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THE INTENTION
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host ShareNation Help Desk Carlos Amanda |
ShareNation is in final development of this scheduled weekend.
Before ShareNation can offer The Intention as an ongoing, twice-a-year experience for transforming couples, we need to actually walk the ground. We need to:
We will conduct all research this October.
There shall be no travel event sales until the conclusion of our site inspection week.
This notice is for informational purposes - SAVE-THE-DATES.
Starting in fall of 2027, The Intention becomes a twice-a-year offering — spring and fall for 2028 — with the itinerary, vendors, and experiences refined from everything we learn this October.
IF THIS SERIES INTERESTS YOU AND YOUR PARTNER - RSVP TO GET ON OUR NOTIFICATION LIST.
There is a moment in every long love where the noise of life gets louder than the love itself. The calendars. The obligations. The small distances that open up between two people who once knew every inch of each other's hearts. Yet life means chaos and more; no fault to anyone. It's what society imposes on us. We race. We chase. We raise families. Kids drive us crazy. This message might resonate with you.
The Intention was built for addressing this exact moment.
Balance.
Alignment.
This is not a trip you plan. It is a trip you receive. Seven days in the heart of the jungle, where every detail — the private villa, the ceremony, the meal set before you at golden hour, the music that finds you at midnight — has already been imagined and prepared, so that the only thing left for you and your partner to do is show up for each other completely.
ShareNation was built on a simple truth: connection multiplies when it is chosen freely and held with integrity. We are a community that does not believe in one right way to love. But we believe deeply in this — that any expansion, any exploration, any "more" only elevates when it is rooted in something solid. The Intention exists to build that root first. Everything else follows from it.
Hosted by Carlos & Amanda, The Intention is an invitation-only, couples-only week designed around a single question: what would it feel like to connect so intensely with out partner and share this energy with the best of the lifestyle.
You will wake in a private jungle villa, curtains open to green light and birdsong. You will eat food grown from this land. You will move your body in ecstatic dance until you forget which of you led and which of you followed. You will sit across a fire from your partner in optional ceremonies and see them — really see them — perhaps for the first time in years.
This is the foundation of everything ShareNation stands for. Before a couple can explore connection with others, in whatever form that takes for them, they must first come home to each other. The Intention is that homecoming.
Sacred Medicine Ceremonies Guided indigenous plant and animal medicine ceremonies — held by certified facilitators in the ancestral tradition of this land — open the heart, release what no longer serves, and expand consciousness. These are not recreational experiences. They are held with reverence, safety, and deep respect for the lineage they come from. Each ceremony is optional and each couple moves through it at their own pace, together. Pick one, pick none, select them all - totally optional.
Reconnection Practices Guided intimacy work, deep-sharing exercises, and somatic practices designed specifically for couples — tools you'll carry home long after the trip ends.
It's NOT all work; there's time for PLAY.
Cenotes & Sacred Waters Swim together in the ancient limestone cenotes that thread through this jungle — some of the most sacred waters on the continent, where Mayan ancestors once made offerings.
Beach Club Days & Yacht Excursions Sun-soaked afternoons at private beach clubs along the Riviera Maya, and a day spent adrift on the water together — sea breeze, music, and nothing on the agenda but each other.
Dance & Ecstatic Celebration Live DJs, jungle dance parties under string lights, overnight beach parties, and nights of unfiltered movement. Dance is one of the oldest forms of connection there is — with your partner, and with the collective energy of everyone who has chosen to be here.
Adventure & Exploration For those who want their bodies as awake as their hearts — zip-lining through the canopy, ATV runs through the jungle backroads, and other excursions offered daily. Choose your adventure; the logistics are already handled.
The best yet, in ALL of the above, we've done it. Yes, we actually lived a Tulum lifestyle. It is ONE HECK OF A PARTY VIBE - there's time for that, but we're digging deep to get some transformation work done.
Raise Your Vibration Daily breathwork, sound healing, tantra, and movement practices to keep you grounded and open for everything the week holds.
You plan nothing. You receive everything.
Open → Release → Expand → Transform → Integrate → Celebrate → Return
Tantra is an ancient practice, rooted in Eastern spiritual tradition, built around a simple but often-forgotten idea: that intimacy is not something you perform, but something you're fully present for. Long before it became shorthand in modern wellness culture, Tantra was a disciplined path toward union — not just between two people, but between body, breath, and spirit.
