What Awaits You at Doron Yoga?
- Mayan Cultural Immersion
Dive into Mayan traditions and timeless rituals with Cacao and Temazcal ceremonies, explore Mayan culture on our exclusive boat tour, and enjoy time exploring the charming lake towns.
- Ashtanga-Inspired Yoga, Meditation, and Breathwork
Daily sessions tailored to enhance agility, focus, and overall well-being. Deepen your foundational postures and broaden your yoga horizons with an emphasis on surrender, alignment, and form.
- Unique New Year’s Eve Celebration
Welcome 2024 with the signature Doron Yoga Zen dance experience.
- Hands-On Guidance
Doron’s personal teaching style ensures noticeable improvement, even within a week’s practice.
- Escape Into Nature and Mindful Living
Embrace serenity and mindfulness with a group of like-minded individuals as you immerse yourself in soothing surroundings and escape your daily routine.
With Doron’s lively and humorous approach, each class is a journey of discovery, laughter, and profound learning. Let us help you embark on a journey of transformation and celebration this New Year.
Heart-Opening Reviews From Our Previous Guests
Place is awesome! Couldn’t have asked for a better experience!!! The admin staff is solid – super friendly and helpful. Doron is a top notch instructor. Experienced and knowledgeable in both yoga and meditation. His mix of discipline and unconditional kindness was exactly what I was hoping for. Kasia too is a badass. Loved her yin yoga class. Importantly you could easily tell that this place cares about and is devoted to supporting the local community. Always something I look for when staying at eco lodges and the like. Loved being around all the good vibes. Plan to come back in the near future and you should too!
2012lukaszc
I stayed at the DYZC over the holidays participating in the New Year’s Rejuvenation Retreat, and highly recommend this experience to others! It was a great mix of yoga (with world class instruction from Doron himself!), meditation, pranayama, zen/dhamma discussions and optional activities (incl. massages, tourist excursions and more!). Plus, the food was incredible, and so nourishing. In a short amount of time, our cohort built an amazing community and I left the retreat feeling grounded, connected and very rejuvenated. It was the perfect way to spend New Year’s, and I look forward to returning someday to explore other trainings /retreats on offer. Thank you to Doron and his amazing staff – I will be back!
Kass Buckle
On a whim, two weeks before Dec 31st, I decided to sign up for a yoga retreat for new years. After some research, I came across Doron Yoga & Zen Center and their New Year’s yoga and meditation retreat. Although I didn’t have much experience and traveled by myself to a country I had never been before, I had the best time! I received great training from Doron and have continued my yoga practice since I got back. This place feels like home now and the staff like family. Doron is passionate about his teachings and makes sure everyone has a great experience. The staff is very attentive and will help with any questions. The food was absolutely divine and everyone at the retreat raved about it. The location feels like heaven, the views of the lake and the calmness of the area is just intoxicating. I will most definitely be back! If you’re looking to get away, recharge and regenerate in mind body and soul, this is the place.
mespaillat
What's Included
- 6 nights accommodation
- Daily yoga practice
- Afternoon workshops
- 3 vegetarian meals daily
- Coffee with breakfast
- Unlimited herbal tea and filtered water
- Fresh juices and drinks with lunch
- WiFi access
Optional Activities (additional fee)
- Walk or hike around Tzununa to nearby villages
- Waterfall hike
- Join a coffee tour
- Hike to the peak of Indian Nose for sunrise magic
Lake Atitlán is an internationally recognized spiritual center hosting multiple holistic and spiritual retreat destinations. Doron Yoga & Zen Center is a sustainably minded, eco-conscious yoga center where you can enjoy a heavenly lake view setting with comfortable, shaded hammocks, banana trees, river flowing through the property, and an outdoor café.
Accommodation
All of our accommodations are new construction and built with ecological practices in mind. Rustic and charming, rooms have either a jungle, mountains, or lake view; they are decorated with murals, local art and textiles.
From comfortable garden-enclosed shared rooms to airy, lake view suites, the accommodation here is eco-friendly and designed for utter relaxation.
The property offers three types of rooms: private rooms with ensuite bathrooms, private rooms with shared bathrooms, and dormitory rooms with shared bathrooms. All bathrooms have showers with either gas or solar heated water and western toilets (eco treatment).
