ELEMENTO FLOW invites you to connect deeper with the Elements within and without, bringing forth a more profound connection with yourself and one another.
ELEMENTO FLOW
ATITLAN IMMERSION EXPERIENCE
16-20th of December 2021
Come with us on a 4 day journey through the ELEMENTS, bringing deeper connection to the FLOW of the elements within, deepening the connection with ourselves and each other.
This ELEMENTO journey will be immersed in a deep experience of cacao ceremonies, music, dance, movement, rest, playfulness, sharing, silence, fire ritual, nature, spiritual exploration here at the magical Lake Atitlan.
Together we are creating and holding this beautiful container where we can safely unwind and uplift ourselves, explore and reconnect with our personal expressions and fully liberate the body, mind and spirit.
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THE FLOW EXPERIENCE
The cacao ceremonies will guide you through the elemento journey to ground you in your own presence while opening your energy through your heart. Our yoga classes are intended to deepen your connection with your body and mind. Meditation and silence help you to strengthen your focus and clarity. Singing and chanting inspire spirit to move through you. Embodiment practices are an invitation to help you get in touch with your body -- clearing old/stuck energy, remembering and reawakening what it is to be fully human – physically, emotionally, mentally, relationally and spiritually. The Fire ritual is a powerful moment for prayer, sacred togetherness and the release of intentions and letting go into the warmth of the fire, clearing your own pathway.
Our live ecstatic dance sets stimulate you into higher frequencies--an opportunity for you to journey to deep spaces and fully express and feel yourself.
Through all these powerful and ancient practices, allowing us to flow through the elements, we want you to experience a soulful journey that will lead you to a higher level of inspiration and transformation.
Each day we will journey through an element, with various experiences that bring forth the elemento flow within you. Here you will have the space to find the inner and outer expression of yourself within that experience.
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THE LOCATION
The container for this deep transformational journey is set on the shores of the incredible Lake Atitlán in the heart of Guatemala. Atitlán is globally recognized as a vortex for new paradigm energy which is clearly reflected in the activities flourishing around the area including yoga, meditation, kirtan, ecstatic dance, and more. It is here in the highlands that the energy of the mayan people set a foundation to journey deep into connection with mother earth.
The retreat location will be at the foot of Cerro de Oro, a mayan sacred site, at a compound of three beautiful homes with pool, jacuzzi, green spaces, and beautiful common areas to relax and connect with each other. The location is lake side with incredible views of the volcanoes and open expansive nature that we will be immersed in.
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WHAT’S NOT INCLUDED
Flights to and from Guatemala
Shuttles to lake Atitlan (we can support in arranging this)
Personal Coaching w/ Bruna
Massage Therapies
Astrology Readings (Mayan) w/ Walter
Tips & gratuity
WHAT’S INCLUDED
4 nights Accomodation
Transportation to the location from San Marcos
Daily organic vegan/vegetarian meals
Refreshing drinks
Kayaks
Sauna
Daily Cacao
Retreat programming
Ecstatic Dance
Yoga & Movement
Cacao Ceremonies
Mayan Fire Ceremony
Meditation & Dreamwork
Kirtan
Workshops
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CONTRIBUTION
Pricing listed is per person for the following accommodation type:
$1800 Single Private King (1 person)
$2300 Couple Private King (2 people/couple)
$1400 Single Private Queen (1 person)
$1900 Couple Private Queen (2 people/couple)
$1200 Single King bed in a shared room (1 person)
$1555 Double King bed in a shared room (2 people/couple)
$999 Shared Occupancy
This includes all meals, activities, taxes, fees and a contribution to WELLKIND Organization.
PAYMENT OPTIONS
TransferWise I Venmo I Crypto Currency
(After you have completed your registration form you will be receiving an e-mail with payment details.)
If you have any questions please send an e-mail to elementoflowretreat@gmail.com
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COVID PROTOCOL
As Covid-19 continues to be a part of our collective experience, we are committed to creating a container in which everyone feels safe. We will be following national Covid-19 protocol during this event. To uphold these protocols we ask that participants frequently wash hands and follow the posted signs.
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MEET THE FACILITATORS
Bruna Bortolato
Bruna Bortolato is a Spiritual Life Coach, certified Women’s Empowerment Mentor & a movement teacher born and raised in Brazil. Bruna’s desire of deepening her spiritual path led her to leave Brazil at the age of 23, traveling around the world studying yoga and meditation. She explores different cultures and immerses herself in nature where she spends time in reflection listening to a higher guidance. Bruna is based in Guatemala on the beautiful lake of Atitlán, a place where she fell in love and saw an opportunity to go deeper into her journey. Bruna has studied holistic coaching for over four years and has attended and hosted many workshops and retreats. She teaches embodiment through sacred movement, a practice of being in your body—that ignites creativity, connection, and community.
Her main focus in this practice is to hold space by creating a safe-boundaries-environment in which people can integrate, transform and heal in body, mind, heart and spirit. She leads sharing circles and different workshops, helping women break free from old patterns to discover a truest sense of freedom. Bruna also works closely with her dreams and incorporates the hermetic qabalistic tree of life as a map. She has spent many days in silent retreat over the past 5 years and it has taken a primary role in her path of self discovery. Bruna finds that by spending extended periods of silence she can connect deeper with spirit and her highest self. Bruna is on a mission to help women awaken on a global scale. She believes healing must be done collectively. With more and more women stepping up, she anticipates the world will witness the greatest transformation. Her mission is to contribute towards a more loving and compassionate world.
https://www.brunabortolato.com
IG: @brunabortolato
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MOSE
Mose is based in Guatemala on the beautiful volcanic crater lake of Atitlán where cacao ceremonies, kirtan, and ecstatic dance have had a major influence on his productions and DJ style. It is here that he founded weekly cacao dances where members of the community have the opportunity to journey deep into dance in a container of deep intention, free of alcohol. Having been nomadic since 2011, he has developed a sound all his own through interaction with cultures from around the globe. When he is not touring the world or playing these special events in Guatemala, he spends his time going into extended periods of retreat and silence, only to emerge with a deeper, truer and more refined sound. Beyond the multicultural rhythms and the steady hypnotic beat, Mose weaves ephemeral chanting of sacred songs and calls to love, kindness and compassion, often bringing in live musicians to create something beautiful and timeless. There is a universal element to his organic sound that appeals to a wide range of audiences, from the relaxed chill out space to the dance floor.
