The Butterfly
A women's healing retreat · Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
Wild woman,
come home.
An intimate 8-night women's healing retreat.
Reclaim your power.Remember your divinity.Find your freedom.
Before the wings,
there is the Cocoon.Before the freedom,
there is the descent.
You learned how to be a good woman.
How to swallow the no.
How to soften the anger.
How to doubt what you knew the moment someone else disagreed.
How to call exhaustion love.
How to call self-abandonment compromise.
How to make yourself easier to hold.
And somewhere beneath all of that...
is the woman you could never fully domesticate.
Waiting.
Ancient.
Instinctive.
Sacred.
Yours.
The Wild Woman.
The power to trust what you know.
To listen when your body speaks.
To honor the no and choose the yes.
To nurture without disappearing.
To love without abandoning yourself.
To be soft without being submissive.
To stand in your own authority without becoming hard.
To recognize that the divine is not only something outside of you.
It lives within you, too.
Your power was never gone.
But there may be years of expectations, pain, conditioning, inherited patterns and survival between you and your ability to feel it.
So we go down.
Not to stay there.
To reclaim what has always been yours.
When a woman reconnects to her power, trusts her knowing, and remembers her divinity...
she can begin to free herself.
The initiation
Descend.Release. Reclaim. Return.
Earth. Water. Fire. Air. Ether.
For eight nights, we move through the elements and into the places within you that are ready to be met.
The stories you inherited.
The patterns you learned to survive.
The grief your body remembers.
The anger you were taught to swallow.
The parts of yourself you buried because, at some point, it felt safer not to be all of who you are.
This is where healing becomes something you experience, not just something you understand.
Some things are spoken.
Some are burned.
Some are washed away.
Some leave through the body.
And some things aren't released at all.
Your voice.
Your knowing.
Your desire.
Your power.
They are reclaimed.
And as those pieces return, something else begins to emerge.
Your own nature.
Not the woman you were taught to be.
The woman you are when you are free enough to be fully yourself.
And beneath all of it, the remembrance that the sacred was never somewhere outside of you.
The divine lives within you.
This is your initiation.
The method
Ceremony is the thread.
Magic is the method.
The Butterfly is not a collection of healing experiences packed into eight days.
It is one initiation.
Woven together through ceremony and empowered by our earliest ancestors...
the elements themselves.
We open sacred space together on the first night.
And from that moment forward, the ceremony has begun.
Through the private healing work.
Through the waterfall.
Through the rage.
Through the moments something breaks open...
and the moments something ancient inside you remembers.
Ceremony is the thread that carries the intention from one threshold into the next.
And the elements are more than symbols.
They were here before us.
We enter into relationship with them.
We remember them to remember ourselves.
Because you are not separate from nature.
You are nature.
And nature was never meant to be tamed.
Fire is fed.
Offerings are given.
The earth holds what is buried.
The wind carries what is ready to move.
Plants are carried into the water.
Smoke rises with prayers in it.
The lake receives.
The drum speaks.
And your body remembers languages older than words.
With ceremony.
With the body.
With the land.
With our ancestors.
With the elements.
With what can be seen...
and what cannot.
We heal.
Only when the journey is complete do we close the sacred space together.
There is a beginning.
A crossing.
A descent.
A return.
The journey
Day by day
Eight nights. Seven full days. One initiation, unfolding from Earth to Ether.
Click a day to see what it holds.
Arrival
The Crossing
You arrive in Guatemala.
But The Butterfly has already begun.
The preparation. The prayer. The intention you carried with you when you boarded the plane.
That first evening, we gather.
We drink cacao.
We meet the women who will walk beside us.
And together, we open sacred space.
The crossing begins.
Day 1
Descend.
Before we can change a pattern, we have to be willing to see where it began.
We turn toward lineage.
Family.
Ancestry.
The stories and beliefs that were handed to us before we were old enough to decide whether they belonged to us.
We go down.
Into the roots.
Into the body.
Into the places where the story began.
Not to live there.
To know what we are carrying.
Day 2
Remember.
Before the water can carry something away, you have to be willing to meet what is there.
We turn toward the younger versions of you.
The memories that shaped you.
The stories that began before you understood they would become stories you carried into adulthood.
