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11th Annual YOGA RETREAT TO PARADISE! | January 8-15, January 15-22, 2022

June 29, 2021 by Brandi Hand

OR the opportunity to go for 2 FULL WEEKS (Jan. 9-23)

Led by award-winning yogi Ted Roseen and Sharon Picasso

“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”
— Pema Chödrön

It’s a good sign when a retreat has been returning year after year, and even more so that for the past eight years there have been back-to-back weeks!

Thoughtfully created in Troncones, Guerrero; one of the last sacred and authentic destinations in Mexico, Present Moment Retreat offers the opportunity for physical, spiritual, and mental rejuvenation through yoga, meditation, and the healing arts. Renew your spirit while meditating on their private beach; revive your energy with sunrise and sunset yoga with yogi Ted Roseen, and then reward yourself as you dine on mouth-watering gourmet cuisine. At night, relax in your private seaside cabana, take a walk on the beach, cool off in the pool, or check out the nightlife in one of the nearby towns.

Located just north of Ixtapa, with the amenities of a five-star hotel and the privacy of a deserted island, Present Moment Retreat uniquely combines the luxuries of a health spa and beach resort with the tranquility of an intimate yoga center.

Your Adventure Includes

AM and PM yoga class with Ted Roseen
60-minute holistic massage
Option of a daily yoga class led by Present Moment Retreat staff
Baby sea turtle release.
Daily brunch and dinner at the on-location 5-star restaurant
Accommodations in beautiful and authentic Mexican cabanas all within earshot of the crashing waves
There is also much more available ala carte (i.e. sea kayaking tour, horse riding on the beach, smoothies, hikes, massage, and surfing lessons!)

*NOT INCLUDED

Transportation to Ixtapa. Trip insurance (recommended, please see cancellation policy)
Alcohol (it is available but not included; if you choose to enjoy, please do so responsibly and not during scheduled programming). Incidental fees, damages, or optional excursions or spa services.

Pricing

Singles: $2780.95 ($556.19 security deposit)

Doubles: $1981.25 ($396.25 security deposit)

Triples: $1847.95 ($369.59 security deposit)

*there is a $50 upcharge for all A/C accommodations, and a $700 upcharge for the master suite, Joy.

A 20% non-refundable deposit is required to secure your spot.

All money can be refunded, except the deposit, up to 30 days before the trip. If the trip is canceled, all money will be refunded. There are ONLY 20 SPOTS available each week.

Register

To register, contact Ted Roseen – troseen@gmail.com, 651.225.6198

Facilitator

Ted Roseen

Ted Roseen has been teaching his unique blend of yoga around the Twin Cities for years. This mix of the biomechanics of Iyengar, strong poses and repetition of Ashtanga, and the gentle flow of Vinyasa creates a fun, yet challenging balance for students of any level. As a marathoner, triathlete, and rock climber, Roseen understands the importance of an open body, the benefits of a positive and quiet mind, and the powerful resource that is tapped when that open body and quiet mind are connected. But, it’s Ted’s sense of humor and lightness of heart that sets him apart from other teachers, a true believer in tapping into your inner playground. He has studied under a number of gurus, including Saraswathi Rangaswamy, daughter of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in Mysore, India, and local yogi Dec Barry. Ted was acknowledged for his efforts and abilities in yoga in the Mpls/St. Paul Magazine “Best of the Twins Cities 2007.”

Your Home

Our charming, chic hotel and yoga retreat is located on a quiet, serene beach in Playa Troncones, thirty minutes up the coast from Ixtapa, Zihuatanejo, Mexico. Our beautifully designed accommodations and loving staff will please even the most discerning guests.

Present Moment Retreat is a powerfully transformative environment providing experiential training in the cultural arts. Surrounded by the magnificence of earth’s natural beauty, people from around the world come here to grow towards wholeness in their lives. We are dedicated to fostering deep awareness and appreciation of life through the compassionate treatment of all beings, and promoting wisdom and peace in celebration of the human spirit.

Your Boutique Bungalow

Present Moment is the perfect antidote to the chaos of everyday life. Authenticity was imperative in the construction of every inch of this resort. Thus, all bungalows have an indigenous palapa thatched roof, hand-crafted in the Mexican tradition, and are furnished with a pillow top queen-sized bed, luxurious 400 count cotton bedding and a canopy of white linen.

