7-Day Yoga Retreat
in Yelapa, Mexico
A Week of Reconnection
MARCH 22 – 28, 2025
Seeing the Unseen: Cultivating Inner Awareness
Join Meghan and Amber on a seven night retreat in Yelapa, Mexico where the jungle meets the sea. Together, we will explore yoga postures, meditation techniques, breathing exercises, yoga nidra, and engage with writing prompts to inspire self inquiry.
You will be guided through daily practices in the morning and afternoon on an open-air deck with flocks of birds flying overhead and beautiful plants and flowers surrounding you. Each day you will have free time to explore Yelapa’s quaint town, beaches, hikes, and waterfalls. Yelapa is located south of Puerto Vallarta and is only accessible by water taxi. This makes it a very unique experience, free of cars.
The Intention of the Seeing the Unseen Yoga Retreat:
Seeing the Unseen Yoga Retreat is designed for the sincere yoga practitioner who is seeking a deeper understanding and experience of yoga practice with a lovely group of people. The experience of yoga is more potent when we practice within a community of like-minded individuals (satsang). Our practices during the retreat will offer the practitioner an opportunity to cultivate a relationship with their inner witness. The practice of “witnessing” can help one feel grounded and confident in the decisions they make and the actions they take in their daily lives.
The challenge of the spiritual path is to reconcile our everyday circumstances, relationships, and objects that we interact with as reflections of and opportunities to develop our inner awareness. This reconciliation requires a unique type of “seeing” which develops through intentional practices. Discernment, authenticity, and connection to our unique purpose all flow when we are in touch with our inner witness.
The witnessing state is the ability to create a psychological distance between ourselves and the present moment allowing us to observe our tendencies to project our preconceived ideas, expectations, and attachments onto our experience. The application of the skill of witnessing develops our ability to observe our unconscious tendencies which, often unknowingly, prompt our habitual behaviors. As we observe our tendencies, our habits lose their power over us. We are less obstructed and more free to operate from a continual state of pure awareness. Connected to our inner witness, the knowledge that we gain through our lived experiences transforms into wisdom.
Yoga is a philosophy for living skillfully. It teaches us how to develop and apply an awakened awareness in our daily lives. We each have a unique contribution to make in the world. To understand and manifest our potential requires that we apply skill in the actions that we take. Discernment arises from the practice of “witnessing,” and is a necessary quality required to make wise decisions and engage in skillful action in our life. Connection to our inner witness holds the potential to align our experience with our purpose.
Our Accommodations
We will be staying at Los Naranjos Retreat Center, which is nestled into the jungle of Yelapa–an ideal environment to immerse ourselves in nature and untangle ourselves from daily distractions and the hyper-active pace of modern life. The combination of slowing down, tuning into the senses, intentional daily practice, wholesome community, and nutritional home-cooked meals prepared with love by local Yelapians, provides the very foundation from which we can restore and rebuild our vital resources and connect to the deep self within.
Our accommodations are beautiful open air palapas set in among bougainvillia, coconut, avocado, and palm trees in a small canyon that leads to a waterfall. Each day we will be provided delicious, homemade family-style vegetarian meals along with a variety of fresh juices. Vegan and other dietary restrictions can be accommodated. Some of the fruits and vegetables in our meals are grown by our host, there will be an option to tour the garden.
The retreat grounds have hammocks for lounging, instruments for playing, paths for exploring and witnessing the abundance of flora and fauna.
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Cost
$2400 includes your round-trip water taxi to and from Yelapa, accommodation at Los Naranjos, three meals a day, 2 daily practices, and discussions with self-inquiry prompts.
Travel costs including the flight are separate. All your needs are taken care of once you arrive in Yelapa. You will receive a $300 discount if your full payment is made by Saturday January 25, 2025.
How to get there
You will need to arrive in Puerto Vallarta (PV) prior to Saturday March 22nd. We recommend that you book your accommodation in PV as soon as you are able because this is a popular destination. Saturday March 22nd we will meet at the Los Muertos Pier to take a private water taxi to Yelapa in the late morning (exact time to be determined). On Saturday, March 28th, we will accompany you to the Yelapa dock to take a late morning water taxi back to PV. If you choose to fly back on March 29th, book your flight for a late afternoon or early evening departure so you don’t have to feel rushed. It takes about an hour to get from Yelapa back to the pier in Puerto Vallarta. From the pier, you can take the local bus, hail a taxi or take an Uber to the airport or your next destination.
What to bring
You will need a passport for travel – make sure your expiration date is 6 months out from your return date of your flight
We recommend packing lightly and to use a carry-on bag that is easy to transport–we suggest a backpack. We will be going from plane, to car (or bus), to water taxi, to the jungle and back.
Please wear comfortable shoes. We recommend sandals, many people bring tennis shoes or a closed-toe shoe as well.
Bring clothing for warm days, swimwear and light layers for the evenings. Hat and sunglasses are recommended.
Bedding is provided, you may opt to bring your own travel pillow and/or blanket. We recommend ear plugs, the jungle is active at night! Bring a flashlight or headlamp to navigate your way around the retreat grounds in the dark and to go to and from the bathroom at night.
A shower towel is provided. You should bring an additional towel if you plan to swim or hang at the beach and river.
Sunscreen (reef-safe)
Insect repellent (no Deet)
Flashlight/headlamp
Water bottle
You may want to bring spending money for shopping, snacks on the beach and in town (although we are always well fed by the Los Naranjos staff!). There are opportunities to book adventures like parasailing, and to rent equipment for snorkeling, paddleboarding, kayaking and more.
At the end of the week you can opt to leave a cash tip for the wonderful folks taking care of us. There are no ATMs in Yelapa so please get cash in advance at the bank, the airport or ATMs in PV. Tipping is optional and could be between 680 and 1360 MXN Pesos ($35 - 70 USD) or more
Registration
$500 Non-refundable deposit holds your spot
$1900 Due by March 8, 2025
$2400 Full payment by March 8, 2025
EARLY BIRD (Savings of $300)
$50 discount if deposit is made by Sunday, December 1, 2024
$250 discount if remaining payment is made by Saturday, January 25, 2025
$300 discount if full payment is made by Saturday, January 25, 2025
Register
Discounted rates apply if deposit is paid by Sunday, December 1, 2024 and full rate is paid by January 25, 2025
Refund/Cancellation Policy
No one books a retreat with the intention of canceling it, but unexpected events do occur. Our cancellation policy is in place to help us all in making it possible to make dreams come true and be held when unexpected arises and adjustments need to be made.
If you need to cancel:
Cancellation requests submitted before January 22, 2025 can receive a refund of 50%.
Requests submitted after March 7, 2025 will not be refunded.
HOLD DEPOSITS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE. Hold deposits (minus $100 USD re-listing fee) are transferable to another attendee found and assigned by the original attendee.
Full balance due 2 weeks before the start date of retreat unless otherwise noted.
All refunds will incur a 4% processing fee.
If your hosts need to cancel:
In the event that the retreat has to be canceled a 4% processing fee will be kept and 100% of all other payments will be refunded.
We cannot be held responsible for any personal expenses, such as airline tickets.
Notification of cancellation for any reason will occur at least 2 weeks prior to the retreat start date.