Reset I Body, Mind, Soul I Life
In Joy
This retreat is for women like us who know that health, happiness and connection to Self are the foundation of fulfillment and joy in every area of our lives and are ready to stress less and live and love more!
Nourish Your Feminine Soul
This retreat is ultimately to nurture the most important relationships in our life … the one we have with ourselves and our heart of joy. The best gift we can give to our kids, our family, our friends and ourselves (!) is to be connected to ourselves even a little bit more - a sign of that is that we are in our joy.
This week will be all. about. that! ✨
We hear a lot these days about the importance of self-care and self-love and this retreat is a journey of replenishing, reconnecting and resetting.
This retreat offers various yoga practices - the restorative yummy empowering practices of yoga Nidra, balancing breath work & meditation, yoga therapy to release tension and support flow and well-being, and the elevating, playful practices of mindfulness in motion and dance. We will drop out of our heads and into our hearts with right-brain artsy activities like soul collages and vision boards and of course get right into nature and let her work her magic on us.
* No previous yoga, art or meditation experience required
Picturesque Xinalani Eco Yoga Resort, on the warm and nurturing Mexican coastline, is an ideal location to take a week for yourself. And the third week of November is THE perfect time to step out of the cold and pre-holiday busyness. It really is a powerful time to address our needs for pausing, reflecting, refreshing our energy, reconnecting with self, deep rest and play.
Pause. Refuel. Heal.
One of the many yumminess factors of this retreat is the food. The fresh fruits and vegetables and the healthy, delicious gourmet meals that await you are next level and available in buffet all you can eat style - you will not go hungry! Xinalani is known for the exceptional food they serve. With a menu designed especially for health conscious people, they offer gourmet vegetarian and non-vegetarian Mexican meals. YUM! And there are cooking classes from their world class chefs.
Renew your connection with your authentic self and your heart of joy.
There are many paths to deepen your connection with yourself. This is the playful, joyful, creative, feminine path.
We believe that our felt sense of joy is the voice of our authentic Self guiding us and leading us to becoming masters of our own nourishment, health and happiness and that self-love and kindness are game changers. The environment and retreat activities like the yoga, meditation, outdoor adventure, art and movement with music will be creating conditions for us to be in joy and extend our loving heart to ourselves.
Arrive and be taken care of. (And bring a good friend!)
With the staff at Xinalani taking care of our needs, attention and care can be directed to our own replenishment and hearts desires! Release old stress, replenish your energy, reconnect to yourself, gather with like-minded adventurous, heart-centered women and get inspired … feel fully alive and lit from within. In joy.
As women who care deeply in roles of leadership, mothering and care-taking we often flat out forget to honor our need for play and rest. It can be difficult to hear our intuition/soul’s whispers above the have to’s and gotta do’s and what do I cook for dinner and who needs to be driven where. We can seem to lose connection a little or a lot to ourselves and our joy amid the busy. This retreat is a reclaiming and deepening of our connection. Excellent retreat for women in transition or who would love a conscious delicious pause in November with amazing women.
Reawaken Joy and Peace
You’ll leave with simple practices (we call them blissiplines) to keep this beautiful deepened connection alive so your clarity and confidence and beautiful heart can continue to flourish and shine through.
IMAGINE …
Waking up to the sounds of nature and looking out into the expanse of ocean and sky.
Enjoying daily yoga, movement and mindfulness practices dropping you out of your mind into your heart and body.
Connecting with and being supported by other adventurous, heart-centered, empowered women.
Being served 21 fresh, healthy, gourmet meals that you did not prepare (or need to clean up after!)
The power of nature to deepen your experience of the practices and reflect your beauty and strength back to you
Increasing your capacity for awareness, self-compassion and joy.
Playful, creative personal reflection activities to open you to a new level of clarity and confidence
Feeling lighter and clearer as your nervous system lets go of old, accumulated tension and unprocessed emotions.
Experiencing the deep rest and transformative gifts of an in nature yoga nidra practice
Feeling your senses awakened by nature and fresh, tasty food - sinking into the warm sand with your toes, swimming in warm ocean water, fully savouring the juicy joy of fresh papaya with lime.
Feeling inspired.
Doing. Nothing.
Return to a rich simplicity.