With 5 deluxe bungalows and 3 family bungalows, somewhat blurring the lines between the indoors and out, with its amazing vantage points to the sea, gardens and pool, your accommodation will be the perfect place to rest yourself after a full day of yoga and surf at Present Moment. Just a 30 second walk the beach, let the sounds of the ocean lure you to sleep each night.

With 3 air-conditioned suites, for those seeking a little more similarity to the comforts of home. Centrally located, you will be just steps away from the beach, amazing yoga classes, massage, and fine dining. If you enjoy strolling the shore at sunrise, these stunning bungalows will have you on your way in no time. Hand-crafted and beautifully appointed, a true home away from home.

About Troncones & Getting Here

At the heart of charming Troncones Beach, nestled between the lush mountains of the Sierra Madre and the sparkling Mexican Riviera, Present Moment Retreat combines the ambience of nature’s grandeur with personally challenging mind-body work, set in harmony on beautifully-landscaped tropical grounds.

Troncones Beach is a small, recently-developed community situated on some 3 miles of pristine Pacific beach – a strand of white sand punctuated by occasional rock outcroppings often harboring tidepools teeming with fascinating saltwater life. The charming village is home to a small school, a public library (donated by generous local residents for education of the village’s children), a church, several dry goods outlets and a few other small provisioning services for essential items. All of these are couched within a traditional and tropical Mexican ambience.

You can fly into Zihuatanejo/Ixtapa, the airport is located only 20 miles north and an easy 45-minute drive. The international airport is serviced by a number of International airlines including Alaska Airlines, Continental, American, America West, Frontier Airlines, Mexicana and Aeromexico. Troncones Beach is highly connected, yet still a world apart. Its proximity to Ixtapa and Zihuatanejo affords you a full choice of shopping conveniences and recreational possibilities, all just a short distance from your world-class yoga retreat and resort. We can assist you with booking all flights and airport transportation.

Imagine, Create, and Expand | February 19 to 26, 2022

November 23, 2021 by Brandi Hand

Raechelle, Carryn, Shan, and Bex want you to join them in the Abundance Queen Life….a new generation of woman. One that is willing to wield her power and integrate worthiness into every fiber of her being.

Raechelle shares when she envisioned Abundance Queen Life Retreats she certainly didn’t set out to create an Abundance Queen Life journey for herself… “One day I somehow became it. I was on a women’s getaway trip to Tulum, Mexico, and the term “you are an abundance queen!” kept popping up. Others were noticing…how every moment I made through life was easy and effortless. How I seemed to magically receive everything I wanted and more.

It was uncomfortable at first, I didn’t want others feeling jealous or envious of what I had somehow learned to become. The reality is if we all celebrate one another in these moments of becoming…we will all rise.”

What is creating an Abundance Queen Life? Do you have a vision undefined, a power not unleashed, a purpose not yet uncovered…maybe you know there is something there within you and if someone could just help pull it out of you….

You may not know HOW in this moment, but you have decided you want more for your life…you are willing to imagine, create and expand into becoming your heart’s desires.

The Abundance Queen Life Retreat is here!

Your Adventure Includes:

ALL INCLUSIVE stay at a private beach resort with 11 Luxury Ocean View Villas
4 star restaurant with breakfast, snacks and dinner included ( alcoholic drinks are excluded )
Beach front spa, pool with jacuzzi
Playshops each day to take you on an inner experience of desired transformation
Meditation and Hypnotherapy experiences built in
Daily Yoga practice: All yoga props (including mats) will be available for your use
Enjoying movement as a habit: built into daily activities
FULL ACCESS to 3 incredible Master coaches ready and available to schedule 1×1 time with and share their rituals, strategies and life resources
Relaxation time to play or do nothing, simply BE
1 60 minute Massage on the beach included
1 roundtrip car transportation to and from the airport included Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo International Airport (IATA: ZIH, ICAO: MMZH)

Epic Bonuses:

Luxurious gifts! Leave room in your bag to hold about 7 more lbs of treats ($500 value)
Playshop recordings! Not to worry, the informational playshops will be recorded for you to go back to, the experiential exercises will be left for your memory to hold forever ($997 value)
Access to Abundance Queen Life 💎 Accountability Circle: what happens after an EPIC retreat? Real life settles back in. 4 weeks of support provided after the retreat to foster an environment of connection and accountability with new goals and habits. These will be weekly zoom group check-ins for 60 min once per week. ($3,200 value)

Not Included:

Visa’s
COVID testing or passport
Adventure tours will be mapped out and optional for an extra fee
Flights
Alcoholic drinks

Pricing

Full Price $3997, discounts available for paying in full and booking with a friend!

