WHAT’S INCLUDED:

• 7 days / 6 nights accommodation in an eco-hotel experiencing minimalism and the simplicity of nature.

• 10 yoga/somatic movement, philosophy, meditation, pranayama, (controlling your breath) classes accompanied with sound healing instruments to guide you into ancient yogic/ancestral practice that works with the health of your energetic subtle body.

• 3 vegetarian meals a day to begin a light detox using whole-foods to invigorate the body's natural ability to heal.

• 1 hike to the pueblo & in-town waterfall to experience the small fishing village of Yelapa.

• 1 hike or horseback to the back river waterfall to connect to nature's terrain of rock, sand, and rolling waters, bringing you closer to nature's womb.

• 1 day at Isabel beach & circle meditation to tap into your inner awareness.

• 2 days at Yelapa semi-private beach, lying, paddle boarding & kayaking to enjoy in smiles, laughter, and fun.  Being a kid again.

• 2 Shaking medicine sessions in nervous system regulation to dissolve tension, stress, and anxiety, and the effects of trauma and ptsd.

• 1 yoga philosophy workshop in the 8 limbs of yoga to connect you to ancient knowledge in how to embrace a yogic lifestyle.

• 1 integrative nutrition workshop to dive deep into the synergetic fusion of primary and secondary foods and how this teaching can guide you into authentic joy and peace.

• 2 spiritual ceremonies (opening & closing) to connect to your intentions and release what is no longer serving you, uplifting you in unity into a rebirth of self.

• 1 cacao ceremony to open and activate the energy of the heart, as the medicine of raw ceremonial cocoa sinks deep into your physical, emotional, and mental bodies, connecting you deeper to the force of love that you have within.

• 1 sound healing session to let the therapy of sound embrace the cells of your body to overcome any blockages on an emotional level, bringing you into a deep state of peace.

• 1 voice activation session to inspire your authentic and potent voice to come through, moving any dormant or stuck energy that may be preventing you from internally communicating to your true self, or externally speaking your truth from the voice of your heart. This exercise is a powerful pathway towards speaking up and expressing yourself, but also with hearing and being heard.

• 1 KAP (kundalini activation process) session to attain to higher states of consciousness opening up long-held blockages in the subtle energy body. This results in a profound rewiring of the brain structure and central nervous system.

• Round trip water taxi

• WIFI

Free your spirit

Holistic wellness retreat

FebrUary 17th - 23rd 2024

Yelapa, Mexico

Per person pricing

Shared Double eco-casita

$1,650 USD

Single room eco-casita

$1,850 USD

PAYMENT PLANS ACCEPTED*

A TRANSFORMATIONAL EXPERIENCE

$350 USD Deposit

Non-refundable, but transferable

HAVE YOU BEEN EXPERIENCING A FULL LIFE?

One that is busy, and adventurous, but hectic and stressful at the same time? A life full of eating, breathing, watching, touching, and hearing all that it has to give you?

And now you've decided that it's time for a full body reset to free your spirit!

One that is combined with nutritional changes, along with physical, mental, and emotional reset practices.

Tackling it from the perspective of truly transforming your state of being, where the reset process supports you in living your life in a different way from that point forward.

Welcome to VIKARA WELLNESS located in Yelapa, Mexico.

VIKARA WELLNESS has been born from divine direction. Leading and speaking, guiding and embodying itself as wellness teachers & healers to support humanity’s need in empowering itself through holistic wellness modalities. Where there is a nurturing support system for mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical health, that will empower you to take responsibility for your well-being in ways you may have never experienced.

When health issues arise, the solution isn’t to ignore it, or automatically turn to pharmaceutical drugs, but to explore how to maintain your well-being with a team of holistic guides who want to learn and connect with who you are, where you have come from, what you have experienced, and how you would like to be supported through holistic wellness.

Not only do we work with people who already have a passion in taking care of their body, mind, and emotions through mindfulness and conscious awareness, but we are strongly here to educate people who have had a resistance to natural health, but find themselves exploring new options due to difficulty with their own health, or the health of a loved one. Suddenly they have been driven into a direction towards looking for self empowerment due to constantly experiencing an unhealthy state of being that isn’t being supported through other means.

