The Caterpillar
Private Healing Immersion · The Cocoon
Before the butterfly, there is this.
Three days. Your own room. Both of us. One honest container.
The Caterpillar | Private Healing Immersion by The Cocoon
The Caterpillar is a 3-night private healing retreat hosted in the home of Tye and Tori Adekoya, secluded and close to Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. One guest only. Both facilitators present throughout. The retreat moves through cacao ceremony, trauma release, sound healing, an evening fire, hot springs, Reiki, and a closing ritual. $1,333 all-inclusive.
The Caterpillar is the private entry point into The Cocoon ecosystem. It is a complete healing experience on its own and a natural threshold for those who later enter The Butterfly, The Moth, or The Kaleidoscope.
Some things don't need a group. They need three days, a quiet house near the lake, and two people who know how to hold what you bring.
The Caterpillar is not a spa weekend. It is not a wellness experience designed to make you feel good for a few days and leave everything underneath untouched. It is a private healing container built around you, your nervous system, your story, and what is actually ready to move.
You stay in our home. You are the only guest. Tye and Tori are both with you the entire time, not passing you between sessions but holding one continuous field of care across three days. The work is responsive, not scripted. We follow what is present in you, not a curriculum you have to fit yourself into.
Before the butterfly, there is the cocoon.
Before the cocoon, there is this.
An arc, not an itinerary.
Each day is built on the one before it. Nothing is random. The sequence carries you from arrival through depth through integration. You leave on Monday morning different from how you arrived Friday evening.
& Opening
You come in Friday and we give you time to land. No pressure. No immediate session. There is food waiting and space to breathe and feel where you are. Later that evening, we sit together for the cacao ceremony. Not a production. Just the three of us, the plant, and an honest opening. You name what brought you here. We listen. The container opens.
Work
Morning: Trauma release. This is the heart of the container. We are not moving fast and we are not moving around anything. What has been stored in the body, what the mind has already named but the nervous system hasn't released yet, this is where that begins to move.
Afternoon: Sound healing to move what the morning opened. Frequency works where language cannot. The body receives what the session started.
Evening: We light a fire. No script. No ceremony to perform. Just fire, presence, and whatever the day brought up sitting beside you in the open air. Some people talk. Some people are quiet. The fire holds both.
Return
Morning: Hot springs. We are in the water with you. This is not a tourist excursion and it is not a reward. It is mineral water and volcanic earth completing what the fire opened the night before. We are there the entire time. What shifted on Saturday continues to settle here.
Afternoon: One Reiki session back at the house to regulate the nervous system and ground what moved across the weekend. Then the closing ritual. An intentional seal. You name what you are taking home and what you are leaving behind. We bear witness to both.
Monday morning you leave. Not announced. Different.
What is included.
The $1,333 flat rate covers everything below. There is nothing hidden and nothing added on later. You arrive and you are held. That is the whole point.
Three nights in a private room in a secluded home close to Lake Atitlán. You are the only guest. The space is yours.
Nourishing meals prepared with care throughout your stay. No logistics for you to manage while your system is doing real work.
Friday evening. An honest opening with the three of us. Not a performance. A threshold.
The core of the container. Somatic and hypnotherapy-informed work designed to move what is ready to move.
After the trauma release work. Frequency moves through the body where language cannot always follow.
No ceremony. No script. Just fire, presence, and space for what the day opened to breathe and settle.
We are in the water with you. Volcanic mineral waters, integration, and the two people who walked through Saturday with you. Not an excursion. Part of the work.
Sunday afternoon. Nervous system regulation and grounding after the depth of the weekend. The body settles into what shifted.
An intentional seal before you return home. You name what moves with you and what you leave behind. We witness both.
A follow-up call after you return home. What opened keeps opening. This is where we check in on what is landing.
Transfer from Guatemala City to Lake Atitlán is included. Once you land, we help hold the rest of the logistics.
Tye and Tori are both present throughout. You are not handed between practitioners. One continuous field of care from Friday evening to Monday morning.
Flat rate · One guest · Everything included
Not included: international airfare to Guatemala, personal items, and optional excursions beyond the retreat container.
Our home. Secluded.
Close to Lake Atitlán.
You are not staying at a retreat center or a rented villa. You are staying in our home. The place where we live, cook, raise our kids, and do our own work. That is not a limitation. It is the medicine.
The house is secluded and close to Lake Atitlán in the highlands of Guatemala. Not in the middle of the tourist circuit. Not near the noise. Quiet enough that the land can actually reach you. The volcanoes are on the horizon. The air is different here.
What we want you to know before you book is that there is no catfishing. This is our real home and it is beautiful in the way that real, lived-in places are beautiful. If you want a polished resort experience, this is not that and we are not pretending it is. If you want to be held by two people in a space that actually belongs to them, where the care is not performative and the container is real, this is exactly that.
This is a fit if this feels familiar.
- You have done healing work before but something still feels lodged or unfinished
- You are in a life transition, a grief process, a major recalibration, or a threshold you cannot name yet but can feel
- You want to be held, not managed. Seen, not processed
- You want high-touch, private support without the pacing or exposure of a group container
- You are curious about The Butterfly, The Moth, or The Kaleidoscope but want to experience the work privately first
- You want two healers who are actually in it with you, including in the water at the hot springs
- You are looking for a passive escape where nothing is asked of you
- You want to stay in your head and avoid what is actually here
- You need clinical or crisis-level support, which should come before a retreat container
- You want a luxury wellness experience designed to look healing rather than be healing
If you are not sure whether this is right for you, book a Clarity Call. That is what it is for.
Where The Caterpillar leads.
Many guests move through The Caterpillar first and later enter one of the larger Cocoon retreats. The private immersion is complete on its own. It is also the most natural first room for someone who wants to know what the work feels like before stepping into a group container.
The Caterpillar is the private threshold. What comes next is yours to decide.
What shifts when the container is real.
"The healing I experienced, physiological, psychological, and spiritual, was immediate, profound, and lasting. Four months later, the shifts remain just as strong. I know they are permanent."K. Bolin · Retreat Graduate
"Tye has a rare ability to channel something profound. His approach is both grounded and deeply thoughtful. He knows how to reach right where it is needed. I literally got goosebumps."Nico N. · Client
What people usually ask first.
If something brought you here,
that is enough to start the conversation.
We host a small number of private immersions each month. The Clarity Call is an honest conversation about whether this container is right for you. No pressure. No pitch. Just two people who will tell you the truth.
We respond personally within one to two business days.
