Inner Child Healing Retreat in Sardinia
A 7-Day Journey with Bobinsana & San Pedro
September 28 – October 4, 2026
Sardinia, Italy
Limited to 8 participants
Many of the fears, emotional patterns, relationship difficulties, and beliefs we carry as adults began much earlier than we realize.
They began when we were children.
Perhaps you learned that you had to be strong because there was no one to hold you.
Perhaps you learned to stay quiet to avoid rejection.
Perhaps you became independent because depending on others did not feel safe.
Perhaps you learned to please, perform, control, hide your vulnerability, or constantly prove your worth.
These patterns may have protected us once.
But what helped us survive as children can later become what prevents us from living freely as adults.
This retreat is an invitation to return to those younger parts of yourself with awareness, compassion, and love.
Not to remain in the past.
But to understand it, integrate it, and begin living differently.
Retreat Details
Dates: September 28 – October 4, 2026
Location: Sardinia, Italy
Duration: 7 days
Group size: Maximum 8 participants
Included
- 4 San Pedro ceremonies
- Bobinsana plant work
- Traditional cleansing practices
- Inner-child healing practices
- Preparation guidance
- Integration guidance
- Vegetarian meals
- Shared accommodation
- Support from the Taita Inti team throughout the retreat
OUR TEAM
Naysha Silva
Naysha Silva is a Peruvian curandera from the Amazon and founder of Taita Inti Organization. She left a career as a lawyer to spend years training alongside indigenous healers in the Amazon jungle, later living among the Sami people in northern Sweden to deepen her understanding of plant medicine work.
Over the past 17 years, she has facilitated Ayahuasca, San Pedro, and Kambo ceremonies in retreats across Europe, Asia, and South America, with an approach grounded in preparation, honesty, and real accompaniment — before, during, and after each process. A mother, writer, and guide, Naysha believes that true healing doesn’t happen in a single moment, but is a path of personal responsibility and sustained integration over time.
DANIEL LOPEZ RODRIGUEZ
Daniel López — Shipibo Shaman & Traditional Plant Medicine Practitioner
Daniel López is a Shipibo shaman from the Peruvian Amazon with many years of experience working with traditional plant medicines and ancestral healing practices.
Rooted in the traditions of the Shipibo people, Daniel brings his medicine, knowledge, sacred songs and presence into ceremony, accompanying participants through their personal processes with the wisdom of his Amazonian tradition.
Throughout his journey, Daniel has shared Ayahuasca ceremonies with people from many different backgrounds. He was also one of the shamans, together with his brother Guillermo López, who offered Ayahuasca ceremonies for members of the Avatar movie crew and filmmaker James Cameron.
Daniel collaborates with Taita Inti, bringing the living traditions of the Peruvian Amazon into our retreats and plant medicine work.
His role goes beyond serving the medicine. Through his songs, experience and presence, Daniel helps hold the ceremonial space and supports participants throughout their journey.
We are deeply grateful to have Daniel sharing his medicine, knowledge and Shipibo tradition with our community.
TORBEN
Meet Torben
I am committed to nurturing your well-being through a holistic approach that harmonizes the mind, body, and spirit. I believe that true wellness arises from the synergy of these three aspects, and I am dedicated to guiding you in your healing journey.
With over a decade of experience in holistic body therapy, I have helped numerous clients address a wide range of physical and emotional concerns. I offer a variety of services tailored to meet your specific needs. Whether you are dealing with chronic pain, stress, tension, or simply seeking to enhance your overall well-being, I am here to support you on your path to profound healing and inner balance
Is This Retreat Calling You?
Perhaps you have already done years of personal work.
Perhaps this is your first time looking deeply into your childhood.
Perhaps you understand intellectually why you behave a certain way, but something inside you still reacts differently.
Knowing is important.
But sometimes knowing is not enough.
Sometimes we need to experience safety differently.
To experience love differently.
To meet ourselves differently.
This retreat is an invitation to explore the roots.
To meet the child behind the adult.
And to begin building a new relationship with yourself from there.
You cannot change the childhood you lived.
But you can change the relationship you have with what happened.
And from that place, you can begin choosing what you want to continue carrying — and what ends with you.
The Five Emotional Wounds
Many people recognize aspects of themselves in the five emotional wounds commonly described as:
Rejection
A child who feels rejected may begin to believe:
“There is something wrong with me.”
As an adult, this may appear as withdrawal, difficulty receiving love, fear of being seen, or a constant feeling of not being enough.
Abandonment
When emotional or physical support was inconsistent, the child may develop a deep fear of being left alone.
