About the facilitator

Lourdez Olanda is a nationally recognized workshop and retreat leader specializing in ceremonies and sacred rituals. She has a deep knowledge of sacred plants as well as shamanic traditions from around the world. Lourdez has been offering healing retreats on the mainland USA, Hawaii, Europe, and Mexico for over a decade.

Deep knowledge of the sacred flows through Lourdez’s ancestral lineage. Her most recent predecessor is her grandmother, who was a healer in the village where she grew up. From her grandmother, Lourdez learned reverence and respect for traditional plant-based remedies. She studied several healing modalities including Hypnotherapy, Psychology, Energy Healing, Ayurveda, and therapeutic bodywork in North America, South America, and Asia.  She has also traveled to the Amazon to study directly under elders and shamans in the Peruvian and Bolivian rainforest and sacred mountains and observed and studied the shamans in Mongolia.

Lourdez’s intuition has been refined through many years of spiritual practice aimed to cultivate and strengthen her connection to the sacred. As a retreat leader, Lourdez weaves together all of the threads of her training, her intuition, and her experiences guiding others through healing, spiritual quests, and sacred rituals. Lourdez creates a welcoming and safe space where participants feel uplifted and deeply supported on their own individual quest for healing and direct spiritual perception.