5 Day Yoga and Meditation Luxury Retreat in Sunny Mexico

Our resident Yoga Acharya, Tanya Witmond, is an athlete and Yogini by nature and practice. She discovered the benefits of Yoga over twenty years ago when she lived in Malaysia, where she took her first 3-month training as a Yoga Teacher.From there, she travelled seven times to India where she completed her Yoga Acharya training in Sivananda Yoga. Tanya was personally recommended by her teachers in Malaysia for training with Yoga Guru Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and Sharath Jois in Ashtanga Yoga in Mysore, where she sealed her lifelong love of Vinyasa and strengthened her personal daily practice of Ashtanga in person with the creators of this popular and vigorous form of postural Yoga.

Tanya has travelled to many different countries trying out different Yoga styles, such as in Los Angeles where she completed another Yoga Masters training from Yogaworks as well as several other teacher trainings in New York, London, and Ireland.Aside from her experience and achievements in Yoga, Tanya is also an accomplished marathon runner, long-distance cross-country walker, personal fitness trainer, wellness centre manager, equestrian, Life coach, and Reiki master.Her personal spiritual practice is one of physical discipline and endurance as well as genuine self-work through Vipassana meditation and volunteering.

Always grateful for how Yoga transformed her life, Tanya offers dynamic, strong and entertaining classes in both Hatha Vinyasa and Ashtanga Vinyasa, combining breathing with the flow of movement and the shape of postures.She guides her students to move with intention and attention each time they enter and leave a posture, creating heat in the body and awareness in the breathing, which helps to grow a sense of peace and clarity.Your classes with Tanya will help you to improve your posture, to have more strength overall, and to have more balance in mind and body. You will end up renewing your body and your soul in her challenging and joyful classes.Through her years of experience with Yoga and meditation, Tanya offers the perspective of a Yogini who has forged her practice through daily discipline and self-reflection, and all the wisdom that type of will-power and tapas manifests.

Our lead instructor, Yogini J’aime, has been practicing and studying Yoga for the last 16 years. During this time, she has been studying several styles of Modern Postural Yoga extensively in the US, Mexico, and in India — including Ashtanga, Hatha, and Vinyasa.J'aime’s education as an instructor and guide include four teaching certifications in these formats, in addition to countless hours of intensive workshops and individual personal training with revered yogis and yoginis, an M.A. in Psychology, and a Doctorate in Metaphysical Science.Her personal practice is focused on the Ashtanga as detailed in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. However, she has also wandered the paths of depth psychology, Qabalah, shamanism, esotericism, comparative religious studies, interspirituality, magic, martial arts, ritual, and mysticism.

J'aime’s Master’s degree in Psychology comes with a specialization in Consciousness, Spirituality, and Integrative Health; focusing on Yoga Psychology and the application of the Ashtanga system as an adjunctive treatment for PTSD and complex trauma.J’aime has also received an Msc.D., a Doctorate in Metaphysical Science, where her thesis and dissertation were on the subtle body systems of Classical Hatha and Tantra Yoga.During the process of this degree program, J’aime received her ministerial ordination from the university seminary and her reiki master certification. She is also a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.Yogini J’aime is dedicated to bringing together these many different modalities to form a transformational process of self-realization, integrative health, and spiritual practice that provides a lifestyle framework in adherence with Yogic principles for full mind/body wellness.