Doron Yoga & Zen Center is sustainably minded, eco-conscious yoga center where you can enjoy a heavenly lake view setting with comfortable, shaded hammocks, banana trees, river flowing through the property and an outdoor café.
Food
Three vegetarian meals are served each day. Our daily offerings have an international inspiration, mixing traditional Guatemalan fare with Doron’s Mediterranean touch. Meals are made from fresh produce; to the greatest extent possible, food is organic and locally sourced, sometimes from our own garden. Gluten free and Vegan diets can be accommodated upon request.
Each meal is substantial, varied and nourishing to energize you through your retreat journey.
The menu at the Doron Yoga & Zen Center is designed with the guidance of founder and director, Doron Hanoch, who is also a professionally trained chef and certified nutrition consultant.
Some examples of our offerings include raw, cooked and fermented foods, healthy sauces and condiments, homemade jams and peanut butter, fresh homemade granola, baked sourdough bread, fresh tortillas and pizza cooked in either our clay or wood-burning ovens.
Snacks are available throughout the day.
Try our chocolate chip banana muffins, vegan super food rich bliss balls (made with local Maya raw cacao), dragon fruit smoothies, vegan black bean brownies, or our homemade kombucha!
Our goal is simple: Let mother nature’s cuisine shine with all the exciting tastes, shapes, vibrant colors and pure flavors. The food we serve is prepared with love, passion and attention to detail.
Local Activities
The spacious openness of Lake Atitlan and the powerful energy of Mayan Culture invite you to enjoy the magic of Guatemala.
Lake Atitlan is an internationally recognized spiritual center hosting multiple holistic and spiritual retreat destinations.
Activities around Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
- Walk / hike around Tzununa, through the mountains, or to nearby villages
- Swim in the lake or chill out on the dock with breathtaking volcanic views
- Stand up paddle boarding or kayaking
- Waterfall hike (seasonal)
- Hike The San Pedro Volcano (with guide)
- Join a Coffee Tour
- Hike to the peak of Indian Nose for a sunrise magic
- Venture by boat or tuk-tuk to one of the neighboring towns and shop for traditional crafts; enjoy sightseeing in these unique Maya villages
About Doron Yoga
Doron Yoga™ is devoted to guiding people into holistic health and happiness. Through yoga, meditation, pranayama, nutrition, and food, we are devoted to developing a calm and focused mind as well as a strong and healthy body. We specialize in creating a toolbox of practical life skills, blending ancient wisdom with current modalities. We promote a compassionate international community guided by authenticity, service, awareness and joyfulness.
Thinking Global, Acting Local
Doron Yoga’s mission extends to our local community and our beautiful natural surroundings. Located in a small, rural Mayan village, we are mindful of both our environmental as well as our social impact. We pride ourselves on supporting the local economy by purchasing locally grown and seasonal ingredients, reducing our waste production and promoting a mindset of sustainable living in the community.
Meet your instructor, Doron Hanoch
Doron Hanoch is a Certified 550 hour teacher (ERYT), Director of the Doron Yoga School (RYS 200 & 500), Founder and CEO of the Doron Yoga & Zen Center at beautiful Lake Atitlan, Guatemala.
He first discovered yoga and meditation in 1992 while traveling in the Far East. Since then he has studied with amazing teachers including the Dalai Lama, Pattabhi Jois and his family, Richard Freeman (teacher training, advanced trainings and assisting), Tim Miller (3rd Series teacher training), Mark Stephens (Vinyasa teacher training, continuing studies and mentoring), Adarsh, Shashadri, Rolf and Marci, and Cidananda.
Doron loves growing food, cooking and eating. He studied cooking at The Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and the Culinary Arts in New York City. He complimented cooking with becoming a Holistic nutrition consultant from The Global College of Natural Medicine and studies permaculture at the Occidental Center for the Arts in Sonoma, CA. He worked for Pure Foods and Wine in New York City, volunteered in the kitchens of many Ashrams and Zen centers as well as worked as a cook and chef at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA.
He is the author of Doron Yoga Cookbook and The Yoga Lifestyle (Llewellyn 2016)
As a Founder of Doron Yoga, Doron’s background and skillset holistically merge together on the mat with a strong yet steady flow incorporating breathing, mind focus, alignment, and humor. Try out one of his classes for yourself on the Doron Yoga YouTube Channel.
Cooking, eating, practicing yoga and meditating – pure bliss! 🙂
What Awaits You at Doron Yoga?
