with meditation, breath work, yoga, limiting electronics, avoiding conflicts etc.
Best to simplify your diet before a week before retreat
Avoid or limit stimulants such as coffee three days before
Avoiding tobacco three days before
Avoid alcohol and marijuana one week before
Avoiding sexual interactions one week before
There are certain medications which are contraindications such as SSRI’s, MAOI’s and some blood pressure and heart medications - advise us of any medications you are taking
Avoid activated charcoal three days before
Avoid microdosing for two days before / after ceremony to allow yourself to completely work with the one strain
Post ceremony cooked grounding foods are best, a little extra salt to replenish any lost minerals and avoiding sugar or alcohol also so the liver can get good nourishment.
Pricing and Accommodation
Here you will find a variety of different room options that accommodate single and shared occupancy. Please keep in mind the prices in display are the room prices. An additional program fee of $1,500 per person will be added to the rates below.
If you have any questions visit our FAQ page and if you can’t find what your looking for write us at sathyriveros@gmail.com
Start your application!
To ensure a high-quality and inclusive community of peers and acquaintances, we carefully review all applications, and if approved, you will be notified via email.
Cancellation and refund policy
The Nature Within reserves the right to cancel a program at any time. If The Nature Within cancels a program, you will receive a full refund. A refund, minus 3% stripe fee of your room cost and a $200 processing fee, will be offered for cancellations made on or before the close of business, 45 days before each program. No refund or credit will be offered for cancellations made with less than 45 days notice; if you do not show up; or if you leave a program early.
We highly recommend that you purchase travel insurance, which insures you against unforeseen sickness, injury, job loss, inclement weather, and more.
Our Medicine Family
It takes a family to bring life back into love. With our collective prayers, connections and meditation we can plant seeds for the future that are worth reaping. We thank you and hope to sit with you soon.
May all beings be happy and free.
