Retreats

Viva Institute provides dynamic group workshops and seminars in lush, beautiful retreat settings in South America and the United States. It is our belief that groups and individuals experience their highest levels of creativity when their spirits, minds and bodies are in balance. We are committed to ensuring that every retreat ensures healthful, restful, and rejuvenating learning opportunities for our guests.

Viva Retreats are intended to be catalysts for change. The effects our seminars have on our guests are intended to last far beyond the days of the programs. As part of every Viva Program, we offer continuous group or individual coaching to support our guests in integrating the skills they have learned to help them achieve their personal visions and goals.

Our seminar leaders have over 12 years of experience in the areas of communication & intercultural training and coaching, conflict resolution, strategic planning, and health and nutrition (raw/living foods). Visit Upcoming Events to read about our current offerings.

Why Viva Retreats?

Individuals

  • To rest, rejuvenate, and renew
  • To spiritually reconnect through daily meditation, topic-specific instructional seminars, and opportunities to connect with the physical environment
  • To learn about the care of the physical body through guided exercises and live food

Organizations and teams

  • To certify a team of instructors or employees in a new technique.
  • To reward a team of professionals for reaching a goal while inspiring them to work toward the next level of their professional and personal development
  • To bring a team or department within an organization to consensus on a new concept or goal

Learn: feed your mind with new information and skills that will empower you to be of better service to yourself and others in the world.

Create: by eating healthy, energetic, and fresh foods while you learn and play, you will experience clarity of mind, focus, purpose, and positive emotions which are the right ingredients for creating your future experiences. Viva provides the right mental and physical state and the support to awaken fresh ideas, stimulate innovative projects and encourage new beginnings.

Move beyond difficulties: when you develop clarity of perception and a sense of connectedness to others and the world around you, even your difficulties can be seen as messengers for change towards an expanded, joyful and more peaceful life.

Rest and renew: allow your mind and body to recover from your routinely busy life in a different environment promotes healing, change, and renewed creativity.

Experience joy: how easy it is to forget that this is the reason we are alive! To remind you of this, Viva will provide you with:

  • an abundance of colorful, healthy and delicious plant-based foods prepared by Universo Organico;
  • a breathtakingly beautiful settling in which to learn;
  • a supportive, attentive, and experience staff; and
  • rich programs and seminars custom-designed to nurture you on your path to greater joy.

Feel supported in your path: guests may choose to invest in ongoing group and individual coaching by phone, email, and live chats, Viva provides continuous support beyond your retreat week to help you integrate what you have learned into regular practice.