Elemental Journey Featuring Planeta Agua — March 6-13th
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Indigenous wisdom teacher Carmen Vicente will join us March 6-8th to present her work Planeta Auga, with this foundation we will flow into a week long Journey of Elemental Education to enchant the mind, strengthen the body and fortify the spirit. Together we explore the wisdom of the water, the nourishment it provides and reverential practices for
sacred connection.
Lineage carrier, chief and wisdom teacher Carmen Vicente shares Indigenous knowledge and spiritual technologies to support the collective awakening in these prophetic times through her work Planeta Agua.
Through oral tradition, reverential prayer and rituals we will create an educational experience to focus on the importance of relating with the natural world and actualize our roles as stewards of an emerging future. Rooted in collective liberation, deep listening and ancient practices, we will revitalize our memory of ancient cultures and renew the awareness of the relationship between the visible and the invisible, within Spirit and Life.
We will explore our edges and create opportunities to weave a world that is in harmony with nature.
Claudia Cuentas, Karina & Julian will present embodiment practices, ceremonies, earth medicine & healing arts sessions to tend to the creation of a new culture of care.
This journey will help you connect with the sacred human experience and the brilliance of your soul’s purpose within collective world-making. With conscious action and acute attention we can shift from an ordinary life into an extraordinary existence.
Through the work of the altar we will connect to our ancestors, the Earth and the
wisdom within.​
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THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO JOIN US IN COSTA RICA
OPTION 1 - FULL ELEMENTAL JOURNEY -MARCH 6-13, 2025 (Includes Planeta Agua Workshop)
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OPTION 2 - PLANETA AGUA WORKSHOP w/ CARMEN VICENTE
MARCH 6-8, 2025​
WORKSHOP ONLY - CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
ELEMENTAL JOURNEY WEEK LONG PROGRAM DESIGN
A JOURNEY OF SACRED WORK
WISDOM TEACHINGS
PLANETA AGUA with Carmen Vicente
Together we center the role of Indigenous wisdom teachings in these critical times of transformation.
We are witnessing dominant systems that numb us and make us believe we are disconnected.
Through Indigenous teachings we realign ourselves into coherence with the living world and remember we are part of a larger wiser alive system of care.
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Planeta Agua - March 6-8th - Indigenous Leader & teacher Carmen Vicente will lead us in elevating our culture of education through ancestral wisdom and the technology of the waters. This elemental education invites us to deeply listen and remember our connection to the living world. Our goal is to train our minds to become fierce allies, empower our bodies into collective action and open our hearts for emotional liberation.
CEREMONY
Together we remember the ceremonial ways of life. It is time to refine our capacity to listen, to reconnect to community and to answer the call for global consciousness.
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Through ancient traditions and wisdom practices we surrender to the messages that are meant for us and we reignite clear vision so that we may walk our path with confidence and with the support of nature and community.
We will participate in communal Indigenous ceremonies guided by Carmen Vicente.
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TEMAZCAL (SWEAT LODGE)- Carmen Vicente
ANDEAN CHACANA ALTAR - Carmen Vicente
DESPACHO - Claudia Cuentas
SOUND HEALING - Claudia Cuentas
SOMATIC PRACTICES
Our bodies hold truth, wisdom and infinite potential. Our unique multi-dimensional blueprint carries our purpose and keys to growth & healing. Our work is to uncover this inherent wisdom and decode our purpose for our highest good. During this program we will spend time in deep self-reflection with the intention of meeting ourselves, again.
The human body is the greatest technology we will ever possess - together we will dive deep within ourselves to reconnect to our bodies, build resiliency and learn to navigate our internal landscape - mind, body and soul. By using framework to view our personal work through playful intelligence we rewire our social patterns and behaviors - we learn to shed layers of cultural and ancestral conditioning stored deep within our bones. We reprogram our minds to become fierce allies. Empowerment at its truest level - Integrity in its purist form.
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Our practices are designed to help you cultivate energy- vitality, health, creativity and longevity- as you learn to uncover the internal wisdom you carry.
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DAILY MOVEMENT
TRANSFORMATIONAL BREATHWORK
MEDITATION
GROUNDING & CENTERING PRACTICES
ORGANIC & NOURISHING FOOD
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INTEGRATION
Integration is the culmination and implementation of insights and learnings acquired during your journey.
We are co-creating a supportive container with onsite integration sessions during your journey, tools and resources to help you integrate upon landing, and the support of our community.
We will offer one pre-journey Zoom session to orient us prior to arriving and two post-journey integration sessions via Zoom.
WISDOM KEEPER
CARMEN VICENTE
Teacher. Cultivator of the Word. Carrier of the Sacred Art of Altars. Sun and Spirit Dance Chief. Chief of Vision Quest.
