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An 16-week arc of preparation, ceremony, and integration, held by Empowered Path Guardians from your first call to your last. Not a retreat. A complete program, built to make what happens in ceremony last. Available across three medicines. The programming stays the same. The medicine changes.
August 27 – September 3, 2026 · Playa Grande, Costa Rica · 10 Guests Max
Psilocybin, Ayahuasca, and San Pedro open a door. What determines whether you walk through it, and whether you can find your way back to it in ordinary life, is the depth of the work around it: the pattern recognition, the accountability, the willingness to reframe the language, thoughts, and choices that got you here.
This is not insight-seeking. This is the work of someone who has done therapy, done coaching, done the reading, and reached the edge of what those models can reach. Western therapeutic frameworks are built to manage symptoms and stabilize function. This work is built to go underneath both, to the pattern itself, and to hold you accountable while you rebuild it in safety and connection with others walking the same path.
You have done the work. The therapy, the coaching, the practices. Something still has not shifted at the root. Your body knows it. And some part of you is quietly asking what comes next.
That is not confusion. That is readiness.
And you are in the right place.
The Empowered Path is a single sixteen-week arc. Pills below scroll to medicine-specific detail on this page — no separate retreat hop required.
Currently the primary live container for The Empowered Path methodology — microdose Attune, ceremonial Immerse, structured Anchor.
Team: Led by this path’s guardians — Kimberly Ocaña and Dana Mistretta (meet them under “Your guardians” below).
Status: bookable cohorts run under this methodology. Confirm dates on Upcoming Retreats.
Same Attune · Immerse · Anchor arc, held with Shipibo-informed ceremony cadence and dieta-aware preparation when offered as an Empowered Path cohort.
Team: Held in partnership with Shipibo-Konibo lineage carriers; the guardian team is announced with each bookable cohort.
Status: methodology ready; publish specific EP-aya dates when bookable (standalone Shipibo immersions remain on the calendar).
Daylight heart-opening ceremony pace inside the same safety, pacing, and embodiment standards as the full Empowered Path container.
Team: Nikki Szeghalmi — Trauma-Informed Medicine Carrier.
Status: weekend & immersion San Pedro dates exist on the calendar; EP-branded huachuma cohorts when announced.
The medicine creates the conditions. The structure ensures the change is real and lasting.
Ten guests. At that size, each person is known, not managed. Every exercise in Attune, every sequence onsite, every session in Anchor is placed deliberately, shaped around the specific people actually in the room, not run at whatever size fills a cohort. Precision at this scale is not a luxury. It is what makes the depth of this work possible at all.
Your guardian has the capacity to see you fully, to track what you specifically need, and to bring the depth of practice this work requires directly to you. But precision only goes as far as what you bring to it. This is devotion in both directions, matched by your own commitment to show up and stay through what's uncomfortable.
The work follows somatic psychology: honoring where you actually are, not where the schedule assumes you should be. As that precision is felt, something softens, not because you are being changed, but because you are being seen exactly as you are. That softening is what lets the medicine go deeper.
None of this stays inside ceremony. It is a macrocosm of your life. What surfaces is what has been burdening you, brought into clear enough view to actually work with. That is the empowerment this program is named for: guardians who know every name, every story, every specific thing that matters.
"We walk through our lives all day meeting strangers, saying fine, fine, fine. Here we got to say not fine, with each other."
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.
Three phases, one arc.
Before the medicine can meet you, your nervous system has to remember what regulation actually feels like. Most centers stop at setting an intention because they aren't built to hold this depth of work. This is where that depth becomes possible.
This is a precisely curated 8 day | 7 night all-inclusive experience. Three ceremonies, sequenced with intention, each building on what the last one opened. Private chef meals daily. King-suite bedrooms with ocean views, all private occupancy.
Microdosing continues as a tool for presence, structure, and pattern reformation. This is where what opened in ceremony either becomes how you live, or quietly fades. The difference is what you're devoted to realizing in your life once you're home.
Not everyone, and that is exactly what makes it work for the people it is right for.
If something in you said yes while reading this, that is the part of you we are speaking to. Trust it.
Your guardian is with you from the very first call to the very last session.
Certified somatic trauma-informed medicine facilitator and integration guide. Over 15 years in personal facilitation. Her own path moved through corporate burnout and into deep healing through sacred plant medicine.
Mentored by Atira Tan. Apprenticing in Ayahuasca shamanism with the Shipibo-Konibo tradition.
A certified Reiki Master Teacher and Intuitive Guide, Dana brings over 27 years in health and wellness. transformational facilitation, guided meditation, sound practice, and life coaching. A former elite athlete and educator, she has been featured in 20+ media outlets including CNN, MTV, and Authority Magazine.
President and Co-Founder of the Sanctuary of Consciousness, honoring plant medicine as sacred sacrament, Dana walks the Beauty Way as a ceremonialist guided by her Indigenous teachers. Her greatest joy comes from motherhood, family, and a life devoted to service and love.
You are not held by a protocol. You are held by people who have walked this path themselves, and genuinely love what they do.
An honest exchange for the full sixteen-week arc — preparation, immersion, and integration held as one container.
Comparable intensive containers often run $7,999+. Two partial scholarships available per program.
Paid in full $6,111 · Two payments 2 × $3,056 · Three payments 3 × $2,037
You receive the full 16-week program at a meaningful saving. In return, we ask that you be open to sharing your honest experience: a testimonial, a reflection, feedback that helps us serve the people who come after you with even more care. That is the agreement. Nothing more.
Two partial scholarships available per cohort · interest noted on your applicationPsilocybin microdose medicine is included in the program investment. All other program inclusions are as listed above.
Microdose enrollment deadline: August 3, 2026. After this date, participation in the Attune phase cannot be accommodated.
Simple, clear, and held.
The Empowered Path team reviews every application for alignment and fit.
A conversation with your guardian to explore where you are and whether this is the right arc for you.
Secure your place. Ten guests maximum, and that does not extend.
Final medical and safety screening. Confidential, thorough, and the place where anything clinical is settled.
Attune begins, and your guardian is with you from that first session onward.
August 27, 2026 · Playa Grande, Costa Rica
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