Sisters of the Rose
8 Day Women’s Healing Retreat in Sacred Valley, Peru
August 2nd -9th 2025
Special Early Bird Price! Receive $200 off any accommodation when you apply & book by April 15th.
I’m calling in 5 women who are ready to initiate with the rose & root deeper into their feminine power.
This retreat is designed to ignite profound expansion, heal embedded wounds and cultivate a deeper connection with your feminine energy, creating a new sense of alignment and belonging with Mother Earth to welcome in greater levels of freedom and abundance into your life.
Through the teachings of Rose, Indigenous Despacho Prayer Ceremony, Breathwork, Feminine Embodiment, Huachuma (San Pedro) Ceremony at enchanted river, Sweat Lodge & luxury spa time to anchor in your prayers, open the door of expansion and step into your every unfolding bloom.
This Retreat is for you if you’re ready to…
Work with the teachings of the Rose to ignite your power & claim your divine worth
Receive physical & energetic cleansing
Deepen your connection with your soul, the divine, and Mother Earth.
Break free from limiting beliefs, old conditioning, toxic stories of the mind & release suppressed trauma stored in the body
Connect back with your feminine essence and align with your natural rhythms and cycles.
Heal sister wounds, regulate your nervous system, and harmonize your mind, body, and spirit.
Awaken your authentic expression & creativity
Learn to work with power of your own medicine, activate your gifts and gain the confidence to share them with the world
Connect deeper to your prayer, gain clarity and align with your intentions for your life
Connect with sisters from all walks of life & create life long friendships
What’s Included:
(scroll below to learn more details about each ceremony)
7 Night/8 Day accommodation in private or shared room with housekeeping
Nourishing, organic, farm to table meals cooked by a professional chef
Daily local rose tea (harvested by me), embedded with prayers of healing & expansion to immerse with her spirit
Transportation to and from retreat
Afternoon at Luxury spa (natural pools, sauna, steam room, 1 hour massage)
Indigenous Q’ero Despacho Ceremony & Ausangate Pilgrimage with Maestra Mercedes
Breathwork Ceremonies & Femine Embodiment Workshops
Huachuma (San Pedro) & Rose Plant Medicine Ceremony at sacred river
Traditional Sweat Lodge Ceremony
Flower Bath - cleansing ritual working with plants from the land
Sound Healing & Rose Blessing Ceremony
3 Group Virtual Integration calls
One group virtual preparation call
Not Included:
Flights
Travel insurance (not required)
Tips for housekeeping
"There are a lot of healing modalities in the world but the particular flavor that Sydney brings is exactly what Women and Society need to wake up and come back into their innate power and ultimately bring the world into balance."
-Natasha
Ceremonies
Traditional Q’ero Despacho Ceremony in the mountains of Ausangate
This is a traditional ceremonial offering of prayer to the spirits of the land in Peru. Maestra Mercedes and her Husband Jostino are native Q’ero shamans, one of the last living descendants of the Incas, who will guide you through this sacred experience in the powerful mountains of Ausangate. It’s a special and powerful way to ask for blessings of good health, protection, and prosperity, while deepening your connection to the mountains and the spirits of the land.
We will drive about 3 hours to their house as the base of Apu (mountain) Ausangate, have a nourishing dinner upon arrival and spend the evening at their house with her family. Its humble, simple house and a beautiful way to get to know how the local indigenous live. They will most likely show you their handmade crafts of tapestries, bags, belts, scarfs, altar cloths, feathers ect. available for purchase.
The next day we will enjoy an early breakfast and head off on our ceremony. We will take a 1.5 hour horse ride in the mountains to the ceremony location. Here we will ask permission from the mountain to work with its energy, receive a “limieza” or cleansing in the sacred waters, then sit traditional ceremony where we give Despacho offerings to the fire and request our prayers from the mountain spirit. We will ride the horses back, enjoy a nourishing meal and head back to the Sacred Valley.
If you’re looking to connect with indigenous culture here, I cannot recommend this experience enough. These maestros are the real deal!
Huachuma Ceremony
Huachuma is a legal, native medicine to the high andes of Peru - a cactus, known as the Grandfather spirit. He is a powerful plant teacher and healer, used to treat physical, emotional, and spiritual ailments. The experience is often described as heart-opening and can provide insights into one’s life and personal growth.
Huachuma brings you out of the mind into the depths of the heart to help you experience the pure power of divine, unconditional love to help you heal on a soul level, remember the truth of who you are and connect you deeper with nature.