For couples, Tantra offers something rare: a structured, guided space to slow all the way down. Not toward a goal. Not toward performance. Toward each other — as you actually are, right now, without agenda.
At The Intention, Couples Tantra Sessions are held by experienced facilitators in a private, intentional setting, designed to help partners rebuild the kind of intimacy that often gets buried under years of routine.
Each session is guided, paced, and entirely private to you and your partner.
Every session is private, couple-only, and entirely opt-in at each stage. Nothing is scripted beyond what the couple chooses to explore.
Rebuilding Presence Tantra trains a skill most long-term couples have lost without noticing: being fully, wordlessly present with each other. Many couples describe this as the missing piece they didn't know they needed.
Breaking the Autopilot Pattern Years together can turn intimacy into routine. Tantra interrupts that pattern deliberately, replacing habit with intention — often reigniting a level of attention and desire couples thought had simply faded with time.
Deeper Communication Because Tantra practices are built around consent, pacing, and checking in, couples often find they leave with a new, more honest language for expressing needs and boundaries — one that carries well beyond the session itself.
Nervous System Regulation Together The breathwork and slow pacing at the center of Tantra practice help regulate the nervous system — many couples report feeling calmer, more grounded, and more emotionally attuned to each other for days afterward.
Renewed Physical Connection For couples who've drifted into a more functional or infrequent physical relationship, guided Tantra practice often reopens a level of physical intimacy and attraction that had gone quiet — not through forced effort, but through genuine reconnection.
A Shared Language for Desire Tantra gives couples tools and vocabulary to talk about desire, pleasure, and connection without awkwardness or shame — often for the first time in years, sometimes for the first time ever.
Strengthening the Foundation For couples exploring expanded connection within the ShareNation community, this work matters even beyond the retreat itself. A couple that has rebuilt real presence and honest communication with each other is a couple far better equipped to navigate anything they choose to explore together — because the center holds.
Couples Tantra Sessions are led by trained facilitators experienced in holding space for intimacy work with care, professionalism, and clear boundaries. Every practice offered is fully optional, paced to each couple's comfort, and grounded in ongoing consent — the point is never to push a couple further than they're ready to go, but to give them tools to go there together, when they're ready, at their own pace.
ALL SACRED CEREMONIES ARE OPTIONAL TO ATTENDEES.
Disclosure: Carlos (founder of ShareNation) is an internationally trained facilitator of sacred medicine ceremonies who has devoted years to the study of indigenous healing traditions, trauma-informed facilitation, and ceremonial leadership in both Mexico, Peru, and Brazil. During his advanced training in Mexico, he was selected to mentor and guide developing facilitators, helping prepare them through supervised ceremonial practice as they progressed toward completing their training. His work emphasizes safety, integrity, compassion, and creating a grounded ceremonial container where participants can experience profound healing and transformation. He has a passion for helping couples recalibrate and rediscover their own purpose.
Bufo — known in scientific terms as 5-MeO-DMT — comes from the secretion of the Incilius alvarius, the Sonoran Desert toad, native to the Sonoran Desert of the American Southwest and northern Mexico. In ceremonial and neo-shamanic circles it has earned names like "the God molecule" and "the toad," spoken of less as a substance and more as a direct encounter — often described as one of the fastest, most complete dissolutions of ego a person can experience.
Unlike longer psychedelic journeys that unfold over hours, Bufo is brief and total. Those who sit with it often describe it not as a trip through imagery, but as a total merging — a temporary loss of the boundary between self and everything else, sometimes described as "meeting God" or touching pure cosmic consciousness. And then, often within twenty minutes, a return — changed.
The ceremony is short in duration but held with the same seriousness as any powerful rite of passage.
Rapid, Profound Perspective Shift Many describe Bufo as compressing what might take years of inner work into a single, direct encounter — a fast and total shift in how they see their life, their fears, and their patterns.
Relief from Anxiety and Depression Early clinical research has found that a single dose of 5-MeO-DMT was associated with sustained improvements in life satisfaction and reductions in anxiety, depression, and PTSD symptoms in study participants.
A Complete Couples Reset People frequently describe the experience as a kind of full system reset — arriving with years of accumulated fear or fight-or-flight tension, and leaving without it.
