You’re invited to our
New Year’s retreat January 3-9th, 2025 in Mazunte, Mexico.
Kick off 2025 with
vision, healing & magic.
Luke and Avery are combining forces to create a transformative experience full of healing and nourishment:
Daily alignment-based yoga
Breathwork workshops
Evening meditation
Guided journalling sessions
To support you to release 2024
and start 2025 with the best vibes.
Meet the Teachers
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Iyengar Yoga
I teach yoga in the rigorous, adaptive, somatically precise method of the Iyengar lineage through an anti oppression framework that uplifts inner healing towards collective liberation.As a person with then undiagnosed ADHD, yoga and meditation also became crucial for navigating my neurodiverse brain. As a person with a lot of mobility, I dove into Ashtanga style classes but kept getting hurt. Once I found Iyengar’s approach to asana and began to learn yoga philosophy, it changed everything. From early on, my background in yoga has been focused on functional anatomy, stability, and alignment.
Hungry for depth, and finding this subject of Yoga endlessly fascinating and relevant, I embraced on decades of committed study, which I continue to engage in – I will always be first and foremost, a student.
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Breathwork, Journalling
Luke Simon is a queer healer, writer and space maker.
He explores the mystical aspect of yoga for mental and physical ease. He started yoga to address depression and anxiety and it led him to down the healing path. He helped start Maha Rose Center for Healing in Brooklyn where he learned and taught Breathwork and Reiki. He uses spiritual practices to balance energetic sensitivity into fine tuned intuition, tap into creativity and surrender to the mystery. He shares writing, and classes to support other sensitive beings’ path.
In 2020 he moved to the Hudson Valley to learn gardening and ecology. He seeks to create moments of being where people can feel authenticity, shamelessness, care, belonging and joy. Find him sparkling on the internet, picking strawberries, guiding meditations, retreats, and in the pages of his books.
How can we bring joy and lightness to serious things? How does humor help us open our heart and learn to trust? That taking care of ourselves, staying healthy and listening to the heart are part of the solution.
He remains a curious about emotional integration, heart wisdom, healthy relationships, releasing shame, the nervous system, and the relationship between creative flow and spiritual presence.
As a writer, he seeks to be honest and share his path in a way that is helpful but also brings lightness and reminds people of the profound freedom in not taking things so seriously.
He is a life long learner and curious and awe of Earth humans and the human heart. He is fascinated by where creativity comes from and how do humans touch the divine within themselves.
His writing unearths meaning in the everyday, finding humor and wisdom in the pathless path that we are all on.
ocean, adventure, Sun, tropical fruit.
ocean, adventure, Sun, tropical fruit.
Mazunte, Mexico
Located on the coast of Oaxaca, Mazunte is one of Mexico’s “Pueblos Magicos”.
The magical towns are honored for cultural richness, historical relevance, cuisine, art crafts, and great hospitality
Mazunte has been a hippie haven for decades. It is a unique beach town that isn’t a resort. It is a beautiful but also rugged with rocks, heat and jungle.
This retreat is for the folks who want to be close to the elements of nature.
We will be staying at the stylish
El Triangulo retreat center.
Created by our friends at Maha Rose Brooklyn.
El Triangulo is in the cliffs overlooking the ocean,
a 10 minute walk to town and the gentle swimming beach.
The food and lodging balance luxury with the rustic beauty of the Oaxacan coast.
Homemade meals will be tailored to your needs,
with lots of fresh tropical fruit and fish for those who partake.
We’re donating 10% from this retreat to support immigration justice.
What’s included
✔ 7 days, 6 nights lodging at El Triangulo (unless you opt to stay offsite.)
✔ Daily breathwork and writing workshops with Luke
✔ Daily Iyengar yoga with Avery
✔ 3 meals daily! Healthy, fresh, local.
✔ Space at El Triangulo to: lounge, journal, nap, submerge in the clear water.
✔ Time to chat, connect, get support from Avery and Luke
✔ Magic, facilitated group connection
✔ Journaling and intention setting
✔ Donation to Mexican immigration support organizations
What’s not included
✖ Travel to and from El Triangulo (though we can help you coordinate for a smalll fee:)
✖ Massage treatments
✖ Gratuities for the staff
✖ Pre retreat Covid test
✖ Healing all your ancestral trauma in one week.
