TOGETHER
March
18 - 22
2026
A FAMILY RETREAT
BELIZE
ONE OF A KIND
FAMILY EXPERIENCE
Come join our holistic off-grid community in a jungle immersion for the whole family!
"Together" is a multi-disciplinary family retreat and world school hub offered by the founders and residents of this beautiful small eco-village and retreat center, with a focus on connection and community. The variety of skills, knowledge, and wisdom present in the synthesis of our in-house practitioners and visionaries, make this hub something unique in the world.
An eco-chic environment with comfortable spaces and accommodation, with an actively running learning group for the children and plenty of families, children's and parents-only activities.
We want to co-create a joy-filled, playful experience for the whole family, where we get to connect with ourselves and each other in a beautiful and healing environment. Want to try out facilitating, teaching a skill or share a song? We would love to be a part of it and support you!
This is an experience that we ourselves want to see out there in the world, where we get to spend time with our own family, as well as other families. Time with, and time without, the children, knowing that they are having a great time while we as parents relax by the natural pool reading a book, or participate in an activity !
Where does the money go? To cover the cost of food and lodging, salaries to our wonderful staff and with a small profit that goes to the center and the facilitators. We have amazing staff here at Sattva, locals who benefit from the retreat center doing well.
We will use a part of the profit to support the local communities and projects here, sustainably and regeneratively.*
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LGBTQIA+ and neuro-diverse celebrating.
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* T.R.E.E.S. who are running some really great projects for the local community and the children and families here.
https://www.treesociety.org/biology-education/
https://www.treesociety.org/mile-28-community-library-project/
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Drums not Guns - a project and movement started by Emmeth Young, promoting peace through drumming, art and mentorship for at-risk youth here in Belize.
https://belizelivingheritage.org/emmeth-young-2/
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​2025 TESTIMONIALS
🌿 Sattva is a truly beautiful place, artfully created in tune with its surroundings. It was so relaxing and fun for our family to be there. The pool, the room, the land… it was luxury!
“We relaxed in the gorgeous setting, played and connected with the land and jungle, splashed in beautiful water, nourished ourselves… and returned home rejuvenated and inspired and with many questions about how to plant seeds of change in our own community.” [Lindsay]
🌿 "The retreat was amazing!! and so well ran. I loved meeting all of the Sattva families - including the staff. You have built such an amazing eco-habitat and retreat center. So much goodness will continue to grow there. I feel blessed to have experienced it, and look forward to a return soon. " [Elizabeth]
🌿 “Over four days we became one big sweet family, with kids of all ages playing together, parents supporting each other, together creating new memories.”
“Sharing this intentional time on retreat deepened our understanding of how meaningful and easeful being in community with other families can be.” [Ashley]
🌿 “Our time at the family retreat was truly enriching… we learned so much, recharged deeply, and sincerely hope to see everyone again!” [anon]
🌿 “The atmosphere and people are beautiful… making connections with other families was the highlight.” [Heather]
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WHAT TO EXPECT
Experienced hosts at their long running retreat centre nestled in the Maya Mountains, with expert facilitators and educators.
Time to bond with your children, getting to know other like minded families, experience new cultures as well as having time to yourself and allow the jungle medicine to do its work.
Everything is planned and taken care of so that you can focus on your family, your own self, and these offerings that we hope will leave your body, mind and soul nourished.
A family retreat that will make you feel supported on your journey, where we can share our struggles as well as joys as parents on the path less travelled.
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Project-based learning;
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Parenting circle and support;
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Intro to permaculture;
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Jungle walk;
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Local Kriol drumming and dance workshop and show, here at Sattva;
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Nature art and activities;
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Fire circle;
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Dress up and Dance - Jungle theme!
