You are lovingly invited to practice the village we dream of, in relationship with the living waters of the Earth, in the company of music, art, family, and community.
We gather not simply to attend a retreat, but to participate in the creation of culture. One where our children are welcomed into the center of community life, where food is shared, fires are tended, songs arise naturally, and the river becomes a place of connection and remembrance. Where we make art together, sit in council, listen across our differences, and discover what becomes possible when we move beyond
the limitations of doing everything alone.
Ayla Nereo is currently in the creation process of her next album in the Soverign Kin series; Dreamwaters.
This event is an immersion into the prayer of this album and a participatory experience in living the mission of Sovereign Kin.
DANCE • MUSIC • NATURE • PLAY
CONNECTION • ADVENTURE • COUNCIL
We gather to give ourselves the gift of time and space to practice the very thing so many of us long for: a way of living in which we are genuinely supported by one another, connected to the land beneath our feet, and invested in the wellbeing of the whole.
Gathering in the living world of Sovereign Kin, alongside musician and visionary artist Ayla Nereo, we will spend five days exploring the art and practice of village building.
This is an invitation to move from imagining
a different world to practicing one.
Our time together at a glance :
Monday, Feb 08
Arrival & Welcome Dinner
Tuesday FIRE
Purification sweat lodge, opening transmission & dialogue with your hosts, family adventure to the Grandmother Tree, kids art project and adults council
Wednesday WATER
Walk to the river
Thursday EARTH
Tree planting
Friday AIR
Concert at Awake
Saturday, Feb 13
Brunch & Departure
Yacumama Eco-Retreat is a luscious nature sanctuary overlooking the expansive oceanview creating a perfectly romantic setting for your week together.
Surrounded by fresh flowing rivers, this will be our village space and ceremony grounds.
It has a variety of different accommodation options as well as unique and beautiful gathering spaces. The ideal location for a meaningful tropical immersion.
An Intimate Container
All inclusive experience includes lodging, daily guided experiences, ceremonies, organic local delicious food, epic dance parties, spaciousness to bathe in the beauty of nature together, forging friendship and alliance through alchemy and authenticity, secret surprises.
We are delighted to welcome you into this special celebration of LOVE.
Meet Your Hosts
Ayla Nereo
bio
Roxanne Ruby
Roxanne is an experience curator and ceremonialist. She has followed her curiosity around the world to learn from an array cultures and traditions which have braided themselves into her unique appreciation for all of what life has to offer. She is passionate about modern village building and is the founder of inheritanceCOLLECTIVE, an international impact community. As a mother and musician, she makes art out of everyday and magic from the mundane.
Isaac William
Dustin Kyle Brooks is a community builder, land steward, ceremonialist, and devoted student of love, life, and the sacred. As co-founder of Yacumama Eco Village in Costa Rica, he has spent years cultivating spaces where people can gather deeply—through ceremony, music, prayer, movement, nature, and meaningful connection. His path has been shaped by pilgrimage, men’s work, plant medicine traditions, Vision Quest, and relationships with Indigenous elders and wisdom keepers across the Americas. Dustin brings warmth, passion, playfulness, and presence into the spaces he holds, and is especially inspired by the ways relationship can become a path of devotion, reflection, intimacy, and transformation
Dustin Kyle Brooks
Dustin Kyle Brooks is a community builder, land steward, ceremonialist, and devoted student of love, life, and the sacred. As co-founder of Yacumama Eco Village in Costa Rica, he has spent years cultivating spaces where people can gather deeply—through ceremony, music, prayer, movement, nature, and meaningful connection. His path has been shaped by pilgrimage, men’s work, plant medicine traditions, Vision Quest, and relationships with Indigenous elders and wisdom keepers across the Americas. Dustin brings warmth, passion, playfulness, and presence into the spaces he holds, and is especially inspired by the ways relationship can become a path of devotion, reflection, intimacy, and transformation
Here in Costa Rica, the Scarlett Macaws
(locally known as Lapas) mate for life,
flying wing tip to wing tip with their beloved.
In honor of your love, with all of its challenges and all of its victories.
May you be wind beneath each other's wings