There are moments in life when something within calls to be explored.
The beginning of a new year offers an opportunity to pause, reflect, and turn inward to listen to the deeper voice within.
While the world often rushes into January, this retreat creates space to slow down, reconnect, and intentionally shape the year ahead from a place of clarity, vitality, and purpose.
San Miguel de Allende provides the perfect container for this exploration. A UNESCO World Heritage city believed to sit atop a giant bed of rose quartz — the stone of the heart — it has long attracted artists, seekers, and creatives drawn to its beauty, history, and unmistakable sense of possibility.
Over five days and four nights, we'll gather for an all-inclusive retreat that weaves together sacred movement, mantra-based meditation, guided reflection rooted in the timeless wisdom of myth and archetype, meaningful community connection, and immersive cultural experiences with local healers and landmarks to support you in beginning 2027 with intention, presence, and courage.
This retreat is an invitation to reconnect with what matters most and begin the year feeling more grounded, alive, and deeply connected to the life that's calling you forward.
Nestled at the foot of Los Picachos Mountain, just twenty minutes from the heart of San Miguel de Allende, Casa X is the region's newest luxury retreat center. Blending contemporary design with the quiet beauty of the surrounding landscape, it offers an extraordinary sanctuary where nature, elegance, and stillness create the ideal setting for deep restoration, inner stillness, meaningful connection, and lasting transformation.
This retreat is for the thoughtful, curious, and brave-hearted. Those who sense that something is calling them forward and are ready to connect with themselves and their lives on a deeper level.
You may be longing for:
Deeper connection to your spiritual practice
A reset from stress or burnout
Clarity during a season of transition
Renewed creativity and inspiration
Greater vitality, purpose, and presence
Meaningful connection with nature
Supportive conscious community
An intentional beginning to the year ahead
Renowned mythologist and philosopher Joseph Campbell taught that the world's great myths all begin with a call to adventure — a sacred invitation to leave the familiar and step into a journey of personal transformation.
While many of the stories that have shaped our culture describe outward adventures, Campbell reminds us that the most meaningful journeys happen within.
This retreat is an invitation to answer your own call, crossing the threshold into a new year with greater presence, purpose, and possibility.
CASA X IS EASILY ACCESSIBLE FROM TWO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS
Querétaro International Airport (QRO) is the closest airport, 90 minutes from the retreat. Guanajuato International Airport (BJX) is approximately 2 hours from the retreat center and offers a nonstop flight from both Oakland (OAK) and Los Angeles (LAX).
Shared airport transportation will be coordinated for guests, making your journey smooth to Casa X.
Please email alison@lifeforcelabs.org with any questions
Gorgeous luxury room with private en-suite bathroom and AC
Three beautiful nutritious meals are provided daily
Beverage bar with coffee, tea, juices, water from 8am to 6pm daily
Onsite sauna, cold plunge, hot tub, infinity pool
Daily transformative yoga and movement sessions
Traditional purification sweat lodge ceremony led by a local shaman.
Transportation into the heart of San Miguel De Allende for group exursion
Guided reflections on archetypes, the Hero's Journey, and the transformative power of myth
Stunning hiking trails accessible directly from retreat center
Intention setting for our journey together
Daily guided morning gentle Sadhana
Stunning yoga shala is always available
A time for integration
Your flights to and from the retreat
If you would like to go into town more frequently, the cost of additional taxis is not included
If your flight arrives or departs outside the designated group shuttle window, you will be responsible for arranging your own shuttle transportation (approximately $36 USD each way).
Lifeforce Labs creates transformational experiences at the intersection of contemplative practice, yoga, somatic science, and adventure.
Alison E. Berman is the founder of Lifeforce Labs and a lifelong catalyst of personal and collective transformation. Her own call to adventure began at age 13 on a 22-day backpacking expedition through Oregon.
For over a decade, Alison designed and produced executive experiences and events for leading media companies, venture capital firms, and think tanks. Today, she's thrilled to channel that experience into creating transformational retreats through Lifeforce Labs.
A certified Kundalini Yoga teacher, Co-Active Institute-trained life coach, and current student of Yoga Therapy through the Guru Ram Das Academy, she integrates trauma-sensitive movement, mantra, meditation, breathwork, and neuroscience-informed nervous system practices to create experiences that are grounding, deep, and transformative.