7 Day Essential Wellness Retreat in Sacred Valley, Peru
Peru Wellness Retreat
Join Willka T'ika Wellness Retreats for an exceptional personal retreat and experience inspiration and rejuvenation in the Andes! Located in the heart of Peru's Sacred Valley is Willka T'ika, the original yoga center of the region. You will be guided in a seven-day Chakra Yoga Wellness Retreat through a specialized sequence of mindful activities, therapeutic treatments, farm-to-table organic vegetarian meals, homemade essential oils, and powerful Andean ceremonies. Additional local activities abound if desired, and daily yoga classes are included.
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Highlights
- 7 days of practice in 7 Chakra Gardens
- Daily yoga classes
- Guided hike in the Sacred Valley to Maras Salt Flats and Pumahuanca River
- Andean cacao, sound healing, and fire offering ceremonies
- Sweat lodge or plunge pool
- Coca leaf reading and crystal bed therapy
- 6 nights private or shared accommodation
- 3 daily meals, organic vegetarian cuisine
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Yoga styles
7 days with instruction in English
Accommodation
Facilities
- Bar
- Dining area
- Fireplace
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Smoke-free property
- Yoga studio
- Free Wi-Fi
- Library
This private accommodation offers guests a tranquil, rejuvenating, home away from home experience, with beautiful garden views of the abundant lush Chakra Gardens, unique to Willka T'ika. Each room is artfully appointed and has its own private entrance, own bathroom with a walk-in shower, and seating area.
Sustainable guest rooms reflect the textures and colors of the Andes. Each guest room is uniquely designed and decorated and is named for the Andean medicinal plant that grows at its doorstep.
Fresh flowers welcome all guests and cozy hot-water bottles warm beds at night. All rooms have portable heating and modern private bathrooms with an excellent hot water supply.
Made from natural earth materials and adorned with local artwork, the spacious luxury rooms with sitting areas incorporate Feng Shui design principles and take advantage of mountain and garden views. Wi-Fi access is available 24/7 in a dedicated Wi-Fi center with coffee bar near the dining area.
Guests can choose from either garden or luxury room type accommodations, either as single, twin, triple, or couples' lodging. The cozy garden rooms, recently renovated, are purposely tucked away in charming areas throughout the gardens. The luxury rooms are more spacious, and many of these are located on a second floor with picture windows, a private entrance, and stairs to the gardens below.
Garden single or twin rooms
The garden single room with a double bed has a private entrance to the gardens, with beautiful views of flowers, trees, and mountains. All rooms have portable heating and modern private bathrooms with an excellent hot water supply.
Luxury king or twin rooms
The luxury twin rooms with two queen beds or luxury king rooms with one king bed are located either on the ground or second floor. Each room has its own private entrance, picture windows, and beautiful views of flowers, trees, and mountains. All rooms have portable heating and modern private bathrooms with an excellent hot water supply and spacious walk-in showers.
Program
The Willka T’ika Essential Wellness retreat program combines 30 years of experience with authentic Andean healing offerings into a comprehensive seven-day wellness retreat. This program was designed for today’s traveler who seeks to reconnect with the healing energies of Mother Earth (Pachamama). The format of the program follows the model of Willka T’ika's seven Chakra Gardens with each day focusing on a chakra or energy center.
Yoga
Focusing on Restorative yoga, classes are taught to all levels depending on guest needs and take place in Willka T’ika’s beautiful sunlit yoga studios that are fully equipped with mats, blocks, straps, pillows, and folded blankets for bolsters.
Daily itinerary
Day 1 - Friday
You will begin with your first or Earth chakra and connect with Mother Earth with an Incan K'intu ritual and guided meditation in the Pachamama garden. Treat yourself to a flower bath under the stars.
Day 2 - Saturday
You honor the water chakra elements on a breathtaking hike with a sacred water 'Yaku' ceremony. There will be time for an optional personal flower essence consultation before your restorative Yin yoga class.
Day 3 - Sunday
After flow yoga to move your fire energy, you will be invited to experience an authentic coca-leaf reading followed by an Andean offering 'despacho'. You will release your 'despacho' to the Andean mountain spirits 'Apus in an outdoor fire ceremony.
Day 4 - Monday
After a nurturing yoga class, you expand your heart chakra with a heart-opening cacao ceremony and crystal bed therapy to align your energies. Spend some time alone in your 'Sonqo; garden to hear what your heart is telling you.
Day 5 - Tuesday
Following an expressive yoga class, you focus on your throat chakra. Experience sound healing by an inspired local musician with amazing instruments. There will also be an option for a temazcal (sweat lodge) and cold plunge pool.
Day 6 - Wednesday
You are now ready to open your third eye or sixth chakra with an optional San Pedro ceremony or a vision quest to a sacred Incan Cave (may alternately be offered on Day five and sweat lodge offered on Day six). Walkthrough the spiral garden and witness the full expression of your inner and outer vision.
Day 7 - Thursday
What a week! With your seven senses and chakras highly attuned, you sit by a 1000-year-old Lucuma tree or 'crown' chakra garden to integrate all that you have learned and healed on this journey through the seven chakra gardens.
Included excursions
- A local guided hike to the ancient Maras Salt Flats, still in operation to this present day.
- Transfer and local guided hike and water ceremony at the Pumahuanca River.
