Silence
After a few days, the mental noise drops off. You stop performing — no faces to keep up, no opinions to manage. The thoughts you've been busy outrunning start to surface, and there's nowhere to put them except here.
The quiet does the work.
The Retreat · ten-day intensiveTen days to
Ten days to
face yourself
Ten days of complete silence on the edge of the jungle outside Tulum, in a small group. No phone, no screens, no socialising. A raw vegan diet, intermittent fasting, and a private session with Chi every single day. Most retreats are built to make you feel good. This one is built to make you face yourself. It's harder than comfortable, and more useful.
A full reset,
top to bottom
Silence, detox, and guidance, held in a fixed daily rhythm. Each one shifts something on its own. Ten days of all three at once is a different order of thing.
Daily time with Chi
The silence brings things up. The daily session is where you work with them. Chi meets you where you actually are, not some ideal version of where you should be by now. Most of the real shifts happen here.
The spine of the whole thing.
Raw vegan food
Everything you eat is raw, plant-based, gluten free and without refined sugar. Two meals a day taken in silence, then a fast until breakfast. Lighter food, lighter system. That's the point.
Light food. Clear head.
Digital detox
Devices go into a box upon arrival and stay there. No screens, no notifications, not even a clock. Attention span comes back. You remember what it's like to be in a room without also being somewhere else.
Off the grid. On purpose.
Our daily structure
- 06:00Stillness meditation
- 07:30Morning Teaching with Chi
- 08:00Awakened Body Movement
- 09:00Breakfast
- 10:00Time for rest and reflection
- 12:30Healing Juice
- 14:00Lunch
- 15:00Siesta
- 19:00Qigong Session
- 20:00Satsang & Closing the day
A cabana
of your own
All accommodation is a private cabana with an en-suite bathroom — simple, your own door, your own space. One price covers the whole stay: the bed, the food, the teaching, all of it.
Private Cabaña with A/C
- En-suite bathroom
- Private front porch
- AC + ceiling fan
$1,4441 person
$1,9992 people
10 days / 9 nights
Private Cabaña with Fan
- En-suite bathroom
- Private front porch
- Ceiling fan, jungle breeze
$1,3331 person
$1,8882 people
10 days / 9 nights
What's covered
- Two raw meals daily + fresh juice
- A daily session with Chi
- All practices — movement and meditation
- Bedding and a towel
- A follow-up call after you leave
No instant booking · we talk firstTell us you're
Tell us you're
thinking about it.
Ten days here is a real commitment, so we begin with a conversation: a few words from you, then a call. No deposit, no pressure. Write when you're ready.
✉ connect@the-essence.org◷ we reply within a few days
Before you come,
have a look
Plenty of time for rest and reflection
The things
people ask
Still unsure about something? That's normal — it's why we start with a conversation rather than a checkout.
Ask us anything →Yes. Devices go into a box on day one and come back on day ten. We hold an emergency number for family, and someone checks it daily — so you can be reached if it truly matters. Everything else can wait.
