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A 16-Week Program · 2027
Psilocybin · San Pedro · Ayahuasca

You know what needs to change.
The medicine shows you what is true.
Sixteen weeks make sure you live it.

The retreat opens the door. The path is what guides the way. Sixteen weeks of preparation, ceremony, and accountability, held by Empowered Path guardians and a cohort of ten. Three medicines, each a teacher. The structure is the same. The medicine is yours to choose.

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Ten guests maximum · Playa Grande, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

16
Weeks Held
3
Ceremonies
10
Guests Max
2
Partial Scholarships
$6,111
Program Investment
Why it was created

The retreat alone is rarely enough.

A week of ceremony can show you exactly what needs to change. Then you fly home, life fills back in, and the clarity fades before it has a chance to take root. We have watched it happen too many times. What has been missing in the retreat space is not more ceremony. It is what surrounds it. The Empowered Path was built to provide all four.

01

Continued care

Sixteen weeks, not eight days. Preparation before you arrive and three months of integration after, so the work is held on both sides of ceremony.

02

Attunement

Your Empowered Path guardians walk with you from intake to your final call. They know your story, your intentions, and how you meet pressure, so nothing surfaces without context and care.

03

Accountability

A small cohort and a team paying attention to what you said you wanted and the promises you make out loud. The commitments you name in Attune are the ones you track in Anchor. Being held to your own word is what turns insight into change.

04

Medicine on both sides of ceremony

A sacred microdose ally walks with you through preparation and integration. Before the retreat it brings clarity and awareness. After, it offers structure, guidance, and the clarity to organize what opened, while the window for change is still wide.

The medicine gives as much as you give. Attune and Anchor are where you give it.

You know this feeling

Something brought you here. And it is more specific than restlessness.

You know what needs to change. Maybe you saw it in therapy, in coaching, or in ceremony. Maybe it shifted for a while, and then life filled back in. Some part of you is quietly asking how to make it last.

  • The therapy helped, but something is still stuck
  • A career that no longer fits
  • A version of yourself you can almost see
  • Always braced, rarely at ease
  • A relationship asking something new of you
  • Done carrying what you've been carrying
  • Plant medicine is calling, you want it held properly
  • A breakthrough that faded
  • A life that looks right from the outside, and does not feel like yours
  • A threshold: work that no longer fits, a relationship asking for something new, a version of you that you can sense and have not reached
  • Knowing better, and not yet doing better

That is not confusion. That is readiness.
And you are in the right place.

Who it is for

For the one ready to meet their next self.

A small cohort of devoted, committed people. You come resourced: the therapy, the coaching, the practice have served you well. Lately the toolkit has plateaued. You can sense a greater, more expansive version of yourself, and you are ready to move beyond what is comfortable to meet it.

The Empowered Path calls people who already know what needs to change and are ready to be held accountable for changing it. Many arrive established in life and in their inner work. Prior work is not required.

Water and flower petals poured over a woman's hair in the forest

This is for you if…

  • You come resourced, and your toolkit has plateaued. What brought you here will not carry you further.
  • You can sense the next version of yourself, and you are ready to leave what is comfortable to reach it.
  • You are ready to move beyond your story, and no longer willing to let the past decide the present.
  • You say yes to trying on new things, even when they feel unfamiliar.
  • You welcome coaching and honest feedback, and you let it change you.
  • You want to be held accountable to your own word, by people who will notice.
  • You want to learn from your guardians, the medicine carriers, and the medicine itself.
  • You are devoted to the work and committed to the full sixteen weeks.
  • You are ready to give your part: time, presence, and devotion across sixteen weeks.
Two women sitting face to face, sharing a cup

This is not for you if…

  • You want a week away without the structure before and after it.
  • You want the medicine or the team to do the work for you. The medicine gives as much as you give.
  • Some health conditions and medications are not compatible with plant medicine. Your health history and every medication are reviewed with you at intake.
  • You do not have the time or space to give sixteen weeks right now. Not now is an answer, not a rejection.

“It's not spiritual for me. But it did make me feel really good, and able to think about things differently.”
Joanne · First cohort

What makes it different

Small by necessity. Deep by design.

This work is about precision, and precision has a size limit. We take ten guests so we can be deeply attuned, working precisely with the medicine and with each person. Three things hold the depth.

01 · The microdose ally

Medicine as companion, not event

Microdosing in preparation brings clarity and awareness before you arrive. It creates the conditions for real connection, safety, and profundity in ceremony.