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Britta Waechter
Britta follows the calling of her heart. This brought her 4 years ago to the medicine of Mother Cacao, where she found deep remembrance and embarked on a journey of self-love and care.
Through that she became a space holder for the sacred plant medicine, which is here in her eyes to reconnect us to nature, our inner nature.
Opening space to reconnect to who we truly are and finding the courage within our hearts.
Courage had shaped her path. The courage to find her own true expression on her way to a life that is authentic to herself.
Britta was born and raised in Germany, travelled and lived in many countries in her early years and her studies. Awakened curiosity for life. After her studies in Hospitality and working for 7 years in the Consumer Product Industry, managing international top clients in Marketing and Account Management, she decided to abandon this path and travel the world. Courage was found in a calling that seemed bigger than herself, leading her to experience herself in several silence meditation retreats, a yoga teacher training, volunteering jobs and living in intentional communities around the world. She created self development retreats from scratch in Brazil and accompanied groups for self and soul expansion.
Today she lives and expressed all of herself in what she shares with the world. A deep passion for an authentic life that is rooted in the heart. Supporting people on their pathway to the heart. Embodying connectivity within the cacao circle.
https://www.brittawaechter.com
IG: @brittawaechter
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JAGADAMBIKA
Jagadambika is a musician, certified Yoga teacher and practitioner trained in the ancient Yoga Vedanta practice and philosophy, holding community space through her patreon community that supports individuals on their recognition of their divine nature.
Since her training in the Sivananda Ashram in Kerala, South India in 2014, she explores Self discovery and inspired and guided by her teacher, dedicates her life to living a divine life.
Over the last years Jagadambika studied, taught and shared Yoga and Kirtan in Europe, Mexico and ashrams in the Bahamas, Colombia and New York. Through teaching how to play the harmonium worldwide, she has encouraged many to share the power of Bhakti Yoga, the path of love and devotion, in their local communities and homes .
The yogic teachings find expression in her sound creation. Jagadambika uses her voice as an instrument to free oneself from any limiting condition and detach from a personified identity. Influenced by Kirtan and Mantra Music, Invocation, Música Medicina and the practice of deep listening, her channeled melodies enable the receptive listener to explore heart openings and receive guidance into shapeless silence. Her sounds intend to take the listener inward on an intimate transcendental journey towards one's soul.
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Andrew Avocados
Andrew Avocados is an all around life and love enthusiast and celebrator of the embodied and human experience. His soul work is to empower and heal and free himself to empower you to do the same, and is happy to share with you what he has learned and picked up and let marinate for a while. He is so overjoyed to share different embodiment and prayer practices that lead you to connect you in with your infinite being and radiant health and vivaciousness, breath by breath, bite by bite. He loves watching life move and inspire and connect him with himself and you with yourself, the earth, the plants, and one another. He feels absolutely honoured and excited to be sharing his culinary wizardry and vegan kitchen alchemysticism with you and nourishing your beautiful bellies and sweet souls for this upcoming retreat alongside the gorgeous shores of mama Lago Atitlán. May you be nourished and fed in all sorts of beautiful ways. Shall we dine?
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Gina Shiotani
After years of performance and dance from a background in ballet, Gina unfurled her wings as a playful spirit and acro yogi at a yoga studio in San Diego. She now owns a Pilates studio in northern Pacific Beach, offers acro classes, workshops, and performances regularly in San Diego with her partner Steve, and over the last few years has taught at festivals such as AcroLove, the Nordic Acro Fest, New Zealand Acro Fest, and other places around the globe. With Japanese & Norwegian heritage (and reportedly possessing the "blood of a lumberjack"), Gina's combination of strength and grace would make her a formidable foe if she weren't so ticklish and prone to laughter. A lover of music, Gina's a big fan of "jam to jams" that transition from acro to acoustic as the sun goes down. When she isn’t doing flying through the sky you can find Gina surfing, eating sushi, or playing in her garden.
@flyginapie
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Steve Cummings
Where in the world is Steve? A thirst for adventure often finds him high mountaintops, deep in the caverns of the earth, or roaming across the continents -- but his greatest joy dwells with the human connection and beauty created through acro yoga. After first defying gravity atop a Swedish elf in Bali, Steve's pursuit of the flying arts spurred a strong love for the international acro community. Now, a home base at the Om Garden in San Diego brings grounding vibes and thrills of surf, sunshine, and an incredible acro family to thrive with year round. In addition to weekly offerings at the Om Garden, Steve teaches at AcroLove festivals in the US and events abroad such at Nordic Acro, New Zealand Acro Fest, SOGO in Japan, and more. He also enjoys performing with his partner Gina in San Diego and abroad at events such as Envision in Costa Rica. Beyond earthly and aerial adventures, Steve moonlights as a writer, viking impressioniste, gelato aficionado, and collector of fallen stars.
@acrothornado