What Regresa Is
Regresa Retreat & Healing Center sits at the intersection of somatic healing, spiritual depth, cultural reverence, and psychological safety. We create experiences that support real change without spiritual inflation, performative wellness, or overpromising outcomes.
Embodiment over intellect
Truth without shame
Integration over journey
Embodiment Over Intellect
Healing happens in the body. Our work emphasizes somatic awareness, nervous system regulation, and lived experience over analysis alone.
Truth Without Shame
We meet each participant with warmth, respect, and non-judgment. Nothing needs to be fixed before you arrive. We look forward to inviting you in.
Integration Over Escape
The retreat is only the beginning. You become part of our community. We prioritize tools, practices and support that you carry into your real life.
Regresa Retreat & Healing Center is not a vacation and not a quick fix. It is a return. Through thoughtfully designed retreats, individuals find deep healing, restoration, and reconnection. Our experiences integrate mind, body, and spirit through trauma-informed practices, ceremonial plant medicine, and intentional integration support. We create safe, contained spaces for healing where participants can slow down, reconnect with their bodies, and explore meaningful transformation. Each retreat is designed with psychological safety, cultural respect, and long-term integration in mind.
Retreat Offerings
Regresa Retreat & Healing Center offers a range of immersive retreats centered on healing, self-inquiry, and reconnection. While each retreat is unique, all are grounded in intentional design, skilled facilitation, and deep respect for the medicines and traditions involved.
Healing & Restoration Retreats
Designed for individuals navigating burnout, grief, life transitions, or emotional exhaustion. These retreats focus on rest, nervous system regulation, somatic practices, and gentle self-inquiry.
Plant Medicine Retreats
Select Regresa Retreats include the intentional, ceremonial use of plant medicines, facilitated with care, preparation, and integration support. These experiences are grounded in respect for lineage, safety, and participant readiness.
Plant medicine experiences are offered only where legal and appropriate, with thorough screening and preparation.
- Your ancestors knew the way. Your body remembers. Regresa.
FACILITATORS
CHRISTINE BETANCOURT DE LA ROSA
RETREAT DIRECTOR, M.A.
JOSEPH GORORDO
CLINICAL DIRECTOR, LCDC, CWC
BETZ VILLA
JOURNEY DIRECTOR
GRECIA ILIANA
YOGA INSTRUCTOR
JORGE MARTINEZ
ART THERAPY
ANGEL MARTINEZ
MUSIC DIRECTOR
MARIANA GUTIERREZ
SOUND CEREMONY
NORA MALDONADO
CACAO
Rooted in Place
Join Regresa Retreat & Healing Center in Ajijic, Jalisco. The Regresa Retreat is shaped by land, culture, and context. We honor the setting not as a backdrop, but as part of the medicine: simplicity, warmth, and honest return.
FAQ
What does it mean to return?
Regresa means return. Regresa Retreat & Healing Center is an invitation to return to what has always been within you. Not to fix or force, but to remember. Through the body, through rhythm, through rest, we return to regulation, clarity, and sovereignty.
This is not escape. It is homecoming.
Return to self. Return to body. Return to truth. Return to home.
Who is being called to return?
Regresa Retreat & Healing Center is for emotionally aware adults who aready for depth, not performance. For those who feel successful yet untethered, capable yet tired, wise yet disconnected from their own rhythm. It is for leaders, creatives, caretakers, and seekers who sense that the next chapter requires presence, not performance. If your body is asking for pause, you are listening for a reason.
If you are:
• Individuals seeking healing beyond talk therapy alone
• Helpers, clinicians, creatives, and leaders experiencing burnout
• People navigating grief, transition, or identity shifts
• Those called to intentional plant medicine work with proper support
• Anyone longing to reconnect with their body and inner truth
Regresa is calling you home.
How do we return, safely and sovereign?
Our approach is somatic, ancestral, and trauma-informed. We work with the nervous system, not against it, using regulation, ritual, creativity, and rest as guides. Nothing is forced. Nothing is extracted. Your agency is honored at every step.
Every Regresa Retreat is intentionally structured to support safety, depth, and integration before, during, and after the journey.
1. Preparation
Pre-retreat screening, intention setting, and education to ensure readiness and alignment.
2. Immersion
Carefully facilitated experiences including somatic practices, group work, ceremony, movement, rest, and reflection.
3. Integration
Post-retreat support, reflection tools, and optional coaching to help insights translate into daily life.
What unfolds during the return?
April 23rd - April 26th, 2026
Your days at the Regresa Retreat & Healing Center, our all-inclusive plant medicine retreat, unfold slowly and with intention. Evenings open the space through shared meals and gentle ceremonial practices, allowing the body to arrive before the mind is asked to follow. Time is then given to deeper inner exploration, guided journeys held with care and followed by processing, creative expression, and sound that supports rest and integration. As the retreat moves toward completion, the rhythm softens into choice, movement, dialogue, land, or quiet, so that what has been touched can settle naturally. Nothing is rushed. The work is allowed to breathe, and each participant is met where they are. Days at the Regresa Retreat and Healing Center move with intention. Time is held gently, allowing insights to arrive in their own rhythm.
Why is this sacred land the container?
Ajijic, un Pueblo Mágico (magical town) is the home base for Regresa Retreat & Healing Center. Ajijic and Lake Chapala hold a long memory of healing, artistry, and refuge. This land invites slowness, reflection, and reconnection. The lake mirrors what we practice here: stillness, depth, and continuity. The work is held not just by people, but by place. Ajijic and Lake Chapala hold a deep sense of place. Indigenous roots, artistic traditions, and a strong community spirit which coexist with simplicity and care. It is a setting that encourages reflection, grounded connection, and a return to what is essential, an ideal landscape for rest, integration, and honest renewal.
Why is this sacred land the container?
Ajijic, un Pueblo Mágico (magical town) is the home base for Regresa Retreat & Healing Center. Ajijic and Lake Chapala hold a long memory of healing, artistry, and refuge. This land invites slowness, reflection, and reconnection. The lake mirrors what we practice here: stillness, depth, and continuity. The work is held not just by people, but by place. Ajijic and Lake Chapala hold a deep sense of place. Indigenous roots, artistic traditions, and a strong community spirit which coexist with simplicity and care. It is a setting that encourages reflection, grounded connection, and a return to what is essential, an ideal landscape for rest, integration, and honest renewal.
How do I get to Regresa?
To get to the Regresa Retreat & Healing Center in Ajijic (ah-HEE-heek), Jalisco you would fly into Guadalajara International Airport from your home airport. Once you arrive we will have transportation to the retreat and will return you to the airport four days later. Ajijic is a walkable city so no need to rent a car.
Ajijic, Jalisco MX
un Pueblo Mágico
Ajijic (ah-HEE-heek) is a town about 5 kilometres west from the town of Chapala, part of the municipality, in the State of Jalisco, Mexico. It is situated on the north shore of Lake Chapala, surrounded by mountains. Ajijic enjoys a moderate climate year-round.
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