Essence of Being
Conscious Leadership
Essence of Being
With 15 Hours of Empowering Spiritual Exploration, you will enjoy a profound journey of awakening and transformation, whether you’re just beginning your enlightenment path or are ready to deepen your spiritual evolution. This immersive experience blends meditations, guided breath and dance sessions, energy clearing, channeled wisdom, and powerful healing circles to help you raise your vibration and dissolve lingering obstacles to your connection with Source.
What You Will Learn & Experience:
- Awaken Your Unique Gifts: Discover and refine your innate talents, empowering you to step fully into your highest potential.
- Energy Mastery: Learn practical techniques to manage and protect your energy while cultivating strong energetic boundaries.
- Connect with Spirit Guides: Strengthen your relationship with your guides, receiving their wisdom and support.
- Soul Retrieval: Reclaim more of the hidden fragments of your soul, allowing for more profound healing and wholeness.
- Channel Your Psychic Abilities: Participate in a channel circle where you will learn to access and trust your intuitive gifts, empowering you to channel your innate spiritual potential.
- Trance Dance Experience: Release emotional blockages, align your energy, and express your authentic self through powerful movement.
- Shamanaste Channeling Sessions: Experience the energies and guidance from master teachers and avatars.
- Grounding & Protection: Practice essential techniques to stay rooted and shielded from external influences.
EVENT THOUGHT LEADER
Burge Smith-Lyons
Burge Smith-Lyons is founder of Essence of Being, Inc. and has taught live transformational playshops since 1988 for thousands of men, women, children, and companies on 6 continents with emotional and spiritual healing, self-development, communication techniques, relationships, abundance, team building, and leadership development. She specializes in helping people identify their “Bubble Talk” — subconscious negative self-talk that blocks them from achieving what they want in life.
She has launched the Conscious Leadership Academy in North America, Africa, Asia, and Europe and the founder of the Healing Forest Foundation , a non-profit which has built a school for over 300 kids in Liberia. She is a channel of Shamanaste, certified rebirther, hypnotherapist, intuitive healer, ordained minister, motivational speaker, and international bestselling author.
www.essenceofbeing.com
www.healingforestfoundation.org
www.shamnaste.com
www.theconsciousleadershipacademy.com
RETREAT HIGHLIGHTS
Instruction hours – 17 hours
JOURNEY DETAILS
Registration ends:
Aug 25, 2025
220
Days until the
Registration Date ends.
Event Dates:
From:
Oct 25, 2025
To:
Nov 1, 2025
You will be notified if date changes are necessary
Pricing Details
| Occupancy | Retreat Cost | 25% Deposit (Nonrefundable) | Final payment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Double | $3,749 | $937.25 | $2,811.75 |
| Single | $3,999 | $999.75 | $2,999.25 |
| Pay in Full – Double | $3,562 | – | $3,562 |
| Pay in Full – Single | $3,799 | – | $3,799 |
Additional Note:
Important: Deposits are non-refundable. However, you have the flexibility to apply them to another retreat if circumstances prevent your attendance. (Please see Terms and Conditions)
RETREAT ADD-ON
ADD-ONS:
1 day before retreat: Ayahuasca Ceremony
Arrive Friday. Ceremony Friday night Ayahuasca ceremony at the maloca. (+$500)
Optional: Luxury train ($1,000): Hiram Bingham, A Belmond Train | Luxury Train to Machu Picchu (one way).
Optional: Shamanic ceremony ($150)
Optional: additional Huayna Picchu hike ($80)
Optional: San Pedro ($90)
Optional: Rainbow Mountain on horseback ($90)
Registration add-ons
Luxury Train Belmond Hiram Bingham Luxury train / (one-way to Machu Picchu) $1,000
Personal Valet ($90/day)- Your personal valet will be there to carry anything you bring anywhere and to attend to your every desire. He will hold an umbrella over your head when you need some shade, run to get you water if you have run dry, or find a place to hang your socks should they get wet.
Personal Professional Photographer ($120/day) – There is something to be said for “unplugging,” which is much easier to do if you don’t need your phone for taking photos. Leave your phone at the hotel and still come home with amazing photos of your time in Peru, those you request, and some surprises!
Spa treatment/massage (1 hour) $90
Extra Days ($30 / per day) – Contact us if you would like to add tours or change hotels.
Limo service from/to airport or to excursions $275/full day, $150/half day, $110/airport
Mascaipacha Crown ($500)– This crown was the imperial symbol, worn only by the Inca King and Queen of Cusco. It is made by a local artisan from a lineage of crown makers. The crown is implanted with gold, silver, and seven stones from the area representing the seven chakras, has a fringe of the finest red wool, with red tassels fixed to gold tubes and decorated with gold threads and a tuft bearing two or three upright feathers from the mountain caracara, a sacred bird called Corequenque in Spanish, it was the physical expression of ultimate political power in the Inca Empire. The Crown will be presented by a shaman in a special ceremony. We will package it for the trip home where it will be on your shelf as a beautiful and forever reminder of your time in Peru.
CUSTOMERS SHARING THEIR EXPERIENCE
What’s Included:
- Transport
- Lodging
- Food
- Tri-Lingual Guide
- Excursions
- and Entertainment
Not Included:
- Insurance
- Airfare
- Alcoholic drinks
- Gratuities
- Upgrades to single occupancy or deluxe rooms
Travel Notes:
Guests will need to pay a $30 fee to the government of Peru to visit the archaeological sites.
You will need to fly into Cusco. We recommend you take the Latam Flight that lands in Cusco at 11:04 and depart on the 6:50 flight the following Saturday. These times may change, but get as close as you can. If you arrive later or depart earlier, we will still provide airport transport, but you may miss out on some of the activities.
The retreat also includes a Cusco City Tour and a visit to the San Pedro Market where you will have the opportunity to buy souvenirs. Of course, there will be plenty of time for interesting discussions and relaxation. Come experience the best of the Sacred Valley of the Incas!
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You can expect to walk into one of the most incredible adventures of your life. The retreat is an all-inclusive experience that you will share with a small group of people who are ready to go to that next level in life. You can expect to make new friendships, uncover new insights about yourself that you’ve never accessed before, adopt a new positive mindset, and learn skills, strategies, and tips to take home with you for life.
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