Family Healing Retreats, Personal Growth & Emotional Wellness

“Discover a heart-centered approach to improving family communication through comfort and trust. Designed for teens, parents, and adults, our membership program and retreats help create stronger bonds, greater self-respect, and lasting transformation.”

Build confidence, Emotional Resilience

& Family Connection

Follow your path of joy

AWAKENING VACATIONS

What does your heart need to feel seen and appreciated?

Discover answers to the questions that you seek through inner wisdom.

You’re being drawn home to who you truly are, tap into your innate wisdom, and have fun along the way.

Your strength is revealed when you step toward what is calling you.

The heart speaks words with compassion, forgiveness, and love. Explore your inner world that is seeking a deeper understanding?

Your inner compass comes alive, guiding your path to joy and harmony.

What would it be like to have awareness at all times? Aware of your physical body, each step you take, how your muscles respond, and noticing the positive and negative shifts of energy within you and around you.

Why are you distracting from what you truly desire? Why are you breathing shallow and communicating fear to your body? Do you want to know why?

Online mentorship & Ecuador family retreats in Vilcabamba

Vacation or become a member to begin honoring your awakening.

Communicate with your heart and body & “Awaken inner knowing.”

You are as precious as life and more valuable than gold

Online membership program:

Choose to step towards honoring and prioritizing yourself.

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Join our online mentorship/community

and other truth seekers who honor the process of awakening our abilities.

Vilcabamba, Ecuador, is sacred land where the Incas vacationed, drawn by its power to spark and manifest intentions.- the Ecuadorian culture is kind and welcoming; it is home to many English-speaking expats.

Visit our sacred conscious community—a timeless vortex where time is what you make of it. Once you arrive, You’ll awaken from the spell you’ve been under, questioning your authentic self. Your purpose becomes clear, and the iron-rich Andes Mountains help magnetize that purpose.

Awaken to your unique life force energy and witness your joyful self-expression emerge.

(Mentorship is encouraged for family ages 12 and up).

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BODY AWARENESS

The BODY speaks to us. Having awareness with the body is a doorway that leads to inner wisdom. You will discover all the answers to the questions you seek.

Awakening to your body includes: Heart & body communion, intentional breathing- Breath is the language of the body, when we breathe with the intention to give presence to certain areas of the body, it responds in ways we recognize, awakening our awareness to the ability to communicate with that area.

By observing and sensing the body, we gain knowledge of what is being held and can easily restore inner harmony.

Experiencing touch is another way of coming home to self through different forms of massage.

Discover presence within your inner world and discover a multifaceted world that has gone unseen for far too long.

YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO BRIDGE A CONNECTION WITH YOUR HEART AND BODY TO ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT IS LIMITING YOU AND TO BE THE PERSON YOU WANT TO BE.

INNER WISDOM

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INNER WISDOM

Distractions have become far too easy, and life is passing by without a thought to its beauty, its fragrance, and its vast world of wisdom that is gained by having presence in the moment.

Once you awaken to a world that has gone unseen, you discover the inner compass that guides you through worlds of distractions. You gain the ability to notice subtle signs the body gives when it is uncomfortable from thoughts that you accepted as truth or energies from your surroundings.

You recognize your inner truth and your unique life force energy and admire your unique qualities, realizing that you are as precious as life, and more valuable than gold.

Discover your infinite potential and a world of infinite possibilities

You were not meant to walk in doubt and worry to live in fear of what you will see, how others will respond, what will happen, when you live in fear of what you will find and feel you are not fully present, you are keeping yourself from all the sensations that make life worth living.

When you live a life of presence, you gain wisdom within the moment for everything that is being experienced within you and around you, you strengthen your loving connection with yourself and others.

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RECOGNIZING TRUTH

“RECALLING TRUTH”

Truth is revealed through stillness, just as a seed senses the perfect conditions to awaken within the stillness of the Earth.

This time of reflection is important to ensure survival. To observe oneself and the surroundings before choosing which direction is towards the light.

THEN PUSHING TOWARDS THAT LIGHT

Your unique gifts are waiting to be discovered and serve as a beacon of light that will inspire and uplift others.

Life desires recognition and appreciation; you belong to this truth.

Love and beauty are seen and felt through sensing, revealing how precious life is and how all life has unique beauty that is waiting to be recognized.

WITNESS YOUR JOYFUL SELF-EXPRESSION AWAKEN

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DANCE THERAPY

Dance Therapy. “Awakens The Soul.”

Music has a way of attuning to our unique frequency, awakening the soul in ways that have us feeling alive and free. Witness your joyful self-expression emerge as your body responds in its own way, gain wisdom from being present with who you are, how you move, what feels right to you,

When you agree to experience movement therapy, you are placing trust in your body, trusting that you are supported, and open to the wisdom your body wants to share with you.

You discover a world that has gone unseen, all because of fear of not doing it right; fearful thoughts limit your potential and limit the wisdom gained from having presence with your body.

When you surrender to having a full body and emotional experience, something amazing happens: an overwhelming feeling of gratitude ignites within your body, tears of joy are your body’s way of speaking to you, saying “thank you for being there without expectations or limits.

“A flower is not told how to bloom. It opens beautifully and naturally.”

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RECLAIMING YOUR VOICE

When we silence ourselves from speaking out about what we think and how we feel because we are afraid of others’ reactions, we communicate to the body that it is not safe to be seen or heard.

We learn to hide thoughts and feelings away. Over time, we start to doubt our own worth, wondering if anyone cares, feeling disconnected and alone. Questioning- ”Do I even matter?”

Awaken, honoring who you really are, through creativity and observing how different experiences make you feel, communicating love and trust to your body, and witnessing your joyful self-expression emerge.

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Community Activities:

Community Events and Fun Activities for all ages.

What inspires you?

Yoga, Meditation, Movement, Spa day, Gatherings, Hiking, Biking, Horseback riding, Archery, Art, Music, Ceremonies.

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ORGANIC MARKET

SATURDAY & SUNDAY

Weekend highlight: dive into our thriving organic Market, Gather to awaken your senses-

Come alive from eating pure energy—your energetic body pulses from the physical rush that you can't be ignored.

The body responds to eating living foods grown with love land appreciation fruits and vegetables, and healthy deserts.

Discover a world of flavors and textures that enhance your understanding of nutrient-enriched foods offered by local vendors and nearby indigenous cultures: shop, chat, sing, dance, taste, laugh, join in and express yourself, while you nurture eternal friendships.

Indulge in flavorful passion by experiencing different forms of food expressions.

Healthy Positive interaction with food and friends creates a fun vibe and a healthy mindset.

What People Are Saying

  • I realize that because I never felt seen and appreciated , that I was unable to see and appreciate myself or others.

    — Jessica F

  • I awakened to realize that fearing what I would see, feel or make others feel made me distract from being present in the moment.

    — David K

  • I now enjoy the game of life, I am present and I can harmonize my internal world.

    — Mark P

Your Pathway to a Life of

H · A · R · M · O · N · Y

AWAKEN YOUR ABILITIES AS YOU OBSERVE YOURSELF & YOUR CHOSEN EXPERIENCES

Movement * Dance Expression * Breath work * Massage * Heart Awareness * Meditation * Energy Healing * Ancient Plant Medicine * Yoga * Sound Healing * Shadow work * Vision Quests * Outdoor Nature Activities * Music & Entertainment * Resorts & Spas

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