Meet the team
Adriana Balentine
Wise Warrior Retreats Founder & Community Steward
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Medicine: A mental health and trauma specialist, Adriana has transcended her own journey of complex illness to birth her mission of deeply rooted connections, collaboration and community. She holds a vision of the transformative power of healing containers, and the essential integration process that follows these life-changing experiences. She sees the potent possibilities when we commit to doing our own work. For ourselves, for the collective and for our planet.
Bre Wolta
Partner Connections Manager + Integration Facilitator
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Medicine: As a connector and self-development enthusiast, Bre pours her gifts of organizing and leadership into planning our retreat as well as utilizing her innate ability to hold safe space to lead guests through finding clarity within. It is her deep honor and calling to help people wake up to their life and change their default patterning. Her calming energy and wisdom helps guests soothe their tightly wound nervous system, untether from past versions of themselves, and reawaken to their true Self essence.
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Nature is my teacher. I have been working with Grandmother lineages since 2012. Prior to that I worked with various shamanic teachers and paths beginning in 2004 including Claudia Hromas of Vienna, Austria who comes from Sundance and Lilith lineages of teachings, Dennis & Marcia Miranda, Gregory Harper, and Teresa Iñiguez-Flores of the Mexican Palo tradition. I have been a practicing yogini since 2007. Some of the voices/teachings who have helped me shape and cultivate my meditative and creative practices include Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Dr. David Hawkins Ph.D, Ekhart Tolle, Teachings of Abraham, Richard Rudd, 13 Grandmothers, Michael Meade, Julia Cameron, Nana Veary, Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks, Krishnamurti, AmmaJi, Hale Makua, Tyson Yunkaporta and Don Miguel Ruiz. This is the foundation.
My Grandmother lineages are Mestizo and Shiphibo. Mestizo through Linda Marie Luna, María Cristina Mendoza coming from Don Solon Tello. Shiphibo through two families, Don Tomas Chávez y Delia Díaz Mori, Luzmila Diaz Mori and currently Olga Díaz Mori, & Don Gilberto Mahua and Catalina Mahua.
My grandfather lineages are of Huachuma and are mestizo/Quechua through Julián Sesari and the Quispe family.
My life’s work is to reflect creative empowerment, lead by example, and listen deeply to the Pachamama. Love, Light, Healing and “Highest and Best” is the overarching prayer and intention behind all. My service is born out of the deepest gratitude for the Healing and Holding that has been given to me.
Together with dear friends in California, and my husband in 2024 we started a tax exempt non-profit in Peru Colores de Abundancia, dedicated to cultural and artistic preservation within lineages where these practices are in danger of disappearing. I am a visual artist and musician, employing various mediums to express the beauties and mysteries I am continually in wonder of. My hope is that I do as much honor and justice as possible to the beautiful truths that have been gifted and hopefully inspire others to commit to their sacred and joyful creative purpose.
LINKS:
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IG: @officialwhiteravencreations , @coloresdeabundancia
White Raven - “Sanken Soi”
Facilitator
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Medicine: After spending over two decades as a mental health and addiction professional, Jen has formed a genuine respect for each person's unique Hero’s Journey.
She believes that our deepest fear is to be seen - and rejected. Her “medicine” lies in her genuine ability to witness, honor, encourage, and celebrate our most hidden and protected shadow-aspects in order to be accepted and integrated. She sees our human experience as simultaneously a painful and spectacularly beautiful portal for growth and evolution.
It is Jen’s greatest joy to participate as a soul ally on this path, wherever we find ourselves. Creating supportive, comfortable, safe and healthy spaces for transformative experiences to unfold is her passion.
Jen Sutton
Guest Communications
Jonathan Salas “Ronin Soi”
Guardian
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The plant lineage I am working with is Shipibo: Olga Díaz Mori "Senen Jisbe", & Don Gilberto Mahua. Since living in Cusco for almost 16 years, I have spent much time communing with the mountains, nature, and walking with the grandfather medicines.
I've dedicated the last 16 years of my life to being an artisan, working with precious and semi-precious stones and creating items and jewelry with macrame technique. My passions include creating music, working with plants and in the garden, a dedication to constant learning and self-improvement, and working with men in group settings. I have supported 6 group healing journeys in Peru and to the Amazon in the last 4 years.
Together with my wife we started “Colores de Abundancia” a tax exempt non profit organization in 2024, located in Peru. I am excited to be starting a seed saving and traditional agricultural project in 2026 with local communities.
Mi propósito es llevar paz, alegria a todos lugares donde voy. También de tener confianza y estar abierto a la vida y todo lo que puede ofrecer. Mi disponibilidad es como conectar a mis compañeros/as, el mundo, las plantas, los animales - con todo lo que representa "vida". Ofrezco con gratitude mi tiempo y dones a estar del servicio de todo lo que representa "Vida".
Alex Catizone
Retreat & Ceremonial Guardian Apprentice
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Alex is a guide who brings together practices of yoga, reiki, and plant spirit work cultivated over the past six years. She is also a blooming musician who finds deep joy in connecting through song and sound. With a background in education, Alex brings a thoughtful and intuitive presence to her space-holding, attuned to the subtle needs of each group.
