Return to Source
A Sacred Feminine Initiation in the Sacred Valley, Peru April 17β24, 2027 Β· The Source, Sacred Valley Β· 10 Women OnlyAnswer the Call
There is a part of you
that has been waiting.
Not waiting to be fixed, or healed, or guided toward some better version of yourself. Waiting to be remembered. To be called back to something ancient β something you've always carried but may have lost access to somewhere along the way.
This retreat is that call.
Return to Source is an intimate, 8-day sacred feminine initiation journey in the heart of Peru's Sacred Valley β held within a container of just 10 women, two experienced facilitators, and a master Andean-Amazonian shaman whose lineage spans generations and is deeply rooted into the land beneath your feet.
This retreat is a collective, co-created experience which integrates facilitators, medicine carriers, and participants in one unified container. You will be held β truly held β while also being invited into your own direct relationship with the medicine, the land, and the unseen wisdom that lives within you.
"As your facilitators, Lulu and Katy will be in the experience and the journey along side you We hold the container as both sisters and mentors to go deep within ourselves right there beside you."
That is the promise of this journey.
Eight Days of Sacred
Ceremony & Integration
Over 8 days, the journey moves through intentional, carefully sequenced experiences β each one placed to support not just breakthrough, but real integration and embodiment as you return to daily life.
Ayahuasca Ceremonies
Two nights of deep emotional, energetic, and spiritual release β held in sacred ceremony with Christian.
Wachuma (San Pedro)
Heart opening, clarity, and connection to the natural world β in the light of day, under open Andean sky.
Haywarikuy Ceremony
An ancestral offering of gratitude to Pachamama and the Apus, led by a Q'ero practitioner.
Chhulla Chaka
The Andean sweat lodge β a ceremony of purification, release, and rebirth rooted in ancient tradition.
Cacao Ceremony
Opening the heart and softening the body β led by Katy on arrival night to begin the journey inward.
Sacred Energy Healing
Supporting integration and energetic alignment through breathwork, somatic practice, and Reiki.
Yoga, Sound & Bodywork
Restorative practices woven throughout to regulate your nervous system and anchor what arises.
Sister Circles & Integration
Somatic practices, journaling, reflection, and sacred sharing throughout the full 8 days.
Eight Days of
Descent, Expansion & Return
Arrival & Opening
You arrive, exhale, and begin to soften. The circle opens with a Cacao ceremony led by Katy β gently opening the heart and beginning the work of arriving, fully, in your body. An opening circle establishes safety, trust, and shared presence.
Preparation & Devotion
A day of reverence and readiness. Gentle somatic practice, intention refinement, and an afternoon of silence. The Haywarikuy ceremony β a sacred offering to Pachamama and the Apus β aligns you with the land and prepares you for what's ahead.
The First Descent
The first Ayahuasca ceremony. A night of deep release, emotional truth, and surrender. What has been stored is invited to move. What has been suppressed is invited to surface. You are held through all of it.
Heart Opening & Expansion
You re-emerge. The Wachuma ceremony unfolds under open sky β daylight, nature, beauty, and the soft clarity that follows depth. The Chhulla Chaka sweat lodge closes the day as a ceremony of purification and rebirth.
Nourishment & Regulation
A rest day. Your nervous system is given permission to repair. Bodywork, restorative yoga, sound healing, and unstructured space to receive without effort. Integration doesn't happen in ceremony β it happens here.
The Second Descent
A second Ayahuasca ceremony. The layers that weren't accessible the first time. Deeper truth. Soul-level insight. Identity shifts that quietly rearrange everything.
Integration & Meaning-Making
A day of witnessing and being witnessed. Group integration circle, reflection practices, creative expression. You begin to translate the inner experience into embodied, livable wisdom.
Closing & Rebirth
A closing ceremony. Gratitude to the land, the medicine, the group. A final sharing circle β who I am now β and the gentle preparation for return. You leave not emptied, but filled with something that was always yours.
You Don't Have to Have
It Together to Come Here.
You don't have to be the healed one, the teacher, the woman with all the answers. You don't have to hold anyone else.
Return to Source is supported by a pre-retreat preparation container β a four-week journey of welcome circles, Sacred Energy Healing, intention setting, and retreat preparation β so you arrive open, ready, and connected before you ever land in Peru.
And the support continues after you return home, with post-retreat integration calls at one week, one month, and two months β because the real work of a medicine journey unfolds in the living of ordinary life.
This Journey Is
Calling You If...
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You have already done meaningful inner work β therapy, plant medicine, yoga, coaching, energy healing β and you feel the pull to go deeper. Not wider. Deeper.
