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A Love Letter to Mother Earth Retreat

April 19 - April 23, 2022

Florencia Fridman

Caro Arévalo

Caro Arévalo and Florencia Fridman invite you on a retreat to celebrate life. On Earth day this year we will honor our beautiful Earth and community through rituals, ceremonies, sound meditations, breath work, connection with nature, painting, yoga, and ways of expressing our creativity. Ritual and ceremony offer us the opportunity to alchemize the mundane into something sacred. During our days together, we will be connecting with the importance of living in community as well as making space to hear our hearts and our relationship to ourselves.As we celebrate our mother Earth we remember ourselves as nature herself, these few days of celebration together are an invitation to pause and reflect, to look within in order to nourish our soils and grow the fruits of tomorrow. 
ScheduleTuesday, April 19th
  • 3 - 4 pm Arrival & Checking in
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  • 4 - 6 pm Presenting ourselves to the space + guardians of the land asking permission to be there + Orientation
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  • 6 - 7 pm Dinner
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  • 7:30 pm Fire + Blue Lotus Ceremony, Sound Journey, telling the dreamworld we are ready to connect + receive the messages
Wednesday, April 20th
  • 6 - 8 am Sunrise yoga + Sound Dream Share post Yoga
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  • 8 - 9 am Breakfast
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  • 9:30 am - 12 pm Ritual around creativity
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  • 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
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  • 2 - 6 pm Fire + Cacao ceremony
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  • 6 - 7 pm Dinner
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  • 7:30 pm Time for Relaxation and Reflection
Thursday, April 21st
  • 4 am Guayusa Fire Ceremony
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  • 8 - 9 am Breakfast
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  • 9:30 am - 12 pm Yoga and Sound
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  • 12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
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  • 2 - 6 pm Cacao + Hike/Art Activity
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  • 6 - 7 pm Dinner
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  • 7:30 pm Fire + Song Circle evening
Friday, April 22nd
  • 6 - 8 am Sunrise yoga + Sound + Dream Share post Yoga
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  • 8 - 9 am Breakfast
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  • 9:30 am - 12pm Art Activity: inner world
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  • 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
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  • 2 - 4 pm Cacao + Rebirthing + Sound
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  • 4 - 6 pm Lake time
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  • 6 - 7 pm Dinner
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  • 7:30 pm Fire + Song Circle
Saturday, April 23rd
  • 6 -8 am Sunrise yoga + Sound Dream Share post Yoga
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  • 7 - 11 am Check-out of Rooms
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  • 8 - 9 am Breakfast
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  • 9:30 am - 12 pm Integration session
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  • 12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch & Goodbyes
*Please note that schedule is subject to change.

ABOUT THE TEACHERs

Florencia Fridman

Florencia Fridman is a self-empowerment artist working with heart opening therapies involving Ceremonial Grade Cacao, yoga, sound journeys, and breath as instruments for transformation. Florencia is passionate about supporting the voices of indigenous nations, wisdom keepers, and...

Caro Arévalo

Caro Arévalo is a Peruvian visual artist based in Kingston, NY. Her work resides in the visual embodiment of the “unveiled” in the various journeys throughout her psyche, all the cells that conform our inner bodies and its connection to the outer worlds. From her Amazonian h...

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