AwakEmbody
4 or 7-days
Silent Non-Dual Tantra
Meditation Retreat
San Jeronimo, near Medellín, Colombia
A Retreat space that supports Depth without unnecessary hardship:
Profound Rest in a luxurious quite villa
with pool, jacuzzi and sauna,
San Jeronimo
45 min from Medellin, Colombia
A Totally Unique, Heart Opening Journey into
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Embodied Awakening
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Classical Tantrik Spiritual Practices
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Non-Duality
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Emotional & Nervous System Regulation
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Opening of the Heart
With Sasha Medvedovskaya & Kyle Brooks
May 1-11, 2026
The Quantum Leap From the Head to the Heart
Are You Seeking More than Just Silence?
This is not just a meditation retreat, it’s:
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An immersion into embodied wisdom, your body’s deep somatic intelligence.
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This is an opportunity to digest unprocessed emotions,
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Regulate your nervous system,
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Reconnect with life from a place of true centredness and purpose.
Through:
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Non-dual tantric teachings and practices,
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An embodied, heart centred approach to meditation,
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Emotional digestion practices,
This retreat offers a grounded and authentic approach to spiritual awakening and inner transformation—one that is practical, profound, and free from new-age fluff.
Retreat Testimonials
Why We Created This Retreat
Between us, we have spent decades immersed in spiritual practice, with over 20 years of teaching experience in meditation, yoga, tantra, and embodiment. Over the years, we’ve seen sincere seekers struggle with the same core challenges:
1. The Struggle to Integrate
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Many traditional teachings were designed for renunciates, not modern people balancing work, relationships, and daily life.
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Spiritual seekers are often told to “just observe” emotions—but without guidance on how to actually process them, leading to suppression or avoidance, or worse, guilt and shame for having challenging emotions.
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This leads to a disparity between the beauty sought and experienced in retreats and practice, and the disharmonious behaviours and ways of relating, expressed in our lives.
2. The Lack of Genuine Depth
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The internet is full of marketable but shallow teachings that feel good but don’t create real transformation.
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Many people consume books, YouTube videos, or even retreats, yet find that when life gets real, the teachings don’t hold up.
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True wisdom—rooted in deep, sustained practice—is often lost beneath superficial, commodified versions of ancient traditions.
Our Response: A Retreat That Bridges the Gap
We created this retreat to offer a different path—one that is both authentic and deeply practical. A space where real transformation happens, not by escaping life, but by learning how to meet it fully—embodied, awake, and integrated.
If you’re looking for more than just another retreat—if you’re seeking something real, grounded, and profoundly life-changing—this is for you.
Luxurious Villa in San Jeronimo, Colombia
San Jerónimo sits just outside Medellín (45 min), where the mountains open into warmth and a slower rhythm of life. The days are sun-filled and steady, with a dry tropical climate that gently softens the body and settles the system.
Rolling hills and wide skies hold a quiet sense of space, where nothing presses and nothing rushes.
It’s a simple, grounded natural setting that quietly supports Rest, Reset and Regain Clarity.
We’re hosting this retreat in a private modern villa just outside Medellín, designed for comfort, privacy, and deep rest.
The space includes a pool, jacuzzi, and steam sauna, creating a simple but powerful environment to unwind and reset the nervous system.
The setting allows for both depth in practice and genuine physical ease. You’re not roughing it. You’re supported.
What This Retreat Offers You
Silence & Meditative Depth
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Shift from overthinking and anxious preoccupation to a calm, grounded direct experience of presence
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Find clarity and insight beyond doubt and distraction - move through life with purpose, meaning and joy
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Cultivate a natural state of lucid and easeful awakeness
Somatic & Embodiment Practices
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A unique approach to Hatha Yoga for grounding and energy balance
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Somatic emotional regulation practices to digest unresolved emotions
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Embodiment techniques to develop intimacy with life itself
Emotional Healing & Nervous System Mastery
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Regulate emotional states with both modern psychotherapeutic-based tools, and ancient techniques of tantric yoga
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Process and integrate deep-seated emotions in a healthy way - effective, time tested practices guaranteed, no new age fluff
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Restore a sense of balance, vitality, and inner stability
Welcome Back Home, to Meaning & Purpose,
to Inner Stability & Safety,
to You
Content
What’s in This Retreat?
