CURANDERA WOMEN'S CIRCLE
ANDEAN FIRE CEREMONY
Wednesday JULY 29th / 5.30 - 8 PM / Garrison NY
Join our beautiful sisterhood for a powerful and transformative Andean Fire Ceremony. This sacred ritual comes to us from the ancient lineage of the Q'eros, indigenous people of the high Andes of Peru. It allows us to shed and release what no longer serves us into the flames in order to make space for the new. Harnessing the powerful alchemy of the fire element we transmute the old into wisdom, strength and new blessings.
To register please Venmo $35 to @Katya-Varlamova, and text 917 741 2337 for location and other details.
PLANT TEACHINGS & MEDICINE MAKING WEEKEND
Join me on Saturday, Sunday or both days to commune with plant spirits in the most magical nature temples of the Hudson Valley. We will visit a spring of beautiful living water, a magical pond inside the Fahnestock Park, and a magnificent waterfall, to be with the healing waters and meet our amazing green allies: white pine, yarrow, nettles, dandelion, burdock, plantain, jewel weed, lambs quarters, sumac, yellow dock, golden rod, mullein, prunella and elderberry.
We will learn about plants' medicinal and magical properties, wild harvest and use them in food and medicine making.
Each day we will compose and craft 4 remedies such as tinctures, herbal vinegars, infused honeys, herbal elixirs, and a flower essence, for you to take home and enjoy.
We will gather from 10 am to 7 pm on Saturday and Sunday.
A delicious lunch, dinner, snacks and herbal mocktails will be served.
All materials are included.
Exchange: $175 per day, $300 for both days.
To register please Venmo to @Katya-Varlamova and text your name, email address and the date(s) you are attending to 917 741 2337.
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THE HEALING MAGIC OF THE ANDES Peru Healing Retreat
April 26 - May 6, 2027
We will travel to Lima, Cuzco and the Sacred Valley to visit sacred sites and receive an initiation into the Andean cosmovision, learn the ancient indigenous ways and philosophy of life, experiment with the ancestral sound and traditional sound healing instruments, create ceremony, offerings and ritual, and celebrate the the sacred symbol of the Chacana. This will be a life-changing and transformative journey of spiritual apprenticeship and renewal.
Please email katya@warmicitaherbals.com if you are interested in joining us and I will send you the detailed program.
PAST EVENTS
CURANDERA
WOMEN’S WEEKEND & DAY RETREAT
APRIL 24TH - APRIL 26TH, 2026
Garrison NY/ Hudson Valley
Join us for this very special sisterhood + nature healing retreat held on a sacred land in the heart of the magnificent Hudson Valley!
You are welcome to stay the full weekend or join for a day on Saturday or Sunday.
Our precious time together will be pure magic:
- Hike on sacred ancestral land to meet local plants and trees
- Soak in a heated pool, jacuzzi + sauna
- Relax and journey in a healing sound + aromatherapy bath
- Craft a delicious, spicy & highly medicinal spring pesto made of wild harvested medicinals
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Bake an herbal bread
- Receive magical guidance in a Tarot circle
- Enjoy evening sharing circle and herbal mocktails...
Our gathering will be held in a gorgeous modern private estate built for intimate group retreating with a heated pool, sauna, jacuzzi and an Appalachian trail running through the property.
Located in Garrison NY, just a short 1 hour drive from NYC or a spectacular train ride along the Hudson from Grand Central or Harlem-125th St.
RETREAT OPTIONS:
WEEKEND RETREAT (Friday - Sunday)
OR
SATURDAY OR SUNDAY DAY RETREAT
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APRIL 15th: REMEMBRANCE WITH ROSEMARY - we will commune with the powerful healing spirit of Rosemary, highly revered in every herbal tradition in Europe, North and South America. She is way more than a culinary spice and a hair growth remedy. We will work with the actual plant as well as the essential oil of Rosemary, and bring her magic into our Aires new moon manifestation ritual later in the evening.
ANDEAN GRATITUDE & MANIFESTATION RITUAL CELEBRATING SPRING & REBIRTH
Sunday March 29th / 3 - 5 PM
@ FIRELY YOGA / FISHKILL NY
Inspired by the ancient wisdom of the Q’eros, indigenous people of the Peruvian Andes, “Despacho” is a traditional offering held on special occasions and to honor change of seasons. It is practiced in order to foster healing, restore harmony and manifest blessings.
Together, we will create a colorful mandala made of flowers, herbs, shells, grains and other nature elements where each offering is placed by participants intentionally as an act of gratitude, prayer and manifestation.
In the words of the Q’ero Elder Don Manuel Q’espi, “We seek, through the Despacho ceremony, to bridge the ordinary and non-ordinary realms; to establish new patterns of relationship and possibility.”
We will finish our ceremony with a short crystal sound meditation to bring our prayers, intentions and manifestations deep into our cells and our hearts.
