Uncover and transform the patterns that prevent you from being in your utmost integrity in the potency of the Ecuadorian mountains, jungles, and rivers.
Date: Oct 19-Oct 25, 2026
Early Bird Deadline: July 1, 2026 | Final Registration: Sept 15, 2026
Early Bird Pricing (CAD) $4250 | Regular (CAD) $4500
~ Secure your spot with a $500 deposit ~
This experience will challenge you physically, mentally, psychologically and spiritually.
The horses, the land and the facilitators have the ability to uplift you, challenge you to show up authentically, to transform the habitual patterns that prevent you from experiencing true contact with yourself and others. Ecuador is a special, magical place, and we have the privilege of being hosted in both the high country — the Andes, at a rugged and beautiful horse ranch surrounded by volcanoes – and in the jungle, the Amazon River basin, the source of one of the planet’s most biodiverse and abundant ecosystems, with millions of species, dense rainforest, and networks of rivers.
Your Guides
Lisa Hartwick
I am passionate about good relations and discovering elegant pathways through complexity. With over 25 years of experience as a therapist, my work is intimately informed by clients, teachers, and mentors over time, and my personal journey.
What fuels my work is a love for aliveness, depth, adventure, and the wisdom of the natural world, including horses. I divide my time between two very different, equally nourishing places: the remote, wildness of Tatlayoko Lake, BC and the beautiful city of Victoria on Vancouver Island. I regularly teach and supervise other therapists in Gestalt and equine therapy, and I am honoured to serve as international visiting faculty at the Gestalt Equine Institute of the Rockies (GEIR).
Megan Powers, MA LPC
I have always been drawn to being in service to others. I have been blessed with the opportunity to support many amazing humans over the last 2 decades in remembering their true nature, supporting their ability to connect in integrity with their surroundings, with others, the divine, through major life transitions, and the final transition out of this physical world. I help people come home to a sense of security and centeredness, learning to trust in themselves, so they can navigate the challenges of their lives and the times that we live in. I spent a number of years leading spiritual retreats with my mentor and later began work as a Gestalt and Equine Assisted Therapist. Now I want to combine all of my life’s work and experience to offer these powerful and life changing initiation retreats for women to come together to grow, learn to feel truly powerful in relationship, and live in integrity with oneself. I look forward to creating magic together!