Patagonia
Where simplicity returns

10 days of
Natural
Immersion
Late February - Early March 2027

Northern Patagonia

explore - expand - evolve

There are places that change the pace of your thinking the moment you arrive. Northern Patagonia is one of them.

For ten days in late February and early March 2027, we're heading into the lake district of Argentine Patagonia — a region of volcanoes, alpine lakes, old forests, and quiet Andean towns. We'll hike, ride, paddle, share meals, and leave room for the kind of presence that only shows up when the schedule breathes.

This is not a packed tour. It's a lifestyle retreat— with movement, with wonder, and with enough space to actually feel where you are.

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Who is this for?

This retreat is for people who want something more than a vacation — and something lighter than a silent intensive. It's a good fit if you:

Love being in landscape and feel more yourself when you're moving through it
Want community without a packed social calendar
Are looking for a reset — a stretch of time without the usual noise
Appreciate a trip that makes room for reflection without making it the whole point
Are reasonably fit and comfortable with full-day hikes and active days

No previous experience is needed. You don't need to be a meditator or an athlete. You just need to be willing to show up, move your body, and be present with the moment and the people in it.

Open Landscape

Space that changes your pace

There’s a certain kind of quiet that only shows up in places like this.

Wide valleys, glacial lakes, and ridgelines shaped by constant wind. You don’t have to seek anything out. Just being in it begins to shift how you move, how you breathe, and how much you feel the need to do.

Movement and Exploration

Move through it, not past it

We spend our days in the landscape, not just looking at it.

Hiking into the mountains, time on the water, and stretches on horseback through open terrain. There’s enough structure to keep things moving, but plenty of space for the day to unfold in its own way.

Local Rhythm

A slower way of living

Between time in the mountains, we settle into small towns like San Martín and Villa La Angostura.

Simple meals, local spaces, and a pace of life that doesn’t rush itself. It’s not something you try to understand. You just spend time in it, and it starts to make sense.

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Meet the Hosts

This trip is hosted by two couples. Bob and Thomasina Fisk in Minnesota, Lee and Yani Paganelli in Argentina. Between us we bring sound, breath, movement, ceremony, ecology, and embodied practice to this work, and years of hosting retreats together in landscape.

Hosts

Bob and Thomasina Fisk

Bob and Thomasina Fisk are married co-founders of Waking Nomad Foundation in Marine on Saint Croix, Minnesota, where they have grown a community of people who desire to feel alive. The work is a living practice, embodied and shared, not an escape from life but a way of meeting it more fully. They have led immersive travel experiences in Peru and Morocco. Both bring deep knowledge at the intersection of sound, psyche, and how the body interacts with mind and emotion. They both are a big part of the foundation's community-facing work, bringing warmth and intuitive skill to group and 1-on-1 settings.

Co-hosts

Lee Kaiser and Yani Paganelli

Lee Kaiser and Yani Paganelli have been living and traveling together since 2019, when they met in Palenque, Mexico. They have years of experience hosting retreats and ceremonies across Argentina, Mexico, and Peru. Yani is an Argentina native, occupational therapist, and medicine woman in the Moon Dance tradition (a ritual rooted in Mexican and Native American lineage); she accompanies women in processes of healing and connecting with the sacred feminine. Lee is a US-born, Argentina-based wildlife biologist and avid traveler who tends a sacred fire in the same tradition.

Travel and Transformation

When we step outside of our known environments we have an opportunity to encounter ourselves with a fresh vision. We can allow the old identities to fall away and make a more authentic home for ourselves within the calm still core of our being. This trip will open your eyes to new worlds where you will rediscover a connection to wonder and possibility.

Have you seen the photos from our
last immersive travel experience?

Inca Trail Hike
Sacred Valley, Peru

Photography by Winsome Photos

I'm interested

What's Included:

Nine nights of lodging across the route
Ground transportation throughout the trip
Most meals — especially when we're together at our home bases or out on activities
Every included activity and guided experience listed above
Hosting and facilitation from the Waking Nomad team

Not Included:

International flights to Buenos Aires (EZE), the regional flight from Buenos Aires to San Martín de los Andes (CPC)
travel insurance
and some meals on days when you're free to explore at your own pace.

Cost: $3,950

***Commit early as costs will increase as we get closer to the retreat dates.

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How to join

We're collecting names from people interested in coming along. The group is intentionally small and tends to fill from within the community first, so adding your name early is the best way to hold your place.

Two ways to start:

Add your name — share a few details and we'll be in touch with dates, next steps, and any questions you'd like to ask before committing.
Soon, we will be ready to hold your spot with a deposit — once you know this is yours, a deposit locks in your place in the group.

Patagonia Where simplicity returns

10 days of Natural Immersion Late February - Early March 2027