A note from Lunita: we're proud to host this retreat. The healers, therapists, and bodyworkers who pour into everyone else deserve a place to be poured back into. The words below are by the retreat's facilitator, Sami Zanfagna of Uprise Hot Yoga (Freeport, Maine); see the full retreat details.
For yoga teachers & instructors who secretly feel exhausted
You teach people how to breathe, move, and regulate stress. From the outside, it looks like you have wellness figured out. But many yoga teachers, fitness instructors, and movement facilitators carry a quiet exhaustion few people see.
The hidden cost of holding space professionally
Holding space for others can create an unconscious habit of over-functioning. You can move through a challenging practice without actually experiencing it somatically, your body learns to stay "on" all the time, energetically attuned to everyone else while quietly ignoring your own needs. Eventually, even your healing practices begin to feel performative, and the fallout shows up as depletion, creeping self-doubt, or numbness.
It's not a lack of self-care. It's a nervous system organized around output.
The issue often isn't that you need more self-care, it's that your nervous system has become organized around output, stuck in constant "up-regulation." At Call of the Wild, based in the principles of Somatic Experiencing and relational work, we explore what happens when the body no longer has to perform wellness, but actually experiences safety from within, the chance to stop holding everyone else. (For the broader view, see what a jungle somatic retreat can heal.)
You can only take students as far as you've gone yourself
We can only take our students as far as we're willing to go ourselves; blind spots left unaddressed quietly hold us back. Deep in the jungle this January, you'll experience guided somatic practices, nervous-system education, embodiment work, rest, nature, and authentic connection with others who understand the weight of always being "the strong one", alongside breathwork and temazcal. It speaks equally to healers and therapists and mothers and caregivers.
The essentials
Retreat: Call of the Wild, A Somatic Experience for Caregivers & Space Holders. Dates: January 21 to 26, 2027 (5 nights). Location: Lunita Jungle Retreat, Puerto Morelos, Riviera Maya, 40 minutes from Cancún Airport. Investment: all-inclusive from $2,450 per person. Group size: intimate, up to 16 guests across eight private or shared cabanas. Facilitated by: Sami Zanfagna & the Uprise Hot Yoga team. Reserve via Uprise or the Lunita event page.