Three days of private creative retreat and mentoring in Guatemala
throughout May, June, July 2026
Set in the stunning volcanic highlands of Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Yoga - Creativity - Earth Ritual - Nature - Healing foods
A personalised retreat to support your holistic wellness and reconnect you to your creative life
“This retreat unlocked something I hadn’t felt in years: aliveness.”
2023 Participant
What’s special about this Retreat...
3 days restorative retreat, curated for you, on dates of your choice
Basic Package includes one-one wellness mentorship, morning practices and creative workshops, as well as a light breakfast. Enjoy free afternoons and explore local eateries for your remaining meals.
Upgrade your level of support to the Golden Package, tailor your diet with our Healing Food Package, let us take care of your transfers and continue the journey with additional Mentorship
Unique Program: Combine yoga, mindfulness, nature, creativity and ritual with one-one mentorship
Personalised Experience: Be nourished in the “land of eternal spring” with activities and foods crafted to your exact needs
Therapeutic Creativity: Choose from creative writing, art, voice medicine, medicinal kitchen, crafts, chocolate workshop or somatic movement
Intentional Living: Guided meditation, themed holistic yoga and movement classes
Earth-based Ritual: Fire circle, cacao ceremony and ritual creativity
Experienced facilitation: 15-years retreat leader and creative Jiya Julia Marie of Kula Collective
Nature immersion: Volcano views, morning walks and peaceful meditations on the lake
Nourish and restore: Quiet solo afternoons spent journalling prompts in a hammock, exploring culture in nearby market towns or gazing at the incredible views
Daily themes: Curated for your self growth and personal exploration
Integrative Wellness: Build a tailored, ritual practice to take home with you for self-sourced inspiration
FREE GIFT: Beautiful Guatemalan fabric notebook for your musings
Enquire today and claim your dates!
“Can’t recommend it enough!”
Participant, 2024
A private retreat is the perfect way to nourish yourself from the inside out.
Receive three days of gently held guidance to reset your system, reconnect to your creative voice and cultivate new patterns going forward.
Your experienced retreat guide, Julia, will work with you to create a personalised schedule that feels nourishing and inspiring
Choose your level of support - including your diet, which can be tailored for cleansing, weight loss, deep bone nourishment or left free for you to enjoy from the many cafes and restaurants nearby.
We organise everything so you don’t need to think. Surrender into care and support and leave feeling refreshed, motivated and captivated by life.
Create your personalised, delicious combination of nature immersion, self inquiry, yogic embodiment, and creative expression.
This Retreat Is For You If:
You could benefit from one-on-one coaching and mentorship for wellness and personal development
You want a one-on-one or private group experience tailored exactly to your needs
You want the benefits of a true rest break while being supported by a gracefully-held container
You want to feel inspired and long for community, nature, ritual, and soulful immersion
You feel mentally exhausted and want nervous-system restoration
You want space to create, move, reflect, heal and reconnect with yourself
You’re tired of consuming content and want to create and make time to just be
You’re feeling blocked, depressed or uninspired and craving inspiration
You want to fully reset in nature within a gentle daily rhythm with all your needs met
Create your personalised, delicious combination of nature immersion, self inquiry, yogic embodiment, and creative expression, built upon a foundational 3-day schedule:
Day 1
Afternoon Arrival, Orientation
Induction, Intention Setting and Wellness Assessment
Day 2
Lake-View Yoga Practice with Meditation, Breathwork and Morning Journal Pages
1-1 Mentorship Session - Includes personalised journal questions, Life Coaching and/or Therapeutic Creativity
GOLDEN PACKAGE ONLY: Ritual Creative Workshop (writing, art, music, crafts or cooking)
Day 3
Gentle Morning Hike with Meditation, Breathwork, optional lake swim and Morning Journal Pages
Ritual Creative Workshop (writing, art, music, crafts or cooking)
GOLDEN PACKAGE ONLY: Full-Body Massage
GOLDEN PACKAGE ONLY: Sunset Yin Yoga
Day 4
Morning Fire Ceremony with special ritual, and mentorship for integration
Workshops can be substituted for other activities: please enquire upon application.
We have a partnership program with a neighboring herbal apothecary that can help you arrange personalised herbal healing protocols if desired, as well as a variety of alternative therapists with whom we are happy to connect you.
How it Works:
Private Retreat Package includes:
3 nights accommodation, daily light breakfast, daily yoga, movement & mindfulness practice, morning creativity and journalling workshops, Wellness Assessment, one-one mentorship, ceremony, nature immersion and earth ritual.
Add on to tailor your experience
Step 1: Choose your Accommodation
All stays are accommodated at Casa Kula. For alternatives or non-residential options, please get in touch
Single Open Air Cabin
Private, netted open air single-bed wooden cabins in natural surroundings with shared eco-facilities
$800
Queen Cabin
Private, queen-sized wooden cabins in natural surroundings with shared eco-facilities
$900
King En-Suite Lake View
Private, king-sized bed in natural surroundings with en-suite facilities.
