TRACKING YOUR INNER LANDSCAPE 

7 DAY NATURE IMMERSION:

LET NATURE INFORM AND TRANSFORM YOU

There are times in life when deep forms of attention and guidance are required for our inner worlds to awaken, find peace, and inner clarity.  This is especially important when calibrating to abundant forms of disorder, conflict or chaos in the outer world.

In ancient times, if you were in one of these moments, the elders would bring you to a beautiful and sacred place, and offer specific forms of guidance, that would help align your inner world with the outer and transcendent worlds (e.g., rite of passage, vision quest, nature immersion). From this renewed and aligned vantage point, the awakened clarity, guidance, and healing being sought would be brought clearly into view.  

If you are in one of those moments in your life when deeper forms of awakening, grounded centeredness, guidance, or healing are needed... or if you simply want to immerse yourself in a beautiful landscape to deepen on your path, or recharge in stillness and silence, this retreat is designed for you.   

Your home for 7 days will be poised amidst majestic backdrop of Zion National Park's surrounding mountains (see video above).  This amazing site is the perfect balance of quiet, peaceful and remote.  The land itself is wise, soothing, and can catalyze awakening.  

Somewhere beneath the noise and the doing, the soul waits – eternally patient, wild, awake and wise. 

This personal retreat invites you into that sacred meeting: a slow turning inward, held by the elemental beauty of the land.  Here, memory, mystery, and presence intertwine.  The journey is not linear, its inward and outward, symbolic, poetic – a homecoming to your deeper self.  This is a path of gentle re-discovery, not perfection – a return to the quiet friendship of the eternal self.  Come walk the quiet edges of your soul.  Through stillness, silence, solitude and postures of deep reflection and receptivity, we will follow the subtle invitations of nature’s heart.  The land itself becomes the teacher, offering absolute truth as the healing agent of transformation.  This is not a journey to fix anything, but to befriend yourself in a deeper, more honest way. 

An invitation for the soul

In a world that constantly asks us to act, speak, and strive, there is a quiet power in choosing to be still.  This retreat offers a rare invitation: to step into nature’s silence… and listen – not to fix or figure things out, but to receive what your inner landscape has been waiting to reveal. 

Held in the vast beauty of the desert, and gently guided through intentional practices, you will be supported in letting the noise fall away – so that clarity, insight, and a deep soul-knowing can rise within you.

This is not just time away; it’s a return to yourself.  If you are longing for real rest, meaningful reflection, and a renewed sense of direction, this private retreat is for you. 

EARTH BASED INITIATION

There are certain parts of us that struggle to heal unless they are in the right environment.  Like seeds beneath the ground, they cannot emerge until the conditions are favorable.  Deep wounds, or ancestral forms of healing are often like this, and sometimes we need to completely immerse ourselves in a beautiful natural environment to create the conditions necessary to bring these parts of us back home. 

You are invited to awaken and deepen your connection to your inner world by stepping into the quiet embrace of nature, learning to listen to the subtle rhythm of your soul as it emerges.  In this space of stillness and silence, the natural world becomes your allied companion and mirror, revealing the contours of your inner world and inviting you into a sacred relationship with your unique version of authenticity. Here, the journey is not toward self-improvement, but toward a deeper belonging.

"The earth is our origin and destination... The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart. The earth is not outside us; it is within: the clay from where the tree of the body grows. When we emerge from our offices, rooms and houses, we enter our natural element. We are children of the earth: people to whom the outdoors is home. Nothing can separate us from the vigour and vibrancy of this inheritance. In contrast to our frenetic, saturated lives, the earth offers a calming stillness. Movement and growth in nature takes time. The patience of nature enjoys the ease of trust and hope. There is something in our clay nature that needs to continually experience this ancient, outer ease of the world. It helps us remember who we are and why we are here." -- John O'Donohue

REST, RECOVER, AND RESTORE

There are so few spaces and times in our lives where every part of us can truly rest and return to wholeness.  Being supported in a magical place, where nothing is asked of you, is among the best ways for true healing and restoration to take place, especially for the truly tired parts of the self.  The parts of you that have been carrying excess weight on behalf of others, or even for other parts of yourself, that may not feel capable or qualified.  This retreat attends to them all with gentleness and care, and reflects back the beauty of their true nature.  In fullness, in wholeness, and in alignment to the soul's purpose.

Free Online Course!

Your retreat begins the moment you say "yes" to it!  Once you register for your retreat, you will be sent this free online course, Ancient Conversations: The Forgotten Language of Our Ancestral Heritage, which contains the detailed process of how we will be using specific postures of receptivity, and meditative practices to enhance your retreat experience.  

MEET YOUR FACILITATOR

Mateo Magee has been serving communities as a spiritual teacher, guide, and expedition leader since 1998.  His book, Peruvian Shamanism: The Pachakuti Mesa (2002) was the first written account of a lineage dating back thousands of years to both the Northern Coastal Huachumero and Southeastern Andean Paqokuna traditions of Peru.

Despite having several University degrees, Mateo feels his true education was derived from the decades he spent living and working alongside traditional indigenous  peoples of both North and South America. 

In addition to his 27 years of apprenticeship in the Peruvian systems of curanderismo, his current work also focuses on postures of receptivity in nature, stillness in motion, and a deep relationship to silence in solitude.   

One of Mateo’s great gifts is his capacity to make complex and elusive spiritual concepts accessible and palatable, building bridges between ancient cultures and modern-day truth seekers.  He considers himself a perpetual student, and his inclusive teaching style creates a safe environment for every soul to stretch out in. 

HISTORY OF THE LAND

The sacred landscape we will be residing in was formerly known as Mukuntuweap, a southern Paiute word, meaning "Straight Canyon".  These lands have been home to indigenous peoples, like the southern Paiute and Anasazi peoples for thousands of years. The canyon itself was carved into the landscape by the northern fork of what is now known as the Virginia River.  

- WHAT TO EXPECT -

• Before your trip, as soon as you sign up, you will receive access to: Ancient Conversations: The Forgotten Language of Our Ancestral Heritage.  This 3 hour series of online lectures will help prepare you with specific techniques that will help you get the most out of your nature immersion experience.  
• DAY 1:   You will fly in to either St. George Airport or Las Vegas, where I will pick you up and we will drive together to your Nature Immersion.  I will help you set up camp for the week, and help you get oriented to the landscape. 
• DAY 2:  Ceremonial preparation and entraining to the pace of nature.  Acclimating to stillness, silence, and solitude.    
• DAY 3:  Full immersion into your (optional) solo retreat.  Mateo will meet with you as often as you like during this period of time, and will be a resource of guidance and to hold space for you in whatever capacity you require.  The primary focus of day-one is to let go of anything you are carrying that does not serve your higher purpose.  Relax and release will be your primary theme... softening as the medicine of nature itself washes over you. 
• DAY 4:  On your second day of deep immersion, the dust will start to settle in your inner world and the flavor of emptiness will begin to be revealed.  Like a sacred form of gestation, new life is starting to take shape within you.  Let it assemble itself through the divine intelligence of natures imprint, in the same way your own body formed inside your mother, all on its own.  
• DAY 5:  Movement into wholeness.  Allowing nature's imprint to take shape within you.  This is where entrainment to natures wisdom becomes established in your energetic field.  Your inner world begins to line up in pace with the expressions of nature in the outer world.  This is the place of clarity, healing, and transformation.  
• DAY 6: Debrief and Contextualize.  We will also discuss how to bring the wisdom you have encountered home with you, and to integrate it into your daily life. 
• DAY 7: Pack up camp, and head back to the airport for your revitalized return home.