Soil & Soul
AWAKEN ANANDA · OAXACA, MEXICO
October 16 — 24 · 2026
There is a knowing that lives below words — in the body, in the land, in the hands of those who have never stopped tending the old ways. Soil & Soul is a pilgrimage into that knowing.
Now is the time to discover yourself at the world's most powerful sacred sites
We journey to the world's most sacred places — not as tourists, but as seekers. To remember what ancient lands and living traditions have always known about healing, belonging, and coming home to yourself.
These are not vacations. They are pilgrimages — designed as pathways of remembrance.
We travel to some of the earth's most powerful spiritual destinations, weaving together ancient wisdom, ceremony, cultural immersion, and deep personal reflection. Each journey is held with intention and care, creating space for profound transformation, soul-level connection, and memories that don't just stay with you — they become part of who you are.
AN INVITION
Eight days woven from ancestral medicine, ceremony, and somatic healing — held in the living memory of Oaxacan earth. Where the lineage of India, the body, and Reiki meets the ancient wisdom of the Zapotec and Mayan peoples.
You will be cleansed, fed, sung to, and called back to yourself.
The soil here remembers. And so will you.
WHY OAXACA
There are places in the world that invite us to slow down, listen more deeply, and remember what truly matters. Oaxaca is one of those places.
Home to sixteen Indigenous cultures and languages, Oaxaca remains one of the most culturally rich and spiritually vibrant regions in Mexico. Here, ancient traditions are not preserved in museums — they are lived every day through ceremony, food, healing practices, art, music, weaving, agriculture, and community.
For generations, Indigenous healers, wisdom keepers, and artisans have carried forward teachings rooted in relationship: with the Earth, the ancestors, the elements, and one another.
A land that teaches
A slower rhythm.
A rhythm that reminds us that we belong to the Earth — not separate from it.
THE JOURNEY
8 days. 8 pilgrims.
One living container.
Arrival
Set down your bags. Let Oaxaca find you.
Welcome dinner
A casual first meal together at a local Oaxacan restaurant. No agenda — only the first breath of arrival and the quiet joy of recognizing kindred spirits gathered for the same deep reason.
Roots
We begin by calling things in — ancestors, intentions, the body's readiness to remember.
Altar creation & intention planting
We open the immersion by building a shared altar and naming what each of us has come here for. Bring a small photograph of a loved ancestor — they are welcome at this altar too.
A grounding introduction to indigenous medicine — how it meets us through the senses, the elements, and our belonging to a far larger community of life than we tend to remember.
Limpias & egg diagnosis with Doña Lupe
Individual energy cleansings and readings with Doña Lupe, a Zapotec curandera whose lineage runs deep into this soil. Others wander the streets of Oaxaca Centro while they wait — there is no wrong way to spend this time.
Fire corn ceremony with Tata Alejandro de Santiago
Led by Tata Alejandro de Santiago — a Mayan teacher, traditional medicine medic (the official designation in Mexico), and aj'qij, a Mayan Daykeeper and priest whose role is to tend the sacred calendar and carry the fire of ancestral wisdom. The fire corn ceremony is an ancient act of offering and renewal — a first conversation with the land, an opening prayer for what Soil & Soul is here to tend. In Tata Alejandro's hands, it is carried with the full weight of living lineage.
Daily meals at local Oaxacan restaurants, chosen for their connection to the land, the culture, and the living food traditions of this region.
Senses
The body is the first teacher. We slow down enough to listen.
Somatic work with Priya Lakhi
Priya Lakhi — Reiki master, somatic practitioner, and your guide for this immersion — brings the lineage of India, the wisdom of the body, and the living current of Reiki into the land of Mexico. These sessions are a meeting place: ancient Eastern healing traditions in conversation with the earth beneath your feet.
Indigenous sound healing
A ceremony of pure sound — led by a local sound healer carrying the living musical traditions of indigenous Oaxacan roots. Traditional instruments whose resonance has been used for centuries to open the body, settle the nervous system, and call the soul back into presence. This is not background music. It is medicine in another form — ancient, precise, and deeply felt.
