Return to your soul’s path.
January 31 - February 7, 2027 | Starting at $2750
Nicaragua | 12 spaces available
Soul Expansion Retreat
When the Path You’re On No Longer Fits
There comes a point when the life you were told to want stops feeling like enough.
Maybe you’ve done everything you were supposed to do.
Built the career. Created the routine. Checked the boxes. Stayed responsible. Kept going.
Maybe you even like your life.
And still, somewhere underneath it all, there’s a feeling that you’ve lost the thread.
Soul Expansion is a retreat for finding your way back to it.
Over time, we become conditioned by what we should want, who we should be, and what a successful life is supposed to look like. We learn to override the intelligence of the body, ignore the deeper questions, and keep moving along paths that may no longer belong to us.
This retreat creates space to step outside of those patterns and reconnect with your own inner direction — your desires, your purpose, your body, and the part of you that knows when something is no longer aligned.
Not so someone else can tell you what your purpose is.
So you can hear it again.
Meet your Hosts
Brittany
Brittany Lombardo is a licensed acupuncturist, facilitator, integration coach, and owner of Renew Acupuncture in Philadelphia. For over 15 years, she has helped people reconnect with their bodies, health, and inner wisdom through a holistic approach to healing. Over time, her work expanded beyond acupuncture into the fields of personal development, consciousness, psychedelic integration, and human potential, leading her to create transformational experiences that cultivate empowerment, purpose, and authentic alignment.
In 2025, Brittany created Dose of Community with a simple vision: to help people connect more deeply with themselves and one another. What began as a microdosing and personal development community has expanded into a retreat company that brings together inspiring facilitators, diverse modalities, and like-minded individuals. Brittany believes that everyone has unique gifts to offer, and each retreat creates space for those gifts to come together, offering participants different perspectives and pathways for exploration and transformation.
She is a graduate of the SoundMind Institute's Psychedelic Facilitator and Integration Coach program and is a Certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Coach, Certified Hypnotherapist, Certified CSI-HDS Human Design BodyGraph Analyst, breathwork facilitator, and has completed Emotional Leadership training. She is also an enthusiastic student of the Gene Keys and enjoys integrating their wisdom into her work when appropriate.
Outside of her work, Brittany loves traveling, dancing, live music, and bringing people together. She also enjoys Pilates, yoga, meditation, and exploring different forms of energy work as part of her own personal practice. She believes some of life's most meaningful moments happen when people gather with open hearts, share authentic experiences, and inspire one another through meaningful connection and community.
Founder
Sofia Mellano
Sofia guides individuals and groups through processes of regulation, integration, and remembrance—supporting people as they reconnect with the wisdom of their bodies, their intuition, and their authentic way of being.
Her work weaves together nervous system regulation, somatic healing, Human Design, breathwork, meditation, Kundalini Yoga, and embodiment practices to create spaces where lasting transformation can unfold. Rather than offering quick fixes, Sofia helps people cultivate self-trust, heal unconscious patterns, integrate life's experiences, and return to a deeper sense of alignment.
Rooted in both contemporary education and ancestral wisdom, her practice is informed by trauma integration, relational healing, ritual and ceremony, devotional music, and traditional teachings. She has devoted more than seven years to Kirtan as a path of meditation, prayer, and collective healing, and is also a certified doula whose work has been shaped by learning alongside midwives and wisdom keepers in Colombia. Where legally permitted, she incorporates earth-based and plant medicine practices with a strong emphasis on preparation, intention, safety, and integration.
As an international retreat facilitator, Sofia creates immersive experiences that bring together spirituality, embodiment, nature, ceremony, and community. Whether through one-on-one mentorship, Human Design readings, group programs, or transformational retreats, her intention is the same: to help people remember who they are beneath conditioning, regulate their nervous systems, and live with greater presence, purpose, and embodied authenticity.
Somatic & Nervous System Practitioner. Human Design Mentor. Holistic Educator.This Is About Creating Movement
Soul Expansion is designed to help you get out of the loop of overthinking, stress, routine, and conditioning — and back into relationship with yourself.
