Join us for our 12th Inner Fire Yoga and Adventure and Retreat to Exotic Belize and Guatemala !
Belize and Guatemala have everything we love for a life changing retreat like pristine ocean, verdant rainforests, incredible sacred Mayan ruins and culture, beautiful animals, winding rivers, amazing caves, starry nights, warm people and fresh healthy food ! We are so thrilled to finally offer a trip of a lifetime there !
We are now half full with a lovely, diverse, and fun group and will sell out soon ! Just $500 holds your place for this full experience that will shift your life ! With compassionate and experienced facilitators and travel coordinators Amber and Eddie you will RE- SET and Rejuvenate your body and soul ! Our previous groups were to Greece, Bali ( 3 ), Thailand, Cambodia, Peru, 5 on the Big Island of Hawaii and all were rated 4 to 5 stars by our participants!.
We are first staying 5 days in a award winning Eco Lodge on a emerald river, then on the grounds of a Sacred Mayan site TIKAL for one night, then onto a small island Caye for 4 days of paradise surrounded by barrier reef to discover ! You choose what you would like to do everyday, from chilling out, getting massages, reading at your leisure to getting healthier with the yoga / dance / meditations to being active and adventurous with us in amazing places !
And you do not have to be a regular YOGA person but practicing gentle Inner Fire Yoga and sound meditation every day ( optional ) puts your body and mind into a state of bliss ! You will have more calm energy to explore and experience all this tour offers !
Finding balance within, feeling inspired to live your dreams and renewing your purpose are all found on an InnerFire Retreat !
This almost all inclusive package includes 10 days and 10 nights of paradise with shared accommodations ( 2 beds per room ), 27 meals ( Vegetarian, Vegan, and Gluten free available ) plus juice / coffee / teas/ filtered water, all air conditioned van and boat transfers, tickets into Tikal and border fee back into Belize, Tips at our 1st retreat center, and all optional : 6 guided adventures of your choice ( $600 value ) ~ 1 per day including private boat tours for the group to other secret islands, use of Kayaks / SUP / floats, horseback riding to Mayan Ruins, Canoeing through Bartons Cave, floating through caves and in the open on a meandering river, visiting waterfalls, a Mayan Medicine Tour of Botanical Gardens, Daily Inner Fire Yoga / Sound Healing, four nightly playshops inc. Partner Yoga and Thai Massage night, a Ecstatic dance and a Mens circle with a Goddess Bellydance night, and our last night African Drum and Dance Circle Party on the beach with live band provided !
We will room you with a compatible same sex roommate unless you room with a friend or partner.
Not included : 2 optional meals while at the Tikal Inn, Alcohol, Tips, Laundry, Personal Shopping, a few small entrance fees to parks ( around $10 ), Massages at the spas, Scuba Diving, Travel Health Insurance ( required and around $20 - $50 depending on the policy ),
Travel Insurance ( not required )
Bring your partner, friend, daughter, mother and you each get $100 off !
Pay the whole amount now and get $50 off !
We do not refund deposits or payments but the spot is transferable with our approval of the replacement person.
Itinerary:
Arrive by March 15th to Belize City and transfer by van for a 2 hour drive to the Cayo District and to our huge private house at Du Plooys Rainforest Lodge on the river ! This award-winning and highly rated Eco retreat boasts their own renowned botanical gardens, hiking trails, horses, renowned chef and staff and a friendly family of monkeys called Kinkajous you can feed ! The river and beach is lovely and the lodge will provide us with tubes and kayaks to enjoy at our leisure and even will pick us up down the river after we've been floating for a while!
Staying there for 5 days – check out on the 20th. We will be staying at the Belize River House with Macal and Mopan Suites. The River House is divided into 2 suites with a total of 7 bedrooms (2 beds in each room), 4 large lovely bathrooms and 2 open area living rooms and 2 outdoor covered porches to sit and enjoy the beauty of the surrounding landscape and jungle. We may upgrade one couple to a private cottage close by !
All yummy meals, accomodation, taxes, tips, use of floats and boats and 4 adventures of your choice here are included ( although small entrance fees to some of the caves and ruins are extra )
For list of adventures see:
http://www.duplooys.com/caves/index.php#atm
Some of the fully guided adventures there offered are horseback riding to Caracol or Xunantunich – both famous Mayan Ruins and they will drive us back if we prefer, floating on tubes through cave systems, exploring the Rio On parks with waterfalls and natural pools for a swim with a picnic lunch provided and a stop at a Butterfly Ranch, canoeing in the huge Bartons Cave, learning about mayan traditional medicine with a local shaman walking through gardens and more ! One of the highlights for fit people in our group is the Actun Tunichil Muknal or Cave of the Crystal Sepulchre or “ATM” as known locally, is the most impressive Mayan Burial site in Western Belize.
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B L D included
On March 20th we have a 2 hour transfer by van over to Guatemala to stay at the Tikal Inn which is right on the grounds of the must see TIKAL Mayan City, a world heritage site. We can have our lunch and dinner ( on our own dime ) at the hotel, swim and we will do some yoga and Watsu in the lovely pool and then have two choice times ( or both ) to see Tikal, that afternoon to the sunset, and / or to wake up early and see the sunrise over Tikal the next morning and we will have a little ceremony, a meditation and light Yoga practice in front of the famous pyramid there. Entrance fee to Tikal included as well as breakfast included on the 21st. Our border fee back into belize is also included !
March 21st After breakfast we have a van transfer us to Dangriga, then a short fun boat ride to a little island surrounded by barrier reef called South Water Caye. We stay on this island paradise for 4 days. Included activities are chilling in hammocks, kayaking around the island, SUP, snorkeling right off your door step, 2 boat tours to other little islands to relax and to snorkel in this pristine marine reserve. They have a huge open air Yoga room next to the ocean that we do our daily practice in and have nighttime play shops at ! Some of us will do a dive or two as the diving is top notch ! They are providing a Garifuna Drum Band for our final night dance party ! B L D included