Refund policy:

All sales for this experience are final.

Please ensure that you are able to attend the dates, and have all of the recommended Covid guidelines abided by with travel into Mexico. Please check your local embassy guidelines for further instructions. Mexico has maintained its borders open through air travel to North American visitors with no need to quarantine.

Registration:

https://www.financialfitnessunleashed.com/retreats

Your Leaders

Raechelle

Educator, real estate investor, and financial coach Raechelle has spent the last 15 years helping her clients create strategies to live out their dream life. Her commitment to her client’s ability to see what is possible for themselves is unwavering. She is supportive, deliberate, and instructional in her zone of genius to empower those around her to thrive.

Raechelle has taken her practical business acumen from her Leadership role at a Fortune 500 company and integrated it with her passion to translate the gritty pieces of life around us into an effortless part of a resourceful lifestyle. “Monetize your gifts and you’ll never work another day; make an impact and you will build wealth beyond what you can imagine.” Raechelle encourages others to remove the self-imposed limits and celebrate what is possible through deliberate creation.

Carryn

Carryn is first and foremost a people person with a deep passion for uncovering our innate love, joy, capacity, and wellness. She understands firsthand that healing and happiness arise through meaningful connection and creative expression. A big believer that all of life is relational, Carryn loves sharing her experience and expertise through healing relationship. Yoga and its many branches are her main pathways, but she enjoys weaving a much larger tapestry of connection by engaging the full human experience.

Carryn has always been a seeker of greater love, peace, and truth, but it was her yoga teacher training that threw the doors of life wide open. Since then, she has received her Master of Arts in Yoga Studies, became a Level 2 iRest practitioner, and is a practicing yoga therapist. Complimenting her academic and experiential knowledge in yoga and meditation, she is also a level 2 Reiki practitioner and certified sound healer. She loves combining these multiple modalities in individual and group settings where the richness of life can be embraced and explored in ways that heal and uplift us all. Her background in working with children adds play and embodiment to the mix and makes for a joy-filled experience.

Shan

Shannon is a meditation teacher, life coach & speaker.

Shannon birthed ‘Women of the World’; a podcast that helps guide you back to your true self, which has been listened to in 14+ countries in just 10 days of it being aired. She has had the pleasure of working with clients that are TEDx speakers, CEOs, entrepreneurs, and teachers worldwide.

Rebecca

Rebecca is the Founder and CEO of Endeavour Consultancy. She started her well-being business, after 15 years working within the Finance and IT sector in the UK. Rebecca is following her passion for empowering people. Knowledge is the power for people to imagine, create and expand in their goals. Rebecca’s business is all about adding real value by connecting people on their well-being journey to a coach or specialists out of her fabulous value-driven network. Rebecca believes that the best way to find health, happiness, and wealth is to be honest, kind, and positive the rest will fall into place. Having a good laugh along the way is also not a bad thing.

Your Home

Your Boutique Bungalow

Present Moment is the perfect antidote to the chaos of everyday life. Authenticity was imperative in the construction of every inch of this resort. Thus, all bungalows have an indigenous palapa thatched roof, hand-crafted in the Mexican tradition, and are furnished with a pillow-top queen-sized bed, luxurious 400 count cotton bedding and a canopy of white linen.

With 5 deluxe bungalows and 3 family bungalows, somewhat blurring the lines between the indoors and out, with its amazing vantage points to the sea, gardens, and pool, your accommodation will be the perfect place to rest yourself after a full day of yoga and surf at Present Moment. Just a 30-second walk to the beach, let the sounds of the ocean lure you to sleep each night.

About Troncones & Getting Here

At the heart of charming Troncones Beach, nestled between the lush mountains of the Sierra Madre and the sparkling Mexican Riviera, Present Moment Retreat combines the ambiance of nature’s grandeur with personally challenging mind-body work, set in harmony on beautifully-landscaped tropical grounds.

