Healer, Heal Thyself: Rewired from Burnout to Balance

7 Days, 9 Facilitators. A Sanctuary for the Ones Who Serve to Finally Be Served.

Healer, Heal Thyself: Rewired from Burnout to Balance

A Sanctuary for Practitioners, Healers, and Guides

Cabo, Mexico | November 1–8, 2025

A Sanctuary for the Ones Who Serve to Finally Be Served

You know what it means to hold space.

To show up when you’re tired.

To pour love into others even when your own cup runs dry.

To offer presence, guidance, transformation, again and again and again.

But where do you go to be held?

Where do you go when you need to fall apart a little, and be rebuilt, softer, stronger, more whole?

This is that place.

This is your time.

My dad passed away recently in a motorcycle accident. And while that loss has broken me open in a hundred ways, what hurts the most is this—he never really got to live his life. He spent years taking care of everyone else, pushing his dreams off for “someday.” He had a vision of riding his bike to Mexico, living by the ocean, finally resting. But he never made it. That “someday” never came.

His passing lit something fierce and tender inside me. More than ever, I feel devoted to helping others stop waiting, stop surviving, and start truly living. That’s what Heal Thyself: From Burnout to Balance is about. It’s a week-long nervous system sanctuary for those of us who give and hold and care so much, we forget how to choose ourselves. I don’t want anyone else to postpone their dreams the way my dad did. I want you to remember what it feels like to belong to your own body, your own truth, and your own life—before it’s too

Healer, Heal Thyself is a week-long sanctuary designed exclusively for space-holders, session workers, coaches, bodyworkers, practitioners, facilitators, and healers who are ready to receive as deeply as they give.

Over 7 immersive days in Cabo, Mexico, just steps from the ocean, you’ll be lovingly supported by 10 extraordinary teachers, each offering their specialty to help you rewire your nervous system from burnout to balance.

This isn’t just a retreat.

It’s a radical reclamation of your own vitality.

A remembering of why you lead in the first place.

A resetting of your body’s wisdom, so your service flows from overflow, not depletion.

What You’ll Experience

✅ Expert-led nervous system healing tailored specifically for space-holders and leaders

✅ Advanced self-care practices you’ll actually integrate into your daily life and work

✅ A professionally designed workbook to anchor the tools, practices, and rituals you’ll learn

✅ Daily Qigong, meditation, and cutting-edge co-regulation practices

✅ Somatic release, breathwork, and trauma-informed nervous system repair techniques

✅ A lovely private retreat space with a heated saltwater pool, hot tub, and ocean breezes

✅ A full week with no one needing anything from you, only replenishment, support, and restoration

✅ Practical tools to sustain your leadership without sacrificing yourself

This Retreat is For

🌀 Coaches, bodyworkers, session workers, and somatic practitioners

🌀 Healers, energy workers, and spiritual guides

🌀 Tantra practitioners, sacred Eros workers, and embodiment facilitators

🌀 Group leaders, teachers, and transformational space-holders

🌀 Anyone who gives to others for a living—and is ready to finally give to themselves

Why Now?

Because the collective needs strong leaders, but not leaders who are crumbling inside.

Because survival mode is not sustainable for you, or the communities you care for.

Because self-care isn’t selfish; it’s strategic.

Because you deserve to feel rested, resourced, and radiant in your own skin again.

I (Monique) know firsthand how easy it is to lose yourself when you’re called to hold so much for others.

I created this retreat because I believe your leadership, your gifts, and your service to the world will only deepen and thrive when you are deeply nourished, deeply regulated, and deeply connected to yourself.

It’s time to come home to your own body.

To your own breath.

To your own soul.

Are You Ready to Heal Thyself?

Join us in Cabo and leave Rewired, Recharged, and Ready to Lead.

Secure Your Sanctuary Spot Now

Location & Logistics:

•⁠ ⁠When: Nov 1-8 2025

•⁠ ⁠Where: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico – A private beautiful retreat venue with a heated saltwater pool, hot tub, and beach access.

•⁠ ⁠Accommodations: Shared rooms featuring twin beds or shared queen beds in a gated community with full kitchens, two bathrooms, and amenities like snorkeling gear.

•⁠ ⁠Cost: $2497-$2997, including accommodation, training, materials, and breakfast & lunch daily.

Meet Your Facilitators:

Monique Darling

Lead faculty for Awaken as Love; author of 'Beyond Cuddle Party' and workshop facilitator extraordinaire has led over 2000 workshops in the past 18 years. She was born on this planet with the unique gifts and soul calling to help you remember how magnificent you truly are! Messages from your ancestors, your spirit guides, your body, nature, your soul, are all called upon and utilized so that you walk away knowing how deeply the cosmos loves you for YOU, exactly as you are, so you can begin to love and accept yourself too.

YOU, you are the Gift!

