Ignite your ripple of impact
KAVANÂ is a 30-acre oceanfront Retreat Center and Learning Institute dedicated to personal transformation for real-world impact.
Are you a purpose-driven facilitator or community leader looking for a space to host your programs?
We would love to meet you.
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The Temple
This temple was thoughtfully designed by Reed Finlay and MUSA to facilitate transformation and serve as a blank canvas that can hold facilitators, participants, and their deeply human experiences with intention.
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The Temple
This temple was thoughtfully designed by Reed Finlay and MUSA to facilitate transformation and serve as a blank canvas that can hold facilitators, participants, and their deeply human experiences with intention.
KAVANÂ’s architecture is spearheaded by our partners at MUSA.
KAVANÂ has been purposefully designed with spaces that are both open and intimate, neutral and energizing, to support you in bringing your unique retreat vision to life.
- 15,000 sq ft Temple
- 80,000 sq ft of buildings
- 1,000 ft beachfront
One thousand feet of beachfront
Beach Front Suites
Gather with community
Immersive Jungle Suites
Jungle Suites
Farm-to-table dining
Lagoon Yoga Deck
Jungle Community Hives
KAVANÂ is located 45 minutes south of Zihuatanejo International Airport, on the South Pacific coast of Mexico.
Coming 2025
“This place will hold the structure and magic of a facilitators dream.”
Seth Streeter
Executive Coach
C-Suite Team Facilitator, YPO
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Can we Teach AI Indigenous Wisdom?
SNOW RAVEN, JERE SIMPSON
What happens when you teach AI indigenous wisdom? We brought together Snow Raven – an indigenous wisdom keeper whose music draws inspiration from her lineage of the Sakha people in Arctic Siberia – and Jere Simpson, an ethical AI futurist, to explore the answer.
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What is ‘Integrated Intelligence’?
AZRYA BEQUER
Meet the host of Integrated Intelligence, KAVANÂ co-founder Azrya Bequer, who breaks down the journey of shifting from ‘default’ to ‘integrated’ intelligence by confronting distraction, isolation, and fragmentation so that we may find greater meaning through beauty, connection, and alignment.
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Executive Team
Benjamin Bequer Co-Founding Steward
Azrya Bequer Co-Founding Steward
Krista BerlincourtOperations & Marketing Steward
Astrid BrinckCulture & Impact Steward
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”
- Margaret Mead
Strategic Advisors & Partners
Tara MedinaDesign & DevelopmentCo-Founder MUSA
Andres SaavedraDesign & DevelopmentCo-FounderMUSA
Reed FinlayTemple DesignFormer: WeWork Burning Man Temple
Kfir LevyDevelopment WNDRFL
Mara AbramsSocial Impact Advisor Founder + CEO, Numara
2019
Azyra (Az) & Benjamin (Bee) meet and immediately fall in love and realize the alignment of their visions to build a retreat center for personal transformation
2020
Az & Bee start scouting land, and make their first visit to MUSA.
The Love Story
Azrya and Benjamin scouted land all over Mexico and Costa Rica before discovering MUSA, an existing community project on the Mexican Pacific Coast that they instantly fell in love with.
COMING 2025
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The KAVANÂ Story
Today, KAVANÂ is being built upon a foundation of devoted partnership and inspired collaboration.
2022
The team is formed, begins to craft a methodology for personal transformation and launches programs online.
2023
There is a transition from the BEQOMING personal brand as the KAVANÂ organization begins to take shape. Land is acquired at MUSA.
2024
KAVANÂ brand is born, master plan is finished, and construction begins.