Troncones Beach is a small, recently-developed community situated on some 3 miles of pristine Pacific beach – a strand of white sand punctuated by occasional rock outcroppings often harboring tidepools teeming with fascinating saltwater life. The charming village is home to a small school, a public library (donated by generous local residents for the education of the village’s children), a church, several dry goods outlets and a few other small provisioning services for essential items. All of these are couched within a traditional and tropical Mexican ambiance.

NextTribe’s Age Boldly Beach Week | February 26 – March 5, 2022

December 1, 2021 by Brandi Hand

While it’s still cold in the States, we’ll have the whole hotel to ourselves in this small Mexican village, north of Zihautanejo and Ixtapa. This is our fourth-annual, women-only retreat in this idyllic location, where we offer meditation-writing classes, yoga, and a host of other activities. Women come from all over the world—some of them not knowing anyone else on the trip—and the bonding is quick and deep.

We’re a group of women who are still curious and game. We’re explorers who want to keep learning and challenging ourselves. And we like to have fun. Be ready for walks on the beach with new friends, boogie-boarding in the waves, dance parties, shopping, and a child-like sense of play.

Your Adventure Includes

7 nights in palapa-roof, beach-front bungalow
Breakfast every morning
6 dinners at resort restaurant
1 massage or treatment during the week
Daily yoga (taught by Present Moment staff and by NextTribe’s own Kimberly Cihlar)
Two Meditation and Writing sessions that will help you access your creativity and authentic voice, led by Kimberly Cihlar and NextTribe editor Jeannie Ralston.
Daily meditation sessions
Transfer to & from Zihautanejo (ZIH) airport (40 min. south)

*NOT INCLUDED

Airfare
Alcohol
Lunches
Tips
One dinner outside of Present Moment
Activities not mentioned above

Pricing

Single: $3,050 per person
Double: $2,240 per person
Triple: $2,099 per person

Discounts for NextTribe members.

$300 deposit to hold spot (non-refundable but transferable to another NextTribe trip)

Balance non-refundable after Jan. 10th.

Register Here.

Retreat Facilitators:

Jeannie Ralston

Jeannie Ralston is the co-founder and CEO of NextTribe, the digital magazine and community for smart, engaged women over 45. NextTribe’s mission is to inform, promote, and connect women who are determined to “Age Boldly” (NextTribe’s tagline).

Ralston’s work as a journalist has been published in National Geographic, Life, The New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Allure, and many other magazines. Her years growing lavender in rural Texas was the subject of her memoir, The Unlikely Lavender Queen, published by Broadway Books; her e-book, The Mother of All Field Trips, was about the three years she and her husband homeschooled and traveled with their sons. She lives in Austin, Texas.

Kimberly Cihlar

Kimberly Cihlar, an Acu Asana Vinyasa Yoga, Meditation and Meridian Yoga Therapy Facilitator, Acupressure Massage and NADA Auricular Detox Acupuncture Specialist, who offers treatments including Cupping, Gua Cha, Moxibustion and more, staunchly believes that every body has the ability to age boldly, as pain-free as possible: just get moving to keep moving, modifying as needed. To that point, yoga remains her ride or die, pun intended. She came to the practice over a decade ago, seeking transformation inside and out. Since then, she’s completed over 500 hours of certification, including SOS, MYT, and NADA auricular acudetox training.

As a yogi, fashion editor, writer, jewelry designer, and lover of life, Kim is a constant student, following a path that has expanded her world exponentially. Yoga is her guide, her teacher, her reason for a sober and ecstatic heart, mind, and spirit. She believes in a world of love, holistic health, awareness, and true authentic Being, spun out from heart-centered healing. Kim’s desire to serve and share the wellness modalities knowledge she specializes in, focusing on yoga, acupressure, cupping, NADA, and more, has led to her participation in the SOS Volunteer Outreach Program and work within the New York Harm Reduction Educators (NYHRE) community. She continues to lean into the learnings of asana and acupressure, studying the intelligence of our organs and how that insight and intention affect emotional balance and energetic wellness as we grow wiser and older. After all, age is more than just a number.

