Are you ready to step into your power and live the life you've always wanted?
Spring season, Self-care season
Private Purposeful Retreat, 8-10 guests
Tulum
Nov 7 - 11, 2025
with fully-immersive extension option until November the 12th up to the 16th*
Put your routine on pause to re-discover and empower your purpose.
Are you ready to answer the call to the life you feel you want to live AND bring it into reality with new habits and tools?
Join a group of Tulum’s conscious community leaders to experience transformational change and arm you with habits and tools to empower yourself.
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Delicious food and for a good cause (the environment, the animals, your health!
They put on retreats just outside of town and cater it with Liefs food and every meal was the best.
My favorite items (that are also on the menu) were the soup, waffles, popsicles, brownie, and of course açaí bowl!
Amanda L, CA, USA, guest 2024
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“This retreat helped me become more determined and confident in my goals and I recommend it to everybody wanting to live more authentically.”
Natascha T, NLD, guest 2023
★★★★★
“I learned more about finding my purpose in the first two days than I did at multiple other retreats prior in the last two years. Thank you for this gift.”
Keith M, UK, guest 2022
What will you get out of this retreat
Visualize your vision
Creative sessions to help you hone in on our purpose and how to implement it into your life, Step by step.
Self-care, a better way to live
A new understanding of the importance of self-care as the foundation of your daily routine and rituals.
Through yoga, meditation, breath-work, journalling and many more useful tools to help you become the best version of yourself.
New insights through new neural pathways
Guided Deep Transformation Meditation sessions. Optional: on request a guided, sacred sub-conscious ceremony to help you clear blockages and unleash your true purpose, led by trusted transcendental coaches.
A better way to eat
Masterclasses on how to incorporate healthier rituals and consumption into your life by living more plant-based..
How to stay determined and focused
Learn to lean on healthy habits that drive your discipline,
beat self-doubt and procrastination and propel you towards your purpose.
Stay the course: after-care & check-ins
Our coaches will not only check in with you before and during the retreat, but also afterwards to keep you accountable and help you keep your consistency up to par with your potential.
★★★★★
“It was my first time visiting Tulum, The atmosphere was welcoming and the staff was so kind. The food was some of the best healthy and vegan food I have EVER had, This is a MUST for all interested in health, wellness and conscious living.”
Jordan B, MD USA, guest 2022
★★★★★
“I knew it would be good, even great. I didn't know it would be exceptional.”
Kimberly B, HI USA, guest 2024
Reset. Recharge. Realign. Redefine.
The purpose of our retreat is to reset your routine programming,
recharge your energy, realign to your true, heart-felt purpose and
redefine your passions to help you re-awaken the untapped potential within you.
We believe that everyone has a purpose and the power to live the life they’ve always dreamed of.
Our retreat is designed to help you re-discover and empower your purpose,
live a healthier life, ignite your passion, and make your dreams your reality.
You'll engage in daily yoga, breath-work and guided meditation practice, creativity activating ceremonies,
and mindfulness coaching sessions led by experienced professionals who will help guide you on your journey towards self-discovery and fulfillment.
Through attaining new habits, journalling and goal-setting you’ll learn how to connect short- and long-term landmark targets,
overcome obstacles, and tap into your inner strength and creativity.
★★★★★
“The Liefs team treated our group of 30+ to an incredible event for multiple days during our time in Tulum. Can’t say enough good things about Liefs, highly recommend.”
Yeb M, FL USA, guest 2021
What You Eat is
Who You Are
Nearly no ritual is as ever-present in our lives as preparing and sharing food.
None as ancient, intimate, sustaining and familiar as eating. What we put in our bodies builds us, and therefore determines who we are.
Nutrition plays an essential role in our lives and this retreat will show you how simply and effectively it can positively affect yours.
By eating more consciously we do ourselves the service of rebuilding, reenergizing and refocusing our entire structure from our very core outward.
The solution to many of today’s problems
— deforestation, ocean depletion and acidification, biodiversity loss, obesity, cardiovascular diseases, digestive tract, autism, ADHD...
— is on our plates.
By making the effort to eat a little bit healthier, and more sustainably, we can all do our small part in helping to solve many of the world’s challenges we are currently facing.
Your retreat includes consciously curated and catered daily breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and drinks, created by Liefs.
★★★★★
Delicious food and for a good cause (the environment, the animals, your health! Every meal was the best.
My favorite items (that are also on the menu) were the soup, waffles, popsicles, brownie, and of course açaí bowl!
Amanda L, CA, USA, guest 2024
Our award-winning, carefully curated, whole-food plant-based dishes are as nutritious as they are delicious.
At out retreat you will taste and experience how
“the right diet can help you get your life right.”
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“I am so not a vegan person… but this has definitely changed my perception of this food. It was sooo good. Thanks for the experience.”
Constance E, AZ USA, guest 2023
Meet your facilitators
Connect with Tulum’s conscious-community leading coaches and entrepreneurs who dedicate their lives to creating a more sustainable world.
Fem Huijsmans-Massink, MSc
Liefs co-founder and Chief, a seasoned Dutch Social Worker, and mom.
Orphaned at age eight and raised by increasingly unwelcoming foster parents, few have had to overcome challenges as intimate and as early on as Fem has.
Fem decided early on that kindness is the key to overcoming any setback and dedicates her life to creating a kinder world with Liefs from Tulum and beyond.
Fem brings all her event and catering experience to the table, literally, a seasoned organizer of nationally televised sports events in the Netherlands and electronic house music event producer in Texas and surroundings.
