6 Day Dopamine Reset Retreat in Sierra Nevada, Colombia

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La Ponderosa Reserve, Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia
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Up to 20 in group
Date
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

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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.

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?
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change

Getting Here

Location icon 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.

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.

Accommodation
Private Signature Cabin
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Private Luxury Cabin
Accommodation
Private En-Suite Cabin
Accommodation
Shared Accommodation (Max 2 people per 4-bed bedroom)

Venue & Amenities

Venue & Amenities
A/C in Rooms icon A/C in Rooms
Free Wifi icon Free Wifi
Spa icon Spa
Sauna icon Sauna
Pool icon Pool
Towels icon Towels
Free Parking icon Free Parking
Kitchen icon Kitchen
Tour Assistance icon Tour Assistance
Hot Tub icon Hot Tub
Coffee/Tea icon Coffee/Tea
Cafe icon Cafe
Restaurant icon Restaurant
Fitness Center icon Fitness Center
Yoga Studio icon Yoga Studio
Housekeeping icon Housekeeping
Bicycles For Rent icon 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

Menu Types

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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