RETREATS
Now Accepting Deposits for the January 2025 Healing Arts and Yoga Retreat in Mexico!
Retreats will be focused around embracing your mind, body, and spirit while learning about the local culture, community, and destination you've traveled to.
Mexico Retreat
January 23 - January 30, 2025
Eco-Friendly Healing Arts & Yoga Retreat
LOCATION: La Paz, Mexico
Nestled between the mountains and dunes overlooking the blue waters of the Gulf of California, La Duna Centro Ecologico offers eco-friendly accommodations located two hours north of Cabo San Lucas in La Paz, Mexico.
At this eco-friendly retreat enjoy starting and/or ending your day with guided yoga sessions by Olivia, four three-hour long nature based expressive art workshops lead by co-host Gabriela Flores, inclusive vegetarian meals, a day boat and snorkel excursion to a sealion colony, a guided nature hike, and opportunities for personal growth and healing. Group airport transfers from La Paz International Airport to the retreat center are also provided (check with Olivia before booking to ensure your flight times coordinate).
Gabriela Flores, Eco- Arts and Sharing Nature certified facilitator. She has lead nature immersion retreats for the last 10 years in her home country of Mexico and the USA. She is program director at La Duna Centro Ecológico and is focused on nature connection, wellness retreats, green technologies, environmental education, and scientific research. Gabriela's art workshops are designed to blend Art and Nature, a relationship that heals. Incorporating a new element of nature each day, Earth (to ground us), Water (to remind us to flow), Fire (to transform us), and Air (to help us emerge renewed) and taking time to help us reconnect to the natural world through fun and meaningful guided activities. Utilizing sensory awareness, use of intuitive imagination, deep connection with nature, creativity with art forms and materials to welcome emergent information coming from deep inside our soul. Every piece created unfolds as our own consciousness is ready to receive. The practice done again, and again, will bring out completely new information each time.
La Duna collaborates with local and international conservation and educational non-profits to offer experiential programs based at the Center. We also help build local youth leaders as guides and community ambassadors for local nature conservation and restoration efforts. You'll positively impact the local economy through cultural immersion and limit your environmental footprint with compost toilets, limited hot water, solar power, and sustainable practices.
RATES:
This 8-day, 7-night retreat starts at just $1,775.
ACCOMODATIONS:
Double occupancy ($1,775 per person) or single occupancy ($2,175 per person) rooms with shared bathroom accommodations at La Duna Centro Ecologico.
Keep scrolling to view the planned Itinerary and Photo Gallery.
Contact Olivia with questions or to place your deposit ($500) to reserve your space today!
Itinerary
Eco-Friendly Healing Arts & Yoga Retreat
January 23 - January 30, 2025
Day 1
Individuals responsible for making their own way to La Paz International Airport by 2pm. A private shuttle will transport us from La Paz to La Duna. We will arrive and get settled into accommodations and commune at 5pm for dinner and introductions. Upon arrival we will go over bathroom and shower use, as well as touching on safety point. After, Olivia will guide you through a calming and grounding evening Yin practice (optional).
Day 2
Rise with the sun and join Olivia for a 7am yoga flow (optional) or enjoy your own morning ritual. Breakfast will be at 8:30am followed by "Meditative Art" (Earth Element) Workshop with Gabriela. You'll have the option to swim, or take short hikes nearby before dinner, after dinner there will be a Yin yoga offering to help us ground and take in the day.
Day 3
Rise with the sun for a 7am yoga flow (optional) or enjoy your own morning ritual. Breakfast at 8:30am followed by our second "Meditative Art"(Water Element) Workshop. Enjoy free time before gathering for dinner. After Dinner Olivia will guide us through a calming and grounding Yin practice.
Day 4
Rise for an early morning Breakfast at 7am. Shuttle to La Paz at 8am, where we will depart by boat at 9:30am heading to Espiritu Santo Island. We will be dropped off on the northern point of the island near the Sealion Colony. 1pm we will have lunch on the beach and snorkel gear will be supplied for those interested. Return to the retreat center by 5pm for dinner. Following dinner, Olivia will guide you through meditation and breathwork.
Day 5
Rise with the sun and join for a 7am yoga flow (optional) or enjoy your own morning ritual. Breakfast provided at 8:30am, after which we will dive into our 3rd day of "Meditative Art"(Fire Element) with Gabriela. Following the session plan to enjoy dinner and a campfire well into the evening.
Day 6
Rise for an early Breakfast at 7am. We will head out by boat at 8:30am for a beach/ snorkel day and a 3.5 mile loop trail hike called "Balandra" (Mild to intermediate hike) Our guide, Manuel, will identify various bird species along the way. The view from the top is unparalleled, you will be able to see the beautiful Puerto Balandra Bay and the impressive rock formations that emerge from the sea up to the Island of Espiritu Santo in the distance. Return back to La Duna for a 5pm dinner followed by a calming Yin practice led by Olivia (depending on the energy of the group)
Day 7
Our last full day. Flowing with the rhythm of the sunrise for a 7am yoga flow (optional) or enjoy your own morning ritual. Breakfast at 8:30am and then diving into our 4th and final day of "Meditative Art"(Air Element) with Gabriela. After, you'll have the remainder of the day to reflect on your week, relax and play. Dinner at 5pm and then gather for final reflections and a closing Yin practice together.
Day 8
We will say our final goodbyes, taking a leisurely morning to gather ourselves and pack up our belongings. Breakfast will be served at 8am and we will Hop aboard the group shuttle back to La Paz International Airport at 9:30am.
Eco-Friendly Healing Arts & Yoga Retreat
Join us for an experiential practice to feel ourselves embedded in nature through fun and meaningful guided activities. An opportunity to explore through yoga and art the inner landscape of our psyche and our relationship to self and nature.
