International Women’s Plant Medicine Retreats
A return to body, earth, womb, voice, and sisterhood.
Women’s Retreats with Ariel Szabo and Candace Garland
Maestra’s Rosenda and Maria with Ariel and Candace in Pucullpa, Peru
Ariel and Candace were first brought together by the medicine in 2020 to hold retreats for women. Since then, they have partnered with the plants, the land, and the Indigenous healers who carry these traditions to create transformative containers. Each gathering weaves ceremony with womb ritual, song, dance, astrology, and somatic practice inside a trauma-informed container built for safety, reclamation, and renewal.
At the heart of every retreat is women gathering to awaken their sensual aliveness, reclaim their voice, and come home to themselves.
Sisters of The Vine Retreat in Pucallpa Peru, 2026
This Is For You If You're Ready To
Meet the medicine and the land with an open heart
Reclaim your voice and express yourself without shrinking
Feel your body as a place of pleasure, wisdom, and belonging
Release the patterns and beliefs keeping you small
Trust your intuition and the rhythms of your own nature
Be witnessed and held by a circle of women
Learning to embroider telas at the Sisters of Vine retreat in Pucullpa Peru, 2025
What We Weave
Ceremony sits at the center. Around it, we create room to process, integrate, and embody what moves through you:
Plant medicine ceremonies held by traditional healers
Womb clearing and yoni activation
Voice and sacred song
Goddess archetypes and astrology
Cacao ceremony and movement
Meditation, yoga, and sound healing
Circles of sisterhood, and quiet time to rest
Fire ceremony at the Embodied Connection Retreat, Sacred Valley, Peru, 2024
Why Women's Circle
Yoni Steam at the Return to the Womb Reteat, Sacred Valley Peru, 2024
Something shifts when women gather. Together, we remember what we carried before we were severed from earth, body, and each other. The power was always ours. We come together to reclaim it.
Dance party at the Sisters of The Vine Retreat in Pucallpa Peru, 2025
What People Are Saying
“Ariel & Candace hold a beautiful, safe container for healing work that can truly only be done in the company of other women. I struggled with apprehension around other women and their perfectly coordinated retreat delivered everything and more. This retreat brought us into our bodies, creating a deep sense of compassionate curiosity and exploration, while also bridging bonds across a dynamic group of incredible women. Since the retreat, I feel renewed confidence in myself, my life, and my relationships, as well as a deeper knowing about what practices or company I need to eliminate from my life. This, hands down, was one of the best experiences of my life!"
— Raychel"The beautiful intention with which Ariel and Candace work was palpable from the moment I book the retreat. The two of them created the perfect flow of sessions in between ceremonies, helping us to engage more deeply with ourselves and our sensuality - that ultimately bled greater self-awareness, self-connection and texture into our ceremonies. In spite of my typical reservations in working with other women, Ariel's and Candace's presence alone provided me with a safe container where I could navigate my previously held conflicts, release my fears and feel truly supported at every vulnerable step."
— Sarah"Candace and Ariel: these women are powerful and strong. They are incredibly real. For me that was a much needed breath of fresh air. And a permission slip to be vulnerable with myself and receive what I was hoping to: an opening of myself, of my own heart, and a deepening into my authentic self. I feel so blessed to have their guidance and witness them in their authentic selves as well. Everything that I got out of this experience was exactly what I needed. I’m taking home with me a new found inspiration and motivation to continue on this path."
— ZiaYour Facilitators
Candace and Ariel co-create and co-facilitate women’s retreats alongside indigenous healers and a supportive all-women team. They bring somatic and embodiment practice, womb ritual, song, astrology, and the living current of feminine energy into every container.
Candace Garland
Candace Garland
Candace is a medicine woman, artist, and trauma-informed space holder. Her journey with Nimea Kaya began in 2018 with her own healing, and by 2019 she was called to serve, facilitating retreats there for the next five years.
Over the past seven years, Candace has trained extensively in plant and animal medicines, completing Master Plant dietas and immersing in indigenous traditions with deep reverence. Her work weaves sacred medicines—including Kambo, Cacao, Rapè, and Sananga—with sound, movement, energy work, and Astrology/Tarot as pathways for integration and transformation.
With compassion and grounded presence, Candace creates trauma-informed spaces where participants can reconnect with their truth, sovereignty, and inner wisdom. She also hosts Plant Medicine Women’s Retreats in the Sacred Valley, guided by her passion for community, remembrance, and the collective healing journey.
Candace feels deeply honored to walk this path of service and to support others in remembering their wholeness.
Ariel Szabo
Ariel Szabo
Ariel is a sacred sexuality and plant medicine practitioner, artist, and musician. Her path into this work began with her own rebirth, as she returned to her body, her voice, and her pleasure in deep partnership with the plants.
Ariel is a somatic sex educator and sexological bodyworker, trained in psychedelic-assisted therapy, with years of study in the Shipibo plant medicine tradition through Master Plant dietas. Her work weaves sensual somatics, womb work, and sacred sexuality with the wisdom of the plants and elements and a grounded understanding of the nervous system and trauma.
With presence and deep care, Ariel creates trauma-informed spaces where participants can soften the armoring held in body, heart, and energy, and reclaim pleasure and expanded states of consciousness as medicine. She is the founder of Sacred Moonflower and writes The Erotic Frontier on Substack.
Ariel feels honored to walk with others across thresholds, holding the light as they discover the wisdom in their wounds.
