Save the Date!!!
2025 QUEER & TRANS YOGA RETREAT
PUT IT IN YOUR CALENDAR
November 30th-December 6th 2025
And add your name and email here and we’ll make sure you’re the first to know when applications open for this gorgeous QUEER & TRANS Yoga Retreat with Kiki, Avery and G in Mexico.
There’s no retreat like this, friends. Deep, affirming healing and life changing joy in beloved community awaits. Space is limitd to 17, equity pricing and QTBIPOC scholarships will be available.
Join us for Embodying Delight 2025! November 30th-December 6th at Mixto Villa Resort, near Puerto Vallarta.
TESTIMONIALS
from past queer retreats
This retreat nourished my mind, spirit and body! Each experience was unique and filled my heart with love! Every moment was unimaginable. From the beginning to the end of this retreat I felt I could finally be my full self.
I’ve expanded my vision for what trans-ness can be, expanded my knowledge of queer/trans/non-binary history and yoga. I felt permission to acknowledge parts of myself that I’d been holding back. I felt a deeper, safer connection to my physical body, WOW! I felt like I was allowed to exist.
OMG I feel like I’ve breathed more in the last week than I have in the last few months.
This retreat opened new territory . . . The deep care and celebratory spirit of queerness pierced the bubble of our protected hearts. Being out and proud and resilient for 30 years has weathered and calloused us in certain ways. This retreat invited us to let go and be free, shining in a new uncovered and authentic version of ourselves, like coming out of savasana into a world where we can bear to live.
For the first time in my life I experienced an environment of unconditional loving. It was so profound to witness, and be in a space to deeply care for not only ourselves, but each other as well. During talks, yoga, meals, we deeply opened to self love and acceptance and this new queer community. This was one of the greatest experiences of my life!
This is my favorite space!!! I loved being surrounded by queers and finally allowing myself to be vulnerable in front of others.
WHY DO PEOPLE HAVE SUCH POWERFULLY GOOD EXPERIENCES AT OUR RETREATS?
The Space
Yoga can be awesome, but sadly many yoga spaces – much less bougie beachfront retreats – are not welcoming to folks like us.
You are so worthy of this luscious healing immersion!
Many of us are used to scrappy, DIY community care and while making treasure out of trash is a rad queer form of alchemy, we want our community to get to experience the transformative serenity, care, and nourishment of a lush, high quality retreat.
Like a private gay island, the luxury and seclusion of Mixto’s tropical haven is a space designed for integration, play, and reclamation of joy.
To make such a place a queer trans space is its own disruptive medicine. Come enjoy Mixto’s private beach, pool, yoga shala surrounded by the jungle, and gorgeous meals together with incredible QTs!
Community
Healing in community is powerful and MAGICAL! We’re not meant to heal and grow in isolation. So much is possible when we gather with skillful intention and reverence.
Queer community is precious, yes, but can be fraught. The “not belonging” wound is tender. Let’s experiment with what belonging actually means, and feels like, together.
We need spaces that honor nuance and complexity.
This is a retreat designed to cherish the parts of you that are a work in progress. It’s for our full-on, fluid, brave, tender, work-in-progress, weirdo, queer selves. What if there was nothing to prove?
A big part of any retreat is the people on the journey with you.
And you will be in SUCH good company! The connections we make through affirming kinship allow a deeper sense of wholeness and self love.
A Non-binary Approach: Tender Depth AND Gaycation
This is a space rich with the both/and. Our work together honors the grief, our struggle, our shadow material. When we honor the parts of us that are exhausted, stuck, and shamed, we can experience freedom, delight, and joy.
This retreat goes deep, and also will be SO MUCH FUN!
Re-source your capacity and learn new tools for nervous system regulation, stress reduction, and how to access a sense of inner peace through whatever life brings.
Deep Rest
Sometimes we don’t know how much we’re really carrying until we can *actually* let loose and relax.
Give yourself permission to untangle the inner knots, relax deeply. Awaken to a deeper authentic expression and lean into delight!
Many of us are working to dismantle systems of harm; part of that work is imagining, building, and experiencing in real time what we are working to cultivate.
Liberation, belonging, inner freedom . . . what does it feel like for you?
Nature + Somatic + Relational Mindfulness
The body and the earth are powerhouses of wisdom. Come explore practices that invite curiosity and open up fresh ways of knowing, and communicating.
Through meditation, stillness practices, fun exploration dyads, intuitive movement games, and ritual gain fluency in the subtle languages of your body, your senses, and the land, plants, and spaces we move through.
These innovative healing techniques are a perfect compliment to traditional yoga. You’ll gain an amazing skillset for simple, playful home practices for mindfulness and creativity.
Who knew somatic healing could be so full of laughter, play, tender connection?!
Let’s get weird, get free, and discover what brings balance and delight, here, now.
Iyengar Yoga Lineage
We’ll be practicing Iyengar Yoga, including asana (postural yoga) on this retreat to unveil what is within and beyond the physical. Alignment-based asana is an incredible gateway to transform mind and perception and to experience new relationships with self and consciousness.
Inspiring philosophy, pranayama, and FUNctional asana await! At times rigorous, playful, restorative, therapeutic – you’ll be in good hands while learning empowering new ways to explore yoga.
Rewire your nervous system, super charge your vital systems, bring soothing release. We center accessibility, stability, and reorganization that honors the divine design of your body.
Kiki and Avery
Kiki Williams (she/they)
Kiki is a black, queer teacher, meditator, yogi, and dancer from Los Angeles, CA, unceded Tongva land. They’re a 500hr-RYT and have facilitated yoga spaces for QT folx for several years.
Kiki also finds deep resonance with the Theravadan Buddhist meditation practice she’s had for the past 8 years. With this practice, Kiki’s facilitation has slowly oriented over time towards the integration of more stillness—creating the space to access all of the senses to experience this generous, magical world we inhabit.
Both a movement and mindfulness practitioner, they weave together these modalities to support a fully-embodied approach to both individual and collective healing.
To Kiki, healing looks like remembering, feeling fully, being curious about dark corners, remembering again, and mining the heart for the wells of love that reside there.
She is propelled by the belief that all people have the innate right to thrive, experience unmitigated joy, and be free, beginning with the freedom we each have in the capacity to feel in and through our own bodies and minds.
Avery Kalapa (they/them)
Avery is a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher (L2), community weaver at Sadhana Support Collective, and queer + trans wellness organizer; eRYT500, YACEP, BFA, with over 25 years of experience.
Celebrated for their enthusiasm, commitment to accessibility, counterculture spirituality, devotion, and depth of technique, Avery’s teaching uplifts inner healing rooted in collective liberation.
They believe all people, especially folks who have been left out of or turned off by mainstream yoga spaces, should have access to the revitalizing nourishment of deeply informed, classical yoga that goes beyond fitness, without having to code switch or assimilate in order to practice.
They center integrative functional anatomy, nervous system regulation, and stability to support counterculture yoga lovers to break the burn-out cycle and be nourished, strong, and spiritually powerful without bypassing the wisdom of their body and lived experience.
Avery’s also an artist, parent, gardener. They are a white, neurodiverse, queer, trans, non-binary human grateful to live in unceded Tiwa land, Albuquerque NM.
Contact
Still have questions? Want to inquire about a scholarship or make a donation to support equity access? We’d love to hear from you!