Designed to nourish your fresh start in body, heart and vibe.
2024 was so full of challenge, growth and quantum leaps! This time of practice will help you celebrate your wins and harvest the insights. Restore your energy reserve with this gift to yourself.
The yoga and breathwork will give you time for embodied integration. We will tend to the tender, metabolize what you’ve been through so you can move forward with more clarity, better boundaries, energy and confidence.
Bathe your psyche with gratitude and deep care. The practice and workshops will be balanced with time to rest, space out and rebalance in the ocean landscape.
By the end of the retreat, your body will feel strengthened, lengthened and reset. You will feel complete and honoring of your 2024 and aligned to a new vision for 2025. You will be set up for the best year of your life, full of new tools you learned in small group with personalized attention. You will also make some new friends and feel full of sunshine of the Oaxacan coast.
Feel free to contact me with any questions. I’m excited to co-create this dream new year’s experience with Avery and you!
Itinerary
fri january 3 - arrivals, dinner & opening circle
sat jan 4 -
morning Iyengar yoga w/ Avery
Lunch
freetime or optional ocean, farmer’s market & town outing.
Afternoon Breathwork w Luke: grounding, forgiveness and releasing 2024
Dinner
Evening meditation and chanting
sun jan 5
morning Iyengar yoga with Avery
brunch
freetime for lounging and beach time
Afternoon Self care workshop w Luke - oil abhyanga / sun bathing / rejuvenating herbs. Smoothie making. Self Love!
Sunset at Punta Cometa
Dinner
Meditation and chanting.
Monday Jan 6
Morning Iyengar yoga
Lunch
freetime
Afternoon Desire, Shadow work and expansion visioning Breathwork workshop with Luke
*Sunset Dance party*
Dinner
Chanting ritual for new years blessing 108 Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu "May All Beings be happy"
Tuesday Jan 7
morning Iyengar yoga with Avery
Brunch
Free time & relaxation
Afternoon walk to San Agustanillo, next beach over, for Sunset
Dinner
Meditation & quietening Pranayama
Wednesday Jan 8th
morning Iyengar yoga with Avery
beach time
Lunch
Afternoon restorative yoga and Reiki
Dinner
Evening breathwork for manifestation of your 2025 intentions with Luke
Thursday Jan 9th last morning!
Yoga with Avery
Closing cicle
Walk to the ocean offer our prayers and close our retreat 🌸
brunch
Frequently asked questions
What are your Covid protocols?
The risk/benefit equation will look different for different folks, and the decision to gather requires consideration. We feel protective of our communities and hope the following helps you feel into this opportunity is a good fit for you.
24hrs pre travel Covid test is required and sent to organizers (swab test OK)
Immunizations encouraged but not required.
We encourage folks to avoid large crowds prior to the retreat.
Masks are optional on retreat
What airport do I fly into?
HUX. Huatulco Airport is also known as Bahias De Huatulco International. This is the closest airport to El Triangulo. From there it’s easy to catch a taxi, but for an extra fee we can help arrange your transfer to toad from the airport.
Do I need a passport?
Yes!
I have accessibility needs. Can I come?
We encourage you to reach out if you have specific accessibility needs or questions. Classes will be adaptive, and trauma informed; everything we offer is optional. But they will include physical movements such as getting up and down from the floor. Classes will be taught in English. El Triangulo requires walking up stairs, steep paths, and walking on uneven ground. If you have questions to see if this is a good fit for you, let’s chat. Email us using the form below.
Are the meals included?
Yes! 3 fresh, healthy meals daily will be served family style, plus tea, coffee, snacks, and drinking water will be available throughout.
What’s your refund policy?
There are no refunds, transfers or discounts for cancellations, illness, arriving late, leaving early, or travel snafus. If you cancel your participation in the retreat for any reason, this cancellation policy applies. As soon as a deposit is made, these funds are used to cover our event costs. In the unlikely event that we must cancel due to natural disaster, illness, etc, we cannot guarantee a refund – however, we will reschedule the retreat!