The Wellness Retreat Details
Mindfulness & Hypnosis
Healing your mind
Meditation is the key to healing your mind. We'll practice several styles of Meditation & Spiritual Hypnosis daily. All designed for beginning to advanced students.
Gentle Yoga
Healing your body
A gentle Yoga class for all ages and levels will be offered daily to help heal your body, relax your mind, and feed your soul.
Delicious Meals
Healing your very soul
When you eat clean & healthy your entire being feels better.
Peaceful Suites
Healing you
Sleep & time to relax alone is important to heal your body, mind, and spirit. You'll make yourself at home with an amazing view, private suite, soft beds, even your own poncho for chilly nights.
Adults 18+ only.
Spiritual Discussions
Healing you can bring home
There will be several spiritual sessions and workshops daily to feed your brain the wellness and spiritual knowledge it craves. From using natural healing herbs to how to keep your feeling of bliss after you go home.
Local Shaman Ceremony
The indigenous people from the middle of the earth will come to our retreat to call on their ancestors and send you healing energy in a beautiful traditional ceremony passed on over generations.
Book Your Suite Now & Receive Free Gifts
Receive a free luxury hot/cold lavender infused eye mask with washable cover & carrying bag, and more surprises
when you arrive at your retreat.
About Your Retreat Guide
Samantha
You are in wonderful healing hands on this retreat. Your retreat guide, Samantha, has been blessing and guiding people through their own wellness path for over 12 years. She currently lives in Las Vegas as a Motivational Speaker, Wellness Consultant, Life and Spiritual Coach, Professional Hypnotist, Meditation Teacher, and she leads wellness retreats around the world. She's been a life long student of all world religions, and a passionate advocate of meditation.
Samantha's healing journey has led her around the world. She was blessed as a Buddhist monk in Vietnam. She studied and practiced ancient Shamanism in Guatemala. She's been trained and certified by Dr. Deepak Chopra in Meditation, Yoga, and Hinduism. With over 8 Yoga teacher certifications she's taught over 5,000 hours of Yoga and practiced Yoga with some of the greatest teachers today: Rodney Yee, John Friend, Seane Corn, Clair Diab, Maty Ezraty (RIP Beautiful Soul), and more. Samantha attuned, trained and certified hundreds of healers in the Japanese natural healing art of Reiki. She's even studied EFT and has an honors degree in Psychology.
Come to South America and feel the difference of being as close as you can to the powerful sun, while Samantha and the locals guide your body, mind, and soul to find your peace, balance, and harmony within.
Location: El Crater
This is truly blessed land. Located steps away from the equator and overlooking the beautiful crater of the Pululahua Volcano. One of only two populated volcano interiors in the world.
Only 30 minutes from the modern city of Quito, Ecuador. 5 minutes from the Intinan museum (the actual GPS verified equator museum), and a stones throw from Museo Templo del Sol "the museum temple of the sun".
Nestled in the center of amazing energy it is easy to find healing the moment you step on the land. This is the perfect place to comfortably unplug and find balance with nature.
Photos from Samantha's 2017 & 2019 Visits to Ecuador
Otavalo, Ecuador (Nov 2017)
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