Creator of the School of Secrets. Spiritual Leader. Messenger of the Carnation.
Carmen was born in the province of Loja, Ecuador. Heir of a spiritual lineage, she has been recognized in her community since her birth for her gifts as a “healer” and during her childhood she actively practiced this role, specifically healing children and animals. In her adolescence she left her community to start a life in the city. She began her path in the theater in the sixties in Ecuador, performing on the most important stages and at festivals in America and Europe.
​Concurrently, she also dedicated herself to recovering the art of craft making with women’s organizations in marginal sectors of the country, such as jails and other vulnerable populations, education programs for indigenous and peasant children with UNICEF-UNESCO.
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Three decades of experience in the theater, the arts, and her expansion of her original role, makes Carmen Vicente an exceptional woman recognized by authorities of different indigenous nations from North and South America, with whom she has established permanent alliances. In this way she has consolidated her lineage as a Woman of Spiritual Path, Sun and Spirit Dance Chief and Vision Quest Chief.
CEREMONY, FACILITATION & TRANSLATION:
CLAUDIA CUENTAS
Claudia Cuentas is a Peruvian ceremonialist, artist, researcher, educator, and somatic therapist (LMFT), passionate about the Art of healing and the decolonization of health. She is the co-founder of Cora Center, a License Psilocybin Service Center (www.coracenter.org) and a certified Psilocybin facilitator living in Portland Oregon. She comes from an Aymara heritage and a strong lineage of artists, social activists and healers in her family.
Claudia is trained in many different modalities all in connection to trauma recovery, restoring health and the arts. Her approach is a combination of 20 years of training in Western Healing modalities, and Indigenous Ways of knowing from the Andes and Jungle in South America. Some of her training includes Somatic Experiencing (SEP), Drama Therapy (CIIS), Expressive Arts Therapy (Tamalpa Institute), MDMA assisted Psychotherapy Training Program (MAPS) and Ketamine for trauma recovery (Polaris Insight Center). Claudia also has been ordained by her teachers in Ecuador and Peru, after extensive studies and preparations for almost two decades.
Her focus is on the intersectionality of generational and ancestral trauma, plant medicine science, the art of healing, eco-informed therapy, somatic/nervous system and indigenous knowledge. Claudia is also a recording musician and a singer songwriter.
EMBODIMENT & INTEGRATION:
KARINA
Karina is dedicated to the journey of collective liberation through the practice and remembrance of earth medicine healing arts. As a bridgekeeper and student of indigenous wisdom teachers, she serves as a certified holistic health, transformation and integration guide facilitating groups and one on one clients. She is a certified transformational breathwork practitioner and specializes in awakening somatic wisdom and the medicine within. She is the founder of the wellness platform Sovereign by Nature, non-profit The ARC, healing container for woman The Sacred Session and The BridgeKeepers Council advocacy group.​
With a rich tapestry of cultural heritage that includes Taino, Afro-Caribbean, Spanish, French, and Ecuadorian lineages, Karina embodies a beautiful fusion of traditions and histories, celebrating the strength and resilience of her ancestors. She has studied with wisdom keepers, elders and teachers from many different lineages. Her work centers ceremonial work, collective healing, systems change and culture shifts.
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JULIAN
Julian DeVoe is a founding partner of Sovereign by Nature. He is n advocate for self-growth, thriving health and personal empowerment. Through the practices of ceremony, yoga, qigong, natural movement, conscious touch, shamanic meditation, mindful eating and practical spirituality he encourages personal discovery of truth. Julian’s unique movement and mindfulness (interdisciplinary) teaching approach is powerful and accessible.
Julian spent many years in Peru in service to Plant Medicine facilitation. He was most recently a Senior Program Director at a non profit healing center in Costa Rica.
He is the author of Robust Vitality and a book of verse, Insights Out.​
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OUR HOME
BRAVE EARTH- COSTA RICA
Tierra Valiente (Brave Earth), Center for Applied Cultural Transition, is a living laboratory anchored in the values of reciprocity, regeneration, and resiliency. They are located in the volcanic highlands in Northern Costa Rica and are expressed through a center, regenerative farm, mutual-aid network and burgeoning residential community.
As a living lab, they are aware of the dominant structures and systems that have calcified our culture and are living in the questions of how we can create transition pathways towards structures and systems that serve Life.
We have been in relationship with Brave Earth for over five years - developing shared language, cultivating ethical values and creating opportunities for deep healing within integrated medicine spaces. We are honored to be weaving and holding this shared prayer together.