Your Home

Your Boutique Bungalow

With 3 air conditioned suites, for those seeking a little more similarity to the comforts of home. Centrally located, you will be just steps away from the beach, amazing yoga classes, massage, and fine dining. If you enjoy strolling the shore at sunrise, these stunning bungalows will have you on your way in no time. Hand-crafted and beautifully appointed, a true home away from home.

About Troncones & Getting Here

Beach Front Yoga Retreat | March 5th – 12th, 2022

April 21, 2021 by Brandi Hand

“An ocean breeze puts the mind at ease”

Imagine this. Waking up every day to the sounds of nature and the Pacific. Nourishing yoga classes every morning and evening with an ocean view.

Eating artfully prepared locally sourced delicious meals every day. Learning how to surf, going on long nature walks, hikes, and horseback rides on the beach.

Unwinding while catching the sunset every evening with your toes in the sand and maybe a fruity drink in your hand. Imagine no more…

Nestled between the lush mountains of the Sierra Madre and the sparkling Mexican Riviera, Playa Troncones provides the perfect landscape for fun, adventure, and relaxation. Located just 20 miles north of Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Mexico, this gorgeous and charming beachfront resort feels more like a sanctuary where mind, body, and spirit are holistically nurtured. Its unique location brings a sense of calm and clarity. Combined with the magic of Mother Nature herself, this unspoiled haven of miles of white sand beaches will provide a life-enhancing experience.

Your Adventure Includes:

7 days and 7 nights in a gorgeous and chic beachfront resort/retreat center
Twice daily yoga practices in a beautiful and airy oceanfront yoga shala
Healthy gourmet breakfasts and dinners
One 60 minute massage
$80 activity or massage credit
Airport Transfers to and from the airport (on first and last day of retreat)

Not Included:

Lunches
Flights
Travel insurance
Excursions/activities beyond the $80 credit
Alcohol
Gratuity
Covid Test Costs

Pricing

Only 2 bungalows left!!!

Single: $2,765.
Double: $1.945 (per person)

Reserve your spot by placing a $500 Non-Refundable deposit.

Registration:

Email: chrissy@chrissylovesyoga.com for more details or to sign up!

$500 deposit is non-refundable and holds your spot. Final Payment due by 12/20/21. 50% is non-refundable 60 days prior to retreat. 100% non-refundable 30 days prior to retreat. I highly recommend purchasing travel insurance!

Your Leader

Chrissy Gonzalez (retreat Leader)Chrissy Gonzalex is a Los Angeles-based yoga teacher, vegan foodie, writer, travel junkie, and animal lover. The onset of her love affair with yoga over twenty years ago set in motion an active practice that has allowed her to guide others for over a decade. Her formal training began in 2002 with Yoga Works in Los Angeles. She has since completed over 1000 hours of Yoga Alliance Certified training under the guidance of her teachers Joan Hyman, Jeanne Heileman, and many others. She stays busy teaching alignment-based classes and workshops flowing with harmonious movement, yoga philosophy, and a positive outlook. She also leads workshops and yoga retreats all over the world. In addition to teaching yoga classes, Chrissy loves to cook, write, travel the world and work with animal rescues and shelters. She founded “The Yoga Pawject”, a non-profit that helps raise money for animals in need. www.chrissylovesyoga.com

Your Home

Our charming, chic hotel and yoga retreat is located on a quie, serene beach in Playa Troncones, thirty minutes up the coast from Ixtapa, Zihuatanejo, Mexico. Our beautifully designed accommodations and loving staff will please even the most discerning guests.

Your Boutique Bungalow

Present Moment is the perfect antidote to the chaos of everyday life. Authenticity was imperative in the construction of every inch of this resort. Thus, all bungalows have an indigenous palapa thatched roof, hand-crafted in the Mexican tradition, and are furnished with a pillow-top queen-sized bed, luxurious 400 count cotton bedding and a canopy of white linen.

With 5 deluxe bungalows and 3 family bungalows, somewhat blurring the lines between the indoors and out, with its amazing vantage points to the sea, gardens, and pool, your accommodation will be the perfect place to rest yourself after a full day of yoga and surf at Present Moment. Just a 30-second walk to the beach, let the sounds of the ocean lure you to sleep each night.

