
Calm: A Retreat for Stress Relief, Resilience & Renewal
Join us April 11–17, 2027 in Mahahual, Mexico.
In today’s fast-paced world, stress and overwhelm can feel inescapable. This retreat is designed to guide you through practices that nurture calm, build resilience, and empower you to reclaim your peace of mind.
What You'll Practice & What You'll Take Home
Calm is not only a retreat experience — it’s a reset for your nervous system and a toolkit you can return to again and again. Throughout the week, you’ll learn simple, effective practices designed to help you regulate stress, quiet anxiety, and create more ease in daily life.

🧘 Gentle Yoga & Somatic Practices
Daily movement sessions are slow, grounding, and supportive — focused on releasing tension from the body rather than pushing or striving.
You’ll take home:
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Simple stretches and movements for relieving tension in the neck, shoulders, hips, and lower back
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A deeper awareness of how stress shows up in your body — and how to release it

🧼 Wild Apothecary Workshop
In this hands-on workshops, you’ll create your own natural body scrubs and hair and face masks — learning how to care for your skin and hair in ways that support detoxification and nourishment. This experience reframes self-care as ritual rather than routine.
You’ll take home:
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Recipes for handmade body scrub and hair and face masks
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Knowledge to continue creating clean, nourishing self-care products at home

🫁 Nervous System Regulation & Breathwork
You’ll be guided through gentle, accessible breath practices to calm the mind, balance the nervous system, and reduce stress.
You’ll take home:
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Breath sequences you can use when feeling anxious or overwhelmed
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Tools for calming your nervous system before sleep, important conversations, or stressful moments

🥗 Nourishing, Anti-Inflammatory Food & Herbal Support
Our chef, Caro, will prepare a menu focused on anti-inflammatory, easy-to-digest foods that support healing, digestion, mental clarity, and sleep with herbal teas chosen specifically to support stress release and nervous system calm.
You’ll take home:
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Insight into how food impacts stress, energy, and sleep
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Simple ideas for nourishing yourself in a way that supports calm

🌊 Rest, Nature & Nervous System Reset
Time by the sea, unstructured rest, and time away from daily demands allow your system to downshift naturally — so the tools you learn actually integrate.
You’ll take home:
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A felt understanding of what true rest feels like
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Insight into what your body and mind need to stay regulated and calm

🌿 Herbal Tea Baths for Deep Relaxation
You’ll experience herbal tea baths in our private beach cabanas — a soothing, sensory ritual that allows your body and mind to fully let go.
You’ll take home:
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Inspiration for simple bath or water rituals at home
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A felt memory of what deep calm in the body truly feels like

🤍 Connection Without Pressure
Group sharing is gentle, optional, and held with care. You’ll experience what it’s like to be witnessed without fixing, advising, or performing.
You’ll take home:
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Greater trust in your own inner voice
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A felt sense of being supported — which often becomes a reference point long after the retreat ends

✍️ Guided Writing & Reflection Practices
Through two facilitated writing workshops, you’ll explore:
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What you are releasing (stress, patterns, expectations)
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What you want to invite in (ease, clarity, joy, self-care)
These sessions include intentional prompts, quiet reflection time, and a fire ritual to symbolically release what no longer serves you.
You’ll take home:
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A personal writing practice you can continue at home
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Journaling prompts you can return to during times of stress or transition
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Greater clarity around what truly supports your well-being

🌙 Evening Practices for Restful Sleep
Evenings are intentionally designed to support deep rest and quality sleep. You’ll experience a range of gentle nighttime practices, including a sound bath, Yoga Nidra, and evening breathwork.
You’ll practice:
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Letting go of the day through guided rest practices
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Creating a softer transition into sleep
You’ll take home:
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Tools for winding down and improving sleep at home
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Simple nighttime rituals to support rest and recovery

What's Included
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Daily yoga, meditation, and mindfulness practices
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Gentle mobility and breathwork workshops
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Writing workshops for reflection and introspection with Karan Khalsa
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Cacao ceremony to foster connection and intention-setting
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Free time to relax by the ocean, paddleboard, kayak or swim in the pool
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Sunset gatherings
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Sound bath
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Healthy, nourishing meals prepared with local ingredients
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Cold plunge and herbal tea bath
Daily Schedule
7:00 AM: Morning Yoga
8:30 AM: Breakfast
10:30 AM: Mobility / Movement Workshop
12:30 PM: Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Workshop
3:30 - 5:30 PM Ocean / Pool / Massage / Rest
(Snorkeling / Paddleboarding, Kayaking can be scheduled at this time)
5:30 PM: Dinner
6:30 PM: Evening Ceremony / Soundbath / Workshop


Herb Baths, Massage & Healing
Your retreat includes one 60-minute herbal tea bath in our ocean front therapy cabanas.
There will be also be time for you to book massages or other treatments with Mahai's incredible therapists.
Treatments:
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Deep Tissue Massage
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Acupuncture
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Reflexology
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Reiki
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Biomagnetic Therapy

Housing at Mahai
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10 Suites
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2 Penthouse Suites
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King Bed, Day Bed, Rooftop seating with Pergola
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2 Mahai Suites
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King Bed, Day Bed, Garden, entry seating area
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2 Ocean Suites
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King Bed or 2 singles, Day Bed
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3 Ocean Double Suites
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2 matrimonial beds, Day bed
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1 Triple Suite
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3 singles, sofa, seating area
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Dorm
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4 to 5 person dormitory. Shares bathrooms with camping and pool area.
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Glamping Tents
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Our luxury camping experience in a large bell tent with a King size bed and ocean views.
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- Camping Grove
- 4 camping spots to set up your tent
Travel
Mahai is located in Mahahual, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
The Tulum Airport (TQM) is the closest International airport to Mahai. We work with a shuttle company that travels from Tulum to Mahahual. We can help arrange transportation from Tulum with you after you have registered for the retreat.
You can also fly in to Cancun (CUN), a 5 to 6 hour drive to Mahai or the domestic airport in Chetumal (CTM), a 2 hour drive to Mahai. You will need to make your own travel arrangements from these airports.











