6 Day Dopamine Reset Retreat in Sierra Nevada, Colombia
6 Day Dopamine Reset Retreat in Sierra Nevada, Colombia
La Ponderosa Reserve, Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia
Up to 20 in group
December 2 - 7, 2025
Retreat Highlights
- Retreat Structure: Dopamine Reset and Neuroscience Digital, emotional, and sensory detox with daily applied neuroscience sessions and practical tools.
- Daily Breathwork: Deep techniques including Wim Hof, Circular, Coherence, Diaphragmatic and Rebirthing.
- Conscious Relationships: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Group dynamics focusing on emotional honesty, connection, Transpersonal Psychology and Family Constellations.
- Nature as Teacher: Conscious hikes, river immersions and silent observation in the jungle.
- Creative and Sensory Alchemy: Free movement, somatic expression, evening magical spaces, essential oils, tinctures and sound bath rituals.
- Guided by Lizz Quiñones — a Mexican psychologist and transpersonal therapist with experience supporting more than 1,000 individuals on their personal journeys.
About this Retreat
Your Guides
I’m Lizz Quiñones. Soul psychologist, multidimensional therapist, and intuitive channel.
I hold a sacred space for deep emotional, energetic, and spiritual transformation, weaving love, presence, and ancestral wisdom into every encounter.
I guide you through portals of awakening. Moments where pain, uncertainty, or change become invitations to return home to your essence.
My work is a living tapestry that blends:
-Conscious Breathing (Rebirthing) to clear cellular memory and awaken life force.
-Shadow Integration & Inner Child Work to embrace and alchemize what you’ve hidden or feared.
-Family & Quantum Constellations to heal ancestral patterns and restore the flow of love.
-Soul Oracle Sessions channeling clarity from higher planes.
-Sound Healing & Cacao Rituals to open the heart and realign your vibration.
-Ancestral Medicine & Energy Healing for deep energetic recalibration.
-Human Design, Astrology, Ikigai to reveal the map of your unique purpose.
Each session is a co-created ceremony. Alive, intuitive, and guided by the intention to help you see yourself with more clarity, anchor peace in your body, and embody your inner strength.
Whether you are moving through grief, emotional blocks, spiritual awakening, life transitions, or simply seeking a safe and loving container to just be. I walk beside you, holding space for your remembrance and rebirth.
Details of this retreat
6 Days to Recalibrate Your Nervous System
Step away from the noise and return home to yourself. This retreat offers a sacred space to naturally recalibrate your nervous system, reset brain chemistry, and reawaken your connection to what truly matters.
Through this immersion, you’ll clear mental clutter and cultivate deep inner peace and clarity.
Guided by Lizz Quiñones — a Mexican psychologist and transpersonal therapist — the program weaves together neuroscience, breathwork, ancestral wisdom, somatic therapy, cellular reprogramming, deep meditation practices, and emotional integration.
With experience supporting more than 1,000 individuals on their personal journeys, Lizz creates safe, supportive spaces for transformation and the awakening of authentic inner power.
Step away from the noise and return home to yourself. This retreat offers a sacred space to naturally recalibrate your nervous system, reset brain chemistry, and reawaken your connection to what truly matters.
Through this immersion, you’ll clear mental clutter and cultivate deep inner peace and clarity.
Guided by Lizz Quiñones — a Mexican psychologist and transpersonal therapist — the program weaves together neuroscience, breathwork, ancestral wisdom, somatic therapy, cellular reprogramming, deep meditation practices, and emotional integration.
With experience supporting more than 1,000 individuals on their personal journeys, Lizz creates safe, supportive spaces for transformation and the awakening of authentic inner power.
Schedule
DAY 0: LAND & DROP IN
Theme: Landing in presence. Arrive gently, settle the nervous system and open your energetic field.
Arrival & check-in (15:00 – 17:00)
Opening circle: sacred entry – the circle of truth (17:00 – 18:30)
Light dinner + silent integration (19:00)
Key Question: What part of me needs to fully arrive here, leaving behind what no longer belongs?
DAY 1: PURGE & RESET
Theme: Cleansing the noise – returning to the signal. Remove sensory excess, identify automatic behaviors and reset the nervous system.
Morning ritual: breath of awakening (07:00 – 07:45)
Detox breakfast + silent integration (08:00 – 09:00)
Applied neuroscience masterclass: the dopamine trap (09:30 – 11:00)
The mirror session – inner child reprogramming (11:30 – 13:30)
Conscious lunch + integration break (13:30 – 15:00)
CRT: conscious relationship training (15:30 – 17:30)
Snack + grounding walk / family constellation (17:30 – 18:30)
Dinner (18:45)
Key Question: What are you willing to let die so something new can be born?
DAY 2: REWIRE & RELATE
Theme: From reaction to response. Focus on neuroplasticity, conscious relating, embodied emotion and deep nervous system recalibration.
