The "Path Less Taken" will Test You.

I've lived abroad for over half my life and in Guatemala for 14 years.

So there is no moment when I step back from my life and take stock of where I stand more than when I visit loved ones who live very differently to me in the States. 

There is no moment when the choices I've made toward the path less taken, and I'm not talking about location here, are put up to the mirror. 

There is no moment when it's easier to dismiss or question my own compass and wily navigation which I myself could neither understand nor could explain.

And let me tell you. I don't build a fortress of absoluteness around my choices. I do allow the doubt that arises to be there. I allow the outside voices and comparisons to pass through. I allow a kind of agitation and tempering. 

Because when I come back to my norm, when the outside mirrors quieten, I don't want to double down on my decisions from a place of habit or defiance or differentiation. If you do that, something hardens and the orientation of action is displaced.

I want to let it all in, sift the beliefs from the knowing, and continue to carve an authentic soul path that reaches into the deep pockets of the truest nature of my being. I want to find my way, softly. If you do that, curiosity stays alive, and you remain open to intuition that unfolds new paths.

So I let myself ask. What remains true for me? What new yearnings are present? How might my being wish to grow? What wishes to express or finish? What needs do I want to take care of? Where have I allowed my freedoms to become my limitations? What am I excited about now? Where am I listening to what's alive within and where am I muting the signal?

What dynamics have slipped into cruise control which I wish to reset when I return to my personal 'norm'?

For me, being in the presence of the cultural norms and values of my upbringing is the exception. So once in a while, I check in with them to see if I've dismissed or discarded anything that may actually serve me. And I check in with what I'm in the habit of doing that is no longer serving my path.

Many women who come to the retreat live in constant presence of those cultural norms and outside voices. They are so loud, and the drive for connection can be so great, that women have learned to mute the importance of the inner compass. We can all find great merit in, and justification for, dismissing what we can only hear within.

I would dare to say it is one of the hardest things we do in this life, to listen and heed the voice nobody else can hear.

So women come to the retreat to find a spaciousness where they can distance from the 'shoulds' and reconnect to their own voice. Where they can let the inside voice rise about the outside influences. And sift through to the deeper guidance within them.

And they find that voice here in this circle. Somewhere in the middle of themselves, they truly do. 

I would love to see you in Guatemala for the Sacred Expression Women's Retreat at Villa Sumaya on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala from July 11-19th, 2026. Through writing, movement, and ceremonies we allow everything to come up, so we may each sift through to the deeper knowing of our being. 

If this is a space that has called you, now is the time to step forward and join. 

All my love,

Aimee