02 · Medicine guardians

From intake to your final call

Your Empowered Path guardians walk with you from intake to your final call. Each guest has a primary guardian, assigned after intake. A blend of coaching, mentorship, and therapeutic presence.

03 · The cohort

Community as sustained medicine

Ten people moving through the same sixteen weeks become witnesses to each other's change, and notice when someone slips. The circle keeps holding long after ceremony, and often becomes lifelong friendship.

"This amount of people allowed actual community to be built between all of us. Nothing is missing. Everything is within."
The microdose ally

A sacred ally throughout the arc.

The medicine does not arrive on day one of the retreat and leave on day eight. It walks with you before and after, in small, precise doses that support the work rather than overwhelm it.

Before · Preparation

Clarity and awareness

Patterns surface sooner. Intentions become specific. The medicine is no longer a stranger when you sit with it in ceremony, so you arrive with trust already built.

After · Integration

Structure, guidance, clarity

After ceremony, a great deal has opened at once. The microdose supports steadiness and brings the clarity to organize it: what matters most, what to act on first, what to let go. Insight becomes a plan, and the plan becomes how you live.

Psilocybin is the microdose ally on all three paths, whichever ceremonial medicine you choose. A daily companion to the work, not a dose to chase. It pauses 5 to 7 days before the retreat and resumes after your first Anchor session, as your guardian guides.

The Program

Attune. Immerse. Anchor.

Sixteen weeks, one arc. It begins with a thorough intake and alignment process, so we know each guest, their goals, and their intentions before Attune begins.

Phase I · Weeks 1-4

Attune
Preparation

Naming the change you came for, preparing body and mind, and setting precise intentions, with the microdose ally bringing clarity.

  • 45-minute intake call
  • 2 personal guardian calls
  • 4 weekly group sessions
  • Preparation guidebooks
Phase II · 8 days, 7 nights

Immerse
The all-inclusive immersion

Every retreat shares the same foundation. The ceremonies themselves are shaped by the medicine you choose.

  • 3 sacred medicine ceremonies
  • 2 breathwork sessions
  • Art therapy
  • Personal empowerment workshops
  • Deep one-to-one counsel and support
  • Time for bodywork and one-to-one services
  • The beach
  • Private chef, ocean-view suites
Phase III · Through week 16

Anchor
Integration

Taking what the medicine showed you and building it into how you decide, speak, and live, with the microdose ally offering structure and clarity.

  • Commitments you name, keep, and track
  • 3 individual tracking calls
  • 6 group sessions, twice a month
  • Integration guidebooks

Throughout all sixteen weeks: small group pairings, a WhatsApp community, and a summary with resources after every call.

The guidebooks are the map. Your guardians attune to your cohort and to you. This is guidance, not a fixed curriculum.

Choose your plant ally

Three medicines.
One path.

Master plants are teachers, long known as tools of knowledge, for growth and study as well as healing. In 2027 we offer three Empowered Path programs across the three medicines we work with. The structure is the same. Each medicine teaches differently, and none more deeply than another. Your alignment call helps you find the one calling you.

Path one · February 2027

Psilocybin, the Connector

For the curious, self-aware seeker whose patterns keep running the show. The medicine lights up mental and emotional pathways and composts what no longer serves, reconnecting you to who you are beneath the pattern. You study where your patterns began, how they built your reality, and how to step into choice. Three ceremonies: evening, dawn, and evening, with live music.

Retreat: February 18-25, 2027
Attune begins: January 18
Registration closes: February 4, 2027
Microdose ally: Psilocybin

Held by: Kimberly Ocaña and Dana Mistretta, medicine carriers and guardians. Onsite: Marian (cacao) and Hanne (breathwork).

The psilocybin path
Path two · April 2027

San Pedro (Huachuma), the Illuminator

A master teacher of truth, held in daylight and in nature. For the busy mind that has talked it through and still feels stuck, or can see where it wants to go but not the way there. The medicine illuminates what is out of alignment with truth, love, and integrity, and calls you to own your choices, your words, and your actions. Three daytime ceremonies in nature, each on a day of fasting.

Retreat: April 9-16, 2027
Attune begins: March 9
Registration closes: March 26, 2027
Microdose ally: Psilocybin

Held by: Dana Mistretta and Jason Ocaña, guardians; Chase Moore, medicine carrier. Onsite: Hanne (breathwork).

