Women's Healing Retreat Guatemala · April 17–25, 2026 · 6 Women Only
This women's healing retreat in Guatemala draws real questions — about safety, about what actually happens, about whether you're ready, about the investment. These are the honest answers. Read in the order that matters to you.
These questions came from real women who reached out about our women's healing retreat in Guatemala before deciding. If yours isn't here, contact us directly — we respond personally within one to two business days.
Because functioning is not the same as living. And somewhere underneath the competence and the beautiful life you've built, part of you already knows that.
Most of the women who come to this women's healing retreat in Guatemala aren't in crisis. They're tired of maintaining — of being capable, present for everyone, and quietly hollow. Nine days won't fix a lifetime. But they can break the pattern that's been running it.
If you're "fine" and still reading this — that's your answer.
It's more than enough. It's the whole thing. Rational reasons rarely bring someone to Lake Atitlán. What brings people is the quiet yes that arrives before the mind can argue. Trust it. The intellect will catch up.
Those things are real and they matter. And some layers can only move in the presence of the body, sacred land, and witness. The nervous system doesn't respond to insight the way it responds to ceremony, sound, breath, and being held in a physical container.
This retreat is not a replacement for the work you've done. It's what happens when that work is ready to go somewhere it couldn't reach alone.
The right time is rarely convenient. It's usually just before a threshold — a transition, a tiredness, a quiet knowing that something has to change. The body doesn't wait. It carries what it carries until it's given a place to put it down.
Because some places carry medicine that the land itself offers. Lake Atitlán sits inside an ancient caldera — ringed by three volcanoes, held by Kaqchikel and Tz'utujil Maya communities who have considered it sacred for generations. Beneath the surface lies a submerged ceremonial site. The sacredness didn't disappear. It deepened.
Most women feel something shift before the first practice begins. It's why our women's healing retreat in Guatemala is held here and nowhere else. We live here. We raise our children here. The land is not a backdrop — it's a teacher.
A weekend can open a door. Nine days is enough time to walk through it. The nervous system needs time to feel safe enough to release. The first few days are often about arrival. The real depth comes in days four through seven. Then there's integration — the final days where you understand what just happened.
The nine days aren't the setting for the work. They are the work.
The Cocoon is a transformational healing retreat. Not a yoga retreat. Not a detox. Not a wellness spa weekend. You'll move your body, breathe intentionally, sit in ceremony, explore ancestral patterns, experience sound healing, engage in somatic work, and have five private one-on-one sessions.
It does not require you to adopt any belief system. Think of it less as a program and more as a container. The structure holds you. What happens inside is yours.
Gently. Which is, for many guests, the most radical part. Mornings begin with movement, breath, and stillness overlooking the lake. Guided practices follow — ceremony, sound healing, somatic work, or ancestral exploration. Afternoons hold group work and space. Evenings are often ceremonial. Your five private sessions are woven throughout the week at midday.
The nine days are not a menu of experiences. They're a journey with direction. Each phase is anchored to an element:
Each day prepares you for the next. By the time you reach the deepest work, you're ready — not because we pushed you there, but because the arc did.
Over twenty years of combined practice. More than 4,000 people held. And the lived knowledge that comes from having walked through the thing you're now guiding others across.
Reiki Master Teacher of 13 years carrying three lineages — Gendai, Jikiden, Usui Ryoho. Board-certified hypnotherapist (ABH), QHHT practitioner, Akashic Records guide, initiated Earthkeeper through Munay-Ki. Founder of Simply Reiki Houston — 150+ five-star reviews. She does not perform healing. She walks beside it.
We didn't learn this work and then apply it to our lives. We needed it to survive — and spent over a decade refining it in service of thousands of others.
Sound healer, somatic facilitator, ceremony designer. Trained in Vedic science and consciousness at Maharishi International University. His gift is creating ceremony that is both structured and alive — and holding space with the kind of presence that makes people feel safe to go somewhere real.
Six. Intentionally. At six, every person in the room is truly seen — not as a participant in a program, but as someone whose presence shapes the entire container. The group itself is part of the medicine.
Yes. And not just as a label. In practice:
You don't need a trauma history to attend. But if you have one — you are safe here.
Then it's working. Difficult emotions are not emergencies here — they're data. Your facilitators are trained to sit with what emerges without fixing it, rushing it, or making it smaller than it is. You will not be left alone with what comes up. That is the promise of the container.
Everything that matters:
Not included: international flights, travel insurance (strongly recommended), and personal extras.
Fly into Guatemala City — La Aurora International Airport, code GUA. Your private shuttle to the property takes approximately two to three hours through the highlands. We coordinate all arrival logistics. You will not navigate this alone.
Lake Atitlán and the surrounding villages are welcoming and peaceful. Thousands of women travel there independently every year. Your facilitators live here year-round and raise their children here. US, Canadian, EU, and UK citizens do not require a visa for stays under 90 days.
The Butterfly — our women's healing retreat in Guatemala — is $2,999 all-inclusive. Nine nights accommodations, all meals, five private sessions, all workshops, all ceremonies, and airport transfer.
Payment plans are available through Afterpay, Klarna, and more. Reach out and we'll structure something that makes sense. Consider what it would be worth to come home different.
Meals are prepared with whole, locally sourced Guatemalan ingredients — naturally plant-rich, with abundant options for vegetarian and most dietary needs. Share your restrictions at registration and we'll make sure you're nourished throughout.
We hold six women — each reservation carries real weight for the whole container:
We strongly recommend travel insurance that includes trip cancellation coverage.
Once registered you'll receive a full preparation guide. The short version: comfortable layers for varying temperatures, movement clothes, something you feel beautiful in for ceremony, and an open journal. Bring your questions. Leave your performance.
Then you're probably the right person for this room. Fear of depth is not a disqualifier — it's often the signal that something real is waiting. You won't be pushed into anything. But you will be held in a space where it becomes possible to choose to go there on your own terms. What lives on the other side of that fear is what you came for.
Good. Skepticism is honest. You don't have to believe in anything to show up. The practices work at the level of the body — breath, sound, movement, presence. Ceremony doesn't require belief. It requires willingness. Some of our most transformed guests arrived as skeptics. The body doesn't know how to fake what it feels.
Sometimes the most honest answer is: "I'm not sure I can explain it yet. But I know I need it." The people who love you don't need to fully understand to support you. And the investment you make in your own healing returns to every relationship in your life.
The group is selected thoughtfully — with attention to who is arriving at the same moment in their lives. Deep connection doesn't always look like immediate friendship. Sometimes the woman who challenges you is the one who moves something in you. Most guests describe the bonds formed at The Cocoon as lasting.
No one arrives ready. They arrive willing. Readiness is something the mind decides. Willingness is something the body already knows. You don't have to be healed. You don't have to have it figured out. You just have to show up. The rest is what we do together.