About Troncones & Getting Here

Troncones Beach is a small, recently-developed community situated on some 3 miles of pristine Pacific beach – a strand of white sand punctuated by occasional rock outcroppings often harboring tidepools teeming with fascinating saltwater life. The charming village is home to a small school, a public library (donated by generous local residents for the education of the village’s children), a church, several dry goods outlets and a few other small provisioning services for essential items. All of these are couched within a traditional and tropical Mexican ambiance.

Yoga Retreat | April 2 – 7th 2022 ~ Yoga Retreat

November 11, 2020 by Brandi Hand

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” — Anais Nin

Come on an adventure with Felicity, Daria and Sommer at Present Moment in Troncones, Mexico. This dynamic trio of beautiful, passionate yoga teachers, each with different backgrounds, experiences and energy. They will take you on a yoga journey of spiritual connection, physical expression and body movement. Their collective energy is complementary but connected around a shared passion and gratitude for a practice that unites them all: yoga.

Recharge, reenergize and find joy on this seven-day journey. Take this time to reconnect with yourself and others in beautiful beachfront surroundings. Wake up and begin each day with meditation and yoga on a beautiful open air platform just steps away from the blue, warm waters of the Mexican Riviera.

Nourish your body with amazing locally sourced meals, play and move freely, and soak up the magic of this little surf community and its surroundings. Troncones is a hidden gem that inspires and brings together people from all over the world and all walks of life. It’s a place to tap into your inner joy and magic while sharing the experience with others and having fun the entire time. This experience is for everyone no matter where you are on your yoga journey, even if it’s just beginning. Let’s go!

Your Adventure Includes

Round trip airport transfer to and from the Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo airport. (ZIH)
Seven nights lodging in tropical luxury — private or shared beach bungalow with private bathrooms
Seven locally sourced gourmet breakfasts
Seven gourmet dinners (food allergy substitutes available)

Seven days of Yoga
Vinyasa led classes by Felicity & Sommer
Yoga Grooves led by Daria
Additional Present Moment yoga classes led by local instructors
1-2 workshops
Candlelight yoga
1 Bodywork/Massage treatment – 60 minutes
Sound bath
Sacred Cacao ceremony
Shaman

*NOT INCLUDED

Round trip airfare to Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo airport (ZIH). Direct flights available from certain cities and connecting flights from others.
Trip insurance (recommended especially when traveling internationally).
Lunch & Drinks – The restaurant at Present Moment Retreat offers great lunch options, snacks, juices, smoothies, and a full bar.
Additional excursions if interested such as an ATV adventure, surfing, hiking to a magnificent cave with crystal formations, horseback riding, kayaking and more can be arranged.

Pricing

Single bungalow $2,995

Double $1,934 per person

Triple $1800 per person

Present Moment retreats are very popular. Please lock in your spot today with a $500 deposit.

* The $500 deposit will only be refundable if there are government issued travel restrictions preventing travel to Mexico related to Covid.

To register email: felicityjodell@gmail.com

Payments accepted through Venmo and Paypal

Register

To register email: felicityjodell@gmail.com

Payments accepted through Venmo and Paypal

Retreat Facilitators:

Felicity Odell, Daria Gershman & Sommer Leitz

We’re all in different stages of our lives and focus on different areas. But as a trio we’re a blend of human connection, spiritual progress and genuine joy and gratitude for yoga.

Felicity Odell is a yoga teacher from the San Francisco Bay Area.

I’m just a woman on a life-long journey to find purpose & joy. I’ve lived a life. I’m a wife, mother of three and consummate seeker. I’m drawn to new experiences, places and people. My life is filled with friends I’ve known for 40 years and 4 days. I’m driven by curiosity: What makes a person tick? Why does Troncones feel like home to me? Why can’t I find the energy to get out of bed today?

My journey with Yoga began in my twenties but was activated deeply in my 40s. I was called to teach and, in my exploration, found an endless pool of discovery bound by a practice called yoga. I’m naturally a physical person. From my childhood as a swimmer and ice skater to later in life as a marathon runner and yoga nut. Physical activity isn’t a choice for me. It’s a must.

I love the ocean. I need to be near water, which is what drew me to Kauai for 6 years and initially drew me to Troncones. In Troncones I found another home, a place with people, music, food and energy that can’t be captured in words. This is my first yoga retreat and I’m doing it with two other women who share my passion for life and love for yoga.

