We welcome you to a deeply nourishing weekend immersion where the sacred meets the practical - an invitation to remember and strenghten your role as a wisdom & earth keeper and discover the ways to bring it into your practice and daily life.
A gathering of like-hearted spirits, where we will explore the ancient and universal language of ceremony, ritual, voice, and prayer. Through hands-on experiences, teachings, and guided practices, you will learn how to create sacred spaces - for yourself, your community, or those you serve.
Let us walk the path of ceremony together!
YOU CAN JOIN US FOR 1 OR BOTH DAYS IN ZURICH.
What You'LL LeArN & EXperiencE
• The Medicine of Cacao •
Learn how to work with cacao as a heart-opening healing plant. You’ll be guided through the preparation, ceremonial use, and energetic understanding of this sacred medicine, including practical recipes and ceremonial techniques.
• Music as a Tool for Healing & Connection •
Explore sacred chants as ways of healing and connection. You’ll be gently guided through practices to free your natural expression - through vocal activation, intuitive singing and diverse chants, medicine music & mantras alongside instruments like shamanic drums, shruti box, rattles and guitar. This work is suitable for all levels!
• The Art of Sacred Space & Altar Creation •
Discover how to create altars and ceremonial spaces with depth and integrity. Learn the foundational principles of space holding: presence, intention, reciprocity, devotion, reverence and personal practice. Explore cultural perspectives and practical tools for designing sacred space, both physically and energetically.
• Indigenous, Vedic & Cross-Cultural Wisdom •
We’ll share stories, teachings, and practices from different traditions and lineages that have influenced our path or that we have received through our families & roots and years of dedicated practice - including Andean, Balinese, Vedic and Mayan and cosmologies that are local to Switzerland & Europe, weaving them to discover the ways they’re relevant and supportive for our service to Mother Earth and our communities in present times.
We aim to pass on this wisdom with integrity, so you can engage with these traditions in a respectful and non-appropriative way. This immersion is grounded in cultural appreciation, and invites us into a deeper understanding of how cultures can uplift and enrich each other, humility, mutual respect, and how to walk the path of ceremony with reverence.
• Community & Integration •
We believe that sacred spaces don’t end when the altar is closed. It is there where the actual work and journey begins, as we bring it into our everyday lives. That’s why we include time for integration, reflection, and community support through a Telegram group to connect before and after the immersion. You’ll also receive a manual and a songbook to carry the work forward and you can access further mentoring and 1:1 sessions for ongoing support during your journey.
The immersion will be held in English, however translations into German or Swiss-German are possible at any time! 🇬🇧🇩🇪
Who This is foR:
This immersion is for you if you:
• Long to connect more deeply with your voice, your presence, and your inner guidance
• Feel the call to learn how to hold sacred space with integrity for others or simply for yourself
• Are interested in earth-based spiritual traditions and want to approach them with respect and humility
• Crave time in community with like-hearted souls, remembering what it means to walk with reverence
• Are a space holder, facilitator, or aspiring guide wanting to enrich your offerings with music, ceremony, ritual, Cacao and/or other Earth wisdom inspired work.
Whether you're an experienced facilitator, just beginning your journey, or simply want to join to enrich your private life, this space is designed to meet you where you are. ✨
What's Included:
• One or two full days of guided immersion
• Snacks throughout the day to keep us energised• Manual with cacao recipes, altar templates, and ceremonial practices• Songbook with chants & medicine songs that we sing together during the weekend• Access to a Telegram group for pre- and post-immersion support and to stay connected with the community• Blue Lotus tea ceremony with flowers from Bali• Co-created cacao ceremony with delicious, organic ceremonial cacao from Bali and Guatemala/Peru• A beautiful, heart-opening weekend in the outskirts of Zurich, held in community. If the weather allows, we will be outdoors for some parts of the immersion. 🌞
Your Facilitators
Juan is a medicine man, fire keeper, ceremonialist, Cacao carrier and community weaver from Argentina. With over 14 years of experience in holding sacred space, his path is deeply rooted in the Andean and Mayan traditions, community rituals, and ancestral wisdom. He has learned with revered indigenous elders from Guatemala about cacao and sacred fire. His lineage includes his grandmother in Northern Argentina, who passed down Quechua values and ceremonial ways since his childhood. He has curated Ceremony spaces for diverse occasions and collaborated with other ceremonialists, musicians and healers from different traditions, and he is also a certified yoga teacher, permaculture designer, medicine musician, community facilitator, and trauma-informed plant medicine facilitator.
Purnama is a Swiss-Balinese singer-songwriter, ceremonialist and voice liberation guide, as well as a certified yoga teacher & sound healer. Her heart’s work is to awaken the voice and reconnect people to their natural, intuitive expression and their inner wisdom. Descended from a Balinese family of priest and temple keepers, her spaces are infused with the ancient wisdom of her ancestors. For the past 7 years, Purnama has been teaching Balinese as well as Vedic & Yoga philosophy in trainings & retreats around the world, leads regular women's circles, and has supported many different ceremonies of other native traditions with revered teachers, as well as kirtans and other sacred spaces with international musicians.
Together, Juan and Purnama bring a unique fusion of masculine and feminine as well as Eastern and Western wisdom, bridging worlds through music & ceremony. They have facilitated countless of ceremonies in Bali, Europe and Argentina in public spaces, for festivals, high-end retreats or for families & rites of passages.
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Investment
EARLY BIRD 250 - 290 Fr.
Sliding scale
if signing up until 31st July 2025
REGULAR 280 - 320 Fr.
Sliding scale
ONE DAY ONLY 140 - 170 Fr.
Sliding scale
If you wish to join, but have financial difficulties, we can offer payment in installment (Ratenzahlung) - pay 100 Fr. now and the rest later.
We also have 2 spaces open for partial scholarships. We are also open to explore other forms of exchange that feel abundant and aligned for all so you can join us! Please send an email to purnamamelissak@gmail.com if that is the case or if you have any questions.
We invite you...
To remember the sacred. To reclaim your voice. To carry the medicine of ceremony with care, reverence, and joy.
You are the altar. You are the vessel. You are the song.
We are excited to share with you this beautiful weekend of remembrance!
With so much love
Purnama & Juan
♥️✨
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Disclaimer: Please note that this is not a ceremony or cacao facilitation training, but an immersion that will add great value to your life and inspire your practice if you’re already a facilitator or holding healing spaces for people. If you wish to facilitate spaces & serve cacao or any other medicine to people outside your friends & family, this immersion will nurture your resources and show you growing edges to further develop your path as a facilitator and healing modalities practitioner. We highly recommend you to explore other space holding & facilitation trainings (e.g. Breathwork, Yoga teacher trainings, Sound Healing, Men/Women's Work, etc.)
Get in Touch
If you have question, want to inquire about scholarships, or are unsure if this immersion is the right fit for you, please use this contact form, and we will get back to you as soon as possible!
Or E-Mail me directly to: purnamamelissak@gmail.com