The San Pedro path
Path three · June 2027

Ayahuasca, the Path Opener

For those called to ayahuasca, whether new to the medicine or seeking deeper study of the self. Vine-like, the medicine travels to the root, personal and ancestral, and opens paths forward in a life. Held in the Shipibo tradition: three night ceremonies with Maestro Wilder, two individual consultas, and the full dieta. An apprenticeship of the self.

Retreat: June 11-18, 2027
Attune begins: May 10
Registration closes: May 28, 2027
Microdose ally: Psilocybin

Held by: Michal and Emma, guardians; Maestro Wilder Rojas Nunta, Shipibo Maestro and medicine carrier. Onsite: Hanne (breathwork).

The ayahuasca path

Second half of 2027: dates to be announced

In their words
From the Founding Cohort

What Becomes Possible

You didn't arrive here by accident. Something in you is already naming what you want: clarity, a way back to yourself, a relationship that finally shifts, permission to stop carrying what isn't yours. Here is what guests of the founding cohort found waiting on the other side, in their own words.

"My intention coming was to have better communication with my partner. Having him here made it so powerful. I think our relationship has completely changed, flipped upside down and turned around. And I'm so excited about that."
Crystal
"I came here to really find myself, feeling hopeless, unable to forgive myself for things from my childhood. I got all of that, and more."
Chris
"I truly feel empowered. From the moment I arrived, their intention was palpable. I left with a true sense of self-acceptance and a felt understanding of what empowerment really means."
Lina
"This place blew my mind. Not only did I get rest and relaxation, I found love and compassion. I found that what I really need is to stop killing myself 24/7 to find an end. It's the journey."
Jerrod
"Being able to come out of it and view it from the bird's-eye view, everything I felt about myself, nothing about it was external. It was very internal."
Aimee
"My intention in coming here was to feel better, and my intentions were met. I feel like each person in the group has been so important in this journey. It's not spiritual for me. But it did make me feel really good, and able to think about things differently."
Joanne
"We walk through our lives all day meeting strangers, saying fine, fine, fine. Here we got to say not fine, with each other. I feel like it's a miracle of an experience to be a part of, and I'm so grateful for it."
Nicol
"My intention coming here was to find love and acceptance for myself. It's been a lifelong struggle. By the second ceremony, I felt the most immense amount of love I have ever felt and how big of a heart I have. And that blew my mind. It is constantly incredible to experience going from a stranger to such deep connection so quickly."
Rachael
"From start to finish, this is the best retreat experience I've ever had. The amount of care and attention to detail is unparalleled. So much of an experience with plant medicine depends on the safety of the container. The amount of people allows actual community to be built between all of us. You have to be able to fully surrender into the moment and trust the process you're going through. They made that easy."
Rich
Medicine guardians

Students, teachers, and stewards.

Our guardians are students, teachers, and stewards of the medicines they work with. Your Empowered Path guardians walk with you from intake to your final call. Each guest has a primary guardian.

Kimberly Ocaña sitting on the grass among golden singing bowls

Kimberly Ocaña

Co-Founder

Somatic, trauma-informed medicine carrier and guardian with fifteen years in coaching. Apprenticing in the Shipibo-Konibo tradition.

Dana Mistretta smiling, wearing a long beaded necklace

Dana Mistretta

Medicine Carrier & Guardian · Reiki Master

Twenty-seven years in wellness. Co-founder of the Sanctuary of Consciousness, walking the Beauty Way guided by her Indigenous teachers.

Jason Ocaña smiling among jungle trees

Jason Ocaña

Co-Founder

Retired firefighter paramedic who understands how trauma lives in the body. Experienced in group ceremony and one-to-one microdose protocols.

Marian smiling outdoors, her dark curly hair loose

Marian

Cacao · Onsite

Brasilito-born trauma-informed yoga teacher and Reiki practitioner who leads cacao ceremonies in the Mayan tradition, woven with Costa Rica's Bribri and Chorotega legacy.

Hanne smiling over her shoulder in tall green grass

Hanne

Breathwork · Onsite

A professional dancer certified in breathwork, guiding breath, meditation, and somatic movement as a fully embodied path to healing.

Chase Moore in a straw hat, kneeling beside a white dog

Chase Moore

Medicine Carrier · Huachumero

Huachumero trained in Peru by Bernhard Karshagen. Works exclusively with San Pedro (Huachuma), with more than a decade on the path and extensive traditional diets. Holds the San Pedro ceremonies.