$1100
A 3-night, 4 day weekend retreat, weaving mentorship, yoga, nature and creative writing in the volcano lake highlands of Guatemala.
PLEASE NOTE All credit card payments are subject to a 5% fee to cover Stripe credit card company requirements
To avoid fees, please pay via:
Zelle (julia.randall@live.co.uk)
Paypal (julia.randall@live.co.uk)
Minimum deposit amount: $600 to secure your spot!
For Payment Plans or other questions, please contact createspaceyoga@gmail.com
PRICING
Private Single Hut
$800 ($840 credit card)
Private Queen Cabin
$900 ($945 credit card)
En-suite Private King Casita
$1,100 ($1,155 credit card)
Add to cart or see below for payment alternatives
Step 2: Tailor your Experience:
All basic retreats come with a morning schedule and light breakfast. choose your degree of support by adding sessions, meals and transport
Includes 3 healing brunch and 3 dinners. Tailored for cleansing, gut healing, weight loss or restorative nourishment - organic free range meats, and whole food vegetarian/vegan/gluten free options available.
Healing Food Package
Healing Brunch and Dinner for 3 days, tailored to your nutritional needs
Choose from Nourishment, Cleansing, Weight Loss or Gut Healing
Organic free range meat, or whole food vegetarian/vegan/gluten free options available.
$100
Add on additional mentorship, afternoon sessions and a full body massage on top of your existing private retreat package.
Golden Upgrade: $250 ($263 with card)
Golden retreat package
Includes:
Additional mentorship
2 additional afternoon therapeutic sessions
1 full-body massage
$250
Includes private car from door to door. Choose pick up from airport, or your hotel in Guatemala City or Antigua, to and from Casa Kula.
One way $100
Return $200
Pay with paypal or zelle: julia.randall@live.co.uk
Pay with card: 5% added fees
Door to Door Transfers
Let us take care of your transport, with a private car from airport to retreat center on either side of your stay.
$100 each way
Step 3: Extend the Reset
Add optional mentorship for a potent, integrative reset that will take your life to the next level. Receive one-one support in Julia’s 6-weeks, 12-week or 6 month coaching programs.
Includes one-on-one coaching calls with a tailored structure to support your personal growth. Use tools such as writing therapy, creative expression, coactive coaching and yoga & mindfulness practices.
Create your ideal life
Work towards a specific project, vision or creative goal
Receive dedicated support to deepen and increased effectiveness of another program
Text support available within agreed parameters
To avoid fees, please pay via Zelle or Paypal on julia.randall@live.co.uk
Alternatively please request banking details for international transfer to US, UK or Guatemala via createspaceyoga@gmail.com
Please note, paying by card incurs a 5% fee to cover credit company requirements
6-week mentorship package $600 (card payment $630)
3-month mentorship package $1200 (card payment $1260)
6-month mentorship package $2400 (card payment $2520)
Mentorship package
Choose from coaching packages of 6-week, 12-week or 6 months.
For personal development, yoga teaching, creative coaching, times of transition and more.
$600-$2000
Rest
Recharge
Reinspire
Use yourself as a mirror to remember the quiet wonders of everyday life, and bring an awakened sense of hope and inspiration back home with you
This is the ultimate long weekend - tailored to your dreams! Relax and sit back while we take care of the details, giving you a restorative break filled with all the things that nourish you the most.
Simplify in the mountain highlands of rural Central America, meet new, like-minded creative friends, write, move your body and get inspired over and over again.
Wake up to exquisite open-air yoga with a world-class view, your notebook next to you ready to catch your thoughts.
Spend the days restfully, eating clean food, sipping cacao herbal teas and coffee grown right on these mountains.
Be stirred by workshops and activities that reconnect you to yourself.
Shape your break exactly how you want it, with the perfect balance of wellness, health, inspiration and unforgettable experiences.
Leave feeling refreshed, affirmed, inspired. Full up on the good things of life.
This personalised retreat guides you through experience and exploration, including:
Deep, themed yoga practices
Personalized therapeutic guidance
Soul-stimulating workshops and activities
Stunning natural setting
During this retreat we play with creativity and yoga to dive deep into the inspiration that you, yourself, and your simple life can be, using the delicious medicine of cacao and daily ritual to sharpen your sensitivity and open your awareness.
Whether you are experiencing physical, emotional or creative blockages, or simply looking for reconnection and rest, this magical retreat offers a haven of inspiration.
Fed by the unparalled beauty and special energy of Lake Atitlan, this 3-night, 4-day journey will awaken the subtle receptors within you that ‘plug you back in;’ to nature, yourself and to your sacred human expression.
Receive daily intentions and journal prompts to invite powerful self-inquiry.
Explore consciousness practices such as journeying, visualization, fire ceremony, nature hikes and traditional medicine songs from around the world.