Fem is a social worker by trade and is a Master of Science in Business, Communication and Organization.
Thomas Massink, MSc, MA
Liefs co-founder, concept creator and father.
Always inspired to push himself and his surroundings to the edge of their comfort zone, searching for challenges and growth where it is needed most. Thomas dedicates his life to normalizing sustainability and conscious consumption.
His on-going transformation from sous-chef, army reserve, frat-flag bearer and rugby-player to industrial design and history graduate, via offshore engineer in the North Sea, to business developer in Houston to vegan entrepreneur in Tulum, demonstrates a detour through relentless adaptation and finding one’s vision the hard way, so you don’t have to.
Thomas has a Bachelor and Master of Science degree in Industrial Design Engineering and Strategic Product Design from the Delft Technological University and a Bachelor and Master of Arts (History and Global Interdependence) from Leiden University, the Netherlands.
Juan Sebastian Romero Torres
Dedicated and certified Breathwork instructor, 200 Registered Yoga teacher and a personal trainer with extensive experience in the field.
Born and raised in Colombia, Sebastian is the founder of one of the largest Conscious Gatherings in Houston. At these gatherings, attendees engage in Breathwork, Yoga, and Ecstatic Dance practices accompanied by improvised live music. He is also the founder of The DMT Force, a Breathwork academy that provides education on Conscious Breathing and Self-Awareness and he is the co-founder of LifeCon, a very influential wellness conference in Houston that combines Science and spirituality.
Sebastian has been facilitating Breathwork, Conscious Breathing and Sound Baths in the water, Drum Circles, Cacao Ceremonies, Ice baths, Ecstatic Dances and other conscious practices in Houston for the past several years. Drums and Live Music have always been a part of his life.
John Tran
John is a transformational coach, yoga teacher, visionary founder and curator of conscious festivals, retreats and experiences.
John found his calling through the community-creating power of Yoga and founded several annual conscious festivals in Texas and beyond and specializes in curating multi-sensory, transformational experiences.
Before moving to Tulum, John hosted and led one of the largest weekly yoga gatherings in the United States, with 250+ attendees, for 5+ years consistently. Currently, John is a leading focal point for conscious retreats, classes and gatherings in Tulum, from his daily yogi community sunrise sessions on the beach to multi-day retreats and experiences that have featured guests and teachers from around the world.
John’s events & experiences have drawn thousands of guests and have been reviewed as “powerful, activating & deeply heart-centered”.
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“Especially the personal conversations, the ones after sunrise yoga, and the personal connections made, were valuable.”
David M, TX USA, guest 2024
Tulum Jungle Villa
Your safe-space in paradise
Designed as a sustainable sanctuary for rest, transcendence and an awakened way of living.
Set right next to one of world’s most breathtakingly pristine beaches and cenotes, our retreat is hosted at one of Tulum’s most picturesque jungle villas, a private, gated resort that balances natural purity and luxurious comfort.
Meticulously designed to harmonize with nearby beaches and ‘cenotes’, the unique and world-famous ancient waterbodies, it’s surrounded by, features private bedrooms, common rooms with a kitchen, pool and yoga space.
A sustainable jungle home away from home, created as a place to reset, recharge, realign and redefine. and for our retreat and beyond: a healthier, more purposeful relationship with yourself, your habits and the unique gifts you have to offer this world.
Spring Season, Soul Season Program
November 7 - 11, 2025
Our retreat is the perfect opportunity for those who are ready to transcend the stresses of daily life,
leave them behind and focus on their own purpose.
All days, and parts of days, feature an abundance of delicious nourishment.
Exact details of the program may be subject to change depending on group constellation and flow optimization.
Whether you’re looking to transform your health, reignite your passion, or re-discover your purpose,
our retreat will provide you with the tools, resources, and support you need to make your dreams a reality.
Friday night, November 7, Landing into a new world
Grounding into the environment with the group and setting the intentions for the experience.
Extended welcome dinner, relaxation, community-connection practices.
Sunset and breath-work gratitude session.
Saturday, November 8, Seedling sunrise
Burning away the preconditioned mind that tells us we are not capable of more; letting go of blockages.
Breath-work, yoga, sun salutations, guided meditation.
Sunday, November 9, Water is life
Sacred Ceremony to free the mind and create new neural pathways to realize that you are worthy of a new level of life.
Breath-work, yoga, visual arts session, guided meditation.
Optional: ice-bath and/or guided plant medicine ceremony.
Monday, November 10, Exploring the Environment
Processing and integrating your newly-found insights during excursions to Tulum’s most beautiful hidden gems.
We’ll do guided wellness practices on location such as floating mindful breath-work in near-by lagoons or cenotes.
Tuesday, November 11, Taking your new-found purpose home
Self-care, nurturing techniques, healing the inner child and allowing the creativity outdoors to integrate inward.
Integrate and apply: review, preview your own version of our methods to take your experience with you into your world.
*Wednesday, November 12 and beyond, intensive immersion
With a select group of returning guests we’ll co-create a custom, one-of-a-kind, immersive extension to the retreat.
We will facilitate additional wellness-workshops, deeper inner-work and laying a firm foundation for healing and purpose-finding,
with focus on personal connection and attention.
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“The yoga sessions and the sense of gratitude for ourselves and others were unexpected but welcome. It’s something you don’t normally take time for when living the busy big city life.”
Seiffedin B, UAE, guest 2023