Ego Dissolution and Renewed Clarity The core of the Bufo experience is what practitioners call "ego death" — a temporary but complete loss of the usual sense of self. Many describe this as deeply liberating, returning with less self-focus, less reactivity, and more openness to connection.
Emotional and Spiritual Breakthrough for Couples Research from Johns Hopkins-affiliated investigators found that the large majority of people who experienced Bufo reported a "complete mystical experience," comparable in intensity to high-dose psilocybin administered in controlled clinical settings.
A Readiness for What's Next Many describe the days and weeks after ceremony as when the real benefit unfolds — arriving at relationships, decisions, and life transitions from a place of greater groundedness.
Bufo has moved from underground ceremony into much more public conversation in recent years, in large part because of public figures who have spoken openly about their own experience.
Mike Tyson has spoken at length, including on The Joe Rogan Experience, about how encountering "the toad" profoundly changed his life — describing it as feeling like dying and being reborn, and crediting it with a lasting shift in how he sees people and life itself.
Christina Haack (HGTV's Flip or Flop) has spoken publicly about using Bufo to work through years of chronic anxiety, describing the ego dissolution she experienced as clearing the way for her to enter a new relationship from a grounded, rather than fearful, place.
Bufo is among the most potent substances used in any ceremonial tradition. The Intention is held in Mexico, where 5-MeO-DMT is not a scheduled or controlled substance, allowing it to be offered openly and legally in ceremony — part of why Mexico has become a global center for this work.
Amanda completed advanced international training in the facilitation of sacred medicines in Tulum, Mexico. Recognized for her leadership, her ceremonial training and passion for Kambo makes her highly requested. Her approach blends reverence for indigenous traditions with modern best practices in safety, preparation, and integration, creating a compassionate space for deep personal transformation.
Kambo comes from the secretion of the Phyllomedusa bicolor — the giant leaf frog, native to the Amazon basin. For generations, indigenous tribes of the Amazon — including the Matsés and Kaxinawá — have used this medicine before the hunt: to sharpen the senses, quiet the mind, and clear the body of what they call panema — a heaviness, a stagnant energy, a kind of spiritual static that dulls a person's connection to themselves and to life.
It is not taken for pleasure. It is taken for clarity. Kambo is considered one of the most powerful purification medicines in the ceremonial tradition — a medicine that doesn't ask you to feel good in the moment, but asks you to release what is not serving you, so that what's left is more awake, more whole, more you.
The ceremony is simple, direct, and held with reverence.
The entire active process is short. What it leaves behind tends to last far longer.
Physical Reset Traditionally used to stimulate the lymphatic and immune systems, many people report feeling physically lighter, clearer, and more energized in the days following ceremony — as though the body has been given a hard reset.
Mental Clarity One of the most consistently reported effects is a sense of mental fog lifting. Many describe sharper focus, quieter internal noise, and a return of motivation and drive that had gone missing.
Emotional Release Kambo has a reputation for surfacing and releasing stored emotional weight — grief, stagnation, old patterns — often without needing to consciously relive or process them. People frequently describe feeling emotionally "unstuck" afterward.
Increased Resilience Because the ceremony asks the body to move through real physical intensity in a short window, many who sit with Kambo report a lasting increase in their capacity to handle stress and discomfort — a kind of trained resilience that carries into daily life.
Renewed Connection Practitioners often describe Kambo as clearing the static between themselves and the people they love — a felt sense of being more present, more available, more in their life and relationships afterward.
A Return to Center Above all, Kambo is used as a return — a way of clearing what has accumulated so a person can meet the next chapter of their life from a more grounded, awake, and authentic place.
As Kambo has moved from the rainforest into wellness culture worldwide, a number of public figures have spoken openly about their own experience with it.
Orlando Bloom has spoken publicly about undergoing Kambo ceremonies on multiple occasions, describing the experience to GQ as leaving him feeling clearer and more open.
Dr. David Rabin, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, has noted the rapid rise in awareness of the medicine among his own patients in recent years — a practice almost no one in his practice had heard of a year earlier had, more recently, become known to a meaningful share of his new patients.
Their experiences echo what practitioners across the Kambo community consistently report: a sense of mental clarity, emotional release, and physical reset that lingers well beyond the ceremony itself.
