Awaken Your Sacred Self

Terms and Conditions

Included

Total costs for our Journey section one are $3,000 for “Awaken Your Sacred Self” Retreat in Teotihuacan, Mexico, which includes: 5 nights double occupancy accommodations at The Dreaming House, all lectures and teachings, entrance fees to the pyramids, museum, Tolantongo, sacred caves, firewalk, special pyramid tours, group transport, and all group airport transfers and luggage handling. (Included group pickup at the airport will be at app. 4 p.m. on October 11, so make sure your flight arrives prior to 3 p.m. Included group drop-off to airport on October 16, will leave Teo at app. 10 a.m., so make sure your flight departs after 1 p.m.) Also included are three meals per day (breakfast, comida, and cena), drinking water and beverages.

Not Included

We are not responsible for your round trip flight from your home to Mexico City. Also not included are your taxis if you travel outside of group arrival and departure times – taxi costs $75 USD each direction. Also not included are alcoholic beverages, gratuities, items of a personal nature such as laundry, gifts, shopping, beverages, toll calls, excess baggage, medical costs, and the costs of hospitalization and evacuation from remote areas, insurance and additional expenses arising from the delay or extension of a trip due to weather, political disputes, sickness, failure of transportation, or other causes beyond our control. We recommend you purchase travel insurance - visit www.travelguard.com – recommended site.

Payment

A $1,000.00 dollar deposit, which is non-refundable secures your place on the journey. The remaining payment in full of $2,000 is due by August 25, 2025. You may choose to pay in full and have $2,000 refunded if canceled by August 25, 2025.

Cancellation and Refunds

Any cancellation made in writing prior to August 25, 2025, will result in a cancellation fee of $1,100.00. Any cancellation made after August 25, 2025 up to the date of departure will result in total loss of deposit ($1,000) plus any non-refundable costs that we have made to our hotel and transport. All cancellations must be made to Daphne Paras/Sacred Seeker, Inc. in writing. We strongly recommend Travel Cancellation Insurance if there is a chance you may have to cancel for any reason. While highly unlikely, we reserve the right to cancel the trip if it is not meeting the trip minimum.

DAPHNE PARAS/SACRED SEEKER. INC. must make substantial payments to suppliers (including providers of land travel) far in advance of the scheduled date on which we embark. If a trip is cancelled due to forces beyond our control (acts of God, pandemics, war, labor strikes, earthquake, flooding, etc.). DAPHNE PARAS/SACRED SEEKER, INC. will promptly refund the portion of the trip cost not advanced to suppliers. DAPHNE PARAS/SACRED SEEKER, INC. will use our best efforts to recover advance payments as promptly as possible, and we will refund to you the amount recovered, if any. However, DAPHNE PARAS/SACRED SEEKER, INC. do not guarantee recovery of any or all of the advance payments made, and our use of best efforts to recover these payments will not include the institution of any legal proceeding in foreign lands. This policy applies to a trip cancellation by client choice following any necessary increase in trip costs.

DAPHNE PARAS AND SACRED SEEKER, INC. reserve the right to cancel any trip prior to departure for any reason whatsoever, including an insufficient number of participants or logistical problems (e.g. acts of God, war, strikes,pandemics, etc.), which may impede trip operations. The refund of all payments as described in the paragraph below shall release DAPHNE PARAS/SACRED SEEKER, INC. from any further liability. A trip cancellation due to insufficient numbers would normally occur at least 45 prior to departure, unless acts of God, war, strikes or other events impede our departure causing large numbers of participants to opt to cancel participation on the journey in the last days before departure.

Thank you for joining us on this journey and for your cooperation!

Responsibility/Release of Liability

All of the accommodations, meals, tours, transportation and/or related travel services have been made by DAPHNE PARAS/SACRED SEEKER, INC. only as an agent for the individual tour member. While every effort is made to make travel arrangements with reputable suppliers, a tour member expressly agrees DAPHNE PARAS/SACRED SEEKER, INC. shall not be liable for any delay, mishap, inconvenience, expense, irregularity, bodily injury or death to person, or damage to property occasioned through the negligence, wrongful or intentional acts, or default of any company or individual engaged in providing these arranged services. Each passenger conveyance, tour company, hotel accommodation, restaurant, etc. is subject to the laws of the state or country where the service is provided.

DAPHNE PARAS/SACRED SEEKER, INC. shall not be liable, directly or indirectly, for bodily injury or property damage for any reason whatsoever, including, but not limited to the following causes: acts of God, detention, annoyance, weather, pandemics, quarantines, strikes, civil disturbance, theft, negligence (including that of DAPHNE PARAS/SACRED SEEKER, INC.), default, changes in government regulations, terrorism, war or failure of conveyance to arrive or depart as scheduled.

DAPHNE PARAS/SACRED SEEKER, INC. reserve the right to substitute hotels and leaders and to alter the itinerary when deemed necessary or advisable. The right is also reserved to cancel any trip prior to departure EMILY GRIEVES is released from any and all liability for cancellation of any trip, or portion thereof, except for payment of a land cost as set forth in the section on "Cancellation and Refunds".

DAPHNE PARAS/SACRED SEEKER, INC. reserve the right to decline to accept or retain any person whose actions, physical heath, mental condition or general deportment impede trip operation or rights, welfare or enjoyment of other trip members. A refund based on the cost of unused land services is the limit of DAPHNE PARAS/SACRED SEEKER, INC. responsibility.

DAPHNE PARAS/SACRED SEEKER, INC. are not responsible for any refunds should a presenter advertised as attending or leading a tour or conference cancel for any reason. However if DAPHNE PARAS/SACRED SEEKER, INC. chooses to cancel her participation in this journey for any reason, every effort will be made to refund your deposit and payments made which have not been previously sent to foreign and air travel suppliers as outlined above.

DAPHNE PARAS/SACRED SEEKER, INC. are not responsible for any physical, mental, emotional, or any other reaction, trauma, or ailment during the trip or occurring afterwards, that participants may experience at the sites or from any leaders, workshops, or sessions of any kind, including private sessions with facilitators or presenters. Attendance on the trip indicates acceptance of this and all other provisions of this responsibility clause.

DAPHNE PARAS/SACRED SEEKER, INC. have recommended the purchase of appropriate travel accident insurance, baggage insurance, tour operation carrier default protection insurance, and trip cancellation insurance, and has made available explanatory information and policies, and the travel program member has the opportunity to purchase such insurance as protection against certain risks of travel to the planned destination. Travel program members are advised that travel insurance covers only what is included as stated in the travel insurance brochure.

Trip Member Responsibility

Trip members have the responsibility to select a trip appropriate to their abilities and interests. Trip members are held responsible for being in sufficient good health and physical condition to undertake the trip, which includes considerable walking and climbing at a high altitude. Trip members are responsible for preparing for this trip by studying the itinerary and pre-departure information sent by DAPHNE PARAS/SACRED SEEKER, INC., and for discussing this itinerary with their personal physician. Trip members are also responsible for bringing the appropriate clothing, medicines, supplies and equipment as advised in the pre-departure information. Trip members are participants in group travel and are expected to hold each other in compassionate regard, and to interact with each other with respect.