AUSTIN COMMUNITY RETREAT

2 Nights of Prayers with Grandmother, incredible music and beautiful humans.

JULY 26th - 28th // AUSTIN, TX

THE PROGRAM

Friday July 26th

3 - 6pm - Check-in at Sacred Gaia Retreats

8pm - Gather for prayer

9pm - Ceremony open

Saturday July 27th

Sunrise - Grounding Soup & Tea

11am - Breakfast & Share Circle

3pm - Lunch

4pm - 8pm - Freetime

9pm - Ceremony open

Sunday July 28th

Sunrise - Grounding Soup & Tea

11am - Breakfast & Share Circle

12pm - Depart

THE FACILITATORS

Justin Dzuban || Grandmother Facilitator

Justin Dzuban is a musician and facilitator of shamanic healing circles. Utilizing the elements, spiritual hymns, meditation and sound journeying, the container is held to guide participants through processes with a direct and stable rhythm, with the mission of helping people shift perspective on their lives, shedding that which no longer serves, and ignite an inner inspiration for one’s path to self love and divinity. One of the transmissions emphasized in Justin’s circles is alignment with morality—a value encompassing humility, balance and respect for the universal law that underwrites all of the world’s faiths. He has been a member of the International Alliance of Universal Shamanism, founded by Leo Artese, since 2018 and holds over 10 years of experience with the medicine.

“Song and intention have the power to reshape our life stories, shifting the value we place on old narratives so that they fall from us with grace until our field is alleviated of density. The result is gratitude, inspiration and spiritual vitality.”

Jordan Mockingbird || Tabaquero

Jordan is a devoted practitioner of the shamanic healing arts and a teacher dedicated to the medicine path. His initiations into the arcane first came through nearly a decade of gnostic studies in Asia. After confronting severe illness, Jordan shed a career as a producer to walk the road of personal transformation, finding his medicine in shamanic study of plants. trees, breath and fasting. The “plant dieting” practices of the Amazon have radically transformed Jordan’s life, vision and sense of purpose. Mockingbird is the name and blessing given by his Apache mentor to begin teaching through ceremony.

“We train to become the best we can be as human beings. It isn’t about ego, but it is about pride. There’s a certain type of fire that can be felt in the eyes of a person who has met their demons face-to-face, transcending fear through love.”

THE LOCATION & LODGINGS

Sacred Gaia Retreats is a quaint nature reserve in Del Valle, about 15 minutes East of Austin, nestled on private, Colorado river frontage.

Five shared glamping tents with pairs of twin beds are available, as well as flat areas for dispersed, self-camping. The property is nestled within mixed, native tree canopy and has showers with hot water, flushing toilets and swimming holes.

THE NOURISHMENT

Dr. Erin Hilgendorf || Conscious Chef

Erin Hilgendorf is a creative and healing arts mentor who believes in our power to heal. She believes we all innately desire to feel our best and health is the cohabitation between the physical nature of one's experience, how the mind perceives it, and what we choose to integrate. It is her personal and professional goal to learn the stories we live by, support the possibility to re-write them, and share what drives vitality.

She has over a decade of education in the fields of clinical herbalism, holistic nutrition, integrative and natural medicine, polarity energetics, sustainable living, and movement arts including yoga and dance. She is a self-taught chef and sees cooking as one of her creative art expressions. She is passionate about integrating these modalities into sustainable and practical lifestyle rituals that create a simple way of being in harmony with ourselves and the natural world.