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THE BEGINNING OF A NEW YEAR OFFERS AN OPPORTUNITY TO PAUSE, REFLECT, AND TURN INWARD TO LISTEN TO THE DEEPER VOICE WITHIN.
While the world often rushes into January, this retreat is an invitation to slow down, reconnect, and intentionally shape the year ahead from a place of clarity, vitality, and purpose.
San Miguel de Allende provides the perfect container for this exploration. A UNESCO World Heritage city believed to sit atop a giant bed of rose quartz — the stone of the heart — it has long attracted artists, seekers, and creatives drawn to its beauty, history, and unmistakable sense of possibility.
Over five days and four nights, we'll gather for an all-inclusive retreat that weaves together sacred movement, mantra-based meditations, guided reflection, meaningful community connection, and immersive cultural experiences with local healers and landmarks to support you in beginning 2027 with intention, presence, and courage.
This retreat is an invitation to reconnect with what matters most and begin the year feeling more grounded, alive, and deeply connected to the life that's calling you forward.
Who This Retreat is For
This retreat is for the thoughtful, curious, and brave-hearted. Those who sense that something is calling them forward and are ready to connect with themselves and their lives on a deeper level.
You may be longing for:
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Deeper connection to your spiritual practice
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A reset from stress or burnout
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Clarity during a season of transition
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Renewed creativity and inspiration
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Greater vitality, purpose, and presence
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Meaningful connection with nature
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Supportive conscious community
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An intentional beginning to the year ahead
Why the Call to Adventure?
Renowned mythologist and philosopher Joseph Campbell taught that the world's great myths all begin with a call to adventure — a sacred invitation to leave the familiar and step into a journey of personal transformation.
While many of the stories that have shaped our culture describe outward adventures, Campbell reminds us that the most meaningful journeys happen within.
This retreat is an invitation to answer your own call, crossing the threshold into a new year with greater presence, purpose, and possibility.
CASA X: A Luxury Sanctuary for Transformation
Nestled at the foot of Los Picachos Mountain, just twenty minutes from the heart of San Miguel de Allende, Casa X is the region's newest luxury retreat center. Blending contemporary design with the quiet beauty of the surrounding landscape, it offers an extraordinary sanctuary where nature, elegance, and stillness create the ideal setting for deep restoration, inner stillness, meaningful connection, and lasting transformation.
Sample Itinerary
DAY 1 / CROSSING THE THRESHOLD
LEAVING THE FAMILIAR BEHIND
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3:00 pm Arrival & Check-in
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Welcome & Orientation
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Dinner
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Opening Circle & Intention Setting
"Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be. If you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
— Joseph Campbell
DAY 2 / MEETING YOUR INNER GUIDE
LISTENING TO YOUR WISDOM WITHIN
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Morning Sadhana Meditation & Gentle Movement
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Nourishing Breakfast
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90-minute Kundalini Practice
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Lunch
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Workshop: The Hero's Journey & Personal Myth Guided Reflection
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Rest, relax, spa time
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Dinner
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Optional evening activity
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens."
— Carl Jung
DAY 3 / THE ROAD OF TRIALS
MEETING THE PARTS YOU'VE LEFT BEHIND
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Morning Sadhana Meditation & Contemplative Nature Walk
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Breakfast
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90-minute Kundalini Practice
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Lunch
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Free Time
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Excursion into Historic San Miguel
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Dinner
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Community Circle
"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
- Leonard Cohen
DAY 4 / THE INITIATION
EMBODYING YOUR TRANSFORMATION & CHOOSING THE PATH AHEAD
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Morning Meditation & Breathwork
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Breakfast
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Preparing for Ceremony
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Temazcal Purification Ceremony
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Lunch & Quiet Reflection
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90-minute Kundalini Practice
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Rest
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Dinner
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Ecstatic Dance Celebration
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." — Anaïs Nin
DAY 5 / THE RETURN
INTEGRATING THE JOURNEY
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Morning Sadhana
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Breakfast
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Kundalini Practice
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Integration: Bringing the Gift Home
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Departures
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" — Mary Oliver
Meet Your Guide
Alison E. Berman is the founder of Lifeforce Labs and a lifelong catalyst of personal and collective transformation.
Her own call to adventure began at age 13 on a 22-day backpacking expedition through Oregon, where she first experienced the profound power of nature, challenge, and community to transform the way we see ourselves and the world.
For over a decade, Alison designed and produced executive experiences and events for leading media companies, venture capital firms, and think tanks. Today, she's thrilled to channel that experience into creating transformational retreats through Lifeforce Labs.
A certified Kundalini Yoga teacher, Co-Active Institute-trained life coach, and current student of Yoga Therapy through the Guru Ram Das Academy, she integrates trauma-sensitive movement, mantra, meditation, breathwork, and neuroscience-informed nervous system practices to create experiences that are grounding, deep, and transformative.
San Miguel is a town dear to her heart.
What's Included
ACTIVITIES & EXPERIENCES
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Sacred Opening Ceremony
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Daily Kundalini Yoga Class in Gorgeous Yoga Shala
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Daily morning Shadana meditation
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Three daily beautiful, nutritious meals
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Onsite sauna, cold plunge, hot tub, pool
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Temescal Group Experience led by local Shaman
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Hiking trails from the base of the retreat center
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Excursion into San Miguel De Allende
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Daily free time to relax and reflect
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Guided earth-based reflective exercises connecting you with the power of personal transformation and the land
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Closing ceremony to integrate
*OPTIONAL ADD-ONS
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Private Massage
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Horse Whispering Animal Therapy Session
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Additional outings to San Miguel De Allende
* Add-ons are not included in retreat cost
Luxury Accommodations &
Pricing Options
SHARED ROOM* (Double Occupancy)
A shared room with one other guest that includes either two queen beds or two twin beds, a private en-suite full bathroom, AC, and a gorgeous view.
Early Bird Pricing - $2,299 USD
Standard Pricing - $2,699 USD
SINGLE OCCUPANCY ROOM
(4 Available)
Your own private room with a king-size bed, gorgeous view, en-suite full bathroom, and AC.
Early Bird Pricing - $2,799 USD
Standard Pricing - $3,199 USD
*All pricing is per person. All rooms include air conditioning and gorgeous private en-suite full bathrooms. All retreat payments are non-refundable.
Getting Here — Nearby Airports
CASA X IS EASILY ACCESSIBLE FROM TWO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS
Querétaro International Airport (QRO) is the closest airport, 90 minutes from the retreat. Guanajuato International Airport (BJX) is approximately 2 hours from the retreat center and offers a nonstop flight from both Oakland (OAK) and Los Angeles (LAX).
Options will be provided for shared airport transportation from BJX and QRO, making your journey smooth to Casa X.
Please email alison@lifeforcelabs.org with any questions
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