Medicinal mole cooking experience
Food as ceremony, nourishment as lineage. In the village of Santiago Ixtaltepec, we cook with local women using plants that have been medicine and sustenance in this soil for centuries.
Private sunset tour of Monte Albán
The former Zapotec capital, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, at the hour when its stones glow most alive. The scale of what our ancestors built — and knew — will stay with you long after you leave.
Daily meals at local Oaxacan restaurants, chosen for their connection to the land, the culture, and the living food traditions of this region.
Threads
Every thread holds memory. Every dye is a conversation with the earth.
Somatic work with Priya Lakhi
We continue listening to what the body is processing and integrating — moving at the pace of real change, not performance. Reiki and somatic practice held gently in the space between experiences.
Teotitlán del Valle
A visit to one of the Central Valley's most respected weaving families. Natural dyes from cochineal, indigo, and marigold. Traditional pedal looms still moving as they have for hundreds of years. Ancestral craft as living prayer.
Time with Doña Valentina, one of the oldest living beeswax candlemakers in the region — a keeper of knowledge that exists in her hands and nowhere else.
Mezcal palenque visit
Step into the smokehouse where Oaxaca's most sacred spirit is born. A slow, sensory education in terroir, patience, and the quiet intelligence of plants.
Daily meals at local Oaxacan restaurants, chosen for their connection to the land, the culture, and the living food traditions of this region.
Soul
What has been lost can be found. What has been fragmented can be gathered back.
Somatic work with Priya Lakhi
Deeper integration through the body — Reiki, somatic practice, and the held presence of a guide who has walked her own path of return. Care without rushing. Depth without force.
Soul retrieval with Doña Queta
One of the most respected Zapotec healers alive, Doña Queta guides us into the living tradition of indigenous medicine and soul retrieval — the ancient understanding that our wholeness is never truly lost, only waiting to be called home.
Temazcal with Doña Norma
A traditional sweat lodge ceremony held by Doña Norma, a master temazcalera. Heat, steam, prayer, and dark — the womb of the earth holds you as you release what no longer belongs to you. You emerge different.
Daily meals at local Oaxacan restaurants, chosen for their connection to the land, the culture, and the living food traditions of this region.
Descent
Every soul passes through here. Today, you walk it consciously.
Toltec Walk toward the Mitla caves
A walking meditation through the valley, settling the body into the ground beneath it before we go under.
Mitla cave paintings
10,000 years old and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, these caves are held in Zapotec cosmology as the literal threshold of the underworld — the passage every soul on Earth travels through. We enter guided by a Zapotec elder, in reverence and full presence. The soil here is not just beneath your feet. It is ancestral.
Mitla archaeological site
The principal Zapotec sacred and funerary center, still whispering of what was understood here about death, continuity, and the geometry of a life well lived.
An unhurried evening at the home of a local antique collector — mezcal, dinner, and easy conversation on a rooftop terrace as the mountains hold the last of the light.
Daily meals at local Oaxacan restaurants, chosen for their connection to the land, the culture, and the living food traditions of this region.
Restore
After descent comes tending. The body asks to be held, not pushed.
Rose wraps, sobadas & massage with Doña Norma
Traditional healing arts passed through hands and generations in this land — rose petals, skilled bodywork, the language of touch as medicine. A full morning of being deeply cared for.
Free afternoon. Space to wander, journal, rest — or simply be in this city without needing to arrive anywhere.
Cacao and chocolate tasting
A sensory celebration of Oaxaca's ancient cacao lineage. Pleasure as its own form of prayer.
Daily meals at local Oaxacan restaurants, chosen for their connection to the land, the culture, and the living food traditions of this region.
Integration
You weave what you've lived. You carry it home in your hands.
Weaving as cosmology
On a small traditional loom, you'll weave a personal tapestry holding the intentions, ceremonies, and revelations of this immersion. It goes home with you — a talisman made of soil and soul, threaded by your own hands.
