Ancestral Healing Ceremony Retreat
with Lucia (Maya Healer) , Shaela Noella, and Ahva Lenay
Dates : February 2nd - February 9th
Location: Yaabil Retreat Center San Marcos del Laguna Guatemala
The Experience
Personalized Healing: Each participant will receive a personal ceremony from Lucia, where the focus is on individual needs and ancestral healing.
Supportive Environment: While one person is in their ceremony, others are encouraged to support or attend to their personal needs firstly, and when called offer love, care and presence to the person receiving their ceremony, fostering a flexible and caring community.
Integration of Nature: The location is lovely at the Yaabil retreat Center right on the edge of Lago Atitlan. The Ceremonies incorporate elements of nature: fire, rocks, plants, flowers and natural landscape: a grounding the healing process in the earth's natural energies.
What to Expect:
Non-linear Approach: The majority of the programming is non-linear, allowing for a more organic and intuitive healing process.
1:1 Ceremonies with Lucia: Lucia works without tracking time, being fully present to what arises and what needs to be healed. Her ceremonies are comfortable and casual, integrating natural elements fire and rocks.
Group Ceremonies: Led by Shaela Noella, these will provide communal support and shared experiences.
Meal Times: To build community we will work together on nourishing eachother and each contributing our working hands to about 3 meals over the week. Meal times will also be scheduled to ensure everyone is nourished and has time to connect over shared meals.
At the Beautiful Yaabil Retreat Center:
We are so fortunate to be gathering at Yaabil Retreat Center: it is right on the lake and includes a temazcal, yoga deck, plenty of outdoor and indoor space.
About Lucia Culum
Background: Raised in a Maya village, Lucia learned healing and ceremonial practices from her grandfather. She also tended to her family’s crops and weaving, integrating these skills into her holistic approach.
Gifts and Abilities: Lucia has demonstrated supernatural abilities that she humbly describes as “muy normal.” Her first language is a Maya dialect, and she learned Spanish seven years ago.
Humility and Presence: Despite her profound gifts, Lucia remains humble and fully present, providing a nurturing and powerful healing experience.
Ancestral Healing Ceremony: The ceremonies that Lucia offers utilize fire, stones, plants, water, and the help of the spirit world, creating a profound and holistic healing experience.
About Shaela Noella
Ancestral Lineage: Shaela's ancestry includes Native American (Pueblo & Apache), Spanish, German, Scottish, and Irish heritage. She believes her life is a walking prayer of healing the energies of both the repressed and repressors in her ancestral line.
Intent and Prayer: Shaela’s regular prayer or intent is to work in the highest good for all beings everywhere. She brings this deep commitment to the retreat, ensuring a space of integrity and love.
Gifts and Abilities: Shaela Noella carries the magic of laughter, song, nature flower essences, and the ability to communicate with the spirit world. Many of these gifts awakened in her on the Big Island of Hawaii and through her travels and tours across the Western States and Latin America.
Learning and Wisdom: Shaela has worked with Shamans, Teachers, Mentors, Compassionate Benevolent Helping Spirits, and Nature Spirits. She continues to seek and share wisdom to grow spiritually and live life fully.
About Ahva Lenay
Ahva Lenay's passion is devotion to the Service of Spirit (SOS) as a Reverend and Ceremonialist! She is compassionately skilled at empowering others to uncover their soul path and the unique gifts they are meant to share with their community and the world.
With extensive training in Shamanic Soul Retrieval, psychology, and the development of the somatic body and soul channels, sovereign and collective, through the chakra system, Ahva brings a rich tapestry of knowledge and experience to her offerings.
Her knowledge and practice includes treatment of the physical body as an LMT, accessing bioenergetic field awareness CBEP, natural medicine, and the creation of sacred circles through ritual .
Ahva is known and loved for verve for life, love of humanity and nature, humility as well as her ability to cultivate sacred zones at festivals where she hosts elders and way-showers who teach and share their wisdom while creating and tending to the holy fire and water altars .
In her private practice, she focuses on compassionate communication, conflict resolution, and restorative unitive justice, helping individuals and communities heal and reconnect.
Her teachings have reached a wide audience through her co-facilitation of reconnective modalities at esteemed institutions such as Kripalu and the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
Ahva continues to build and nurture community through her weekly ecstatic dance rituals in Denver, Colorado, known as Rhythm Sanctuary, where she fosters a space for deep connection and soulful expression in a nonverbal space,.
Join Ahva in Guatemala for a retreat that promises a beautiful, organic unfolding of healing events, where you will be guided to discover and embrace your soul's unique journey.
Yaabil Retreat Center
A true delight and Lago Atitlan paradise, in the bay next to the nature reserve in San Marcos de Laguna.
This retreat offers a rare opportunity to engage in deep ancestral healing with the guidance of a gifted Maya healer and the supportive structure provided by Shaela Noella. The non-linear nature of the ceremonies allows for a personalized and profound healing experience, set against the beautiful backdrop of San Marcos de Laguna, Guatemala.
Join us for a week of transformation, connection, and renewal.
