Join us for a retreat at Casa Tara Wellness Resort in El Sargento, Baja California Sur, Mexico April 15-20, 2022! Your retreat leader, Lauren McHale, is a certified personal trainer, corrective exercise and group training specialist, nutrition coach and yoga instructor based in Northern California. Your experience includes daily workouts, yoga, meditation, self-compassion workshops, and plenty of free time to relax by the pool, swim in the ocean, or book a spa treatment. All of our healthy and delicious meals are provided by Casa Tara included in your trip cost.

How often do you pause and listen to your own internal dialogue? Our understanding of our relationship with ourselves is a key aspect to Lauren McHale’s wellness program. Combining the physical practice of group fitness classes with self-compassion workshops, Lauren facilitates an environment for deep self-exploration and interpersonal connection. The workout and yoga classes are designed for ALL AGES and ALL LEVELS of experience. The goal is to strike a balance between hard work and self-care in a way that feels authentic and enjoyable. The classes are a combination of yoga and strength-training exercises set to high-energy music that will help alleviate insecurities and leave your body feeling energized and restored.

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Endorphin release is a natural and beautiful part of the results of working your body physically. But what happens after the endorphin high ends? Lauren McHale invites you to move, sweat, and share your truth with others.

This program is designed to help you learn how to become a better friend to yourself through movement, strength training, and interconnection.

We get to know ourselves through our shared experiences with others. In this workshop, Lauren facilitates an open dialogue about self-compassion while teaching various modalities for self-care, such as:

• HIIT Strength Training — an all-levels, all ages welcome bodyweight HIIT workout focusing on exercise technique, form, and functionality.

• Yoga for Athletes — focused on mobility, flexibility, and functional range of motion in order to create balance, strength, and stability throughout the body.

• Guided meditation and self-compassion workshops that are inspired by the research and practices founded by Dr. Kristin Neff.

On Saturday evening, Guest Faculty Liz Andolong will guide the group through an exploration of what it feels like to rest and relax into one’s own body, a practice designed to encourage you to turn inward and lean into the practice of Pause. Gentle postures will be explored through breath and awareness, mindfulness and grounding. Release stagnant energies and invite more relaxation through Liz’s offering of Reiki healing to the group, a Japanese form of energetic healing.

Throughout the weekend, we will come together through physical movement, strength training, and shared experience. Too often we are moving from one experience to another without taking time to pause and notice the other people experiencing this life alongside us. Shared experience is the foundation for self-compassion! This practice asks participants to open up to their own inner knowing and to use this as a means for practicing interconnection with others.

Participants with severe health concerns that inhibit their ability to perform physical activity may struggle with this highly active program.

Recommended reading: Self-Compassion by Dr. Kristin Neff

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