Her life and purpose are rooted in her work as a community organizer, carpentry educator, and farmer. Through these paths she supports personal growth, empowerment, and collective resilience. In holding space, she carries forward this same spirit of service, helping participants ground into themselves and extend their growth into the wider community.
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Medicine: Hannah believes in living life through the wisdom of the body and true belonging to the Earth and each other. She has birthed a magic elixir for falling in love with life that is comprised of expressive movement, community and holding an unconditionally accepting space infused with irreverent humor.
Hannah has spent her entire life traveling around the world, through spiritual communities, Shamanic work, therapy, beautiful landscapes, retreats, and more - all in search of belonging. This journey and it’s fruition has led her to offer Holistic Coaching, women’s groups, workshops, dance, and more, to facilitate all of our true, unconditional connection to ourselves, each other, and all beings of Mama Earth- through true belonging.
She is a certified Hakomi Practitioner, embodied meditation teacher, founder of Awaken the Dance with over 15 trained teachers, and leader of multiple workshop and group formats. Hannah knows beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you, yes, you, belong.
Hannah Kinderlehrer
Movement Medicine + Holistic Somatic Coach
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Marie Luna grew up in the Southwestern United States, amidst the majestic peaks of the Rocky Mountains, and the canyon labyrinths of the Southwest deserts. She has lived and worked in the Four Corners for most of her life. She has a mixed ancestral background.
She has studied plant medicine for 40 years. She studied herbalism and midwifery and worked as a midwife and hospice nurse assistant throughout the 80s and 90s. She has also lived in Mexico, where she studied pre-colonial culinary techniques and recipes. She completed psychotherapy school in the 90s, and paired this with a bodywork and somatic release practice. Trauma resolution became a passion of hers during this time.
She has worked tirelessly to highlight and garner respect for indigenous healers and their medicines and ecosystems in Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Peru. She has organized internationally for healers, artisans, and permaculturists from indigenous and mestizo communities.
She has spent the past 30 years of her life learning the ways of plant medicines in Central America and South America with indigenous and mestizo teachers and guides. She has completed numerous plant dietas in Peru. Her facilitation style draws from many decades of study spent in ceremony with Medicine people from the Dineh and Ute Nations, the Amazonians Don Agustin Rivas Vasquez, Jorge Gonzalez, and Maria Cristina Mendoza Vidal, and members of the Peruvian Quechua, Inka, Bora Bora and Shipibo Nations.
It is supremely important to Marie that safety in set and setting be created and maintained throughout the ceremony retreat process. Of particular interest to Marie is safety and welcome for womxn-identified people, queer-identified people, members of the trans community, and BIPOC participants in ceremony.
Before you start thinking that Marie is ancient, she wants you to know that she started learning and studying healing at a young age! However, all of our ancestors' imprints are within us...so technically we are ancient wise beings. Marie would like to help you clear your mind, heart and spirit so that you may see how unique and amazing you truly are!
Marie Luna
Facilitator
Jessika Sands
Apprentice & Guardian
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After nearly two decades working in the mental health field, Jessika has utilized her education, training, and her own complex trauma history to navigate the journey of healing, for herself and for others. Her medicine lies in her demeanor, perspective toward healing, and profound respect for others in their journey. In holding spaciousness for processing, she sees possibility in all scenarios when working toward knowing ourselves at our deepest level. Although the experience of this journey is often difficult, the benefits can have an infinite effect, both for the individual in the midst of the work and throughout the collective community.
Jessika's passion is being of service in the community of healing with integrity, whether this be through therapeutic technique, walking alongside someone's journey, fostering relationships with plant medicine, or simply holding space.
Drea Marrero
Facilitator
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Drea is a leader, entrepreneur, certified nutritionist, private chef, and tasteful curator of medicine experiences. As a creative force and owner of Panacea, a line of tasty psilocybin infused superfood products, Drea lives her purpose in assisting people in healing themselves through the use of psychedelic mushrooms and other plant medicines.
Guest Facilitators
Julia
Yoga Instructor & Sound Healer
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Julia is deeply rooted in the Blue Zone lifestyle of Costa Rica, having lived in Pachamama Eco-Village for over 6 years, where her values of immersion in nature, care for the earth, clean water, organic food, and a low-stress, ocean-close community are at the core.
A former professional fencing athlete, she approaches life with discipline, exploration and a beginner’s mindset, an ever-curious approach to life and wellness.
Julia has healed chronic conditions like allergies and anxiety through nutrition, fasting, and Kambo medicine, which she studied directly with the Matses Tribe in the Amazon. As a lifelong wellness practitioner, she has mastered Tibetan and crystal bowl sound healing under the guidance of master teacher Lola Lhamo and trained extensively in yoga in India, including Restorative Yoga.
Her dedication to longevity, vitality, and healthy living involves diving deep into fasting, anti-aging protocols, and conscious nutrition. Julia’s mission is to inspire others to thrive by blending ancient wisdom with modern wellness.
Jenak
Breathwork Facilitator
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Hello, my name is Jenak P C. I am a Costa Rican holistic therapist (sound, breathing, movement).
I want to invite you to take a conscious breath. A breath in the presence of our existence and energy.
Hola mi nombre es jenak P C soy terpeuta holistico costarricense ( sonido,respiracion , movimiento )
Quiero invitarlos a tomar una respiracion consciente. Un aliento en presencia de nuestra existencia y energía.