Ser Altar 

Tending To Your Inner Altar Retreat

Valle de bravo, mexico

September 12th-17th 2025

Ser Altar

Life moves at its own pace for each of us. Tuning into your personal rhythm—and appreciating the medicine of your own lived experience—is what Ser Altar is all about. We all dance with daily living in our own individualized patterns. Patterns we have acquired throughout our many life times on earth. Sometimes we're just keeping our heads above water, overwhelmed and depleted. Other times we're riding the waves with ease and trust. Most often though, we vacillate between these two bookends, navigating habituated patterns. Let’s create expansion to shift from merely surviving to soulfully thriving, reconnecting with your physical self, subtle body, and the essence that makes you, uniquely you. 

During this immersive experience, you will be guided and nourished by ceremonies, remedies, movement, intentional rest, and rituals that ignite “Ser Altar” -  tending your inner altar. A journey of dedication and commitment to yourself. Exploring "community cultural wealth" and tapping into our personal funds of  knowledge.

We will embody nourishment from the inside out, making connections to the wisdom and autonomy of ourselves and our community.

included in your retreat experience

A retreat curated toward creating a sustainable, loving relationship with the self through mindful nourishment and embodied practices.

  • Our retreat location is a forest home to various social and regenerative projects focused on environmental conservation and cultural preservation. The farm offers an ecological and sustainable culture that allows us to grow as human beings and with the earth in parallel.

    • 5 nights / 6 day accommodation with en-suite bathroom

      • Shared Occupancy Two Queen Beds

      • Single Occupancy Available for Additional Cost

  • All meals included. Served fresh, farm to table, daily.

  • Yoga Āsana

    • Gentle yoga sessions focused on digestion, detoxification, and energy flow

    • Meditative breath

  • Dr. Carmen Amezcua will be sharing how she seeks to give visibility, raise awareness, and provide sustainable solutions for Mental Health to the community. Being a pioneer in Mexico in the practice of Integrative Psychiatry, she proposes to educate and encourage lifestyle changes and motivate knowledge of alternatives, such as the use of herbal remedies, psychonutrition, and adaptogens to improve Mental Health.

    • Ancestral Mexican Herbalism - Traditions, Applications, and Preparations by Dr. Carmen

      • A sensory journey into preparation of herbal infusions and tinctures.

    • Indigenous Gastronomy of the Valley. A harvesting and cooking experience.

    • “Soulful Thriving and Our Gut” by Ranmalee 

      • An experience in optimizing digestion with Nabi Abhiyaņga. A āyurvedic massage focused on our navel center to optimize digestion, stimulate detoxification, and tone our digestive muscles.  

    • Communing with the Land

    • Fire Side chats

    • Ceremonies & rituals

    • Access to the spa on site, with sauna and jacuzzi.

    • Natural spring pool

    • One Āyurvedic Massage included.

    • Rest as Resistance & Baño de flores

    • Flights to CDMX

    • Stays in Mexico City before and/or after the retreat

Accommodations

Early Bird Special Available on a First Come First Serve Basis!

$300 off!

Shared Double Occupancy Room:

$3,100 per guest

Single Occupancy Room:

$3,600 per guest

Each room has en-suite bathroom

travel tips

Airport

Best to fly into AICM (Benito Juarez International Airport), CDMX. Recommended to take the red-eye flight in order to arrive in time for the start of the retreat.

  • Please reach out for any assistance on flight details. We are happy to help!

  • Flights leaving LAX:

    • Red-eye leaving September 12th arrives by 5:00am in CDMX.

Transportation Included

We will arrange your pick you up and drop off at the airport above.

Departure time TBD.

Mexico city is about a 3 hour drive from Valle de Bravo (including traffic).

Your Hosts

SER ALTAR- Tending Your Inner Altar experience is borne from Pao and Ranmalee’s deep belief in dedicating our purpose to nourishing ourselves so we are able to nourish others. SER ALTAR is a call to action. We invite you to join us on this exquisite journey of Tending Your Internal Altar.

Paola

Paola teaches vinyasa in Long Beach, CA. Through mindful movement and meditative action, Paola creates a space for yogis to drop into their mind, body and soul. Her flows are inspired by cultivating a sense of grounding, peace, and bliss. She incorporates asanas in a way that stimulates your senses, fostering connection with the subtle energetic body, keeping a warm and mindful vibe in class. Paola aims for you to leave class with your heart feeling lifted, rejuvenated, and supported. Flow with Pao and embody a sense of freedom by practicing as our unapologetic selves. Deepest gratitude to share directly from the heart within the community and connecting with more radiant souls.

Ranmalee

Ranmalee Perera specializes in multilingual education and language planning policy in the United States and South Asia. Her work focuses on shifting the socratic educational paradigm to one that is deeply embedded in cultural humility and valorizing community cultural wealth of indigenous and under-represented populations in educational spaces. 

Her dedication to reframing indigenous and native wisdom invariably guided her to deepening her practice and knowledge of Vedic traditions and the language of Āyurveda and Yoga. She furthered her commitment to these practices by establishing "seva yoga" and āyurvedic food delivery networks among the diverse communities of Southern California and Veracruz, Mexico. She continues to host Pançakarma and āyurvedic life-style gatherings in United States, Mexico, and Sri Lanka. She is a committed Raja yoga āsan and prānayāma practitioner with decades of experience guiding  yoga āsana and āyurvedic education in Sinhala, English, and Spanish.

Ranmalee is the author of Roots and Rivers; a collection of poetry and vignettes, published in the Spring 2021 and continues to dedicate her life to the ideals of public welfare and community. She is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Applied Theology at the Ramakrishna Seminary/Kālí Mandir, California.