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7 NIGHT PROGRAM PRICING & DETAILS
PRICING INCLUDES: 7 NIGHT JOURNEY PROGRAM, PLANETA AGUA WORKSHOP, CEREMONY, INTEGRATION, ACCOMMODATIONS & FOOD
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PRICING EXCLUDES: 4% PROCESSING FEE CHARGED AT CHECK OUT AND TRANSPORTATION
PRICE VARIES PER ACCOMMODATION TYPE:
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SINGLE OCCUPANCY- GAIA DOME, JUNGLE HUT, EARTH TAMBO, CABINA - $3,160 PER PERSON
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DOUBLE OCCUPANCY- TWO SINGLE BEDS JUNGLE HUT- $2,780 PER PERSON
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COUPLES RATE - ONE BED- $2,780 PER PERSON​
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TO COMPLETE YOUR REGISTRATION
1. REVEIW THE ACCOMMODATION TYPES BELOW
2. CLICK THE PROGRAM REGISTRATION BUTTON
2. FILL OUT THE REGISTRATION FORM AND SELECT YOUR ACCOMMODATION TYPE (FIRST COME FIRST SERVE)
3. YOU WILL RECEIVE A MEDICAL INTAKE TO FILL OUT & DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO PAY YOUR DEPOSIT. NOTE- WE WILL CONFIRM YOUR ACCOMMODATION TYPE ONCE YOUR DEPOSIT IS RECEIVED
4. ONCE YOUR INTAKE IS CLEARED FOR PARTICIPATION YOU WILL RECEIVE SHUTTLE TRANSPORT OPTIONS AND TRAVEL GUIDELINES TO HELP YOU PLAN YOUR TRIP.
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QUESTIONS - EMAIL INFO@SOVEREIGNXNATURE.COM
ACCOMMODATION DETAILS
THERE ARE A VARIETY OF ROOM TYPES TO FIT YOUR NEEDS & BUDGET. THERE ARE OPTIONS FOR SINGLE, DOUBLE OCCUPANCY IN PRIVATE ACCOMMODATIONS.
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DOMES, JUNGLE HUTS AND TAMBO'S UTILIZE SHARED WASH ROOM FACILITIES. THE DOMES HAVE A PRIVATE SHOWER. THESE ROOMS ARE CLOSEST TO THE MALOKA AND DINING SPACE.
CABINS HAVE PRIVATE BATHROOMS AND A/C AND ARE A SHORT WALK TO THE DINING AREA AND MALOKA SPACE.
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ACCOMMODATION TYPES
FAQ'S
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-We begin our journey March 6, we ask that you arrive to Brave Earth by 4pm to check in, join our welcome circle and dinner.
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-Journey end date is March 13th - 10am departure, there is only breakfast on this day so you may choose to leave earlier if necessary.
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-Airport: You will fly into San Jose Costa Rica. There will be shuttle options shared with you upon registration. The center is located about 2.5 hours from the airport. Please do not book flights until you have been medically cleared to participate.
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-Round trip shuttle options from San Jose Airport area to Brave Earth will be offered after registration. You will also have an option to select Private Transport. Shuttle costs are additional and you will pay the driver directly. Prices range from $60-$160 per person.
-Payment - We ask for a $1,000 USD deposit to reserve your spot. Due to the nature of this work the deposit is non-refundable but may be transferable up to 60 days prior to the journey with the approval of SVXN. You will be given multiple payment method options upon registration.
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-We will invoice you for the remaining total due 30 days prior to the journey start date.
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-If you register less than 30 days prior to the start date the full rate is needed to book your spot.
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-Please do not make travel arrangements until you have been medically cleared to participate. There will be a medical intake form emailed to you once you register. If you are deemed medically unsafe to participate your deposit will be refunded.
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-All logistics and additional travel and preparatory information will be sent to you upon registration.
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-Due to the nature of this work, payments and deposits are non-refundable unless deemed medically unsafe to attend. They may be transferable at the discretion of the organizer. Please email info@sovereignxnature.com with questions.
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SOLIDARITY CIRCLE
We are committed to offering opportunities and support for marginalized community members to attend our journeys.
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There is a mass proliferation of healing centers and communities that claim to be regenerative. Without a critique or even an understanding of how late-stage capitalism, patriarchy, structural racism, hetero-normativity, able-bodiedness and other normative systems of oppression function. As a result, access to alternative modalities of natural healing has become expensive, elitist and out-of-reach. We have started this Solidarity Circle to create inclusive, holistic healing for marginalized and underserved communities. Uplifting and supporting these communities is crucial in creating adjacent / regenerative possible futures worth living.
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Our mission is to fund 5 scholarships per Journey at Brave Earth in Costa Rica, please consider supporting this initiative by clicking the donate button below.
Any donation over $200 is tax deductible through our partnership with our US based 501(c)3 non profit partner.
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​For donor funds and tax exempt qUESTIONS - EMAIL KARINA@SOVEREIGNXNATURE.COM