Re-Awaken to Your True Nature Retreat
Hosted By Laurie Maloney/UNWIND Studio and Emily Key
October 16th-20th, 2024
Join us for an all-inclusive yoga, meditation and sound healing retreat at Palmaïa, The House of AiA, a premier holistic retreat destination located in the gated resort community of Playacar, Mexico.
Allow yourself to take a break from the daily doings to rediscover what lights you up.
Are you stuck in a rut and feeling depleted of energy? Are you caring for everyone else?
Do you often feel like a personal chauffeur, personal chef, and personal assistant?
Have you wondered what happened to the vibrant, content, happy "you"?
Imagine no meal planning, cooking, or cleaning for a week.
You don’t have to take care of anyone else.
This is about you.
Maybe you don’t even know who "you" are anymore.
YOU are still in there!
Unearth your vitality and purpose as you join us for yoga, meditation and sound healing, to remember your true nature - the true "you" that may be currently buried underneath the juggling of work and family responsibilities.
It’s time to dedicate some time to yourself!
Immerse yourself in the surroundings of the ocean and jungle to calm the mind and reset.
Align your attention with your intention.
Take control of your own life, stop living in habitual patterns, and let go of the false narratives you tell yourself that have been holding you back.
Be guided through awakening, to unlock your hidden power.
Slow down, rest, and allow yourself to be nurtured to experience your own inner peace through restorative yoga practices, meditation and sound healing sessions.
Be in community with supportive, like minded and relatable people.
Step out of your comfort zone and reignite the spark within to restore you back to your true nature! Bring "you" back to "YOU".
Giving yourself permission to get away for this retreat will:
• Clarify what’s important to you so that you are fulfilled with meaning and purpose.
• Identify where energy and time are mis-aligned with your priorities.
• Reinvigorate your desires and dreams which may have fallen away due to getting stuck in your routine.
• Reconnect you to the harmony of nature and humanity.
Return to simplicity of body and breath.
• Let go of chaos and invite calm and steady rhythm back into your life.
• Reveal the bad habits and patterns you are too busy to see when you don’t have a single moment in your busy day and give you practical tools to implement positive shifts.
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• Empower you to take the next step toward personal freedom.
• Help you process and understand your current stage of life as you reflect, expand your consciousness, and transform.
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• Connect you with supportive people.
• Rejuvenate, restore and heal the body, mind, and spirit.
Your Retreat Will Include:
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• A Private Ocean View bedroom
• All Meals: nourishing and nurturing gourmet cuisine at the hotel's luxurious restaurants, featuring seasonal delights for all; including vegan, vegetarian, meat, poultry and fish… simple, delicious, and comforting.
• Daily Yoga Class with Emily, for all levels, from beginner to advanced.
• Daily Mindfulness class, followed by Meditation with Laurie
• Two Sound Baths with Crystal Bowls with Laurie
• One Yoga Nidra meditation with crystal bowls
• One Group "Seven Energy Body Tuning", Sound Healing with Tuning Forks session with Laurie
• One Divine Feminine Sacred Cacao Ceremony
• Energy Protection Meditation & Practice
• Learn the Art of Manifestation
• Study and practice of Nada Yoga, the yoga of sound
• Guidance in healing and transformation on all levels, mentally, physically and spiritually.
• Time to yourself, to relax, contemplate, journal, swim, explore, pamper yourself with a spa treatment, or simply lie on the beach.
• You are granted full exclusive access to the resort and all of their amenities including: salt water pool, yoga studios and props, lounge areas, dining room, gourmet cuisine prepared by local chefs, and spa (spa services available at an extra charge)
• Access to the hotel's Architects of Life Program, which includes a variety of mind classes, movement classes, ceremonies and rituals.
Next Steps:
Spaces are filling up. Reserve your spot now!
• Please submit completed registration
• The deadline and balance in full is due September 1st.
All deposits and payments after September 1st are non-refundable. If the full payment is not received by this date, your reservation will be cancelled and the deposit will be forfeited.