As an adult, this can appear as emotional dependency, attachment anxiety, fear of separation, jealousy, or a constant need for reassurance.
Humiliation
Criticism, shame, ridicule, or feeling that one’s needs were unacceptable can leave a deep imprint.
Later, the person may constantly prioritize others, feel guilty for having needs, struggle with self-worth, or fear judgment.
Betrayal
Broken promises, instability, or repeated breaches of trust can teach the child that depending on another person is dangerous.
The adult may become controlling, hyper-independent, suspicious, or unable to surrender and trust.
Injustice
Children raised in cold, rigid, perfectionistic, or excessively demanding environments may learn that love and recognition must be earned.
As adults, they may become highly self-critical, perfectionistic, emotionally rigid, and afraid of failure.
The Mother and Father Wounds
Our first relationships influence the way we later understand love, safety, trust, self-worth, and belonging.
Sometimes our parents were physically present but emotionally absent.
Sometimes they loved us deeply but did not have the emotional resources to give us what we needed.
They may have carried their own trauma.
Their own fears.
Their own wounds.
Their own childhood stories.
Healing does not require us to blame them.
It asks us to understand what happened and recognize how it continues to influence us today.
The Mother Wound
The relationship with our mother can influence the way we experience nurturing, emotional safety, intimacy, and our belief that we deserve to receive love.
The deeper question may become:
“Am I safe to be loved?”
When this relationship was painful or emotionally unavailable, adulthood may bring fear of abandonment, dependency, difficulty setting boundaries, or a constant search for validation.
The Father Wound
The relationship with our father can influence our sense of worth, capability, confidence, direction, achievement, and relationship with authority.
The deeper question may become:
“Am I enough?”
A distant, critical, absent, or emotionally unavailable father can contribute to perfectionism, intense self-expectation, fear of failure, or a constant need to prove one’s value
Childhood Leaves More Than Memories
Childhood experiences do not simply disappear when we become adults.
They can influence the way our nervous system learns to respond to the world.
A child who had to remain alert to emotional instability may grow into an adult whose body still expects something to go wrong.
A child who learned that love could disappear may experience intense anxiety when someone becomes distant.
A child who was constantly criticized may continue hearing that critical voice internally decades later.
Modern research in neuroscience, psychology, and epigenetics is increasingly exploring how early experiences can influence biological systems associated with stress and emotional regulation.
Our DNA sequence does not simply change because of trauma.
However, chronic stress and environmental experiences can influence how certain biological processes and genes are regulated.
Our experiences matter.
But our past does not have to become our destiny.
The Brain Can Change
One of the most hopeful discoveries in modern neuroscience is neuroplasticity.
Our brain remains capable of forming new patterns throughout life.
Through new experiences of safety, compassion, healthy relationships, emotional awareness, therapy, nervous-system regulation, and conscious choices, we can begin developing different responses from those we learned in childhood.
Healing does not erase what happened.
It changes how what happened continues to live within us.
Why We Work With San Pedro
San Pedro, traditionally known as Huachuma, is an ancestral cactus medicine from the Andes containing mescaline.
It has been used ceremonially for generations.
Our San Pedro ceremonies are held during the daytime, allowing participants to remain deeply connected with the natural environment, the body, movement, and the landscape around them.
Within Andean traditions and our own ceremonial experience, San Pedro is strongly associated with the heart.
Many people describe becoming more aware of emotions, memories, relationships, and parts of themselves that have been hidden beneath layers of protection.
The purpose is not to escape painful memories.
It is to develop another relationship with them.
Instead of experiencing the past only through the eyes of the wounded child, we may begin to witness it through the awareness of the adult we are today.
The event cannot be changed.
But our relationship with the event can.
Sometimes inner-child healing begins with something very simple:
I see you.
I hear you.
I understand why you were afraid.
You are not alone anymore.
I am here now.
San Pedro, the Nervous System & Neuroplasticity
Modern psychedelic research is investigating how classical psychedelics interact with serotonin systems involved in perception, emotional processing, cognition, and neuroplasticity.
Research across this family of compounds suggests that psychedelic experiences may temporarily create conditions in which deeply established mental and emotional patterns become more flexible.
However, no ceremony can promise to erase trauma, rewrite DNA, or permanently transform a person.
The medicine may open a door.
What happens afterwards matters just as much.
This is why our work places a strong emphasis on preparation and integration.
Bobinsana: Medicine of the Heart
During this retreat we will also work with Bobinsana, a master plant traditionally used within Amazonian plant-medicine practices.
