Join us for our New Year’s gathering at Lake Aititlan, Guatemala, ceremony edition! This year, we're heading to the stunning Villa Sumaya in Santa Cruz la Laguna, Guatemala from December 27th, 2026–January 2, 2027. Led by expert yogi Brian Peoples, this retreat offers seven days and six nights of yoga, workshops, delicious food, ceremonies, tours, and breathtaking sunsets.
Take time, to refuse the screens and, instead, dive into the lush reality of this wondrous planet. To be in community with like-hearted people. To tap into the healing power of raw nature, conscious activity and nourishing food. To slow down and bring awareness to our shared ecology and interconnectedness. To reemerge fresh and feeling more like yourself than you have in a while.
Ceremonies
Participate in various Mayan and cleansing ceremonies with local shamans and spiritual guides to revitalize and connect.
Hapé Ceremony
Cacao Ceremony
Sweat LodgeCeremony
Blue LotusCeremony
Package includes:
Daily morning yoga practice
Afternoon workshops
Three delicious meals per day
Ceremonies
Transportation to/from Airport
Internet service
(in the main courtyard & dining room)
About your Instructor
Brian Peoples
Brian is compelled to share yoga practice as a means to living life more fully, simply, sensibly and embodied. Encouraging students to become curious, deliberate and playful in their choice making; his lessons illustrate how to recognize form for its function and understand natures implicit pattern as found in the body. Through sound adjustments in joint space, breath work and metaphor; each practitioner can develop their awareness to better refine, relate, re-pair, attune and achieve more harmony in how they conduct themselves and the energy around them.
He has been a guest teacher at the United Nations, and annually headlines workshops, retreats, festivals and training programs, both in the U.S. and internationally. He lives in New York City.