Fully & Freely Her: Women’s Wellness & Empowerment Breakthrough Retreat
Xinalani Eco-Yoga Retreat Centre and Spa in the Bay of Banderas near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
November 15 - 22, 2025
Chula is a Spanish word we define as: ‘a bold & beautiful, vibrant, playful, home in her own skin, fully & freely herself woman.’ 💃
Join us in Paradise this November to ignite, embrace and live connected to your uniquely you ‘chulaness’ … to you!
This nourishing, transformative retreat is your invitation to step into a space where your fullest, truest self is not only welcome—but celebrated and called forward. Over 7 transformative days, we will create a container of sisterhood, fun, growth and unapologetic freedom. You will learn about and make the single biggest shift that when made brings a woman’s wellness onto a path of true thriving + hormone/energy harmony vs surviving, accelerated aging, meh or burnout. 🙌
Come and leave behind the roles, the expectations, and the “shoulds” and discover the depth and beauty of being YOU—Fully. Freely.
What Awaits You?
💎 Feminine Empowerment Workshops: Uncover your truth and your true power, release your blocks, and with joy embody the woman you’re meant to be. You will love what opens up for you and your life with these life changing sessions that open up a whole new capacity for you owing and living from your feminine aliveness and full, natural presence.
💎 Nourishing Wellness Practices: Yoga, somatics, breath work, nature hikes, and rituals designed to restore your mind, body, and spirit like our sunrise cacao ceremony .on the beach and the deep rest yoga nidra - a key blissipline for thriving n midlife.*No previous yoga experience necessary.
💎 Paradise Setting: Think being nourished by beauty … of naturally synching your breath with the rhythm of the waves, turquoise waters, lush landscape, warm sand to sink your toes into and the kind of sunset skies that take your breath away. All the yoga studios have an incredible view of the ocean and if we are as lucky as last year we may have to interrupt a yoga class to follow a whale’s journey across the horizon! 🙌Time. Well. Spent.
💎 Soulful Sisterhood: Build connections with like-minded and like-hearted fun-loving women who are ready to rise —together. You can’t become your full self by yourself. 💕These retreats attract the most incredible women! Women 35 - 56 years will benefit the most from the midlife wellness transformation nuggets we weave in.
💎 Permission to Be Wildly YOU: Through every laugh, tear, and celebration, we’ll hold space for all that you are.
This Is For You If You’re Ready To:
✨ Reclaim or expand your confidence and self-connection.
✨ Release the patterns that keep you stuck.
✨ Tap into your innate wisdom , vitality and inner power.
✨ Explore your truth in a safe and supportive space.
✨ Return home as the YOU you know yourself to be in your clearest moments.
You are powerful. You are radiant. You are ‘chula’.
Are you ready to be ‘Fully & Freely Her’?
We’d love to have you join us!
With love and in joy, xo, Dr. Monika 🦋
Photos , accommodation links and extra information below. ⬇️
Any questions not answered here, please text Dr. Monika before Jan 20 or after February 8th (403)678-7901.
* Early bird prices currently on . The earlier the book the more options you have for accommodations.🥳
Yoga immersed in nature is THE best. * No previous yoga experience necessary
Picturesque Xinalani Eco Yoga Resort, on the warm and nurturing Mexican coastline, is an ideal location to take a week for replenish and re-ignite yourself. And, the end of November is THE perfect time to step into nature’s warmth and sunshine. A powerful time to meet our needs for pausing, reflecting, refreshing our energy, reconnecting with self, deep rest and play.
Pause. Refuel. Heal.
Xinalani’s cooks and kitchen staff are next level! They merge healthy and fresh with divinely delicious.. This retreat has us experiencing a path to wellness and empowerment that is delicious, fun, playful, joyful, easeful, sensual, connected … a feminine, hormone savvy path.
Arrive and be taken care of.
With the staff at Xinalani taking care of our needs, attention and care can be directed to our own replenishment and hearts desires! You will be greeted at the airport and brought right to the shores of this like-no-other retreat centre. 🧡
Imagine starting your day with a sunrise cacao ceremony down at this beach! ⬇️
Who this is not suited for ..
Due to the transformational nature of the retreat, it is best suited for women who are thriving in at least 1 or 2 areas of their life. We are creating a space for rejuvenation, transformation, empowerment, sensuality and play. It is not group therapy which is set up in a different way. We will be connecting with who we are and who we are becoming vs who we have been and what has happened in the past (which is important of course too but needs a more therapeutic vs transformation context).
If you are looking for a November getaway to sit by the beach and enjoy margaritas this is not it. We will be unwinding, connecting and replenishing in other ways!
If you are looking for a very serious retreat. It’s potent but there’s a LOT of levity and joy!
If you have a hard time with stairs .The retreat centre is situated between ocean and mountain … basically on a jungle mountainside - the architecture and design is so incredible as are the many yoga studios we get to choose from during our week. There are lots of stairs for someone who is challenged by them. (We love them and feel very naturally stronger by the end of the week!)
Remember the YOU beyond the daily roles.
*Kayaks, paddle boards, boogie boards and snorkels are available to use as you like.
RETREAT FACILITATORS
Dr. Monika Herwig ND, special guest, and the amazing staff at Xinalani will be creating this container of growth, expansion, yumminess and revitalization for you.
Dr. Monika is a feminine power trained transformational facilitator, a, yoga teacher + therapist, nature lover and runs a naturopathic medical practice focussed on Women’s Wellness and Empowerment. She specializes in supporting women peri-menopausally and in motherhood to move out of surviving into thriving and hormone harmony.
She supports heart-centered women reconnect tot their true desires and whole selves-including their sexuality, feminine aliveness, joy and creativity.. She has been creating transformationally, loving spaces for women to rise together since 1996.
Dr. Monika’s Yoga Therapy and Somatic Breakthrough Coaching sessions reconnect women to themselves and their intuition while releasing stuck energy that has been keeping them stuck,limiting self-expression, and diminishing a woman’s natural vibrant glow and energy.
Dr. MONIKA HERWIG ND supporting tension release with some 1-on-1 yoga therapy in the Jungle Studio
Dr. Monika in her ‘wedding photographer’ role doing her best to capture the absolute beauty she sees in the retreat participants.
Oven-side infinity pool and sauna are open to enjoy till 9 pm ✨
PRICING & BOOKING
All-inclusive packages start at the early bird shared accommodation price of $1895 USD and include 3 healthy gourmet meals/day, shuttle to and from the airport in Puerto Vallarta, return 30 minute boat ride to Xinalani, 7 nights gorgeous, peaceful accommodation, daily yoga/mindfulness classes, Women-centered Somatic Breakthrough Coaching (including Resources (value $997 USD) and other retreat activities and surprises. 🎉
To have your pick of the accommodation option you would like, reserve your spot sooner than later. There are limited rooms and the retreats at Xinalani have a habit of filling up!
Looking forward to this deeply nourishing , transformative, enlivening time together …
xo, Dr. Monika, special guests and the Staff at Xinalani 🦋
Text (403) 678-7901 or email growingmamalove@gmail.com for any questions you have!
“We’re just dancing and loving each other home.” Dr. Monika 🦋
