Planeta Agua — March 6-8th with Indigenous wisdom teacher Carmen Vicente is a workshop of Elemental Education to enchant the mind, strengthen the body and fortify the spirit. Together we explore the wisdom of the water, the nourishment it provides and reverential practices for sacred connection.
Lineage carrier, chief and wisdom teacher Carmen Vicente shares Indigenous knowledge and spiritual technologies to support the collective awakening in these prophetic times through her work Planeta Agua
This journey will help you connect with the sacred human experience and the brilliance of your soul’s purpose within collective world-making. With conscious action and acute attention we can shift from an ordinary life into an extraordinary existence.
Through the work of the altar we will connect to our ancestors, the Earth and the
wisdom within.
MEET YOUR GUIDES
WISDOM TEACHINGS
PLANETA AGUA with Carmen Vicente
Together we center the role of Indigenous wisdom teachings in these unprecedented times of transformation
We are witnessing dominant systems that numb us and make us believe we are disconnected.
Through Indigenous teachings we realign ourselves into coherence with the living world and remember we are part of a wise and animate system of care.
Planeta Agua - March 6-8th - Indigenous Leader & teacher Carmen Vicente will lead us in elevating our culture of education through ancestral wisdom and the technology of the waters. This elemental education invites us to deeply listen and remember our connection to the living world. Our aim is to fortify our minds in becoming fierce allies, strengthening our bodies for collective action and opening our hearts for emotional liberation.
WISDOM KEEPER | CARMEN VICENTE
Teacher. Cultivator of the Word.
Carrier of the Sacred Art of Altars.
Sun and Spirit Dance Chief.
Chief of Vision Quest.
Creator of the School of Secrets. Spiritual Leader. Messenger of the Carnation.
Carmen was born in the province of Loja, Ecuador. Heir of a spiritual lineage, she has been recognized in her community since her birth for her gifts as a “healer” and during her childhood she actively practiced this role, specifically healing children and animals. In her adolescence she left her community to start a life in the city. She began her path in the theater in the sixties in Ecuador, performing on the most important stages and at festivals in America and Europe.
Concurrently, she also dedicated herself to recovering the art of craft making with women’s organizations in marginal sectors of the country, such as jails and other vulnerable populations, education programs for indigenous and peasant children with UNICEF-UNESCO.
Three decades of experience in the theater, the arts, and her expansion of her original role, makes Carmen Vicente an exceptional woman recognized by authorities of different indigenous nations from North and South America, with whom she has established permanent alliances. In this way she has consolidated her lineage as a Woman of Spiritual Path, Sun and Spirit Dance Chief and Vision Quest Chief.
CLAUDIA
Claudia Cuentas is a Peruvian ceremonialist, artist, researcher, educator, and somatic therapist (LMFT), passionate about the Art of healing and the decolonization of health. She is the co-founder of Cora Center, a License Psilocybin Service Center (www.coracenter.org) and a certified Psilocybin facilitator living in Portland Oregon. She comes from an Aymara heritage and a strong lineage of artists, social activists and healers in her family.
Claudia is trained in many different modalities all in connection to trauma recovery, restoring health and the arts. Her approach is a combination of 20 years of training in Western Healing modalities, and Indigenous Ways of knowing from the Andes and Jungle in South America. Some of her training includes Somatic Experiencing (SEP), Drama Therapy (CIIS), Expressive Arts Therapy (Tamalpa Institute), MDMA assisted Psychotherapy Training Program (MAPS) and Ketamine for trauma recovery (Polaris Insight Center). Claudia also has been ordained by her teachers in Ecuador and Peru, after extensive studies and preparations for almost two decades.
Her focus is on the intersectionality of generational and ancestral trauma, plant medicine science, the art of healing, eco-informed therapy, somatic/nervous system and indigenous knowledge. Claudia is also a recording musician and a singer songwriter.
KARINA
Karina is in service to collective liberation through earth medicine healing arts and is a bridgekeeper for indigenous wisdom teachers. She is a certified holistic health, transformation and integration guide with a focus on plant medicine, working with groups and one on one clients. She is a certified transformational breathwork facilitator and specializes in awakening somatic wisdom. She is the founder of the wellness platform Sovereign by Nature, non-profit The ARC, healing container for womxn The Sacred Session and The BridgeKeepers Council advocacy group. She was recently the Program Director at a non profit healing center in Costa Rica.
She has studied with wisdom keepers, elders and teachers from many different lineages. Her work centers ceremonial work, collective healing, systems change and culture shifts.
Karina holds space from a place of non-judgement, she creates a divine container where others can shed, remember, integrate and grow. She believes that through deep understanding, reverence and unconditional love for the self we fuel present awareness and sovereignty. Through conscious action we improve our lives and relationships. More
JULIAN
Julian DeVoe is a founding partner of Sovereign by Nature. He is n advocate for self-growth, thriving health and personal empowerment. Through the practices of ceremony, yoga, qigong, natural movement, conscious touch, shamanic meditation, mindful eating and practical spirituality he encourages personal discovery of truth. Julian’s unique movement and mindfulness (interdisciplinary) teaching approach is powerful and accessible.
Julian spent many years in Peru in service to Plant Medicine facilitation. He was most recently a Senior Program Director at a non profit healing center in Costa Rica.
He is the author of Robust Vitality and a book of verse, Insights Out.
TIERRA VALIENTE | BRAVE EARTH
Brave Earth is located between San Ramon and La Fortuna, nestled in between Arenal Volcano and the Children’s Eternal Rainforest, the largest reserve of protected wildlife in Costa Rica.
As a living lab, we have experimented with different building modalities using AirCrete and materials sourced on the land including bamboo and adobe. We have implemented biophilic design, closed-loop systems and permaculture design principles. Ornamental, food, and medicinal gardens surround the center as well as hiking trials to a nearby river, and a natural swimming pond.
CULTURES OF TRANSITION
The impulse for Tierra Valiente stems from an awareness of our civilizational trajectory within the dominant culture with its source code of extraction, domination, commodification, colonization, control, entitlement, and separation from the living world.
We are both informed by this critical lens and inspired to create outside of the old values and incentive landscapes to build a culture based on reciprocity, regeneration and resiliency.
In this collective transition - whether you call it the Anthropocene, the Kali Yuga, late-stage capitalism or capitalist modernity - our intention is to become more attuned to this cultural context in order to decolonize the conditioning of the dominant system and be in deeper service to our collective potential.
Our living lab is located on the northwestern Caribbean slope of Costa Rica, about 2.5 hours from San Jose. We have created an 80-acre commons nestled between the Children’s Eternal Rainforest, one of the largest protected regions of rainforest north of the Amazon and Volcano Arenal.
Juan Santamaria International located in San Jose is the nearest airport to Brave Earth. We are approximately a 2.5h drive from San Jose.
We are located 11 miles south from La Fortuna Arenal Area in a community called San Isidro de Peñas Blancas, La Fortuna, Alajuela.
GPS Coordinates:
10°23’16.2”N 84°35’50.8”W
Our address is:
Transportation:
Please reach out to maxine@braveearth.com with any transportation or logistic questions.
Private Taxis (1-5 people)
$150 each way / 2.5-3 hours
Private Van (6-9 people)
$175 each way / 2.5-3 hours
Public Buses
~$10 / Approx. 5 hours
Bus 1: San Jose bus terminal to San Ramon, Bus 2: San Ramon towards La Fortuna. Get off at San Isidro de Penas Blancas or Chachagua. Take short taxi ride to Finca Luna Nueva.