About Tori and Tye Adekoya, founders of The Cocoon Healing Retreat in Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
We are not here
to look impressive.
We are here because life brought us to our knees, asked for the truth, and would not accept a polished answer. The Cocoon came from that place.
This is the part where most About pages try to convince you.
We would rather tell you the truth.
We did not build The Cocoon because we had a clean brand strategy and a perfect five-year plan. We built it because the kind of healing people kept asking us for could not fit inside an hour anymore.
People would come to us with grief in their body, stories in their nervous system, family patterns wrapped around their throat, anger they were ashamed of, tenderness they had learned to hide, and a deep exhaustion they could barely explain.
And we kept seeing the same thing. The body needs time. The soul needs safety. The truth needs a room where it does not have to be rushed into usefulness.
That room became The Cocoon.
We came to healing because
we needed healing.
Before The Cocoon was a retreat, it was a question inside our own lives. What does healing look like when the performance drops? What does love ask of us when our old coping mechanisms stop working? What do we do with the pain we inherited and the pain we accidentally pass forward?
We have been parents in the middle of hard seasons. Partners trying to listen better than our wounds wanted to. Practitioners learning that holding space for others means nothing if we are unwilling to keep telling the truth in our own home.
Lake Atitlán did not become our backdrop. It became our mirror. We live here. We raise our sons here. We are in relationship with this land, this culture, this lake, this pace, and this responsibility.
Not gurus. Not saviors.
People who know how to stay.
She hears what people are saying
under what they are saying.
Tori has a way of making the room quieter without shrinking anyone inside it. Her work is not loud. It is not performative. It does not need to prove itself by overwhelming you.
She listens for the old contract, the buried grief, the child part still waiting to be believed, the energy that has been trying to leave the body for years.
She is gentle, but not vague. Kind, but not avoidant. She can sit with what is beautiful and what is messy without turning either one into a problem.
He listens for the frequency
beneath the story.
Tye came to this work through his own unmaking. Not as a concept. As a lived thing. Depression, spiritual hunger, identity, fatherhood, marriage, grief, silence, sound, and the long road back to presence.
His work with sound and ceremony is not about creating a beautiful moment. It is about helping the body find the door the mind has been circling for years.
He does not hold space like someone above you. He holds it like someone who knows what it costs to finally stop running from yourself.
The work has names.
The names are Tori and Tye.
The one who can hold the room
without needing to control it.
Tori has spent more than a decade sitting with people in the tender places most of us learn to hide. She founded Simply Reiki Houston in 2012, and over the years, her work became a refuge for people who needed more than advice, more than mindset, more than someone telling them to just let it go.
She works with Reiki, Akashic Records, hypnotherapy, ancestral healing, energy work, and the quiet intelligence of the body. But the real medicine is not the list of modalities. It is how she listens.
She listens with enough patience for the truth to arrive. She does not force breakthrough. She does not rush emotion into meaning. She trusts that the body knows the pace, and she helps people feel safe enough to meet what has been waiting.
At The Cocoon, Tori helps guests move through the layers that cannot be accessed by thinking harder. The old stories. The inherited grief. The self-protection that once saved you but now keeps you from being fully here.
The one who learned that sound
can tell the truth before words can.
Tye did not come to healing because he wanted to become a spiritual man. He came because his life kept asking questions he could not outrun.
A near-death experience when he was young cracked something open. Years of depression, searching, displacement, creativity, fatherhood, and spiritual study kept widening the crack until it became a doorway.
Sound became one of the ways he learned to tell the truth. Not by explaining pain, but by creating a field where the body could finally stop performing and listen.
At The Cocoon, Tye holds sound healing, men’s work, ceremony, somatic facilitation, inner child work, and integration. His work is grounded in lived experience, meditation, Vedic study, creative practice, and the ongoing work of becoming a more honest man, husband, father, and facilitator.
We are not trying to give you
a beautiful escape.
Small on Purpose
We keep our containers intimate because people are not meant to disappear inside a crowd while doing deep work. Smallness is part of the medicine.
Truth Without Theater
We do not need anyone to perform healing, pain, spirituality, or readiness. If you are honest, that is enough to begin.
Integration Matters
A retreat is not transformation if it only works while you are away. The real work is how you return to your life with more presence and less self-abandonment.
The healing I experienced, physiological, psychological, and spiritual, was immediate, profound, and lasting. Four months later, the shifts remain just as strong.
K. Bolin · Retreat Graduate · The Cocoon
Different seasons need
different rooms.
You do not need to know
which door is yours yet.
You only need enough honesty to say, “Something in my life is asking for a different kind of support.” We can begin there.
