Experience the magical land of Lake Atitlan, Guatemala for a week retreat of yoga practices and Mayan culture surrounded by a vortex of volcanoes. Deepen your yoga practice with daily yoga classes, workshops, and meditations with Loren Lotus and Carmina Rodriguez in the Sierra Madres overlooking the peaceful Lake Atitlan. Join the Lotus Retreats Lake Atitlan, Guatemala New Year's eve reset retreat! Explore, restore & return with new insights and experiences. We aim to bring people together, with various backgrounds and stories, to experience life and culture outside of just ourselves, to shift our perspectives in a safe and supported environment and expand and enhance our vision of the world and ourselves.
07:00 - Silent sunrise meditation and tea
07:30 - Morning yoga flow
09:00 - Breakfast
10:00 - 17:00 Free time; pool, lake, excursions, or spa
10:00: - Optional excursion (Spanish class, volcano hike, Mayan fire ceremony, explore surrounding communities)
13:00 - Lunch Free time or additional excursion
17:30 - Yin / Restorative yoga
19:30 - Dinner
Practice yoga surrounded by sacred nature, fresh open air, and lake views as you move, breathe, and connect with yourself and the culture of Guatemala.
Each day of the retreat will include physical asana, meditation, and pranayama. Most days will start with a 75-minute Hatha, Vinyasa flow class to awaken and move the body through sun salutations, basic postures, and balancing postures to build your physical practice and understanding of the body.
Evening classes will cool down the body with relaxing, Restorative and Yin poses with longer holds, breathing techniques, and meditation. The classes cater to each practitioner with variations, modifications, and options to add on. They offer physical adjustments and massage throughout class if desired.
Pranayama - For those newer breathing techniques, they will introduce basic breaths and techniques for guiding your breathing and evolving your ability to breathe into a fuller capacity. Each practice will incorporate pranayama to understand the prana or energy you input and expend from your energetic bodies.
Activities / Cultural immersions:
Learn and practice the beautiful Spanish language on-site at the retreat center! Work with one of the friendly and experienced Spanish teachers. You’ll just need a notebook and pen, and they will provide the rest of the resources. They will offer a Spanish class at the beginning of the week with the option to add a full week of lessons.
Cacao ceremony; Journey home to your heart with Xicoy, the cacao spirit, one of the most playful spiritual guides in ancient Mayan cosmology. The Mayans have used cacao in ceremonies for thousands of years to connect with their hearts.
They leave plenty of space for resting, reading, meditating, or just hanging out and integrating all these new experiences. There are lush gardens with hammocks and lounge chairs around the lake for your pleasure.
Carefully curated retreats in culturally rich locations:
No two retreats are alike! Each destination offers a variety of excursions, landscapes, cuisine, interactions with local communities and room for self-discovery. During your retreat, each day will include yoga, meditation, a curated experience and/or activity, leisure time to explore, and nourishing meals. We aim to create a positive community in which each individual’s internal and external experience can be encouraged and explored.
Uniquely designed for you & our loyal community:
We invite you to journey to a place that pulls you out of the “norm” and into real life offering new perspectives, authentic experiences & natural ways of interacting with the world. Join a community that encourages personal growth and fosters healthy expansion for humanity. Our retreat guests come from all over with various backgrounds and stories to gather in a safe and inclusive container.
Highlights:
Prana, the air or energy you input into your body is the quality of the energy you expend. Throughout the retreat week, you will practice conscious and healthy eating habits. Most meals will be vegetarian and prepared in-house at the retreat facility.
They allow for individual breakfast and lunch times for guests to sit with themselves or small groups while the dinner times are family style and all-inclusive with one another! Some meals, and lunches on long excursion days will be packed or optional to purchase on your own in your free time.
The following meals are included:
