Cacao Immersion Retreat

Spend a transformative week at Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, exploring cacao, conscious connection, embodied living, and sacred ceremony in a deeply immersive setting.

What is sacredness?

Throughout the retreat, you will reflect on what it means to serve as a guardian of this sacred plant medicine and to walk the medicine path with presence and reverence. The experience weaves together yoga, sacred ceremony, lectures, discussions, plant medicine journeys, tours, and time with local and Indigenous teachers, guests, and facilitators.

Your participation is framed as an offering: a way to give back while connecting with the healing gift and power of sacred cacao. Ritual offerings and gratitude prayers will help you engage with the culture and cosmology behind these ancient teachings.

As part of the journey, you will visit local towns around Lake Atitlan and Chichicastenango, meet local medicine men and women, and have the opportunity to travel and stay with a local Mayan spiritual guide. If you choose to extend your stay, there is also an option to visit the ancient Mayan temple of Tikal.

Each day explores a different theme within the Elemental Medicine Wheel method, supporting greater harmony in the body, with the Earth, and in daily life.

This retreat offers a meaningful way to deepen your sacred cacao practice, whether you are new to the path or already a practitioner. It is an invitation to connect with the sacred plant medicine of cacao and the Mayan lands.

Experience includes

• Heart of Cacao: the foundations of sacred ceremony
• The Path of the Jaguar
• Cacao cosmology
• Ancestral wisdom and healing
• Offrienda ritual offering ceremony
• Mayan fire ceremony
• Mayan calendar activation
• Visit to the cacao farm
• Cacao ceremonies
• Yoga
• Shamanic journey
• Medicine music
• Temazcal
• Optional Kambo ceremony and other plant medicine journeys

Join for a week of connection, prayer, celebration, ceremony, and council in these sacred lands.

Total price for Cacao Immersion Retreat: $1,300 for shared accommodations. Private room available upon request.

Dates: May 20th to 24th (4 nights / 5 days)

Optional add-on: Chichicastenango Mayan Market and Spiritual Guide Excursion, May 24th to 27th (3 nights / 4 days) — $550

Tikal Jaguar Temple Tour and Ceremony: May 27th to 29th — $850 (accommodation + flight transport included)

Total for Pilgrimage Expedition: $1,400

Grand total for both Cacao Immersion and Pilgrimage: $2,500

A payment plan option is available with a $400 non-refundable deposit, which can be transferred to another retreat or ceremony. Kambo healing or an extra service is available for an additional $150. Limited partial work trade and scholarship opportunities are available for locals, BIPOC, and Latin American passport holders.

Not included: flights to and from Guatemala, bus/taxi/shuttle transport to the lake or airport, shopping, bulk cacao, unscheduled meals or restaurant meals, special treatments, plant ceremonies, or healing sessions.

Daily itinerary

Day 1 — May 20: Opening | Heart of the Air | 10 I'k' | arrival, restorative yoga, dinner, opening ceremony, Heart of Cacao, cacao foundations, shamanic journey, and sound healing

Day 2 — May 21: Heart of Earth | 11 Aq'ab'al | shamanic embodiment yoga, breakfast, ancestral healing ceremony, DeSPACHO, working with the shamanic medicine wheel, ancestral wisdom, altar making, codes of the Jaguar, dinner, temazcal, sweat

Day 3 — May 22: Heart of Fire | 12 K'at | kundalini and hatha yoga, breakfast, Mayan sacred ceremony led by an Indigenous spiritual guide, Mayan calendar and cosmology, tobacco readings and optional personal healing

Day 4 — May 23: Heart of Water | 13 Kan | yoga and breathwork, breakfast, sacred plant medicine ceremony, voice activation, group energy healing, cacao yoga, shamanic shakti dance, sacred song circle, and closing fire ceremony

Day 5 — May 24: 1 Keme | breakfast, departure from Mystical Yoga Farm, cacao farm visit, end of Cacao Immersion Retreat and start of pilgrimage retreat, travel to Chichicastenango, local restaurant dinner, and check-in

Day 6 — May 25: 2 Kej | visit and shop at the local market, connect to local culture

Day 7 — May 26: 3 Q'anil | local Mayan spiritual guide ceremony and workshop, special treatments available

Day 8 — May 27: 4 Toj | transfer to Guatemala City, part 1 of pilgrimage ends, part 2 begins, flight to Flores, transfer to Tikal, dinner, hotel check-in

Day 9 — May 28: 5 Tz'i' | sunrise ceremony with elder, Tikal temple grounds tour, return to hotel for dinner and rest

Day 10 — May 29: 6 B'atz' | check out, depart to Guatemala City or home, continue traveling