Tuning the Vessel
Becoming coherent with the Beloved — a clear channel through which Source flows.
A circle, tuning in concert.
Tuning the Vessel is a coming-into-resonance — with the Beloved, with the land of Boríken, and with one another. Held by ocean, waterfall, and cacao, we tune together: not one teacher transmitting to students, but a circle practicing as one — receiving, channeling, and sharing what wants to move through us, for this threshold moment, for ourselves and for the world.
By invitation, a few seats open the Helix cohort to this immersive retreat — a deep community dedicated to world-work and the whole human spirit, where spiritual formation and psychological development walk as one: inner work as liberation work, tending the self so we can tend the world. Each immersion stands on its own — come as you are, wherever you are on the path of love.
The clearer the vessel, the truer what flows through.
The world does not need more healers running on empty — nor simply full. It needs us clear: vessels that let Source move through them. We don’t only replenish our own stores; we become coherent with the Beloved, so that what flows through us arrives as nourishment. The vessel is the channel — and when the lens is clean, what pours through heals.
Tuning the Vessel is attunement — practicing the arrangements, perspectives, and melodies through which we return to flow, alone and together. There is real practice here, and also breath and pleasure, intuitive movement, joy and laughter, and true community. In the mirror of sharing, we may glimpse where more clearing is asked — of us, and of a world that needs our care — but the emphasis stays on the return to flow, the medicine that wants to move through us. You’ll leave more resourced and more awake — a more aware channel for regenerative medicine, empowered to carry it into the world. And not alone: this work asks us to hold something larger than the separate self, alive in all of us — I and Thou, the Beloved, all our relations. In community, and in communion with the Love that animates all creation, we remember our power to create.
What we’ll experience together.
Five days of ceremony, embodiment, and intuitive contemplation in a small, cohort-rooted circle, held in a field of love with generous rest between. Everything you receive, you can carry into your own life and offer to those you serve.
- iOpening Cacao Ceremony — honoring the land & the island’s ancestors
- iiChanneling & intuitive development
- iiiMagdalene Rose Tea & grief-tending ritual
- ivSomatic transmission dance & sound healing
- vCommunity-led Water Ceremony — a waterfall pilgrimage
- viMystic wisdom circles — the rose-heart
- viiPhoenix Death-Arrow Fire Ceremony
- viiiSacred arts — crafting a sacred object for your home altar
- ·Sharing, integration & closing
This immersion is a living offering — subject to change as spirit wills.
The days move in waves — activating, then integrating.
Mornings for practice and channeling. Afternoons for rest, the saltwater pool, and the land — regenerative time between earth and sky. Evenings for ceremony, sound, and fire. Mid-immersion, we make pilgrimage to the sweet waters of a nearby waterfall, a sacred site.
Fed like family, three times a day.
Local, traditional Puerto Rican food by devotional culinary artist Chef Ro — long, unhurried tables laid with abundance, the whole valley open before us.
What you’ll be held by.
Guided practicum
Ceremony, channeling, energy work, and sacred arts — embodied as real, transferable skill.
Regenerative rhythm
Pool, ocean, waterfall, and deep rest between earth and sky — eco-immersion, one with nature, built into every day.
An intimate circle
A small, invitation-only circle for those already walking a path of love and service — artists, mystics, healers, lovers, musicians, yogis — answering the call to embodied presence.
Nourishment
Local, traditional Puerto Rican food by devotional culinary artist Chef Ro — long tables with a view.
Space for integration
This is joyful work. We share conversation to process what rises, and make room for deep restorative rest and play — so what fills you can ground into wholeness.
Love as the ground
Everything we do is in service of love — that it do no harm, and be of benefit to all life. The rose-heart of the mystic and Magdalene paths is woven throughout.
A mountaintop sanctuary, held by ocean and sky.
Casa Tortuga — the sea-turtle house — is a secluded, solar-powered sanctuary in the mountains of Añasco, on the ancestral land of Boríken. Its octagonal wooden home, built in the 1970s and shaped like a turtle’s shell, has weathered decades of island storms and carries a grounded strength you can feel. We gather here as guests of the land and its stewards, cared for by the local hands — cooks, artisans, and healers — who bring this place to life.
One with the elements.
We all journey and dream together on the land — cradled by ocean, mountain, and forest, the shared living is part of the medicine.
- Main house, cabin & a view suite
- Saltwater pool
- Two-story pavilion
- 360° ocean & mountain views
- Waterfall ~20 min away
- Local traditional food
- Fruit-tree grounds
- Please note: no air conditioning
We hold the circle collectively
A holistic mystic and psychospiritual guide of primarily Scottish, Filipino, and African ancestry, with more than twenty years of tending work — inner-parts and shadow work, Jungian dreamwork, womb awakening, and energy medicine — built on one belief: that each of us can recover our innate wisdom in a field of safety and love.
A psychospiritual counselor, psychic medium, and ritualist who came to this work through the arts. A 2007 Helix graduate and Helix Healing Minister, he helps people turn pain into power and chaos into calm, with a warmth and humor shaped by fatherhood.
A seeker on the Sufi Path and co-founder of Bab Al Ilm, a community devoted to spirituality and self-awareness across traditions. A musician at heart, he weaves song and movement through his gatherings; through music, teaching, conversation, and the practices of remembrance, he creates spaces where something real can happen between people — guided by one question: what happens when we become present enough to truly see ourselves?
A Puerto Rican devotional culinary artist and ceremonialist who nourishes the circle with local, healing, ancestral foods. Ro holds the opening cacao ceremony, and guides us in crafting a sacred object to carry home.
Reserve your place
One registration covers the full immersion, every meal, all ceremony, and each shared space. Choose your room — from a tent under the open sky to a king or the mountain-view suite — on the registration page. We live these days together on the land, waking to the same mountains and gathering at the same table. There is a place in this circle for you.
Early-bird rates through September 26 · a $500 deposit reserves your place · private rooms are few and go first.
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Who is this for?
Practitioners and seekers already walking the path — counselors, coaches, healers, ministers, caregivers, and gifted laypeople — ready to lean into expansion: to embody the full potential of the ensouled human, refine the self for this moment in history, and take their place in the grid-work of living love. This gathering is offered by invitation to the Helix cohort and selected guests.
Is this therapy, a training, or a retreat?
A training — and it will feel like a retreat. You’ll do real personal work — that’s the point — and also learn the practices, so you leave with skills you can live by and bring to your clients.
How do I get there?
Casa Tortuga is in the western mountains of Puerto Rico — about 45 minutes from Aguadilla airport, or 2.5 hours from San Juan. We’ll help coordinate rides and airport taxis, and the exact address follows registration.
What should I know about the setting?
It’s a rustic-modern mountaintop villa, close to the elements, with natural terrain and stairs. There is no air conditioning (fans, breezes, and a saltwater pool keep it comfortable). If you have specific needs, reach out before booking.
What happens after I register?
You’ll receive a confirmation, an invitation to the participant group for travel and connection, and — closer to the retreat — a welcome note with pre-arrival practices, a local travel guide, and details.
Come tune the vessel together.
Five days in the mountains of Boríken — filled, resourced, and prepared to transmit your medicine around the world.
Reserve your place