Attune · Immerse · Anchor
San Pedro (Huachuma)
The Illuminator. A master teacher of truth, held in the light of day.
April 9–16, 2027 · Ten guests maximum · Playa Grande, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
San Pedro (Huachuma), the Illuminator.
San Pedro (Huachuma) is a sacred cactus of the Andes, a plant that grows upright toward the sun and is fueled by light. The medicine is often described as a gentle heart opener. Both can be true, and neither is the whole story. San Pedro is a master teacher of truth, illuminating what is out of balance or out of alignment with truth, love, and integrity, so you can see clearly and feel who you are at your core.
The medicine meets you at your pace, your capacity, and your intention. Some moments are gentle and some are stern, and both serve the work. Ceremony runs about eight hours, and the effects of the medicine can last twelve hours or more.
Held from morning to evening.
Each held from 8:30am on a day of fasting, outdoors with the land, and each followed by a full day of integration.
Ceremony One
The first opening. Building trust with the medicine and letting the body settle into the land.
Ceremony Two
A deeper day with the medicine, with the safety of the first ceremony already in your body.
Ceremony Three
The closing ceremony, gathering what has been illuminated and carrying it toward home.
Around the ceremonies: fruit offerings, breathwork, gentle yoga, art therapy, time for rest, healing or one-to-one support, beach sunsets, a private chef, and your own ocean-view suite.
“I feel more alive, joyful, grateful and full of love than I have in my entire life.”
Kim · San Pedro Retreat GuestYou can see where you want to go. The way there is less clear.
Your mind is busy. You overthink, overdo, and overprocess, and something still stays stuck. You may have talked it through for years, and something is still missing. San Pedro (Huachuma) calls people who are ready to quiet the noise, see what is true, and take action.
You may recognize yourself here
- Your mind rarely rests, and thinking it through no longer moves you forward.
- You know what you want, and you cannot yet see the path to it.
- Grief, sadness, anger, guilt, or resentment are waiting to be felt.
- Your days leave little room for rest, play, or presence.
- You are ready to reclaim your boundaries, speak your truth, and hold yourself accountable.
What the medicine teaches
- Truth: feeling it, seeing it, and knowing when something is true
- Ownership of your choices, words, thoughts, and actions
- Healthy boundaries, spoken clearly and with compassion
- Forgiveness of yourself and others
- Where you give your power away, and how to call it back
What the medicine asks
Reciprocity. The medicine gives as much as you give. Presence, honesty, and responsibility: to root down, own what you see, and let yourself feel it.
Not certain this is your medicine? Your alignment call is where we decide together.
Attune. Immerse. Anchor. Every part has a purpose.
Preparation readies the nervous system and sharpens the intention. The retreat opens the door. Integration builds what you saw into how you decide, speak, and live. Your guardians and your cohort hold you through all of it.
Preparation
- 45-minute intake call
- 2 personal guardian calls
- 4 weekly cohort sessions
- Microdose ally
The retreat
- 8 days, 7 nights in Playa Grande
- 3 daytime San Pedro ceremonies
- All-inclusive
Integration
- 3 individual tracking calls
- 6 cohort sessions
- Microdose ally
Cohort sessions
Live online with your guardians and your cohort. Weekly in Attune, twice a month in Anchor. Session times are confirmed at enrollment.
Personal calls
One-to-one video calls with your guardian, booked at times that suit you. An intake call and two personal calls in Attune, three tracking calls in Anchor.
Microdose ally
Psilocybin, following the Fadiman protocol: one day on, two days off. Stops five to seven days before the retreat, as your guardian directs, and resumes no earlier than two weeks after.
Between sessions
Pod pair-ups, a WhatsApp community, daily routines and goals, and integration and resource materials to work with at your own pace.
"This amount of people allowed actual community to be built between all of us. Nothing is missing. Everything is within."
Preparation. Setting the compass.
Attune builds the foundation. We focus on nervous system readiness, presence in daily life, and honing the intention for the work ahead. Safety is built individually and as a community, through one-to-one and group connection, with the support of your microdose ally.
Directing the Compass
✦ Microdosing begins
Compassion, Forgiveness & the Science of Change
The Body-Mind Connection (Somatics)
Anchoring Journey Intentions
✦ Microdose pauses before the retreat
Included in Attune
- Intake call and 2 personal guardian calls
- 4 weekly cohort sessions, live online
- Psilocybin microdose ally
- Daily routines and personal goals
The outcome
A compass set. You arrive in Costa Rica regulated, connected to your circle, and clear on the direction you are headed.
Eight days, held in rhythm.
Three ceremonies, each followed by a full day of integration. A steady rhythm of opening, resting, and weaving the experience back into the body.
