Upcoming Retreats
Soulful Journeys in the Land of Eternal Spring / Machelle Lee
Machelle Lee invites you on a transformative 10-day, 9-night journey in the spiritually rich highlands of Guatemala—the land of eternal spring. Step beyond the studio and deepen your connection to yourself, your community, and the beauty of the world through daily Yin Yoga and Gentle Flow practices, fresh garden-to-table cuisine, meaningful rituals, and immersive cultural experiences.
Guided Personal Retreat – Finding Calm in a Chaotic World: Mindfulness Practice for Every Day
This personal retreat offers one-on-one guidance with an experienced meditation practitioner for up to 4 participants per personal retreat group. Perfect for individuals, couples and close friends or associates looking to grow their practices together.
Guided Personal Retreat – Reiki Training: Evolution of Consciousness
The meaning of the word Reiki is spiritual consciousness, higher knowledge and vital life force. Reiki is a hands-on healing technique that amplifies the expression of spirit in action. It can help us create greater equilibrium in our daily life, guiding us to more clarity while reminding us of our soul’s purpose. Anyone can learn and practice Reiki. It profoundly activates healing of body, mind and soul for ourselves, as well as others.
Guided Personal Retreat — Awakening through Sound & Embodiment
This transformational 5* retreat is designed to activate your voice, reconnect you with your body’s wisdom, and guide you through sacred ceremonial arts. Through intentional practices rooted in ancient traditions and modern somatic wisdom, you’ll awaken your inner sound, expand your connection to your intuition, and align with the frequency of your authentic self.
Guided Personal Retreat – Heart Wisdom: Yoga & the Sacred Mayan Calendar
Ready to step into a journey of heart wisdom, sacred connection, and profound renewal? Join us at Villa Sumaya and let the magic of Lake Atitlán and the ancient Mayan traditions guide you home to yourself. This guided personal retreat harmoniously blends ancient wisdom with modern practices, creating a unique journey into self-discovery, connection, and renewal.
Elemental Harmony / Steph Zavala & Alicia Rudolph
An invitation to reconnect with the elements and restore balance within yourself through movement, mindfulness, and nature. Set against the stunning backdrop of volcanic peaks and tranquil waters, this transformative experience weaves together moments of flow, stillness, and reflection.
Elemental Magic Retreat / Alison DeNicola
Join yoga teacher and author Alison DeNicola exploring the elemental magic in this caldera of healing water known as Lake Atitlan. Regarded as the sacral chakra of the earth for its nurturing properties, you will spend a magical week together practicing yoga, guided meditation, exploring mayan culture and mindfulness and reconnecting to your inner magic and elemental nature.
Heart of Practice / Emily Cordes
Ready to dive in, discover and uncover your personal practice? Let’s come together for 7 nights on the magical shores of Lake Atitlàn in Guatemala at luxury retreat centre, Villa Sumaya, featured in Yoga Journal. Connect with likeminded practitioners to spend an entire week in sangha (community).
Circles of Life: FIRE & LIGHT Retreat (for the sober yogi!) / Jennie Ray Hart
This 7 night retreat is for any yogi who will enjoy a week without the push and pull of addiction. Through morning recovery themed vinyasa practice, evening group 12-Step studies and a bed-time restorative Practice we will reconnect with ourselves, each other and our recovery. Reclaim your yoga practice (your FIRE) and ignite your recovery (your LIGHT) in community. The gifts of recovery are yours for the receiving!
ISTA Practitioner Training / Briana Cribeyer, Michal Maayan Don & Blake Zealear
In 2026, The International School of Temple Arts will be hosting its Practitioner Training graduates-only program at one of the world’s most majestic destinations: Lake Atitlán, Guatemala.
The ISTA Practitioner Training is a holistic, in-depth system for transformation which emphasizes the power of sexual energy. The PT program aims to hone and support the natural flow of sexual life force energy to provide practitioners and clients a valuable framework for sexual wholeness.
Sacred Alchemy Energy Immersion / Barbara Blum
Led by Energy Conduit and Spiritual Mentor Barbara Blum, this retreat centers around her profoundly transformative energy transmissions of Light Body Activation and Cosmic Consciousness.
Amplified by the ancient portal of this sacred Mayan land, we will move through a deep inner exploration of your etheric light-body and higher states of consciousness which naturally expand through these direct energy transmissions.
Remembering Our Earth Song / Michelle Chua
Root into harmony with yourself, Mother Earth and all of life. At the revered energetic center of Lake Atitlan, we gather for 8 days of yoga, meditation, breathwork, reiki, sacred Mayan ceremonies and wisdom teachings–woven with cultural immersion, mindfulness and deep connection to the land.
Harmony Rising / Carole Forest
Join Carole Forest for Harmony Rising, a transformative retreat where nature, mindfulness, and community come together to restore your spirit and renew your sense of purpose. Set on the tranquil shores of Lake Atitlán at Villa Sumaya, this retreat offers a sacred pause – an opportunity to step away from the noise of daily life and reconnect with the quiet truth within you.
Green Season Specials 🌿
There is a time in every year when nature turns inward — when the earth softens, the rains come, and everything becomes fertile again.
At Lake Atitlán, this season is called Green Season. This is a sacred time of renewal, reflection, and planting new intentions. It is also the most beautiful, quiet, and energetically powerful time to bring a retreat.
