Cultural Exchange

Mentoring & Courses for Conscious Travel & Guided Trips to Latin America

The art of conscious travel and cross-cultural community building is a riddle tangled in deep and complex roots. Colonialism, consumerism, and charity mindset are baked into the culture of tourism today. And yet, sacred pilgrimage is a timeless tool of initiation. Intentional exploration has the potential to wake us up–to the wonder, the beauty and the heartbreak of our big wild world! It also helps to discover our place within it.

Be brave! It takes huevos to set out into the great unknown, and I believe deeply in the magic, healing and discovery that occurs when we answer that call.

Camino de la Copla

Nothern Argentina

13 days of cultural immersion in the rustic, wild and enchanting northwestern region of Argentina. Full moon horseback treks, artisanal wine stomping parties, authentic clay oven cuisine, elegant adobe villas, and fireside musical peñas that go until sunrise! Los valles Calchaquies, keep the heartbeat of Argentinian Folkloric tradition. Join your local guides off the beaten path in an intimate introduction to our charmingly roukass, romantic, and vibrant community. Explore the archeological, historical and mythological mysteries of this enchanted land where lush jungles meet high Andean desert. Pray and pay homage to PachaMama as she is honored in her annual festival hosted by the indigenous community. Dance your heart out in the world famous Carnavalito in Humahuaca. Experience the complex, interwoven, intergenerational traditions of these lands rooted in celebration, intact community and cultural heritage. Come home with us, and fall in love.

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Hijas de Ixchel

Atitlan, Guatemala

A six-day guided pilgrimage in honor of the wild and ancient feminine. Explore the lush jungles, enchanted waterfalls and hidden gems of Lake Atitlan within a deep container of sisterhood and soul.

Our local guide has deep-rooted relationships to the maidens, mothers and crones of the region. She artfully and respectfully weaves us into connective, collaborative experiences and exchange that are mutually enriching and healing. Our visit helps fund Camino Canicas in its mission to serve the local community. Join us on a guided journey of Earth- based ritual, retreat and cultural connection as we deepen our inter-relationship to the land, our intuitive medicine and our healing heArts.

C0-Guided by Kanika Batra of Camino Canicas & Sarita Rivard Guerrero. Colleagues and Sisters through their shared lineage of SomaSource & Golden Girls Global.

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Tending Your Taproot Retreat

Nayarit, Mexico

Five-day Guided Wellness Retreat where the jungle meets the sea. Radical reclamation of nourishment, creativity, community and connection to our wild nature through guided movement, mythopoetic exploration, council, ritual, art and medicine making.

This lush jungle healing retreat equipped with bio pools, a ceremonial Palapa studio and Temazcal just minutes from the beach, Casa TATEI is the ultimate container to cultivate a field of nourishment, self care, truth telling, soul tending, movement, crafts, creativity, cackling, & remembering. Gathering in this way is an antidote for fatigue and burnout, and a pathway home for the feminine to remember and reclaim her power.

Co-Guided by Jennie Gershater-Lopez of Artistry of Remembering & Sarita Rivard

February 2026

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Caminante

Cultivating responsible, respectful, generative and connective travel experiences through mentorship, study and rites of passage practices

Across traditions and time, people have sought answers, inspiration, and understanding through questing for self-knowledge, visions of the future, and greater understanding of the world around them. Our modern cultures tend to forget the importance of this hero's journey. So often, we are guided down a well worn path, towards predetermined goals, destinations and outcomes that have very little to do with our soul’s longing. But an essential part of our development is journeying beyond our comfort zones into the wide and wild unknown to ask: What mysteries might I uncover about this planet, and my place in it? What are my unique gifts, and how do those gifts meet the wounds, needs and gaps of the world?

This course is offered as a 1:1 travel/pilgrimage preparatory course (8 weeks) with the option to add internship placement support and or/mentorship package for creative coaching during travel experience.

This course will guide you in preparing for your Heroes quest. Together we will consider what it means to tread lightly and be a good guest to the places you visit. We will explore tools and practices for staying awake, staying safe, and deepening into respectful practices for cultural immersion. We will develop rituals for your Rite of Passage, go over practical preparation for travel, and tips and tricks for the open road. We will also delve into the rich questions of what it means to travel in this modern world, sitting with questions of reciprocity and exchange, traveler versus tourist, creator versus consumer, and solidarity versus charity. And of course, lay a generous foundation of creative tools for digestion.

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Internship Placement

Personalized coaching package to support you in connecting with the communities, projects, teachers, and experiences that are calling you. Receive mentorship, guidance and support designing and coordinating exchange experiences rooted in authentic community building, cross-cultural awareness and integrity.

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