She is the founder of Everyday Tantra an organization dedicated to empowering people who are questioning the assumptions of how their life should be and to offering tools for self expression that create trust, inner knowing and wisdom to enjoy the life they have. Monique has taught at colleges across the US including Yale. She has been featured on TLC and The Dr’s as well as various radio shows, podcasts and magazines across the globe. She specializes in helping others reclaim their power and natural sensuality by transmuting fear and repression into courage, self-love and freedom. Her primary purpose is helping folks bring out their vulnerability, energetic embodiment and fearless relating.

Peter Petersen

Peter Arthur Petersen is a passionate and multifaceted wellness practitioner, whose life revolves around movement, music, and meditation. With over 22 years of experience, Peter is a certified Sheng Zhen Qigong teacher, having had the privilege of learning directly from Master Li Jun Feng, one of the world's most respected Qigong masters. His dedication to continuing this lineage has led him to teach Qigong in diverse settings, including health clubs, hospitals, wellness resorts, and festivals across Mexico and the United States.

Peter's teachings extend beyond Qigong; he has traveled the world sharing his unique blend of Qigong, dance, and Tantra. Together with his teaching partner, Monique Darling, he co-created Everyday Tantra, a practice that helps individuals connect deeply with their inner passions and bring that vitality into their daily lives. Their work focuses on empowering people to create their dream life by aligning their inner desires with their outer world.

In addition to his work in Qigong and Tantra, Peter is a certified massage therapist and personal wellness coach. Since 2005, he has been helping clients achieve a sense of peace and well-being through tailored wellness strategies that address habits related to eating, movement, and sleep. As an Awaken as Love Lead Facilitator since 2020, Peter continues to inspire and guide others towards a more grounded, present, and fulfilling life.

Peter’s approach to wellness is holistic, emphasizing present-moment awareness and empowering individuals to become their own health advocates. His mission is to help others find stability, peace, and joy in their everyday lives—a passion that he embodies fully and will continue to live by throughout his journey.

James Stevenson

James’s passion is to help call forth our human potential and our soul. His weave brings together more than 20 years experience in techniques, practices and information from the cutting edge of Neuroscience, Tantra, Biodanza, Shamanic & Energy Work, Integral theory and Taoist practices to create a spirituality that is rooted in the body. His evolutionary approach is to work on all lines, levels, states and parts of ourselves in bringing forth our fullest potential.

His work in meditation and tantra work draws on many different traditions and paths he has studied from Kashmir Shaivism, Baul mysticism, Advaita Vedanta, Vajrayana Buddhism, Integral systems and Neo-tantra. He was very much influenced by the enlightened master Osho and enjoyed spending time in Pune and the Humaniversity where he became an AUM meditation leader.

He is the founder of the Awaken as Love Mystery School

Taina Ixchel

Taína Ixchel, Power Priestess, is a transformational leader, Shamanic and Integral Tantrika, and a catalyst for profound personal awakening. An International Tantra Teacher, Holistic Empowerment Coach, and Awaken As Love Facilitator, Taína empowers individuals and couples worldwide to embrace authenticity, deepen connections, release energy blocks, reprogram the subconscious mind, and live purpose-driven lives infused with passion and joy.

With almost 20 years of experience in Tantra, shamanism, education, and a Master’s degree, Taína blends ancient wisdom with modern techniques to guide transformational journeys of Self-discovery. Her expertise also includes certifications as an Energetic Relationship Practitioner, Holistic Health and Wellness Coach, and Theta Healing Practitioner. Taína’s path was affirmed through initiation by an Enlightened Zen Master, who trained her and recognized her destiny to “teach this Love.”

Known for her radiant presence and integral approach, Taína skillfully combines pleasure, play, depth, and Spirit in her teachings, fostering profound healing and empowerment. Through sessions, coaching, and global workshops, festivals, and trainings, she creates sacred spaces where individuals can reclaim their fullest selves and embody their most liberated and joyful lives.

As humanity evolves, Taína invites you to step boldly into your power, awaken your unique gifts, and co-create a thriving world rooted in love and authenticity. Learn more about her transformative offerings and book a Connection Call at www.PowerPriestess.com.

Shawn Roop

Shawn Roop has been a student and teacher of life wisdom since 1989. He is the founder of Tantra Quest, author of Pathway to Love: 28 days to self love and holds a Bachelors in Sociology, is a Master Practitioner of NLP, a Certified Tantric Therapist and a Certified Master Tantric Counselor. Featured in numerous media appearances on NBC, Fox, E!, The Travel Channel, USA and Playboy Radio, as well as other radio and print articles, Shawn is proud to share his work with the intention to support healthy embodiment, personal empowerment and spiritual growth. You can see his work at http://www.TantraQuest.com

Major Tom

Major is an intimacy coach/facilitator at Consciousplay.net, co-founder of Temple Of Hedonism, and Co-Producer of VirtualIntimacyRetreat.com.

Trained as an authentic relating facilitator, he utilizes Integral Theory to create exercises in different practices acting, movement, and intimacy. My innovation and penchant for levity creates a brave experiential container for people to blossom open, and deepen the relationship to self and others. Authentic Relating Games allow you to intimately know yourself and create a space for decentralized processing.

