Bambuddha located in Barra Vieja, Acapulco, Mexico | November 22 – 29, 2026

The Gratitude Gathering is an intimate eight-day beachfront retreat created for those seeking reflection, reconnection, ceremony, and meaningful inner exploration in a setting of beauty, privacy, and care.

Hosted at Bambuddha, a secluded oceanfront retreat space in Barra Vieja outside Acapulco, Mexico, this experience is intentionally designed as a small-group immersion, allowing participants to step away from the noise of daily life and reconnect with themselves through nature, community, movement, rest, and intentional practices.

Guests may choose between private or shared accommodations nestled along the Pacific coast, with nourishing meals, ocean air, and a carefully curated flow of ceremony, integration, relaxation, and meaningful connection woven throughout the week.

The retreat is guided by Bearheart, Pyasa, Vistara, and Paolo, each bringing their own unique presence, experience, and care to the space. Together, they create an environment rooted in integrity, attentiveness, gratitude, and authentic human connection.

Each day begins slowly, with grounding practices, movement, reflection, and time in nature. Throughout the retreat, guests may participate in optional individual ceremonial experiences held in a private and supportive setting. The week also includes Temazcal ceremonies, integration spaces, beach time, group activities, and spaciousness for rest and personal reflection.

Rather than focusing on intensity or spectacle, Gratitude Gathering is centered on intentional living, meaningful conversation, emotional grounding, and creating space for clarity, healing, and reconnection.

This is a carefully held experience designed for people who value depth, authenticity, privacy, and genuine transformation.

Expected Retreat Flow

(This schedule is subject to change)

Sunday, November 22

• Arrival day and check-in
• Settling into accommodations
• Welcome dinner and opening gathering

Monday, November 23

• Morning grounding practices / yoga
• One-on-one sessions with Bearheart and Pyasa
• Temazcal ceremony

Tuesday, November 24

• Morning grounding practices / yoga
• Optional individual ceremonial experiences
• Trauma Release Session
• Beach time and integration

Wednesday, November 25

• Morning grounding practices / yoga
• Optional activities and excursions (kayaking)
• Rebar bending
• Oceanfront relaxation and community gathering

Thursday, November 26

• Morning grounding practices / yoga
• Optional individual ceremonial experiences
• Thanksgiving dinner celebration prepared by Anarchapulco’s favorite Anarchist Chef Miranda (Lily Forester) Webb

Friday, November 27

• Morning grounding practices / yoga
• Temazcal ceremony
• Integration and reflection
• Closing community dinner

Saturday, November 28

• Morning grounding practices / yoga
• Closing integration gathering

Sunday, November 29

• Departure day

What’s Included

• 8-day / 7-night accommodation at Bambuddha
• Private or shared beachfront lodging options
• All meals and refreshments throughout the retreat
• Temazcal ceremonies
• Guided integration and reflection spaces
• Optional individual ceremonial experiences
• Group activities and excursions such as kayaking
• Oceanfront retreat environment designed for rest and reconnection
• Small-group curated retreat experience
• Opportunities for aerial arts, rebar bending, etc…

Participation Fee

Participation is intentionally limited in order to maintain an intimate and supportive atmosphere. We have a maximum of 20 attendee tickets available.

Early Bird Pricing

After Early Bird pricing concludes, Shared Single Room and Couple Room accommodations may be offered at up to 15% off during select promotional periods, subject to availability.

Private Single Room accommodations are not eligible for discounts or promotional pricing.

First 5 rooms sold

• Shared Room — Single Person (we will assign your roommate): USD 4,500 (10 people/5rooms)
• Shared Room — Couple Occupancy (you and another person buy together) Shared Room: USD 8,700 (5 couples, 5 rooms)

Full Pricing

• Private Single Room (no roommate): USD 7,500
• Shared Room — Single Occupancy (we assign your roommate): USD 5,750
• Shared Room — Couple Occupancy (you purchase with another person): USD 11,200

All pricing is all-inclusive, covering accommodations, meals, retreat activities, integration support, and the full retreat experience at Bambuddha in Barra Vieja, Acapulco, Mexico.

Preparation

Prior to arrival, participants will receive preparation guidelines designed to support a grounded and well-prepared retreat experience. Guests are encouraged to follow all recommendations carefully in order to create the best possible environment for personal exploration and integration.

Important

After registration, participants will receive an intake and preparation form that must be completed in advance. This allows our team to better understand each participant’s background, intentions, and any important health considerations before participation in retreat activities.

Completion of this form is required prior to attendance.

Additional Information: 

TRE is a somatic practice that activates the body's own innate mechanism for releasing deep muscular tension, stress, and stored trauma - through therapeutic tremoring, aka shaking.

These gentle, involuntary tremors move through the body from the core outward, unwinding patterns of tension held in the nervous system - often for years - bringing with them relief from chronic stress and anxiety, reduced physical pain, deeper sleep, and a growing sense of ease, presence, and inner safety bringing greater emotional resilience and a feeling of being more fully at home in your own body.

TRE is a natural companion to medicine work - supporting the nervous system in integrating what the medicine opens, helping insights land more deeply and lasting change to take root.

Rebar Bending - thick, industrial steel - will bend at the meeting point of two people's focused intention, trust, and shared energy. Not through force. Through something that lives beneath the surface of ordinary awareness, waiting to be called forward.

In this workshop you will bend it with your throat - through nothing more than focused energy, clear intention, and trust in something greater than what the mind insists is possible.

This is not a performance. It is a revelation - a reminder, in your body, of what becomes available when you stop believing your own limitations.

This practice is a physical portal into the deeper work of the retreat. The same presence required to bend steel is the same presence available to you in every moment of transformation - and once you've felt it, you cannot unfeel it.

Aerial Arts

Learn to trust your body and fly with me (Miranda Renee Webb). I am a strong believer that anyone with hands and a mindset to do it can do aerial arts. I intend to offer sessions teaching those interested with trapeze or with the aerial hammock, a very beginner friendly form of the silks. No prior experience required, just a desire to tap in to your inner child and discover your true strength.