Advancing Modern
Spirituality
Advancing Modern Spirituality
with Dr. Laura Watson
Join us for a sacred week designed to fill our hearts and minds and souls with a refreshing and inspired week of love. Our days are filled meditations, heart openings, initiations, readings and learning. This week is designed for each one of us to uniquely connect with a greater source and cultivate the love relationships with the inner self. This week is uniquely tailored for you. We actively observe the obstacles to our heart opening, the internal self talk, and create acute awarenesses around any obstacles in the way of manifesting a bounty of love within our own hearts. Our daily practices are designed to cultivate personal gifts of love for self and to create an exquisite sense of inner peace.
with the beautiful backdrop of our unique and bountiful gardens of bouganvillea, orchids and exotic birds. Organic freshly prepared meals, daily outings to waterfalls, expansive ocean beaches,
On the physical level, expert body magician Erika pampers physical needs with infrared blanket detox body wraps, lymphatic drainage through targeted reflexology, energetic alignment through cranial sacral therapy. Movement with stretches, yoga, daily pool and land pilates are supported by beautifully prepared home-made meals by Erika that strategically support our weekly cleanse.
Daily program includes a variety of supportive afternoon and early evening treatments from detoxification infrared blankets, reflexology, lymphatic drainage support and infrared laser treatments to personalized vibrational cymatics treatments. All hands-on body treatments are complemented by a variety of state-of-the-art energy medicine treatments.
Daily movements include yoga and pilates, which focus out attention on stretching the meridians thereby supporting the body cleanse. Start the day with hot lemon water and the Five Tibetan movements. Pranayamic breathing meditations, pool and ground pilates, weights, pilates circle, floor mats, pool noodles, and a dipping pool for exercise or luxurious floating are available for your leisure.
The Love Retreat:
A Retreat of Love for Self
Program in El Valle, Panama:
Erika’s commitment to wellness and a healthy body is reflected in the incredible supportive meals she will create to support this week’s overall detoxification program. Through her beautiful creations with fresh food including juicing, smoothies and soups, Erika treats you to a bounty of Panama’s exotic fresh fruits and abundance of vegetables. Each juice, snack and meal is specifically designed to support the body’s detoxification process. Erika daily educates in support of liver and organ cleanses, detoxification processes supporting the body’s alkalinity and the reintroduction of foods into our diet. These delicious recipes are yours to take away in order to further support your body! In order to individualize all meals and treatments for guests, our Retreat remains exclusive.
Alongside our magical body worker Erika is our energy medicine specialist, psychoenergetic healer and retreat host Dr. Laura Watson. Laura supports our psychoemotional and spiritual worlds as they gracefully open. Daily tailored sacred ceremonies, personalized discussions, energetic meditations and spiritual initiations. We work with the elements of nature in our magical garden setting, which sets the tone for our week of spiritual and energetic discovery together. Experience the magic of our intention setting evening, a ritualistic fire release ceremony, a ceremony of water, innate crystal properties and elixirs and their energetic properties, intuitive card and Rune readings with sacred divine spiritual initiations. A celebration of spiritual insight, enrichment that is supportive, magical and transformational.
Our morning Panamanian activities are exclusively curated to support the daily process of the retreat. Join us for a waterfall hike, hiking the infamous India Dormida mountain, a visit to the Butterfly Sanctuary, Nespero Zoo, beach, bike riding El Valle, and a visit to the famous outdoor market for traditional Mola art and other handicrafts.
This is a very unique and special Retreat offering for January 2024. We invite you to join us on this enriching get away that will support all aspects of your mind, body and spirit. Expect a powerful week of transformation, beauty, joy and the upliftment of your body and spirit.
The Retreat Program
Day One - Welcome
Welcome to warm tropical Panama! Upon arrival you will be met at the airport by one of our personalized drivers. Depending on flight arrivals, you may have the opportunity to drive to the El Valle Retreat Center with a fellow participant. Once at the Retreat, settle into your very comfortable Casita room, with stunning views of the cascading gardens of paradise, our classic Panamanian rancho bohio dip pool, and the majestic Gaital mountain surrounds, hugging into our valley. Relax and enjoy the bountiful flora on your private terrace with healthy welcome refreshments. A delicious home made organic dinner kick starts our weekly cleanse and is served on the terrace overlooking gardens and mountains under sparkling stars. After dinner, our first evening workshop begins, focusing on your own unique psychoemotional and physical goals and intentions that support your cleanse and rejuvenation week. This evening we set the tone for our inspired, supported and transformative days ahead. The evening closes with a prayerful meditation and honours the beginning of our magical week together.
Day Tow - Intention Setting
Our second day opens to the choral sounds of exotic song birds singing as you awaken in your cosy cloud forest home. You will be treated to the abundant gifts of nature’s garden in the first of our daily health breakfasts, including fresh juices and smoothies, natural healthy meals supporting detoxification, vibrant and radiant health. After breakfast, hike the infamous India Dormida trail in our volcanic crater. The excursion takes us to the top of the mountains in El Valle where we overlook our volcanic valley and surrounding mountains. Today is our day to ground, settle into the body, and get an overview of our Panamanian paradise.