His intention is to show up authentically to create safety and permission for others to show up fully. My containers are for deep intimacy and growth. I believe when we locate and push against our edges, that is where the growth can happen."

Carthy Vartuli

Cathy Vartuli is a PhD Engineer and Research Scientist turned Relationship and Sex Educator, a best selling author, and has taught and presented internationally on relationship skills, body image, trauma release, and sexuality. She mentors and consults with sex-positive marketers to help them reach more people in more powerful ways. She knows how painful it can be to have a message and skills to share, but be too shy or awkward to share, and loves helping people find their authentic voice so they can make a difference in the world. Knowing the work she and her partners did was valuable, but not reaching a larger audience, she used her research skills to understand how heart-centered and inspirational marketing could be used for subjects on intimacy and sexuality. She went from someone who wouldn’t show her photo on websites (for fear her weight would harm her partner’s reputations) to sharing her videos – over 4 million views on YouTube, her story and her weight with over 50,000 people, and getting standing ovations from stage. Cathy’s produced and marketed numerous live events in the sex-positive educator and marketing space, including Sex Geek Summer Camp 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017, Sex Geek Design Studio, Sex Geek Conservatory, Speakers Kit, Sex Geek Sponsorship 101, as well as webinars, summits, and launches. She’s presented marketing skills at Woodhull Sexual Freedom Summit, CatalystCon, Converge Con, AASECT, as well as Sex Geek Summer Camp each year, Conservatory, Speakers Kit, Sex Geek Sponsorship 101. Her focuses are on Affiliate Marketing, Content Marketing, Copy Writing and using Story, and Youtube. She helps sex educators leverage their shyness and awkwardness to relate to potential clients in authentic ways, and to inspire the growth and change they want to create. You can find out more about Cathy at www.TheIntimacyDojo.com.

Cathleene Cienfuegos

Cathleene Cienfuegos - Awaken As Love Lead Facilitator, Healing Arts Practitioner & Trainer. She brings deep spiritual lineages, as well as contemporary philosophies, cutting edge practices and much humor, compassion and empathy. She creatively weaves ancient and contemporary wisdom streams to create Integral sessions and retreats that inspire and invite Conscious Evolution.

Cathleene offers her clients a personal growth path, as well as a professional growth path, and her mission is to assist individuals in being fully empowered, fully expressed, and feeling deeply connected to life and their own innate wisdom. She has had a Tantric Healing Arts Practice for over 10 years that has served all genders in the processes of healing and sexual~spiritual integration. Three years ago she created a feminine-wisdom based business program in an effort to bring these healing arts to other professionals so they can create and grow sustainable and abundant coaching careers while they change the world..

Cathleene believes these Integral Healing Arts are the healing modalities of the New Earth.

Cathleene spends her time traveling, learning and teaching Awaken As Love, Tantric Healing Arts Practitioner Trainings and her business program Standing in the Fire. She has been a featured teacher and author on Playboy.com and mytinysecrets.com for her groundbreaking work in pleasure and healing with full body orgasm. Find her on IG @cathleene.blisslife or linktr.ee/cathleene_bliss_life and receive your free copy of The Erotic Anatomy Guidebook for Women.

Lawrence Lanoff

One of the most fascinating people on the teaching landscape is Lawrence Lanoff. Truly a renaissance man, Lawrence is a film director, photographer, author… and a deeply enlightened healer and teacher. He calls himself a “rubber meets the road kinda guy” as he applies this practical essence to his artistic and spiritual skills over a 20 year span, to an amazing array of disciplines, starting with a couple of dream jobs – the directing of movies and as a photographer for Playboy Magazine.

Over the past several years, Lawrence has been in a process of refining his radical teachings, leading people into a new kind of freedom, literally deprogramming them from the sleep imposed by cults and religions. What is slowly evolving is a revolutionary new theory of consciousness that incorporates evolution, symbolism, metaphor, neurobiology, and their relationship to healing, spiritual evolution, and neuro-economics — the neural pathways that influences our deepest feelings about self worth and money, and, of course, sex and relationships. www.lawrencelanoff.com.

Serafina Ankhalla

Dr. Serafina Ankhalla, DNP

is a Medicine Woman, Relationship and Personal Transformation Guide, Somatic Healer, and Psychedelic Integration Practitioner. She also does healing and transformation work as a Tantrika and Shamanatrix. Drawing from her extensive experience in Western medicine and comprehensive training in relationship psychology, trauma-informed practices, sacred sexuality, and the shamanic arts, Dr. Serafina assists clients to heal their body, mind, and spirit, and reach their fullest potential as creators of their desired life.

In her healing ceremonies, Dr. Serafina integrates various ancient tools such as plant medicines, breathwork, movement, sound therapy, song circles, intuitive touch healing practices, as well as intimate communication exercises and pleasure-based methods to guide people through powerful inner journeys. She provides a ceremonial space where clients can work on aligning their physicality with their emotions, psychology and spirituality, and gain a profound understanding of themselves and their relationships with others.