- Mayan Cultural Immersion
Dive into Mayan traditions and timeless rituals with Cacao and Temazcal ceremonies, explore Mayan culture on our exclusive boat tour, and enjoy time exploring the charming lake towns.
- Ashtanga-Inspired Yoga, Meditation, and Breathwork
Daily sessions tailored to enhance agility, focus, and overall well-being. Deepen your foundational postures and broaden your yoga horizons with an emphasis on surrender, alignment, and form.
- Unique New Year’s Eve Celebration
Welcome 2024 with the signature Doron Yoga Zen dance experience.
- Hands-On Guidance
Doron’s personal teaching style ensures noticeable improvement, even within a week’s practice.
- Escape Into Nature and Mindful Living
Embrace serenity and mindfulness with a group of like-minded individuals as you immerse yourself in soothing surroundings and escape your daily routine.
With Doron’s lively and humorous approach, each class is a journey of discovery, laughter, and profound learning. Let us help you embark on a journey of transformation and celebration this New Year.
Heart-Opening Reviews From Our Previous Guests
Place is awesome! Couldn’t have asked for a better experience!!! The admin staff is solid – super friendly and helpful. Doron is a top notch instructor. Experienced and knowledgeable in both yoga and meditation. His mix of discipline and unconditional kindness was exactly what I was hoping for. Kasia too is a badass. Loved her yin yoga class. Importantly you could easily tell that this place cares about and is devoted to supporting the local community. Always something I look for when staying at eco lodges and the like. Loved being around all the good vibes. Plan to come back in the near future and you should too!
2012lukaszc
I stayed at the DYZC over the holidays participating in the New Year’s Rejuvenation Retreat, and highly recommend this experience to others! It was a great mix of yoga (with world class instruction from Doron himself!), meditation, pranayama, zen/dhamma discussions and optional activities (incl. massages, tourist excursions and more!). Plus, the food was incredible, and so nourishing. In a short amount of time, our cohort built an amazing community and I left the retreat feeling grounded, connected and very rejuvenated. It was the perfect way to spend New Year’s, and I look forward to returning someday to explore other trainings /retreats on offer. Thank you to Doron and his amazing staff – I will be back!
Kass Buckle
On a whim, two weeks before Dec 31st, I decided to sign up for a yoga retreat for new years. After some research, I came across Doron Yoga & Zen Center and their New Year’s yoga and meditation retreat. Although I didn’t have much experience and traveled by myself to a country I had never been before, I had the best time! I received great training from Doron and have continued my yoga practice since I got back. This place feels like home now and the staff like family. Doron is passionate about his teachings and makes sure everyone has a great experience. The staff is very attentive and will help with any questions. The food was absolutely divine and everyone at the retreat raved about it. The location feels like heaven, the views of the lake and the calmness of the area is just intoxicating. I will most definitely be back! If you’re looking to get away, recharge and regenerate in mind body and soul, this is the place.
mespaillat
What's Included
- 6 nights accommodation
- Daily yoga practice
- Afternoon workshops
- 3 vegetarian meals daily
- Coffee with breakfast
- Unlimited herbal tea and filtered water
- Fresh juices and drinks with lunch
- WiFi access
Optional Activities (additional fee)
- Walk or hike around Tzununa to nearby villages
- Waterfall hike
- Join a coffee tour
- Hike to the peak of Indian Nose for sunrise magic
Lake Atitlán is an internationally recognized spiritual center hosting multiple holistic and spiritual retreat destinations. Doron Yoga & Zen Center is a sustainably minded, eco-conscious yoga center where you can enjoy a heavenly lake view setting with comfortable, shaded hammocks, banana trees, river flowing through the property, and an outdoor café.
Accommodation
All of our accommodations are new construction and built with ecological practices in mind. Rustic and charming, rooms have either a jungle, mountains, or lake view; they are decorated with murals, local art and textiles.
From comfortable garden-enclosed shared rooms to airy, lake view suites, the accommodation here is eco-friendly and designed for utter relaxation.
The property offers three types of rooms: private rooms with ensuite bathrooms, private rooms with shared bathrooms, and dormitory rooms with shared bathrooms. All bathrooms have showers with either gas or solar heated water and western toilets (eco treatment).