Morning breathwork activation: the fire breath (07:00 – 07:45)
Nourishment in silence: sacred fuel (08:00 – 09:00)
Applied neuroscience class: the nervous system knows (09:30 – 10:30)
CRT: the art of transparent relating (11:00 – 13:00)
Nourishing lunch + digestive walk in nature (13:00 – 15:00)
Somatic expression session: dance what can't be said (15:30 – 17:00)
Shadow work integration: the protector dialogues (17:00 – 18:00)
Conscious dinner + light sharing (19:00)
Optional quiet ritual: still waters (post-dinner)
Key Question: What truth about myself and my relationships have I avoided and how can facing it set me free?
DAY 3: THE STILL POINT
Theme: Silence is the real teacher. This day emphasizes noble silence, the body as a portal, deep presence and inner witnessing. Silence Protocol – All Day
No talking, phones, music (except guided meditations) or eye contact unless part of the practice. Body language: hands over heart "I create space."
Morning movement & breathwork: primal flow & still breath (07:00 – 08:00)
Silent breakfast – mindful eating: savor the sacred (08:00 – 09:00)
Meditation 1: somatic awareness – the body knows first (09:30 – 10:30)
Meditation 2: nature sitting practice – the forest watches back (11:00 – 12:00)
Integration walk & resting silence: the walk between worlds (12:00 – 13:00)
Silent lunch + rest time: digesting existence (13:00 – 15:00)
Meditation 3: emotional alchemy – observe the one who feels (15:30 – 17:00)
Cacao ritual and rebirth breathwork in silence: the heart portal (17:00 – 18:30)
Dinner in silence: gratitude through presence (19:00 – 20:00)
Word circle: the return of the voice (20:30 – 21:30)
Key Question: What wisdom does silence reveal that noise has kept hidden?
DAY 4: IGNITION & CO-CREATION
Theme: From inner fire to collective purpose. Intense activations, group dynamics and creative preparation for day 5.
Breathwork activation: the phoenix breath (07:00 – 08:15)
Conscious breakfast: fuel the creator (08:30 – 09:30)
CRT & Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) fusion session: truth mapping (10:00 – 12:30)
Group lunch (open table style): food as conversation (13:00 – 15:00)
Alchemy in motion – creative body lab (15:30 – 17:30)
Circle of purpose seeds: the idea drops (17:30 – 18:30)
Silent dinner preparation: sacred fuel for sacred action (19:00 – 20:00)
Night of visioning: future whisper (20:30 – 21:30)
Key Question: How can my pain, my story and my healing become medicine for others?
DAY 5: INTEGRATION & EMBODIMENT
Theme: I am the work, I am the integration. This day is the culmination of a deep metamorphosis, focusing on sacred closure, personal accountability and a creative explosion of truth.
Embodied breath & sunrise movement: awaken with grace (07:00 – 08:00)
Conscious breakfast: sharing through nourishment (08:00 – 09:00)
Signature integration process: mirror of mastery (09:30 – 11:30)
Collective constellation ritual: the web we weave (12:00 – 13:00)
Closing feast: living abundance (13:00 – 15:00)
Final group presentations: legacy activation (15:30 – 18:00)
Integration & reflection space: return to self (18:00 – 19:00)
Farewell dinner & tribe time: celebrating the tribe (19:00 – 20:00)
Final fire ceremony and sacred dance: the flame remains (20:00)
Key Question: What am I taking home as a vow, a practice or a legacy to embody in my daily life?
Theme: Landing in presence. Arrive gently, settle the nervous system and open your energetic field.
Arrival & check-in (15:00 – 17:00)
Opening circle: sacred entry – the circle of truth (17:00 – 18:30)
Light dinner + silent integration (19:00)
Key Question: What part of me needs to fully arrive here, leaving behind what no longer belongs?
DAY 1: PURGE & RESET
Theme: Cleansing the noise – returning to the signal. Remove sensory excess, identify automatic behaviors and reset the nervous system.
Morning ritual: breath of awakening (07:00 – 07:45)
Detox breakfast + silent integration (08:00 – 09:00)
Applied neuroscience masterclass: the dopamine trap (09:30 – 11:00)
The mirror session – inner child reprogramming (11:30 – 13:30)
Conscious lunch + integration break (13:30 – 15:00)
CRT: conscious relationship training (15:30 – 17:30)
Snack + grounding walk / family constellation (17:30 – 18:30)
Dinner (18:45)
Key Question: What are you willing to let die so something new can be born?
DAY 2: REWIRE & RELATE
Theme: From reaction to response. Focus on neuroplasticity, conscious relating, embodied emotion and deep nervous system recalibration.
Morning breathwork activation: the fire breath (07:00 – 07:45)
Nourishment in silence: sacred fuel (08:00 – 09:00)
Applied neuroscience class: the nervous system knows (09:30 – 10:30)
CRT: the art of transparent relating (11:00 – 13:00)
Nourishing lunch + digestive walk in nature (13:00 – 15:00)
Somatic expression session: dance what can't be said (15:30 – 17:00)
Shadow work integration: the protector dialogues (17:00 – 18:00)
Conscious dinner + light sharing (19:00)
Optional quiet ritual: still waters (post-dinner)
Key Question: What truth about myself and my relationships have I avoided and how can facing it set me free?
