The Team
A World-Class Retreat Guided by Global Specialists
This is not just a retreat, it’s a convergence of brilliance, care, and expertise. Carefully curated, our team of world-class specialists brings together a rare fusion of disciplines to guide you on a journey of transformation, healing, and deep connection. From renowned yoga instructors, nutrition experts, and sound healers, to pioneers in trauma-informed psychotherapy and even particle physics, neuroscience and buddhist philosophy from Nalanda, each facilitator is a master in their field.
What unites them is a shared devotion to human evolution — physical, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual. This retreat is your chance to be held and inspired by those who have dedicated their lives to understanding the body, the mind, and the mysteries of the universe. Prepare to be supported by visionaries who don’t just teach — they transmit wisdom through lived experience.
Founder & Speaker
Ösel Hita Torres
Tenzin Ösel Hita, born in 1985, at just 14 months old, Ösel was formally recognized by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama as the reincarnation (tulku) of Lama Thubten Yeshe, a highly respected Tibetan yogi, scholar, and spiritual pioneer. Lama Yeshe, together with Lama Zopa Rinpoche, co-founded the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) in the early 1970s.
Ösel is a radical freethinker, humanitarian, documentary filmmaker, musician, father, friend, and lifelong student—who was once a 21st-century Buddhist monk.
From 2008 to 2013, Ösel served on the FPMT Board of Directors, contributing his perspective and vision to the organization his predecessor had helped create.
Although recognized as a reincarnated teacher, Ösel has chosen to forge his own unique path. He is committed to the idea of collective awakening, and offers accompaniment through empathy, music, wisdom, and the diverse insights he has gained from life as a monk, filmmaker, and seeker.
Today, he continues to attend teachings and supports the global FPMT community by sharing love, experience, and spiritual insight with the wider FPMT family.
His extraordinary life has been featured in numerous publications, articles, and books—and helped inspire the 1993 film Little Buddha, starring Keanu Reeves.
Tibetan Geshe & Speaker
Geshe Lobsang Kunchen
Geshe Lobsang Kunchen was born in 1965 in Retreng (Tibet), and was ordained as a novice monk in 1982. In 1987 he came to India as a refugee. At the age of 22 he entered the Sera Je monastery of the Gelupga tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, took full ordination with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1998 and completed his Geshe studies in 2006. A year later, he traveled to Gyurme Tantric Monastery for Tantric studies, which he completed in 2008. In 2009 he traveled to Switzerland to teach for three months. Then he taught until 2012 at the University of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Bangalore.
Thanks to the kindness of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Spiritual Director of the organization FPMT Inc. (Foundation to Preserve the Mahayana Tradition), Geshe Lobsang Kunchen accepted, since 2013, to be the Resident Teacher of the Yamantaka Buddhist Meditation Center in Bogota (FPMT Colombia). Since then, he has worked tirelessly in Colombia to benefit many beings through his teachings, advice and example of life.
yoga instructor
Georges Piette
Space and Movement have always been a driving interest to Georges and has led him to the study of dance, architecture and photography. Over thirty years ago, unsurprisingly, it led to the study of Yoga and eventually became a Registered Yoga Teacher.
French born, Brazilian grown and now a US citizen, Georges opened Yogis & Yoginis, a yoga studio in New York in July 2018.
Yogis & Yoginis was joined by the Shantideva Center, an organization dedicated to cultivating wisdom and compassion through the study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism, effectively creating a center where body and mind can be trained.
In addition to teaching yoga, Georges also leads meditation for the Shantideva Center.
Project Co-ordinator
Bengü
Originally from Türkiye, Bengu lives in New Zealand.
Bengu dedicated several years to the Tourism industry. Driven by her passion for marine life, she set out to make a meaningful impact as an open-water diver, raising awareness about marine ecosystems.
She reignited her passion for wildlife conservation by joining a wildlife trust in New Zealand, along side working for Global Tree Initiative as the Project Co-ordinator. Bengu is passionate about Habit Alignment Key (HAK) retreats and plays an active role in organizing transformative HAK experiences across different countries, ensuring that participants can reconnect with more intentional way of living.
Project Co-ordinator
Marcela Rodríguez Suárez
Seasoned hospitality professional with close to two decades of experience, specializing in customer service excellence and strategic sales management. Backed by a solid academic foundation in Business Administration, with undergraduate and postgraduate studies completed at institutions in Colombia and the United Kingdom.
Beyond the professional realm, dedicated student of Dharma for over nine years within the Gelug tradition, affiliated with the Yamantaka Center in Bogotá. Personal journey is deeply rooted in holistic well-being practices, including long standing yoga practice and an ongoing exploration of Colombian indigenous heritage, particularly through the respectful study and integration of ancestral plant medicine traditions.
Passionate advocate for mindful living, committed to promoting wellness, inner growth, and healthier lifestyles as vital paths toward collective human flourishing.
Lawyer & plant medicine therapist
Eddy Miguel Peña Arano
Eddy Miguel Peña Arano, born in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, is a lawyer by profession and a university professor in constitutional law and human rights; however, he vocationally dedicates himself to therapeutic accompaniment and coaching and to social research.
He has completed training courses in Compassionate Inquiry and is currently part of the training course in therapeutics and psychedelic assistance at TRINUS MED. He organizes retreats and conferences on meditation and the use of medicinal plants.
He is currently part of a group of professionals who are working on a protocol for the decriminalization of the use of psychedelics in severe cases of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
For more information visit https://eddypenaarano.com/
Neuro-Educator & art Therapist
Cecilia Buzon
Cecilia was born in Argentina and currently divides her time between Patagonia and India. She is a neuro-educator and art therapist, certified by the University of Buenos Aires. Additionally, she is a teacher with a specialization in trauma and resilience. She trained in Creating Compassionate Cultures in France and at the Tara Red School in California. Cecilia studied Mindfulness on a scholarship from the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, USA.
She is a facilitator with the Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom (FDCW) and SEE Learning, and serves as the Academic Director of Shakti School in Rishikesh, India.
Over the past 15 years, Cecilia has delivered courses and trainings on neuroscience, resilience, mindfulness, and social, emotional and ethical education in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, France, Mongolia, Russia, India, and Nepal.