7-Days to Profound Peace

Peace is possible! Even amidst global chaos. In this 7-Day Transformative Retreat we will to take you on a journey from wherever you are, to a place within that is profoundly peaceful, regardless of external influences.
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location & Dates

Vilcabamba, also known as "The Sacred Valley" Loja, Ecuador Friday, 3rd to Friday, 10th of October 2025

Embrace daily moments

Through carefully crafted, simple, yet powerful daily moments, that take place through mindful movement, nourishing meals, sacred ceremonies, and energy enhancing meditations and practices, you can expect to profoundly remember who you are, why you are here, and embrace your connection to all that is, including a deep sense of peace.
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“Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility.”

— DALAI LAMA

Tools to Reclaim & Reorient Your Consciousness

The Stage
Awareness + 1, 2, 3
The MAP
Phases of Change
docjo. 4 Metaphysical Tools
As there are user manuals and tools for doing things in the external world, there are also manuals and tools to handle our internal world. Without a manual and tool kit, the internal workings of the four bodies (physical, mental, emotional, and energetic) are in a perpetual state of chaos. However, with the right guidance and techniques, you can transcend the concepts, beliefs, programs and conditioning imposed on you, and discover the place where true peace is possible. The docjo. 4 Metaphysical Tools™ are a uniquely compiled set of tools drawn from, and infused by, ancient wisdom, quantum physics, science, philosophy and nature. They have been tested, measured, and proven to:
  • Raise your awareness about how you got to where you are
  • Gain a crystal-clear intention for where to from here
  • Produce a customized and personalized MAP for how to get there; and
  • Receive phase-by-phase guidance through the transformational and constant change process
San Pedro Sacred Medicine journey with renowned Shamana, Felicia Langer
The Earth is a live being, with her own consciousness. She is part of us, as we are part of her. She is the Mother of all living creatures that exist... humans, plants and animals. In spirit we are all one. Out of her womb we are born and into her womb we return when we leave our psychical body. For centuries the human race has distanced itself from its true nature and lost contact with Mother Earth herself. This has caused increasing wars and dis-ease and led to the destruction of our natural environment and our selves. In order to heal our planet, we humans need to first heal ourselves.
San Pedro is a cactus that grows naturally in Vilcabamba and it's surrounding areas. Partaking in Felicia's Ceremonies offers a unique opportunity to activate the self-healing process inside each o.
As the night represents our subconscious and the flowers of the San Pedro cactus open and bloom during night time, ceremonies are held at night. With the help of the sacred San Pedro spirit Felicia guides us to bring our subconscious to the surface and have it open in front of us like a flower. These ceremonies help to increase our awareness - bringing light into our own darkness and opening up the sacred space inside each of us where profound peace reigns. Together with docjo.'s Metaphysical Tools they the perfect journey to where profound peace is truly possible.

Retreat Documents

Friday, 3 October to Friday, 10 October 2025
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What Others Have Said...

