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Experiences > Retreats > It's a Lifestyle Retreat led by Nena Knafo & Gaby
It's a Lifestyle Retreat led by Nena Knafo & Gaby
It's a Lifestyle Retreat led by Nena Knafo & Gaby
Playa Viva, Mexico
An all-inclusive yoga retreat led by Nena and Gaby at Playa Viva, Mexico.
Length
May 11th - 15th, 2022
Overview

Join Nena and Gaby for a 5-day Yoga Retreat at Playa Viva in Zihuatanejo, Mexico. This experience is about awakening your higher self and reconnecting to what is elemental—within us and beyond us.

By focusing the mind, moving the body, and controlling the breath you will learn and experience yoga as a lifestyle. Leave your mat with a new vision, a new flow, and a new perspective.

Itinerary

Daily Programming - Your New Ritual

  • Light communal breakfast

  • 2 daily Vinyasa Yoga practices led by Nena and Gaby

  • Nourishing brunch

  • Afternoon activities and excursions

  • Restorative movement

  • Farm-to-table group dinner

  • Evening beach bonfires

  • Daily turtle release

Yoga: Nena and Gaby's energizing vinyasa flows are intentionally curated to give you more time to connect and build strength and spirit. We will have two daily practices.

Nourishment: All meals during the retreat will be traditional Mexican cuisine, curated to be gluten-free, dairy-free, refined-sugar free and sourced from local farms.

Community: We believe the most regenerative experience can happen in community. From morning practices to beach bonfires, we’ll journey together.

Activity level
Open Level

A creative + intelligent sequencing, intentional music, heart-felt messaging, and devotion to the roots of the ancient practices of yoga combined with a restorative meditation.

Your host
Nena Knafo

Nena is a Venezuelan yoga teacher, trainer, and studio owner based in Miami. She has built an international yoga community that aligns to her discipline and passion. Nena is known for her soulful, visionary, grounded and genuine energy. She has trained with top masters around the world, within different styles and philosophies. Her students come back for more power, moving meditation flows, and inspiration to reconnect to their most authentic selves. For Nena, yoga is a state of mind, and that’s what we build on the mat through focusing the mind, moving the body, and controlling the breath. With more than 10 years of experience, but the soul of an eternal student, Nena is devoted to each student to find their spiritual path.

Gaby Quintana

Gaby has been teaching and sharing her passion for the last 11 years. She has built a strong, dedicated and inclusive community that expects her to be real, hard, a mentor, a teacher, and even to be a friend. She created and leads #thegabyarmy. Gaby is passionate, raw, unfiltered, and unique. Her connection to her students and their practice is deep and she won’t let you waver. With Gaby, you will reach the next level of your practice, every time. Gaby understands the yogi feeling, and uses that to be an impactful teacher. Everyday she comes to the mat with a new vision, a new flow, a new perspective to the same poses that make up the beautiful practice of yoga. As an experienced yogi, she appreciates the variety of movement as no two classes are ever the same. She keeps you on your toes which keeps your mind and body sharp.

What’s included

The retreat includes:

  • Five-day, four-night wellness retreat at Playa Viva Hotel
  • Accommodations, daily meals and snacks
  • Access to all program activities, yoga classes, local workshops, and more.
  • Complimentary welcome wellness kit.

Spots are limited to keep the experience intimate.

Because the experience is a communal one that includes indoor activities, we are requiring all guests to show proof of vaccination for COVID-19. Please be ready to provide this at registration.

Rooms

The Deluxe Suite

Is a spacious room with two single beds. Deluxe Suites are part of a 4-Bedroom Casita (one larger structure) consisting of two Deluxe Suites each with an adjoining Studio. Deluxe Suites have a private bath and share a large balcony with the other Deluxe Suite that serves as a large outdoor living room. Deluxe Suites have an unobstructed ocean view.

Double Occupancy

Twin Bed, Ensuite Bathroom
$2,700 per person

* Rate includes hotel taxes and fees

The Queen EcoCasita

Are one-bedroom self-contained “Casitas” (little house). This EcoCasita provides complete privacy, and is the only room outfitted with a Queen bed. These rooms have an unobstructed ocean view. Queen EcoCasitas have a private bathroom on the same level and feature sliding doors that open for a 180° degree ocean view or close for complete privacy.

Single Occupancy

Queen Bed, Ensuite Bathroom
$3,100
Rate includes hotel taxes and fees

The Treehouse

Is suspended in palm trees as living “piers” raised 6 feet above the ground. This accommodation has two floors, each floor is outfitted with two twin beds. There is one private, ensuite bathroom, unobstructed ocean view and small lounge area with an in-floor hammock.

Quadruple Occupancy
Twin Beds, Ensuite Bathroom
$2,500 per person

Rate includes hotel taxes and fees