Instructors
Terry Cumes
Terry Cumes is the Director of Willka T'ika Wellness Retreat founded by his mother, Carol Cumes, in 1995. Terry has been leading yoga, wellness, and adventure groups in Peru since 1997 and has worked in international education and hospitality in four continents for over three decades. Terry began his yoga training in the 1980s with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and currently oversees Willka T'ika's yoga program, which includes Vinyasa, Hatha, and Yin yoga modalities. Terry studied international relations at UC Berkeley and received his MBA from Stanford University.
Verena Velazco Figueroa
Verena comes to our Willka T'ika family of professional staff with many years experience in facilitating group retreat and retreat center management. She is a gifted yoga teacher, and presently leads and facilitates our signature in-house Essential Wellness Retreat programs for all our international and local guests.
Retreat location
The retreat will take place in Urubamba, Peru. Willka T’ika or 'sacred flower' in Quechua is the original luxury wellness retreat center in the Sacred Valley of Peru, located in the heart of the Sacred Valley between the Incan Capital of Cusco and the World Heritage Site of Machu Picchu, in the beautiful town of Urubamba.
Unique features
Activities
- Massage
- Spa
- Temazcal
General
- Air-conditioned rooms
- Bar
- Dining area
- Fireplace
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Special menu request
- Yoga studio
Services
- Free Wi-Fi
- Hair dryer
- Laundry
This Yoga Retreat is vegetarian-friendly
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Food
You will be served three daily organic vegetarian meals per day and fresh herbal teas and organic coffee included in the price. Meals are delicious and nutritious organic vegetarian farm-to-table cuisine, with most vegetables from the own land. Willka T'ika Wellness Retreat caters to special diets upon request. Each meal will be prepared to honor the Chakra (and color) that they are working with that day in the retreat program.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Coffee
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Gluten Free
- Organic
- Lactose Free
- Other dietary requirements on request
Things to do (optional)
- Guided day trip to Machu Picchu
- Guided hike to Chullpas ruins (two hours)
- Guided hike to Salineras (three hours)
- Horseback riding along Urubamba River
- Mountain bike rentals
- Pottery class at Seminario Ceramics
- River rafting
- Visit to Mon Repos Alpaca Wool Outlet in Urubamba
- Visit to Seminario ceramics in Urubamba (all Willka T’ika mugs, plates, and bowls come from Seminario)
- Visits to other local Incan sites in Pisaq, Ollantaytambo, Moray, Chinchero, or Maras
- Ziplining and Via Ferrata
Therapeutic treatments
Coca leaf reading
Experience a soul-revealing reading from a traditional Andean healer. Willka T'ika Wellness Retreat has been working with Layka for over 20 years and she is one of the most talented coca leaf readers around. They know you will benefit from her insights and guidance. A coca leaf reading is also one way to support the Willka T’ika Children’s Fund and has been funding their virtual education programs.
Hydrosol blends
Their latest wellness offerings combine their own essential oils, hydrosols, and flower essences to create completely original therapeutic blends. You can order a personalized blend such as focus activator, aura protector, or muscle calmer, to bring peace of heaven home with you.
Natural remedy consultation
The medicinal herbal and flower expert will provide a personalized consultation guiding you into the healing world of Peru’s plants. Learn how to connect your emotions and relate to plants in a profound way.
Sweat lodge (Temazcal) and plunge pool
Spend the afternoon with a complete detoxification experience. Their homemade sweat lodge or Humpina Wasi will help you release any impurities. After this profound perspiration and inner cleansing, cool off in a medicinal plunge pool or Hampi Yaku. They will infuse your restorative bath with the hydrosol essence of your choice.
Spa treatments
Andean massage
Willka T’ika offers a range of therapeutic spa treatments to restore the body. Massage styles include Andean massage, aromatherapy massage, and hot stone massage. Rejuvenating Willka T’ika facials use natural products made from ingredients from their healing gardens. Their reflexology treatments incorporate salt from the nearby Maras salt farms and traditional aromatherapy essential oils.
Crystal bed therapy
Crystal light therapy combines color, light, quartz crystals, and music to clear and realign the body’s chakras. This gentle treatment encourages healing of the body and mind and leaves you feeling revitalized and refreshed.
Solar flower baths
Indulge in an outdoor floral bath under a velvet night sky bejeweled with the Milky Way. Their popular baths, created from stone and set in secluded gardens, are heated by the sun during the day. At night, the water is infused with flowers, medicinal herbs, and Maras salt. Enjoy a luxurious soak under the stars before bed.
What's included
- Daily yoga classes
- Daily Andean ceremonies (cacao, sound healing, and fire offering)
- Guided local Sacred Valley hiking
- Therapeutic treatment package that includes: Flower essence consultation, solar floral bath, coca leaf reading, crystal bed therapy, sweatlodge and plunge pool, Andean massage, and custom hydrosol blend
- 6 nights private or shared accommodation
- 3 daily organic vegetarian meals per day
- Fresh herbal teas and organic coffee
- Chakra gardens journal
What's not included
- Airfare
- Airport transfers
- Optional activities (plant ceremony)
- Additional treatments (massages)
- Additional activities outside of program itinerary
- Travel insurance
- Gratuities
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Transfer available for additional US$ 65 per person
Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport
33 km away from your destination
Arrival by airplane
Please book your round trip flight to Cusco, arriving at Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport (CUZ). Take international flight into Lima, go through customs and then take connecting domestic flight to Cusco, which is one hour and 20 minutes. Private transfer service from and to the Cusco Airport and Willka T'ika can be arranged, providing transfer details and payment in advance. It is a 75-minute drive each way, and the cost is 65 USD for one or two guests, or 35 USD per person for 3+ guests, each way.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 20% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.
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