WISDOM TRANSMISSION & INITIATION
“Walking the Wheel of Women’s Wisdom”
June 16–22, 2025 / Wrocław, Poland
Guardians of Life Transitions and the Seven Soul Gates

WELCOME TO OUR WARM SPACE OF THE SWADDLIND CEREMONY TEACHING
"LA CERADA"

This is a seven-day deep immersion into the art and philosophy of Sacred Swaddling – an ancient initiation ceremony that reconnects us with the body, soul, natural cycles, and ancestral memory.

Sacred Swaddling is transformation, rebirth, the closing of one door and the opening of another.

The training combines knowledge from the traditions of Mexico, Indigenous peoples of the Americas, and other ancient lineages.

You will learn how to accompany and close life cycles, including menarche, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum crisis, menopause, coming of age, loss, and inner transformations.

We will dive into the healing traditions of Mexico and Guatemala, which are closely tied to the sacred cacao plant, lovingly called Mother Cacao. You will learn to listen to cacao, heal heartache, emotional states, and relationships through this sacred plant – and lead cacao ceremonies. You will also learn how to brew cacao using Mayan recipes for healing and other intentions.

At the end, you will take part in the Initiation Ceremony into the Sacred Spark, receiving the Copalero Initiation – becoming a keeper of the Sacred Fire and Copal Resin, a healer through smoke, cleansing, and vision.

DAY ONE: OPENING THE CIRCLE

• Fundamentals and understanding of Swaddling

• Opening Ceremony of the Retreat. Space attunement. Ceremony with Sacred Mother Cacao

• Introduction to the Medicine Wheel tradition of our ancestors

• History and origins of Swaddling in various traditions

• Intentions for Swaddling

• Women’s cycles and archetypes. Life transitions in a woman's journey

• Understanding the ceremony: structure, stages, seven soul locks

• The knot: tuning, centering, grounding

• Postpartum Swaddling

DAY TWO: TRAUMA. LOSS. RETURN

• Understanding trauma and loss

• Working with grief and death: prenatal losses, bereavement

• Postpartum depression and recovery

• Narrative therapy and ancestral storywork

• Donor syndrome, victim blaming, gaslighting

• Working with the body: boundaries, containment, grounding, breathing

• Completing stress cycles, respectful touch, heartful connection

• Training in healing and the Cacao Ceremony

DAY THREE: SWADDLING PRACTICE AND WORKING WITH BODILY & SPIRITUAL REQUESTS

• Preparing for Swaddling: working with intentions

• Symbolic work with objects, herbal bundles, metaphorical cards

• Working with rebozo: abdomen, back, legs, navel, pericardium, cesarean scar

• Practice: massage, alignment, somatic release

• Rebozo techniques

• Music and singing in Swaddling. Metaphorical cards

• Swaddling variations: in a steam bath, with Thai herbal compresses, in a tub or barrel

• Preparing healing drinks, oils, herbs

• Practice: hand washing ritual – symbol of cleansing and respect

• Practice: full Swaddling ritual

DAY FOUR: ANCESTRAL POWER AND HEALER’S RECOVERY

• Ancestral map: working with lineage, blessings

• The wrapped and unwrapped woman

• Understanding sexuality in Swaddling

• Working with boundaries and intense emotions

• Closing the Swaddling

• Healer’s recovery: self-care

• Preparation for Initiation

• Gratitude Ceremony

DAY FIVE: DEEP PRACTICE OF EMBODIED EXPERIENCE

• Swaddling men

• Principles of tissue memory and somato-emotional release

• Training in emotional release techniques and guidance

• Paired practice

• What is male Swaddling, its history, and differences from female processes

• Swaddling men. Requests for Swaddling

• Men’s cycles and archetypes. Prenatal and early childhood trauma. Initiations at ages 7 and 14. Life transitions in men. Social matrices and expectations.

DAY SIX: MALE SWADDLING

• What we close in male Swaddling

• Identifications, childhood traumas, imposed programs

• Male Swaddling practice, specificities

• Closing male Swaddling

• Complex emotions, emotional releases in men, support

• Men’s cycles and archetypes

• Prenatal and early childhood trauma

• Initiations at 7 and 14 years. Life transitions. Social expectations

DAY SEVEN: TRAINING IN THE ART OF HEALING AND CLEANSING WITH THE STEAM BATH
CLOSING CEREMONY OF THE SACRED SPACE

We finish, as is tradition, with steam.

Slavic and Indigenous sweat lodge traditions are not just about steam – they are about bringing the body back to life.

Here, remnants of the old are washed away, fears are released, and intentions begin to grow.

We will explore the Slavic tradition of the bath, steaming, and cleansing of soul and body.

Learn about the Four Sacred Herbs of the Indigenous sweat lodge, Helper Herbs, how to open this space, the Four Doors of the lodge, and how the ceremony unfolds.

We will learn the Song of the North, Mother Bear’s song in the Ojibwa language.

NIGHT OF JUNE 21: INITIATION CEREMONY INTO THE SACRED SPARK

• Summer Solstice Ceremony

• Creation of a Despacho – a mandala of gratitude

• Initiation into the Copalero tradition

• Practice of cleansing with smoke, working with copal

• Vision and identifying blocks through smoke

• Ceremony with drums

• Receiving the Blessing from the Keepers of the Sacred Fire

  Sacred Ceremony of Mother Cacao
  Opening the Heart and Returning to Yourself

  Since ancient times, cacao has been revered as a sacred plant - a gift from Mother Earth, Pachamama, carrying the spirit of love, gentleness, and awakening.

  In many Mesoamerican cultures, it was known as the "food of the gods" and used in rites of passage, prayers, healing rituals, and celebrations.

  The Cacao Ceremony opens our retreat as a threshold- a gentle and profound entrance into the space of the women’s circle, a reconnection with ourselves, the Earth, and one another.

  In this circle, we will slow down, leave behind all that no longer serves us, and listen to the whisper of our hearts.

  We will drink warm, rich cacao, lovingly prepared and infused with our whispered intentions.

  This is more than just a warming drink-it is a soul-opening experience.

  Cacao gently opens the energetic heart, helps release fear, soothes inner tension, and fosters a deeper connection to our inner wisdom.

  The ceremony includes cacao preparation, breathwork, sacred songs, heartfelt sharing, movement, and moments of silence.

  All of it unfolds in rhythm with nature, surrounded by the scent of herbs, sacred fire, and the presence of the sacred.

  We will meet ourselves - real, feeling, alive.
  We will remember what it means to sit in a sacred circle of sisters.
  We will plant an intention that will grow throughout the retreat, like a seed nourished by love.

  The Cacao Ceremony is not just a beginning.
  It is a blessing.
  It is a homecoming.