In Amazonian traditions, Bobinsana is often associated with the heart, sensitivity, emotional openness, dreams, and learning about love.
It is sometimes described as a plant that teaches us to soften without losing our strength.
To feel without becoming overwhelmed.
To love without abandoning ourselves.
For an Inner Child Healing retreat, Bobinsana beautifully complements the work we do with San Pedro.
What This Retreat Is About
This retreat is for those who are ready to look more deeply at the origin of recurring patterns.
You may recognize yourself in experiences such as:
- Fear of abandonment
- Difficulty trusting people
- Relationship patterns that repeat again and again
- Emotional dependency
- Fear of rejection
- Feeling that you are never good enough
- Perfectionism and extreme self-criticism
- Difficulty setting boundaries
- Constant need for validation
- Feeling responsible for everyone
- Difficulty receiving love
- Fear of vulnerability
- Anger or unresolved pain toward your parents
- Feeling disconnected from your inner child
- Carrying emotional pain you cannot fully explain
The intention is not to diagnose ourselves.
It is to become curious.
To ask:
Where did this begin?
What did I need then?
What am I still searching for today?
And perhaps most importantly:
Can I begin giving that to myself now?
Your 7-Day Journey
During the week, we create a rhythm that allows time for ceremony, rest, nature, reflection, emotional work, and integration.
The retreat includes:
4 San Pedro Ceremonies
Daytime ceremonial work focused on awareness, emotional exploration, connection, and integration.
Daily Bobinsana
Traditional work with Bobinsana throughout the retreat.
Traditional Cleansing Practices
Amazonian cleansing and energetic work guided by our experienced team.
Inner Child Practices
Exercises and guided processes designed to help participants explore childhood memories, emotional patterns, unmet needs, and the relationship between the child and adult self.
Preparation
Our support begins before you arrive.
Participants receive guidance to prepare physically, emotionally, and mentally for the retreat.
Integration
The retreat does not end when the final ceremony finishes.
Integration helps transform insight into meaningful change in everyday life.
A Very Intimate Retreat
We intentionally limit this retreat to only 8 participants.
Deep emotional work requires space.
It requires trust.
It requires time.
And it requires the possibility of being seen as an individual rather than becoming one person inside a very large group.
Keeping the retreat small allows us to create a more personal and intimate environment for every participant.
The Setting: Sardinia
There is something powerful about doing this work surrounded by nature.
Sardinia offers space to slow down, breathe, disconnect from ordinary routines, and reconnect with yourself.
The natural environment becomes part of the integration process.
Sun.
Earth.
Sea.
Silence.
Movement.
Time.
During San Pedro work especially, being outside and connected with nature can become an important part of the experience.
This Is Not About Blaming Our Parents
One of the most important aspects of inner-child work is understanding the difference between recognizing what happened and remaining trapped in blame.
Our parents were also children once.
They inherited their own beliefs, fears, survival mechanisms, cultural conditioning, and family wounds.
Understanding this does not mean denying our pain.
It means holding a larger picture.
Healing asks:
What happened to me?
But eventually it also asks:
What do I choose to do with it now?
That is where responsibility begins.
And responsibility can become freedom.
Breaking Generational Patterns
Sometimes what we carry did not begin with us.
Fear.
Emotional distance.
Abandonment.
Addiction.
Anger.
Silence.
Control.
Shame.
These patterns can move through families for generations through behavior, attachment, learned beliefs, family dynamics, and potentially biological pathways that researchers continue to study.
Healing ourselves can therefore become something larger than personal healing.
When we become conscious of a pattern, we gain the possibility of responding differently.
We may not be able to change what came before us.
But we can decide what continues through us.
Preparation & Integration Matter
We do not believe that medicine alone does the work.
A ceremony can offer insight.
It can reveal a pattern.
It can create an emotional opening.
But integration is where those insights begin becoming part of our lives.
Afterward, healing may mean:
Choosing healthier relationships.
Creating boundaries.
Learning to rest.
Changing the way we speak to ourselves.
Seeking psychotherapy or professional support.
Allowing ourselves to receive love.
Ending relationships or behaviors that repeatedly harm us.
Learning to regulate our nervous system.
And becoming the safe adult that our younger self once needed.
Reserve Your Place
This retreat is limited to only 8 participants.
If you feel called to join us, you can read the complete booking information and reserve your place through Retreat Guru.
Retreat Guru booking page:
https://retreat.guru/events/9306-675/inner-child-healing-retreat-with-bobinsana-and-san-pedro
Or directly with us .
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