Join us for a
Visionary Hearts Event
Awaken the Infinite Medicine of Your Heart & Transform Your Life
Visionary Hearts offers in-depth apprenticeships, ceremonial healing retreats, and community gatherings devoted to the lived practice of Love as the Great Medicine. Through lineage-rooted ceremony and conscious community, we restore beauty to our relationships- with ourselves, with one another, and with all of Life.
What Awaits You in a Visionary Hearts Gathering
Visionary Hearts is a private member association and to register for any event is to also join our private member association. Our work is not public and only accessible to those to our private membership community. This is an organizing structure that best supports the confidentiality and personal sovereignty that are absolutely requirements to true healing.
We can create payment plans for all income levels and if you are a member at the Star Angel tier of our Way of Love Community, you will receive 25% off all in‑person events held at Star River Sanctuary, as part of our commitment to making sustained practice more accessible.
Your participation as a member of Visionary Hearts PMA empowers women and children in the Andes. Every year, we invest at least 10% of our annual returns back into the Andean communities, focusing on the health and thriving of women and their children.
We hold free monthly online integration circles for anyone who has ever joined us in retreat, to support the journey of bringing the gifts of this work into the ceremony of your life.
The Visionary Hearts Way
Visionary Hearts offers radically life-transforming and heart-renewing experiences by weaving ancient lineage-guided ceremonial wisdom, Earth-honoring ritual practice, and leading-edge therapeutic insight into a lived path of Love as the Great Medicine — grounded in nervous-system awareness, soul-level devotion, individual healing, and collective repair.
Love is the Great Medicine
Love is not a concept or sentiment, but a disciplined, embodied practice cultivated through Commitment, Connection, and Communion.
Honouring Our Lineage Roots
Our work is rooted in living ceremonial lineages, offered with respect, discernment, and humility — honoring tradition without dogma or rigidity.
Ceremony as Catalyst
We use ceremony to ignite remembrance and healing, not to bypass reality. What is opened must be practiced, integrated, and lived.
Nervous-System-Aware Healing
Transformation is supported at the pace of the body and psyche, ensuring safety, sustainability, and true integration.
Relational & Community-Centered
Healing happens in relationship — with self, others, ancestors, and the Earth. We were never meant to heal alone.
Nature Sourced Healing
We understand that the root dis-ease is the disconnection from Earth and healing is our interconnection to all life.
Personal Healing is Planetary Healing
Personal healing is inseparable from collective repair. Our work is ultimately in service to Life, the Earth, and future generations.
catalyze your healing journey
with Visionary Hearts
From earth honouring ceremony to sacred communion with Spirit,
to immersive adventures in nature, each we offer is a gateway into deeper connection, joy, and embodiment.
Apprenticeship in
the Art of Ceremony
Apprenticeship in the Art of Ceremony
The Pachakuti Mesa Apprenticeship Training
Create a Life Oriented to the Sacred
The Pachakuti Mesa Apprenticeship training is a 18 month ceremony of initiation and transformation. Within this 18 month training are 5 in-person apprenticeship weekends offered at Star River Sanctuary. There will be 3-6 months of time in between the weekends for practice and integration. This journey is one of the most powerful transformational and evolutionary processes we have ever experienced.
The Art of Earth Offerings Immersion
Entering into Sacred Partnership with Pachamama and the Seen & Unseen Guardians of Ayni
This in‑depth apprenticeship expresses Love as action, responsibility, and service. Rooted in the teachings of don Oscar Miro‑Quesada and the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, this training develops skill, discernment, and intelligence in the ceremonial application of ayni through the sacred art of despacho making.
The Path of Soul Power Medicine
Shamanic Ceremonial Leadership & Plant Spirit Medicine Immersive Training
A 3 year lineage guided journey for visionaries, healers, and devoted practitioners.The Path of Soul Power Medicine is an immersive, lineage-honoring ceremonial apprenticeship that spans three sacred years of transformation. It is equal parts mystery school, mentorship journey, deep personal healing, shamanic initiation, and sacred leadership training—designed fo
Level 1 Sept 16-21st, 2026
2026 Visionary Hearts Retreats
May 26 - 31st
Star River Sanctuary, British Columbia
The Bright Holy Womb -
Awakening Source Creativity Within
Women’s Ceremonial Medicine Art Retreat facilitated by Robin
Ignite the holy fire the Bright Holy Womb and the Creatrix within — awakening your capacity to heal shame, transform trauma into soul power, and bring forth a more truthful, alive, and prosperous expression of your embodiment.
