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The Golden Thread Creative Shamanic Retreat

  • A Weekend of Ceremony, Creativity & Soul Flight


‘Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them, we must learn to listen’’
— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Within each of us, there is a thread of light — a golden weaving that connects our inner world with the wider web of life.
The Golden Thread Retreat invites you to step into that sacred weaving, to walk between worlds with the wisdom of Jaguar and Serpent as your guides.

This retreat forms part of The Mystical Path Training, but it can also be taken as a stand-alone workshop for those drawn to deepen their connection with Andean shamanic practice and personal healing.

The Golden Thread 📍 Location: Laughton Lodge, East Sussex
🗓 Duration: 2.5 days (Friday 3 PM – Sunday 4:30 PM)
⏳ Schedule:

  • Friday: 3:00 PM – 10:00 PM
  • Saturday: 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM
  • Sunday: 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM

🌺 A Three-Day Journey into the Heart of Andean Wisdom

Walk with Great Allies — Serpent and Jaguar to weave healing, vision, and ancestral connection into your own golden thread.

It is also an excellent taster if you are considering the Mystical Path Training.

You Will Experience:

✨Ancestral altar & shadow work

✨ Experiential and fun energy exercises, fire circle, shamanic journeying, and simple healing techniques

✨ Deep connection to powerful Autumn energies in the heart of Mother Earth

✨ Working creatively with the three worlds: Ukhupacha (Lower World), Kaypacha (Middle World), and Hanaqpacha (Upper World)

✨ Nourishing organic meals, prepared especially for you

✨ All materials provided

✨After the retreat, you’ll join three online integration sessions, where you will receive the Kinsantin Karpay initiations for the Lower, Middle, and Upper Worlds.

🕊️ Friday: Opening the Portal to The Golden Thread Energy

3:00 PM – 6:30 PM | Arrival, Land Blessing & Intention Setting

  • Welcoming Circle – introductions & setting intentions
  • Calling in the Four Directions, focusing on the South and West (Serpent and Jaguar’s Direction)
  • Ancestral Altar & Honouring Exercise. Building a collective altar for ancestors (photos, stones, flowers).
  • Personal Reflection & Journaling

6:30 PM | Early Dinner & Silent Nature Walk

  • Observing the land & collecting natural elements for the altar and evening ceremony

8:30 PM |Evening Ceremony – Sachamama Stick

  • Each participant chooses a stick to represent the shedding of old skins.
  • Tracking with the four perceptual states (Serpent, Jaguar, Hummingbird, Eagle) to see how the old story is held.

🌿 Saturday: Transformation & Power (Jaguar, Ancestors, Middle World)

8:00 – 9:00 am Embodiment Practice – Jaguar walk, solar plexus activation, breath.
9:00 – 10:00 am Breakfast.

10:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Shamanic Journey: Meeting Jaguar in the Middle World (Kay Pacha)

✨Courage, impeccability, fearlessness.

✨Paired sharing & journaling.

✨Placing Jaguar and Hummingbird stone in the sandpainting.

1:30 – 12:30 pm Shadow Work 

  • Shadow exercise
  • Invocation and offering practice.

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM | Lunch & Nature Meditation

  • Silent sitting with a flower or tree
  • Collecting objects for sand painting

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Creative Embodiment: Art, Movement & Expression
🧵 Creative & Felting Workshop: Beginning to create a shield inspired by the four directions

🪶 Sacred Play & Movement Ritual: Engaging in intuitive dance
🎭 Mythic Storytelling Exercise: Rewriting your personal healing story

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Guided Meditation with Hatun Amaru or Serpent into the Lower World (Ukhu Pacha)
🌺 Connection to Amaru and sandpainting work, receiving guidance.
🌟 Integration & Reflection through painting or journaling

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM |Despacho/Mesa Work

  • Creating a small Three Worlds despacho with flowers, seeds, and sacred materials
  • Exploring and deepening your relationship with your mesa

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM | Fire Ceremony

  • Shedding what no longer serves you, releasing Sachamama sticks into the fire.
  • Release of roles, shadows, or patterns from the day.
  • Group reflection: “What vision am I carrying forward?”

🌸 Sunday: Integration & Blessing (Eagle, Upper World)

8:00 – 9:00 am Morning meditation & movement.
9:00 – 10:00 am Breakfast.

10:00 AM – 11:30 PM | Integration & Creative Expression
🌀 Finishing sand painting & creating an offering to the Earth
🌿 Writing a gratitude letter to the Allies & Pachamama
🎨 Guided visualization: The Golden Thread

  • Adding Eagle stone to complete the Four Allies mandala.
  • Group reflection on the golden thread weaving through their lives.

11:30 – 12:30 pm Creative Integration

  • Continue shield/felt piece.
  • Journaling & storytelling: “My mythic shield / my golden thread story.”

12:30 – 2:00 pm Lunch.

