Visionary: March 26-31, 2026

6-days, 5-nights accommodation at a spacious canyon ranch home outside of Heber City, Utah

3 nights of Ayahuasca ceremonies held by Athena, Jason, and 2-3 apprentices.

Spacious and secluded land to integrate in nature (buffalo next door)

15 min drive from natural hot springs and crater site

Access to hot tub, tennis court, fire pit, and quiet outdoor spaces

Over 8,000 sqft of living area inside

Healthy, organic meals lovingly prepared by an apprentice

Daily sharing and integration circles to deepen your journey

Personal 1:1 support sessions with experienced facilitators

Shamanic wisdom teachings and practices to integrate your journeys

Safe ceremony support from dedicated and experienced apprentices

We will gather at a spacious ranch estate in Heber City, tucked away in Utah’s powerful mountain valley. The home has 8 bedrooms, multiple kitchens, wraparound decks, and communal gathering areas, offering the space for meaningful connection with others, while providing enough space for quiet time in solitude -- for whatever your integration will need.

This property backs onto a buffalo ranch, and is also 15 minutes away from a natural hot spring that participants can visit on integration days if they choose.

A range of accommodation options are available—private, semi-private, and shared rooms at different price points to suit your needs. Ceremony will take place in a large living room space within the home, and we will be welcoming up to 15 participants.

We’ve held a very coherent and powerful retreat in this home last August, and have consistently felt the strong presence of ancestral support in Utah, which allows us to go quite deep. We're super excited to come back to this land! t’s a blessing to return here with our Utah community, and we warmly welcome those who are new to our circle.

Athena, born in Greece and enriched by her diverse heritage as a South African-Venezuelan, is a profoundly skilled and authentic teacher of plant medicine. With over 18 years of experience in indigenous ceremonial practices from both North and South America, her formal apprenticeship was with the Shipibo Mahua lineage in the Peruvian Amazon.

Athena channels a cosmic grandmother in her ceremonies, offering an incredibly potent yet gentle transmission of the plant spirits, and the divine mother. Her ceremonies are incredibly safe, nurturing, unique in their authenticity, and infused with many lineages of divine support—an experience that remains rare in the realm of plant medicine work.

Jason, an energy healer and shamanic herbalist, embodies the spirit of plants with his rooted and lifelong connection to the plant world. Since 2010, he's worked extensively with ayahuasca, cultivating and preparing it in Hawaii on his family’s property. Specializing in tailor-made shamanic medicines, he addresses emotional, physical, and spiritual needs, aiming to deepen individuals' connection to the Earth. Known for his incredible humor, heyoka spirit, and nurturing presence in ceremony, Jason strengthens the container, by holding the masculine while allowing the feminine to lead. A gifted curandero, and devotee to plant wisdom.

How do I get to the location?
The closest international airport to retreat location is Salt Lake City International Airport. Participants who are flying will fly to SLC Airport and either:

(1) Rent a car / car share with others
(2) Taxi/Uber from SLC

We will have a group chat to help participants coordinate car shares closer to retreat date. Please reach out if you have any questions, and we will be happy to coordinate with you.
How do I prepare?
Preparing for this lineage of medicine does entail approximately 2 weeks of monastic-style spiritual, psychological, and physical preparation. This includes a particular list of foods to eliminate from your diet, as well as certain consumptive patterns and exposures to avoid such as alcohol, drugs, porn, coffee, sugars, etc. Upon registering, you will receive a detailed guideline for your Ayahuasca preparation protocol. You can always reach out to our organizer with clarification questions.
What is the practitioner to participant ratio?
We will have 2 ceremony facilitators, a cook, and an apprentice. We have space for approximately 15 participants.
What is your refund policy?
Due to high costs of facilitating retreats, we cannot offer refunds. In the event where you can no longer come, we will place your deposit, minus an admin fee of 30%, towards future retreats or online offerings by Athena, of which there are many.