storyteller within

**Recommended in Lonely Planet Wellness Escapes**

journey into sacred expression

Set out on a transformative creative and spiritual journey through daily meditation, yoga and self-exploratory writing as a channel to reveal insight from within. Participate in healing ceremonies that call to your spirit and stoke your soul voice. 

Breathe, stretch, relax, and connect with your center while sharing in the experience with other women. This retreat is not about ‘writing’ as a subject or art form. In this retreat, we ourselves are the art form. Every woman has a voice in her own life – we are gathering together to rise it up and own our self-expression.

Inspired by the four shamanic directions and rising the feminine, we embark on a revealing week of re-igniting the voices of our hearts and empowering ourselves as the storytellers of our lives. 

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In this women's retreat, you will:

• Gather with a powerful circle of women in rawness, vulnerability and expression.

• Ground in your body and intuition through meditation, yoga and movement.

• Show up in this here and now, present to whatever is real to you, as you are.

• Honor and be witnessed for your embodied experience as a woman.

• Immerse in a journey that is both individual and collective to you and to the circle and to women.

• Reveal your truths moment to moment by connecting to your own inner voice.

• Embrace yourself in all of your contradictions and wholeness.

• Explore the stories you tell against allowing yourself and your expression, in the many ways we tell them.

• Reconnect with your essential self, your vivid energies, your heart-led and soul-seeded desires - all that conspires for your expression. 

• Call back your inner voice to hear what sways your soul.

• Reclaim your connection and belonging to the greater mystery and beauty all around us. 

• Remember the magic that unfolds when women circle together with love and compassion at our core. 

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More on the Journey Into Sacred Expression Retreat: Why We Gather and About the Retreat.

sample retreat flow

Guests arrive on Saturday, August 1st (check in is 3pm) to relax and settle in. We'll open our circle in the evening. Our daily flow will begin on Sunday, August 2nd.

6.45 - 8:30   Meditation & Yoga

8.30- 9.30    Delicious Breakfast

10.00-12.30  Spontaneous Writing Exercises/Discussion

12.30-1.30    Delicious Lunch

3.30-6.30     Spontaneous Writing Exercises/Discussion

6.30 - 7.30   Delicious Dinner

7.45               Sauna, Circle, or Healing Sessions (some evenings)

Meals are vegetarian and organically grown. Meditation, yoga, and our intimate sacred circle for writing will be women only and privately held. Meals will be shared with other guests, women or men (the retreat center holds 20-30 guests, including our group). 

We'll include a couple long breaks during our week to relax, hike, swim, or explore the village(s). We'll hold evening sacred fire circles (including Traditional Mayan Fire) and bring in optional evening ceremonies such as sound healing or movement and dance with guest facilitators.

Guests are advised to fly into Guatemala City by noon on August 1st and book return flights for late afternoon on August 10th, or the following day. We can help you to organize an additional overnight stay in San Marcos or Antigua.

planning your trip

Lake Atitlan has beautiful villages to explore (weaving, artisan) and cultural and wildlife tourist activities. It's also a gorgeous place to simply soak up the volcano views and nature. On your way from the airport, the UNESCO World Heritage charming streets of Antigua offer many colorful, cultural treasures.
 

It's always recommended to stay at the lake and in Guatemala for some extra time and enjoy the beauty, if your schedule allows.

photos

See more photos from our retreat event at The Yoga Forest.