Maestro Wilder in Shipibo robes standing in the maloca

Maestro Wilder

Shipibo Maestro · Medicine Carrier

Maestro Wilder Rojas Nunta (Reshin Hisma). A Shipibo Maestro from Vista Alegre de la Boca del Pachitea, Peru, Wilder has walked with the plant medicines for more than 23 years. Taught by his father and elder cousin in the forest rather than a school, he has dieted master trees and warmis plants. His icaros carry the ceremony through the night. He holds the medicine on the ayahuasca path, with two individual consultas for each guest.

Michal with arms crossed in front of jungle leaves

Michal

Ayahuasca Guardian

Co-founder of Imago Community, with two degrees in psychology. Weaves and connects the studies of the Andes and the Amazon, honoring the law of origin while bringing the integration the present time demands.

Emma in a wide brimmed hat in warm sunlight

Emma

Ayahuasca Guardian

Mother, musician, and ayahuasca guardian rooted in Indigenous wisdom traditions. Works with the medicine of sound and voice, and supports plant medicine integration, helping guests turn moments of expansion into sustainable, lived change.

You are not held by a protocol. You are held by people who have walked this path themselves, and genuinely love what they do.

Everything included

One program. All of it held.

What is included

  • 16 weeks of small group support and community
  • Thorough intake and alignment process
  • Intake call and 2 personal guardian calls
  • 4 weekly group sessions in Attune
  • 8 day, 7 night all-inclusive immersion
  • Roundtrip group shuttle from Liberia Airport
  • 3 individual tracking calls after the retreat
  • 6 group sessions, twice a month
  • Small group pairings
  • WhatsApp community
  • Preparation and integration guidebooks, and a summary with resources after every call

Not included

  • Plant medicine fee, paid onsite · $150
  • Microdose medicine from our partner · about $100 plus shipping
  • Onsite add-on services · optional
  • Private transport outside shuttle times · as needed
Program investment

An Honest Investment

The full sixteen-week program. Ten guests maximum, with two places held for partial scholarships, up to 30%.

$6,111The full sixteen-week program
Two partial scholarships per cohort, up to 30% off.

Every path begins with an application. Registration closes two weeks before each retreat; join before Attune begins to receive the full sixteen weeks.

2027 registration

Limited spaces, held with intention.

Every path begins with an application.

Psilocybin Retreat February 18-25 · Registration closes February 4, 2027
Details
San Pedro (Huachuma) Retreat April 9-16 · Registration closes March 26, 2027
Details
Ayahuasca Retreat June 11-18 · Registration closes May 28, 2027
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Is this path right for you?

Six steps to find out

Each one a chance to listen for your yes.

Step 1

Apply

Share your story, the change you want, and your intentions.

Step 2

Alignment call

A conversation with Kimberly to explore fit, and which medicine is calling you.

Step 3

Enroll

Accepted applicants receive an invitation to reserve one of ten places with a 50% deposit.

Step 4

Intake

A call with an Empowered Path guardian, including health and safety screening.

Step 5

Registration confirmed

You receive microdose ordering steps, your session dates and Zoom links, and a link to book your first guardian call.

Step 6

Begin Attune

Preparation opens with your guardians and your cohort.

Questions

Answered honestly.

Do I need prior experience with plant medicine?
No. What matters is not experience, it's readiness. The Attune phase before you arrive, including microdosing and group preparation sessions, is designed specifically to build your relationship with the medicine before ceremony.
What does the microdosing look like?
Psilocybin is the microdose ally on all three paths. After your registration is confirmed, a short questionnaire helps choose the strain, and you order 30 capsules from our partner, about $100 plus shipping. The protocol is one day on and two days off. You pause 5 to 7 days before the retreat and resume after your first Anchor session, as your guardian guides.
How are the sessions held?
Every call is live on Zoom. A summary with resources is shared with your cohort after each session.
What happens if I need support between sessions?
Between sessions you have pod pair-ups, a WhatsApp community with your cohort, daily routines and goals, and integration and resource materials to work with. Your one-to-one calls with your guardian are booked at times that suit you: two in Attune, three in Anchor. Your Empowered Path guardians walk with you from intake to your final call. Each guest has a primary guardian.
Orange sunset over the ocean with waves rolling in

Arrive. Begin.

Three paths in 2027 · Playa Grande, Costa Rica

  • Psilocybin, February 18-25 · San Pedro (Huachuma), April 9-16 · Ayahuasca, June 11-18
  • 10 guests per cohort · two places held for partial scholarships, up to 30%
  • $6,111 program investment
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