He will show you where the limitations and the patterns for your ego are getting in the way of living up to your full potential. The medicine provides great support in releasing suppressed traumas, emotions and the pain in your heart so that you can return to your natural state of being and welcome in greater levels of peace, freedom and connection in your life. He will help you harmonize your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual body.
The ceremony will take place in a special location by a beautiful river at the base of Puma Huanca - a special mountain here in Sacred Valley, with Avalon and I holding space for you throughout the entire experience. At times, you'll have quiet moments to connect with the medicine on your own, while other times will involve music, prayer, and open discussions to support whatever comes up for you. After we will return home for closing fire ceremony.
Sound Healing Ceremony
A special, privately curated Sound Healing Ceremony guided by Avalon held in the coziness of the house. The ceremony is weaved with crystal bowls, crystal pyramids, flute, drum, harmonica, sacred songs and personalized light language.
To learn more about Huachuma and our medicine woman, Avalon CLICK HERE.
Sweat Lodge Ceremony with Aleider
A traditional sweat lodge is an ancient healing ceremony that invites purification, offering a journey inward and into the womb of Mother Earth. Through this ceremony, we connect with the four elements, their spirits, our ancestors, guides, and the cycle of life and death. It is both a rebirth and a celebration of life. When we emerge from the lodge, we are renewed with greater clarity, fresh energy, and cleansed from various energies. The experience is designed to be safe yet can also be challenging.
The sweat lodge is guided by Aleider, a storyteller, voice alchemist, and medicine man. Initiated through the Celtic sweat lodge tradition, he also incorporates teachings from the Lakota tribe of North America. His work as a facilitator of Sacred Space, especially in connecting to the authentic voice, has deepened his understanding of prayer within the lodge. His ceremonies are beautifully crafted journeys into the heart, blending prayer, devotional singing, and storytelling in harmony with the elements and the wisdom of the medicine wheel.
To learn more about what a sweat lodge & Aleider’s story CLICK HERE.
Afternoon at the Spa
A luxury spa experience at the beautiful Casa Raiz that includes a 60 minute message and 90 minutes spent in the dry chamber sauna, eucalyptus steam room, Spanish shower, a tub made with stones and quartz rocks (hand picked and brought down from the mountains by one of the owners) and pools with fresh water from the mountains naturally purified by salt from the maras.
Yes it is as dreamy as it sounds!
Accommodation
We will be staying in a private, peaceful villa tucked away in the mountains of Pisaq, about 45 minutes fro Cusco airport and 10 minute walk to town with artisan markets, restaurants & conscious community events. The villa comes with wifi, full kitchen, dining room, 4 full bathrooms & bedrooms, 2 living rooms, private garden, stunning view of the mountains and daily housekeeping. Laundry available at extra cost.
Receive Special Early Bird Price of $200 off any accommodation when you apply & book by April 15th.
Private Deluxe Room - SOLD OUT
$3,300 Early bird (Regularly $3,500)
King bed with private bathroom.
Double/Shared Room - 3 spots
$2,600 Early Bird Price (Regular $2,800)
Queen bed & full bathroom to be shared with one other Sister.
Meet Your Guides
Sydney Foltz
Retreat organizer, Trauma Informed Breathwork Facilitator, Feminine Embodiment Leader, Medicine & Integration Support.
Hello My love!
I will be your guide during this incredible week together, holding space for you to awaken your power as a woman and reconnect with the divine essence within.
About five years ago, I reached a breaking point—burnt out from the relentless hustle of being an actress and comedian in Chicago. Juggling multiple jobs, endless auditions, and big projects, I found myself thinking, There has to be more than this. That realization led me to the Amazon of Peru, where I sat in dieta with Shipibo maestros, working with Ayahuasca. Little did I know, this experience would become the catalyst for the most expansive and liberating era of my life.
I returned from the jungle transformed, with an undeniable knowing that my true purpose was to live, grow, and heal in deep connection with Mother Earth. So, I took the greatest leap of my life—I quit my jobs, left my agency and podcast, sold all my belongings, ended my relationship, and moved to a new country with no plan, only trust.
Since then, my path has been one of devotion—learning, training, and immersing in the sacred medicines of the Earth, specifically with Rose and Huachuma. I have received extensive training in Shamanic Reiki, Sacred Feminine Alchemy within the lineage of the Rose, Trauma-Informed Breathwork facilitation, Akashic Records and Plant Medicine Integration.