Doron Yoga & Zen Center is sustainably minded, eco-conscious yoga center where you can enjoy a heavenly lake view setting with comfortable, shaded hammocks, banana trees, river flowing through the property and an outdoor café.
Food
Three vegetarian meals are served each day. Our daily offerings have an international inspiration, mixing traditional Guatemalan fare with Doron’s Mediterranean touch. Meals are made from fresh produce; to the greatest extent possible, food is organic and locally sourced, sometimes from our own garden. Gluten free and Vegan diets can be accommodated upon request.
Each meal is substantial, varied and nourishing to energize you through your retreat journey.
The menu at the Doron Yoga & Zen Center is designed with the guidance of founder and director, Doron Hanoch, who is also a professionally trained chef and certified nutrition consultant.
Some examples of our offerings include raw, cooked and fermented foods, healthy sauces and condiments, homemade jams and peanut butter, fresh homemade granola, baked sourdough bread, fresh tortillas and pizza cooked in either our clay or wood-burning ovens.
Snacks are available throughout the day.
Try our chocolate chip banana muffins, vegan super food rich bliss balls (made with local Maya raw cacao), dragon fruit smoothies, vegan black bean brownies, or our homemade kombucha!
Our goal is simple: Let mother nature’s cuisine shine with all the exciting tastes, shapes, vibrant colors and pure flavors. The food we serve is prepared with love, passion and attention to detail.
Local Activities
The spacious openness of Lake Atitlan and the powerful energy of Mayan Culture invite you to enjoy the magic of Guatemala.
Lake Atitlan is an internationally recognized spiritual center hosting multiple holistic and spiritual retreat destinations.
Activities around Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
- Walk / hike around Tzununa, through the mountains, or to nearby villages
- Swim in the lake or chill out on the dock with breathtaking volcanic views
- Stand up paddle boarding or kayaking
- Waterfall hike (seasonal)
- Hike The San Pedro Volcano (with guide)
- Join a Coffee Tour
- Hike to the peak of Indian Nose for a sunrise magic
- Venture by boat or tuk-tuk to one of the neighboring towns and shop for traditional crafts; enjoy sightseeing in these unique Maya villages
About Doron Yoga
Doron Yoga™ is devoted to guiding people into holistic health and happiness. Through yoga, meditation, pranayama, nutrition, and food, we are devoted to developing a calm and focused mind as well as a strong and healthy body. We specialize in creating a toolbox of practical life skills, blending ancient wisdom with current modalities. We promote a compassionate international community guided by authenticity, service, awareness and joyfulness.
Thinking Global, Acting Local
Doron Yoga’s mission extends to our local community and our beautiful natural surroundings. Located in a small, rural Mayan village, we are mindful of both our environmental as well as our social impact. We pride ourselves on supporting the local economy by purchasing locally grown and seasonal ingredients, reducing our waste production and promoting a mindset of sustainable living in the community.
Meet your instructor, Doron Hanoch
Doron Hanoch is a Certified 550 hour teacher (ERYT), Director of the Doron Yoga School (RYS 200 & 500), Founder and CEO of the Doron Yoga & Zen Center at beautiful Lake Atitlan, Guatemala.
He first discovered yoga and meditation in 1992 while traveling in the Far East. Since then he has studied with amazing teachers including the Dalai Lama, Pattabhi Jois and his family, Richard Freeman (teacher training, advanced trainings and assisting), Tim Miller (3rd Series teacher training), Mark Stephens (Vinyasa teacher training, continuing studies and mentoring), Adarsh, Shashadri, Rolf and Marci, and Cidananda.
Doron loves growing food, cooking and eating. He studied cooking at The Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and the Culinary Arts in New York City. He complimented cooking with becoming a Holistic nutrition consultant from The Global College of Natural Medicine and studies permaculture at the Occidental Center for the Arts in Sonoma, CA. He worked for Pure Foods and Wine in New York City, volunteered in the kitchens of many Ashrams and Zen centers as well as worked as a cook and chef at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA.
He is the author of Doron Yoga Cookbook and The Yoga Lifestyle (Llewellyn 2016)
As a Founder of Doron Yoga, Doron’s background and skillset holistically merge together on the mat with a strong yet steady flow incorporating breathing, mind focus, alignment, and humor. Try out one of his classes for yourself on the Doron Yoga YouTube Channel.
Cooking, eating, practicing yoga and meditating – pure bliss! 🙂