Support Our Tulum Jungle Sanctuary

What we need

After years of running retreats in rented spaces, we finally have a home for our work: a small private resort in the jungle outside Tulum is ours for the next nine months.

We got the keys at the hardest time of the year. Low season. All of our savings went into the lease, the cleaning, the repairs and getting the place ready for guests. We are raising USD $33,000 to carry us through to high season, to finish setting the place up, and to start a fund for guests who could not otherwise afford to come.

Why Now

The owners are ready to sell. We have nine months here, and we are not willing to spend a year building something and then watch it go. Getting through this season is the immediate job. Buying the property is the one after it, and it would give this work a permanent home and make room for something larger around it. If you want to be part of that, write to us. We are looking for angel investors.

Who We Are

We are Lena and Olga. Between us, we have close to forty years of practice and teaching in yoga, meditation, somatic work, bodywork, psychedelic medicine and nutrition. We have helped hundreds of people over that time.

Lena spent twenty years working with individuals and couples through yoga, tantra, meditation, sound and nutrition. She is a certified nutritional practitioner, a Dharma Yoga teacher and a Tantra Kriya Yoga instructor.

Olga studied with the yoga master Sri Dharma Mittra and taught full time at his school in New York. From 2016 to 2024 she lived and practised at Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Monastery in upstate New York, supporting practitioners through a traditional sealed retreat, and she has completed two solitary retreats of her own, in the United States and Europe. She trained in medical science, massage and bioenergetics, studied at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, and she is a trained chef.

Meet the team

What Happens Here

People come to us for many reasons. Some are at a turning point or moving through a hard time. Many just want to rest properly, get out of their head, and reconnect with themselves. Both are welcome. You do not need to be in crisis to come here.

We host individuals, couples, small groups and families, and every stay is built around who is coming rather than around a fixed programme. Depending on the person, it might include:

• • Yoga, meditation and breathwork
• • Conscious movement and somatic practice
• • Authentic Tantra for individuals and couples
• • Psychedelic medicine sessions
• • Sound and energy work
• • Rebozo somatic bodywork
• • Tea ceremony, intention setting and temazcal
• • Whole food cooking and nutrition guidance
• • Private accommodation in a quiet natural setting
• • Integration support after going home

“Our 4-day personalized spiritual wellness retreat in Tulum, Mexico with Compassion Retreats was truly one of the most meaningful and beautifully held experiences of our lives. … somehow they created a space that felt equally safe, nourishing, and impactful for each of us, individually and collectively.”

See many more 5-star reviews here: bookretreats.com/organizers/o/lena-kurganska

How your money helps

We are raising $33,000 to sustain operations and grow what we offer. The funds go toward:

• Recouping our initial deposits and surviving the rest of the low season
• Essential items for the facilities: furniture, linens, rugs, kitchenware, plants, art
• Hiring staff for daily operations and property maintenance
• Building the support fund, so we can say yes when money is tight

About the support fund

The retreats cost the same for everybody, and the fund is what lets us say yes to someone who cannot reach that price. It works when enough guests give more than they were asked. In our first year in this place we do not have that cushion yet, and this fund is what lets us say yes to someone who needs to be here and cannot pay for it.

Ways to Help

Thank you for reading. We have wanted a place like this for a long time, and we would very much like to keep it. Come and stay with us, and see it for yourself.