My initiation with the spirit of Rose deepened through a powerful dieta—about 3 weeks full of solitude, fasting, and communion with her essence. This journey awakened my Queendom, strengthened my boundaries, deepened my connection with goddesses like Quan Yin & Mary Magdalene, and helped me heal ancestral wounds and childhood traumas and allowed me to step into my power in a way I could of never imagined.
In the end, Rose extended an invitation—to devote my path to her teachings and guide women in awakening through her essence. I humbly accepted, and since then, my work has been in full service to her wisdom.
Now, I reside in the Sacred Valley of Peru, a land of profound transformation. Surrounded by the Apus—mountains that serve as portals to the heavens—I have undergone my own deep rebirth. It is here that this retreat was birthed, woven in prayer and ceremony from the depths of my heart. Every detail has been intentionally curated to create a safe and loving space where all aspects of your feminine are welcome.
This is a space to take off your masks, drop the armor, and surrender to the magic that already lives within you. I vow with all that I am that you will be divinely held and cared for as you awaken to the remembrance of who you truly are.
Welcome, sister. This journey awaits you.
Avalon Roza
Sound Healer & Huachuma Facilitator
Avalon holds a lot of integrity, embodiment and humility as a medicine woman. Her dedication to the plants is beyond inspiring. She has been working, supporting and sitting with different medicines, mainly Ayahuasca and Huachuma for the past 9 years. You can see the moment the ceremony opens the deep level of mutual respect and honor she and the plants have with each other. She learned how to serve Huachuma with a Peruvian family, who have been holding ceremonies for many years. She has facilitated countless retreats, medicine and diet space with her teachers for the past 9 years. One of her teachers being Nacho, a well respected Ayahuasca Facilitator here in Peru, who she has worked alongside for 7 years. She has spent 2 years in solitude sitting 16 different diets - 4 of which were with the Rose. Others plants include: Piñon Colorado, Noya Rao, Bobinsana, Tobacco, Renaquilla, Ajo Sacha, Bolquiero, Tamamuri, Shihuahuaco, Sequoia, and Oak. All of the plants she has sat with are her allies and she welcomes these plants into the ceremony to help hold, guide and protect the space.
Additionally, Avalon is a licensed healing touch practitioner and before medicine work, focused this practice with the elderly. She worked at a skilled nursing facility where she administered healing touch to support the transition of the souls of the dying. She is also a vibrational sound therapist and works with the healing power of sound to help people navigate stress, anxiety and restore harmony within the body. She is a Light language practitioner, she sings and speaks in different tongues to support people's individual prayers, helping people release what they are looking to let go of and bringing what they want to manifest. Her soul mission is to empower people with her voice, especially women.
I have chosen Avalon to be apart of this experience not only because of her years of experience with medicine & women’s work, the impeccable safe space she creates, her skills in supporting people one on one when needed. She holds a lot of wisdom, knowledge and education with the spirit of Rose and Huachuma. She has extensively dieted and worked with the spirit of the Rose and incorporates the teachings, wisdom and blessings of the rose with her offerings.
Click Here to learn more about Avalon and her work with Huachuma and Rose
Aleider Bernal Cordoba
Sweat Lodge Facilitator: Voice alchemist, Storyteller and world-artist
Sweat Lodge, Inipi and Temazcal is an ancestral and native healing ceremony that invites us to purification, allowing us to travel to the interior of our being and the Womb of Mother Earth. Connecting with the Spirits of the Elements, our Ancestors, Guides, the cycle of life and death, rebirthing and celebrating the present. We reborn with more clarity, with a new energy and we detox our being from many different energies. The ceremony is designed to be a safe but challenging experience.
Through his profound work as a facilitator of sacred space for the authentic voice led him to deepen his wisdom of prayer in Sweat lodge. A ceremony with Aleider is a Beautiful orchestrated journey into the one heart that intertwines prayer, devotional singing and storytelling in union with the four element and wisdom of the medicine wheel.
To learn more about what a sweat lodge & Aleider’s story CLICK HERE.
Maestra Mercedes
Q’ero Shaman & Despacho Guide
Maestra Mercedes and her Husband Jostino are native Q’ero shamans, one of the last living descendants of the Incas, who will guide you through this sacred Despacho ceremony in the powerful mountains of Ausangate. She and her husband carry the ancient wisdom and traditions of ceremonial prayer from her ancestors.
They are both so excited to welcome you on their lands and in their home!
