7 Day Express Your Inner Nature Retreat: Creativity, Nature & Yoga Retreat in Lake Atitlan

EXPRESS YOUR INNER NATURE

We are excited to invite you to our first international yoga retreat at Lake Atitlán in February 2025. We will be spending 7 days / 6 nights at the Mystical Yoga Farm, a beautiful off-grid retreat community on the shores of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. The retreat center is in a secluded location surrounded by three volcanoes featuring breathtaking views, three yoga shalas, permaculture gardens and lake front access. During this retreat we will explore practices to build creative life force energy, connect with nature and then express this energy through movement, music, connection and play.

IGNITE YOUR CREATIVE LIFE FORCE ENERGY

We gather at this retreat to ignite the creative life force energy within us. To feel the beauty that wants to flow through us. To sense the elements, the seasons and nature’s wisdom that we are a part of. To move, sing, dance and play in our passion and our purpose. To free our voices and claim why we are here. To remember who we truly are and what we are capable of.

MOVE - Energy
EXPRESS - Self
EMBODY - Nature
CREATE - Magick

WHAT WE’LL BE DOING

We will practice daily yoga (hatha, kundalini, yin), meditation and pranayama to connect with our inner nature while exploring the landscape around us. Workshops and activities will include hiking/walking meditation, fire/song circles, vocal activation, breathwork, cacao, movement/dance, sacred sauna, creative writing, permaculture and rituals to build habits of reciprocity with the elements and Mother Earth. We will also have the opportunity to take an off site trip to San Pedro to sit with a local Maya Tzʼutujil spiritual guide (Nana Marina Cruz) for a special fire/cacao ceremony.

DEEPENING OUR CONNECTION

Going on a Lake Atitlan yoga retreat is an opportunity to step back and temporarily withdraw from our daily routines, commitments and obligations. We invite you to drop deeper into yourself and your retreat experience by observing silent mornings and a digital detox. This retreat is an opportunity to slow down, reflect and reconnect with the nature within and around you before reentering daily life with new tools, perspectives and inspiration. When we recognize that we are nature and the sacred elements live within us it becomes instinctive to treat ourselves, the Earth and all around us as sacred.

PRESENCE - Silence
RECIPROCITY - Offering
ATTUNEMENT - Stillness
RITUAL - Reverence

CREATING WITH NATURE

Have you ever noticed that when you slow down and become present with nature a magickal co-creation begins to happen? You start to sing and a beautiful song bird flys up to greet you and sing back… You look at the clouds and they begin to dance, play and move with the wind… You gaze up at the stars and a star shoots across the sky right where you were looking… Nature wants to be witnessed in a deep presence and reverence… when it is then it will begin to speak to you.

We live in an energetic field of consciousness, an animate world that is responding to our own actions and level of consciousness. When we can learn to slow down and deeply listen, see, hear, taste and feel the world around us then we can also respond to the world as a living being. The process of creating with nature is a deep dialogue with the divine… You observe the beauty around you and it stimulates your senses, emotions, thoughts and a creative impulse to respond. The animate world listens for your response and responds back… suddenly you are in a beautiful co-creation of the present moment and have tapped into a wisdom, intelligence and creative force that goes far beyond your individual consciousness.

In permaculture we observe nature as the ultimate teacher and look for examples of how to replicate systems that exist naturally and serve life. I believe the wisdom and mimicry of nature can be applied far beyond landscapes and weaved into all that we as humans are creating. Whether our creations are focused on art, technology, music, business, education, healing or community it is crucial that we are sourcing our inspiration from and co-creating with the divine intelligence of Mother Nature. Throughout this retreat we will practice deep observation and listening to our inner world and the outer world so that we can connect with this divine intelligence and channel the unique expression of creative life force that wants to flow through us and into this world to serve life.