July 24 - 26
Star River Sanctuary
Love is the Great Medicine
Reclaiming the Heart as the Seat of the Soul & Shamanic Center of Power. Practice Love. Tend the Field. Live the Way.
This mid-summer ceremonial retreat is devoted to the remembrance that Love is the Great Medicine — and that this Love is not fragile, sentimental, or easily destroyed. It is invincible. It is victorious. It is our true essential nature.
September 11 – 13
Star River Sanctuary
The Heart of Relationship
Facilitated by Darcy & Robin with Radiant Luminaries Karuna & Paul Erickson.
The Heart of Relationship is a soulful, immersive retreat for everyone longing to bring more loving kindness, compassion, joy, and balance to both intimate and all interpersonal relationships.
November 6 – 8
The Sentinel Kaslo, British Columbia
Lineage of Love- Ancestral Healing & Reverence
We are moving into the time of year when all around the Earth, in culture after culture, the Ancestors are remembered, loved, and celebrated. At this time of year, all around the earth, we will reverently celebrate and bring healing to the Ancestors, through a Heart Medicine ceremony and practices to help us remember that life and death are not separate.
November 26 – 29
Sunshine Coast, British Columbia
Soul Power Alchemy: Healing the Places Within with Love
Soul Power Alchemy is rooted in a simple yet profound truth: whatever seeks healing or evolution within us does not require force, fixing, or transcendence — it requires presence, honesty, and Love. Rather than pushing for breakthrough, we slow down and listen for what within is asking to be met, integrated, or gently re‑patterned.
Within this circle, you can expect to be supported through:
Earth-honoring ceremony rooted in living lineage traditions
Grounding your healing in time-tested wisdom that restores right relationship with the Earth, the ancestors, and the unseen forces that support life.
Heart-centered practices that bring Love into the body, relationships, and daily life
Training the capacity to live from the Heart — not only in moments of insight, but in the ongoing realities of work, family, and service.
Guided shamanic journeywork and inner listening
Supporting direct access to the soul’s intelligence and the deeper wisdom held within your psyche, body, and ancestral memory.
Sacred Council and heart-centered community dialogue
Creating a respectful relational field where truth can be spoken, witnessed, and integrated without judgment, fixing, or performance.
Restorative movement, breathwork, and somatic practices
Helping insights land in the nervous system and body, so transformation becomes regulated, sustainable, and embodied.
Time for rest, reflection, and renewal in beautiful natural settings
Allowing the pace of Nature to support integration, clarity, and the restoration of inner coherence.
Ongoing integration support, including monthly community integration circle
Ensuring that what is awakened in ceremony is carried into daily life through reflection, practice, and relational support over time.
The Arc of Your Journey with Visionary Hearts
Every Visionary Hearts experience is part of a larger journey of remembrance and embodiment. Whether you join us for a single retreat or walk with us across years of study and practice, our work unfolds through a living arc designed to support real sustained transformation and empower your path of love infused service in the world.
Preparation
Retreat
Integration
1. Preparation
Listening to the Call
Every journey begins with a call — a sense that something within you is ready to shift, heal, or deepen. Preparation is how we create the conditions for meaningful work. Through clear communication, orientation, community agreements, and optional preparatory practices, you are supported to arrive grounded, resourced, and open. This phase helps establish intention, trust, and personal sovereignty before stepping into ceremony.
Preparation honours choice and personal power
2. Retreat & Immersion
Entering the Field
Our retreats, immersions, and ceremonial gatherings are catalytic moments — sacred thresholds where insight, healing, and remembrance are ignited. Held within living lineage traditions and conscious community, this is where you will experience the power of ceremony, relational truth, and embodied practice. These experiences are designed not as escapes from life, but as initiations into deeper presence, responsibility, and coherence.
Retreat is where the medicine is revealed.
3. Integration
Living What You’ve Awakened
True healing is measured by how life changes afterward.
Integration is where insights become embodied — through reflection, relationship, daily practice, and community support. Visionary Hearts offers ongoing integration through monthly community circles, mentorship spaces, and optional online containers that help translate ceremonial experiences into lived change.
Integration is where you transform your life
Pathways of Deepening
For those who feel called to walk further, Visionary Hearts offers multiple pathways of continued study, mentorship, and service. These are not requirements, but invitations — ways to stay in relationship with the work as it matures over time.