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Family Kirtan & Song Ceremony;
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Belizean cooking;
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Movement and yoga;
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Cacao workshop and ceremony;
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Trip with local guide to the nearby National Park and waterfall, learning about wildlife;
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Family constellation workshop;
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5Rhythms dance;
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Space for your offering!​
And other possible activities (depending on age and interest) including:
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Geology;
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Social studies;
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Children’s emotional awareness workshop;
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Q&A about off-grid living
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WHAT'S INCLUDED​
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4 Nights of all-inclusive accommodation (breakfast, lunch and dinner)
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All activities and materials
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Excursion and guided tour to nearby Jungle Waterfalls
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Kriol drumming and dance workshop
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Plenty of spaciousness to relax, together as a family and alone, with the children joining the learning group or the childminders.
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Support to navigate self-directed learning, unschooling and the deschooling process
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Powerful intentional practices for release, healing and balance
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Soul-enriching connection and a place to call Home
Delicious, wholesome plant based dishes prepared with foods from the land (including eggs from our own chickens), local farms, and loving hands.
DAILY NOURISHMENT MENU
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Breakfast
Enjoy a vibrant & vital breakfast buffet of assorted fruits,
homemade granola, fresh farm eggs, and other healthy
treats.
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Lunch
Indulge in our plant-based lunch buffet—highlighting local
fruits and vegetables in a fusion of Ayurvedic,
Mediterranean and Tropical cuisine
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Dinner
Gather and Feast in Jungle twilight for a fun, delicious and
nutritious dinner buffet
Gluten-free options will be available.
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TOGETHER
Family Retreat - BELIZE
ACTIVITIES & WORKSHOPS
Are you curious to learn about off-grid community living, permaculture principles, and living in the tropics?
At the same time as having your children actively joining a self-directed learning group which supports their and the whole family's emotional and physical well-being?
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Feel held and witnessed in a safe space facilitated by highly qualified, experienced educators, facilitators and psychotherapists, connecting with others on a similar trajectory.
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Participate in a heart-felt experience in a family community, where we will explore many different aspects of this beautiful country as well as our own inner beings.
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We are a self directed and consent-based learning community and as such all activities and workshops are offerings that participants are free to join as they wish.
EARTH
Intro to Permaculture = Permaculture is a holistic approach to sustainable design and agriculture that seeks to mimic natural ecosystems, emphasizing principles such as diversity, interdependence, and thoughtful utilization of resources for the creation of regenerative and harmonious living systems. Including hands-on gardening experience! Facilitated by Giulia and Sam.
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Cacao Workshop and ceremony = A Cacao Workshop involves harvesting the cacao pods here at Sattva, learning, and taking part in the processes to transform cacao into chocolate! Includes chocolate tasting and a heart-opening cacao ceremony. Facilitated by Giulia and Sam, founders of Dragon Chocolate, their sustainable artisan chocolate business based here at Sattva.
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Q&A about off-grid living = Find out about the origins of Sattva, the challenges, benefits and practicalities of off grid living from the founders of Sattva Land.
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Geology session = Driven by the kids interests we can explore anything from natural disasters, geological timescales to rock and mineral identification and experiments. Facilitated by Andy
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Jungle Hike = Take a journey through the jungle here at Sattva, learning about the local flora and fauna.
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Functional Movement = This class is an opportunity to check in with where you are, and provide some innovative and fun examples of how you can begin to expand your repertoire and move through your life with more freedom of physical expression! Facilitated by Sam
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Belizean cooking = Learn about, and take part in making some Belizean food that we will eat later on! Facilitated by Kitchen Staff
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Nature Art and activities = Using the abundance of natural materials here, including flowers and other plants, we will at the same time learn about local flora and fauna. We will also be making our own pigment paint using natural ingredients and the rich soil here, learning a little about different types of soil and minerals. Facilitated by Yasmin
Project-based learning = Together we will create a bamboo raft! Can we, using local materials from the jungle, design, construct and decorate a vessel to transport teams across our natural pool? ​​
Learning how to make an all-natural jungle salve using ingredients from the land that you can bring with you home!
​Making coconut ice cream from fresh coconuts
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Excursion to Waterfall = Half-day excursion and guided tour to Billy Barquedier National Park for a short hike to local waterfalls. Experienced local guide Robert Polanco will teach us about some of the wildlife in the area.