  • Optional one-on-one check-ins with the facilitator

2:00 – 3:30 pm Final Sound Meditation to integrate the work we have done together.

3:30 – 4:00 pm Sharing Circle & Closing Blessing.

2:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Closing Circle & Embodiment Practices
🌿 Stepping into Eagle Energy for the Future
🎨 Creative Integration Session: Painting, felting, or journaling reflections
🪶 Felting/Weaving Ritual: Adding final elements to the creative piece
🔮 Final Meditation: Flying Forward with Eagle

4:30 PM | Departure & Goodbyes

  • Gathering belongings, gratitude ritual, and farewells

💬 Testimonials

“I appreciate your gentle holding of all of us and your authenticity and humility in everything that you do.”
– Second-Year Mystical Path Student

“This work has also been a blessing for the land. The ceremonies, the despachos, the prayers — they felt like seeds planted into the earth, seeds that will grow into renewal for the land, the community, and for all of us who walk this path. It is humbling to know that as we heal ourselves, we are also in service to life itself.

I leave this training not only with knowledge, but with a renewed sense of trust and purpose. I feel more grounded, more complete, and more connected. It has been a gift, and I know this is only the beginning of a lifelong journey.”– Soul Retrieval Workshop Participant 2025

🌸 Reserve Your Spot 🌸

This transformative weekend is filling up fast! Don’t miss your chance to embark on a soul-expanding journey with us.

🔗 Booking Form

📩 Contact Us: Ali Rabjohns, MBACP (Accred) Shamanic Practitioner and Therapeutic Arts Facilitator, Hummingbird

With Facilitator: Ali Rabjohns

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Ali Rabjohns MBACP (Accred)

My mission is to support you in awakening to your authentic self and walking your unique path. I hold a compassionate, grounded space to facilitate journey experiences that align you with your living energy, inner wisdom, and highest destiny.

I am a full Mesa Carrier in the Q’ero traditions of the Andes and have been initiated as a 4th-level Priestess in the Inca mystical lineage. I recently returned from leading a retreat in Peru with Pampamesayoqs Don Agustin Machacca Flores, Don Santos Machacca Apaza, and Vilma Pinedo — a profoundly life-changing experience.

“We dream our world into being through the land of the mythic. Shamanism is about having a foot in both worlds — the everyday world we live in, and the world of spirit.”
— Ali Rabjohns

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Earlybird Offer: £550 (until 31st October 2025) and £650 thereafter. A deposit of £50 (payable in advance) is needed to confirm your place. Please get in touch with Ali directly to avoid any extra fees: enquiries@alirabjohns.com. (N.B.: Please note that this includes the cost of accommodation and food; concessions are available, contact Ali to discuss)

What to bring: wet weather gear, notebook and pen, blankets/cushions to be comfortable, and anything else you need to feel good during the day. Tea/coffee/ snacks and lunch will be provided.

The Mystical Path training intends to prepare you to become a fourth-level Paqo (or healer in the Andean tradition). We are looking to create a heaven here on earth. For more info, go to https://alirabjohns.com/the-mystical-path-programme/

Organiser Facebook Profile: https://www.facebook.com/alirabjohns.paqo/

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💬 What Others Say

“These three days have been more than a course; they have been an initiation. From the moment we opened the directions and called in the mountains, rivers, sun, moon, stars, and ancestors, I felt held in a sacred container of light. This was not just learning a technique — it was stepping into a living tradition of prayer, practice, and protection.

For me, the biggest shift has been realising that healing does not come only from working on my own ‘problems’. The deepest healing has flowed through exchanging energy, learning from others, and being in community. Even before the final ceremony, I could feel pieces of my soul returning, like parts of a jigsaw puzzle finally finding their place.”
– SR, Mystical Path Student, Lewes 2025

🌟 Answer the call of Serpent and Jaguar!
🎟️ Reserve Your Spot Now: Booking Form

Logistics:

This retreat includes food and accommodation. This was the menu for our last retreat at Laughton Lodge; all dietary restrictions can be catered for:

  • Split lentil Chilli sin Carne with Rice, citrus slaw salad, and tortilla chips. Creme fraiche (dairy) and fresh coriander on the side. 
  • Squash and Chestnut stew, crispy shitake mushrooms, chunky sourdough, toasted sunflower seeds, baby leaf salad, and a lemon, tahini, and mirin drizzle 
  • Aromatic Coconut Curry, with Orange cauliflower, homegrown kale, and lime leaf. Served with jasmine rice, fresh limes, fresh coriander, and a citrus slaw.
  • Breakfast includes a selection of fresh fruit and yogurt, cereals, and toast. Eggs and fruit juice are also available.
  • Teas, coffee, and snacks are available throughout the day.

For more information on accommodation, please look here to get an idea.

