The Dance of The Hummingbird Under The Broken Moon
October 20th -October 24th, 2026 • Huitzilac, Mexico
A 5-day ritual immersion for women in the forest of Mexico
Step into a 5-day immersive retreat in the forests near Mexico City, designed for a small circle of 10 women to reconnect with their creative voice, emotional depth, and inner direction.
Through ritual, sound, and embodied practices, you will explore the archetypes of Sun, Moon, Stars, and Earth as living forces within you — guiding you toward clarity, expression, and aligned action.
The Dance Flow
For five days, a small circle will step into a living ritual, walking among trees, stones, and fire, opening to the presence of sacred plants, the temazcal, and the dance of creation itself.
Through shared meals, quiet, sound, movement, writing, plants, and acts of imagination, each experience becomes a mirror and a key, guiding participants to discern their path, awaken intention, and inhabit the fullness of their will, body and spirit.
Practice Intention
This is a space to experience the unity of self and awaken the dormant forces that guide your life. It is a dance, a living philosophy of unlocking the archetypes within your own existence, Allow them to guide you toward the full expression of your potential.
The Sacred Steps
Coatlicue: The Devouring Earth
The earth swallowed the drum and began to breathe
Day 1
Birth · Root · Embrace
Coyolxauhqui: The Broken Moon
The moon fell apart and discovered it had many faces
Day 2
Fragment · Intuition · Depth
Centzon Huitznahua: The Whispering Stars - Xochicalco
The stars argued all night, each one convinced it was the sun
Day 3
Noise · Shadow · Discord
Huitzilopochtli: The Hummingbird of the Sun
The hummingbird pierced the morning and did not look back
Day 4
Will · Direction · Courage
Mitōtiliztli: The Dance of the Hummingbird under the Broken Moon- Tepoztlán
The battle hummed, and the family became one
Day 5
Cycle · Love · Transformation
The Hummingbird Nest
Huitzilac, whose name comes from Nahuatl and can be translated as “in the water of the hummingbirds,” is a corner in the Mexican forests, 40 minutes from Mexico City. A nest where the land, the trees, and the birds seem to whisper ancient stories.
The flora consists mostly of oak and pine forests, guardians of memory, where sunlight filters through leaves that breathe, and the shadows of the mountains invite contemplation.
Nestled within this serene landscape, the boutique house occupies a comfortable 800 m², offering space to live in harmony with nature. Surrounded by the tranquility of the forest, it is a perfect refuge for those seeking privacy, comfort, and a deep connection with the land and its timeless whispers.
Investment
First Early Bird – until 13 April 2026: €1111
Second Early Bird (until August 13, 2026): €1333
Regular Price (after August 13, 2026): €1555
Payment plans available.
Save your spot with your first deposit: €333
What’s included
Cozy rooms available in single, double, or queen (all bathrooms are shared). Rooms are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis
Nourishing meals that feed both body and spirit
Guided facilitation and gentle support throughout your journey
Workshops, materials, fire ceremonies, temazcal, plant medicine, sound healing, and other guided rituals
Special materials to weave your own rituals into the fabric of each day
Pilgrimages to Tepoztlán & Xochicalco, where stones and air remember the old stories
Shuttle service from Mexico City the 19th & 25th: A bridge from everyday life into the forest
What’s not included
Airfare
Travel insurance
Meet your guides
Cristina Bucardo • Ritual Guide & Creator
Cristina Bucardo is a Mexican contemporary multidisciplinary artist working with ritual, sound, and Mexica philosophy. Founder of Mitotili, her practice explores ritual as an aesthetic and experiential structure through which perception, memory, and identity can be reorganized.
She works between artistic and therapeutic contexts, creating guided ceremonial processes that engage participants at psychological, symbolic, and sensory levels.
Her work in Berlin has been presented in institutions such as Charité and the International Society for Arts and Medicine. Since 2017, she has accompanied individuals through ritual-based processes rooted in Mexican traditions and contemporary artistic practice.
The Dance of the Hummingbird emerges from a site central to her biography the house where she grew up in the forests of Mexico, that has become today a retreat house and used as the setting for this structured ritual experience.
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Mazatec Traditional Healer
Irma is a Mazatec healer from the Huautla de Jiménez region, in the Sierra de Oaxaca, a land where ceremonial knowledge lives in deep relationship with earth, spirit, and ancestral memory.
She walks within a lineage of healing carried through generations, where plants, and prayer become pathways of connection. In this retreat, she holds a ceremonial presence that invites inner listening, expanded awareness, and a return to the subtle intelligence of the heart.
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Sonic Artist
Nina Pixel is a sound artist, composer, and creative researcher exploring resonance, intuition, and collective imagination. Through gong, voice, and participatory listening formats, she creates immersive sonic environments that invite deep presence and subtle transformation.
Her work moves between performance, spatial sound practices, and community-based ritual formats, investigating sound as a living architecture that shapes perception and relational space. She has collaborated on interdisciplinary projects such as The Enclosed Garden in Armenia and Witches on the Run, engaging public space, memory, and collective storytelling. Within retreat settings, she holds sonic spaces for reflection and creative emergence, inviting participants into a field of listening where new inner landscapes can unfold.
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Urban Shamanism
Florencia Ondona is an Argentine audiovisual artist, Akashic Records researcher, and Urban Shamanism practitioner whose work explores perception, the invisible quantum field, and expanded states of consciousness through film, performance, and hybrid narrative forms.
Her practice includes an extensive archive of more than 500 pages of drawings and automatic writing developed through her exploration of non-ordinary states of perception, gathered in her ongoing research projects “Everything is Connected”and Cinema Meditation. Now based in Berlin, she facilitates meditation and sound journeys, inviting participants into what she calls the “Inner Cinema”: a living space where perception, imagination, and consciousness meet through image, sound, and inner vision.
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Nourishment Artist
Carmelita is a Mexican visual artist, art therapist, and chef whose work moves between art, perception, and embodied experience. Her path is shaped through both contemporary art spaces and a deep sensitivity to the language of the senses.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Museo San Ildefonso in Mexico City and Equity Gallery in Manhattan, New York. She is a recipient of the FONCA National Grant for Young Creators in Mexico. In this retreat, she brings her artistic sensibility into the kitchen, where nourishment becomes an extension of her practice
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