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Retreat Pricing
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Single Occupancy with Ocean View: $3199
Double Occupancy with Ocean View: $2999
FAQ
Daily Schedule
Plan on arriving at the property at 4 pm on October 16th, and leaving after breakfast on the 20th. Check out time is 12 pm.
Wednesday
Check in 3:00 pm5:00 pm Welcome circle and gentle movement followed by dinner
Thursday, Friday & Saturday
Yoga and Meditation morning practice
Breakfast
Relax by the sea, go for a walk on the beach, go for a swim, journal, read a book, have fun, optional spa treatments, lunch at your leisure
Afternoon Group Session(i.e. Cacao Ceremony, Sound Healing, etc)
Rituals of Sound - Gather by the fire for music and community
Dinner
Sunday
Closing yoga and meditation morning practice and breakfast
What’s Included
4 nights - accommodation on the beachfront, holistic yoga resort
Healthy and nourishing meals
Daily morning yoga and meditation practice
Afternoon Group Session (i.e. Private Cacao Ceremony, Sound Healing, etc.)
Use of pools, beach, cabanas, beachside service, fitness center, bicycles
Getting There
Palmaia, The House of AIA is located in Playacar, a gated resort community in Playa del Carmen, approximately one hour from Cancun, Mexico.
Fly into Cancun Airport (direct 2.5 hour flight from Houston)
We will work with the team at Palmaia, the House of AIA, to coordinate ground transportation. Shuttle fees are $120 each way and can be shared among up to 8 people. The team at Palmaia will do their best to arrange shared shuttles based on airport arrival times.
*Airfare and airport transfers are not included in the retreat prices.
Your Guides:
Laurie Maloney
Owner/Founder of Unwind Studio in Houston
Laurie received her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from the University of Texas in 1991. She has studied and practiced various energy healing modalities since 1998. Her fascination with alternative and holistic healing methods led her to become a meditation and mindfulness instructor, receiving her certification from the McLean Meditation Institute. Laurie’s interest in vibrational and energy therapies were a catalyst for continuing exploration. She studied sound healing with John Beaulieu in 2013. She trained in and received her certification in Biofield Tuning in 2019. Laurie is passionate about the extraordinary effects and benefits of vibrational and energy therapy. Biofield Tuning/Sound Therapy, Multi-Vibrational Therapy, and meditation have brought her the extraordinary benefits of vibrant health and vitality, and a profound sense of well-being and balance. Laurie inspires people to listen to their own inner wisdom. She combines this talent with energy and vibrational therapies, allowing her clients to experience lasting health, balance and well-being. She believes that when one’s body, mind and spirit are in balance and alignment, one can live life at its highest potential. Laurie’s personal journey enables her to share this knowledge and expertise, and to be a conduit for self-empowerment and healing for others.
Emily Key
Wellness Expert & Yoga Teacher
Emily is a Wellness Expert & Yoga Teacher who integrates yoga philosophy into a living practice and leads classes and workshops that are effective in creating shifts in daily habits and patterns to transform your life. After a career in corporate banking and the transition to motherhood, Emily has spent the last decade peeling back the layers to remember her true essence through the practice of yoga. She has traveled the world studying yoga, including trainings in India and Bali, to learn about the ancient teachings of yoga under Janet Stone and several other world-renowned teachers.
Humbled by life experiences, Emily connects with and relates to others compassionately and welcomes a community to open to their authenticity, vitality, and innate peace to experience healing and unlock their potential. Returning to the simplicity of conscious breathing and tuning into the sensations of the body create a mind/body/heart connection and cultivate deep awareness and presence filled with love and compassion. Emily is dedicated to sharing her knowledge and the gifts of this life-changing practice.
Terms and Conditions:
Please note that deposits and full payment are due by the assigned dates. All payments are NON- REFUNDABLE. CANCELLATIONS will result in forfeiture of all amounts paid.
It is recommended that all participants purchase travel insurance.