Voice Medicine Retreat

~ Unlock the Power of Your Voice as Medicine ~

30 hr Continuing Education with Yoga Alliance

LOCATION: CASA FLORESTA, LAKE ATITLAN, GUATEMALA

with Hayley Saraswati, Letizia Xiuh, and Shahaf Schvarzman

Jan 10 - 16, 2025

 

DIVE DEEPER INTO THE POWER OF YOUR VOICE AT LAKE ATITLAN IN GUATEMALA…

Join a transformative 7-day voice medicine retreat at Lake Atitlán in Guatemala with Hayley Saraswati, Letizia Xiuh, and Shahaf Schvarzman, presenting the unparalleled power of your voice as medicine. Explore a rich fusion of ritual, ceremony, song, and voice work all to unearth authenticity, expression, and connection. In the protective embrace of our retreat community, you'll traverse self-care, intimacy, vulnerability, and the profound depths of music and singing. This is more than just a retreat – it's a journey into untapped levels of consciousness, rich with inspiration and connection.

Self-Discovery and Transformation through the Power of the Voice…

This unique voice medicine retreat is not just about self-discovery — it's transformational and healing. We offer a safe and nurturing environment that encourages change, helps in shedding old beliefs, and paves the way for new insights and fresh perspectives around your voice.

Whether you're bathed in bliss the whole time or navigating inner purification throughout the journey, you will be supported and held in a loving family container. As you return to your Self, you will take with you unforgettable memories, new community, soulfully rich music, and integrative exercises to elevate your everyday life and connection to your own voice as a powerful healing tool.

This retreat is Yoga Alliance Certified as a 30 hr Continuing Education course for techniques & practice of Mantra, Nada & Bhakti yoga.

Highlights of this Voice Healing Retreat at Lake Atitlán in Guatemala…

  • Voice Activation; exercises to open your voice and establish a personal vocal practice

  • Voice exploration through emotion 

  • Getting started in Harmony; how to find harmonies to accompany the main melody

  • Improvised Song & Sound techniques

  • Vocal Toning & Tuning

  • Voice Projection

  • Song writing & composition

  • Circle singing workshops

  • Guitar strumming techniques

  • Percussion techniques to accompany songs

  • Song sharing; learn over 20 new medicine songs & chants - DIFFERENT EACH YEAR!

  • Forest Path Chanting Concert

  • Sauna & Plant Bath afternoon

  • Enjoy the Casa Floresta Lake Temple

  • 6 nights/5 days accommodations at the lakefront Casa Colibri & Casitas Aurora 

  • Optional Add-on; Ayahuasca Ceremonies Jan 17 & 18th With Letizia Xiuh and Shahaf Schvarzman, extend to a 9 night retreat with your accommodation!

Flow of the Days:

8:00 - 9:00 am Vocal Practice

9:00 - 9.30 am Smoothie & Tea Break

9.30 - 11:00 am Morning Workshop

11:00 - 1:00 pm Brunch 

1:00 - 3:00 pm Afternoon Workshop 1

3:00 - 3:30 pm Snack

3:30 - 5:00 pm Afternoon Workshop 2

5:30 - 6:30 pm Dinner

6:30 - 8:00 pm Evening Activity

Your Voice Medicine Retreat Facilitators…

  • Hayley Saraswatī

    Hayley Saraswatī embodies the essence of the creative Mother, balancing loving softness with a graceful strength. Her powerful presence inspires and empowers others to step into their full potential, through vibrant authenticity and awakening to the expansive joy of the heart.

    Since creating The Yoga Forest, the Conscious Living Retreat Center she founded in 2009, Saraswatī has wholeheartedly offered herself through the path of devotion; offering kirtan, sound ceremonies, voice workshops and singing circles, Forest Path medicine retreats and Sound Ceremony Trainings for the past decade and a half. Her dedication to creating and holding a safe space allows the veils to fall away, inspiring spontaneous expression and the authentic embodiment of the Truth - all is Love.

