Origin Story

A Fun History on How We Started

My retreat co-host and I met at a Yoga with Alpacas event that I offered a couple of years ago. Jeremy and I had always had mutual friends on social media but never met in person before this event. He loves animals and yoga and loves taking his kids to events like these too! After we finished up with yoga, he asked me if I was interested in hosting yoga retreats and of course I said yes! Then he proceeded to tell me how his family had built a private villa in Jamaica just a short walk from the beautiful clear blue ocean. 

The villa is called Castaways. Jeremy’s family has a long history with volleyball - reffing, setting up and hosting big tournaments, etc. We hosted our first retreat that next April in 2024 with much success and decided this was going to be an annual event! The villa has a private chef on staff named Jack who is awesome! He used to work on cruise lines specializing in diets around allergies so he knows his stuff!

When Jeremy and I sat down to talk about these retreats it was super important to me that we make these as affordable, flexible and accessible as possible. Your room, all meals at the villa (3 daily), transportation to and from the airport, all the villa amenities, yoga (4-5 gentle sessions) and the beach within walking distance are all included! All yoga supplies are at the villa for you too and honestly, yoga is optional. I like it when a retreat is very laid back so that’s how I try to offer and host mine. There’s lots of free time in between meals for excursions, beach time or hanging out at the villa pool. Extra spending $ is needed if you want to take excursions and for tipping of villa staff and drivers to and from the airport/excursions. We can also have a masseuse come to the villa to offer that one of the days-honestly the possibilities are endless! Flights round trip non stop via Southwest from BWI usually range between $500-600 so all in these retreats are just under or at $2k/pp including spending $.

So join Jeremy, myself and the Castaways staff for some fun, sunshine, surf, mindful movement, and lots of NO WORRIES!