align with your inner truth
SOUL ELEMENTS RETREAT
Are you ready to step into a heart-centered transformation?
LAGO ATITLAN, GUATEMALA 02.04.26 - 02.10.26
Are you ready to embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery and restoration along the healing shores of Lake Atitlán in Guatemala?
Join us for a week of soulful and embodied practices rooted in yoga, meditation, human design, the energy dynamics method of chakra healing, and sound healing. This retreat is designed to help you reconnect with your heart center and authentic self, creating a fuller, more purposeful life.
RETREAT HIGHLIGHTS
Self-Love & Heart-Centered Purpose
Connect with your heart center and explore your "why" through connection exercises and trauma processing.
Fire Ceremony & Intention Setting
Begin your journey with a powerful fire ceremony to set your intentions and immerse yourself in the retreat experience.
Yoga + Foundation Training
We will begin each day with intentional movement to reconnect with your body, ground yourself, and deepen your retreat experience.
Meditation & Breath Connection
Engage in meditation and breathwork practices to open your heart center and create a space for genuine expansion and growth.
Human Design Classes
Discover your Human Design and understand your unique energetic blueprint. Human Design is a comprehensive self-discovery system that blends principles from Western Astrology, the I Ching, Kabbalah, the Chakra System, and quantum physics to create a detailed map of an individual's unique personality, strengths, and life path. It is a tool that provides insights into ways that can help us find alignment with our true energetic nature and make decisions that lead to fulfillment and success.
Energy Dynamics Method
The Energy Dynamics Method is a system created by Lux Healing Arts to help you tap back into the most soul-aligned version of yourself. What if it was possible to tap into your authentic self before the conditioning, programming, and trauma happened?
The most authentic and aligned version of yourself is on the other side of your doubt and fear. This method combines multiple healing modalities including human design, the chakra system, and the science of your nervous system. Using multiple modalities together allows us to find the tools that bring you the most peace, calm, and alignment. We will explore how conditioning, trauma, and fear influence your patterns and behaviors, and you will leave with insights on how to thrive in life through understanding your nervous system.
Sound Healing
Let the sounds and vibrations wash over you, promoting deep relaxation and inner peace. This transformative experience combines various instruments such as crystal singing bowls, tuning forks, and chimes to create a symphony of healing energy.
Healing takes place when we nourish our body, mind, and soul while aligning with our inner purpose.
Meet The Facilitators
Sofia believes that all people deserve to eat healthful, delicious food and be supported by a healthy body. This is her passion. She is committed to teaching others how to heal and enjoy optimum vitality through breath and meditation, nutrition, movement, mindset, and sound healing. Sofia empowers others to enjoy life more fully and become the best version of themselves.
She has devoted decades to her yoga practice and to teaching this ancient wisdom to balance and vitality. She began teaching through a 100-hour Anusara immersion and teacher training and from there she continued with a 200-hour teacher training with the Yandara Yoga.
For the past three years, sound healings have become another tool that Sofia uses to assist her students and coaching clients to find delight in their bodies and in the world. She has become a skilled sound practitioner and has performed hundreds of sound healings using a myriad of instruments. She served as the director of Mountain Town Music's wellness initiative, a 501-c3 in Park City, Utah whose mission is to use sound as a form of community healing through an event series called Healing Sounds.
Sofia is a certified Foundation Training instructor.
Foundation Training is a series of movements and engaging postures developed by Dr. Eric Goodman. The practice aims to alleviate pain, especially back pain, caused by years of compression, sedentary work life, and overall poor movement habits. By re-strengthening the posterior chain one can communicate to the body where to deal with gravity healthfully, using large muscles and aligned joints.
Sofia is a graduate of The Institute for Integrative Nutrition, the world’s largest nutrition school, and took The Science of Raw Food Nutrition course from Drs. Rick and Karin Dina in June 2014 at The Living Light Culinary Arts Institute in Fort Bragg, California. She is a certified holistic wellness coach and received this credential from The Institute for Integrative Nutrition.
Sofia is the owner of Sunset Creek Farm in Marion, Utah, and Villas del Carmen in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, and is honored to be your host for the week
Amanda Murphy | Lux Healing Arts
Amanda's journey has been a tapestry of adventure, challenges, and growth, leading her to discover her true purpose – helping others tap into their soul-aligned path. In the world of Human Design, she's a rare 6/2 Splenic Manifestor, making her somewhat of a unicorn among the 9% of the population with this unique profile.
