Embodied Sovereignty
Eight days. Three ceremonies. The return to yourself.
For a woman, sovereignty is a deeply profound reclamation of personal power. It is the thing most quietly and consistently taken, not by force, but through conditioning, through the accumulated weight of being asked to be agreeable, available, and small. This immersion is an invitation to come home to yourself.
The return to yourself.
Eight days on the land, three San Pedro ceremonies, and sixteen weeks of structured support, a single sovereignty arc built to move you from insight to embodied change. This is not wound-processing for its own sake. It is the practice of coming home to the intelligence of your own body.
Your personal power has been leaking.
And you are ready to come back.
Your boundaries have been unclear. You have been everything to everyone. And somewhere in the giving, the tending, the quietly carrying on when you had nothing left, your own needs found their way to the bottom of the list. When we reclaim our sovereignty as women, we return to the intelligence of our bodies and our natural rhythms. We listen more closely. We honor our needs more gently. We move through life with more grace.
- Weight that won't shift no matter what you try
- Brain fog that clouds your clarity
- Chronic pain or tension held in the body
- Sleep that doesn't restore you
- Emotions with nowhere to go
- Giving endlessly with little left for yourself
- Boundaries that are hard to find, let alone hold
- A quiet sense of having drifted from yourself
These are not personal failings. They are years of unresolved emotion living in the body, waiting for space. This immersion is that space. Soft, held, and entirely your own.
San Pedro does not give you sovereignty.
It gives you the conditions to practice it.
Unlike medicines that move you out of your body into visionary states, San Pedro keeps you present, embodied, and in direct relationship with what arises. Over an extended ceremonial window, you stay inside your body while accessing what your nervous system has been protecting. You have time, space, and support to feel what there hasn't been space to feel, and to practice new patterns of self-trust in real time, with two somatic trauma-informed guardians holding the container.
Extended, embodied presence
San Pedro's long ceremonial window gives you time to stay with what arises rather than move past it. You practice sovereignty in the moment, not just receive insight about it.
Maximum 8 women. Private rooms.
Group size is not a preference. It is the mechanism, small enough that nothing is generic, large enough to hold collective witness. Every woman has her own private ocean-view room.
Somatic. Trauma-informed. Integrated.
Preparation, ceremony, and integration are treated as a single arc, not separate events. Somatic tools are woven throughout so each layer of the work builds on the last.
The somatic work between ceremonies is not filler. It is where the rewiring happens.
What happens when you don't reclaim this.
The patterns that brought you here do not stay still. They deepen. The body that has been overridden for years begins to speak in the only language left: illness, exhaustion, numbness, rage that surfaces sideways.
The body keeps the record
Chronic override builds a nervous system that no longer knows how to rest. Pain, fatigue, and disconnection are not symptoms to manage. They are the body's record of everything it was not allowed to feel.
Accommodation keeps asking
When you do not know your own boundaries, you cannot protect them. Relationships shaped around your accommodation continue to demand it. The ones that could be reciprocal stay surface-level because you have not shown them who you actually are.
A life that belongs to someone else
Decisions made from others' expectations accumulate into a life that belongs to someone else. The longer the gap between who you are and who you have been performing, the harder it becomes to hear what you actually want.
Not a new version of yourself.
The one that was always there.
A body you trust again
Sensation and felt sense restored as primary guidance. Chronic patterns held from suppressed emotion beginning to release.
Boundaries that protect you
The embodied capacity to say no from a grounded place, not from fear or guilt, and relationships that begin to reflect that.
Intuition as a reliable compass
The ability to trust what you sense over what you are told. Decisions made from authentic desire rather than conditioned response.
Access to your full emotional range
Including anger, rage, and grief as sources of intelligence and protection, rather than things to manage away for everyone else's comfort.
Eight days. One sovereignty arc.
Three San Pedro ceremonies across eight days, each designed to build on what the previous one revealed. You are not repeating the same opening. You are going deeper into what your body knows.
