Sound Ceremony

27/11/2025

Student one on one sound application practice in the temple 🏵️

“This quietness, which is your real nature, is beyond mind. When you become more and more accustomed to listening to your body and listening to the movements in your mind, you will one day discover yourself in this listening. You can never objectify this this listening. It is totally in the absence of yourself.”
— Jean Klein

21/11/2025

“It is a very fine study, a refined study, to be a human, to have the instrument of a body and a mind that we are playing here, and that is also being played. We must listen to that music, and see what is in tune, and what’s out of tune.”

If your soul is ready to sing its truth, to tune the instrument you are, and to return to a vibration of clarity and depth, we’d love to welcome you on our Voice Medicine Retreat from January 15-21, 2026 on the shores of Lake Atitlán.

Guided by Hayley Saraswatī, Letizia Xiuh, and Shahaf Shvarzman, we invoke the power of your voice as medicine through ritual, song, voice activation, toning, harmonising, and circle singing.

Over 7 deep immersion days, you’ll awaken new levels of authenticity, expression and connection. Enjoy lake-front accommodations, sauna & plant bath afternoons, live chant concerts, and a safe, loving community container to explore your voice and tune the instrument of your being.

📅 January 15th-21st, 2026
📍 Casa Floresta, Atitlán
📣 Limited spaces available.
🔗 To enroll or learn more, please visit our website through the link in the bio.

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09/11/2025

“If you listen completely, wholly, there’s a unified presence that becomes of you. There are no thoughts to think.” -

Mantra means “that which protects the mind.” By focusing on sacred sound through the mantra practice, we can attune ourselves to the vibration of the Divine.

Chanting mantras together in the practice of bhakti yoga further opens the heart and connects us to the sacred dimension of love, surrender, and gratitude.

But over time, the mantra practice is really one of listening to silence, as we dissolve into pure awareness that leads to deep stillness and absorption.

If you’re seeking to deepen your listening by developing a mantra/chanting practice, come join us on the shores of Lake Atitlan for Sound Ceremony Training Nov 17–29, 2025 at Casa Floresta.

Limited spaces available — see link in bio for details and registration.

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26/10/2025

“The antidote to aversion is to soften the edges—to allow it to breathe and move, to accept the fact of what is. If there is agitation, let it be. If there is frustration, let it breathe. If there is guilt or shame, set it free.”

In ceremony, true strength isn’t in how much you can endure—it’s in how much you can loosen your grip.

Softness is the quiet power of the open hand, the open heart. It lets the breath flow. It opens the body to receive guidance.

It’s the courage to be moved by the Great Mystery.

In this way, softness becomes the very ground of transformation.

The more you soften, the more Grace can enter.

Invite this softness with deep listening at our next Sound Ceremony Training:

📅 November 17–23 , 2025
📍 Casa Floresta, Lake Atitlán
📣 Limited number of places
🔗 See link in bio for details and registration.

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21/10/2025

Finding Courage to Be Heard When Your Voice Trembles

There’s a moment—before the sound leaves your lips—when everything inside you wants to hide. The heart races, the throat tightens, and the old fear whispers: stay small.

But this is exactly where your medicine lives.

At the Voice Medicine Retreat, we remember that courage isn’t the absence of fear—it’s love moving through it. When your voice trembles, it’s your soul breaking free from silence. It’s the sound of truth returning home.

Let the voice shake, for even trembling carries the vibration of the heart.

Your voice doesn’t need to be perfect—it needs to be honest.

Each word, each song, each prayer you dare to release becomes an offering to your own becoming.

Speak anyway. Sing anyway. The trembling is holy.

Join us on the Voice Medicine Retreat to explore and unlock your voice with the utmost love and support:

📅 January 15th-21st, 2026
📍 Casa Floresta, Atitlán
📣 Limited spaces available.
🔗 To enroll or learn more, please visit our website through the link in the bio.

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18/09/2025

“We cannot escape the here and the now, and so we may as well rest fully and embrace it every once in a while, and see if it can become our teacher.” —Jaya

Sound can be a profound gateway to presence—especially when we allow ourselves to truly listen. Sound Ceremony Training offers a supportive and transformative space to experience the depth of the present moment through sound. Through instrument labs, voice medicine, chanting, and sound bath training, we explore pathways into stillness and awareness through both sound and silence.

Join us on the shores of Lake Atitlán at Casa Floresta for this transformational journey.

📅 November 17–23 , 2025
📍 Casa Floresta, Atitlán
📣Limited number of places📣

10/09/2025

22/08/2025

Being is the end of becoming.

Realisation of the essence is not the transformation of oneself, but the antithesis of transformation. For truth cannot be transformed, it can only be recognised as none other than what you are.

There is simply resting in what is already awake and already free.

In this, be as you are.

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24/07/2025

What is more important than realising who you truly are?

It is not enough to glimpse it. It is not enough to understand it intellectually. This knowing must happen deeply, directly, unshakably.

Then you won’t have to go looking for big experiences to shake you into truth, because every experience will reveal itself as truth.

You won’t have to climb holy mountains to find what is sacred because right where you stand is holy ground.

You won’t be attached to techniques or methods because the most sacred practice you will ever perform is to simply be exactly as you are.

What you’ve always been.
What you cannot not be.

If you are seeking to “know thyself” by expanding your path of sound and deep listening, join our Sound Ceremony Training on the shores of Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. All levels are welcome — come exactly as you are.

📅 November 17–29, 2025
📍 Casa Floresta, Atitlán
📣Limited number of places!📣

More more information and enrollment, visit our website through the link in the bio.

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06/07/2025

To understand the vibration of pure presence is to be humbled by the magnitude of the miraculous.✨

Are you ready to take a leap in your listening and experience this vibration?

This November, gather with us on the sacred shores of Lake Atitlán for Sound Ceremony Training—a 12-day immersion into presence, listening, and the healing power of sound.

Through hands-on guidance with sound healing instruments and practices, we’ll journey into the yoga of listening itself. This course invites you to see ceremony everywhere. To listen everywhere we go. To see the song everywhere. Do you hear the call?

For more information and enrollment, visit our website through the link in the bio.

📅 November 17–29, 2025
📍 Casa Floresta, Atitlán
📣Limited number of places!📣

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