June 21-28, 2026

Return To The Sacred Land :

Peru

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Seven  years ago, I led my first retreat in Peru. I arrived seeking something I could not fully name, and I left with a quiet knowing that the land had changed me. The mountains, the stillness, the sense of being held by something ancient stayed with me long after I returned home.
Over the years, I have felt a steady pull to come back. Not to recreate the past, but to listen more deeply and to share this place with the community that has grown around Empty Space. This retreat is an invitation to slow down, to be guided by the land, and to return to what feels essential.
I am honored to gather with you in the Sacred Valley.

-Alex Artymiak

Retreat Date: June 21-28

*4 nights stay for yoga and excursion plus 3 nights for plant medicine ceremony and integration

Living room with two pink sofas, decorative pillows, and a wooden coffee table, featuring a rustic style with a mezzanine and a staircase, shelves with books and ornaments, and a small table lamp.
A modern house with large glass windows glowing with warm interior lights, surrounded by a lawn and trees, with mountains in the background at dusk.
A cozy indoor-outdoor dining area with a glass table, a vase of yellow flowers, and decorative plates on a pink stucco wall.
Exterior view of a house with a brick and stucco facade, large windows, a stone pathway, and potted plants, with green mountains in the background.
A garden with a grassy pathway flanked by rows of bushes and small trees, leading to houses at the foot of a mountain range under a partly cloudy sky.

Retreat Pricing:

Cozy bedroom with a large bed, wooden headboard, white bedding, decorative pillows, and folded towels. Two small bedside lamps, wooden beams on the ceiling, closet with wooden doors, and artwork hanging above the bed.

Private King Size Room (Sleeps 2)

$3000pp - Single

$2600pp - Sharing Room

*Individual Bathroom

A bedroom with three wooden bunk beds, a window showing greenery outside, and a striped rug on the floor.

Shared Single (Sleeps 4)

$2200 per person

A small bathroom with a wooden door, a sink with a wooden countertop, decorated with soap and flowers, a toilet, a walk-in shower with a glass divider, a small window above, and light-colored textured walls.
Nighttime scene featuring a wooden hot tub on the left and a small staircase decorated with yellow glowing orbs on the right, surrounded by trees and bushes.
Rustic kitchen with wooden cabinets, a stainless steel refrigerator, a stove, and open shelving with dishes and glassware. Patterned tile floor and exposed wooden ceiling beams.

What’s Included

seven nights accommodation

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner with high vibrational food

Daily morning and evening yoga practices and meditation

In-depth yoga workshops

One Temazcal Session

Woodfire Hot tub

Excursions to Ollantaytambo, Chinchero, Maras, and Moray

Cultural activities such as Cacao Ceremony, Despacho Ceremony, Ancestral Sound Ceremony, and other local healing ceremonies

Inti Raymi Celebration (Festival of the Sun)

Transportation from and to Cuzco Airport

Cost does not include:

International roundtrip flight to Cusco via Lima

Travel Insurance

Tips, sundries, alcoholic and bottled beverages, laundry and individual spa services

Plant medicine ceremonies - two extra night stay is required

Payment Details:

$500 Deposit to secure your space

Full payment due May 20th

Cancellation Policy

$500 deposit is nonrefundable.

$1000 nonrefundable (includes deposit) after May 20th, 2026

Cancellations within 3 weeks of departure may incur other fees.

We understand that life can shift. Please read our cancellation terms carefully.

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Retreat Leaders

A person sitting cross-legged on the floor in a meditation pose with eyes closed, wearing a black shirt, shorts, and beaded bracelets, against a plain dark background.

Alex Artymiak

Alex (E-RYT 500) is a yoga, meditation, and breathwork teacher, and a sound facilitator. Teaching since 2011, he has led over 7000 classes, trainings, and retreats around the world.

His path began through surfing and a curiosity for strength and balance, and gradually deepened into an exploration of awareness and the mind body connection. To Alex, yoga is an energetic practice expressed through the physical body. His teaching emphasizes sensation, presence, and inner listening, inviting a grounded and intuitive experience.

Alex co-led a retreat in Peru with Lokah ten years ago, an experience that continues to shape his relationship with the land and his work today. After many years in Santa Monica, he now lives in Old Chatham with his family and leads classes, retreats, and sound journeys through Empty Space.

His work has been featured in The New York Times, Goop, and other national publications.

Person with a hat on stage leading a large crowd at a festival or concert under a canopy.

Lokah Bhakti

Leo, known as Lokah, is a native born Peruvian and a lifelong practitioner of ancestral and devotional traditions. Growing up in Peru, he was immersed in indigenous shamanic rituals passed down through various lineages, learning directly from elders and ceremonial traditions rooted in the land.

He was also raised in a Vedic temple, where he studied healing through sacred mantra, devotional chanting, and movement as a path to liberation. These early experiences shaped a deep understanding of ritual, sound, and prayer as living practices.

Lokah weaves together Andean shamanic wisdom and Vedic devotional traditions, offering a grounded and intuitive ceremonial presence. His work bridges cultures with reverence and humility, creating spaces that honor both ancestral lineage and personal transformation.

A young woman sitting on a rug in front of a window, playing crystal singing bowls and using a mallet. Behind her are large hanging gongs and a mirror reflecting a chair and a small statue. Outside the window, snowed trees are visible.

