Butterfly Wisdom Retreat
Dates: Thursday, February 20 - Monday, February 24
Mazatlan, Mexico
New year? New you!
Join us for a transformative journey that mirrors the life cycle of a butterfly, symbolizing personal growth and renewal in Mazatlán, Mexico from February 20 to 24. This retreat, guided by Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker, offers a profound exploration of metamorphosis through connection with nature, creative expression, and spiritual insight.
A message from Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker:
First we start with butterfly knowledge and wisdom and develop into the medicina. Butterflies have been revered the world over by all cultures for the work that they do in the world, which is about pollination. This is an important work when we as humans are looking at our own work in the world. One of our gifts is the ability to transfer and pass on wisdom, knowledge not only of ourselves, our own experience, but of our ancestors. When we pass this on, we are pollinating and sometimes it falls in a receptive personage who then chooses to engage with it, but also it gives them the choice not to.
The other reason we honor butterflies and we revere them is because they have a transformative process. When they start out, they are a little egg and then a caterpillar, and then they go into a cocoon, and then they come out as this amazing creature with wings. And for many people, they don't even realize it is the same one. With being good observers and naturalists all over the world, people have come to realize that the caterpillars develop into the butterflies and our night butterflies, which are moths. This is an inspiration for us as humans to transform, to change, to grow, evolve, and to go beyond that, to transmute into a greater wholeness and a greater beingness.
This includes all of the major changes in our life journey from birth and death being the first and last major, transmutation from spirit into physical form and physical form. Back to spirit. But it also represents our changes from childhood into young adults, into wise elders and onward. When we talk about working with Butterfly Wisdom, it is about embracing this journey and process. And like a butterfly, having the strength, courage, perseverance, trust and faith to go through whatever changes the season, the changing environment, the changing processes that we are in for humans, our environment changes with family, with community, with nature, with our own aging process.
When it becomes medicinal is when we help others as a witness to their process of transformation and transmutation. Butterflies are the transmuters of the universe and ourselves. They help inspire and guide us in all those times in our lives when we need that level of strength and faith. That level of trust and perseverance, and courage.
Itinerary
February 20th
Afternoon: Arrive & settle in
February 21st
Morning: Meet & Greet
Afternoon: Workshop Session
February 22nd
Morning: Workshop Session
Afternoon: Workshop Session
February 23rd
Morning: Workshop Session
Afternoon: Plactica Ceremony*
February 24th
Morning: Goodbyes & Departure
* A Plactica is a heartfelt conversation amongst an intimate group of people. Each person will receive some cacao and we will share prayer and intention at the beginning of the ceremony. Everyone will have the opportunity to speak what comes from their heart. This Plactica will have a specific subject matter about all of our experiences and exchanges throughout the retreat.
Retreat itinerary subject to change.
Please email nikka@aniwa.co if you are interested in booking a private session with Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker.
Getting There
Please fly into Mazatlan Airport (MZT) airport on February 20th and from there you will take a taxi to the accommodations. Please book your flight back home for February 24th.
If you are coming from Southern California, it may be cheaper to drive to San Diego, take the Cross Border Xpress to the Tijuana airport, and then from Tijuana fly to Mazatlan (MZT).
Accommodations
The retreat accommodations will be at a private home in Mazatlán, and some workshops will take place at an eco-retreat center in La Noria de San Antonio. All rooms at the home are shared. If you would like to request your own room, please inquire via email to nikka@aniwa.co.
If you would prefer to find your own accommodations in Mazatlán, you can still attend the retreat and participate in all the activities.
Meet the Elder
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Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker
Grandmother LánéSaán Moonwalker has been an oracle, healer, spiritual teacher, and environmental guardian for most of her life.
Grandmother LánéSaán began her training in the healing arts at the age of 12 from members of Her family who were highly skilled curanderas (traditional healers who combine Native and Catholic spiritual beliefs and practices). She learned to work with creative expression as a doorway to spirit with her mother as her first teacher.
Grandmother LánéSaán is an accomplished artist, a weaver, and a painter, as well as a dancer and singer, and holds a degree in humanities and the visual arts from the University of Colorado. She has been a licensed minister for more than 42 years and is a Canon in the Brigade of Light.
Grandmother LánéSaán has studied with many spiritual teachers, including artist, writer, and visionary Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow), Eric Tao, and Marian Starnes.
In 1987, she met her main teacher and mentor Tu Moonwalker, an Apache, the great great granddaughter of Cochise. Tu was the holder of this unbroken Moonwalker lineage. Grandmother LánéSaán is an acknowledged part of that in addition to being from an unbroken lineage herself through her Yoeme grandmother. Together Tu and Grandmother LánéSaán founded the Philosophy of Universal Beingness within the Whole. The foundation of this system is about working with nature in a sacred way.
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