The Uncoiling
Grounding, orientation, slowing down. Most women arrive in a state of chronic activation; before ceremony can open, the nervous system needs to downregulate. Meeting the land, the women in circle, and what you actually need. Intention setting: what does sovereignty mean specifically for you.
Ceremony One · First Opening
Meeting the medicine. An introduction, building trust with San Pedro and with your body's responses to expanded awareness. This ceremony focuses on noticing: where you hold tension, where you protect, where you have learned to go numb. No forcing. No fixing.
The Journey Inward
Compassion and your original blueprint. Integration day, somatic practices, group work, and one-to-one support help you move from what arose in ceremony into embodied understanding. Who were you before the conditioning? What parts of yourself have you abandoned?
Ceremony Two · Going Deeper
What the first ceremony made safe to see. The second ceremony often opens what the first made possible, greater access to what is stored in the body, meeting the places where you have abandoned yourself, and beginning to release shame, old conditioning, and the protective patterns built around them.
Sovereignty of Your Space
Boundaries, release, sacred rage, permission. The heart of this work, reclaiming what was suppressed for relational peace. Understanding that a boundary is not a wall; it is how you love yourself. Somatic practices for meeting rage as a source of protective power rather than something to manage away.
Ceremony Three · Expansion
Integration and embodiment. The third ceremony is about what you are becoming, taking what you have reclaimed and allowing it to fill your full system. What does it feel like to live from internal authority? Celebration of your fullness without shrinking. Anchoring new patterns into your nervous system.
Your Freedom Body
Forgiveness, grace, expression, pleasure. Integration and celebration, art exploration, sunset beach excursion, and fire ceremony. This day is about moving what you have reclaimed into expression. What does it feel like to take up your full space?
Resilience and Reclamation
Closing circle, preparing for what comes next. Closing ceremony and integration circle, clarifying what you are taking forward. This is not the end. It is the beginning of a different way of living.
This immersion is built for a specific woman.
This is for you if…
- You feel the distance between who you are and who you appear to be, and you are ready to close it
- You have tried conventional support and feel there is a layer it cannot reach
- You are drawn to medicine work and want a container with genuine somatic and trauma-informed expertise
- You are willing to feel what is real rather than what is comfortable
- You want the smallest, most intimate group possible
- You are ready for the work that happens between ceremonies, not just inside them
- You understand that sovereignty is built in the body, not the mind
This is not for you if…
- You are in acute mental health crisis or have untreated psychiatric conditions that contraindicate medicine work
- You are seeking a primarily spiritual or visionary experience rather than somatic, embodied work
- You are unwilling to engage with the preparation and integration process
- You want a passive experience where healing is done to you
- You are currently on medications that contraindicate San Pedro (reviewed in intake)
- You are not willing to be in a women's-only container
You are held before, during, and after. Sixteen weeks of structured support surround eight days on the land. The immersion is the center. Everything else exists to make the transformation durable.
Preparation
- Comprehensive intake & medical screening
- 2 individual preparation sessions
- Preparation guidebooks
- Virtual group call with your cohort
- Dietary & lifestyle preparation guidance
- Intention clarification with your guardian
Immersion
- 3 San Pedro ceremonies with guardian presence
- Somatic grounding before each ceremony
- Daily group integration sessions
- Somatic & breathwork workshops
- Art exploration & beach excursion
- Sunset beach & closing fire ceremony
- One-to-one support as needed throughout
Integration
- 3 individual integration sessions
- 1 group virtual integration call
- In-depth integration guidebooks
- Continued guardian access
- Community connection with your cohort
- Guidance on sustaining somatic change
What becomes possible inside this container.
"I had a truly blissful 7 days at Ananda Lodge. Nikki was our huachumera and she was there supporting us throughout the day of each of the 3 ceremonies. She offered sagacious wisdom and warmth wrapped up with humor, all personalized to our individual needs. The experience was deep and subtle and profoundly blissful. It is now 9 days since my last ceremony and I still find it much easier to be present, calm and relaxed."