Her life's calling is to ignite the fires of purpose within others and unveil the hidden paths that lie ahead. With a deep connection to energy healing and a gift for intuition, she walks the path of helping others learn to heal, being a guide, and a teacher.
Following a tumultuous divorce, Amanda founded Crystalline Tribe in 2018, a platform designed to educate and empower others with the tools she used to overcome personal challenges and align with her soul's true purpose. What began as a teaching endeavor unexpectedly led her to work one-on-one with clients, a rewarding experience she cherishes deeply. In the face of adversity, Amanda found strength and healing through her toolkit of Reiki, Meditation, Trapped Emotion Release, and Reflexology. These practices not only helped her but also played a pivotal role in supporting her current husband during his battle with Stage 4 Colon Cancer.
Their journey integrated Western and Eastern medicine, treating the body, mind, and soul holistically at Huntsman's Cancer Institute. Becoming a Reiki Master, Meditation Teacher, and Reflexology Practitioner, Amanda witnessed the profound impact these modalities had on her loved ones' healing. Fueled by this experience, she became determined to share her knowledge and teach others about their own power to heal.
Through working with clients and seeing their needs were all unique based on their trauma, conditioning, and unique energy flow, she developed the Energy Dynamics Method. This is a combination of the multiple modalities she is trained in including, Reiki and Trapped Emotion Release, Human Design Birth Charts, Reflexology, Nervous System Techniques, and Intuition work. Amanda's gift lies in helping people understand their unique energy flow, allowing them to find harmony, alignment, and a path with less resistance.
VENUE
We are excited to introduce Villas del Carmen, a retreat center and luxury lodging on the north shore of Lake Atitlan. Previously known as Club Ven Aca, Villas del Carmen is undergoing renovations, rebranding, and re-awakening to the endless possibilities for deeply connected and transcendent experiences on the shore of the most beautiful lake in the world.
We are committed to crafting a space for healing, celebrating, honoring, growing, and
creating through the lens of community and change. This is a place where our guests are presented with the opportunity to experience Guatemala and the richness of her people, history, and natural treasures with unparalleled amenities and comforts. Look forward to Starlink internet, potable water
systems throughout, lakefront pool and jacuzzi, plush bamboo sheets, and memory
foam bedding, passive solar hot water, solar-system electric, friendly and knowledgeable staff who will stock your kitchen, book your transportation and tours, and even prepare delicious and nourishing meals on-site.
Villas del Carmen is named in honor of the property’s original owner whose vision for
the space is being exalted and refined in the spirit of the world’s Arabic origin, meaning “garden or orchard”. A place where all scenes are alert at all times: sights and scents of flowers and trees, the taste of fruits, the soft
feeling of the petals and the water that laps at the shore, the sound of the birds that flutter up in the branches and the soft murmur of the wind through leaves.
The garden here has been mindfully crafted and cultivated over 15 years by Arturo Perez, a talented and devoted Ka’qchikel man who has made the property his Earthen canvas where he has colored the landscape with native flowers and plants that he sprouted and planted from a few original “mother” plants over a decade ago.
Lake Atitlan in Guatemala is known for its healing energy and is considered sacred by the Mayan culture. The lake's deep caldera walls and interaction with the volcanic mountains and ridges above create a powerful inverse vortex that some believe has healing properties. The energy of the lake can affect people differently, but some say it can help people feel inspired, elevate them towards enlightenment, or help them let go and let life flow.
PRICING
Pricing includes:
- 6 Nights Stay at Villas del Carmen in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
- All Meals
- Airport Transportation
- One Day Excursion
- Daily Classes and Programming curated with time for you to also Rest + Reset
3-month Financing available until 9/8
Pricing- (Dec.1 registration closes)
Blue House
Early bird pricing available until 10/4/25
Private - $2222 per person
Shared - $1950 per person
Pricing After 10/4/25
Private - $2950 per person
Shared - $2144 per person
Pink/Yellow House
Early bird pricing available until 10/4/25
Private - $2411 per person
Shared - $2150 per person
Pricing After 10/4/25
Private - $3250 per person
Shared - $2444 per person
We require a non-refundable deposit of $600 per person to ensure early bird pricing. The balance must be paid in full by 12/1/25. Due to the nature of this retreat, there must be ample notice for any other refunds or cancellation of plans. After 12/1/2025, there will be no refunds, but a balance can be applied to a stay at the resort or to another retreat that takes place at the resort, minus the deposit fee.
Are you ready to step into your heart-centered transformation in the magical healing vortex of Lake Atitlan?