Join Sarah and Lily for a soulful, lush, and magical retreat together. Replenish body, mind, and spirit in sacred community through dynamic movement in a spectacular location. Escape the winter weather by embracing the warm breezes, bright sun, and healing waters of Puerto Morelos with your beloved yoga community for a 6 night, 7 day yoga retreat. Practice yoga to your heart's content, build new friendships, adventure in the Mayan Riviera, savor delicious healthy vibrant vegetarian meals and fresh juices, cleanse yourself in the sacred waters of a jungle cenote, and refill your cup lounging on white sand. Soak in calm turquoise seawater, read in a hammock, or get pampered with mind-blowing healing therapies from the truly world-class Healers of Casa Om. In planning this retreat we wanted: warmth, water, a gorgeous practice studio, good food, and nice rooms, all within quick travel distance. Cancun is a 3.5 hour direct flight from the Baltimore/DC area and roundtrip direct flights go for under $400.
A limited block of rooms are held on a first-served basis.
You are responsible for exploring and purchasing your own travel insurance for the retreat and corresponding travel expenses.
*Save $75 by paying deposit and balance both in personal check or Venmo.*
This is our house for the week. We are so in love with the energy of this house and hope you can join us for a week
to delight your senses!
Joyful Practice: all are truly welcome.
Walk just across the street from Casa Om to this darling beach with restrooms, loungers, and shaded seats under a palapa bar where you can order guacamole and chips or ceviche or fresh coconut water that they'll cut down for you with a machete so you can eat the flesh.
Our Dining Room with jungle views and balmy breezes
warm Carribean sea is quiet and calm for even small children to play in the waterNearby Cenote, Sacred Site to Mayan Culture
Nearby Cenote, Sacred Site to Mayan Culture - say a prayer to the water and dive in!
your teachers
Balinese headboard in the King Bed room with Japanese soaking tub
The Yoga Studio at Casa Om
PRACTICE WITH US!
morning Vinyasa classes
afternoon Workshops
You can expect the precisely cued, carefully curated, strong, athletic, powerful, soulful practices that you might have come to love with Sarah and Lily in the studio back home. With this special co-led retreat you will also often have an extra set of teacher's eyes and hands in the room offering hands-on assists and one-on-one coaching. You will be practicing in a consistent group for a week with two senior teachers who will really get to know your practice and support your growth and confidence on the mat. Each morning's practice theme/focus will be carefully planned ahead of time so that there is a nice array of practices that complement, build off one another and do not overlap. One morning you may experience a well-rounded strong vinyasa practice with a focus on backbends, while another may focus on forward folds and detoxifying twists.
Each morning will begin with a 120 minute class to enliven body, mind, and spirit. In the morning we will move into a flow state and a moving meditation, creating a powerful container as we move and breathe together and awaken our connection to spirit. Though our morning practices are strong, all levels are truly welcome and included. Rest when you need! With two teachers on deck we will mindfully attune to each student's present level to help you thrive and come alive in your practice.
Afternoons will shift focus - some are gentle and restorative, while others are not. Each afternoon is planned as a 90-minute workshop presenting different experiences and topics that highlight Sarah and Lily's areas of expertise and passion that we are most excited to share with you.
There will be a few afternoons "off" (without the afternoon yoga practice) to lay low, continue daytime adventures, indulge, and play. This down time to relax, rejuvenate, down-regulate, and digest your new experiences and practices is important to the integrity of your retreat experience.
PRACTICE SPACES
Casa Om has a state-of-the-art hot yoga studio, as well as an outdoor open air platform overlooking the turquoise Caribbean sea. In addition, there is free daily laundry service for those sweaty yoga clothes!
YOUR TEACHERS
Lily Dwyer Begg
Lily began teaching yoga in 2005 in the yoga haven of the California Bay Area. She has taught in yoga studios internationally, worked with an NBA basketball team, NCAA diving team, professional dance companies, and therapeutically with private clients, as well as creating the volunteer organization wOMen's yoga collective, which offered free weekly yoga classes to homeless women and children in Berkeley, CA.