Some mental, emotional, and physical issues could be:

• Food allergies

• Diabetes

• Weight gain

• Depression

• Anxiety, tension, and stress

• Sugar addiction

• Substance abuse & addiction

• Lack of energy

• Sleeplessness

• Physical balance

• Physical aches & pains

• Lack of presence & awareness

• Unsteady mind & thinking

• Imbalanced emotional expression

• Low immune system

• Nervous system issues

• Digestive issues

• Trauma triggers controlling your life

• Relationship building

and the list can go on and on…

You will be transported back to the simplicity of living with nature, giving you the opportunity to reconnect with yourself.

This retreat is perfect for anybody who:

1. Needs a reset of their nervous system that has been taken over by a busy lifestyle that has created tension, stress or anxiety as a normal way of living.

2. Wants to cleanse their body in a gentle way by adopting a whole-food vegetarian diet, along with juices following liver cleansing protocols.

3. Would like to cleans their physical, emotional, and mental states of consciousness through the practices of transforming their subtle/energetic body through yoga philosophy and holistic wellness modalities and their practices.

4. Is interested in incorporating holistic health coaching as a part of their detox, so they can become empowered through self-awareness, tackling other aspects of life that also needs to be recognized, and transformed.

5. Who is tired of struggling, and ready to be supported by an experienced certified yoga teacher, energy healers and holistic health coaching in nutrition, and mindfulness practices.

RESTORE. REJUVENATE. AND HEAL TO FEEL

Includes 3 daily vegetarian dishes (breakfast, lunch, dinner)

Beautifully prepared vegetarian meals will comprise of a plant-based menu. Plates will be nourishing, original, and delicious, and will be inspired by the local Mexican cuisine. Medicinal teas and water will be served. There are no alcoholic beverages served at this retreat. It is a 100% holistic wellness retreat to support your healing process.

SEMI-PRIVATE BEACH LOCATION

Includes semi-private beach access

You will be nestled in the Jungle at night, and have semi-private beach access during the day. At our beach location, you will be able to enjoy the sounds of the waves while relaxing on the sand or in a hammock. Location has private bathrooms, and a kitchenette for preparing snacks at the beach.

Sacred Spiritual CEREMONies

Includes 2 evening ceremonies

Connect to your heart’s inner voice at a spiritually lead opening and closing ceremony to ground into your transformative self. The opening ceremony will be to center, and touch-base with the power you have within, creating an invitation of intention for the week, while the closing will be a purge of all that was gathered during the week, to release and let go into a rebirthing of self.

IncludeS 1 CACAO CEREMONY

We will come together in a ceremonial space allowing us to get out of our normal frame of mind, helping us to experience new insights and perspectives. Cacao ceremonies are one of the oldest holistic healing practices used by indigenous cultures all over the world, and in it’s raw form it can be used to gently guide you into the emotional center of your body - your heart. We will use the medicine of cacao to assist in your healing, to find inner clarity and work with intention setting. We will rise our frequency together in the vibration of love.

YOGA, MEDITATION, PHILOSOPHY

Includes daily yoga in the morning and evening for 1.5 hours each session.

The evening sessions will consist more of breathwork and meditation. You will experience different styles of yoga from hatha, kundalini kriyas, deep stretch, and yoga nidra. Each class will have a theme rooted in yoga philosophy, diving you deeper into how yoga integrates with your everyday way of life.

TARGETED & SPECIALIZED YOGA SESSIONS

Apana Vayu, Navel Center, & Elimination Practices

Daily, you will practice specific yoga & meditation kundalini kriyas that will work with apana vayu, the energy governing the removal of waste in the physical body, operating in the genitals, lower intestine, colon, rectum, kidneys and bladder.

Aging does not start just with years; it begins with nutritional deficiency, intestinal problems, untended emotional and physical stress, and an inflexible spine that disrupts the flow of meridians and the rejuvenating flow of your spinal fluid.

Signs of an unhealthy or imbalanced Apana Vayu can range from laziness and dullness to confusion and indecisiveness.

Balancing the vayus through practicing yoga and meditation not only promotes physical strength, but also helps the practitioner move closer to their spiritual path.

