The Wellness Sabbatical Residency at Loma de Atitlán · Tzununá, Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
Take a month above the lake.
Thirty nights at Loma de Atitlán, a quiet wellness sanctuary built into the hillside above Lake Atitlán. A private room with the lake and three volcanoes out the window. Every meal cooked for you, eaten at a long table with good company. Laundry done. Wifi fast enough for video calls. Green Season only, $4,500 for 1 guest, everything included.
Rolling start dates through October. Pick your date, pay securely, you’re in. We host a few residents at a time.
- above sea level, on the caldera rim
- 5,400 ftabove sea level, on the caldera rim
- since the supervolcano formed this lake
- 79,500 yearssince the supervolcano formed this lake
- San Pedro, Tolimán, Atitlán, out your window
- 3 volcanoesSan Pedro, Tolimán, Atitlán, out your window
- by lancha from Panajachel
- 30 minby lancha from Panajachel
The pull
You’ve been feeling the pull.
You catch yourself reading about places like this at midnight. You want mornings that start with cold water and birdsong instead of a phone. Food that’s just food: grown nearby, cooked that day, eaten slowly at a table where the conversation is worth staying for. A month, a real month, lived at a different speed than the one you’re keeping now.
Maybe a chapter just ended: a company sold, a lease up, a long stretch of taking care of everyone but yourself. Maybe you’ve read enough ingredient labels to be done arguing with your own grocery store. Or nothing is wrong at all, and that’s exactly it. You’re fine. Busy, productive, fine. And quietly certain there’s a deeper way to live than this.
You don’t need to be rescued. You need a month.
The reframe
A month where everything is handled.
You arrive by boat. Your room looks over the lake. From that first afternoon, the overhead of daily life is gone: every meal is cooked for you, your laundry is done for you, and nothing is scheduled for you. The wifi is fast when you need to work. The sanctuary is quiet when you don’t.
There’s no program here and no schedule to keep, because a real reset doesn’t need one. It needs consistent sleep, real food, daily movement, sunlight, and almost no decisions, held steady long enough to compound. That’s what the thirty days are for.
The land carries its share. At 5,400 feet your body produces more red blood cells just by being here, and the architecture does the rest: 350 stone steps between the restaurant and the lakefront keep you moving every day without anyone calling it exercise. Loma builds the conditions and holds them steady. What happens inside them is yours.
What’s included
What your month includes
A private room with a mind-elevating view. Yours for 30 nights. The lake below; San Pedro, Tolimán, and Atitlán across the water.
Every meal, every day. Nutrient-dense food cooked from scratch, eaten community-style at a shared table. Tell us how you eat; the kitchen takes it from there.
High-speed wifi. Fast enough for video calls and focused work. Quiet enough around you to actually finish something.
Laundry, done for you. Drop it off; it comes back folded.
The pool, the herbal sauna, and the lakefront. The sauna is volcanic stone heated over hardwood, with medicinal herbs. The pool and the pier are open to you daily.
The shala. Loma's movement space is yours every day for your own practice: yoga, mobility, meditation, whatever you keep.
Guided hikes. Hikes go out periodically through the week, up the trails that start at the property and climb above the lake. Any that run during your month are included.
The sanctuary itself. Gardens, quiet corners, air clean enough that tillandsia grow wild on the branches, and a small rotating community of people who chose this lake on purpose.
What this isn’t
The Residency doesn’t come with a class schedule. When guides are teaching at Loma you’re welcome to join, but classes depend on who’s on the land that week, so we don’t promise them. The shala is yours either way. We don’t run transport: getting here is simple, and we’ll connect you with the local drivers and boat captains we trust, but you book with them directly. And this isn’t a clinic. No labs, no protocols, no one optimizing you. Conditions, not prescriptions.
May through October
Green Season is the secret
Most people plan around Green Season. People who know the lake plan for it.
From May through October, the lake turns its richest colors. Mornings come up sunny and still: a swim before breakfast, coffee on the lakefront, the volcanoes sharp across the water. After lunch the clouds build over the caldera and the rain arrives, and it earns its keep. It cools the air, washes the sky, turns every hillside green, and hands you the kind of permission city life never grants: to be inside with a book, a journal, or a long conversation while the storm works the water. By dinner it’s usually clear again.
It’s also the quietest time of year. Fewer travelers. More room to think.