And through Past-Life Regression, we open the door even further...
into what your soul remembers.
Not to relive it.
To meet it with someone beside you.
Some of what surfaces will be yours. Some will be older than you. All of it deserves to be seen before it can be set down.
And you do not do this alone. The women beside you remember with you.
You cannot release what you refuse to remember.
Day 3
Let it move.
There are things the mind understands long before the body is ready to release them.
So we enter the water.
Plants are cleansed beneath the waterfall.
An offering is given.
The drum begins.
And when you are ready, you step beneath the cold water and give yourself permission to release whatever you carried up the mountain.
You decide when you enter.
You decide when you are done.
Some women scream.
Some cry.
Some laugh when they come out.
Some stand beneath the water in complete silence.
There is no correct way to meet it.
The water receives what you are ready to give it.
Day 4
Burn.
There is anger you were taught to swallow.
Grief you learned to make prettier.
Words that never left your throat.
Boundaries you knew before you had language for them.
Fire does not ask you to make any of it beautiful.
Here, there is room for the rage.
For the truth.
For the sound.
For what has been held in the body because there was nowhere safe for it to go.
And there is room to discover what lives underneath it.
Your anger is not the opposite of your softness.
Sometimes it is the part of you that remembers where the boundary was.
Day 5
Forge.
Fire is not only destruction.
Fire changes the form of things.
After meeting the rage, we enter the heat again.
Through temazcal.
Through prayer.
Through private healing work.
Through Maya fire ceremony held with traditional healers.
This is not another day of burning.
This is the forge.
What are you taking with you?
What are you leaving in the fire?
And what is beginning to take shape in its place?
Day 6
Reclaim.
After the descent comes space.
Breath.
Perspective.
Possibility.
We work with breath, the subconscious and the stories you have carried about who you are allowed to be.
Not to hand you a new identity.
To make room for you to choose.
Who are you when your decisions are no longer being made entirely by what happened to you?
What happens when you trust the knowing in your body again?
Your instinct.
Your desire.
Your no.
Your yes.
The wild was never the absence of wisdom.
It was your nature before you learned not to trust it.
Air creates room.
You decide what fills it.
Day 7
Fly.
Something changes when you can see farther.
We rise.
We move.
We laugh.
We celebrate.
We look back at the woman who entered the Cocoon and recognize everything she was brave enough to meet.
And somewhere along the way, you begin to recognize her.
The Wild Woman.
Not because she became louder.
Not because she became harder.
Because she belongs to herself again.
This is not the moment we hand you your wings.
They were always yours.
This is the moment you remember how to use them.
Wild things were never meant to stay in cages.
Fly.
Departure
Return.
The itinerary may soften slightly to honor weather, ceremony, and the needs of the group. The arc remains.
The container
What is held
inside the Cocoon
Eight nights. Six women. One initiation.
Your healing
- Two private QRM healing sessions
- Past-Life Regression
- “I AM” hypnosis
- Rebirth breathwork
- Sacred Mayan abdominal womb massage
- Floating sound bath
- Ancestral + lineage work
- Integration throughout your journey
Your ceremonies
- Opening cacao ceremony + despacho
- Sacred waterfall cleansing
- Sacred Rage + personal fire ritual
- Temazcal
- Maya fire ceremony with traditional healers
- Cycle Breaking + Lineage Blessing
- Opening + closing sacred space
Your experience
- Eight nights of private accommodations in Lake Atitlán
- All meals, fresh juices, cacao, coffee + tea
- Meditation, movement + embodied practice woven throughout the retreat
- Butterfly Reserve + ziplining
- Ecstatic dance
- Exploration throughout Lake Atitlán
- Round-trip airport transportation from Guatemala City
- All retreat transportation
Before you arrive
- Private pre-retreat call after reserving your place
- 21 days of intentional preparation
- Your private Akashic Record reading
- A candle lit for you each day for 21 days, holding your name and journey in prayer
And eight nights inside an intentional arc where none of these experiences exist alone.
Every piece belongs to the initiation.
The circle
Why only six women?
Because this work asks for intimacy.
The Butterfly holds six.
Six women means we know your name.
We know what you came carrying.
There is room for your private healing work.
Room for us to notice when you need support.
Room for silence.
