Huachuma | A 3-Day San Pedro Weekend Immersion in Playa Grande, Costa Rica | January 16 to 18, 2027

Huachuma. Three days with the Illuminator. A first meeting, or a deeper return.

You have been hearing about this medicine. Or the medicine has already found you.

Some people come to San Pedro with curiosity and a little caution. Others come because they have sat with the medicine before and know there is more. This weekend is built for both: a contained, well-held way to meet Huachuma, or to go further with the medicine, without stepping away from your life for a full week.

If you are new: curious, and wanting to do this right.

• You want a first experience held by someone experienced
• A gentle, daytime medicine feels like the right door
• A weekend feels possible when a week does not
• You want preparation, safety, and answers first

If you have sat before: ready to go deeper with the medicine.

• You know Huachuma and feel called back
• You want to sit with a carrier devoted to this one path
• Something from your last ceremony is still unfolding
• You want a focused reset at the start of the year

Either way, you will not be rushed.

The medicine: San Pedro (Huachuma), the Illuminator.

San Pedro, or Huachuma, is a cactus revered as sacred medicine for more than three thousand years in the Andes. Its Quechua name is often translated as “removing the head,” the quieting of the thinking mind so the heart can speak.

The medicine is taken in daylight and works gently over many hours. People describe the medicine as heart-opening and grounding, keeping you present in your body and connected to the land around you. For those new to plant medicine, that steadiness is often what makes San Pedro the right first step. For those returning, that steadiness is what lets the work go deeper.

What you leave with: three days, a clearer way home.

Every experience with the medicine is personal, and we make no promises about what yours will hold. These are the things guests most often describe as they head home:

• A quieter mind: less noise, and a clearer sense of what actually matters to you
• An open heart: softness toward yourself and the people you love
• Feeling at home in your body: settled, present, and back in touch with your own felt sense
• Connection to nature: the jungle, the ocean, and your place within them
• A thread to follow: one or two clear insights, carried into the year ahead
• Trust in the medicine: for first-timers, a safe foundation; for returners, a deeper relationship

Why a weekend: short enough to say yes to, held carefully enough to matter.

Three days and two nights: arrive, sit in one full daylight ceremony, integrate together, and go home with a group integration call still ahead of you.

Who holds you: a carrier who lives the path.

Nikki Szeghalmi, Medicine Carrier and Huachumera, was called to Peru in 2018 from her own history of addiction and depression and has given herself to the San Pedro path. Trained in somatic, trauma-informed facilitation through Atira Tan, she meets each guest with a rare balance of grit and softness, and a quickness to laughter. First-timers find her steady. Returning guests find her deep.

Kimberly Ocaña, Co-founder of Ananda Lodge, is a somatic, trauma-informed plant-medicine coach, sound-healing therapist, and herbalist. She walks beside each guest from the first call to integration.

“I feel more alive, joyful, grateful and full of love than I have in my entire life. This place is special. Go if you are being called.” [attribution]

How to begin: start with a conversation.

Whether this is your first time or your tenth, we start by listening: to where you are, what you are hoping for, and whether this weekend is the right fit.

1. Reserve your call: a complimentary 30-minute Sacred Journey consultation
2. Complete your intake: a health and medication review, then your preparation session
3. Hold your place: ten guests, enrollment closes January 2, 2027