Join us for this specially-themed #EssentialWellness Retreat focusing on Grief-Tending with social worker and author, Lisa Keefauver. This is a retreat where your sorrow will be held and witnessed through sacred practices in the healing embrace of the natural world, at Willka T’ika, in the heart of Peru’s Sacred Valley.

The retreat is for individuals, couples and small groups seeking a tender holding space for their sorrow. Open to all forms of loss including personal, community, and collective grief.

The soulful practices and sacred settings are designed to tend to all dimensions of grief that reside within you and between us all. Our thoughtful sequence of activities, gatherings, meals, and therapeutic treatments aims to nurture every aspect of your being affected by grief: brain, body, emotions, spirit, and relationships with others (both human and non-human). Through a balance of communal connection and mindful solitude, you’ll rediscover what Francis Weller calls an inner truth – that grief is a core human faculty. You’ll learn that by tending to your grief and developing a healthy relationship with it, you also enhance your capacity to embrace life and vitality.

The format of the program is a special adaptation of the model of Willka T’ika’s Seven Chakra Gardens, with each day focusing on a chakra, or energy center impacted by loss. We will guide you through a specialized sequence of mindful activities, therapeutic treatments, poetry readings, guided reflections, and powerful Andean ceremonies.

Ready to Nuture Your Grieving Soul?

Investment in $2,470/person. This fully inclusive rate includes single garden or shared luxury room accommodations, all vegetarian meals, daily yoga, local hiking, spa treatments and additional ceremonies and activities as outlined in the program.

Lisa Keefauver is a narrative therapy-trained social worker and widow turned Grief Activist who transformed her personal and professional experiences with loss into a mission to reimagine grief. For more than two decades, she has dedicated herself to the healing power of holding space and bearing witness, helping transform people’s relationship with grief.

As host of a top-rated grief podcast, TEDx and keynote speaker, grief guide, grief-smart workplace consultant, and author of the highly-acclaimed book, Grief is a Sneaky Bitch: An Uncensored Guide to Navigating Loss, she is expanding our collective understanding of and experience with grief. Join her Substack community at AFGO with Lisa Keefauver.