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You sense something ancient in you that is ready to be accessed. You're not looking for a vacation or even a wellness retreat. You're looking for an initiation β a homecoming to your highest vibration.
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You want access to healing that can't be done alone. You are ready to be held while also holding yourself with more tenderness than you ever have before.
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You feel called by Peru, by the medicine, by the land. Even if you don't fully know why.
Walking Beside You,
Not Above You
Lulu Agan
Owner, SwellWomen Β· Yoga Teacher Β· Reiki Master Β· KAP FacilitatorLulu Agan has spent over two decades guiding women back to themselves β to their truth, their inner knowing, and lives that feel aligned and deeply their own. As the founder of SwellWomen, she has built something rare: a global community where the ocean, yoga, adventure, and transformational healing meet, and where women consistently discover that what they were looking for was already inside them.
A former globe-trotting corporate executive, entrepreneur, and private chef, Lulu brings a rich, lived tapestry to everything she creates. She is a certified yoga teacher, Reiki Master, and KAP Facilitator β and her approach blends deep wisdom with playful spirit, holding space that is both profoundly safe and genuinely transformative.
She knows what it is to be a woman in the middle of a reckon. She has sat in that fire. And she knows how to hold space for others who are finding their way through it.
Lulu doesn't lead from above. She walks beside you β fully present, fully human, and fully willing to go into the deep end right alongside you.
Katy Cox
Healing Arts Β· Culinary Wellness Β· WATSU Β· Earth Medicine FacilitatorKaty and Lulu have been soul sisters for 21 years. That's not a detail β that's the foundation of the container they create together.
Raised in a Shinto Buddhist community in London, Katy brings decades of experience in healing arts, culinary wellness, and transformational practice. She holds a BSc in Ecological Sciences and a Nutritional Therapy certification, and has worked internationally as a private chef, retreat facilitator, and multi-disciplinary yoga teacher. Her journey has taken her through off-grid living in Spain, Ayurvedic training in India, and years of global retreat leadership with the SwellWomen team.
Now based in Nosara, Costa Rica, Katy is a WATSU practitioner, Heart Math Affiliate, and Earth Medicine facilitator β offering cacao ceremonies, aquatic bodywork, and heart-centered healing.
She nourishes souls through the sacred intersection of food, movement, and ancient wisdom. Her presence in this container is its own kind of medicine.
Titu Amaru Salqa
Christian Calero DΓaz
Andean-Amazonian Healer Β· Nearly Three Decades of Practice
Titu Amaru is not someone we found. He is someone we were brought back to.
Ten years ago, he held our very first medicine ceremony β at this same sacred land, this same Source, in Peru's Sacred Valley. Returning to him, returning to this place, after a decade of living and growing and being changed by life β that reunion is woven into the very heart of Return to Source.
Christian carries nearly three decades of experience in soul healing and energy transmutation, born into two sacred ancestral lineages. From the Hawka lineage β specialists in ancestral Andean magic β and from the Hampeq lineage of healers, he received the living wisdom of his grandmother, his mother, and his father before him.
He has been consecrated in the thirteen sacred mountains of Cusco and protected by the energy of the SeΓ±or de Qoyllur Rit'i β the Sacred Stellar Mountain. His work weaves master plants, Andean-Amazonian ritual, herbal practice, and contemporary healing approaches into a single, coherent, deeply respectful path.
In his hands, you are safe. And you are in the hands of something far older than any of us.The Source
Sacred Valley, Peru
Nestled between a 100-foot waterfall, a tranquil river canyon, and the majestic Andean peaks at 10,000 feet, The Source is one of the most sacred retreat spaces we have ever stepped foot in β and returning to it after a decade feels exactly like the name of this journey suggests.
You'll fall asleep to the sound of cascading water and wake beneath the Milky Way. At the heart of the property is a sacred temple built on sacred geometry and embedded with over 1,000 pounds of natural crystals. Gourmet meals crafted daily from organic, locally sourced ingredients. Every detail tended to so that you can focus on one thing only β your journey home to yourself.
The Sacred Temple
The Lodge & Gardens
Killa Unu Waterfall
Everything You Need
From Cusco to Coming Home
Your Sacred
Investment
Return to Source is limited to 10 women.
Spaces are offered by invitation following a brief application and discovery conversation. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis β we encourage you to apply early as this intimate container will fill.
If Something in You
Said Yes While
Reading This β
Trust That.
That quiet knowing? That's your source, speaking.
We would love to connect with you, hear where you are in your journey, and explore whether Return to Source is the right next step.Lulu & Katy