  • If you are also a counsellor, coach, or healer, the docjo. Metaphysical Tools are an invaluable addition to your repertoire. If you are looking to start your healing journey, are seeking greater self-insight or are in a rut and need some help to find your path, these tools are also for you. I can also highly recommend working with docjo. in a coaching capacity. Joanne is kind, will call you out when needed in a caring, authentic, and non-judgmental way, has an abundance of life experience and is just a wonderful person. She has a knowing sort of divine energy about her that you feel drawn and connected to. If you have found your way here, you are in the right place.
    Robyn K.
  • Joanne is part teacher, guide, strategist, and life alchemist! Her program takes a metaphysical approach to profound self-awareness and personal excellence. This experience helped with clarity and healing and brought an entirely new inspiration to my life. She provided me with all the tools and application guidance I needed to create a life by design. I encourage others to experience this journey and highly recommend Joanne to anyone looking to bridge the gap from their current conditions towards creating a new personal pathway to their true passions and life purpose!
    Laura C.
  • Extract Part 1/3: To begin with, one should understand that shamans are BORN, claimed and then taught directly by the spirits, always. They are never self-appointed, self-taught nor are they motivated by a lack of material assets or by a means to earn a living. Their purpose is very deeply rooted in their earthly incarnation. Felicia is the embodiment of the authentic shaman, in this sense. She does not recruit or herd you. She claims that if you are inquiring about the journey, it is simply in response to the call of the plant entity itself. One thing that sets Felicia apart from the many is that she speaks many languages and by virtue is able to translate the symbolism and meaning across the cultural and language divides.
    Michelle, Canada
  • Extract Part 2/3: I found my own rituals with Felicia to be esthetically beautiful ones and performed with incredible care, devotion, skill and higher gifts. Blanketed under the beautiful Andean starry skies, the stars move around the night campfire which blazes and wafts the scent of Palo Santo. If I so much as stirred, Felicia was immediately by my side so it is the perfect safe, controlled environment for your altered state of consciousness. Individual experiences of the journey range widely so my own would be very different from yours but I can say that in general, it is ecstatic, profound and holds a huge potential to transform and heal your life by aligning you with higher, healing energies of Earth. It opens up other dimensional realities if you are ready to perceive them but because they are other-dimensional, it somehow defies description.
    Michelle, Canada
  • Extract Part 3/3: If you are called to this sacred experience, it is indeed an honor. If it resonates with you, pursue it. Don't worry about the smaller details around it like how much, who with, when....as I assure you that you will be in good hands and it honors a purpose in you that is much greater than you, yourself, and these finer details. I have journeyed many times with Felicia over the past five years and she has definitely helped to transform my life. I overcame a long battle (+20 years) with an auto-immune disease that plagued me, in just a handful of journeys. WOW!
    Safe travels! May both your outward and inward journeys be great for you!
    Michelle, Canada
  • The docjo. Metaphysical Tools are transformational! Joanne’s self-coaching tool “Awareness + 1,2,3.” enables me to see deeply into self-deceptions and self-negations of my projections and reactions to people, places, and events.
    As a result the self-awareness and deeper insights I sought for myself are now a consistent part of my day-to-day reality!
    Creating my own MAP, for a clear pathway forward, has absolutely ignited new engagement levels with life.
    Doing the exclusive docjo. Tools training with Joanne is something you’ll definitely thank yourself for. I sure do!
    Earl H.
  • I was blessed with the opportunity to embark on a journey through Ecuador with my partner for 3 months. The whole adventure was a life changing experience. Following a 2 week Ayahuasca/San Pedro retreat, we travelled to Vilcabamba, a most anticipated place to visit while in Ecuador. We were recommended to see Felicia by a friend and experience her medicine in her sacred garden. We are so very grateful to have had this experience. Felicia has created a truly magical space and is so kind to open her doors and invite others to share medicine for self healing, reflection, and transformation. So much respect and gratitude is given to Grandfather San Pedro and Pachamama by Felicia, maintaining sacredness in the ceremony. The medicine was very powerful, allowing me to feel great connections and experience immense self reflection. Thank you so much for this experience. I feel grateful to have met you, and privileged to have taken your medicine. Until we meet again, take care :)Love and Light
    Kristine V.
  • One might say that my life was somewhat overwhelming, complicated and challenging.
    Joanne’s Tools training and coaching are unique and work in a magical kind of way! Very quickly, I was able to gain an understanding of my programmed personality and conditioned behaviours like never before.
    After facing many undeniable truths, I was shown a way to define and design where to from here. This is done in a way that is practical and inspirational, making it an incredibly valuable tool in the forgiveness, healing, and moving forward process.
    Paula H.
  • I met Felicia in 1996 on a journey to Vilcabamba. I will never forget that first meeting! For the last two decades I have worked with many world known shaman, amongst them, Credo Mutwa, the spiritual leader of the Zulu tribe from South Africa, Freddie Quispe (“Puma”), Ruben Orrelano, Kucho,….all from Peru, Jerry Wills, Wolf, and many others from the States, Mexico, Japan, Australia and other parts of the world. I consider Felicia to be the most knowledgeable and most powerful shaman that I have ever had the opportunity of knowing. It is because of her knowledge and teachings that I have been able to become a well known authority on the healing of this plant. (I am in most of the guide books of Peru)
    Felicia is truly the most powerful healer/shaman/teacher that I know. I thank her for her unending wisdom, healing and teachings she gives me and others so freely. If you have the opportunity to drink this sacred plant with this sacred woman, you are the luckiest of the lucky.I am eternally grateful to her.
    Lesley M.
  • From day 1, I immediately began to learn new things about myself, including my beliefs, programming, cultural conditioning, limited worldview, and values.
    I was guided on how to define, design, and develop a practical, sustainable, inspirational, and joyfully challenging road MAP for how to stop living my life-by-default and create a life-by-design instead that would deliver my heart’s desires.
    Two years on and I am delighted by how things have turned out. Jo's training includes the importance of reclaiming our consciousness and the technique for how to focus only where I want to live, and it is from this that I have achieved the imaginable and the unimaginable.
    Above all, I learned that anything is possible with the right information, knowledge and tools.
    Olalla Z.
  • I've known a few shamans in my life, Maria Sabina in Huatla, Doña Julietta in San Mateo, Eloxochitlan, and the Huichol shaman Brant Secunda. In my opinion Felicia is one in a line of the powerful shamans.
    Blair
  • My relationship with my partner was already good, but not quite at that ‘sacred’ level. We just didn’t have the practical tools and insights into the root causes behind certain behaviours or outcomes that we were experiencing in our relationship.
    One of the most noticeable changes we’ve experienced is how we deal with arguments. We’re now able to quickly move through a disagreement more effectively and with a deeper understanding of the other.
    I am incredibly grateful for the wisdom, tools and insights – both practical and transformational. We’re noticing such huge shifts and are feeling so much more joyful, closer, and more intimate than ever before!
    Hannah D.
  • I have a Masters Degree in Counseling and I have worked extensively with Altered States and I am writing this to give my support and share the confidence I have in Felicia and her ability to deal with whatever arises for people during Sacred Medicine Journeys. Felicia's work is highly intuitional, which is an essential ingredient for a good Shaman. There is no book that can teach you this. It is about being fully connected to the energy of the present moment. It is about listening with more than just your ears and seeing with more than just your eyes. Felicia's intuitional skills are highly developed and she uses this gift to assist her during the Sacred Medicine Journeys. Felicia is a gentle and masterful guide in the journey of discovering ourselves. She is intelligent, astute, and in my opinion a truly gifted healer. I feel honored to know her and write this reference for her.
    Susan Ryan
  • The docjo Tools helped me go from “This is Impossible” to “I can actually DO THIS” very quickly while encouraging me towards, and explaining how I can achieve, even more massive, audacious goals. Gives me goosebumps.
    I’m now feeling calm, focused and determined because of my MAP. I love my MAP! The process and timing is perfection! Everything unfolds easily and is enjoyable. So much clarity and breakthroughs. Thank you for eliciting my self-belief.
    I am now finding JOY in all areas and activities, and am totally confident and thrilled about what lies ahead. My energy levels are more constant too, and I am so much more relaxed and clear about where-to from here.
    Did I mention I love my MAP!!
    Karen A.