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Clients say - About Our Retreats

"If you are looking for a spiritual retreat, where you feel recharged, re-energised, and re-filled with love, compassion and fortitude. I strongly recommend you consider joining this Taripaypacha Retreat. First of all, you'll experience an immediate energy of love and compassion from the organiser Ali and facilitator Eva, who invested all their energy to ensure that this retreat was the highest light vibration. The Master Q'ero Elders from the High Andes, were also present and shared their wisdom with complete love.
Letizia Brave Heart
Letizia Brave HeartU.S.A
So you may think all right this is full of love and light, what do I get out of it? I am a New Yorker, who took my butt to England to attend this retreat. I didn't know anyone and I didn't know what to expect. It was about 10 days full of love and I left all my stress from the United States of America behind, I was sad that I had to come back. So if you're contemplatng I ask you, what can you do to bring joy to your life and peace? Consider attending one of Ali's retreats or events with Don Agustin and Santos, and do it for your soul.
Letizia Brave Heart
Letizia Brave HeartU.S.A
I loved recieving the Karpays from Don Agustin and meeting him and Santos ! I am so grateful and feel it was an experience of a lifetime for me. I will always remember the lovely home cooking and catching up with Alethea each day when she came in to cook for us 💗 I also loved making new friends and the interaction and playfulness and bonding with all of us . I had such a comfy lovely room to retire to and could see the stars each night from my window. The retreat was a life changing dream come true for me. Thank you 🙏🏼
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Suzy ABrighton, East Sussex
There are some things in life that we dither about doing, maybe from fear we might make a wrong decision, be uncomfortable, out of our depth or the misfit in a group of strangers. If that’s how you are thinking when considering this Retreat, you won’t feel any of those things. You will find your place in a group of compassionate and wonderful people, in a beautiful setting, and you will be allowed to be you, whoever you are.The Retreat came as a whole bundle of experiences, learning, companionship and relaxation - a complete escape from everyday life. To have the chance to listen to, learn from, be in the presence of, and healed by Don Augustine and Santos is truly a once in a lifetime event and I feel so privileged to have been given, and taken up, the opportunity.I have taken away a real sense of self, calm and surety in wherever I am next led. If this is a path that you want to explore further, have been interested in or don’t yet really know much about but want to, then you will get everything you are looking for from this Retreat, and almost certainly a whole lot more.
Jo Wakefield
Jo WakefieldWest Sussex
"For me it was fantastic magic to meet the Andean spiritual tradition. It feels like I've found home, found what I've been looking for. So grateful and happy about the initiations. I feel their energies spin in my body. I feel even more at peace of mind and body. The condor (white) is with me and gives me an even greater understanding of my task in this life. I see even more clearly. Have even more understanding in heart. All knowledge needs to be integrated in my heart, in order to be integrated into life. I feel the connection with Peru, Agustin & Santos & the twelve mountains in my heart. I connect with love and the energy flows. The relationship with my mesa has deepened considerably. We're talking."
J
JSweden 2019
"This retreat was a dynamic, powerful and penetrating experience. Each day included a Karpay/ Intiation which opened my heart and mind to a whole different level of consciousness and brought me back into the essential experience of being. I was plunged to the depths of my body and soul and then elevated to the higher realms of the cosmos. At one time I felt I was caught in the emotional backwash and riptides of the ocean - pain,sadness and grief erupted from every cell of my body to be released and washed away. Everything felt shiny and new - smells, taste and moving my body was at first strange, then I realised how disconnected I had been. I was finally at one with myself and united with the energetic Multiverse. We had the privilege of meeting Don Agustin and his son Santos who are Q'eros from the Andes near Cusco Peru. Don Augustine is a master working with living energies. His power, knowledge and wisdom shine through his twinkling eyes and his spontaneous laughter. During the 8 days Don Agustin offered personal healings which had a deep and profound effect. I feel very lucky and humble to have had the opportunity to meet one of the last Q'ero elders to be working in this way. This practice is alive, grounded and very real. Brightest Blessings"
SL
SLE. Sussex, 2019
These three days have been more than a course; they have been an initiation. From the moment we opened the directions and called in the mountains, rivers, sun, moon, stars, and ancestors, I felt held in a sacred container of light. This was not just learning a technique — it was stepping into a living tradition of prayer, practice, and protection. For me, the biggest shift has been realising that healing does not come only from working on my own ‘problems’. The deepest healing has flowed through exchanging energy, learning from others, and being in community. Even before the final ceremony, I could feel pieces of my soul returning, like parts of a jigsaw puzzle finally finding their place.
SR
SRE. Surrey, 2019
This work has also been a blessing for the land. The ceremonies, the despachos, the prayers — they felt like seeds planted into the earth, seeds that will grow into renewal for the land, the community, and for all of us who walk this path. It is humbling to know that as we heal ourselves, we are also in service to life itself. I leave this training not only with knowledge, but with a renewed sense of trust and purpose. I feel more grounded, more complete, and more connected. It has been a gift, and I know this is only the beginning of a lifelong journey.”
Soul Retrieval Workshop Participant
Soul Retrieval Workshop ParticipantLewes 2025

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