The Residency exists only in Green Season. Start dates are available through October, and when the season ends, so does this rate: the sanctuary returns to regular nightly pricing for Sunshine Season.
Green Season only. Start dates through October.
$4,500 for 1 guest, everything included · a few residents at a time
A day here
A rhythm, but it’s yours.
You wake with light on the lake. Move in the shala if that’s your practice; swim if it’s not. Breakfast is at the long table, the coffee is Guatemalan, and the conversation is optional.
The brightest hours. Work a few focused hours on fast wifi if your life still needs you. If it doesn’t, the lakefront is right there. Lunch is cooked, served, and cleaned up by someone who isn’t you.
The clouds build over the volcanoes and the rain comes through. Sauna hours. Reading hours. The kind of long, unhurried afternoon you stopped having years ago.
Dinner, community-style, with whoever is on the land that week: residents, travelers, guides. Then an early night. The sleep here runs deep, and you’ll want more of it.
And the month itself
Week one
You sleep. You eat. You stop checking the time.
Week two
The lake stops being scenery and starts being where you live.
Week three
You have your own rhythm, your own seat at the table, your own trail.
Week four
The quiet gets all the way in. A week off never reaches this far. It’s the reason this is a month.
The math
What a month costs
A month here in high season
~$8,700
a private room at up to $290 a night × 30
- The room. That’s it.
- No meals.
- No laundry.
The Wellness Sabbatical Residency
$4,500 for 1 guest, all-inclusive
- Private lake-view room, 30 nights
- About 90 meals: every breakfast, lunch, and dinner, cooked for you
- Laundry, done weekly
- High-speed wifi
- The pool, the herbal sauna, the lakefront, and the shala, daily
- Guided hikes, periodically through the week
That works out to about $150 a day for 1 guest: roughly half what the room alone costs in high season, with a month of food and care included.
There’s no catch in the math. Green Season is our quiet season, and we’d rather share it with a few residents who want a real month here than let it pass quietly. When the season turns, the rate goes back to nightly.
From people who stayed
People already stay a month here.
The Residency isn’t a theory. Long stays are how some of our favorite guests already use Loma, and as this page is written, a resident is mid-month here, living exactly the rhythm described above. Here’s what people who stayed a month say, in their own words.
Loma has been a home away from home at Lake Atitlan. Unbeatable views, healthy homecooked food, wonderful staff, great workouts and yoga classes, the best sauna experience, a romantic pier to go swimming in the lake, trails for hiking at the doorstep, and comfortable beds with mountain views. Great place to retreat, relax, unwind, and do some remote work. The vibe is young, entrepreneurial, and welcoming.
I had the pleasure of staying at Loma de Atitlán, and it was an incredible experience from start to finish. The staff are genuinely warm, attentive, and go out of their way to make you feel at home. The property itself is perched high on a cliff with breathtaking panoramic views, arguably the best on Lake Atitlán. Every meal was delicious, fresh, and healthy, served three times a day in a peaceful open-air setting. Loma de Atitlán strikes the perfect balance between tranquility, connection, and adventure.
Had an amazing stay at Loma. It's the quietest place and has the best views around. Include all the wellness activities and this place is awesome! The sauna is a must. The people working there are amazing!
The land, in pictures
A month here looks like this.
Who this month is for (and who it isn’t)
This is your month if
you’re grounded and self-directed, and a stretch of unscheduled time sounds like freedom, not a void. You’d rather have depth than a concierge. You want real food, real quiet, and a table of interesting people more than you want a spa menu. You can work a few hours when you need to and put it down when you don’t. You chose Lake Atitlán on purpose.
This is not your month if
you want your hours programmed for you. You’d be bothered by afternoon rain, rustic edges, or a small village pace. You measure a place by thread count and room service. You need the city’s intensity to feel alive.
The people who love this month are the first kind. We built it for them.
The lake is at its greenest right now.
$4,500 for 1 guest, everything included · a few residents at a time
Before you ask
Questions, answered
What is The Wellness Sabbatical Residency?
The Wellness Sabbatical Residency (“the Residency”) is a month-long, all-inclusive stay at Loma de Atitlán, a wellness sanctuary in Tzununá, on the north shore of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. For $4,500 for 1 guest you get a private lake-view room for 30 nights, every meal daily, laundry service, high-speed wifi, periodic guided hikes, and daily use of the pool, the herbal sauna, the lakefront, and the shala. It runs during Green Season only, with rolling start dates through October.
