The Art of Earth Offering Retreat

The Art of Earth Offering – Entering into Sacred Partnership with Pachamama and the Seen & Unseen Guardians of Ayni
Star River Sanctuary – in collaboration with The Heart of the Healer

This in‑depth apprenticeship expresses Love as action, responsibility, and service. Rooted in the teachings of don Oscar Miro‑Quesada and the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, this training develops skill, discernment, and intelligence in the ceremonial application of ayni through the sacred art of despacho making. 

Ayni is the living principle of sacred reciprocity — the balanced flow of giving and receiving that restores harmony within ourselves, our communities, and our relationship with Pachamama, and is essential for healing lives and regenerating the world.

Building on your foundational relationship with the five directions of the PMT lineage, this apprenticeship is an opportunity to mature as a ceremonialist — expanding your capacity to serve Self, Community, and Earth through conscious, heart‑centered ritual practice. Here, spiritual power is refined not through will or force, but through humility, devotion, and right relationship with Pachamama and her seen and unseen guardians.

Commitment — showing up with discipline and reverence to learn the ritual arts of offering and care.
Connection — cultivating living relationship with Pachamama, lineage, and the Guardians of Ayni.
Communion — practicing Love as sacred reciprocity, where ceremony becomes a shared field of belonging and healing.

During this apprenticeship you will:

• Develop a deep personal relationship with the five unseen Guardians of Ayni: Tirakuna, Awkikuna, Malkikuna, Machula Awlanchis, and Apukuna
• Gain a comprehensive understanding of despacho ingredients, their symbolism, and their specific ceremonial uses
• Learn to create despachos for personal, communal, and planetary healing
• Experience and practice the three primary ways of offering despachos: burying, burning, and offering to water
• Receive a minimum of 36 hours of in‑person training in ceremonial ritual arts
• Create and maintain your own despacho kit for ongoing practice

Participants will receive a never‑before‑offered Despacho Handbook, including ceremonial components, intention‑specific healing ceremonies, and an extensive guide to ingredients and symbolism, alongside the Course Essentials text.

This apprenticeship is for those who feel called to serve as empowered ceremonialists — honoring tradition while bringing these sacred arts into contemporary contexts with integrity, humility, and love.

No prerequisites are required for this apprenticeship. You are welcome whether this is your first formal ceremonial training or a deepening of work you are already living.

The first four days of this apprenticeship will be held in deep communion with the spiritual forces and guardians of the land, allowing relationships with Pachamama and the Guardians of Ayni to be formed through direct experience, prayer, and practice. 

If you feel called but are unsure whether this apprenticeship is the right fit, our team would be happy to have a conversation with you to explore readiness, intentions, and alignment with care and discernment.

What is included in this retreat​:

• Heart centered guides and a community of support
• Radical healing through earth-honoring ceremonial work
• ​Heart medicine teachings for these transformational times
• Guided shamanic journey work & Mystery School activations
• Transformational breathwork and healing  energy practices
• Nourishing vegetarian meals
• Beautiful Shared Lodging 
• Highly Skilled, Experienced Facilitators
• A Powerfully Held Container for Deep Transformation

Across all Visionary Hearts events, our members are invited into a carefully held ceremonial field devoted to embodied healing, relational truth, and spiritual maturity. While each gathering has its own unique focus, rhythm, and medicine, all are held within the same devotional container of care, discernment, and integration. 

Within this field, you can expect to be supported through:

• Earth-honoring ceremony rooted in living lineage traditions
  Grounding your healing in time-tested wisdom that restores a beautiful relationship with the Earth, the ancestors, and the unseen forces that support life.
• Heart-centered practices that bring Love into the body, relationships, and daily life
  Training the capacity to live from the Heart — not only in moments of insight, but in the ongoing realities of work, family, and service.
• Guided shamanic journeywork and inner listening
  Supporting direct access to the soul’s intelligence and the deeper wisdom held within your psyche, body, and ancestral memory.
• Sacred Council and heart-centered community dialogue
  Creating a respectful relational field where truth can be spoken, witnessed, and integrated without judgment, fixing, or performance.
• Restorative movement, breathwork, and somatic practices
  Helping insights land in the nervous system and body, so transformation becomes regulated, sustainable, and embodied.
• Time for rest, reflection, and renewal in beautiful natural settings
  Allowing the pace of Nature to support integration, clarity, and the restoration of inner coherence.
• Ongoing integration support, including monthly community integration circles
  Ensuring that what is awakened in ceremony is carried into daily life through reflection, practice, and relational support over time.

Sacred Reciprocity

$1,555 Shared Twin Shared Lodging (14 spaces) 

$1,333 Camping (4 spaces)

Please note for this event we are able to offer a 3 or 6 month payment plan

Apprenticeship Schedule

Thursday 

9-10am Arrival 

10-12:30pm Opening Circle

12:30-2pm Lunch

2-6:30pm Opening teachings of the Guardians and Guides & Journey to Sacred Springs of Crystal Mountain

6:30pm Dinner

Friday

8-9am Breakfast

9:30-6:30pm Journey to Apu Kokanee to meet the Guardians of Ayni and visit the old growth forest

Saturday

9-10am Arrival 

10-12:30pm Opening Circle

12:30-2pm Lunch

2-6:30pm Opening teachings of the Guardians and Guides & Journey to Sacred Springs of Crystal Mountain

6:30pm Dinner

Sunday

8-9am Breakfast

9-12:30pm Closing Circle

12:30pm Departure

This retreat will be held at Star River Sanctuary near Nelson, BC. Please visit our website to learn more: https://www.starriversanctuary.com/

​All Visionary Hearts retreats and offerings are held within our Private Member Association; membership is included and completed as part of the registration process.