ANDEAN GRATITUDE & MANIFESTATION RITUAL CELEBRATING THE NEW LUNAR YEAR OF THE FIRE HORSE
Saturday February 21st / 3-5 pm at Sage Academy of Sound in Woodstock NY
Join us for a sacred ritual of gratitude, healing and manifestation to celebrate arrival of the new Lunar Year of the Fire Horse.
Inspired by the ancient wisdom of the Q’eros, indigenous people of the Peruvian Andes, “Despacho” is a traditional offering held on special occasions. It aligns participants with their spirit essence in order to heal, restore harmony and manifest blessings.
Together, we will create a colorful mandala made of flowers, herbs, shells, grains and other nature elements where each offering is placed intentionally as an act of gratitude, prayer and manifestation.
In the words of the Q’ero Elder Don Manuel Q’espi, “We seek, through the Despacho ceremony, to bridge the ordinary and non-ordinary realms; to establish new patterns of relationship and possibility.”
We will finish our ceremony with crystal sound to bring our prayers, intentions and manifestations deep into our cell and our hearts.
A delicious herbal infusion and light snacks will be served.
Register HERE
REVITALIZE YOURSELF WITH PLANTS: HEALING POWERS OF DIGESTIVE INFUSIONS
Sunday February 8 / 3-5 PM @ MOVE - Cold Spring
MAGIC OF GRATITUDE: ANDEAN DESPACHO CEREMONY
Saturday November 15 / 6.30 PM - 8 PM
@THE ALCHEMIST'S KITCHEN / 117 CROSBY ST NYC
Join us to alchemize your soul’s journey, step into your essence and raise your vibration in the colorful gratitude & manifestation ritual inspired by the Q’eros people of the high Andes.
Feeling grateful carries one of the highest vibrational frequencies on the planet and opens us up to receive joy, love, abundance and life itself in a whole new way.
This evening we will go beyond the obvious, distilling the gifts and strengths we have developed as a result of challenges and difficult experiences in our lives. Recognizing and owning them fully allows us to shift from the lower vibrations of guilt, shame and victimhood into the radiance of gratitude for who we have become along this journey.
With the help of plants, sound and meditation, we will flow gratefulness through our cells, unifying the heart and the mind, the conscious and the subconscious - the only space where a true energetic shift is possible.
From this powerful vibrational space we will move into a Despacho Gratitude Ceremony in the spirit of the Q’eros, indigenous people of the high Andes. Together, we will create a colorful mandala made of flowers, herbs, shells, grains and other nature elements where each element is placed by participants intentionally as an act of gratitude and manifestation.
You will leave the gathering feeling rooted in your own essence and your own worth, open, aligned and inspired to receive and create.
Register HERE spaces are limited.
CURANDERA WOMEN'S CIRCLE
Wednesday December 3rd
6 - 8.30 PM / Cold Spring NY
In December we will focus on immune health and make 🔥 FIRE CIDER 🔥, an amazingly powerful tonic for the immune and digestive systems. It helps fight off colds and flus, breaks up congestion and cough, balances blood sugar, restores and strengthens the intestinal flora... the magical ingredients include: horseradish, ginger, elderberries, cloves, cinnamon, garlic, onion, cayenne, turmeric, lemon, thyme, rosemary, apple cider vinegar, raw honey... it is a real powerhouse that can be used as a preventative or to treat acute conditions.
MEDICINAL PLANT WALK
SUNDAY JULY 13TH / 9-11 AM@ ASCEND / 75 Main, Cold Spring NY
Together we’ll take a stroll in our magical backyard (the Foundry Preserve of Cold Spring) to ID and wild harvest a few beautiful medicinals, such as chickweed, cleavers, dandelion, wild mustard, mugwort, sumac, ground ivy, wild rose and motherwort.
We’ll learn about the healing properties of local plants, their day to day use, and their magical gifts, as well as craft wild mugwort smudge-sticks for space clearing.
Join us for this fun nature walk and learn how these simple plants can be your great allies in health and wellness! Kids are welcome to join for free.
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SAGE ACADEMY OF SOUND HEALING RETREAT
JUNE 25-27 @ MENLA / Upstate NY
PLANT MEDICINE SONGS, ANDEAN CEREMONY & COSMOVISION
@ Sage Academy of Sound 16th Annual Sound Healing Intensive / June 26-28
Menla Retreat & Dewa Spa, Phoenicia NY
I am honored to be on the Sage faculty and to offer this module at Menla for the 3rd year in a row. In this workshop we will attune to the healing vibrations of the plant medicine as expressed through sound. We will learn about and experience different types of plant medicine songs ("icaros") coming from the Amazon jungle. Each of them carries a unique frequency and serves a specific purpose during a plant medicine ceremony. We will have an opportunity to connect to the healing frequencies of plants though sound. In the second part of the workshop we will travel from the Amazon to the Andes to dive into the Andean cosmovision and ceremony.
For more details and to register:
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