Ixtalÿ Soto

Meditation Facilitator – Ixtaliy was born in Peru in 1968 and raised in Colombia and Brazil. She chosed traveling as a back-packer craft woman for many years all over Latin America and later on in Europe, specially in Ibiza, Spain. This journey opened her creativity and sensitivity to social and human issues. Her passage through the Andes mountains and Amazonian rainforest very early in her life carved her deeply inside and was marked by the teachings of Huachuma – also known as San Pedro, the ancestral sacred cactus of the Andes, that inspired and transformed her life in one session , opening her body-mind-soul to a completely new life.

Since 2017 organizing with love and commitment Yoga Retreats and since 2019 Yoga and Medicine Retreats with her partner Ingrid Christiansen, a journey of service and LOVE IN ACTION.

On the retreats, besides serving breakfast and holding space for participants at any time required, she facilitates Mindfulness Meditation workshops inspired by the Mindfulness based stress reduction program (MBSR) and offers holistic massages to balance energy and reconnect to the self and Tarot readings to bring to light subjects that need attention and a fresher way of seeing;

She is also one of the co-founders of the association Verdejar d’Ajuda verdejardajuda.org, an ecological project in Bahia, Brazil, which mission is to plant a million trees and bring environmental education and awareness of our responsibility to mitigate the impact of climate change to her community, and part of the benefits of the retreats supports it.