Hridaya Family Meditation & Yoga Retreat Center, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chis., Mexico
Up to 16 in group
May 6 - 12, 2027
About this Retreat
Kyle is a meditation and yoga teacher with 12 years of full-time teaching experience. His background spans
non-dual Shaivite Tantra, the Self-Inquiry tradition of Ramana Maharshi, somatic practice, and embodied inquiry.
He has studied directly with leading Sanskrit scholars and Tantrik teachers, including Acharya Sthaneshwar
Timalsina of the Vimarsha Foundation, and continues deepening his engagement with classical Tantric traditions
through extended personal practice, solitary and darkroom retreat, and ongoing Sanskrit study. He lives and
teaches at Hridaya Family retreat centre in Chiapas with his partner Sasha.
Sasha is a certified yoga and meditation teacher, psychologist, and somatic movement therapist with 13 years of
dedicated practice. Her work integrates non-dual Tantric teaching with psychological depth and embodied
movement. She co-founded Hridaya Family with Kyle and teaches every retreat at the centre. Her facilitation is
Details of this retreat
Summary
Most of us cycle through the same relational patterns regardless of the partner. The face changes. The experience doesn't. Something in the dynamic is being run by conditioning older than the relationship itself.
This retreat is a direct response to that recognition. It is not couples therapy, not a communication workshop, and not a spiritual bypass of the real difficulties of intimacy. It is a seven-day immersive exploration of love, relationship, and sexuality rooted in Tantric teaching, somatic practice, and precise psychotherapeutic tools — held by a facilitating couple who live this work, not just teach it.
The retreat is structured around five areas: presence and genuine contact, emotional patterns and their roots, conscious communication and conflict, polarity and erotic aliveness, and the movement toward love beyond personal need. Each area is approached through teaching, practice, partner exercises, and direct inquiry — in a setting that is safe, intimate, and free from performance pressure.
Singles and couples of any gender identity or sexual orientation are welcome. The retreat contains no nudity or explicit sexuality. The facilitators are a heterosexual couple and will draw primarily on their own lived experience — disclosed clearly so participants can assess fit.
Content
The Retreat Experience
A Path That Starts With You
Before we can genuinely meet another person, we have to be willing to meet ourselves. The reactive patterns, the withdrawal, the need to be right: these are not character flaws. They are strategies the nervous system developed, often long before the current relationship, to manage experiences that felt unsafe. This retreat works directly with that level.
Five Areas of Exploration
• Presence, Safety, and Real Contact — staying present with yourself and another especially when things feel charged; developing nervous system safety and the capacity to meet the person in front of you rather than your story about them
• Emotional Patterns and Roots — bringing honest awareness to conditioning, childhood dynamics, and subconscious strategies that shape how we choose partners and respond to intimacy; transforming unconscious repetition into conscious choice
• Conscious Communication and Conflict — communicating honestly and skillfully, and relating to conflict without collapse, blame, or withdrawal; tension as a doorway to clarity and closer contact, not a sign that something has gone wrong
• Polarity, Pleasure, and Erotic Aliveness — exploring attraction, playfulness, and the energetics of masculine and feminine polarity; opening the body to pleasure, circulating sexual energy, and reconnecting with erotic vitality as a living force in relationship
• Sacred Intimacy and Love Beyond the Ego — how relationship and sexuality can become part of a genuine spiritual path; moving from need-based love toward something less conditional and more real
What this is not: not group therapy, not a process for people in acute relational crisis. For people who take love seriously as a
dimension of their practice and their life.
What Makes This Retreat Special
• Led by facilitators with decades of deep experience and extensive personal practice — Kyle and Sasha live together, teach together, and run Hridaya Family together; the curriculum is drawn from their own relational and spiritual practice, not a generic workshop format
• Three traditions, woven together — Tantric wisdom, non-dual spiritual teaching, and psychotherapeutic tools (Hendrix, Rosenberg, Matveev, Schnarch) integrated into a single coherent approach rather than presented as separate modules
• Open to singles and couples of all orientations — solo participants engage the material through partner exercises with fellow attendees
• Small group, intimate setting — maximum 22 participants, family-run centre, mountain pine forest
• No nudity, no explicit content — the Tantric approach to sexuality is energetic and psycho-spiritual, clearly stated and consistently maintained
Full Program
Registration opens Day 1 at 15:30 with an introductory session that evening. Formal teaching begins Day 2 at 9:00.
Daily Schedule
• 09:00–13:00 Morning sessions: morning practice, sharing circle, teaching with exercises, group process
• Lunch break
• 15:30–19:00 Afternoon sessions: practice and sharing, theory with partner exercises, solo and paired practice
• Some evenings may extend to accommodate special ritual practices
Curriculum Areas Across the Week
• Presence and real contact
• Emotional healing and pattern awareness
• Conscious communication and conflict as growth
• Polarity and erotic aliveness
• Sacred intimacy and love beyond the ego
• Methods: Hatha Yoga, partner meditation, Eye Contact and Transfiguration practices, NVC communication, somatic exercises, and classical Tantric approaches to sexuality
Benefits
• Recognition of the unconscious patterns that have been running your relational life — and practical tools for beginning to change them
• A body-based approach to intimacy: not just understanding relationship better but actually feeling differently in the presence of another person
• Renewed or deepened connection to erotic aliveness, understood as a living force rather than performance
• A framework for relating to conflict that makes it less threatening and more generative
• Clarity about what you actually want in relationship and what has been getting in the way