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Return to yourself

We host private retreats just outside Tulum: guided psilocybin journeys, classical Tantra, yoga, meditation and more. Some people come to rest. Some come for the deeper work. Both are welcome here.

IS THIS FOR ME?
The private jungle sanctuary outside Tulum

Come as you are

Slow down, and let yourself be looked after. You do not have to be in crisis to come here. Needing proper rest is reason enough. Come alone, or come with your partner.

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Feeling stuck or lost

If you want your direction back, we have tools for that, and plenty of practice using them.

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Feeling disconnected

If the link with yourself, or with your partner, has gone slack, we have decades of practice behind us and we know the way back.

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Feeling anxious

If the worry does not let up, stay with us for a while. The mind quietens here with very little help from anyone.

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Rest

Leave your life at the gate for a few days. Sleep as long as you want, eat well, and let the jungle quiet you. There is nothing here you have to do, and if you want guidance, it is there.

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Recharge

You will go home with more energy than you arrived with, a clearer head, and a few practices you can keep using.

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Reconnect

With yourself, with your partner, with what matters to you. We give you time and space, and the tools to use both.

Lena and Olga, the facilitators of Compassion Retreats, sharing a moment in a hanging wicker chair under a thatched jungle pavilion

You are the medicine. Let us provide the space and support

We are Lena and Olga. Between us we have nearly forty years of practice and teaching behind us, in yoga, meditation, somatic work, bodywork, psychedelic medicine and nutrition. Hundreds of people have sat with us in the middle of change, in burnout, and at the point where something had to give.

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Full immersion retreats

Multi-day private retreats in the jungle near Tulum. Each one starts from a theme and ends up shaped around you.

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3-5 days

Nervous system reset & burnout recovery retreat

Rest has stopped putting anything back. This is a private nervous system reset and burnout recovery retreat in the jungle outside Tulum, for one person, a couple, or a small group who work together.

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Three people in conversation in the retreat space at Alma Chakana, thatched roof behind them
3-5 days

Couples Intimacy & Tantra Retreat

Four days for two people who have not properly looked at each other in a while. This is a private couples retreat at our place outside Tulum, built on classical Tantra: breath, slow movement and contact rather than another conversation about the same thing.

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A guided session at Alma Chakana: a facilitator resting her hands on a guest lying on a low bed, a gong behind them
3-5 days

Psychedelic Integration & Transpersonal Healing Retreat

Integration is the part most people do on their own, and it does not have to be. This is a private psychedelic integration retreat in the Tulum jungle, for the work around the session: preparing for one, sitting with what it opened, or making sense of one you took years ago.

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3-5 days

Digital Detox & Deep Presence Retreat

Your phone is the first thing you touch in the morning and the last thing you look at, which is a design decision somebody else made. This is a private digital detox retreat in the jungle near Tulum: a few days in which nothing is expected of you and nothing is beeping.

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3-5 days

Somatic Release & Deep Rest Retreat

The tension has outlasted the reason for it. This is a somatic release retreat, private, just outside Tulum, working through the body rather than through the story: breath, movement, bodywork, sound and rest.

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A guest practising yoga with arms raised in the practice space at Alma Chakana, gong behind her
3-5 days

Yoga, Sound & Meditation Retreat

Sound, played properly, does most of the work that meditation is supposed to do. This is a private yoga, sound and meditation retreat in our jungle house outside Tulum: slow practice for any level, long sits, and gongs and bowls played for you alone rather than for a room of thirty.

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One-day retreats

One day with us, for anyone who cannot leave for a week or who wants to meet us first. Come alone, or bring your partner.

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One day

The full reset micro-retreat

One day, starting in the morning and ending before dinner, with nothing asked of you in between. This is the private one-day reset at our place in the jungle outside Tulum, for people whose calendar will not give them three days.

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One day

A sacred day for two - couples day retreat

A day for the two of you, with the house to yourselves and nowhere to be afterwards. You do not need to be in trouble to book this. Most couples who come want one private day in the jungle outside Tulum that is not a restaurant and not the beach: slow practice together, some silence, and time to notice each other again.

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A bowl of sliced watermelon on the pool edge beside a pair of feet resting after a swim at Alma Chakana
One day

The Digital Detox Day

When did you last go a whole day without checking anything? This is that day. One private day at our place in the jungle near Tulum, for a digital detox you can actually keep: no screens, no notifications, and nothing urgent waiting for an answer.

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One day

Deep trip with sound

A few hours of gongs and bowls played over you, privately, with no group to share them with. You come alone or with your partner to our jungle house outside Tulum, the house is yours for the day, and nobody else is booked in.

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A guided Tantra practice session at Alma Chakana, two people working with breath and presence
One day

Tantra intro - a day of embodied practice

Most of what you have read about Tantra is about something else. This is a private day of classical Tantra at our place outside Tulum: breath, slow movement, meditation and non-sexual contact, for you alone or for the two of you.

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Two people lying down resting on floor cushions under the thatched roof at Alma Chakana
One day

Burnout first-aid day

This is the day to book when you cannot take a week and cannot wait another month. Private first aid for burnout in the jungle outside Tulum: breathwork, somatic release, meditation, sound and rest, for one person or a couple.

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A container you can trust

Flexibility and fair exchange

We shape the days around your needs, your timing and how long you can stay. The price is on each retreat page, the same for everybody, and nothing is added later.

Expert facilitation

Between us we have decades of practice behind us. We are trained to sit with people through psychedelic journeys and classical Tantra, and we keep our ethics where you can see them. You will be met by adults who know what they are doing.

Integration & ongoing care

You do not go home alone with what happened. We keep meeting you afterwards, in sessions and in writing, until what you saw here has settled into your ordinary life.

Beautiful private accommodations

Everything happens at our own home in the jungle, just outside Tulum. While you are with us, the place is yours and nobody else's. The quiet does a lot of the work.

Holistic wellness tools

We bring the tools we know best: guided psychedelic work, classical Tantra, breath, movement, sound, temazcal and food. What we use depends on what you came for.

Safety and support

Safety is not a footnote here. We screen carefully before you arrive, someone qualified is present the whole time, and we know what to do if a day turns difficult. You can stop at any point.

How It Works

We do not accept everyone. The discovery call is how we both check the fit.

1

Discovery call & screening

A conversation, before anything is decided, to see whether this fits. For you and for us.

2

Preparation

We talk about what you want from the days, and how to arrive ready for them.

3

Your retreat

Your own room, a private chef, and days built around you rather than around a schedule.

4

Integration

We keep talking after you leave, so the work travels home with you.

Pricing

Three days is $1,999 per person, four is $2,999, and five is $3,999. Nothing is added later, and the price is the same for everybody. Retreats cost between $1,999 and $3,999 USD depending on how long you stay.

Testimonial from Tamara
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for changing my life, for just giving me unconditional love... It was beautiful, peaceful, serene...
Tamara
“I left our work together feeling like a rebirthed person… Lena gracefully guided me through my inner world and what needed to be integrated.”
Kaija, California
“Spiritual guides with a specialty in helping couples reconnect. They do the work with you and offer a safe place to heal and discover what it is that you are looking for.”
Ruth, Mexico
“This experience gave me tools to navigate life's challenges with greater awareness and resilience… lasting positive changes in my life.”
Thomas H., Netherlands

Let's start with a conversation

A free discovery call is the first step. Meet us, share where you are, and see if this work is right for you.

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