Zach
Our Chef
“I believe in the power of food to nourish not only the body but also the soul. With a deep connection to the earth and a passion for creating mindful meals, I bring a unique blend of flavors and ingredients to the table.
Cooking for retreats is more than just a job for me; it's a calling. I see each dish as an opportunity to infuse love, intention, and positive energy into every bite. By using locally sourced, organic ingredients and honoring the natural rhythms of the seasons, I aim to create meals that not only satisfy hunger but also uplift and inspire those who partake in them.
My culinary journey is guided by a deep spiritual practice that informs every aspect of my cooking. I approach each meal with mindfulness and gratitude, recognizing the interconnectedness of all beings and the importance of nourishing both body and spirit. Through my food, I seek to create a space for healing, transformation, and connection, allowing retreat participants to experience the profound impact of conscious eating.
Join me on a culinary journey that goes beyond the plate, where each bite is a reminder of the sacredness of food and the joy of sharing a meal in community.”
Click here to learn more about Zach and His culinary magic!
Mother Rose
The rose is known to be the highest frequency plant on our planet and the symbol for the Divine Feminine. She is here to help initiate you into becming the divine leader of your life.
She stands strong in her stem, rooted into the intelligence of pachamama.
Her thorns serve as divine protectors, boundaries anchored in love.
Her petals are tender, sweet and bold.
She is royal, patient and wise.
She reminds you to TRUST in life and TRUST in self.
She invites you into your majesty, encourages you to share your magic with the world from the depth of your heart, anchored in your truth.
Here to guide you into the depth and beauty of your emotional waters, revealing the gift each emotion has for us - no matter how uncomfortable it may feel.
She is here to activate the divine remembrance that you belong on Mother Earth, and awaken the intelligence of our divine mother within you.
She will pierce through the pains of your heart and brings with her the gift of compassion, self forgiveness and grace.
She is here to take you on a journey into the great mystery of the heart, and initiate you deeper into the way of the divine feminine.
She will be our anchor during our time together.
Throughout the day, you will be drinking the local white hampi roses grown here in the valley to immerse with her spirit.
Her wisdom and embodiment weaved within every ceremony, every prayer, every moment of healing.
Huachuma
Huachuma is a native, indigenous psychedelic medicine home to the high Andes of Peru, It is a gift to be able to work with this medicine in its home. This spirit has a gentle power and is known to bring you out of the mind and into the depths of the heart to awaken your power, your purpose and experience deep levels of compassion, self forgiveness, unconditional love and oneness with Pachamama.
Huachuma helps you dive into your emotions, heal traumas and show the powerful teaching these wounds have for us. The medicine will show you where your ego is getting in the way of living a life from the truth of your heart. It's a medicine that gives you energy, stamina and helps you experience pure joy and the ecstasy of love within. It heightens all the senses to hear, see, smell, yourself and mother earth at a whole new level. When working with this medicine its can dissolve through any time constructs, remove the veils of disillusion, connect you back with your power, be a catalyst for your prayers and activate the deep remembrance that you are one with the Earth. Sitting with this powerful spirit allows you to return to your natural state of being and harmonizes you with the natural rhythms of our planet. It brings about profound clarity and is an excellent medicine for helping you discover a deeper sense of purpose for your life.
Rose and Huachuma grow alongside each other and are a powerful team. Huachuma represents divine masculine heart and rose represents divine feminine heart, when you bring them together you create the harmony of the Sacred Heart within. They carry with them the wisdom of compassion, forgiveness, and bring you into deeper balance with the truth of your soul and the wisdom of mother earth.
FAQs
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I recommend booking your flight to arrive in Cusco either in the morning or midday on arrival day. Alternatively, you can arrive the day before and spend the night in Cusco, a safe and charming city with affordable accommodations. I will arrange for a trusted taxi to pick you up in Cusco and bring you to the retreat home.
You will most likely have a connecting flight into Lima, where you will go through customs and re-check your bags. There are not ATMS in Cusco airport so I would get your cash out in Lima Airport.
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August is the end of our dry season here. Typically, the Sacred Valley is hot during the day (Around 70 F or 22 C) and cold in the night and early mornings.(around 40 F or 5 C). We are high in altitude which means no mosquitos!
When we spend the night in Ausangate, it will be much colder at night. I recommend brining warm layers.
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Nope! This retreat is for anyone who is ready to dive deeper into their healing. When you apply, I ask a series of questions about medical history and health to ensure its safe for you to journey.
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Once you book, I will send an email of detailing all of the logistics and suggestions on what to pack.