This retreat offers a deep reset for the body, mind, emotions, and nervous system.
Blending non-dual meditation, embodiment, and emotional integration for a grounded, transformative experience.
🧘 Meditation: Resting in Pure Presence
Meditation is both A science and an art. The science of meditation is about application of technique and the insight developed through practice. But the art of meditation is the core of the practice. As an art, meditation is the skillful means of intuitive navigation through the various states of body and mind, eventually landing us home, in the heart.
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Cultivates a subtle recognition of silence and pure presence beyond mental noise.
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Discover your true self what you are prior to thoughts and memories**.**
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Fall in Love with life, exactly as it is, not as you think it to be.
🌿 Subtle Body Practices: Embodied Awareness & Energy Flow
Through a unique approach to postural yoga and a series of somatic explorations, you will discover the subtle/energy body.
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Develops grounded presence, helping you stay balanced through life’s ups and downs.
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Increases awareness of mental-emotional patterns and how they manifest in the body.
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Develop energetic and emotional intelligence and navigate through life with skill and ease
💛 Emotional Digestion: Transforming Energy into Clarity
The physical body digests food in order to become strong and healthy. The emotional/energetic body withers and weakens when we do not know how to embrace, process (digest) and integrate emotional energy.
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Learn to process emotions as naturally as the body digests food.
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Prevent emotional overwhelm or suppression-notice signs of stress and self-regulate, long before burnout occurs
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Proper integration of emotional energy leads to clarity, vitality, and well being.
Who is This Retreat For?
✅ You crave clarity, purpose, stability and centredness in your life
✅ You want to heal emotional patterns and cultivate true emotional maturity
✅ You seek accessible, practical and authentic spiritual teachings, taught by facilitators with decades of experience in study, practice and life
✅ You feel overwhelmed by life’s demands and need deep restoration and reconnection with yourself
✅ You’re ready to experience meditation beyond mindfulness, beyond concepts, as a deeply embodied and transformative practice
✅ You’ve tried meditation but found it to be mostly a struggle with thoughts and emotions
✅ You already have a spiritual practice but find that there is a disconnect between the teachings, your practice and your life/emotions/relationships/work etc.
But Think Twice if...
⛔ You're looking for a relaxing spa holiday
⛔ You're hoping for a magical quick fix that will take all of your problems away
⛔ You're would rather live in a cave or monastery than the world
⛔ You'd rather believe in spiritual fantasies than face your life head on
This retreat is not about escaping life—it’s about stepping into it fully awake, fully embodied, and fully alive.
Cost Breakdown
Total Price includes:
Course Fee
Accomodation & Food per 10 Day
Access to Jacuzzi, Pool, Steam Sauna
Only 8 Spots!!!
10-Day Retreat:
Total in Twin Shared Room:
2370 usd
Total in Private Room
2840 usd
7-Day Retreat:
Total in
Twin Shared Room:
1650 usd
Total in Private Room
1980 usd
4-Day Retreat:
Total in
Twin Shared Room:
1 080 usd
Total in Private Room
1630 usd
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“I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.”
- Rumi
Schedule
Check-in and Arrival
will be on May 1st at 14:00
We will start the first retreat session around 15:00
This session will include a welcome and sharing/orientation talk,
Our first instructional session and our first practice together.
Silent Days
SESSION 1:
7.00 am – 09.30 am:
Meditative Hatha Yoga & Meditation
9.30 am – 11.00am: Breakfast
SESSION 2:
11.00am – 12.00pm: Spiritual Teachings
12.15pm – 1.00pm: Practice*
1.00pm – 3.00pm: Lunch & Rest
SESSION 3:
3.30pm – 4.30pm – Meditation
4.45 - 6.00 Spiritual Teachings & Practice*
6.00pm – 7.00pm – Dinner
SESSION 4:
7.00pm – 8.30pm - Q&A / Teachings
8.30pm – 9:00 pm – Practice*
*Meditation and/or Embodiment / Emotional Digestion/ Breathwork practices
Check-out and Departure
will be on May 11th at 14:00
There will be a full morning session including a special topic to close the retreat, followed by a sharing circle to close out the retreat.