WATER
Kriol drum workshop = an afternoon at Sattva with master drummer Emmeth Young, a dancer and young drummers as guests. Join in and learn the drums, dance and the history of the Kriol people here in Belize.
Emmeth is a renowned drummer, drum maker, organic farmer and founder of ‘Drums not Guns’ youth project.
https://belizelivingheritage.org/emmeth-young-2/
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Fire Circle = Evening family gathering with our own home-made vegan marshmallows, music, stories, poetry and fun! ​​
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5Rhythms® Dance = 5Rhythms is a movement practice and ecstatic dance that allows you to express yourself freely through movement, music, and connection. Through the ‘wave’ it creates a space to bond with yourself and others, celebrate, and explore the unique rhythms in a supportive and vibrant environment. For the older children and parents. Facilitated by Glo
FIRE
Dress up and dance! = Party night! One of the evenings after dinner we will dress up and dance. It is optional of course, but the crazier the costume the better! Theme: Jungle
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Family Yoga and dance = A fun-filled yoga session for all the family! Our yoga consists of many poses and stretches that have different physical benefits for our health and well-being, breathing, relaxation, meditation, and mindfulness exercises for our minds, and social interaction, playfulness, meaning, deep life lessons, and fun for our spirit. Facilitated by Yasmin and Gloria​
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Kirtan = Kirtan is a devotional practice rooted in ancient Indian traditions, involving the chanting of sacred mantras and ceremonial songs to evoke a meditative and spiritual experience in community. Facilitated by Binny​
AIR
ETHER
Social studies = we are born free into this world of nature, so how is it that we are subject to the laws and authority of the state.? A workshop for all ages that will encourage the children to ask the big questions about the world we live in. Facilitated by David (Barrister & Solicitor)
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Parent's Circle = A supportive and inclusive gathering where we come together to share experiences, wisdom, and support, fostering a sense of community, empowerment and connection. It is also a space to share the darker and more challenging aspects of parenting and parenthood, being held and witnessed by the group. Facilitated by Yasmin.
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Children’s emotional awareness workshops = Using real-life scenarios, skits, and other relatable and fun techniques this workshop will allow the children to really consider how we can interact with each other with more emotional awareness. Facilitated by Rebecca and Yasmin.​
Optional Beach Trip
Belize is such an incredible and diverse country, both in biodiversity and culture. We would love for our group to continue on to Hopkins on the coast, for a snorkelling trip and Garifuna drumming experience. So, for those of you who are interested, we are happy to organise a trip to the beach after the retreat. Please let us know interest when booking.
Led by Founders and Community members of Sattva
Main Facilitators
YASMIN PAGE​
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Yasmin is an educator who has gone from teaching in mainstream secondary schools in the UK to facilitating the self-directed learning co-op here at Sattva. She is also a certified kids yoga instructor.
Her background is in secondary school/high school, teaching History, English and working with neurodiverse children. However, she has been on quite the journey from mainstream education in Sweden and UK, to alternative education (teacher at Inwoods Small School - a Krishnamurti school in UK). And from a few years back, becoming a part of an unschooling family together with her partner and three children.
This has been the deepest of work, untangling and relearning so many things that are being presented to us as natural, in a society that is far from it!
Curious about change, deepening and transformation...and how it all starts with ourselves, supported by relationship and community.
The unschooling/free learning path is the path on which she has learned the simplest and most fundamental principle - that we learn what we are interested in and through play and discovery.