Room for laughter.
Room to disappear to your room for a minute when you need to.
And room to become close enough that, somewhere along the way, six strangers stop feeling quite so strange.
This is not a conference.
It is a Cocoon.
In their words
What women
carry home
We can tell you what happens inside The Cocoon. We would rather let the women who have entered it tell you what it felt like.
The land
Held by the land.
Lake Atitlán is not a backdrop to this work.
It is our home.
We live here. We raise our family here. And the relationships we have built here are part of what makes The Butterfly possible.
We believe being welcomed by a place also comes with responsibility.
For every woman who joins The Butterfly, we make a donation to Natün Guatemala, supporting work within the communities around Lake Atitlán.
Our relationship with this place is not only about what we receive here. It is also about what we give back.
The details
A place to exhale.
Eight nights in a private room of your own at Lake Atitlán. After the ceremonies, you come back to quiet.
Nourished, every day.
All meals, fresh juices, cacao, coffee and tea are included. Hearty plates and plant-forward plates sit side by side, and your dietary needs are met with care.
Your guides
Guided by people
who live here.
Tori
Tye
We're Tori and Tye, husband and wife, healers, and the founders of The Cocoon.
For more than a decade, we have devoted our lives to healing work, ceremony, energy, the subconscious, meditation and sound.
During The Butterfly, we walk beside you.
We guide the healing.
We hold you through the places that ask you to go deeper.
We challenge you when something is ready to be seen.
We open doors.
But the doors you walk through belong to you.
Because you don't come all the way to Guatemala to leave with another person to follow.
You leave with more of yourself.
More choice.
More truth.
More life.
More freedom.
Your place
Your place inside
the Cocoon
The Butterfly
8 Nights · Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
January 15–23, 2027
$3,333
Everything you need, from your first pre-retreat call to your ride back to the airport, is included.
- Your private room
- All meals, fresh juices, cacao, coffee and tea
- Private healing sessions
- Ceremonies and group healing experiences
- Excursions and experiences throughout Lake Atitlán
- Round-trip airport transportation from Guatemala City and all retreat transportation
- Your Akashic Records reading
- 21-day pre-retreat preparation
- Your private pre-retreat call
Reserve your place with $777
The remaining balance can be paid in full or through an available payment plan.
Only six women enter The Butterfly.
Reserve my placeFlights are not included.
Return.
The fire eventually goes out.
The drum eventually stops.
Sacred space closes.
And eventually, you leave Guatemala.
You return to your life.
To your relationships.
Your work.
Your children.
Your choices.
Your ordinary Tuesday morning.
But you do not return empty-handed.
You return with the pieces of yourself you reclaimed.
Your voice.
Your knowing.
Your desire.
Your power.
You return remembering that the divine was never somewhere outside of you.
It lives within you.
And freedom does not mean your life suddenly becomes perfect.
It means you have more of yourself with which to meet it.
More choice.
More truth.
More life.
The ceremony ends.
But your initiation has begun.
Because the point was never to feel powerful for eight nights in Guatemala.
The retreat has an ending.
The becoming doesn't.
Reclaim your power.Remember your divinity.Find your freedom.
Questions
Questions
before you enter
Can I come alone?
Absolutely. Most women come on their own. The Butterfly is intentionally limited to six women, giving you both the intimacy of the group and the privacy of your own room.
Do I need experience with healing work or ceremony?
No. You do not need to have done anything like this before.
Come willing to participate, to be honest with yourself, and to meet whatever your experience brings forward.
Where do I fly into?
You'll fly into La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City.
Round-trip airport transportation to and from Lake Atitlán is included.
Are payment plans available?
Yes.
Your place is reserved with a $777 deposit, and payment options are available for the remaining balance.
What isn't included?
Your flight to Guatemala and personal purchases are not included.
Once you arrive, your private accommodations, meals, retreat experiences, private healing work, excursions and transportation are included.
What happens after I reserve my place?
Your initiation begins before you arrive in Guatemala.
Once your place is reserved, we'll book a private pre-retreat call together and schedule your Akashic Records reading.
From there, you'll begin your 21-day pre-retreat preparation, created specifically to prepare you for the journey ahead.
You do not arrive at The Butterfly at the beginning. You arrive already inside it.