YOGA PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP

Includes 1, 2hr group session

We will discuss the yoga sutras of Patanjali, diving deep into the 8-limbs of yoga (1. Yama · 2. Niyama · 3. Asana · 4. Pranayama · 5. Pratyahara · 6. Dharana · 7. Dhyana · 8. Samadhi)

INTEGRATIVE NUTRITION WORKSHOP

Includes 1, 2hr group session

Integrative Nutrition is a type of philosophy in which we look at balancing our primary and secondary foods. Primary foods, are not actually foods, but a way in which you can see how all areas of your life are connected, and where you can discover which primary foods (relationships, health, spirituality, joy, home environment, etc) need attention in order to create the life you love.

Secondary foods, which is nutrition, is the foundation of how you are each and every day. It is the catalyst that either makes you feel fantastic, or not. It is what creates your mental clarity, mood, energy, ambition, creativity, body mass, and much much more!

Understanding the interconnection of primary and secondary foods will propel you into a deeper state of awareness. You will achieve this through discussion, and will identify your Ayurvedic constitution, (a person's unique ratio of vata, pitta, and kapha), which is the blueprint to achieve optimal health. We will discuss how to incorporate certain herbs, foods, and food combinations to balance your dosha.

NERVOUS SYSTEM REGULATION WORKSHOP (shaking medicine)

Includes 2, 1.5 hr group session

You will be taught and guided by a certified Shaking Medicine embodiment teacher with teachings in TRE. The class comprises of embodiment movements that have been created to release tension, stress, anxiety, ptsd and the effects of trauma from the body by triggering therapeutic tremors/pulsations/vibrations(a natural human response) to discharge stress, releasing the fight/flight cycle that we didn't allow happen & is being stored in the body. The benefit of the session is to connect to your state of safety, so you can bring yourself back to the rest/digest state, connecting to the triune brain to create a brain/body balance of homeostasis.

KAP (KUNDALINI ACTIVATION PROCESS) ENERGY WORK

Includes 1, 2 hr session

The Most Transformative Process You’ve Never Heard Of

For thousands of years, yogi’s have been trying to awaken their Kundalini in order to work through their karma, connect to the bliss that is our human birthright, and attain higher states of consciousness. Writer and yogi Gopi Krishna, calls Kundalini the “evolutionary energy in man” and famed psychoanalyst Carl G. Jung professed that an awakened Kundalini was an essential element in becoming a fully integrated human.

While the concept of Kundalini is still a foreign one in our Western culture, civilizations throughout the ages have understood both it’s power and it’s necessity, not only for spiritual pursuit, but in order for us live our highest potential as a human… physically, mentally and emotionally.

KAP: Kundalini Activation Process, is a direct energy transmission that opens and awakens the stagnant energy pathways within the human mechanism, resulting in a clearing of old blockages that have accumulated over lifetimes and manifested in various types of mental, emotional and physical restrictions.

This propulsion of life-force energy often brings an abundance of mental clarity, creativity, emotional healing and spiritual awakening as it allows us to uncover deeper layers of self and connect to our authentic truths through higher states of consciousness.

The KAP modality ignites this process in a safe and effective way, and once this process initiates, a profound rewiring of the brain structure and central nervous system begins and will continue, facilitating a deep growth and evolution of self that is so often unattainable via other methods.

SOUND HEALING THERAPY

Includes 1, 1.5hr session

• Elevates your vibration, releasing stress, anxiety, facilitating a more restful sleep.

• Alines emotions, increases spiritual awakening and our creativity.

• Stimulates alpha waves.

• Balances the chakras which brings us to a higher state of consciousness , gratitude, happiness and inner peace.

• Cleans the Aura.

• Stimulates a more efficient self healing process.

self guided EXCURSIONS:

Waterfall Hike | Pueblo Location

This excursion will give you a tour of the small pueblo of Yelapa, Mexico and the town waterfall as a group. We will hike 20 minutes from the town to the waterfall. Local artisan markets will be along the path, giving you that authentic Mexican experience.

Waterfall Hike | Back River Location

You will hike or horseback ride on soft ground along a river, through the back jungle of Yelapa, Mexico as a group. This hike is an hour each way. You will enjoy a small snack and will have enough time to swim in the cool waters, and lie on the hot black flat rocks, giving yourself a natural spa experience.