Kambo is a real medicine with real physiological effects — which is exactly why it has earned centuries of ceremonial respect rather than casual use. As its popularity has grown globally, so has scrutiny: several countries have moved to study it more closely, and of course, BIG PHARMA will get their paws on it and try to administer via a pill.
That is precisely why The Intention offers Kambo only in ceremony, only through certified facilitators, and only after proper health screening and preparation, only via ancient traditions. The medicine's power and its safety both depend on being held the way the Amazonian traditions have always held it — with reverence, with care, and with someone experienced watching over you. On a professional note, Carlos and Amanda are trained and certified as practicioners of Kambo and experience it's cleansing benefits every other year since 2020.
Kambo is legal in the United States. It's a detox. There are only a limited amount of trained facilitators trained to administer - very hard to find.
Ayahuasca is a sacred plant brew from the Amazon, traditionally prepared by combining the Banisteriopsis caapi vine with the leaves of the Psychotria viridis shrub. Indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin — including the Shipibo, Kaxinawá, and many others — have used this medicine for centuries as a tool for healing, divination, and direct communion with what they call Mother Ayahuasca, or simply "the Medicine."
Unlike the brief, total encounters of Kambo or Bufo, Ayahuasca is a longer, unfolding journey — typically four to six hours — often described less as a single peak experience and more as a guided conversation with the deepest parts of the self. Visionary, emotional, and at times physically intense, it is widely regarded as one of the most profound tools available for confronting what a person has spent years avoiding.
Ayahuasca ceremony is one of the most structured and carefully held of all plant medicine traditions.
Psychological Healing Research has associated Ayahuasca with meaningful reductions in symptoms of depression and anxiety, offering a different angle of approach than conventional treatment alone.
Trauma Processing Many describe Ayahuasca as offering direct access to old traumatic memory — not simply recalling it, but moving through it and releasing its emotional charge in a way that talk therapy alone can take years to reach.
Support Through Addiction Recovery A number of people, including public figures, credit Ayahuasca ceremony as a turning point in their recovery from substance dependency, describing a reset in the reward and craving patterns that had run their life.
Deepened Self-Understanding Participants frequently describe the visionary states as revealing patterns, fears, and truths about themselves they'd never had access to consciously — insight that can reshape decisions and relationships for years afterward.
Expanded Creativity Ayahuasca has a long-documented history of unlocking creative and artistic breakthrough, particularly among musicians and writers who credit ceremony with opening a new relationship to their own creative voice.
A Felt Sense of Connection Beyond the individual insight, many describe the ceremony as dissolving the felt sense of separateness — from other people, from nature, from something larger than themselves — leaving behind a lasting sense of connectedness long after the ceremony ends.
Ayahuasca has one of the longest and most public track records of celebrity testimony of any plant medicine, with public figures across music, film, and sport speaking openly about their experience.
Sting has described his first Ayahuasca ceremony in the Amazon, decades ago, as feeling like a genuine encounter with a higher intelligence — being, in his words, wired directly into the cosmos.
Jim Carrey has spoken about his own ceremony as one of the most beautiful and intense experiences of his life, describing it as a confrontation with his own ego that left him with a new understanding of himself.
Lindsay Lohan has credited Ayahuasca as a meaningful part of her journey through addiction recovery, describing it as helping her confront past trauma directly.
Miley Cyrus has described meeting "Mama Aya" as an experience that fundamentally changed how she saw her own life.
Tori Amos has spoken about how her ceremonies — approached with real structure and clear intention — freed her creatively and shaped her songwriting.
Their accounts reflect a common thread across thousands of ceremonies: Ayahuasca rarely offers comfort in the moment. What it offers, again and again, is clarity — often hard-won, and often lasting.
ShareNation has never asked couples to choose between depth and exploration. We've simply insisted on the order of operations.
A relationship that is anchored — where trust runs deep, where communication is honest, where each partner feels chosen every single day — is a relationship that can hold more. Not because more is required. Because when the primary bond is strong, connection with others is never a substitute for what's missing. It's an extension of what's already whole.
This is the difference between play that fractures a couple and play that elevates them. The couples who thrive in expanded connection and conciousness are, almost without exception, the couples who did the quiet work first — who know how to come back to each other, who see any outside connection as something that flows through their relationship rather than around it.