DAY 3: THE STILL POINT
Theme: Silence is the real teacher. This day emphasizes noble silence, the body as a portal, deep presence and inner witnessing. Silence Protocol – All Day
No talking, phones, music (except guided meditations) or eye contact unless part of the practice. Body language: hands over heart "I create space."
Morning movement & breathwork: primal flow & still breath (07:00 – 08:00)
Silent breakfast – mindful eating: savor the sacred (08:00 – 09:00)
Meditation 1: somatic awareness – the body knows first (09:30 – 10:30)
Meditation 2: nature sitting practice – the forest watches back (11:00 – 12:00)
Integration walk & resting silence: the walk between worlds (12:00 – 13:00)
Silent lunch + rest time: digesting existence (13:00 – 15:00)
Meditation 3: emotional alchemy – observe the one who feels (15:30 – 17:00)
Cacao ritual and rebirth breathwork in silence: the heart portal (17:00 – 18:30)
Dinner in silence: gratitude through presence (19:00 – 20:00)
Word circle: the return of the voice (20:30 – 21:30)
Key Question: What wisdom does silence reveal that noise has kept hidden?
DAY 4: IGNITION & CO-CREATION
Theme: From inner fire to collective purpose. Intense activations, group dynamics and creative preparation for day 5.
Breathwork activation: the phoenix breath (07:00 – 08:15)
Conscious breakfast: fuel the creator (08:30 – 09:30)
CRT & Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) fusion session: truth mapping (10:00 – 12:30)
Group lunch (open table style): food as conversation (13:00 – 15:00)
Alchemy in motion – creative body lab (15:30 – 17:30)
Circle of purpose seeds: the idea drops (17:30 – 18:30)
Silent dinner preparation: sacred fuel for sacred action (19:00 – 20:00)
Night of visioning: future whisper (20:30 – 21:30)
Key Question: How can my pain, my story and my healing become medicine for others?
DAY 5: INTEGRATION & EMBODIMENT
Theme: I am the work, I am the integration. This day is the culmination of a deep metamorphosis, focusing on sacred closure, personal accountability and a creative explosion of truth.
Embodied breath & sunrise movement: awaken with grace (07:00 – 08:00)
Conscious breakfast: sharing through nourishment (08:00 – 09:00)
Signature integration process: mirror of mastery (09:30 – 11:30)
Collective constellation ritual: the web we weave (12:00 – 13:00)
Closing feast: living abundance (13:00 – 15:00)
Final group presentations: legacy activation (15:30 – 18:00)
Integration & reflection space: return to self (18:00 – 19:00)
Farewell dinner & tribe time: celebrating the tribe (19:00 – 20:00)
Final fire ceremony and sacred dance: the flame remains (20:00)
Key Question: What am I taking home as a vow, a practice or a legacy to embody in my daily life?
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change
Getting Here
La Ponderosa Reserve, La Ponderosa Reserve, Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia
Directions
Book your flight to Simón Bolívar International Airport (SMR) in Santa Marta, Colombia.
Private transport will be arranged to pick you up directly from the airport. The estimated travel time to La Ponderosa Reserve is about 2.5 hours.
Upon arrival, our team will assist you and your luggage in crossing the Buritaca River to complete your journey to the reserve.
Private transport will be arranged to pick you up directly from the airport. The estimated travel time to La Ponderosa Reserve is about 2.5 hours.
Upon arrival, our team will assist you and your luggage in crossing the Buritaca River to complete your journey to the reserve.
Accommodation
Our accommodation includes a variety of eco-friendly bamboo and wooden cabins which all come with en suite and outdoor shower, as well as dormitory style beds located within our refurbished traditional Colombian farmhouse. Includes access to high-speed Starlink WiFi at multiple spots through-out the property.
Private Signature Cabin
Private Luxury Cabin
Private En-Suite Cabin
Shared Accommodation (Max 2 people per 4-bed bedroom)
Venue & Amenities
A/C in Rooms
Free Wifi
Spa
Sauna
Pool
Towels
Free Parking
Kitchen
Tour Assistance
Hot Tub
Coffee/Tea
Cafe
Restaurant
Fitness Center
Yoga Studio
Housekeeping
Bicycles For Rent
Within the 13 hectares at La Ponderosa Reserve we offer a large restaurant and bar, a beautiful fitness and yoga space, a huge river beach along a crystalline river, a permaculture project with cultivation and food forests and a huge converted traditional Colombian farmhouse.
Meals
Menu Types
Vegan
Vegetarian
Pescetarian
Ayurvedic
Includes Meat
Organic
Gluten Free
Dairy Free
Nut Free
Our menu has been designed by a vegetarian chef and nutritional therapist to provide delicious & nutritious food, blending local produce with global cuisine. We can adapt for any dietary requirements
What's Included
- 5 nights accommodation
- 3 meals a day
- Airport Pick Up Private Transport
What's Not Included
- Airfare
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