• Check out these juicy programs and enroll for the retreat of your choice during a timeframe that suits you. 
• Suitable for couples of all ages, choose a program that matches your aspirations & physical condition
• For 1, 2 or 3 couples; it can be an intimate retreat for just you and your beloved, or you can share the experience with your best friends or even your parents, newlywed children,  or other relatives.
• Makes a deeply meaningful wedding or engagement gift for a young couple, or a retirement gift for seniors.
• Programs are minimum 7 days long; for a 14 day package double the costs shown; triple for a 21 day package.
• Combine any 2 of the programs below for a 14 day combination package, or any 3 for a 21 day retreat...
• Use the form at the bottom of this page to inquire about your couple's retreat and to book your ideal timeframe.

An enriching week of heart connection and soul centered practice to embody our devotion to divinity... 

• Daily personalized yoga classes; hatha, bhakti flow, and restorative styles
• Bhakti Yoga : mantra, kirtan singing, seed and flower mandala ceremony
• Jnana Yoga consciousness investigations; trinity awareness, integral understanding, sacred geometry...
• Meditation : contemplative movement, guided visualization, and sound journey meditation
• High vibration garden to table vegan cuisine
• Excursions into nature, to Vilcabamba town center & artisan markets, to inspiring local sites...
• Additional activities described in our other programs that you would like included in your retreat package
• Choice of accommodations: rustic cabin, deluxe cabin, or full apartment suite
• All meals, accommodation, and program content included in package

Costs & Accommodation Choices:

7 Day Couples Yoga and Meditation Program enrollment options :

• with private rustic cabin accommodation USD $1,000.00 for 2
• with private deluxe cabin accommodation USD $1,200.00 for 2
• with private full apartment accommodation USD $1,400.00 for 2

Full spectrum experiential permaculture homesteading: immerse yourselves in a thriving permaculture ecosystem, learn foundational permaculture practices and experience them in 3D:  creating gardens and orchards, composting, natural building systems, renewable energy systems, water retention landscaping, food forests, rainwater harvesting, wastewater bioremediation, greenhouse building and management, seed saving, seed bank management, fruit tree grafting, plant propagation, harvesting and preserving foods, dehydrating, probiotic fermented foods and beverages, growing sprouts and microgreens, growing and making herbal tea blends, coffee, chocolate, and spice production...

• Permaculture principles, design methodologies, and lore
• Hands-on projects ; on the permaculture landscape, in the homestead kitchen, in the community...
• Excursions to various permaculture projects in the area
• Facilitated design project based on a piece of land that you own, or on a hypothetical “dream” homestead
• Delicious and nourishing garden to table meals
• Excursions into nature, to Vilcabamba town center & artisan markets, to inspiring local sites...
• Additional activities described in our other programs that you would like included in your retreat package
• Choose your own timeframe, accommodation preference, and dates
• Choice of accommodations: rustic cabin, deluxe cabin, or full apartment suite
• All meals, accommodation, and program content included in package

Costs & Accommodation Choices:

7 Day Couple's Wholistic Permaculture Homestead Course enrollment options :

• with private rustic cabin accommodation USD $1,100.00 for 2
• with private deluxe cabin accommodation USD $1,300.00 for 2
• with private full apartment accommodation USD $1,500.00 for 2

A healing and rejuvenating week of stunning beauty and delicious bliss at Ecuador's foremost hot spring resort; Papallacta Hotsprings : a paradise of natural thermal mineral waters, volcanic vistas; a world-class facility for luxurious & healing relaxation, a place of profound tranquility where uplifting shared memories are born.

• Daily Primordial Flow Aqua-Dynamics : thermal water bodywork sessions & classes - experience and learn this graceful, flowing hot spring healing art & gain the ability to share this deeply meaningful practice together !
• 24/7  access to luxuriate in dozens of Papallacta's diversity of gorgeous hotpools for the duration of the retreat
• Guided hot spring yoga sessions, river trail walking meditations, and contemplative movement with llamas !
• Optional high elevation andean mountain hiking (indigenous guide incurs extra cost)
• Optional day trip to Tena in the amazon jungle (incurs extra cost)
• Optional day trip to Otovalo to its world famous indigenous artisan markets (incurs extra cost)
• Optional massage treatments at spa facility - a wide range of  modalities available (incurs extra cost)
• Choose your own timeframe, accommodation preference, and dates
• Choice of accommodations: private bed & breakfast room, deluxe private cabin
• Breakfasts, accommodation, and program content included in package
• Lunches and Dinners at one of Papallacta's 3 fine restaurants; choose and pay for your own meals
• Round trip ground transportation from Quito international Airport to Papallacta Hotsprings included

Costs & Accommodation Choices:

7 Day Couple's Hotspring Aqua-Massage Retreat enrollment options :

• with private bed & breakfast accommodation USD $2,450.00 for 2
• with private deluxe cabin accommodation USD $3,450.00 for 2 

Music making within a life partnership is a beautiful co-creative way to connect senses with souls, and communicate the contents of our hearts with the universal trans-verbal language of harmonious sound frequency.