The Intention is that quiet work, made luxurious. A week to dive deep before you raise higher. To rebuild the foundation so that whatever you choose to build on top of it — whether that's simply the two of you, richer and closer than you've ever been, or a wider circle of connections you explore together, on your own terms, in your own time — is built on solid ground.
This is more than a trip. It's the beginning of everything you choose to create together.
Reconnect. Reset. Reignite. Rise.
Couples only. Invitation-only. A safe and private space for couples to transform together.
THE INTENTION October 3–10 · Tulum, Mexico Hosted by Carlos & Amanda A ShareNation International Experience
Most couples spend years in the same room without ever really seeing each other. Work, routine, the sheer logistics of a life together — they can turn even a good marriage into two people running parallel, rarely intersecting.
Ceremony breaks that pattern, and it does it in a way almost nothing else can.
When two partners sit in Kambo or Bufo ceremony together, they aren't just physically present for one another. Each is being stripped, briefly, of the defenses and roles they normally carry — the provider, the caretaker, the strong one, the one who has it together. What's left is something rawer and more honest than either partner usually gets to see in the other.
And that is where the closeness comes from: not the medicine itself, but what it makes visible.
There is a particular kind of intimacy that only happens when someone sees you at your most unguarded — and stays.
In ceremony, a partner watches the other move through real intensity: physical purging, emotional release, total ego dissolution. There's no performing through it. No managing how you're perceived. Just the truth of the moment, witnessed by the person who loves you.
Couples consistently describe this as one of the most bonding parts of the experience — not the peak of the ceremony itself, but the quiet exchange of trust that happens in it. I let you see me like this. You stayed. You held my hand. You didn't look away.
That kind of witnessing rebuilds trust faster than almost any conversation could.
Every long relationship needs its own mythology — the shared experiences that become part of a couple's private language. "Remember when..." is one of the most bonding phrases two people can say to each other.
Ceremony creates a reference point unlike any other. Partners who go through this together aren't just recalling a nice trip; they're recalling a moment when they saw each other, and were seen, at the deepest level either of them has access to. That becomes a permanent thread between them — something to return to, something that reminds them of what they're capable of together.
There is something quietly powerful about two people releasing what they've been carrying — grief, resentment, fear, old wounds — in the same room, at the same time, for each other to witness.
Couples often find that whatever surfaces in ceremony for one partner illuminates something for the other. A husband's tears in ceremony might finally give his wife language for a sadness she'd sensed in him for years but never had access to. A wife's purge might reveal an old fear that reframes a pattern in the relationship neither of them had been able to name.
This is often where the real repair work begins — not through argument or explanation, but through direct, undefended seeing.
The ceremony itself is brief. What happens after is where couples say the bond truly deepens.
In the hours and days following, many couples describe a natural softening — less guardedness, more spontaneous affection, conversations that go somewhere they've never gone before. The nervous system, having just moved through something intense together, often settles into a state of unusual openness. Partners report feeling more able to say the hard thing, ask for what they need, or simply sit in comfortable silence with someone they trust completely.
This is why The Intention builds real integration time into every day — quiet mornings, shared reflection, time to simply be with what surfaced, together. The ceremony opens the door. The days that follow are where couples actually walk through it, hand in hand.
Couples who share this kind of experience often describe a simple, lasting shift: they feel more like a team. Less alone in their own head. More willing to be fully known by the person across from them.
It isn't the medicine that creates that closeness. It's the choice two people make to be radically visible to each other — and the trust that gets built when one shows up for the other's most undefended moment, and stays.
And after you have your breaktrough, something AMAZING happens as you navigate through the adult lifestyle. It's a vibration and glow one can't describe. It transforms into the type of play you and your partner deliver...but mostly...the people you will attrract.
PRICING - Is being determined at site inspection week.
Price shall include luxury lodging, airport transfers, meals and gratuities for 7-days. There is no 5-day option, as we are unique and private lifestyle. We must take the full week for privacy.
Price includes all evening dance socials at the resort.
Additional charges paid at the resort are for optional sacred medicines, group excursions to ruins, beach clubs, and cenotes, and incidental charges to your villa. You can add as much or as little as you wish.
Airfares are easy from the northeast to Tulum. Airfare not included in future pricing.