About Your Facilitators

Dr Joanne Mangion
Joanne has been studying and exploring the realms of energy, consciousness, and metaphysics in the forests, deserts, mountains, and coastline of Australia, Thailand, Mexico, Panama and Ecuador for 21 years. Following 16 years in corporate Australia, in industries including Law, Aviation, and Banking & Finance, Joanne turned mental breakdown, manic depression, and planned suicide attempt, into a rebirth. 12 years later she turned her home into an ashram, creating a temple for deeper philosophical and metaphysical learning and practice. With her 20 year life and business partner, Anthony Harvey, she co-founded The 4 Metaphysical Tools, and went on to obtain a bachelor, masters, and PhD degree in Philosophy, summa cum laude, majoring in Metaphysics and Humanistic Science. She has been helping others since, to identify and overcome the programs and patterns that keep leading them into looping, negative thoughts and undesirable conditions. Clearing the space to quantum leap into something extraordinary instead. Joanne's life purpose is to help others learn to reclaim and reorient their consciousness. By doing so, she says we are able to recall our sovereignty and create a life-by-design.

Shamana, Felicia Langer

Felicia was born in Salzburg, Austria. In 1987, she moved to Ecuador to begin a new phase of life. From early childhood her innate attraction towards the "Supernatural" set a series of events in motion, which had quite an impact on her personal development. Many things happened to shape her into the woman and shamana she is today.
Having traveled through Colombia, Peru, Chile, Mexico, and Ecuador, she has resided most of the time in Vilcabamba - a small village located in the lower Andes of southern Ecuador. Vilcabamba is renowned worldwide as "The Sacred Valley" and "The Valley of Longevity". It also has a reputation of being a Place of Power.
Over the past 30 years I she has been in contact with shamans from Ecuador and other places of South America. Spending time with shamans from different backgrounds, she learned variety of techniques used by them. Previous to working with San Pedro shamans, she was introduced to some of the old shamans who were capable of "seeing" and increasing their "vision" without the use of any plant medicines. Throughout the years, she expressed some of her visions through art.
In 1993 she started learning the use of the sacred plant "Aguacolla" - "Huachuma", more commonly known as San Pedro cactus. Although she has worked with traditional shamans from Ecuador and Peru, most of her knowledge comes directly from the spirit of the plant.
Around 2002, she was ready to share openly what she has learned about Sacred Plant Medicine with others. She has been holding Sacred Medicine Journeys for in excess of 20 years, guiding many women and men, from different social, cultural, professional and religious background, to inner peace and transformation.

Frequently asked questions

Where are Retreats held?
Retreats are held on a small farm located 2 km outside of the town of Vilcabamba, together with our dogs, cats, a horse, and a Scarlet Macaw called "Pepe". Due to it's magic qualities, the farm was named "Los Encantos" which translates to "The Charms".
How do I get there?
Ecuador has 2 international airports, so you can to book your flight to either Quito or Guayaquil. Once in Ecuador you can travel to Loja by bus, or take a 1 domestic flight with Ecuador's domestic carrier "Tame". From Loja you can take a bus or hour taxi to Vilcabamba.
What Accomodation is available?
Vilcabamba has a variety of accommodation options including rooms, hostels, studios, cottages, cabins, apartments, condos, guesthomes, and homes to suit all budgets and preferences. I recommend referencing Airbnb or Bookings.com to find your place.
How many participants are in a Retreat?
Retreats are held with a minimum of three (3) and a maximum five (5) participants.
What is the Cost of the Retreat?
Your investment for this transformational 7-Day event towards profound peace is US$#### per person. This is an ALL INCLUSIVE price for accommodation, transfers, meals (as outlined in the retreat schedule), training of the docjo. 4 Metaphysical Tools, all scheduled classes, activities, and ceremonies.
How do payments work?
A 50% deposit secures your place. Payment in full is required 7 days before your retreat. If you are unable to attend for any reason your payment can be put towards a future retreat taken within three months. Payments are made by domestic transfer, in your local currency, to a Wise travel account.
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