Anna Yang

Anna is a sound meditation facilitator, retreat host, and entrepreneur in the health and wellness space. Her work is rooted in creating environments where people can slow down, listen deeply, and reconnect with themselves through sound, presence, and community.

Her path into sound meditation emerged through a personal turning point that revealed sound as both a grounding force and a bridge to healing. With a musical background and professional training under David Shemesh, Anna has led sound journeys and meditative experiences on both the West and East Coasts, guiding participants into states of deep rest and awareness.

Anna is the founder of Empty Space, a practice and platform devoted to sound, stillness, and intentional gathering. Together with Alex, she co holds retreat spaces with care and clarity, creating containers where individual experience and shared presence are equally honored.

Photo of Machu Picchu, an ancient Incan citadel in Peru, surrounded by green mountains and misty clouds, with visitors exploring the site.

Upon arrival in Cusco, we begin our journey with a scenic 1.5 hour drive through the Andes, descending into the Sacred Valley. The landscape unfolds slowly, offering our first invitation to soften and arrive.

We arrive and settle into the land. After check in, there is time to explore the property, rest, and acclimate to the serene surroundings. The air carries a sense of quiet anticipation as the retreat begins to take shape.

In the afternoon, we gather for an official welcome and orientation, opening the container for the days ahead and setting shared intentions for our time together.

As evening approaches, we share our first nourishing meal together. After dinner, we gather around the bonfire for a gentle, open circle to meet one another, connect, and begin weaving the community that will hold us throughout the retreat.

Day One

Check-In

1:00 pm - 3:00pm

Restorative Yin Yoga

4:00pm

Welcome Dinner

6:30pm

Bonfire

8:00pm

A woman dressed in traditional Andean clothing, sitting on the ground and working on craft items on a large colorful cloth, with stones, souvenirs, and craft supplies around her, set against a rocky outdoor backdrop.
Group of people dressed in traditional Peruvian Andean clothing, sitting and standing on colorful textiles outdoors in a mountainous landscape with cloudy sky.

Day Two

We begin the day with a gentle yoga practice to awaken the body and ground into the rhythm of the land, followed by a nourishing breakfast.

In the late morning, we gather for a yoga workshop led by Alex Artymiak, offering space to explore movement, breath, and awareness with greater depth and curiosity.

In the afternoon, we come together for a Despacho ceremony, a traditional Andean ritual of gratitude and intention. Guided with reverence, this offering to Pachamama invites reflection, connection, and a deep honoring of the land that holds us.

Morning Yoga & Meditation

7:30 – 9:00am

Breakfast

9:00am - 10:00am

Yoga Workshop

11:00 - 12:30pm

Lunch

12:30 - 1:30pm

Despacho Ceremony

2:00 - 4:00pm

Restorative Yin Yoga

4:30 - 5:30pm

Dinner

6:30 - 8:00pm

Salt evaporation ponds on a mountainside with reddish-brown cliffs in the background and several people walking on the ponds.
Terraced agricultural fields on a hillside with a mountain in the background under a cloudy sky.

Day Three

After breakfast, we set out for a full day excursion through the Sacred Valley.

We visit the Maras Salt Mines and the Zona Arqueológica de Moray, ancient Incan sites that reveal the ingenuity, cosmology, and deep relationship between the people and the land. These places invite curiosity, reflection, and a sense of awe as we walk among living history.

Midday, we share a delicious local Andes lunch by the lake, offering time to rest, connect, and take in the surrounding landscape.

We return to Munay Sonqo in the late afternoon, with the evening left open for rest, integration, and quiet reflection.

Morning Yoga & Meditation

7:30 – 9:00am

Breakfast

9:00am - 10:00am

Full Day Excursion

10:00 - 4:00pm

Restorative Yin Yoga

4:30 - 5:30pm

Dinner and Closing Circle

6:30 - 8:00pm

Please note that this itinerary is offered as a guide and will be finalized as the dates get closer. Promise, it will only get better!

A traditional parade on a city street with a large crowd of spectators. Participants wear colorful costumes, some with striped patterns, and carry decorative umbrellas and staffs around a person dressed as a king or leader on a float.

After morning yoga and breakfast, we travel to Cusco to witness Inti Raymi, the Festival of the Sun. Celebrated each year on June 24, Inti Raymi marks the winter solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year, and is considered the most important festival of the Inca Empire.

The city comes alive with ceremony, music, and movement. More than 800 artists, dressed in traditional garments, participate in dances, rituals, and theatrical performances that honor the sun, the earth, and ancestral cosmology. It is a powerful immersion into living history and cultural reverence.

We enjoy lunch in Cusco during the festivities before returning to Munay Sonqo in the evening. Dinner is shared back at the retreat center, offering space to rest, reflect, and integrate the day’s experience.

Day Four

Morning Yoga & Meditation

7:30 – 8:30am

Breakfast

9:00am - 10:00am

Inti Raymi Celebration

11:00 - 5:00pm

Dinner

6:30 - 8:00pm

A traditional Native American adobe oven with a rounded, dome-shaped structure and a small arched entrance, located outdoors under a thatched roof with stone walls on sides.

Day Five-Seven

Two nights plant ceremonies, Temazcal experience and one day of integration