SAN LUIS
Ten days in the high desert at the end of the Wirikuta pilgrimage route. With hikuri, in the lineage of those who hold it. The dreaming retreat.
Why San Luis.
San Luis Potosí is high desert at the end of the Wirikuta pilgrimage route — the route the Huichol have walked for centuries to find the medicine. The retreat is held at a centre in this desert, with teachers who hold the lineage, in a relationship we have kept slowly over many years.
This is the dreaming retreat. The teachings come from the Toltec traditions of the Americas — the understanding that everything is interconnected, that the powers of healing and creativity come from source energies around us and inside us, and that we can be in constant communication with them. There is a focus on life as a dream, the dream of the night and the dream of the day, and the dreaming body — the means through which we open to the wider world we live inside of.
The teacher plant is hikuri — peyote — held with the blessing of the Wirikuta. A single ceremony, held in the depth of the week, with days of preparation before and days of integration after. Mornings of breath, meditation, and slow body work. Long walks into the open desert where the horizon wanders uninterrupted to the end of itself. Fire. Earth. Water. Silence. Circle. The kind of space the city cannot offer.
It is not luxury and not austerity. It is real, and what the work needs.
For three kinds of work.
Founders, executives, professionals. The desert develops the capacity to clear the mind, make informed decisions under pressure, and see the vision of the work more clearly.
For those who hold the work of healing — new or established. The retreat works alongside what you already carry, and offers a clear ground for managing the larger energies the work asks of you.
Artists, writers, musicians, builders. The retreat is for remembering the original fire — the source of expression that does not depend on technique. You don't have to call yourself an artist.
The shape of ten days.
For those traveling internationally, the night of arrival. Accommodation in Mexico City is included. Slow entrance to the journey. Early to bed.
Group travel from Mexico City to the centre at the end of the Wirikuta route. Arrival in the late afternoon. First evening shared meal. Brief frame for the days ahead.
Dawn practice. Meditation. The breath as the foundation — making space in the mind so the rest of the work can be received. A long walk into the open desert. Introduction to the teachers and the lineage. Setting intention in small group.
A day with the elements — fire, earth, water. Slow body work and listening to what the body has to say. Sacred fire in the evening. The dreaming body is the means through which the rest of the work opens.
Solo time in the open desert. Long walks where the horizon wanders uninterrupted. Reading the land. Silence as practice. Evening circle to share what arrived.
The day before. Silence as the foundation. Last rounds of one on one work. Intentions sharpened. The teachers prepare the space and the medicine in their tradition.
A morning of stillness and preparation. The ceremony in the evening, held in the lineage with hikuri. No fanfare. The medicine moves at its own pace. The night runs its full length.
Silence in the morning. Solo time in the desert. Group circle in the afternoon. Slow body work. Evening meal in silence, by request. The work continues quietly inside.
One on one counsel through the morning and afternoon — threading what arrived in the ceremony into the year ahead. A closing fire in the evening, in the Toltec tradition.
Closing circle. Reflection in small group. A simple ceremony of leaving. Slow re-entry. Return travel to Mexico City or onward.
Travel, logistics, care.
Fly into Mexico City. Accommodation on the first night is included. Group travel onward to San Luis Potosí on day two. Internal details shared privately on confirmation.
A centre in the high desert at the end of the Wirikuta route. Simple, quiet, in the open. Walking distance to the desert in every direction.
Whole, local, prepared with care. A specific dietary preparation supports the work. Details shared on confirmation.
Hikuri — peyote — with the blessing of the Wirikuta. Held in the Toltec lineage by teachers we have worked with for many years.
A full screening conversation precedes any invitation to participate. Some conditions are exclusionary.
Twelve. No more. Drawn from the apprenticeship, the mentoring path, and a small number of long-standing friends of the Academy.
Shared with the invitation. Includes all on-the-ground costs and the first night in Mexico City. Travel to Mexico City is the participant's.
Reply to your mentor.
There is no public booking. If the retreat is for you, the invitation came directly. Reply to the mentor who sent it. A medical and intention screening follows. A place is held only after both are complete.