    Weaving together her passion for ceremony, beauty and natural design, she has since designed and created Kula Maya Boutique Hotel & Spa, and the recently built Casa Floresta family home and Ceremonial Center.

    Hayley Saraswatī is also one of seven co-founding members of the Kula Collective, an organization weaving together diverse holistic experiences and educational yoga offerings through combined passions and a collective intention of global awakening.

  • Shahaf Shvarzman

    Shahaf is a musician, medicine woman and a tattoo artist who love to connect with spirit in all forms of art. She has been living in Peru for the past 7 years and recently moved to Costa Rica, working with the medicine for 10 years. As part of her commitment to medicine path, she works with the Amazonian tribes of Peru, Ecuador, and Brazil learning their traditions an music.

    With the Shipibo tribe, she has studying with master plants such as bobinzana, noyarao, chiricsanago through dietas and jungle living. From the Brazilian tribe huni Kuin, katukina, nukini and the Santu daime community learning the ways of nixipa, daime, rapé, sananga and kambo.

    She is supporting and holding ceremonies of abuelita and wachuma, with love en respect for all of the traditions and cultures.

    She is also committed to the path of the moon dance and the pipe prayers.

    Guiding circles of voice opening as a tool of expansion, connection and expression,

    understanding the power of your voice as a tool connect with divinity. Music is one of her biggest passion, she’s studying and collecting music from different cultures around the world.

    Her original music is shared online and can be found on Spotify.

    Shahaf offers her hand poke tattoos as a ritual of transformation and integration for significant moments in her clients life in a ceremonial and sacred space.

  • Letizia Xiuh

    Born in Venezuela, Letizia Xiuh has been living and sharing her medicine magic in the Sacred Valley of Peru for almost a decade.

    A Medicine Woman by blood, she holds 5th generation native medicine lineage from the North of Peru and since training as an Ayahuasquera has sat in and held over a thousand Ayahuasca ceremonies.

    Letizia also holds powerful and transformative Sweat Lodges that are guided by the elements, Medicine cross teachings and her own studies and experiences of the Red Road.

    Her commitment to the medicine path, is guided by grace and has led her to sit with elders and masters from a vast array of tribes and traditions - giving her an unparalleled depth of insight and wisdom. She has completed a first commitment learning from Grandmothers of the Mexican Moon Dance and keeps learning with elders who hold Peyote Medicine from the Wixarika-Huichol tribe.

    Guided by the Medicine Cross and nature based spirituality, including the 7 Directions teaching in how she lives and serves, Letizia holds a heartfelt mission to heal all our relations. A talented musician and beautiful songstress, she offers ancestral sound healing and song as part of all her offerings. She offers a safe and nurturing sacred space as she guides you to journey into the depths of your being to find your own capacity to heal and connect to your highest potential and purpose.

Pricing:

For 6 nights - Jan 10-16, 2025:

USD$1195 Shared Accommodation at Casa Colibri (next door)

USD$1595 Private Accommodation at Casitas Aurora* (next door)

USD$795 Offsite**

You can register with a $350 deposit or pay the total amount to secure your spot.

With extra 3 night Ceremony Add-on:

(+1 night rest followed by 2 Ayahuasca Ceremonies Jan 17 & 18 with Letizia Xiuh & Shahaf Schvarzmann)

$1795 Shared Room (9 nights Jan 10-19, 2025)

$2295 Private Room (9 nights Jan 10-19, 2025)

$1145 Offsite (Temple sleeping for ceremonies)

Open to all Genders!

*Casitas Aurora are currently being built directly next door and above Casa Floresta, due to be finished in Nov 2024. Both Casitas Aurora and Casa Colibri and directly adjacent to Casa Floresta.

**find your own accommodation in San Marcos la Laguna - boat provided to return to San Marcos & Tzununa after evening activities.

For retreat related questions please email Hayley directly at hayley@forestpath.co.

For information on cancellations or transfers, please see our policies page.