Activate your energy through practices such as yoga, dance, creative writing and journalling, music, freeflow art and flow consciousness exercises, based around themes designed to help you go deeper into your spiritual and creative process.
Embrace this combination of mentorship, self-inquiry, yoga embodiment, and creative expression. Learn more about who you are, self-sourcing inspiration through your unique program. Dive into creativity as a spiritual practice, with potent morning practices, activities workshops to forge connection and inspiration, and quiet afternoons to dive into your process amidst cosy spaces and lush wildlife. Live on the land, in a conscious community, in a destination internationally renowned for its beauty!
INVESTMENT
Light Package: 3 nights, 4 days
Includes 3 nights accommodation, daily light breakfast, yoga, movement & mindfulness practices, wellness assessment, one-one mentorship, morning creativity and journalling workshops, ceremony, nature immersion and earth ritual.
Open-Air Single Cabin: $800
Queen Cabin: $900
King Suite: $1100
Upgrade to Golden Package
with cosy afternoon sessions and a luxurious full body massage: $250
Add on:
Healing Food Package: 3 days Brunch and Dinner: $100
Airport Transfer: $100 each way
Please click links to pay with credit card (5% added fee) or avoid fees by paying directly via:
Zelle (julia.randall@live.co.uk)
Paypal (julia.randall@live.co.uk)
PAYMENT PLANS AVAILABLE
50% deposit to secure your spot.
Questions? E-mail createspaceyoga@gmail.com
About your Facilitator
Jiya Julia Marie is a wellness practitioner, teacher & creative with over 15 years experience facilitating self-development, both internationally and online. Founder of Kula Collective Yoga School, Kula Maya Boutique Hotel & Spa and Inner Wild Adornments, as well as online writing courses and nature-based retreats and trainings in yoga, singing, writing, facilitation skills and self-empowerment.
CASA KULA
Casa Kula is the Guatemalan home of our Kula Collective co-founders and your home during your stay. It is an eco-friendly and nourishing space, filled with all the comforts of home, including healing herbs, tropical fruits, loving animals and warm smiles. Casa Kula is located in Tzununa, in the western highlands of Guatemala, with stunning views of the serene Lake Atitlan and her volcanoes seen through banana palms, avocado trees and lush green coffee forests.
Arrival notes:
Casa Kula is 3-5 hours drive away from Guatemala city airport. We can help with private transport - cost around $100 each way door to door. Please plan to arrive before 6pm. Late arrivals incur an additional cost of $30 to cover out-of-hours staff.
Casa Rosa
Casa Rosa is the home sanctuary of Jiya Julia, offering a wide deck, comfortable lounge and beautiful permaculture gardens overlooking the lake and mountains. Here you will receive your classes, workshops and meals, enjoying the bounty of the land. Your final fire ritual will be held at the ceremony circle surrounded by roses and wide open views. Enjoy the stillness and beauty of the mountains supporting you in your process as you relax into the embrace of heart-centered community.
APlease see gallery below for photos of Casa Rosa, Casa Kula and its accommodation options. All packages include a light breakfast including tea and treats, with an option to add healing, farm to table meals at an additional cost should you wish.
15 minutes walk to Lake
Yoga Deck with Lake View
One of many restful spots
Yoga Deck with Lake View
Yoga Deck with Lake View
15 minutes walk to lake
Hobbit House - Private or Twin
Hobbit House - Private or Twin
Shared Cabin
Private Queen/Twin Cabin
Private Queen/Twin Cabin
Private Queen/Twin Cabin
Private Single Hut
Private Single Hut
Yoga Deck with Lake View
Testimonials:
“I truly can’t say enough about all that I received from attending this retreat with Jiya. Her loving, soulful presence and the way she held such sacred space for authentic, creative expression was just amazing. She weaves song, ceremony, & a deep connection to the spirit of the land through what she pours from her heart. The experience left a profound impact on my life. I feel more confident in myself, more open to sharing my creativity, and I made life long friends & memories that I will forever cherish. I can’t wait to join Jiya again for another offering in the future! ”
“I’m just always so impressed with Jiya’s ability to hold sacred space. It’s just so intentional and loving and just a place to explore. I feel so inspired coming out. I’m a writer at heart and so is Jiya and you can see that in how she holds the spaces. But more than writing, it’s a place to explore your being, and feel so held and supported by a beautiful group. I’m leaving feeling so much more open, so much more ready to receive and the more I can receive the more inspired I am to offer to this beautiful land, to this beautiful world. This space is powerful and beautiful and I highly recommend!”
“This was completely soul enriching. Julia leads ceremony and holds sacred creative space in a beautiful way. I felt so inspired by the land, the people, and the way of being here. I will absolutely be returning and finding more ways to stay connected to Casa Kula and the intentions I made there! This type of retreat is great for absolutely anyone wanting to connect more to themselves, deepen their writing and creativity, and connect more to the earth. Can’t recommend it enough!”