Experience Lake Atitlán at its most vibrant and serene. Green Season offers softer light, fewer crowds, breathtaking landscapes, and special seasonal pricing—perfect for group retreats seeking depth, beauty, and ease.
Your Radiant Return / Kaela Green Carter
Beneath the sacred volcanoes of Lake Atitlán, a circle of soulful women will gather in May 2026 for a transformational retreat that weaves mindful movement, breathwork, deep rest, and Kaela Green Carter’s signature Quantum Consciousness healing practices.
Guided Personal Retreat – Reclaiming your Sacred Center through Ritual, Yoga & Healing Touch
Learn to bring natural balance into your life through yogic principles, movement, ceremony, and vibrational healing with crystals.
Triple Moon Goddess Retreat / Shanti Rodriguez & Stephanie Pereira Lima
A sacred healing, activation and feminine embodiment portal where the Maiden, Mother, and Wise woman within you awakens & expands.
Reclaiming your Sacred Center through Ritual, Yoga & Healing Touch
Learn to bring natural balance into your life through yogic principles, movement, ceremony, and vibrational healing with crystals.
Guatemala Yoga & Intuition Retreat / Angela Lightsey & Laurie Kinkel
Reconnect with your inner compass and embrace the wisdom of your soul. Intuition is a powerful skill that can be nurtured and developed. Through a harmonious blend of silence, movement, laughter, and nourishing experiences, you’ll learn to trust the innate wisdom that resides within you.
This journey will empower you to let your body guide your mind, fostering decisions that resonate with your true self.
Shine / Ashlie Woods
An immersive experience to help you stop doubting your gifts and start showing up more confidently so you can make more money, and have more fun doing it.
Sacred Expression Writing and Movement Women’s Retreat / Aimee Hansen
Join this intimate circle of women for a creative inner adventure through a self-revealing writing journey, movement, yoga, and magical ceremonies on the shores of stunning Lake Atitlan in Guatemala!
You are invited to take a transparent journey into your center to connect with your intuition and express from your core. To unravel the ways you have learned to limit or deny yourself. To trust, embrace and allow your embodied presence and inherent essence. All of it. To follow divine guidance and open to the mystery of your unique path beyond your vision.
Creative Writing Retreat with a Side of Yoga / Jacqueline Sheehan & Jane Mortifee
Step out of your daily life and onto the luminous shores of Lake Atitlán, with dedicated writing time, gentle yoga, restorative quiet, and just enough adventure to shake loose the stories waiting inside you. In an intimate and supportive circle, Jacqueline and Jane will offer daily craft sessions, prompts, and embodied writing practices designed to spark fresh ideas and deepen your voice.
Ingeniería Interior – Inner Engineering / María Angélica Rojas
This retreat is inspired and guided by the book Inner Engineering by Sadhguru — an invitation to take responsibility for our inner experience, cultivate clarity and presence, and awaken a freedom that arises from within. Through yoga, conscious breathing, spaces of silence, and an encounter with the living wisdom of the Mayan land, we will explore the art of turning inward: a path to align body, mind, and spirit, reconnecting with our essential intelligence within a sacred natural environment.
Relax and Rejuvenate: Reconnecting the Mind and Body / Samantha Schanstra
By joining this retreat, you’ll gift yourself six days to step away from the noise of everyday life and reconnect with what truly matters. Each morning begins with breathtaking views of the surrounding volcanoes and the lush Guatemalan landscape, setting the tone for a day of renewal and presence.
Spirit of Atitlán: Yoga, Sound, and Wellness Retreat / Settle Into Stillness
Settle Into Stillness: Settle Into Stillness stands apart from the ever-growing landscape of mindfulness-based musical offerings. By seamlessly weaving together diverse world music instrumentation, such as the mesmerizing handpan, the enchanting didgeridoo, the gentle resonance of gongs, the ethereal tones of crystal singing bowls and setting it all to the backbeat of an eclectic variety of world instruments, Settle Into Stillness has crafted a truly extraordinary experience.
Goddess Retreat / Karen Conley
Step outside your normal activities and rediscover relaxation, playfulness, see new places, and meet new people. Experience bliss in beautiful Guatemala through daily yoga classes and being surrounded by the sacred and healing energy of Lake Atitlán!
Reconnect Yoga Retreat: Friendsgiving Edition / Shelly Mamo and Lesley Leake
Join Lesley & Shelly in Lake Atitlán Guatemala for an immersive journey into practice and place, weaving your yoga practice with the rich culture of Guatemala. Deepen your connection to yourself, others, and the magnificent surroundings through nourishing meals, grounding yoga, time on the lake, and traditional Mayan ceremonies.
Awaken at Atitlán / Paradise Taylor
Join Paradise Taylor on the shores of Guatemala’s stunning Lake Atitlán, where three ancient volcanoes cradle crystal blue waters said to hold powerful and grounding energy. This sacred lake, known to the Maya as a place where earth and sky meet, offers the perfect backdrop for stillness, reflection, and renewal.
Fire of Transformation Retreat: Alchemy in Action / Brian Tobin
In February 2027, we gather on the shores of Lake Atitlán — a place of extraordinary natural beauty and deep spiritual heritage — for a week of focused practice, meaningful connection, and conscious transformation. This is more than just a yoga retreat; this is an investment in your path of self-actualization. This retreat is designed to increase physical, energetic, psychological, and spiritual harmony and vitality.