Leading up the retreat you will be encouraged to follow a diet to ensure your temple is clean to receive the medicine.
2 weeks before
No alcohol, recreational drugs, marijuana, psychedelic mushrooms or other plant medicines.
No sex with other partners (masturbation and self pleasure is welcome) this is to ensure that your energy is clean and fully yours. Trust me on this one...
Start eating very cleanly, cut out as much processed foods as possible, stick to fresh, high vibe (organic if possible) produce.
Be VERY mindful of your content as it can come up in the subscious when with the medicine. No scary movies, dirty rap, dark TV ect. Keep everything you digest inspiring, motivational and educational.
3 days before
No spicy, fermented, or overly fried foods. (foods cooked in light coconut or olive oil are okay).
No foods with added sugars.
I encourage you to start spending a lot of time with yourself and nature. Create sacred space to journal and tune into your prayer and intention for this journey. Notice what challenges are coming up for you right now as the medicine has already started working with you.
What are you ready to let go and release? What are you calling in its place?
TESTIMONIALS
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"There are a lot of healing modalities in the world but the particular flavor that Sydney brings is exactly what Women and Society need to wake up and come back into their innate power and ultimately bring the world into balance."
-Natasha
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“With the help of Sydney’s guidance, I was able to dive deep into that vast, infinite ocean of knowledge we all possess within us and I’m so grateful for the lessons my soul taught me! I emerged from the experience with clear direction and purpose.”
-Sorvina
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“Breathing with The Heart Womb Method cultivated the deepest connection my heart has ever felt with my womb space.”
- Danielle
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"There is something about the way Syd shows up, especially as a guide, that makes you want to have fun, and play! I am honored to have someone help me flow and open up to new uncharted waters within myself. "
-Celeste
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Sydney’s energy and space was so safe allowing me to express to my full capacity without holding back anything as well as the space held for integration and any further support was also welcome and there if needed. Sydney is very intuitive with what she believes the best method is for you depending on where you’re at in your journey and what she feels the earth calling in for you! I would highly recommend working with Sydney and receive her softness, love and open heart!
-Ashling
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I highly recommend Sydney! I am new to this form of healing. I was intrigued by using my own body and breath as a resource to heal deep wounds. I felt confident in her knowledge, her experience, her years of training and her spirit. I had no idea what to expect but I was open. The power of my breath guided safely by Sydney I cannot put into words. I went beyond what was in my conscious mind for the first time and released so much. Sydney is gentle, understanding and held space for me. I feel lighter, stronger, and everyday I notice a positive change. I can't wait for my next session! She is a gem!
-Leigh
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I’ve been doing breath work for years but Sydney’s Shakti breath workshop gave me access to parts of myself like nothing else. Shakti breathwork holds so much potency and magic for transformation, If you want to change your life it starts with your life force.
-Celia
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Care, compassion, and consciousness; Sydney Foltz leads with wisdom while creating room for your own journey to do the rest. Many “experts” boast of creating “safe spaces” without fully understanding what that looks like, namely for people belonging to marginalized identities. Sydney’s aura alone, however, naturally creates an environment conducive to letting one’s guard down. From the moment you meet her, it is clear that she has done her homework. Overall, my experience with Sydney Foltz’s breathwork journey was overwhelmingly positive. I never realized how powerful a process as natural as breathing could be a portal to the unmanifested.
-Sorvina
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I can’t imagine anyone better to hold this space for me. Sydney embodies the unbound wild divine sacred feminine in a way that makes the most sense for this generation and today's issues. She is unapologetically herself, ALWAYS. having her to guide me, spiritually holding my hand through this process of expanding and releasing was without a doubt perfectly orchestrated by Source. As I continue on this journey of unleashing and fully living, Sydney and the Dragon Shakti Breath method helped me burn away another layer of hurt, doubt, shame, and something else I can’t quite name.
- Natasha
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My breathwork sessions with Sydney were life-changing, and that is not an overstatement. Her attention to detail of the physical space and the energetic container were what allowed me to be fully present in the experience and therefore gain the best results.
-Kori
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Sydney is a beautiful soul, incredible facilitator, that will help you to come back home to yourself.
-Ola
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My womb space felt expansive and warm. I’ve noticed a heightened state of mental clarity since the session, as well as some emotional stickiness being released. I am certainly more connected to my sexual energy and creative fire which feels amazing. I plan on working with Syd many more times in the future—she is absolutely living her soul’s purpose with this healing work of the breath.
-Emily
