7 Days Holistic Life Yoga Retreat in Nayarit, Mexico

Lizzy became interested in holistic health through her own healing experience. In 2011, she was injured in her job as a lifeguard. This led to a huge personal transformation on all levels. She came to realize certain things to be true: that body's natural state is good health and that the body knows how to heal itself and be well. What you need to know is how to support yourselves in this process. Through her own process, she became a holistic health practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist, yoga, and Pilates instructor.

Native to California, Dawn is a preschool and Kindergarten teacher and has been working in the early childhood development field as an educator for 18 years. After opening her preschool in Malibu (CA), she went on to teach English as a second language to children in foreign countries. While teaching in South Africa she got her Yoga4Kids teacher training. She is committed to her Kundalini yoga practice (KRI and Yoga for Youth training). Dawn embraces the mindfulness teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh which considers relationships to self, others, and nature as the highest teachers. 

Jennifer has a natural talent to create beauty in the world and enjoy life! She specializes in energetic interior and landscape design based on the ancient art of Feng Shui. She offers her services online as well as onsite. Aside from creating stunning energetically functioning spaces, her talent for creating beauty extends to the culinary arts as well. She is responsible for most of the healthy gourmet meals you will enjoy at retreats. Her plates are absolutely beautiful and made with love you can taste!

Kauan Gracie, director and professor at Gracie North Jiu Jitsu Academy, has been a professional mover for a long time. She has taught various disciplines of dance, fitness, Jiu Jitsu and mobility all around the world. At our retreats she is excited to share with you her experience of body awareness and the overall empowerment you attain through a basic understanding of self defense. With a BFA in Dance Performance from Chapman University and a member of the worlds largest athletic family (Rickson's daughter), Kauan has always had a passion for the body's full potential of expression.

Through his travels in South-Africa, Gregoire got trained to bring mindfulness, meditation, and yoga to children (Yoga4Kids). Being a multi-instrumentalist he believes that music has a strong healing and community building potential and is currently co-facilitating events across Los Angeles. Committed to his Kundalini yoga practice he is involved in Yoga for Youth, as well as Love Activists to teach in the underserved communities of the city.

She earned her doctorate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from UCLA. She has developed effective healing techniques using bodywork, art, water, storytelling, love, light, and sound. Faith began her journey with yoga over 25 years ago in Nepal and has taught yoga in the Iyengar tradition as well as innovative dance yoga to students from beginner to advanced, children to senior citizens.

Gabriele brings her love and experience of Tai Chi to some of Harmony Holistic Life retreats. She describes Tai Chi Chuan as an example of how to live life: in harmony, in a constant flow, without any resistance, being strong and soft, targeted and flexible, quiet in motion, aware of your balance, and focused in your center. She has been practicing Tai Chi for over 10 years and shares an astonishment of how when practiced daily, it has the power to bring you in form and stabilize you mentally and physically.