Whether you are musicians already or are simply desiring meaningful music in your life, come for this deeply enriching program to explore the realms of sharing self-inspired musicality with voice and traditional indigenous instruments. Included with the program package, you will receive 3 matched pairs of handcrafted traditional instruments and a wealth of musical repertoires to carry home to enhance your relationship journey onwards.

• Toning, vocal harmonization practices, mantra and bhajan singing, overtone chanting, playing native flute, playing didjeridu, drumming, spontaneous music jamming...
• You will receive 3 pairs of beautifully handcrafted instruments (6 total) to take home with you at no extra cost; 2 native flutes, 2 didjeridus, and 2 ashika drums, and having learned the essential playing techniques, you'll have a repertoire of forms to co-create improvised music together
• You will also receive an MP3 album of our spontaneous improvisations to take home that you can play and share with friends and family as a unique memoir of this unique offering, along with a PDF songbook of mantras, bhajans, & uplifting circle songs
• "Mysticism of Music" presentation and facilitated discussion will heighten your understanding and appreciation for the universe of frequency that underlies all phenomena and that is revealed and realized through the exploration of music
• Program also includes yoga classes. contemplative movement classes, and sound journey meditations
• High vibration garden to table vegan cuisine
• Excursions into nature, to Vilcabamba town center & artisan markets, to inspiring local sites...
• Additional activities described in our other programs that you would like included in your retreat package
• Choose your own timeframe, accommodation preference, and dates
• Choice of accommodations: rustic cabin, deluxe cabin, or full apartment suite
• All meals, accommodation, and program content included in package

Costs & Accommodation Choices:

7 Day Couple's Harmony-Quest Music & Rhythm Retreat enrollment options :

• with private rustic cabin accommodation USD $1,800.00 for 2
• with private deluxe cabin accommodation USD $2,000.00 for 2
• with private full apartment accommodation USD $2,200.00 for 2

Feeding ourselves is a profound act of self-creation, and shared meals are a daily ritual that is central to our well-being and that of our primary relationships.

As higher consciousness is brought to our dietary nourishment and our meal preparation, the more our relationships are blessed with mutual wellness and the more our shared aspirations are empowered by wholesome foundations for sustaining our energies.

• Garden to table, consciously prepared, artfully presented, and lovingly blessed meals
• Creating our bodies in a wise and reverent way
• Healthy garden to table recipes for vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, living foods, and raw vegan diets
• Choose your dietary preference(s) for emphasis throughout the program
• Hands-on food combining, probiotic fermentation, dehydrating, sprouting, gluten-free baking, chocolatiering...
• Yoga, high vibration meals, nature immersion, contemplative movement, gardening...
• Excursions into nature, to Vilcabamba town center & artisan markets, to inspiring local sites...
• Additional activities described in our other programs that you would like included in your retreat package
• Choose your own timeframe, accommodation preference, and dates
• Choice of accommodations: rustic cabin, deluxe cabin, or full apartment suite
• All meals, accommodation, and program content included in package

Costs & Accommodation Choices:

7 Day Couples Wholistic Wellness / Healthy Cooking Course :

• with private rustic cabin accommodation USD $1,100.00 for 2
• with private deluxe cabin accommodation USD $1,300.00 for 2
• with private full apartment accommodation USD $1,500.00 for 2

Rejuvenating ourselves within vast landscapes of natural beauty, pristine andean mountain air and water, flashes of color and rich soundscapes from the forest denizen, exploring an extensive network of wilderness trails and seeking out natural sanctuaries to nourish the soul...

Bordering the Amazon side of the pristine Podocarpus National Park, Copalinga is a lush paradise and international destination for birders, photographers and lovers of nature. Dozens of species of exotic hummingbirds and colorful tropical songbirds reside on the reserve’s 100 hectare forest sanctuary.

• Guided hiking within the 100 hectare Eco-reserve and in the adjacent wilderness of Podocarpus National Park
• Tropical bird, butterfly and forest mammal watching and photography
• Swimming in the mighty Rio Bombuscaro river, bathing under the breathtaking Cascada Poderosa waterfall
• Yoga, contemplative movement, learning to play the native flute...
• Choose your own timeframe, accommodation preference, and dates
• Includes lodging at Copalinga Eco-Reserve & Bird Sanctuary in Zamora
• All meals, accommodation, and program content included in package

Costs & Accommodation Choices:

7 Day Couple's Birding & Hiking Nature Immersion Retreat enrollment options :

• with private deluxe cabin accommodation USD $2,200.00 for 2

•  Please complete the form below. Be sure to click the SUBMIT button once you have completed the form.
• If you have questions about one or more of the Couple's Programs, please be as clear and specific as possible.
• If you are ready to enroll, please identify whether you are enrolling as a couple, or as a group of 2 or 3 couples.
• Please state which accommodation option you would like. For couples' groups, we have 1 accommodation space in each category.
• Please indicate the length of retreat you would like ( 7 day, 14 day, or 21 day ),  the beginning date of your preferred timeframe, and which program or combination of programs you would like to enroll for.
• We will confirm availability and send you a secure credit card link for your 50% deposit payment, which is refundable less a 10% administration fee up to 60 days prior to the first day of the program, and afterwards is non-refundable.