A safe space created For women by women
Survivors
Retreat
A retreat offering designed specifically for women survivors of sexual trauma to process, heal and transform, working with the powerful medicine 5-MeO-DMT.
our professionals
Our Team
To provide you with the best support possible on your journey, we have assembled a team of experts. Our focused approach combines our unique skillsets in order to target, process and heal sexual trauma.
5-Meo-DMT Facilitator
5-MeO-DMT Educator
Co-Founder of F.I.V.E.
Somatic Psychotherapist
Certified Sex TherapisT
Sexual Trauma Expert
The approach
A Somatic
Approach to
Healing Trauma
During the retreat we will be using a bottom-up approach to access the trauma held in the connective tissues and fascia.
The Survivors retreat has been carefully designed to initiate titrated access points where each woman will have the opportunity to come into contact with the source of her trauma through the wisdom of her own body.
Tepoztlan, Mexico
The Venue
The retreat will take place at the Tandava Retreat center nestled in the sleepy mountains of Tepoztlan, Mexico.
A retreat designed for survivors
Our amenities
During your stay you can expect to be held by the lovely staff at the Tandava Retreats center. Included with your retreat, you will receive access to our full length swimming pool, soaking hot tub, Turkish steam sauna, property wide Wi-fi, laundry service and daily housekeeping.
The nutrition
Fresh
Farm to
Table Meals
Tandava Retreats is partnered with an organic farm just minutes away for the center where all our veggies, eggs and meats are locally sourced. Vegetarian, vegan and omnivore options available.
getting to know the container
The retreat
Due to the depth of our work, we will only be taking a max of 7 women to ensure each women receives the attention she deserves in her process.
A retreat created for your healing process
Personal support
Your process is important to us. To ensure this is an experience that creates lasting change for you, your retreat will include both preparation and integration.
1 private ZOOM session w/ Victoria
1 ONLINE group session via Zoom
1 Onsite Group orientation Circle
2 Onsite group sharing circles
1 Onsite private session w/ leaders
4 private sessions post retreat
a program geared towards healing
the program
During the 7 week program, 6 days will be spent onsite in Tepoztlan, Mexico.
Our time together will be focused on targeting and processing your sexual trauma, using a variety of different tools, at your own pace. Some of what is included:
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During the retreat you will have the opportunity to work with the medicine during three separate ceremonies.
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A variety of somatic based workshops will be offered as a tool to encourage your processing cycle.
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‘Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”- Carl Jung
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Dive deep into the body, mind and soul, where you will find connection to “self.”
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Following our 5-MeO work, your nervous system will be nurtured into recovery by sound frequency.
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During our integration day, we will take a trip to the town center to experience the weekend artisanal markets.
Some details about some of the
workshops
Minding the Body
In this 45-minute workshop, participants will better understand the inherent connection between our bodies, our sexuality and trauma. The memories of our trauma(s) live in our body because they are too much to hold and reconcile in our mind. There is no way to make the trauma acceptable or understandable, thus our body has the job of trying to metabolize it. Because sexual happens in the body, it must be healed through the body. In this opening workshop, participants will be guided through somatic exercises that promote self-awareness and nervous system regulation. By utilizing the breath and the body, participants will practice cultivating an internalized sense of safety while stepping into new possibilities and self-expansion.
Fantasy & Shadow
The medicine offers a rare and unique opportunity to access our shadows. Knowing that we are undeniably safe and held in compassion and understanding, this 45-minute workshop engenders inward reflection to access the deepest parts of ourselves that we previously felt–or may still feel–are unloveable. Participants will use meditation and journaling to explore fantasy and our deepest desires in relation to shadow and erotic expansion. Discovering what we can learn from those hidden, seemingly untouchable parts of ourselves will help us deeply settle into our integration process.
Kundalini Meditation
Led by Pyasa, this guided somatic practice is a dynamic, embodied dancing meditation that supports the release of physical and emotional tension while deepening connection to the body. Through a rhythm of movement, expression, stillness, and rest, participants are invited to engage with sensation, emotion, and breath in an intuitive, non-verbal way. This practice creates space for the nervous system to regulate, for stored stress and trauma to unwind, and for vitality and presence to naturally emerge. By moving through layers of holding, participants can access a deeper sense of clarity, aliveness, and embodied awareness—offering a pathway back to the body’s innate intelligence and capacity for healing.
Touch & Consent: Embodied Exploration
In this immersive session, Pyasa guides participants through a series of touch-based, consent-centered practices designed to support nervous system regulation, authentic expression, and embodied connection. Through structured explorations of giving and receiving touch, individuals are invited to clarify boundaries, tune into sensation, and practice asking for what they truly want. These practices help distinguish between habitual patterns and authentic desire, offering a space to reconnect voice with felt experience. By slowing down and becoming more present with their own needs and limits, participants can unwind layers of conditioning around touch, access greater emotional clarity, and strengthen their capacity for empowered, consent-based relating. This work is especially nourishing for those healing from boundary rupture or touch-related trauma, providing a grounded, respectful environment to restore trust in oneself and in connection with others.