After hiking, dip into our refreshing pool and enjoy a fresh green juice poolside. Let the sun kiss your skin. A beautiful luncheon on the garden terrace awaits.
The afternoon calls for relaxation and settling into the beginning of our daily treatment regime. Luxuriate in a detoxified body wrap with European creams, lymphatic drainage, reflexology that support the detoxification process of the body, laser or cymatics treatments. The afternoon is also a time to relax, nap, enjoy the garden, or privately journal. Our evening workshop focuses on building intentions and identifying what needs to be released in our lives. Supportive meditations to facilitate these objectives.
Day Three - Conscious Release
Today we consciously enjoy the release of old patterns, behaviours that no longer serve. We free ourselves by releasing old emotional energies into the elements of nature. After breakfast enjoy the sun and beach, enjoy saline ocean waters that aid and support us on our journey. Whether you immerse yourself in ocean waters or choose to experience the ocean’s movement, the consciousness of water supports our conscious release.
A beautiful terrace luncheon awaits upon our return. In the afternoon enjoy a supportive array of body treatments; take time for reflection, journaling, a pool dip or float.
Dinner served as the sun closes upon our day. After dinner enjoy the crackling fire circle ceremony.
Day Four - Just Be
Our quiet day to rest, relax and let our minds and bodies settle into freshly forming selves. Explore aspects of the self in the state of Being. After breakfast visit our local Butterfly Sanctuary and observe the microcosm of transformation in nature. Another delicious Lunch to support our alkalinizing day. Our afternoon continues with gentle movement, yoga, pilates and pool followed by luxurious body treatments that nurture self as well as time for silent meditation and journaling.
A nurturing dinner, followed by an elegant candelight evening filled with magical Akashic cards and Runic stone readings. Our evening is quiet, gentle meditative and connective.
Day Five - Reconstituting Self Building
Today awaken to the creation of life form as we enter the day of the materiality of our world. Explore our waterfall walk in the morning then visit the infamous El Valle market and enjoy our local Mola handiwork and other traditional handicrafts. Afterwards, enjoy a beautiful garden luncheon, pool activities and sumptuous body treatments followed by our supportive dinner. Our evening focuses on the materiality of crystals, gifts of our earth. In meditation we explore the energetic properties of specially cut Vogel crystals, an ancient Tibetan Vajra, crystal generators and vibrational frequencies of a number of varied crystals. Be prepared to transport.
Day Six - Dynamic Self
On our final program day, feel the inspired effects of cleansed and rewenaseour bodies that have been cleansed out, old energies released, renewal and restructuring taking place. Enjoy leisurely bike exercise as we ride around the estates and properties of our town enjoying mountain fresh air and sunshine. Our final luncheon on our garden terrace awaits.
The afternoon is an opportunity for you to cultivate more of what you desire whether body treatments, exercise, pool lounging, pilates, yoga, garden walks or further afield exploration. Take time for journaling.
Our special celebratory final farewell dinner reintroduces nutritionally measl for long term sustainability into the mix. An evening to share with special new friends.
Day Seven - Transition Home
Upon first light and with a breakfast to go, depart your paradise garden of Eden with private transfer back to Panama city to catch your flight.
Information and Pricing:
Add pricing info:
2500 USD per person
Program includes:
All meals, drinks and snacks based on Erika’s delicious nutritious detoxing cleanse
All body and Energy medicine treatments
Individual and group meditations
Shared accommodation in one of our beautiful retreat casitas including organic products and daily in-room cleaning service.
Access to the pool and bikes
Entrance fees and transportation costs for off-site activities
Not included:
Flights and transfers* to El Valle Panama
(*we can offer assistance to participants who require airport transfers from Tocumen or Rio Hato airports)
What to pack:
This is an active retreat. Please bring hiking shoes, hiking water shoes for waterfall (or running shoes that can get wet), a hat;
2 x bathing suits, shorts, comfortable light weight clothing, some beautiful casual clothes that you enjoy wearing for our evening home dinners, flip flops and house shoes, a light sweater or casual throw for the cooler weather in the evenings.
In order to accommodate our guests, we would like to reserve the right to shift some of our activities to suit weather and human conditions.
Your Retreat Guide
Dr. Laura Watson
Laura captures the essence of a free spirit aligned with all of nature and the pure essence of Divinity. She is a spiritual warrior armed with acute observations, a keen desire for truth and a powerful sense of what we need in this world. Kind, caring and patient, Laura brings us her magical gifts of intuitive and powerful insight mixed with a magical sense of beauty and creation.Laura holds a Ph.D. in Complementary and Natural Medicine with a Specialization in Energy Medicine, a Master’s Certificated in Intuition Medicine, M.A. Art History, and has innumerable energy trainings that provide her with a giant fun toolbox to help heal and make the world a better place.
Give your body and mind the gift of a Retreat in El Valle detox program. We offer an opportunity to nourish your body in the heart of the mountains, sea and beautiful clean mountain air. This week initiates your own self-cleansing and self-healing processes. Step into a natural paradise of exotic gardens, birds, mountains and seas that naturally support your overall wellness. This program is an essential for health in order to reset the body into nourishment, alkalinity and optimal performance.