Arrival
2:30pm · Pick-up, Liberia Airport
4:30pm · Welcome refreshments
5:00pm · Group welcome
6:00pm · Dinner
Ceremony One
Day of fasting
8:30am · Ceremony One
1:00pm · Fruit offering
5:30pm · Ceremony close
6:30pm · Dinner
Integration & Breath
10:00am · Group integration
1:30pm · Rest, healing or 1:1
3:30pm · Breathwork
5:00pm · Gentle yoga
6:00pm · Dinner
Ceremony Two
Day of fasting
8:30am · Ceremony Two
1:00pm · Fruit offering
5:30pm · Ceremony close
6:30pm · Dinner
Integration
10:00am · Group integration
1:30pm · Rest, healing or 1:1
3:00pm · Art therapy
4:45pm · Beach sunset
6:00pm · Dinner
Ceremony Three
Day of fasting
8:30am · Ceremony Three
1:00pm · Fruit offering
5:30pm · Ceremony close
6:30pm · Dinner
Celebration
7:30am · Morning beach
10:00am · Group integration
2:00pm · Breathwork
4:45pm · Beach sunset
6:00pm · Dinner celebration
Departure
8:30am · Breakfast
9:30am · Closing circle
11:00am · Departure
Schedule is a guide and may shift with the needs of the group.
Integration. Living what you saw.
Anchor is the emergence of the new self, and empowerment for the way forward. We take what the medicine showed you and build it into how you decide, speak, and live, with the microdose ally offering structure and clarity. Community deepens as medicine through group sessions, pod pair-ups, and three individual tracking calls that help each guest walk the path of empowerment and build their own resource toolkit.
Begins two weeks after the retreat · twice a month, live online
The Integration Pathway
✦ Microdosing resumes for two months
Listening & Pattern Re-Programming
Moving Through Contractions, Authentic Power & Acceptance as Freedom
Personal Integrity & Discernment
Truth, Purpose & Aligning Actions
Celebration
Included in Anchor
- 3 individual tracking calls
- 6 cohort sessions, live online
- Two months with the microdose ally
- Pod pair-ups and WhatsApp community
Tools you will build
- Daily micro habits
- Healthy, compassionate communication
- Good boundaries for healthy relationships
- Your own personal resource toolkit
The outcome: aligned action with real results. You name what needs to change to live in joy, clarity, and abundance, and you begin to change it.
Your guardians, from first call to last.
Dana and Jason hold you from your first call to your last. They know your story, your intentions, and your nervous system. At the retreat, Chase holds the ceremonies and Hanne leads breathwork.
Dana Mistretta
Dana brings twenty-seven years in wellness and transformational facilitation, eight of them devoted to sacred plant medicine. In 2018 she moved to Peru to apprentice with Huachuma alongside other plant teachers.
Co-founder of the Sanctuary of Consciousness, she walks the Beauty Way guided by her Indigenous teachers, with vulnerability, embodiment, and warm presence.
Jason Ocaña
A retired firefighter paramedic, Jason spent years on the front line learning how trauma lives in the body and what steadiness makes possible.
He co-founded Ananda Lodge with Kimberly and brings calm strength to ceremony, with deep experience in group medicine work and one-to-one microdose protocols.
Chase Moore
A Tennessee native trained by master teacher Bernhard Karshagen, Chase has worked exclusively with San Pedro for over a decade and completed extensive traditional diets.
He carries the Huachuma lineage and holds the ceremonies with kindness, humility, and a steady, attuned presence.
Hanne
A certified breathwork facilitator and professional dancer, Hanne guides breath, meditation, and somatic movement as a fully embodied path to healing.
She leads the breathwork of the retreat, helping guests move what the mind alone cannot.
Limited spaces, held with intention.
What is included
- All-inclusive stay
- Intake call
- Preparation and integration guidebooks
- Roundtrip group shuttle from Liberia Airport
- Art therapy
- Two breathwork sessions
- Onsite group and individual integration
Not included
- Plant medicine fee, paid onsite · $150
- Microdose medicine from our partner · about $100 plus shipping
- Private transport outside shuttle times · as needed
- Onsite add-on services · optional
The full sixteen weeks: intake, Attune, the all-inclusive eight-day retreat, and Anchor. Ten guests maximum, with two places held for partial scholarships of up to 30% off.
Attune begins March 9 · Retreat April 9–16
Five steps to find out
Apply
Share your story, goals, and intentions.
Schedule an alignment call
Explore fit and which medicine calls you.
Reserve your spot
After your call, accepted applicants receive an email invitation to reserve their place with a 50% deposit.
Complete intake
Confidential medical and safety screening.
Begin your journey
Preparation opens with your guardians.
Part of The Empowered Path, our sixteen-week program across three medicines.
The Empowered Path · San Pedro
Attune · Immerse · Anchor · Playa Grande, Costa Rica
- April 9–16, 2027 · Ten guests maximum · Registration closes March 26, 2027
- $6,111 · two places held for partial scholarships
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Or reach us at info@anandalodgecr.com · WhatsApp +506 6211 3733 · US +1 239 398 8847
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