Ingeniería Interior – Inner Engineering / María Angélica Rojas
Between volcanoes, crystal-clear waters, and the ancestral energy of Lake Atitlán, we invite you to experience six days of silence, conscious movement, and deep contemplation.
This retreat is inspired and guided by the book Inner Engineering by Sadhguru — an invitation to take responsibility for our inner experience, cultivate clarity and presence, and awaken a freedom that arises from within.
Through yoga, conscious breathing, spaces of silence, and an encounter with the living wisdom of the Mayan land, we will explore the art of turning inward: a path to align body, mind, and spirit, reconnecting with our essential intelligence within a sacred natural environment.
More than an external journey, this retreat offers an experience of inner transformation: learning to inhabit the body with sensitivity, regulate the nervous system, refine attention, and open an intimate space for deep listening.
Each morning begins with the clarity of dawn: Yoga practice, guided meditation, and reflective spaces inspired by the principles of Inner Engineering, integrating movement, breath, and awareness.
In the afternoons, we will immerse ourselves in cultural and nature-based experiences that connect us with the vitality of Lake Atitlán, its communities, its worldview, and its symbolic strength, supporting processes of integration, contemplation, and rest.
Meet your guide for this retreat
María Angélica Rojas (Angie) is the Founder and Lead Teacher of Ashtanga Yoga Andalué. Her life and teaching are shaped by a lifelong search for experience, depth, and embodied understanding. From an early age, travel became her primary teacher — a way of exploring both the outer world and the inner landscape of the body, breath, and consciousness.
At nineteen, a journey through Central America marked the beginning of more than two decades of continuous exploration. Over the years, she lived and traveled extensively across the Americas, Europe, Oceania, and Asia, allowing each journey to deepen her relationship with presence, adaptability, and self-inquiry. Parallel to this path, she developed a profound connection with the ocean as a freediver and scuba diving instructor, learning to trust breath, silence, and the intelligence of the nervous system. These experiences shaped her understanding that true depth is not measured in meters, but in the capacity to feel, regulate, and transform from within.
Yoga became the natural bridge between her inner exploration and her vocation of guiding others. She has been practicing yoga since the age of eighteen, beginning in the Iyengar tradition at Yoga Mukti in Santiago, and practicing Ashtanga since 2014. She has attended numerous workshops with teachers such as Eddie Stern, Mark Robberds, Danny Sá, Day1Yoga, and Petri Räisänen. Her early teacher was Loreto Cortés — the first authorized teacher in Chile — and for the past nine years she has been studying with Matías Guerra.
In 2014, she made her first journey to South India to study yoga and philosophy. In 2016, she attended Sharath Jois’ Ashtanga tour in Bali, and in 2019 she traveled to Mysore to study at the Sharath Yoga Center. That same year, she completed specialized training in Musculoskeletal Yoga Therapy with Paola Valenzuela, and has since worked therapeutically with people experiencing motor dysfunctions as well as immune and psychological conditions.
In 2023, she was awarded a scholarship by Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor – senior teachers of the Ashtanga tradition- to attend their exclusive Advanced Teachers Intensive in Boulder, USA, where she studied under their guidance for one month.
Her teaching and in-class adjustments invite the nervous system to return home — to an inner space of safety, listening, and regulation. Through conscious and precise hands-on adjustments, she offers clear and supportive input arising from a deep understanding of the body and its sensitivity, within a warm and supportive human environment where humor and laughter also play a regulatory role.
Rooted in a consistent personal practice, she guides her students to recognize that challenges are an essential part of embodiment — a space where one can explore one’s potential and embody it. Through discomfort and the steady support of the breath, every sensation becomes an opportunity for integration.
Since 2019, she has been leading yoga and meditation retreats both in Chile and internationally, primarily between Asia and Central America. In addition to directing her school, she teaches Ashtanga at Alaia Yoga Shala in Pichilemu and facilitates movement and embodied awareness workshops in different regions of Chile.