Throughout the week, we’ll work with the body, nervous system, Human Design, medicine, movement, ceremony, emotional regulation, sound, and integration to create space for something new to emerge.
Some experiences will activate you.
Some will ask you to slow down.
Some may bring clarity.
Others may simply help you feel yourself again.
The intention is not to force an answer.
It’s to create enough space, safety, and awareness for your own answers to become easier to hear.
Soul Expansion May Be For You If...
You’ve been doing what you thought you were supposed to do — and you’re starting to wonder whether it’s actually what you want.
You feel lost, stuck, restless, or disconnected from a sense of direction.
Your life looks fine from the outside, but internally you keep asking, “Is this it?”
You like what you do, but you don’t know what the next chapter is supposed to look like.
The things that used to excite you don’t hit the same anymore.
You’re stressed, overwhelmed, or living mostly in your head — and you don’t have many tools for working with what’s happening in your body.
You’re curious about personal growth but haven’t spent years immersed in it. Maybe you’ve practiced yoga, read a few books, or simply started asking bigger questions.
You don’t need to have yourself figured out.
You just need to know that the way you’ve been living isn’t the only way.
What’s Included
Accommodations
Airport transportation
All Meals
Workshops
Catamaran Boat Excursion
Welcome gift
Optional Add-Ons
Horseback Riding
Surf Lessons
Private Acupuncture Sessions
Professional Photoshoot
Luxury Spa Treatments
Sauna/Cold Plunge
What the Week May Hold
Soul Expansion moves through a rhythm of activation, exploration, rest, connection, and integration.
Throughout the week, experiences may include Kundalini Yoga, somatic movement, breathwork, sound healing, ceremony, fire circle, and spacious time to rest and connect.
The retreat also includes intentionally facilitated indigenous medicine ceremonies.
These experiences are not positioned as the entire point of the retreat or as a shortcut to transformation. They are held alongside embodiment, nervous system work, reflection, Human Design, and integration so that whatever arises has space to be processed, understood, and brought back into everyday life.
Some experiences may create clarity. Others may bring release, insight, or simply a different perspective on patterns you’ve been living inside.
The purpose is not to chase a breakthrough.
It is to create the conditions for movement, awareness, and a deeper relationship with yourself.
All medicine-related experiences are approached with intention, consent, appropriate screening, and integration support.
Where You’ll Stay
For seven nights, Casa Orquidea at Orquídea del Sur becomes home.
Perched above Nicaragua’s Pacific coast, the villa gives Soul Expansion the kind of environment this work needs — spacious, sensory, immersive, and far enough from ordinary routines to make room for a different way of seeing yourself.
Casa Orquidea includes eight bedrooms, spread between the main house and separate poolside terrace spaces. Every bedroom has its own private en-suite bathroom, dedicated outdoor space, and expansive views of the Pacific.
Throughout the property, you’ll find tropical gardens, open-air gathering spaces, expansive verandas, and infinity pools overlooking the coastline — places to move, rest, connect, integrate, or simply be still.
Soul Expansion is about creating movement where life has become stagnant.
The setting supports that by giving you something ordinary life rarely does:
space.
Retreat investments begin at $2,750, with both private and shared room options available. Your total investment is based on the room you choose.
Because Soul Expansion is intentionally intimate, all guests must apply and be approved before reserving a room.
Once your application has been approved, you’ll receive a private link to view the rooms that are available and choose the one that feels right for you.
Your room is officially reserved once your $1,000 deposit is submitted.
Room selections are first come, first served, so availability may change as retreat spaces are filled.
The remaining balance will follow the retreat payment schedule shared with you upon acceptance
This Is Not About Escaping Your Life
It’s about getting quiet enough to hear which parts of it are actually yours.
You don’t need to burn everything down.
You don’t need to know exactly what comes next.
You don’t need a five-year plan waiting on the other side.
You simply need enough space to reconnect with the part of you that knows when something is asking to change.
Soul Expansion is an invitation to step outside the conditioning, reconnect with your body, and begin listening for your own direction again.