SAM COMBS
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Sam considers himself very fortunate to be in a guiding role at Sattva! A lifelong student of the natural world, Sam does his best to infuse all of the guest experiences with opportunities for deeply immersive learning and growing. Holding space for groups and individuals to connect with themselves and the people and places that they are visiting is an intrinsic part of Sam’s mission on any retreat, and he’s going to have a blast fulfilling that objective! Sam has been the General Manager at Sattva for many years, and when he’s not immersed in that role you can probably find him making music, movement, and chocolate with his family.
additional Facilitators
REBECCA STONE​
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Rebecca Stone, LCSW, is the founder and clinical director of Brooklyn Somatic Therapy, a boutique somatic therapy practice in NYC. As a psychotherapist, coach and trainer, Rebecca has taught and facilitated workshops across the country to various audiences on relational intelligence in the workplace, trauma first aid, post-traumatic growth, and the psychology of groups. She has also served as a teacher for The Hakomi Institute's comprehensive somatic psychotherapy training. She received certification in The Hakomi Method and Emotion-focused Couples therapy, and completed Attachment-Focused EMDR and Somatic Experiencing training. A graduate of Hunter College’s MSW program and group facilitator for people incarcerated for violent crime, her approach to healing is informed by an anti-oppressive lens and restorative justice.
GIULIA GAROFALO
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Giulia is a mother of two, raising her children in the broad-leaf rainforest of Belize. Her love and connection to natural systems is expressed through her experience in permaculture, forest gardening and the crafting of creative bioregional cuisine. Particularly drawn to the Cacao plant and its mythological roots to Mesoamerica, Giulia has cultivated an intimate relationship to this plant medicine over the past 10 years. Together with her partner Sam, she transforms local Cacao into a dark craft chocolate, known as Dragon Chocolate throughout Belize. Certified as a Sound Healing Practitioner, her innermost calling is to utilize the powers of Sound and Music as pathways to restoration and liberation.
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GLORIA GLO
As a servant to movement, Gloria has built over twenty-five years of dance experience, from modern choreography to ballet and contemporary dance. The rhythm of her well-traveled feet has brought her to the exposure of more liberal dance movements, such as that of 5Rhythms®- a dynamic dance practice that moves to reveal the underlying patterns of everyday existence. Rooted in the wisdom of the body, and devoted to her calling to raise consciousness in the world, Gloria's teachings extend to Yoga, Tao-Tantric Practices, and Women's Reproductive Health. She is also a Visionary Artist, Mother of two and one of Founders of Sattva.
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BINNY KAGEDAN
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Binny Kagedan is a somatic therapist, singer-songwriter and chant leader. Raised in a joyful and musical Jewish tradition, Binny's spiritual path has brought him into deep encounter with Zen Buddhism, bhakti yoga (devotional chant and mantra), and plant medicine. His journey has inspired him to create and share music that is both rooted in ancestral tradition and attuned to the stirrings of the modern heart
GRAYCY MALDONADO
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Graycy is one of our trusted childminders and facilitators of fun activities for kids here at Sattva. She has two young boys and is also a newly qualified community nurse in the local village. She is passionate about creating learning opportunities and fun for children, including arts and crafts, play based learning, and teaching Spanish, as a fluent Spanish speaker herself. We are delighted to have her as part of our team, looking after the children during the retreat.
ANDY PAGE​
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Andy is a geologist and geophysicist with over 25 years of experience working worldwide from studying seismology in Ethiopia, geological mapping in Zambia, mineral exploration in Bulgaria, offshore geophysical surveying across south-east Asia, and renewable energy systems globally. He loves to use fun and cool experiments to learn about science and geology with kids.
DAVID AARON
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After a decade of homeschooling his children, David still believes in play and heart connection as currency for learning. The multi-age classroom becomes a theatre for imagination, music, mentorship, social ordering, and self-propelled exploration. When the kids are in bed, David moonlights as an environmental class action lawyer along with advocacy on behalf of union-side labour and aboriginal groups.
Join us for this unforgettable experience
THE VENUE
Sattva is a Regenerative Retreat Centre nestled at the base of the Maya Mountains in the lush Stann Creek region of Belize. Located on the scenic Hummingbird Hwy, this 20 acres of broadleaf rainforest are home to a project that offers a caringly crafted immersion into the beauty of Nature.