Location and Arrival info
Check-In is at 2 pm
The Villa is located near San Jeronimo, around 45 min from the centre of Medellin and 1 hour 15 min from the International Airport
We will create a whatsapp group where you can find other participants to share an Uber with them.
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
― Lao Tzu
FAQ's
Is it Safe to Travel to Colombia?
Colombia’s reputation regarding safety, while not entirely untrue, is often exaggerated by the news media, especially in neighbouring countries where opposition to Mexico/Mexican people supports political agendas and dramatic media coverage drives clicks, views etc. There are certain areas of Colombia where there is a high rate of crime. These areas are thus less safe for foreign travellers. However, millions of travellers and holiday makers pass through Colombia each year without incident. The myths of a crime-ridden and unsafe (dangerous) Medellin are outdated and no longer reflect the current safety reality. Today, Medellin is a welcoming and safe destination for visitors and tourists, offering cultural richness, natural beauty, and a thriving economy
I have previous experience with Yoga &/or meditation will this retreat be to basic for me?
Years of feedback from participants have shown clearly that this retreat is well adapted to suit both beginners and experienced practitioners. The first few days will start slowly, and if you have quite a bit of sitting/retreat experience you will find this to be a gentle warm up and lead into longer sitting. You will also likely find that the attitude towards and theoretical aspects of the practice of meditation to be quite fresh and very profound. While the retreat embraces the visions of classical yoga, Advaita Vendanta and early Buddhism within it’s philosophical framework, our approach to practice draws heavily on the tantric traditions, in which an incredibly all-embracing and embodied approach to spiritual practice is emphasized. For experienced meditators this comes as a very welcome, complimentary and sometimes evolutionary deepening to their practice.
I’m new to yoga &/or meditation will I be able to keep up?
We start the retreat at a very beginner friendly level. We start with shorter sittings and build up over the first couple of days, we have found that even the most restless of people are able to adapt to the sitting practice after about 3 days and that many/most of the beginners that come for retreats both appreciate this graduated approach to learning to sit, and are surprised that within a few days they can sit for an hour without struggle. We have also found that our approach to teaching meditation, which is quite practical with guidance offered during the first 10-15 minutes of each practice sessions before we transition to simple silent sitting together, plus our emphasis on an attitude of acceptance and simplicity during meditation both make great conditions for learning, even if you have never sat before.
I’m Interested in this retreat primarily for psychological healing, will the contents and practices be appropriate for me?
Generally speaking, meditative, contemplative and spiritual practices can be incredibly beneficial for psychological health, stability, well being etc. This is especially true when those practices and teachings are body oriented and encompassing of a life guided by a genuine spiritual search and longing while living a well adjusted life in society, including making money, having relationships, jobs, projects, families etc. The teachings and practices of this retreat fit 100% in that category of spiritual teachings and practice. (This is certainly not always the case as many approaches in spirituality directly emphasise or are drawn from a cultural context in which genuine spirituality is seen as something incompatible with such a lifestyle. In such cases the practices and teachings may be entirely unhelpful, even damaging to someone seeking to heal deep traumas and psychological disorders). If you are passing through a difficult moment in life, like a loss, breakup or major change in life direction and circumstance, or if you have a history of trauma or psychological disorder that is well managed through therapy and previous personal development work, we know from experience that this retreat can be massively beneficial. Having said this, this retreat is not specifically designed to address people or situations of extreme psychological need. While everyone is welcome here, regardless of background and psychological state, if you are actively seeking to heal from traumatic life events or seeking alternative forms of treatment for diagnosed psychological disorders (such as bipolar, schizophrenia etc.) we would not recommend you attending this retreat. The reasoning behind this is that while we can help (Sasha is a licensed and practising psychotherapist and we both have years of experience working with people in quite extreme situations), in the context of this retreat (which is silent and by definition avoids direct personal contact and interaction between participants and/or facilitators) we are not able to provide the specific 1:1 support that is required in such delicate situations.
After Your Retreat
Join our 8-Week Online Integration Course.
This is a profound extension to the content of the retreat!
Through 8 weekly live calls we will dive some familiar topics from the retreat, like trust and surrender, as well as awareness of awareness and self inquiry.
We will also explore new topics, such as emotional digestion, conscious relationships and more!
With Kyle & Sasha
