Purpose of Our Work

Siripiari Circle is a community of practice that brings together traditional healing and modern understandings in order to connect with the true Self, restore vitality and health, and remember our belonging in the ecological web of life. 

We help clients work through subconscious patterns and energetic blockages that limit their lives and relationships. Together we work to restore balance, vitality, connection, and joy, using potent natural methods from traditional healing in combination with modern psychology. 

We offer four aspects of traditional healing, including: 

• Traditional Healing Rituals

• Herbal remedies

• Counseling Psychology

• Yoga + Movement

About Traditional Healing

The indigenous people of North and South America believe that one can heal oneself and cultivate wisdom by working symbiotically with nature. This intelligence is accessible for all of us right now through remembering our own bodies, the earth, and allyship with the plants.

Traditional healing understands the body, mind, spirit, and environment as a unified, interconnected system that naturally self-organizes towards health, wholeness, and creativity.  For most of us, this requires removing somatic and psycho-spiritual blockages and strengthening structural deficits. Healing Sessions, counseling, and herbal remedies help us to access and process subconscious memories, beliefs, and energetic blockages that obscure one’s natural state of vibrancy. 

You can imagine it like tending to the garden of your embodied psyche. In order for nourishing water to flow freely, you will want to remove the weeds and obstructions, strengthen the channels so they don’t leak, and balance the flow of nutrients.

This process of inner awareness and change can at times be quite challenging. We work to create a safe, skilled, and loving container so that even uncomfortable experiences may be contacted and integrated positively. No one has to do this work alone. We are here to support you. 

Traditional healing can lead to new levels of integration in the psyche, expansion of sense of identity, and a deeper connection to one’s true Self.  Further, this practice opens the heart and may lead to a blossoming of new capacities for love and relating.

Over time, the effects of this work is gradually integrated into your states of being and the structure of your life.  Integration may involve new understandings or new values in your life, changes in relationships to people and habits, and new ways of acting in the world. When integrated fully, the meditation retreat results in a deep and lasting change in the mind, body, and spirit, as well as your relationships and your environment.

Retreat Process

Think of coming to a ceremony as a multi-week process.

First-time sitters are required to participate in the full process:

1. Week 1: One or more preparation sessions the week before the ceremony

2. Weekend: Two nights of ceremony

3. Week 2: One or more integration sessions the week after the ceremony

4. Week 3: The insights and transformations form the ceremony will continue to integrate for several weeks after the ceremony. You’ll have the option to continue integration support and herbal protocols.

For returning sitters, preparation and integration counseling sessions are encouraged and optional.  Returning sitters can join for one night if they would like, although two nights are a deeper experience.

All sitters are invited to join the biweekly community integration calls over Zoom and monthly potluck gatherings.

The Weekend Retreat

The Retreat will include:

• Two Ashaninka style ceremonies (one each night)

• Therapeutic counseling as a group and individually as needed

• All-organic farm-fresh meals with produce from the local CSA (GF and V friendly) The meals and snacks will support the cleansing diet for ceremony.

• Quiet time in the redwood forest and our 30 sq acres. Camping is welcomed.

• Other activities, like nature walks or ocean trips, may vary by weekend.

• Sleeping arrangements will be slumber party style in the ceremony room. Memory foam mats are provided. You will bring your own blankets.

The weekend retreat will usually* start Friday at 6 PM and go until Sunday at 2:30 PM (please note this may vary according to which session you join).

*Follow the emails sent to you after registering for your retreat ton confirm date and time of arrival and departure

Group Size + Location

Healing Sessions are 6-9 people and up to 3 highly trained facilitators. Sessions are led by Jordana and two assistants trained who are also trained in the Amazonian lineage and/or trauma therapy. Because the groups are small, these sessions offer very engaged therapeutic support for each person.

• Healing Sessions take place at my home in Occidental, CA.

Private groups can range from 1-6 people brought together by one organizer. Larger groups are possible on certain dates. Each participant needs to first be introduced to me directly for a consultation call before confirming they will join.

• Private Sessions may be held in Occidental, CA, or at a location you choose.

Getting to Occidental

Driving: Our address will be emailed to you the week prior to the session.

Flying: You can fly into Santa Rosa Airport or San Francisco Airport. If you fly to Santa Rosa, then you can Uber to Occidental. If you fly to SFO, you can take Groome Shuttle service to Santa Rosa Airport and Uber from there.

Carpools are sometimes available from Santa Rosa or SF. Check the carpool signup!

One night or two?

First timers are required to sit for two nights, so that we can have a spacious container for the participant’s first introduction to the tradition.  Returning sitters can sit for one night.  Two nights may be preferred as the first night can involve much cleaning and the second night more insight.

About Medications

Please let me know if you are taking any Rx or OTC medications. A list of contra-indicated medications can be found in the preparation guide (see “How to Prepare”).

In order to ensure your safety, we require a medical history from each participant during the initial consultation. If you are taking any medications, you may be advised to not join a retreat until medications are discontinued.

How to Prepare

If this is your first time sitting with us, then be sure you also read “How to Prepare” here before registering for a session. Password: weareone

Reciprocity

The cost of the ceremony is based on a tiered scale, in our efforts to make this work accessible to the a diverse and meaningfully invested community. Please read the Reciprocity Scale to decide what you will pay for a retreat weekend.

Giving Back

In our commitment to sacred reciprocity, more than 10% of all Tonkiri proceeds are donated to support Mayantuyacu Centro Amazonica and Amazon conservation projects in the Huacano region.