Registration Options
Total cost for the intensive is $2000. Register and pay your initial deposit of $1000. The second half of payment is due by March 15th, 2025. Payment for accommodations will be due by April 1st, 2025.
Brainspotting Ancestral Healing Retreat
*Please read all the details below before signing up!
In this ancestral healing retreat, we will utilize Brainspotting, somatic abolitionism, shamanic healing practices, and spiritual/energy practices to gain a deeper understanding of burdens and blessings within our ancestral lineage and its impact on our lives. By working through unresolved issues or trauma, individuals can release any negative patterns or emotions that may have been passed down through their family line and also address these patterns through an intergenerational (multi-generational healing) perspective. Our goal will be to offer a strong container for one another as we each work on issues that have been passed down to us generationally or through the collective power structures and to also work with the energetics of ancestral trauma. This work will likely have supernatural elements to it, especially at our location in Akumal, Mexico, which is on an energy vortex. The group will be capped at 10 participants.
The Program:
-Complete pre-work that will be sent out prior to the retreat
-Experience a 2-3 hour Brainspotting session focused on ancestral healing/ancestral burden with Mariya in a group setting
-Hold space for your cohort members by practicing attunement and how to build a strong energetic container capable of moving and healing collective trauma utilizing the Brainspotting frame, uncertainty principle, and attunement
-Learn how to work with spiritual/intuitive gifts, set boundaries, work with guides, and other beings through Brainspotting and other shamanic methods
-Learn how to move collective/ancestral trauma energetically, somatically
-Learn how to work with unhealed ancestors and ancestral burdens
-Learn to reclaim ancestral gifts and healing abilities
-Debrief and integration sessions in a group setting each day
-This may include shamanic work, regression work, past life readings, and energy healing by Mariya
-Learn somatic abolitionism practices and other techniques to do ancestral healing and lineage work
-Connect with the spirit of the land and learn how to work with energetic land healing and clearing
-Learn techniques to ground and create a sacred circle in a communal setting
-Participate in deep, meaningful work to assist the changes happening on the planet by working with your ancestral line
-Learn how to make and work with a sacred altar and the elements
-Connect more deeply with your consciousness through Brainspotting and other practices
-Please note the group will be open to those of all backgrounds, races, and cultures. We will be engaging in the work from the grounding truth that all of us have healed and unhealed ancestors, burdens and blessings from our lineages, and that our original ancestor is the Earth herself
-A Temezcal (sweat lodge) ceremony guided by a Mayan elder
-Breathwork workshop geared towards release and rewiring (I'm a Certified Breathwork Practitioner).
-Optional: Kambo/sapo ceremony (a powerful cleansing and purgative medicine from a sacred tree frog from the Amazon which I serve).
Program is subject to change.
While this will have teaching components, this is an experiential healing retreat involving teaching and transmissions, versus a training. The last group that went on this pilgrimage had a profound healing experience that has been life changing for all involved, personally and professionally. This is an intensive week and I recommend connecting with your intuition and deeper self to inquire if this is calling to you at this time.
Details/Payment
Prerequisite: Completion of live in-person or online Phase 1 and Phase 2 trainings.
Schedule: We will be working each day from 9 am - 6 pm Monday through Friday. There may be some optional experiences held in the evenings or early morning (temezcal, breathwork, kambo)
Cost of Intensive: $2,000.00 USD per person.
To hold your spot for the intensive, a $1,000 deposit is required, with total payment due by March 15th, 2025, and lodging/meal payment due by April 1st, 2025. Please contact us if you are in need of a payment plan. We would be delighted to have you.
Lodging Information/Costs: The cost of lodging will be $500-$800 USD per person for the week. We will be staying at the Cenote Balam Ha Retreat Center in Akumal, Mexico. Lodging and meal (breakfast/lunch) costs will be due by April 1, 2025. Each attendee will have their own room.
Meals/Costs: The cost of meals (breakfast/lunch) will be approximately $300 USD per person for the week. We will have a personal chef making fresh, delicious breakfast, lunch, and dinner options each of the days of the intensive. Refreshments and snacks will be provided throughout the day.
