The Empowered Path: 8 Day San Pedro (Huachuma) Retreat and Four-Month Program in Playa Grande, Costa Rica

The Empowered Path with San Pedro, the Illuminator

The Empowered Path is a four-month journey held in three phases: Attune, Immerse, and Anchor. Preparation readies the nervous system and clarifies your intention. The retreat opens the door. Integration builds what you saw into how you decide, speak, and live. The same guardians and the same cohort of ten walk with you through all of it.

San Pedro, the Illuminator

Huachuma, known as San Pedro, is a cactus held as sacred medicine in the Andes for more than three thousand years. Its Quechua name is often said to speak to the quieting of the ego. Taken in daylight, with ceremonies that unfold from morning into evening, it is a medicine of illumination.

Many experience Huachuma as a vast intelligence that dispels what is false and harmonizes the ego, so what is true can show. It tends to unfold slowly, like a story told in its own time. It returns you to feeling who you are at the core, through the heart and the body, eyes open, in the light of day. It can be tender and it can be demanding, and both serve the work.

What San Pedro teaches

Truth. Integrity. Ownership of your thoughts, choices, and actions. Healthy boundaries. Clear and powerful language. Forgiveness of yourself and others. How to stay open without being run over.

Who Huachuma often calls

• You feel drawn to San Pedro specifically, and the pull has stayed with you.
• You sense where you have not been living in your truth, and you are ready to see it clearly.
• You say yes when you mean no, or give until you are run over, and you want boundaries that hold.
• You are ready to take ownership of your choices and the life you are creating today.
• You want to stay present and grounded, in your body and in daylight.
• You and your partner want to walk this together. Couples are welcome in this cohort.

What this medicine asks of you

Honesty and ownership. A willingness to feel what you see. The physical capacity to hold three long ceremony days on a fast. Not certain San Pedro is your medicine? Your alignment call is where we decide together.

Who the Empowered Path is for

This path is for people ready to move beyond their story. You are open to coaching and want to be held accountable to something bigger than yourself. You do not assume you know it all, and you want to learn from your guardians, the medicine carrier, and the medicine itself.

How you are held

The Empowered Path is guided by trauma-informed principles for safety. The work centers on empowerment, accountability, and ownership of life today: compassion for the past and understanding of the patterns that once protected you, without letting the past decide the present. Your guardians know your story, your intentions, and your nervous system. You are never handed off.

Phase I · Attune · March 8 to April 9 · Preparation

Attune sets the compass. You begin with a 45-minute intake call, then two 30-minute one-to-one calls with your guardian to build trust, explore where you are, and shape your preparation. Four live online cohort sessions on Mondays build safety as a circle before you arrive. Your preparation guidebooks and psilocybin microdose ally support you between sessions. You arrive in Costa Rica regulated, connected to your cohort, and clear on your intention.

Phase II · Immerse · April 9 to 16 · The retreat

Eight days and seven nights at Ananda Lodge in Playa Grande. Three daytime San Pedro ceremonies, each held from morning to evening on a day of fasting and each followed by a full day of integration. Around the ceremonies: breathwork, gentle yoga, art therapy, time for rest, healing or one-to-one support, beach sunsets, a private chef, and your own ocean-view suite.

• Ceremony One: the first opening. Building trust with Huachuma and letting the body settle into the land.
• Ceremony Two: a deeper day with the medicine, with the safety of the first ceremony already in your body.
• Ceremony Three: gathering what has been illuminated and carrying it toward home.

Phase III · Anchor · April 26 to July 5 · Integration

Anchor is where what you saw becomes how you live. Six live online cohort sessions, every two weeks, explore the integration pathway, pattern re-programming, authentic power, personal integrity and discernment, and aligning your actions with truth and purpose. Three 30-minute pathway calls with your guardian help you build your own resource toolkit. Pod pair-ups and a WhatsApp community keep you connected between sessions.

Tools you build: daily micro habits, healthy and compassionate communication, boundaries for healthy relationships, and your personal resource toolkit.

Your microdose ally

Psilocybin, following the James Fadiman protocol of one day on and two days off. It begins after the first Attune session, pauses 5 to 7 days before the retreat as your guardian directs, and resumes no earlier than two weeks after the retreat for two months. Strain selection and ordering details are shared once your registration is confirmed.

In our guests’ words

“I feel more alive, joyful, grateful and full of love than I have in my entire life.” Kim, retreat guest

“This amount of people allowed actual community to be built between all of us. Nothing is missing. Everything is within.” First cohort guest

How to join

1. Apply: share your story, goals, and intentions.
2. Alignment call: explore fit and which medicine is calling you.
3. Reserve your place.
4. Complete intake: a confidential health and safety screening.
5. Begin Attune with your guardians.

Your registration is confirmed once your alignment call and intake are complete. Enrollment closes March 7, 2027.