Some Themes Woven Into The Retreat
Women’s Wellness
Emotional Wellness and Mindfulness in the day-to-day
Joy - everything about this (!) including easy ways of clearing common obstacles to our experience of joy. You’ll learn the infamous “Breath of Joy”
The gifts of the feminine in home and work and life
Rewiring the brain to create what you desire with yoga nidra
Nature connection and the power of space on our nervous system
Joy’s connection to self-compassion and self-love
Reclaiming radiance and play
Tapping into our joy sparked creativity and our expression of it in a new way
MUSIC AND CREATIVITY
Our creativity is one thing that often awakens when we calm our nervous systems down, create space and reconnect to the moment and let being in joy guide our way. Being in touch with your unique expression/creativity taps you into a deep well of energy, delight and nourishment. We have set up some opportunities for you to be a kid again and ignite your creative juices and inherent playfulness as part of the week. You are also welcome to bring a musical instrument or some creative medium you know you love if you’d like as there will be lots of free time for you.
When we create space to listen and be fully in the moment increased energy and creativity emerge …
Xinalani translates to “seed” and we will be planting and nurturing the seeds of connection and care for ourself, presence and joyful embodiment through activities including these various types of yoga and mindfulness practices as well as right brain artsy soul inquiry activities such as collaging and poetry. Re-energize your mindfulness practice not to get better at meditating but to get better at life! Come home connected to your calm, confidence and essence of joy.
We will start each morning with a mindfulness practice down at this beach. Ahhhh (-:
Who is this especially for?
Really anyone’s life and health will benefit from nourishing self-care, time and space for personal reflection and reconnection and spending time in such exquisite beauty as this Mexican coastline! We do see this being a real game changer for conscious women - mothers, health care practitioners, entrepreneurs, caregivers and any woman in a leadership role who would like to tap into renewed clarity and confidence and a loving, celebratory relationship with herself!
No yoga or meditation experience is necessary as we can modify for your level.
Tend the fires of joy, peace, creativity & self-love within you and let the warmth of that bless you and ripple into your life.
FREE TIME OPTIONS
There will be spacious free time every day for you to fill or not fill with whatever your heart chooses. There are options at the retreat and near by for both adventure (hiking, whale watching, swimming with dolphins) and relaxation. We recommend to take at least some of this time to slow right down and be nourished (in joy) by the simple things.: read, walk barefoot in the warm sand, swim in the warm water, kayak, watch the sunset, drink tea, enjoy a massage or simply. do. nothing.(-:
Kayaks, snorkels and boogie boards are available to use as you like.
Remember your heart of joy beyond the daily roles.
RETREAT FACILITATORS
Your retreat facilitators will be Dr. Monika Herwig ND, Dr. Zhiish McKenzie MD, a special guest, and the amazing staff at Xinalani. Dr. Monika is a mother, yoga teacher, nature lover and runs a naturopathic practice focussed on Mind-Body Health and Women’s Wellness. She works functionally and energetically with Adrenal/Hormone Health, Detox, Gut and Brain Health. Her 1-on-1 Mindfulness/Yoga Therapy sessions support women on the Mental/Emotional Level connecting to their intuition and releasing tension/fears in the body that limit self-expression. Her passion is supporting heart-centered women shine their light and share their gifts with the world in joy and without burning out in the process.. She has facilitated wellness programs, cooking workshops and retreats since 1999.
Dr. Monika Herwig has been practicing acupuncture for over 20 years and there will be the opportunity during the week to experience a special healing group yoga nidra that includes acupuncture. Bliss!
Dr. Monika Herwig ND
TECHNOLOGY AT THE RETREAT
The expectation is for this to be a technology free week. The WiFi is not consistent for one and this space is really for you to be fully present here in mind as well as body to yourself. If you have a commitment to connect that needs to happen by all means. Do whatever you can to get the most out of this unique experience around attending to just You (it’s just a week!) (-:
PRICING & BOOKING
All-inclusive packages start at the early bird shared accommodation price of just $1595 US and include 3 healthy gourmet meals/day (4 meals actually if you count the early am coffee/tea breakfast of fruit, yoghurt, granola, nuts and hard boiled eggs!), shuttle to and from the airport in Puerto Vallarta, return 30 minute boat ride to Xinalani, 7 nights deluxe accommodation, daily yoga and mindfulness classes and other retreat activities .
Our lovely retreat planner Cathy Wassermann is looking after you and the booking logistics this year again. She can be reached at cathy.wassermann@visiontravel.ca. She will send you the registration form and help you with booking, room selection, etc. Cathy can also help you find a good flight and answer any questions you may have around Xinalani itself - Cathy has retreated there several times!
To have your pick of the accommodation option you would like, do reserve your spot sooner than later. At last year’s She Shines Retreat here we sold out and had to turn women away. )-: There are limited rooms and the retreats at Xinalani have a habit of filling up!
We will be taking advantage of this nature’s paradise and bringing practices into nature as much as we can.
In Joy! xo, Dr. Monika, Dr. Zhiish, special guests and the A-Mazing Staff at Xinalani
Where joyful and fun meets soulful and sacred.
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