7–14 days · Sacred Lands

Journeys

Small group retreat journeys across sacred lands, each with its own rhythm, its own way of being.

7–14 days · Small group

What Is a Journey

Modern pilgrimages for curious minds and open hearts.

We follow a route over several days: sometimes returning to the same places, sometimes moving on. Over time, something shifts in how the land is felt, and how we move through it.

Each day takes shape around the land itself: its paths, stories, people, rituals, silence, and what unfolds along the way. Some parts are planned, some are left open. The rhythm changes as the journey moves, and so does the way we pay attention.

Each journey lasts between 7 and 14 days, in small groups. We stay close to the land and spend time with the people who know it well. There is a structure, but it stays open enough for things to unfold.

And within all of it: there is dance, there is drumming, there is leaping into waterfalls and getting wonderfully lost on roads that lead somewhere unexpected. Your body comes alive. You remember what it feels like to move through the world with joy, with full presence, with celebration at the heart of it.

Open Applications

Upcoming Journeys

Oaxaca, Mexico

Mexico · Oaxaca

Oaxaca & Caribbean

Autumn 2026 · 10 days

Sacred Valley and Amazon, Peru

Peru · Andes & Amazonia

Sacred Valley & Amazon

Autumn 2026 · 12 days

✦ Where We Have Walked

Past Journeys

Peru · Sacred Valley 2025 · 15 days

Sacred Valley & the Amazon

Fifteen days moving through the body of the Andes. We opened in ceremony with Q'ero lineage holders in the Sacred Valley, rode on horseback across the Rainbow Mountains at 5,000m, descended into the mists of the high Amazon: waterfalls, hot springs, a visit to a coffee farm tucked into the cloud forest: and finally walked on foot into Machu Picchu at dawn. Every single day held movement, medicine, and circle. This journey left a mark that has not faded.

The Route

Cusco · Pisac

Sacred Valley base. Ceremonies, Despacho, Kirtan, Gong Bath

Ausangate

Rainbow Mountains. Horseback at 5,000m. Glacial lakes

High Amazon

Waterfall camps. Hot springs. Coffee farm. Into the cloud forest

Machu Picchu

Walk in. Dawn circle at the citadel. Panoramic train return

Cusco

San Pedro Market. San Blas. Closing in the Inca capital

Plant Medicine Ceremony Despacho Ritual Gong Bath Cacao & Dance High Altitude Trekking Inca Sites
Egypt · Nile & Western Desert 2025 · 9 days

Nile, Pyramids & Siwa

Three days on a private Nile dahabiya yacht moving between temples at the pace of the current: Isis, Horus, Hatshepsut: then one day at the Pyramids, and finally three days at the edge of the Libyan desert, in an ecolodge by salt lakes, in almost complete silence. Movement practice and sound healing every morning throughout.

The Route

Aswan

Philae (Isis Temple). Nubian village. Opening circle on the Nile

Edfu · Esna

Temple of Horus. Water rituals. Sailing south to north

Luxor

Karnak at dusk. Hatshepsut Temple. Ceremony among columns

Cairo

Giza Pyramids & Sphinx. Khan El Khalili. Night bus west

Siwa Oasis

Salt lakes. Amon Oracle Temple. Desert safari at sunset

Temple Rituals Sound Healing Nile Cruise Desert Silence Salt Lake Bathing Dance & Circle
India · Auroville & Pondicherry 2025 · 8 days

Elemental Sensation, Auroville

Eight days working with the five elements: Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space: through movement, Kalari (ancient Indian martial art), Odissi dance, mud sculpture, and the spatial philosophy of Vaastu Shastra. We sat in meditation at Matrimandir, walked Pondicherry's French quarters at dawn when the streets were still quiet, ate long meals together in open-air gardens, and closed the journey at a live music concert under the trees of Auroville. India asks nothing of you except full presence. It gets what it asks for.

