7 Day ReTreat Yourself: Personal Yoga Retreat in the Forests of Guatemala in San Marcos La Laguna

Facilities

You will be in love with The Yoga Forest

In yoga practice, you clear the body and mind making space for wisdom and deeper understanding to flow freely and openly. In making space, you allow yourselve to experience the fullness and connection to everything around you. Yoga is therefore about cultivating flow through the body and mind and opening up to optimal experience - union.

Permaculture follows the same principles. In Permaculture, you are essentially making space for the wisdom of the entire system to fully flow, to become a more open and thriving container for life. %Permaculture teaches you to observe the natural environment and work with rather than against the natural order of flow. Thus, in Permaculture, you are also cultivating union. Through the yoga of Permaculture, you are facilitating the experience of yoga as deep ecology – by allowing the ecosystem, and yourselve within that system, to demonstrate their own evolution.

Personal Retreats are the simple Yoga Forest experience offering plenty of time to be in nature, journal, read, relax in a hammock!

Each day follows The Yoga Forest daily schedule for morning meditation, followed by an all-levels yoga class. After yoga, enjoy a delicious brunch and then relax and unwind enjoying the beauty of the Forest. If you want a snack, juice or smoothie feel free to order from the Cafe menu.

Restore yourself with a gentle afternoon Yin/Restorative or gentle yoga class before dusk falls and you will be served an early dinner. All meals and classes are open to the community to you to enjoy connections with similar souls.

Daily sample schedule

• 07:30 - 08:00 am Meditation
• 08:00 - 09:30 am Hatha/Vinyasa Yoga class
• 10:00 - 11:00 am Brunch
• 03:00 - 04:30 pm Restorative/Yin/gentle Yoga
• 05:00 - 06:00 pm Dinner

The Yoga Forest was founded as a sustainable living experiment, through a desire for living simply, greenly, and in communion with everything surrounding.

Immerse yourself in an eco-friendly conscious community for a month of transformation. Enjoy the perfect sub-tropical climate in the western highlands of Guatemala, with stunning views through the Yoga Forest taking in Lake Atitlan and its magnificent volcanoes. Let your body and mind come into a tranquil balance among mystical scenery and powerful energies.

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You will be served local organic produce whenever is possible and you will be prepared delicious vegetarian meals with love. The Yoga Forest can cater to certain dietary restrictions, such as vegan and gluten-free. Please advise the organizer of your needs as well as any allergies upon check-in.

On Tuesday The Yoga Forest offers a community Kirtan by donation where they sing and celebrate as a devotional practice. Sundays they offer a Cacao and Ecstatic Dance lead by various DJs they host for the event, guests are offered a discounted rate of 30 GTQ. Any further activities such as Sound Healing (70 GTQ) they host by outside facilitators may have an additional cost for attendance.

Weekly and monthly events such as medicine ceremony (1000 GTQ) and Sound Ceremony (150 GTQ) are at an additional cost. Please ask the wellness staff for details onsite.

Wellness treatments and packages available for purchase.

• 6 nights accommodations
• 2 daily, consciously prepared vegetarian meals (also vegan-friendly, dietary needs can easily be accommodated)
• Access to daily community meditation class
• Access to daily community yoga classes
• Bonus inclusions for personal retreaters, when running: community sauna and community Kirtan and song ceremony (on donation for the Forest Family Foundation)

• Airport transfer
• Wellness treatments
• Snacks and smoothies from the cafe

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• A reservation requires a deposit of 100% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.