Semi-Private Beach | Yelapa Beach Location

You will have time where you will simply enjoy beach-front, with a small Mexican snack (guacamole, chips & salsa, water, limonada) as a group in Yelapa, Mexico. At this location, you will be able to rent a kayak, or paddle board, or just simply lie in a hammock or beach soaking up the sun.

Semi-Private Beach | Playa Isabel Meditation

You will take a short hike to a semi-private beach, past town, and towards one of the ocean points of Yelapa, Mexico. Here, you will relax and lie on the sand, or large boulder rocks, and swim in the ocean, as we discuss what's arising, and integrate your process of becoming. 

WHAT’S NOT INCLUDED:

• Airfare, travel insurance

• Gratuity to staff (required) $50 USD

• Round-trip airport transfer (payment isn’t included, but we will coordinate your transportation) $25 USD each way, usually shared between other participants.

• Massages/energy work (there will be time designated to schedule bodywork, but payment isn’t included) 40 - 75 USD (optional)

• One on one transformational coaching (there will be time to designate) 75 - 95 USD (optional)

AIRPORT

You will purchase your plane ticket going to (PVR) Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport, which is an english friendly airport located in Puerto Vallarta, MX. Don’t hesitate to ask questions.

✈️ When booking your plane ticket, please make sure your arrival to PVR is on or before 3:00 PM, and your departure from PVR is on or after 11:00 AM. These times coordinate with the panga water taxi schedule.

Julia ALLSHOUSE | Intuitive Spirit guide | sacred space Holder | experienced Yoga Teacher | Holistic Health Coach

Julia is originally from Pittsburgh, PA, who has been living within the culture and country of Mexico for over a decade. She comes from a family with mental illness and addiction, and always knew she didn't want to trigger the possibility of repeating the same pattern. There came a time in her life, where unhealthy relationships were effecting her deeply, causing depression and an unhealthy lifestyle, not knowing how to overcome. It actually took her years to make the decision to attend a yoga class, and when she did, it all went up hill from there. It changed her life forever, and she wants nothing more than to inspire yours!

Julia is a certified holistic health counselor from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, a E-RYT 200hr, & RYT 500hr Yoga Alliance Certified teacher with trainings from Drishti Yoga International, & Samadhi Yoga Ashram, specializing in traditional tantra kundalini & hatha yoga rooted in Himalayan yoga tradition, and have completed her Anusara 100 hr immersion training based in hatha tradition. Her philosophy is that nutrition and yoga are synergetic in creating overall wellness. She believes that the foundation of both aspects in one’s life can create a heightened vibrational nature, which enables joy, clarity, and the desire to transform. She is able to teach many styles from strenuous to restorative and understands yoga as an energy-based healing art for the integration of body, mind, emotions, and spirit.

BARBARA BLUM | KAP FACILITATOR | YOGA TEACHER

Barbara is from San Francisco, California, who has made Yelapa, MX her home. She is a 500hr Yoga Alliance Certified teacher, with 150hr hatha & meditation training, 80hr meditation teacher training, and is a level 2 KAP (Kundalini Activation Process) facilitator. Decades of embodied practices, including ten years as a professional dancer, to over 15yrs of teaching yoga, have brought a unique depth of understanding on the mind/body/spirit principal of union. Over the last several years, a strong commitment to spiritual growth has evoked a series of ever-deepening, transformative awakenings, bringing Barbara to a place of direct connectivity to Divine energies, which she transmits during her energy sessions.

During this committed pursuit, Barbara has accrued a vast background of experiences alongside an intellectual understanding in both the traditional teachings of India as well as that of the modern mystics, bringing a well-rounded approach to this path toward wholeness. Barbara’s deep well of experience in conjunction with an even deeper desire toward self-realization now leads her to stretch beyond lineages, and she find herself directly connected to Source energy itself. This connection brings with it a very clear directive that expands far beyond personal evolution… one that calls for service to humanity at large. In being a conduit for Divine energy, she shares simply:

“My duty has become clear: Awaken, and assist in the awakening in others.”