RESTORE
STEWARDSHIP
La Paz, Baja California Sur
A Living Lab for Embodied Leadership
The Restore Stewardship gathering is a living creative lab for embodied leadership that happens every February, when gray whales arrive on their sacred migration to the protected waters of Baja California Sur to birth their young.
Immersed in the extraordinary convergence of desert and ocean, you'll join an intimate group of 6 participants for a transformative week exploring stewardship, earth-based consciousness, and ancestral wisdom as pathways to harmonizing collective and planetary healing and wellbeing.
Guided by locals and elders from Baja California Sur and grounded in ceremony and ritual, this gathering invites you to learn from technologies of ancestral wisdom rooted in stewardship and cultural continuity.
Your participation directly supports a local network of projects and people in dedicated service to community, land, water, and spiritual regeneration.
7 days, 6 nights
6 participants maximum
Investment: of $2700 CAD
*10% early bird discount for applications received by November 20, 2025
La Paz, Baja California Sur
MEXICO
FEBRUARY 5-11, 2026
This Gathering is Calling You If:
You don’t resonate with hierarchical leadership models and are hungry for something rooted in reciprocity
You work in sustainability, regenerative industries, education, or healing and may be feeling isolated in your work
You're navigating a life transition and crave space to listen deeply to what's emerging
You're drawn to Indigenous wisdom and want to engage respectfully as a humble student
You create culture (art, writing, music, community) and want to root your work in Earth wisdom
You lead teams or organizations and want to embody regenerative principles, not just talk about them
You recognize that the most impactful change begins within your own inner systems
We’re inviting regenerative leaders, artists, culture workers, healers, seekers, and storytellers to step into co-creatorship with Earth's living systems with us.
Why Now?
As we face unprecedented planetary shifts, we're being called to reimagine leadership through creative pathways to collective and planetary healing. This is the moment to embody new possibilities within ourselves and co-create a thriving future.
This retreat happens during whale migration season intentionally: to learn from the ancestral wisdom of beings who never lost their way, who carry memory in their bodies, who steward the ocean by creating culture through their ancestral movements, memories, songs and community.
What You'll Experience:
Ceremonies & Rituals
Opening ceremony with a respected Baja elder and Moon Dance leader
Traditional temazcal (sweat lodge) ceremony with an elder
Daily meditations, rituals, and earth-based practices
Desert & Ocean Immersions
Ceremonial grey whale encounter in Puerto Chale
Guided stargazing excursion in La Paz's protected desert with a local astrophysicist and elder
Sea excursions from La Paz into protected marine ecosystems
Pristine beach access for reflection and connection
Embodied Learning
Somatic art practices for creative expression
Fire circles for reflection
Elder-guided teachings on ancestral wisdom
Shared rituals of preparing and sharing meals
Space for magic to unfold through community immersion
The Unexpected
Beautiful surprises emerge when we stay open to flow, leave space for spontaneity, and allow ourselves to be held by a generous community.
What You'll Take Home
Embodied tools for leading from stewardship
Personal ceremonial and ritual practices you can continue in your daily life
Connection to a network of regenerative leaders and culture workers
Renewed relationship with your embodiment of leadership and role as a steward
Clarity and direction emerging from slowing down and deep listening
Creative approaches to healing and wellbeing in your work and life
BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR
Baja California Sur is ancestral territory where Pericú, Guaycura, and Cochimí stewards have lived in reciprocity with the land for thousands of years. Vibrant desert and ocean meet in sacred balance. Fresh-water oases emerge as they always have—gifts known and protected by those who tend this land. Here, the Pacific and Gulf converge, creating waters that have held life since the beginning of memory.
A diversity of beings call these ecosystems home—from the ancestral songs of migratory whales carrying memory through ocean currents, to towering cardón cacti standing as ancient guardians who have witnessed millennia of ecological balance, tension, and resilience.
We'll be based at Casa Pax, a beautiful private beach house in the Bay of La Paz with pool access, direct beach entry, and a history of hosting cultural activations and artist residencies.
Investment and What’s Included:
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✓ 6 nights accommodation at Casa Pax
✓ Airport transfers from La Paz International Airport
✓ 2 group dinners + light breakfasts (leaving flexibility so we may explore outside the house)
✓ All ceremonies, rituals, and teachings with elder guides
✓ All land and sea excursions (including Puerto Chale whale encounter)
✓ Ground transportation for all retreat activities
✓ Pre-retreat virtual gathering for intention setting
✓ Post-retreat virtual integration session
✓ Support from facilitator Ioana before, during, and after the retreat -
✗ Airfare to/from La Paz (or Los Cabos with separate ground transfer)
✗ Travel insurance (required - minimum $200,000 USD coverage)
✗ Personal expenses, extra snacks, alcoholic beverages
✗ Optional additional nights in La Paz
✗ Tips (collaborators are fairly compensated; extra tips welcome but not expected) -
We will be hosted for 6 nights in Casa Pax, a beautiful private beach house in the Bay of La Paz, Baja California Sur. Casa Pax is a very special place that is home to community cultural activations and artist residencies.
All accommodation will be in double and single-occupancy rooms. Rooms will be assigned on a first-come-first serve basis.
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$2700 CAD + tax
10% early registration discount for all applications received by November 20, 2025
$500 CAD non-refundable deposit confirms your spot
Balance due 30 days before retreat start date
Payment plans available - email ioana@comuna.earth to request
QUESTIONS? Please get in touch, we’d love to hear from you.
READY TO JOIN? Submit your application below.
*Applications received by Nov 20, 2025, will be eligible for 10% early bird registration discount
While each day responds to the group's energy and what the land is offering, here's a glimpse of the flow:
Morning: Meditation and movement practice • Light breakfast together • Intention setting
Day: Guided excursions and ceremonies (desert hikes, whale encounters, beach immersions) • Elder teachings • Indigenous medicine wellbeing practices • Somatic art practices
Evening: Integration rituals • Fire circles • Creative expression • Shared meal preparation • Rest
Throughout: Space for spontaneity, personal reflection, deep listening, rest, and community connection
Sample Daily Rhythm
When leadership remembers the Earth, our somatic success metrics become rooted in healing, deep listening, and regeneration
A gathering co-created and immersed in community and the ancestral technologies of the Earth
The Restore Stewardship gathering is a living testament to what emerges when we co-create in community and embrace collective visioning. Through shared resources, creativity, and mutual support, this offering reimagines leadership as a practice of stewardship rooted in reciprocity, care, and creativity.
We're honored to collaborate with Global Pax Collective—an international group of artists, elders, scientists, activists, educators, and creative humans with the mission of promoting peace, healthy human development, and planetary health through arts and cultural activities that integrate intergenerational and multicultural perspectives.
This intimate gathering will be facilitated by Ioana in collaboration with our local community of hosts, guides, and elders in La Paz. Though carefully curated, we also encourage each participant to bring their offerings and contributions to this co-created space. This is where the magic truly unfolds.
Ioana Todosia, Root Facilitator
Over the past eight years, I've dedicated my life's work to weaving cross-cultural networks like an underground mycelial web—curating and facilitating transformative experiences that bridge peoples, places, and paradigms. This work culminated in creating the Comuna.Earth platform, a space to reimagine bio-cultural systems of learning, healing, and wellbeing that serve Life.
For the last five years, I've had the privilege of rooting in Mexico, becoming a humble student of Indigenous and multi-knowledge systems, receiving wisdom from beloved and generous elders, plant medicine practices and animist ceremonies, and embracing death and grief as profound guides to greater aliveness. Alongside this work, I keep my creative fire burning through art, music, sound exploration, and walking this planet in a state of awe.