Deborah · Women's Huachuma, January 2026"I felt very safe, cared for and blessed to have come to this retreat. You receive everything you need to feel supported, safe, cared for and in community, with the medicine guides, other attendees and the beauty of nature at Ananda Lodge, and leaving with a sense of bliss."
Teresa · Women's Huachuma, January 2026"This was my first experience with plant medicine, and the thought and care put into the pre-retreat preparation, the retreat, and the post-retreat care made it such a safe, peaceful, and transformative journey. I experienced relaxation, acceptance, love, and bliss in mind, body, and soul."
Aimee-Marie · Ananda Lodge, February 2026"Kim and Jason are compassionate, caring, and clearly committed to creating a safe, grounded space to work with plant medicines. Safety, consent, and care are not just words here, they are felt throughout the experience. Their presence allowed me to slow down, trust the process, and do meaningful inner work at my own pace."
Kim · Huachuma, January 2026Three women. Each has walked this path herself.
Nikki Szeghalmi
Nikki came to plant medicine through her own journey from addiction and depression. Called to Peru in 2018, she has spent years in direct relationship with San Pedro medicine, training in somatic trauma-informed facilitation and carrying this wisdom through embodied presence and one-to-one care.
She embodies a balance of grit and softness, meeting every person where they are with humor, grace, and authentic presence.
Kimberly Ocaña
Kimberly is the co-founder of Ananda Lodge and a certified somatic trauma-informed medicine facilitator and integration guide. Over a decade of personal coaching and plant medicine work, including her own passage through corporate burnout, brought her to ancient healing traditions and to this work.
She is a certified sound healing therapist and herbalist in training. Her mentorship includes Atira Tan, Kat Courtney, Daniela Riojas, and Erika Buenaflor, and she continues to apprentice in Ayahuasca shamanism through deep reverence for the Shipibo-Konibo tradition.
Emma
Emma's path is rooted in indigenous wisdom traditions and plant medicine, with a commitment to reciprocity, integrity, and the honoring of lineage. As a singer and musician, she works with the medicine of sound throughout the program.
Her focus on plant medicine integration supports guests in weaving the insights of ceremony into the fabric of daily life.
In plant medicine tradition, a guardian is one who holds the container while you do the work, not directing your experience, not managing it, but holding the space steady so you can go as far as you need to go. A guide shows you where to walk. A guardian ensures it is safe enough to walk there at all.
Eight days. Sixteen weeks. One arc.
Your investment covers the full immersion, all accommodation, private chef meals, three San Pedro ceremonies, six weeks of preparation, and twelve weeks of integration. There is no separation between the medicine work and the care around it.
- 3 San Pedro ceremonies with full guardian support
- 8 days, 7 nights all-inclusive accommodation
- Private ocean-view room for each woman
- Private chef dining, 3 meals daily
- Daily somatic and integration workshops
- Art exploration session
- Sunset beach excursion & closing fire ceremony
- 6 weeks of preparation (2 individual sessions, group call, guidebooks)
- 12 weeks of integration (3 individual sessions, group call, guidebooks)
- Intake and medical screening · guardian access throughout
Secure your registration with a 25% deposit and a monthly payment plan leading up to the immersion. A limited number of partial scholarships are available, mention your situation during your Sacred Journey Call.
Your body already knows what you came here for. The Sacred Journey Call is a 30-minute conversation with Emma, our Guest Experience Director. She will walk you through the program, answer your questions honestly, and help you assess whether this is the right immersion for where you are right now. There is no pressure. There is only clarity.
Why San Pedro. Why now. Why for women.
Why is San Pedro particularly well-suited for women who are struggling?
I feel exhausted and depleted. Will I have the capacity for this work?
Can San Pedro help with physical symptoms like weight, pain, or poor sleep?
I have never sat with plant medicine before. Is this the right place to begin?
Why does being in a women-only container matter?
What does the medical screening assess?
Your body already knows what you came here for.
Eight days. Three ceremonies. The return to yourself. Held for just 8 women, January 9–16, 2027.
- January 9 – 16, 2027 · Only 8 spaces
- Investment $5,495 · Payment plans available
- Private ocean-view room · 16 weeks of support