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We are excited to announce our 2nd Annual Winter Retreat!
You are invited to gather with us at the Hearth, a space of warmth, transformation, and liberation created with deep love for Black folks. This is our time once again to come together for our Second Annual Winter Gathering, an intimate weekend devoted to self-care, ancestral remembrance, and the merging of Indigenous wisdom, sacred plant medicine, and the beauty of our reflections held within an all-Black container.
Rooted in the sacred energies of Winter, this retreat offers a rare opportunity to reconnect with your inner wisdom, your ancestral strength, and the natural rhythms that support your healing journey. Winter is a season of turning inward, a time for grounding, listening deeply, and nurturing the parts of ourselves in need of restoration. This gathering honors that energy by creating a safe, intentional, trauma-informed space designed specifically for the healing of Black bodies, minds, and spirits.
Facilitator Adorable Earth Angel brings 12 years of experience working within sacred plant medicine traditions and continues her training with Indigenous elders of South America, including the powerful Shipibo-Konibo lineage. Her facilitation style holds reverence for Indigenous ceremonial ways while celebrating the richness of the Black experience, offering participants the chance to stand fully in their power and co-create this heartfelt prayer.
With the guidance of Grandmother medicine, we invite you to step into this winter hearth, to be held, nourished, and illuminated. Allow this weekend to be a moment of alignment, wholeness, and soulful renewal as we gather as community, honor our ancestors, and deepen into the warmth of collective healing.
Weekend Retreat Includes:
Pre-ceremony preparation
Two full nights of healing work
Two full nights of healing work
We will provide you with all the information and resources you need to prepare for the ceremony, including what to expect, how to prepare yourself mentally and physically, and any other necessary information.
Two full nights of healing work
Two full nights of healing work
Two full nights of healing work
Two transformative nights of healing rooted in the Shipibo technology of prayer—Kushon, the Strong Prayer. These ceremonies will guide you through deep clearing, dressing in light, and aligning your energies for balance and renewal. These ceremonies will feature Amazonian medicines, sacred rituals, singing, dancing, and supportive musicianship.
Two Black Condor circles
Two full nights of healing work
Two Black Condor circles
Black Condor circles are a unique and transformative aspect of our retreats. Here, we come together to open and activate our prayers, create space for mind and body practices, and perform rituals to honor the land and our ancestors.
Two integration circles
Other ceremonial medicines
Two Black Condor circles
A post-ceremony group space where participants can reflect, share insights, and process their experiences together.
Rapeh Circle
Other ceremonial medicines
Other ceremonial medicines
Rapeh (Hapé) is a sacred snuff medicine used throughout the Amazon by Indigenous peoples as a tool for grounding, clearing, and deepening spiritual connection.
Other ceremonial medicines
Other ceremonial medicines
Other ceremonial medicines
Alongside the divine medicines used, we will also be offering other complementary ceremonial plant medicines.
Facilitator
Adorable Earth Angel
Adorable Jasmine (Earth Angel) is the director of Black Condor Tribe. She is a sacred musician, energy healer, ceremonialist, and organizer of healing courses, rituals, and retreats for over 15 years. Adorable is dedicated to creating safe, trauma-informed spaces for Black and BIPOC individuals to come together for healing and liberation. For the past 11 years, Adorable has been on a profound journey of purification and initiation among indigenous healers. She is currently engaged in an ongoing study with trusted Shipibo Maestros in Peru, leads group visits to the jungle for ceremony, while also deepening her commitment to becoming a skilled facilitator.
Additional Information
Location amenities
Tucked into the hillside just 10 minutes from UC Berkeley and
30 minutes from San Francisco, our space offers privacy,
natural beauty, and modern amenities.
Accommodation options include cabins with 31 twin and full-sized beds in single and double rooms, along with limited space for camping. The facilities also feature several meeting areas, a pool, library, art studio, meditation building, and hiking trails that wind through 280 acres of pine and oak forest, providing ample opportunities for relaxation, reflection, and rejuvenation.
Types of Housing
Lodging for Hearth of Healing is intentionally simple and intimate, bringing us back to the “old school” days when ceremonies were held in someone’s living room and community gathered close.
The retreat center has limited private beds, so the weekend will primarily follow a dorm-style sleepover format, with a dedicated group sleeping space and comfortable mats provided for out of town participants. We invite locals to bring their own sleeping mats.
For those who prefer a bed, we have a very limited number of reserved options: a mix of king and full beds ideal for couples or friends who don’t mind sharing, and one additional twin bed available for a male participant. These 9 bed spots are offered at an additional cost and will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.
Dorm-style lodging is included in the retreat cost and offers a beautiful opportunity to root into the communal warmth and togetherness that honor the spirit of this winter healing container.
How We Nourish Ourselves
Food is an essential part of the healing process, especially when working with sacred plant medicine. For this retreat, we will be providing our signature hearty, nourishing dinner soups as always, along with a grounding breakfast each morning. In the spirit of community care and shared abundance, we invite participants to contribute to a potluck-style lunch, bringing one or two vegan items for everyone to enjoy.
We’ll share a suggested list of offerings to help guide the potluck, though participants are welcome to bring any vegan dish that feels aligned. As always, our meals are crafted to support the body’s healing and detoxification process, healthy, nourishing, and free of animal products and gluten.
We also check in about dietary needs and will do our best to accommodate individual sensitivities so that everyone is nourished throughout the weekend.
Pre & Post Integration One-on-One Sessions
For those seeking deeper support before or after ceremony, we offer 60-minute private integration sessions with Adorable Earth Angel. These sessions provide a grounded, compassionate, and spacious container to help you prepare for your healing work and process your experience afterward. Integration support can include energy alignment, emotional processing, intention clarity, guidance on navigating the medicine path, and personalized tools for sustaining your transformation.
Session Length: 55 minutes
Facilitator: Adorable Earth Angel
Contribution: $100
These sessions are optional but highly recommended for participants who want individualized care and support at any stage of their journey.
Ready to Journey with Black Condor?
Registration
We will be opening pre-registration first for the community members who filled out the interest form. As a thank-you for helping us activate this retreat, they will have early access to reserve their spots before registration opens to the wider community.
Official registration opens on December 10th.
We have approximately 18 spots available for this retreat, and we’ve received more interest than space, so please note that spots are limited and will fill on a first-come basis.
If you are joining us through general registration, please check back here on December 10th to secure your place.
Join Our Upcomging Info Session
We’re excited to host two community info calls for both new and returning participants who feel called to connect with our work. These gatherings are a gentle entry point into the Black Condor prayer, a space to learn about our lineage, our approach to ceremony, and details about our upcoming Hearth of Healing Winter Retreat.
Whether you’re preparing to meet the medicine for the first time or returning for a deeper layer of your journey, these calls offer a supportive space to ask questions, feel into the container, and connect with the community before stepping into ceremony.
📅 Tuesday, Nov. 25th 5:30pm PST/ 8:30pm EST
📅 Wed., Dec. 10th 5:30pm PST/ 8:30pm EST
You are welcome exactly as you are. Come meet us, learn more, and gather with others walking this sacred path.