Uni Retreats are monthly 7-night medicine retreats at Akasha Retreat Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The retreats are led by medicine women and men from the Amazon, mostly from Yawanawa and Huni Kuin nations, as well as a few special events with the participation of representatives from the Ashaninka and Shipibo traditions.

The retreat is limited to groups of up to 30 people, allowing for closer contact with the spiritual leaders, in the comfort of Akasha Retreat Center, with individual and group bungalows, organic meals, herbal sauna, and natural swimming pools.

The ceremonies are held throughout the night until dawn, with powerful songs from the native nations, which consist of spiritual codes that call the spirits and entities of the forest. The songs and medicine also help to access channels of spiritual connection within our bodies and superior spiritual realities. The medicine works to release old traumas, re-establishing harmony and alignment of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies.

The retreats also include the Inipi ceremony, which is one of the oldest rituals of pre-Columbian America. The Inipi (in Lakota tradition) or Temazkal (in Mexika tradition, meaning sweat house) symbolizes the womb of the Earth, where we enter for rebirth. Through contact with the 4 elements, the heat, the steam emanated from the hot stones and sacred songs of the Lakota and Mexika traditions, we connect with the forces of Nature and the spiritual world. It is a ritual of purification, blessing, emotional unlocking, and expanding awareness.