Yelapa Retreat
November 4-10, 2026
Cuchira and Ruben are honored to guide you through an experience that will bring you back to your true nature.
A fusion of moving with awareness, and the healing power of Mother Nature. The land itself will invite you back into your biological wisdom, while the embodied work gently guides you toward the deep reconnection your body has been longing for.
…And Yelapa couldn’t be a more powerful place to re‑meet yourself.
A protected Indigenous community in Jalisco, Mexico, Yelapa remains car‑pollution-noise-free and beautifully preserved.
Its untouched jungle landscape, waterfalls, rich biodiversity, and quiet simplicity create the perfect environment to return to presence- essence.
What Awaits You...
For seven days, you’ll be held inside a living, breathing sanctuary of nature, guided daily by Cuchira and Ruben through four hours of somatic sessions, movement, and deep inner work that lands like an exhale in the body, and gives the mind a vacation.
Every meal is cooked by local hands using home‑grown, organic ingredients, food that feels like it came straight from the earth to your plate.
You’ll wander through medicinal gardens with Rafael, the center’s owner, learning the plants that have healed generations.
And if your body wants more wonder, you can choose whale watching on open water or jungle hikes to hidden waterfalls. This isn’t a retreat. It’s a RETURN TO YOUR SELF, to nature, to what’s real.
Meet Your Guides
Ruben & Cuchira
Tamara “Cuchira” Levinson guides you into movement‑meditation practice that reconnects you to your essence and unlocks the deep wisdom your body has been holding. Her work is intuitive, honest, and profoundly transformative, meeting you exactly where you are and allowing what’s true to rise. Many describe her sessions as life‑changing; like journeying with plant medicine, but the movement itself is the medicine.
Ruben brings the perfect counterbalance with playful, intelligent, exploratory movement rooted in years of athletic mastery. His classes build adaptable, resilient bodies and a grounded sense of presence, helping you feel at home in your skin.
Together, Cuchira and Ruben create a rare synergy: deep inner work woven with embodied freedom, clarity, and joy.
Our promise: you’ll leave this retreat more connected, centered, and alive in your body than you’ve felt in years.
VOICES FROM PAST RETREATS...
I stepped through windows into places I never knew existed. Spaces of innate peace, wisdom and love I’d forgotten were there... The presence has remained. The open heart is still wide open."
— ANDY
"It has been an important reminder of how FREEDOM feels IN THE BODY... Emoting from the depth of me within this group has given me back a sense of trust and empowerment."
— ALVA
Life had carried me so far away from myself that I forgot who I was and what truly mattered. In the space Ruben and Cuchira held, honest, safe, and deeply supportive, I was finally able to meet myself again in ways I hadn’t in decades.
—REBECCA