Water & Flower closing ceremony
Flowers and water — two of the most ancient offerings — fill us with more life and seal what this journey has opened. We close the container of Soil & Soul with beauty, gratitude, and love.
Daily meals at local Oaxacan restaurants, chosen for their connection to the land, the culture, and the living food traditions of this region.
Return
The altar closes. The immersion continues in you.
Closing altar & gratitude circle
We gather one final time to close what we opened together — releasing the altar, offering gratitude to the land, the healers, and each other, and sending every pilgrim forward. You will not leave the same person who arrived.
Daily meals at local Oaxacan restaurants, chosen for their connection to the land, the culture, and the living food traditions of this region.
"The soil here is not just beneath your feet. It is ancestral."
YOUR GUIDEPriya Lakhi
Reiki Master · Somatic Practitioner · Trauma-Informed Coach
Priya spent eighteen years as a lawyer and professor before answering a deeper call — one that led her into the world of healing, the body, and sacred transformation.
Her work lives at the intersection of East and West, ancient and embodied — weaving the lineage of India, the intelligence of the nervous system, and the living current of Reiki into every container she holds.
She does not teach from the outside. She walks with you — through the ceremonies, the silence, the soil, and the soul of every place she brings a group.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Everything you need to be fully present
Accommodation
All lodging for the duration of the immersion, carefully chosen to hold the energy of the journey.
All meals
Daily lunch and dinner at local Oaxacan restaurants — a living education in the food and culture of this land.
Ceremonies & healing
Every limpia, temazcal, fire ceremony, soul retrieval, somatic session, sound healing, and closing ritual.
Ground transport
All in-country travel between sites, villages, and sacred locations throughout the immersion.
Mayan Cross reading
Your personal Cholq'ij birth sign reading, received 1–2 weeks before arrival as your opening intention.
Weaving talisman
Your hand-woven tapestry from Day 7 — yours to keep as a living reminder of the journey.
Dates
Oct 16–24, 2026
8 days · Oaxaca, Mexico
Investment
$5,000 USD
Payment plans available
Capacity
8 People Only
Intentionally intimate
Spots Limited
This journey holds only 8 pilgrims. The container is kept small by design — so every ceremony lands fully, every healing session is held with care, and the group itself becomes part of the medicine. When it's full, it's full.
QUESTIONS
What people ask before saying yes
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A trip takes you somewhere. A pilgrimage takes you somewhere within yourself. The outer journey — the ceremonies, the healers, the sacred sites — is real and rich. But it is always in service of the inner one. On a pilgrimage, every experience is an invitation to go deeper: to listen, to release, to remember. You are not a tourist passing through Oaxaca. You are a pilgrim walking with it.
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No. What you need is a genuine willingness to be present and an openness to the unknown. The healers and wisdom keepers we work with meet each person exactly where they are. Many participants come with little or no background in ceremony — and find it to be among the most natural and profound experiences of their lives. Your body already knows how to receive this. Trust it.
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Yes — with one caveat. This immersion is deep. It is not a spa retreat or a sightseeing tour with some yoga woven in. It asks you to show up fully, to be moved, to sit with discomfort when it arises, and to trust the process even when you can't see where it's going. If you feel called to that — wherever you are in your journey — this is for you.
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Completely. Many participants travel to Oaxaca on their own and find that the group becomes an instant sacred community. Part of the medicine of Soil & Soul is exactly this — arriving as strangers and leaving as people who have witnessed something real together. You will not feel alone here.
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International flights, travel insurance, personal items, and anything outside the group itinerary. All daily meals are included. A full breakdown and preparation guide is sent to every registered participant. If you have specific questions about costs, reach out before registering — there are no surprises here.
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Yes. A deposit secures your spot, with the balance paid in installments leading up to the immersion. Reach out directly to discuss what works for you. The conversation is always human.
THE THRESHOLD
Walk with us
Soil & Soul holds both structure and spaciousness. Every element is chosen in service of your deepest return to yourself.
Oct 16–24, 2026 · Oaxaca, Mexico · $5,000 USD · 8 Spots Only