While you are at Sattva you will enjoy the comfort of beautiful jungle accommodation, private jungle walks, the Natural swimming pool, curated permaculture gardens, and nutritious meals prepared with love and care.
ACCOMMODATIONS
The Shala Cabins
There are 3 Shala Cabins, 2 of which accommodate 3 single beds ( 2 families of 3), and 1 Suite that accommodates 1 King bed, 2 single beds (1 family of 4), a living room, and a kitchenette. The Shalas are the latest, eco-chic addition to the Land and our most luxurious. Each room is spacious, with abundant natural light and a walk-in zen bathroom.
The Garden House
Nested in the middle of our agroforestry system, the Garden House is surrounded by flowers and food-producing gardens, all attracting precious birds and other rare wildlife. Lounge in the common area while reading a book from our library.
The Garden House can host two families: One Family between 2 rooms, a Queen bed in one and 2 single beds in another (Deluxe). Another Family of Four, between 2 rooms with 2 single beds in each.
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This beautiful home extends through the gardens with beautiful pathways that lead to outdoor showers and Vietnamese-style composting toilets. The garden house also has a shared eating area and indoor/outdoor kitchen.
The Primis
A cozy cabin located at the entrance of the property, with immediate road access. It hosts a comfortable queen-size bed, a large wardrobe, a lightful & modern walk-in rain shower, flushing toilet, and a covered porch. The Primis can host one family of Three.
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This is the perfect eco luxury cabin.
The Stone House
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The Stone House, a unique jungle castle, is an impressive complex consisting of the original Stone House and turret, outdoor bathroom/shower, a detached dedicated office space that converts to a sleeping space, and a brand new modern addition with 2 bedrooms, bathroom, and spacious living/dining areas. Il Castello combines the charm of old-world stone masonry and natural wood, combined with modern comforts such as a smart tv and laundry facilities.
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The Tuscan House
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Feel at home in this beautiful Tuscan-style villa surrounded by lush green and colorful gardens. With gorgeous outdoor areas where you can relax and enjoy the beauty of your surroundings and be serenaded by the Jungle sounds.
Inside we have exposed wooden beams throughout the house with inviting ambience arriving to the beautiful spacious
Kitchen with an oversized wooden Island, handcrafted by our very own in-house carpenters. One bedroom is located upstairs with a 360 view of the Mountains and Jungle, a walk-in closet, and a bathroom with hot shower. Downstairs you will find a second bedroom with access to it own bathroom and hot Shower. This stunning home is an Italian dream merging with a powerful jungle experience... truly one of its kind in the country.
LOCATION
Sattva is located in the middle of the Jungle, 45 minutes from the Caribbean coast, and surrounded by pristine rainforest hosting rivers, waterfalls, caves, and hikes. Only 45 minutes from one of the country’s main city, Belmopan, and 25 minutes away from the Caribbean town of Dangriga, Sattva has quick access to stores, hospitals, banks and more. It is located about 1 hour and a half from the main international airport of Belize City and 25 minutes from the small, domestic airport of Dangriga.
INVESTMENT
The Primis :
$2,170 (Family of Three)
* All Prices are in USD
**Please contact us for alternative family accommodations
***The prices above are based on Bank Transfer payments. An additional 4.5% will be added if paying by Credit Card.
Shala Cabin:
$2,250 (Family of Three)
$2,570 (Family of Four) ​
Garden House:
$2,080 (Family of Four)
$2,410 (Family of Four DELUXE)
The Stone House:
$3,120 (Family of Five)
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The Tuscan House:
$3,120 (Family of Five)
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Congratulations on deciding to embark on this transformational journey!
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There are 2 payment methods (bank transfer, or credit card.)
When you sign up, we require a deposit of USD$500 (non-refundable).
A further 50% is required 30 days prior to the retreat start date (due on or before Feb 17th) and the final payment the retreat start date (due on or before March 18th). We will send you reminders and links to payments. Payments are non-refundable.
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Upon signing up and receiving your first payment,
you will receive a confirmation of your space at the retreat.
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