Depression and anxiety have plagued me for many years and I’ve learned to manage it through yoga and movement. When I discovered Vinyasa Yoga combined with a heated room I found something I couldn’t deny, like discovering water for the first time. Vinyasa gives me what I need physically but more importantly, quiets my mind, relieves my anxiety and connects me with a force and feeling outside of myself, but emanates from within.

I began my yoga teaching journey with a 200-hour training through Corepower yoga which focuses on Baron Baptiste’s method. I love to teach. I love the feeling in the room, the connectedness of the class, and the diversity of people, all sharing a common desire to learn and grow. I see clearly the benefits teaching brings to my students and to myself. It’s like sharing my heart with their heart and vice-versa and it gives me tremendous reward. In addition to my regular teaching, I’ve taken yoga sculpt training, an assist workshop, and Prison Yoga Project training, which focuses on trauma-informed, mindfulness-based yoga and brings yoga to incarcerated people around the world. I’ve done additional workshops and classes with world-renowned yogis like Seane Corn, MC Yogi, Janet Stone, Chelsey Korus, Shiva Rea, and more through the Wanderlust Yoga Festivals. Recently, I intuitively found my yoga mentor Amelia Andaleon through Just Be Yoga in Walnut Creek, California.

I am so excited to share my love for Troncones and Present Moment. I have experienced the joy of teaching yoga as a guest instructor in 2019 at this magical place. I cannot wait to share it with you.

Daria Gershman is a yoga/dance teacher and health/wellness coach from the San Francisco Bay Area.

My life changed the moment I entered my first Journey Dance class at Kripalu in 2007. There I found my two greatest passions in one practice. Yoga and Dance. I didn’t even know they could merge. In yoga, I felt grounded and at peace. In dance, I felt wild and free. Together I was brought to a place I never imagined. Moments of Pure ecstatic joy and moments of deep pent up sorrow all uninhibitedly flowed through my body. I merge ecstatic movement with principles of Yoga, sound healing, and liberating beats to give our community the ultimate stress reliever, and an opportunity to let your body release emotions you don’t need and replace them with endorphins that will last for the rest of the week. This practice takes everything to a new level, with intention and Grace that delivers a phenomenal emotional, physical and spiritual experience.

I am a yoga/dance instructor and health and wellness coach. I have several yoga certifications, including two children’s yoga teacher trainings and two somatic movement/dance trainings. I am CHC and CLC certified, Health Coach and Life Coach. I completed healing one at the Academy of intuitive medicine. My lifetime passion for spiritual development and intuitive eating shapes my daily life. My own struggle with Lyme’s disease have inspired my path to find healing through changing my lifestyle and seeing food as medicine. I underwent many years of Lyme treatment with both eastern and western protocols. Through my own regiment of diet, lifestyle, herbs, pharmaceuticals and some crazy alternative treatments, I conquered the disease and have been symptom free for years.

I am currently in private practice in Mill Valley where she is raising her two teen daughters Alexandra and Sasha.

Sommer Leitz is a yoga teacher and student from the San Francisco Bay Area.

I did not seek out the practice of yoga, it sought out me. As a 15-year-old struggling with an anxiety and eating disorder, my mom recognized I was not receiving the deeper, spiritual healing I was longing for from clinical approaches.

I began having private sessions with Misha McNair, my mentor from Just Be Yoga in Walnut Creek, California. She introduced me not only to the healing I was searching for but a new philosophy of life. Before yoga, I was focused on calculated perfection, lost in my suffering and unaware of my inner essence.

My life since yoga is full of confrontational self-study, active awareness and compassion towards even the damaged parts of myself. What brings me back to my practice on and off the mat is community, connection to something higher than myself and continuous learning.

When it came time to decide what to do after high school, I was offered a place in my studio’s 200-hour teacher training program. I answered a deeper calling by forgoing the social norm and focusing on educating myself holistically and spiritually.

I am currently working towards a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Asian Philosophy. I plan to use yoga as a form of therapy, much as my mentor has done for me. As a teacher and student, yoga challenges me to foster the energy and presence required to lead a life aligned with my divine essence. It also gives me the opportunity to harmonize a space of authenticity, compassion and love towards myself, and others.

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