The Route

Auroville

Matrimandir Garden. Mud sculpture. Community dance. Solitude Farm

Kalarigram

Kali Puja & Kalari. Ancient martial arts in sacred space

Pondicherry

Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Irumbai Shiva Temple. Jazz evening

Svaram

Human-scale musical instruments. Sound journey in open garden

5 Elements Practice Kalari Odissi Dance Vaastu Shastra Watsu OM Choir Mud Sculpture Tantra Teaching
Peru · Andes & Sacred Valley 2024 · 15 days

First Return, Sacred Valley

The journey that set the template for everything that followed. Fifteen days in the Andes: staying deep in the Sacred Valley with Q'ero shamans, ascending Ausangate sacred mountain on horseback, moving through the Inca ruins of Ollantaytambo under a cold morning sky, and arriving at Machu Picchu at first light when the mist still filled the valley below. Every day held medicine circle, movement, and sharing. Some of us cried. Some of us went quiet in a way we hadn't been before. The land held us as if it had been waiting for us to arrive.

The Route

Pisac

Sacred Valley home. Despacho, Gong, circles, plant medicine

Moray · Maras

Inca agricultural circles. Salt flats. Vortex points

Ausangate

Sacred mountain at 5,000m. Horses to glacial lakes. Hot springs

Ollantaytambo

Living Inca architecture. Local markets. Ancient stonework

Machu Picchu

Sunrise at the citadel. Closing circle at the world's navel

Plant Medicine Ceremony Despacho Temazkal Q'ero Teachings Munay-Ki
India · Himalayas 2023 · 10 days

Himalayan Path, India

From the Ganges to the Himalayas. We opened with four days at ashrams in Rishikesh: morning yoga, Ayurvedic sessions, white-water rafting on the river, and the Ganga Aarti ceremony at Triveni Ghat as the sun went down and a thousand oil lamps were released onto the current. Then an overnight mountain drive to Dharamshala and two days of complete silence inside a Tibetan Buddhist nunnery: some of the most still hours many of us had known. We closed in McLeod Ganj: the Dalai Lama's temple, Tushita meditation, and a long goodbye dinner high in the cedar hills with views to the snow line. India gives everything, and asks everything in return.

The Route

Delhi

Arrival. Qutub Minar. Red Fort. Hauz Khas dinner

Rishikesh

4 days. Ashrams, Ganga Aarti, Vedic Puja, Ganges rafting

Thosamling

2 days of silence. Buddhist nunnery in the Himalayas

McLeod Ganj

Dalai Lama Temple. Tibetan Bowl. Himalayan hike. Closing circle

Silent Retreat Shamata Meditation Ashram Yoga Vedic Fire Puja Ayurveda Tibetan Bowl Ganges Rafting
Indonesia · Bali 2023 · 7 days

Land of Gods, Bali

Where it all began. Seven days moving between the volcanic slopes of Tabanan and the rice terraces of Ubud: yoga and dance practice every morning before the heat arrived, long harvest walks through coffee and cacao estates with farmers who knew these paths by heart, water purification ceremonies led by Balinese priests at temple springs, a cacao ceremony that dissolved something in the room, and evenings of live music that went on longer than planned. Bali has a way of undoing you quietly, from the inside. It did not let us leave unchanged.

The Route

Tabanan

Batukaru Coffee Estate. Biodynamic harvest. Temple purification

Canggu

Tanah Lot Temple. La Brisa market. Surf & sunset

Ubud

Tegallalang rice terraces. Monkey Forest. Tirta Empul spring temple

Kanto Lampo

Waterfall. Cacao ceremony. Closing with live music

Yoga Dance Meditation Cacao Ceremony Water Purification Balinese Priest Ritual Biodynamic Harvest Tea Ceremony Sound Circle

If something here stays with you,

Tell us what's drawing you here, and we'll take it from there.

✦   La Familia

Field notes from the road.
Early access to new journeys and harvests. A quiet welcome.

No noise  ·  Only what matters