THE DREAM TIME JOURNEY & RETREAT

June 6th—11th Stibrawpa, Talamanca, Costa Rica

Journey by river with us for the Dream Time Retreat — with an invitation into our Living Library Experience.

Dream your living story, exploring your past, present and future earth-based ancestry through the practice of dreaming. Join us as we travel 1hour by long-boat up-river to stay at the incredible female-led indigenous community Stibrawpa in Talamanca, Costa Rica.

This is a 10 year retreat celebration of Soul Seed Gathering with Bri Bri cacao ceremony, ancestral song, waterfall visit, crafts, storytelling offerings and dream circles, and dreaming guidance.

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'I never expected to feel in only 3 days, such big shifts in my mind and body… 3 days learning from brave, kind, loving woman and men who work and live together in a beautiful example of community supported by their love for Sibu, the name they use for a God that lives in every tree and every expression of nature, the sun, the river the flowers, animals, all are brothers and sisters.I’m so grateful for this experience… and already dreaming of returning soon…’

— Andrea Rojas (Song the Hummingbird retreat to Stibrawpa)

Stibrawpa -Yorkin-Talamanca

Guided by a river we journey 1 hour by longboat to Stibrawpa in Yorkin deep in the Talamanca jungle. An indigenous Bri Bti female-led community founded on 3 principles:

  • Honor their roles as Earth Custodians.

  • Protect the Bri Bri Spirit, Language and Culture.

  • Work with a Good Economy.

80% of the food is grown on the land organically and the men sign a pledge to respect women when they join the Stibrawpa organization. In just 2 generations the health, wealth and indigenous spirit, language and matriarchal culture has been reclaimed and restored as an example for the world.

Morning dream circles, daily river swims, exploring your living story, while immersing in the community of Stibrawpa with daily cacao, organic food, storytelling, herbal garden walks, crafts and jungle hikes. Evening song and seeding dreams.

Step into the Living Library with us.

We all have a living story and experience of the world worth sharing. As the last living libraries in the form of elders and wisdom keepers are with us on Earth, we are here to revitalize this process of record keeping through dreaming, ceremony, songlines and oral tradition, alongside a modern archive. This is an invitation for us all to step in as custodians and guardians of memory in territories of wisdom.

We invite you into the role of researcher to explore:

  • your own deep time lineages to reclaim a stronger earth-based identity to guide us into our future together.

  • the oral history and mythology woven into the lands you were raised in, visit, or live in and how that shapes your knowing.

  • visiting another culture and territory, recording your personal experience and learning through all your senses.

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The Experience

  • Deepen your ways of immersing, learning and connecting with life through dreaming.

  • We are entering into the Stibrawpa community with daily organic food, river swims, and learning about their incredible story, crafts, archery, cacao and plants.

  • We will make a special journey to a sacred waterfall and pool deep in the jungle (crossing into Panama side) 1 hr hike.

  • We have a small team of living library custodians, artists and record keepers (videographers, photographers and writers) who are working to tell the Stibrawpa story & you get to take part — we will be taking this to an Exhibition tour starting in Costa Rica & London.

  • You support the Stibrawpa Knowledge Keeper Grants for several young community members to step into indigenous knowledge restoration and continued cultural exchange. As they work to strengthen their bridge to the Elders who hold the most sacred knowledge higher in the mountains.

“Journeying to Stibrawpa is like a journey into another time – or perhaps another timeline, one in which we kept the traditions of living in deep connection with the earth and all her people. The nature is alive there – the jungle speaks loudly, the river embraces sweetly, and the cacao is generous and wise. The heart of Soul Seed for me is about self-discovery as we remember another way of being, in touch with deep feminine wisdom that has been largely forgotten – and yet there is a part of us that still knows, and longs to come home again.
It is a nourishing, inspiring, harmonizing and enlightening journey.”

— Brina Stone (Journey to Stibrawpa participant)

“Dreams are important because they are moments when humans are stripped of nanderekó or rational thought. Dreamers are in a spiritual state where the awá or “integral being” can emerge, connecting them with a deeper reality.”

— Assunção & Jecupé

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Included:

  • Return transport from Puerto Viejo to Stibrawpa (shuttle bus + long-boat).

  • All meals, offerings & experiences 6th-11th June.

  • Community forum for us to start preparing together and integrating pre-and-post retreat and journey.

  • Dreams Short Course by Soul Seed Gathering

  • Dream Travel Guide by the Shamanic Motherline School (partner organization)

  • Investment: $2200

  • Payment Plan: $880 × 3 (available until 11th April)

  • Invitation: to take part in our living library and exhibition prep during and post-retreat

  • Note: each of our offerings support our profit-for-purpose initiatives and indigenous-led community work in our Mother-Centered Economy. For this journey we are supporting the Stibrawpa knowledge keeper grants.

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FAQ’s:

  • For leaders, creatives, academics, healers, change-makers who wish to explore:

    • the earth-based roots of your ancestry.

    • the living stories of the lands you’re from.

    • the meeting with another culture and territory and your transformation experienced with it.

      While being supported through a deeper connection to your dreams.

      This journey can support your own research, creative contributions and storytelling process.

  • The Stibrawpa accommodation is simple wooden houses with beds, bedding and mosquito nets.

    The luxury is in experiencing hospitality from such a genuine care and love for each of their community roles and welcoming you there.

    The Stibrawpa community holds such a loving pride for what they have created and built and have so much wisdom to share from the experience.

    The community itself is off-grid, however the village of Yorkin has power (so you can charge any devices), while still enjoying the peace of time away from them.

    The food offered is 80% from their land and grown organically which they take a great pride in also.

  • WhIle Bernarda founded this organization, she is the first to say it’s not about her or her story but the shared community.

    However, her story is remarkable and while her husband Eliodoro so lovingly supported her and the community from the beginning, they received a lot of push back from the men initially.

    The women wisely focused on their children, the next generation and now several decades later have a thriving organization with men and women involved.

    The men have far better wages and conditions compared to the work they had previously on the banana plantations and proudly speak of how they now trust the women in leadership.

    Each year a new female president is voted in and young women and prepared for different organizational roles.

  • We offer the Research with Dreams course to support your preparation process. Alongside the Shamanic Motherline Schools’ Dream Travel Guide to support how you may dream differently when you travel. This is such a beautiful journey and experience that you don’t need to force or have any prior experience of.

    Our time together will be a simple pattern of rising each morning in silence & joining a circle to communicate any dreams that may be remembered. Each evening, we will prepare to dream together.

    Firstly, staying deep in the jungle away from our devices, secondly the community intention and thirdly our own intentions all support this process.

    The days will start to feel dreamlike and so much will feel possible from this experience..