MYCELIA
Oaxaca Mushroom Field Trip
The Healing Wisdom of Mushrooms
We invite you to join us on the ancestral lands of the Zapotec people in one of the most prolific fungal regions on earth for an immersive retreat into the heart of mushroom medicine. This three-day field trip welcomes you into the entangled systems of reciprocity, care, transformation, and medicine woven through the mushroom kingdom.
Rooted in ancestral healing traditions and Indigenous science, this opportunity is an invitation into communal and embodied study through the wisdom of fungi and the lens of indigenous knowledge and cosmovisions.
Oaxaca, Mexico
Duration: 3 days, 2 nights
Group Size: Intimate gathering of 6 participants
Investment: $13,500 MX / $720 CAD (+ tax)
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Dates: JULY 31-AUG 2, 2025
A Journey Co-Created and Held in Community
The MYCELIA Mushroom Field Trip is a living testament to what becomes possible when we co-create in kinship. Rooted in shared resources, relationships, and mutual support, this retreat reflects the wisdom of the mycorrhizal web—reimagining healing and wellbeing as emergent, co-creative processes grounded in systems of reciprocity and collective care.
In collaboration with our family at Tierra Sagrada, we are honoured to offer this unique journey alongside Doña Marta and Ester, local healers, knowledge keepers, and guides from the community of Cuajimoloyas . Together, we cultivate a space of deep healing, reverence, relational exchange, and bio-cultural regeneration—learning from and nourishing the continuity of Indigenous knowledge and cosmovisions.
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You’ll be picked up at a central location in Oaxaca City in the morning and we will drive 1 ½ hours to the Sierra Norte where we will arrive at 3300m elevation in the community of Cuajimoloyas . This beautiful community will be our home for 2 nights in cozy eco-cabins in the middle of the lush cloud forest.
Ester, a local healer, herbalist and guide known for her extensive knowledge of the medicinal and healing properties of local plants and fungi, will guide us on a medicine foraging walk through the lush forest of Cuajimoloyas to begin connecting with the land and mushroom kingdom.
In the evening we’ll receive individual energetic cleansings by Ester and be guided in a traditional temazcal ceremony (Mesoamerican sweatlodge).
These traditional healing practices are profound purification processes that bring the mind, body, spirit, and emotional and energetic bodies back in harmony.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
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Waking up with the sun, we’ll connect with a slow morning of meditation followed by a traditional breakfast.
We’ll be honoured with a talk by Doña Marta, a local mushroom maestra and celebrated cocinera. We’ll learn how to identify the mushrooms we collected and be shown some of the community’s culinary traditions in a collective cooking class and herbal medicine workshop.
Closing the evening off by sharing a fire circle.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
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Wake up with the sun one last time and close our retreat with a collective offering to the land.
We’ll share reflections over breakfast and begin to integrate more of our individual and collective journey before descending back down to Oaxaca City early in the afternoon.
Meals Included: Breakfast
Retreat Schedule
* Final schedule may be subject to minor changes
Retreat
Booking Details
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This intimate journey will be limited to 6 participants.
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A non-refundable and non-transferable full payment of $13,500 MX (+ tax) is due on confirmation of registration.
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We will be hosted for 3 days, 2 nights in cozy community managed eco-cabins in Cuajimoloyas.
All accommodation will be shared occupancy.
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Meals: All meals will be included.
Accommodation: Shared occupancy in beautiful and rustic eco-cabins managed by the community hosting us.
Ground Transportation: Transportation for the duration of the retreat, including pick-up and drop-off in Oaxaca City.
Activities, Workshops, and Excursions: All activities, workshops, and excursions in the Retreat Schedule are included. The final itinerary may be subject to minor changes. We will do our best to notify participants of any major changes as promptly as possible.
Experienced and knowledgeable facilitators and guides
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Airfare: To and from Oaxaca International Airport.
Accomodation in Oaxaca City: You will need to arrive to Oaxaca City a day before the start of the retreat. We will pick you up the morning of the first day of the retreat. We also recommend you book an extra day after the end of the retreat.
Personal Travel Insurance: Personal travel insurance covering at least $200,000 USD for medical emergencies, death, theft, trip cancellation and delays, etc. is required for all participants. We will ask that you provide us with proof of insurance prior to the start of the retreat schedule.
Extra Activities and Excursions: Participants will be responsible for all extra services, activities and excursions that are not included in the retreat.
Personal Expenses: Incidentals, medicine, extra snacks outside of scheduled group meals, alcoholic beverages, etc.
Tips: All of our collaborators are compensated fairly. If you feel anyone went above and beyond and you would like to give more, you are more than welcome to, but this is not necessary.
Extra Nights in Oaxaca: If you would like to book additional nights in Oaxaca, you are welcome to but understand that this will be an extra expense. We may offer suggestions, but it will be your responsibility to make the booking.
QUESTIONS? Please get in touch.
READY TO JOIN? Send us an email to confirm your spot! ioana@comuna.earth
Ancient Technologies of the Future
Across Mesoamerica, including Zapotec, Mazatec, and many other cultures, mushrooms have been revered not only as food and medicine, but as sacred technologies—portals to deeper understanding, healing, and relationship.
In communities like Cuajimoloyas, fungi culture is more than ecological tradition—it is a way of seeing and relating to the world, rooted in reciprocity, regeneration, and kinship with the land. The mycelial networks beneath the forest floor, sustaining entire ecosystems, reveal nature's original blockchain: an intelligent decentralized system that distributes resources equitably, transforms decay into renewal, and fosters resilience through collaboration over competition.
These vast underground webs mirror the deep wisdom and earth-based consciousness alive in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca—reflecting how Indigenous communities have long understood interconnection, reciprocity, and collective care as essential to life and the wellbeing of future generations.
La Sierra Norte de Oaxaca
The Sierra Norte of Oaxaca is a land of mist-laden cloud forests, ancient mountains, and vibrant biocultural diversity. A region where the relationship between land, people, and the mushroom kingdom has been nurtured for generations by self-governing Zapotec communities—guardians of one of the best-preserved biospheres in the world.
As we walk ancestral pathways that have connected Indigenous communities for millennia, through forests alive with biodiversity and more-than-human intelligence, we begin to re-attune to the rhythms of living systems and remember ways of being, seeing, and creating in harmony with the Earth. This healing journey offers us a living blueprint—an invitation to reimagine future systems of wellbeing rooted in interdependence, regeneration, and re-alignment with nature’s intelligence.
