Sacred Soul in Unity - Intimate New Year Retreat
Psychedelic-Assisted Group Retreat

DEC 29 - JAN 2, 2025/26

by Birthing an Ancient Future

At the Sacred Soul in Unity - Intimate New Year Shanti Retreat - Psychedelic-Assisted Group Retreat - our focal point is the journey toward our inner essence, fostering connections guided by the wisdom of the heart. Rooted in the shrine of our beings, we anchor ourselves individually and collectively in a conscious, heart-centered way of living. This soul’s journey delves into the intricate layers of our authentic selves as we traverse the passage from our egoistic selves into expanded states of consciousness – awakening to the interconnected web of life - as Stewards of a New Earth – caring for all relations.

This place of Intímate Peace WIthin – Shanti - evokes a profound integration of the principles embodying the Divine Feminine and Masculine, embracing the expansive heart connection that extends beyond the mind to a profound connection with the world and the sacredness inherent in all aspects of life. From this understanding, our consciousness expands to embrace all beings within the natural world, fostering a deep reverence for the planet we call home. As responsible Stewards of a New Earth, we live in alignment with the interconnected web of life, honoring our role in nurturing and preserving the sacredness of our shared home.

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2025 New Year Psylocybin-Assisted Group Retreat

Ceremonial Core: You Are the Medicine

At the core of the gathering are different unique ceremonies and rituals, working with our intrinsic medicines. You Are The Medicine - supported, guided, and enhanced through many other modalities of medicine; including sacred pilgrimages in ancient Nature of the Coastal Portugese Camino de Santiago, shamanic rituals, nature ceremonies, creativity and artwork, live music, singing and voice, movement and dance, and body work.

Sacred Pilgrimage & Rituals to Enter the New Year

We will co-create a day excursion New Year Sacred Pilgrimage on sacred trails of the Coastal Portugese Camion Santiago with ocean ceremony and healing bath ceremony, and a Vow of Renewal Sweatlodge Temazcal Ceremony at our Sacred Land Retreat Venue to travel brightly into the New Year.

Expanded States of Consciousness as a Pillar

The work with expanded states of consciousness is another core pillar of the New Year Retreat, including a legal plant medicine ceremony, and Sacred Union Ceremonies, all choreographed into a co-created New Year Rite of Passage into an Ancient Future.

Held in a Sacred Circle: Group Transformation

The group retreat is held in a sacred circle medicine wheel, drawing upon diverse shamanic-therapeutic methods of working with expanded states of consciousness, to heal and transform individuals, groups, and planets.

Five Days of Healing and Empowerment

We stay together for five days / four nights in the Sacred Land Retreat Centre, co-creating healing, transformation, and empowerment, developed and choreographed by Dr. Regina U. Hess, Visionary Founder/Director of Birthing an Ancient Future.

Responsible Plant Medicine Use & Integration Support

The plant medicine dosages will be moderate. The organisational team provides professional contacts for the aftermath if further integration is needed.

Holistic Integration: From Experience to Embodiment

Throughout the retreat, guided integration processes are interwoven, guiding transformation and teaching holistic integration skills - including sharing and weaving individual experiences with collective insights into new understandings of human life, within intimate earth stewardship.

By Visionary Founder Dr. Regina U. Hess

The retreat is developed, choreographed, and led by the visionary founder/director of Birthing an Ancient Future, Dr. Regina U. Hess, NL / PT & Team.

Sacred Land Retreat Center: A Gate of Pilgrimage and Peace

The Sacred Land Retreat Center is an old quinta nestled in the ancient lands of sacred pilgrimage, stewarded by a family over generations. It is a gate— a Sacred Site where Shamans from all over the world come and hold Global Ceremonies for Healing, Transformation, and Peace.

Contributing to Global Peace in Action

We are honored and grateful to contribute to this Sacred Gate for Global Peace through our Group Retreat, from inner Self-Development to Global Peace in Action.

Early Bird Price

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Early Bird Price *

Application Procedure for Participation

  • We explore your eligibility for participation from the medical/psychological level as a comparably average healthy participant with a stable living situation within a short online questionnaire and invite you to share some of your background and intention for participation.

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  • Eligibility of Participation will be required to create a safe and ethically sound setting. The data are confidential and collected by the organizing team.

    We will offer a short online dialogue including your previous psychedelic experiences, knowledge, and specific wisdom and interest you bring as a participant to co-create this gathering.

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  • When accepted for participation, you must register for the event, including buying your ticket to reserve your spot. Further information and instructions will be forwarded once your registration and ticket payment are received.

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Registration Open for

Early Bird Price:

1350 €

Full Price from 01.08.2025

1650 €

Price includes:

  • 4-nights/5-days Accommodation

  • Full-Board Vegetarian/Vegan Organic Delicacies

  • Outdoor/Indoor Ceremonies, Movement, Dance, Art, Music, Nature Immersion

  • Plantmedicine Ceremonies

  • Guided Integration Processes

  • RE-NATURE - Sacred Pilgrimage Ceremony on the Coastal Portuguese Camino Santiago

  • New Year Vow of Renewal Sweatlodge/Temezcal

  • Shamanic Journeying

  • Ritual Body Postures and Ecstatic Trance

  • Creative Art Work, Collective Healing Altar, Medicine Songs

  • Intimate Wholeness Healing Labs

  • Co-Creating a New Year Rite of Passage of love and light, joy and beauty, respect, reciprocity, and responsibility, for all relations for the greater good.

Payment through Bank transfer to the company account:

Birthing an Ancient Future

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We look forward to the next co-creative and evocative collaborative gathering of Birthing an Ancient Future – Multidisciplinary Psychedelic Council – to weave the Web of Life into the New Year's Rite of Passage, for the greater good and benefit of all. Only together can we! Shanti.

Dr. Regina U. Hess, Visionary Founder/Director, Birthing an Ancient Future

Developer/Choreographer/Retreat Lead & Team

VISION

Our dedicated focus lies in drawing nearer to our true selves and establishing profound connections, mindfully and intimately guided by the heart's teachings. Rooted in the sanctuary of our hearts, we honour the sacred water within, allowing it to course through our being like flowing rivers. This exploration delves into the intricate layers of our authentic essence as we transition from youth to adulthood. This journey involves a profound integration of the principles embodying the Divine Feminine and Masculine, embracing the expansive heart connection that extends beyond, to a profound connection with the world and the sacredness inherent in all aspects of life.

This transformative journey involves facing our dark and light aspects and integrating them to achieve a sense of wholeness. Through this sacred process, we develop a deep understanding of intimacy with all those around us, honouring our ancestors, and nurturing future generations. Regardless of our traditions, lineages, or directions, we embark on a transgenerational path of reverence and care. This is a way of becoming intimate with the multiple dimensions of our interconnected lives, in creative ways.

An expansion of consciousness, supported and catalysed in playful ways and by different medicines such as music, art, dance, dreamscapes, the plant medicines of cacao, Psilocybin-containing mushrooms, organic food delicacies, sweat lodge sauna and other various outdoor rituals in pristine nature. These are all practices complementing each other to support developing a conscious cyclical way of living with all, including the levels of body, mind, spirit, sexuality, culture, and nature.