Where is Loma de Atitlán?
Loma is in Tzununá, a quiet Mayan village on the north shore of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, next door to San Marcos La Laguna and about 30 minutes by boat from Panajachel. The sanctuary is built into the hillside above the water, looking across the lake to the San Pedro, Tolimán, and Atitlán volcanoes.
How much does a month cost? Is it really all-inclusive?
$4,500 for 1 guest, which covers the room for 30 nights, all meals (about 90 of them), weekly laundry, high-speed wifi, and the pool, sauna, lakefront, and shala. That’s about $150 a day for 1 guest. Not included: your transport to the lake, alcohol, and off-property excursions. For comparison, a private room alone in high season runs up to $290 a night, which is about $8,700 for thirty nights with no meals.
What will I eat for a month? Will I get tired of the food?
Real food, three times a day, every day: meals cooked from scratch, from real ingredients, eaten community-style at a shared table. If part of why you’re coming is to step away from processed, packaged food for a month, you’re in the right place; everything here is cooked, not opened. Tell us your dietary path when you book and the kitchen cooks for it.
Can I work remotely from Loma? Is the wifi actually good?
Yes. The wifi is high-speed and holds video calls, and the sanctuary is quiet. Many residents work a few focused hours a day and spend the rest of it living. If your month needs calls and deadlines, it will hold them; if it doesn’t, nothing here will impose a schedule on you.
Will I meet people, or will I be alone for a month?
Both, in whatever proportion you choose. Meals are served community-style at a shared table with whoever is on the land that week: residents, travelers, guides. Most are grounded, well-traveled people, the kind who pick a Mayan lake village over a resort town. Solitude is easy to find whenever you want it.
Is a month too long? Will I get bored?
A week off is barely long enough to stop; a month is long enough for sleep, real food, daily movement, and quiet to actually compound. Your days find their own rhythm here: the water in the morning, work or the lakefront at midday, the sauna and the rain in the afternoon, the long table at night. If you want a packed entertainment schedule, this isn’t the right month, and that’s by design.
What’s the weather like in Green Season? Doesn’t it rain all the time?
No. Green Season (May through October) usually means sunny mornings, ideal for the water, with rain arriving in the afternoon or evening. The rain is why the lake is at its most lush and green, why the air is clean, and why this is the quietest, most introspective season on Atitlán. It’s the time of year people who know the lake quietly prefer.
How do I get to Lake Atitlán?
Fly into Guatemala City, travel overland to Panajachel, then take a lancha across the lake to Tzununá; the boat ride is about 30 minutes, crossing the deepest part of the lake. Loma doesn’t run transport, but we’ll connect you with the local drivers and boat captains we trust, and you book with them directly.
Can I bring a partner?
The Residency is priced for 1 guest. A second guest sharing your room is available on request; ask us for current pricing when you book.
Do I have to do yoga? Is there a class schedule?
No schedule, no obligation. The shala is yours every day for your own practice. Guided hikes go out periodically through the week and are included; join any that run during your month. When guides are teaching at Loma you’re welcome in their classes too, but classes depend on who’s on the land that week, so they’re a bonus, never a promise.
How long exactly is the stay? Can I do 28 or 35 nights?
The Residency is built around 30 nights. If you need to flex by a few nights on either side, ask us when you book and we will do our best to fit your dates.
What’s the deposit and cancellation policy?
Your month is reserved once you book and pay online. We will confirm the full deposit and cancellation terms with you at checkout and in your booking email.
How is this different from a co-living or a resort?
A co-living gives you a desk and a kitchen; you still run your own life. A resort gives you service by the night, at high-season prices, for a week. The Residency is a month where the living itself is handled (room, every meal, laundry) inside a quiet sanctuary, at about $150 a day for 1 guest, with a community at the table when you want one.
When does this offer end?
The Residency is a Green Season offer. Start dates run through October; after that, the monthly rate ends and Loma returns to regular nightly pricing.
Book your month
Pick a start date, pay, pack light.
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Choose your start date. Rolling starts through October.
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Book and pay securely online. $4,500 for 1 guest, everything included.
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Tell us about you. A short intake after booking: how you eat, when you arrive, what you're coming for.
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Arrive. We'll connect you with trusted driver and boat contacts; from Panajachel it's about 30 minutes across the water.
Your room will be ready. Dinner’s at the long table.