"Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. "Be still," they say. "Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands." — Linda Hogan
Let the Ancestors Guide You Home
Do you find yourself tripping over your own fears and dramas, distracting yourself from your truest heart's purpose, or forgetting about the wisdom and guidance of your ancestors that flows through your bones?
Join HeatherAsh and the Pyramid Academy team for our annual Day of the Dead Power Journey and Spiritual Pilgrimage for Ancestral Healing. The Day of the Dead is one of the most important days of the year in Mexico, a time of bright, brilliant celebration and ancient ritual that will touch your heart and soul.
This unique experience will be like no other.
We'll be staying at the Dreaming House, a colorful, family run retreat center in Mexico, surrounded by new and close to the heart friends, and participating in healing and energizing ceremonies each day in one of the most potent sites on the planet.
Come dream a new dream.
Our Intention
While it is often related to Halloween, since it is around the same time of year, the Day of the Dead is an ancient, pre-Colombian festival to honor the dead. (If you've seen the movie Coco, you know the incredible beauty and importance of the Day of the Dead to Mexico. If you haven't seen it; put it on your watchlist.)
National Geographic writes: Day of the Dead originated several thousand years ago with the Aztec, Toltec, and other Nahua people… For these pre-Hispanic cultures, death was a natural phase in life's long continuum. The dead were still members of the community, kept alive in memory and spirit-and during Día de los Muertos, they temporarily returned to Earth.
During this seven-day journey, we'll immerse ourselves in transformative ancient wisdom practices, walk the initiatory path of the ancestors through the pyramids, and experience the healing of honoring and connecting with our beloved dead.
What to Expect During this Experience:
- Meditating and Visioning in sacred sites around Teotihuacán
- Visiting a nearby market to buy flowers, altar items, and immerse in the local Day of the Dead experience
- Creating individual altars to our beloved dead
- Ceremonies for healing past ancestral and personal trauma
- Generational Healing circle to cleanse and purify our ancestral lineages
Weather permitting, we will also offer an optional firewalk dedicated to healing our hearts.
The energy coming together around this very unique experience is magical and deeply transformative. We would love to have you join us.
Don't miss this sacred heart-centered journey to reconnect you with what is most precious: your own eternal light.
Come shed the old skin or wiggle out of the familiar distractions, and claim your wings to soar into the being you are meant to be.
Breaking Generational Curses, Befriending Your Ancestors
This year, we are deepening our collective experience with a powerful new focus: a guiding theme for our time together.
Our 2025 theme is Breaking Generational Curses, Befriending Your Ancestors. Throughout our journey, we will explore what it truly means to heal the wounds of our lineage and reconnect with the wisdom that lies beneath the pain. Whether your family ties feel whole or fractured, every ancestral line holds ruptures—moments of disconnection, trauma, or unspoken grief—that may have gone unhealed through generations.
With HeatherAsh and the Pyramid Academy team, you’ll be invited into sacred energetic and ritual practices designed to support the mending of these deep-rooted separations. Together, we will work to repair what has been torn, honor those who came before us, and claim the gifts and guidance that are your birthright.
This is your opportunity to step beyond inherited patterns of harm and limitation, and to break free, forging a new relationship with your ancestors that is rooted in compassion, clarity, and strength.
Hear From Those Who Have Experienced The Magic of Teotihuacan...
Dates & Details: From Arrival to Ceremony, Here's What to Expect
Your Journey Includes
- 6 nights accommodations, double or tripe-occupancy*
- 3 meals a day featuring delicious, healthy and traditional Mexican food (can accommodate special diets)
- Ground transportation to and from Mexico City Airport
- Entrance fees to the sacred pyramid site
- Daily practices, teachings, and experiential activities
*If you are traveling with a friend or family member and are interested in sharing a room with them please let us know after registration via the survey sent out in our Welcome Packet.
There are a few premium rooms available for an additional charge at checkout. These rooms are larger and offer more space.
**Price does not include your flight to and from Mexico City.
DATES: Monday, October 28th — Sunday, November 3rd, 2025
LOCATION: Teotihuacán, Mexico
INVESTMENT: $2097
Payment plans available!
Are You Ready to Dance with the Angel of Death—and Come Home to Yourself?
This has been a year of deep reckoning for many of us—of letting go, of grieving, of finding the courage to keep walking forward through uncertainty. Whether you've been quietly tending your heart or caught in the chaos of change, this is your invitation to pause, listen, and reconnect to the wisdom that lives in your bones.
The Day of the Dead reminds us that life and death are not separate, but sacred partners. In the ancient city of Teotihuacán, surrounded by the mystery and beauty of ritual, you’ll have space to release what no longer serves and honor the lineage that carried you here. Through ceremony, community, and connection with the land, you’ll awaken new parts of yourself and dream forward a more rooted, radiant life.
Come waltz with your ancestors. Come dance with life. The journey awaits.
Optional: Expand Your Experience With This Add-On Workshop
Join Shiila Safer for a special Monday add-on workshop: Marigold Magic: Dyeing with Marigolds on Silk.
Experience the magic of making marigold silk scarves with marigolds from our Day of the Dead altars!
After our main program ends, learn with Shiila Safer to use dried and fresh flowers to create a beautiful yellow gold silk scarf or silk bandana and take it home for yourself, or for a gift.
The silk will be pre-mordanted, then together we will simmer the flowers and the silk to make your gorgeous Fall scarf or bandana – you will choose a scarf or bandana when you arrive. You will also have the opportunity to dye a second item for an extra $15.
Learn about natural dyeing at its most basic – experience the alchemy of flowers, water, and heat.
Class size limited to 10. Pre-registration required. Register at checkout.
$88 USD for the workshop which includes one scarf or bandana.
Want to do more? Add on an extra item for $15, which can be paid by cash or Venmo at the event.
Meet Your Host, HeatherAsh Amara
Welcome, dear one!
I love guiding people to become their own best friend and ally — turning challenges into healing and obstacles into gold.
I’m the author of the best-selling book — Warrior Goddess Training. My latest book — Wild, Willing, and Wise: When to Paddle, When to Rest, and When to Jump Naked into the River of Life is now in stores.
I’m a Sundoor Master Firewalk Instructor and Empowerment Trainer and the transformative heart of my teachings come through my long Toltec apprenticeship and teaching partnership with don Miguel Ruiz Sr., author of The Four Agreements.
I first journeyed to Teotihuacan in 1996 with don Miguel Ruiz and have led many powerful journeys and retreats since then. As I wrote about in Warrior Goddess Training, many years ago I was part of a small group of women who traveled to the pyramids of Teotihuacan, Mexico, following a vision of connecting with the female ancestors of this sacred heart of the Toltec path. The journey was pure magic, culminating in a blessed miracle atop the pyramid of the sun.
We stood at the top of the pyramid in a circle, a small group of women praying and chanting for the healing of the planet’s waters and people. We held a small golden chalice filled with water in our hands, and our voices and hearts melded together, bringing tears to many of our eyes at the beauty of sisterhood and connection. When we opened our eyes we found we were completely surrounded by women, men, and children praying with us. They began to reach out to reverently touch us, to pass us jewelry to bless with the water, even to pass us their babies to bless! We spent the next hour acting as priestesses: hugging, blessing with water, and sharing our love with everyone around us, many of whom had tears streaming down their faces as we did.
Now, I want to introduce you to the magic of Teo!
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