The Way of Love
Ongoing Community & Soul Mentorship
A monthly, living field of practice offering continued guidance, reflection, and support for embodying Love in daily life. This is the primary integration space that weaves together all retreats and experiences.
Pachakuti Mesa Tradition
Apprenticeship
(1.5 years)
A year-long immersion into Earth-honoring ceremonial practice, Andean cosmology, and the ethical foundations of shamanic service. Designed for those called to deepen their relationship with lineage and ritual responsibility.
community member experiences
Exceptionally led, beautiful weekend. I have heard many good things about Robin and Darcy but still, I was so pleasantly surprised. If you want an expertly led ceremony that is perfect for those who are just wanting to get their toes wet and those who want to go very deep alike - this is for you. I felt safe, comfortably, loved, guided and at ease. I am still integrating and enjoying the learning I have received from that weekend. Highly recommended.
Claire
Star river retreat
My experience was beautiful, expansive, and for me freeing. I went with the intention of letting go of some piled up grief, which I know sounds odd, but I giggled and laughed my way through it now knowing all those beautiful spirits were honored and blessed. Every ceremony was beautiful and I always felt safe and supported. I hope to stay connected to everyone that attended. Fabulous group! Thank you Robin and Darcy..I hope to see you soon,
Ester
I am so grateful to have takin this mind-expanding apprenticeship! The level of understanding of myself through this deepening practice, through moving toward absolute love and truth has widened, and feels alive in the numerous "a-ha" moments of clarity that I experienced so many times! I love that this 10 week workshop was formulated so that I could jump in on the live calls, or watch the recordings as my schedule dictated! This did not detract at all from the feeling of the woven community. I feel fully empowered to activate my own diamond light within my heart, strengthening my desire to connect all peoples, everywhere on the planet...offering love, light and gnosis, to all!!
Andrea
Enlightening
My experience at Star River was fulfilling and was exactly what I needed. Robyn and Darcy are wonderful individuals full of light and wisdom.
kate
Incredible experience.
Robin and Darcy are two of the most authentic and kind souls. They are walking their purpose in life by sharing teachings and experiences that will open you to a deeper understanding of what you truly are and how to integrate their gifts into your life. I had the pleasure of spending 4 days and three nights with them in ceremony and have a hard time putting into words the impact that time had on me. Do not hesitate to put your trust in their hands. They create and hold a very welcoming and safe space for deep healing and subtle changes that will alter the trajectory of your life in such a beautiful and positive direction. I can't wait to see you both again!!
Scott
Amazing Retreat
Darcy and Robin hold such exquisite space, with so much beauty, intention and love in their ceremonies. They are beautiful humans, absolutely dedicated to their craft of sharing the earth's medicine and all it's beauty. Incredible experience!
dustin
Healing Retreat Center & Home Base
Star River Sanctuary at Crystal Mountain
A Sanctuary for Our Times
Star River Sanctuary is the land-based heart of Visionary Hearts — a beautiful and wild living sanctuary created in response to the needs of this time. We hold that the experience of natural peace and beauty is a basic human right, and that stewarding places of intact, living Earth is an essential service during this period of ecological crisis and human disconnection.
This land is tended as a living prayer — a place of return to wholeness within the Great Web of Life. Through ceremony, retreat, and time in relationship with the land, the Sanctuary offers restoration and remembrance for those who have carried much.
With thriving gardens continually in bloom and overflowing with abundance, pure wild spring water, and direct access to vast wilderness, this land is medicine — nourishing the heart, calming the nervous system, and reawakening belonging as a lived experience of the Way of Love. We steward this land in devotion and reciprocity, in service to Life and future generations.
Global Retreats
We travel where the Earth and Spirit guide us to offer this work and support the blossoming of heart centered communities around the world. Each year we make pilgrimages from our home of Star River Sanctuary to offer ceremonial retreats at other new earth sanctuaries.
Its part of the growing “sanctuary exchange program” uniting the pathways of light and consciousness to serve our greater human family and the great web of life.
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Step into the Way of Love.
Stay as long as it nourishes you.
Walk at your own pace.
Monthly participation. Cancel or pause anytime.
Your participation in Visionary Hearts PMA empowers women and children in the Andes. We invest at least 10% of our annual returns back into the Andean communities, focusing on the health and thriving of women and their children.
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