Attendees may arrive after 3 pm on Saturday, April 5th or Sunday, April 6th (all participants must be at the lodge by Sunday, April 13th), and must check out by 12 pm on Saturday, April 20th, 2025.
**If you wish to arrive on Saturday, April 12th to have extra time to explore and play, please note this in your registration form.**
Total Approximate Cost in USD= $2000 for intensive, $500-800 for lodging, $300 for meals plus costs of flights/transportation/additional services.
Airport Information: The closest/most convenient airport to fly into will be Cancun International Airport (CUN). It is approximately 1-hour drive away from Akumal. We will provide options for private transportation if desired. Cozumel Airport (CZM) is also an option, however, a ferry ride will be needed to reach the mainland.
Additional Details: We will be offering optional group and individual kambo sessions, breathwork, and individual Reiki sessions on Sunday, April 6th, and throughout the week if desired at an additional cost (facilitated by Mariya Javed-Payne and Greg Payne). We will also have the option to gather in a facilitated traditional temezcal (sweat lodge ceremony) midweek to assist in the healing work we will be doing. We will provide additional details as we get closer to the event. Please state your interest in the registration form and reach out to us with any questions.
See below for cancellation/refund policy.
YOUR TRAINER:
Mariya Javed-Payne, MSW, LICSW, LADC
Mariya Javed-Payne is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor and International Brainspotting Trainer and Consultant.
She is a somatic psychotherapist and the owner of Awaken Consulting Services, a private practice and consultancy where she utilizes Brainspotting therapy and offers training and consultation on the treatment of trauma, somatic psychotherapies, psychedelic assisted therapy, anti-racism, and other relevant mental health topics. She also offers therapy intensives for complex PTSD and addictions, where clients work with her for multiple hours a day for a number of days to get to the root of traumatic experiences.
Always seeking out the most cutting edge advances in treatment, she utilizes psychedelic medicines such as ketamine with somatic therapy. Her 14 years of experience have focused on clients with addictions, medication assisted treatment therapies, complex and developmental trauma, racial and ancestral trauma, oppression, and chronic pain. Identifying as a deep-hearted visionary and servant leader, she has served various leadership roles in the mental health service industry, such as Chief Clinical Officer at Institute for Integrative Therapies, the first psychedelic assisted therapy clinic in Minnesota, as well as Director of Behavioral Health at a large federally qualified health center. Mariya has courageously supported and trained many teams of physicians, therapists, psychiatrists, and social workers to embody attunement and provide trauma-responsive, anti-oppressive counseling and addiction therapies to people and communities in need of healing.
ABOUT BRAINSPOTTING:
Brainspotting is a powerful, focused treatment method that works by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation and a variety of challenging symptoms. Brainspotting is a simultaneous form of diagnosis and treatment, enhanced with BioLateral sound, which is deep, direct, powerful yet focused and containing.
Brainspotting identifies activated eye positions designated as Brainspots. Located through either one or both eyes, Brainspots are observed from either the “Inside Window” of the clients felt sense and/or the “Outside Window” of the clients’ reflexive responses (i.e., blink, eye twitches or wobbles, pupil dilation, quick breaths and subtle body shifts). Students will first learn the phenomenological approach that underpins strategies for Brainspotting, followed by strategies for identifying and processing Brainspots. Attention will be given to the utilization and integration of Brainspotting into ongoing treatment, including highly dissociative clients.
Brainspotting is adaptable to almost all areas of specialization. Brainspotting provides therapists with powerful tools to enable their patients to quickly and effectively process through the deep brain sources of many held traumas, emotional, somatic and performance problems.
AUDIENCE:
Psychologists, social workers, counselors, coaches, healing professionals with strong clinical backgrounds, current students, and interns that have completed live Phase 1 and Phase 2 Brainspotting training.
CANCELLATION POLICY:
Refund Policy: Full refund minus $75 administrative fee will be given prior to February 7th 2024. A 50% refund minus $75 administrative fee will be provided up to March 17th, 2025. After March 17th, 2025, attendee would be allowed to attend another intensive for up to 1 year from original date.
Total cost for the intensive is $2000. Register and pay your initial deposit of $1000. The second half of payment is due by March 15th, 2025. Payment for accommodations will be due by April 1st, 2025.