Shame & Resilience
In this 1-hour workshop, participants will explore the most common elements of sexual shame and the ways they manifest somatically, relationally and sexually. This workshop will include dyadic sharing that centers vulnerability and heart expansion. An exploration of resilience and thriving will follow, including an embodied meditation. We will send additional love to our BIPOC sisters in honor of Juneteenth.
Self-Trust
In this one-hour workshop, participants will further ground in their healing by exploring the foundations of Eros in relation to self-trust and envisioning our embodied future. Utilizing dyadic and group sharing, we will dive deep into the relationship between self-trust and forgiveness, and how those principles apply to vitality, creativity, imagination and spirituality. By considering our journey through a somatic lens, we will use breath and movement to own our space, our bodies and our right to deep, embodied connection with ourselves and others.
Neurogenic Tremoring (TRE)
Guided by Pyasa, this session introduces a gentle yet powerful somatic practice designed to support the release of deep muscular tension, chronic stress, and held trauma. Using a series of simple exercises to safely fatigue and activate specific muscle groups, participants will initiate neurogenic tremors—an involuntary shaking response that originates in the psoas and supports the body in discharging excess activation from the nervous system. This natural response allows the body to complete unfinished stress cycles and return to a state of balance. Participants will be guided with clear instruction and grounding support, ensuring a safe container to explore this self-regulating process at their own pace.
Boundaries & Consent
In this experiential session, Pyasa facilitates a somatic exploration of boundaries and consent through practices rooted in the Wheel of Consent framework. Sound and movement, sensory awareness, and structured partner explorations are interwoven to support nervous system regulation and embodied presence. Participants will engage in exercises that help them attune to internal cues, recognize authentic desires and limits, and express them with greater clarity. These tools are especially supportive for those healing from sexual abuse, offering a safe space to rebuild trust in the body’s signals and reestablish a felt sense of agency. Through the embodied investigation of giving, receiving, allowing, and taking, participants begin to re-pattern their relationship to touch, power, and pleasure—laying the foundation for more empowered, consent-based connection with self and others.
Additional services
Integrate With A Massage
During the retreat there will be some downtime between your second medicine session and dinner. If you would like to pamper yourself with a massage, just let us know before your arrival and we will make sure to have a masseuse ready for you!
testimonial
Survivor Review
“I have sought out countless therapists, treatments, and medications over the past decade to heal from my sexual trauma. Some approaches were moderately helpful, but it always felt surface-level and I never felt better. I knew there was something deeper that I couldn’t name and couldn’t figure out how to access. It wasn’t until I attended the women survivor’s retreat at Tandava that I learned what that ‘something deeper’ was and started to access it. I never imagined myself to be the person who’d take a leap of faith in attending this type of retreat, but I am so deeply thankful I did. The use of 5-MeO-DMT within the incredibly safe, warm, and supportive container created by Victoria and Dr. Holly allowed me to safely access layers of trauma-related processing I didn’t even know existed. I can say with absolute certainty that this retreat opened me up to the type of work and healing I’ve unknowingly needed and been searching for all these years and it’s been so eye-opening and transformative. I still keep in touch with the amazing women I met at Tandava and am so grateful to be part of the sisterhood this container creates.”
Anonymous
Survivor
The Details
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How will I get to the retreat center from the airport?
We will be setting up a few different shuttles from the airport to our retreat center with a trusted company. The shuttle cost will be split with the other women sharing the shuttle to the center and cash and debit options will be available.
To reserve my space, do I have to pay the entire amount at once?
Nope! You can leave a 25% deposit to hold your seat, with installments up until the retreat. You can also do a 50% deposit, with the rest due 2 weeks before the retreat, or lastly of course pay in full.
Do I need to have prior psychedelic experience to attend?
Not at all! A large majority of the women we work with have never even worked with cannabis before. Coming to this retreat has less to do with your psychedelic resume and more to do with your attitude.
Who is a good fit for this retreat?
This is going to be unique to each woman but the main things we are looking for is women who are safe to sit with the medicine- we will do a thorough screening process with you to make sure you are physically and psychologically safe. We are also looking for women who have done prior work into their sexual trauma and who are interested in getting into the work, blissful or messy.
Shared Room, Shared Bathroom
A split level loft with two beds upstairs and two beds downstairs.
$3595
Private Room, Shared Bathroom
A private room, with a garden view and shared bathroom.
$4495
Private Room, Private Bathroom
Enjoy your privacy with your own space during your process.
$4795