Lily has studied with Shiva Rea, Ana Forrest, Don and Amba Stapleton, David Moreno, yoga for scoliosis with Elise Browning Miller, Ayurveda with Kameko Shibata, and Prenatal yoga with Marisa Toriggino. She is a California licensed massage therapist and has studied anatomy with Art Riggs, Thomas Myers, and Narelle Carter-Quinlan. Lily grew up in the dance studio, has studied ballet and modern dance her whole life, and prior to moving to Baltimore, she worked for eight years as a professional modern dancer with the San Francisco troupe, LEVYdance and as a freelance modern dancer in Berlin, Germany for a year. She currently makes her home in Baltimore with her husband and two sons.
Sarah Cook
Sarah loves to teach a practice rooted in the clarity of strong alignment with plenty of room for spirit and play. She regularly incorporates asana variation, sacred geometry, pranayama, kriya, poetry, philosophy... One of her first teachers would always say, "Yoga will change your body, then your mind, then your heart." This is the summary of Sarah's yoga love affair; coming to yoga, like many others, as a way to get active, falling in love and then beginning to teach full-time in 2009.
Diverse in interest and study, Sarah is a 500 hour Jivan Yoga certified teacher. She has taught in both 200 hour and 300 hour teacher trainings, serving as a mentor in Yogaworks 300 Hour Mentorship program for the past three years. In addition to the 300 Hour Training at Baltimore Yoga Village, she has studied and trained with Katonah Yoga, Ana Forrest and Buti Yoga. She has also been strongly influenced by Elena Brower, Christina Sell, Dice Iida-Klein and Vivian Campagna. Truly, she remains an eternal student.
Your Accommodations
Welcome to Casa Om!
Come visit our beachside locale, with world-class yoga, delicious gourmet food, rooftop sunsets, and endless fun things to do. Get a treatment with Mayan healers or indulge in a beachfront massage. Dip in our pool or explore the coral reef. Only twenty minutes from the Cancun Airport, you will return home nourished in body, mind, and soul.
Our yoga room was designed with a multitude of yoga styles in mind. Features of the room include: mirrors, walls for back bending, heat for hot yoga, air conditioning for meditation, fans, nonslip floors, expansive views, great air circulation, a sound system, mats, towels, and blocks. The room is forty feet wide and twenty-five feet deep, for a total of 1,000 square feet. Not quite mat to mat, forty people fit comfortably for yoga. When it comes to fun, Casa Om is in the best location. Puerto Morelos is a small seaside fishing village 30 minutes from both Cancun and Playa Del Carmen. We have great proximity to big cities but enjoy a small-town vibe.
ACCOMMODATIONS:
Casa Om has eleven beautiful bedrooms and bathrooms, a spacious and well equipped yoga room, swimming pool, rooftop dining area, and two kitchens. Bedrooms can set for either single or double occupancy, and have either a private bathroom or a bathroom shared between two rooms. Casa Om also has a new dorm that sleeps up to six people in bunk beds.
The rooms at Casa Om are comfortable and beautifully designed with air conditioning and fans. Drinking water and WiFi are provided. Casa Om sleeps 26 and is across the street from the beach.
ALL ROOMS FEATURE THE FOLLOWING AMENITIES:
WiFi
maid service
A/C
coffee pot
pool
lounge chairs & hammocks
rooftop palapa
on site massage facility
steps to the beach and walking distance to town
across from Downtown Dive Lodge & UNICO Beach.
Yoga platform overlooking the ocean
Gourmet vegetarian meals
6 brunches
4 dinners
snacks
unlimited coffee
unlimited water
hot yoga studio
daily yoga classes
workshops
daily Yoga laundry service
Dining
At Casa Om we run a full gourmet vegetarian kitchen. We offer extensive Mexican, Thai, New American, and Lebanese food options. Visitors love our fresh juices and superfood smoothies. All dishes are prepared with a healthy yogic lifestyle in mind. We love to make gluten free and vegan meals as well.
We will include tasty, healthy, high protein vegetarian breakfasts each morning and dinner four nights out of the six you are with us. The other nights we will venture out into town to explore authentic Mexican food from local eateries.
Please note the owners of Casa Om are authentic yogis and they ask that the retreat center is alcohol, meat, drug, and tobacco free space. You may enjoy adult beverages offsite but our meals together at Casa Om will not include alcohol.
TRAVEL
Fly into CUN – Cancun Airport.
Check in is 3 pm on Sunday, July 31
Check out is 11 am on Saturday, August 6
All arrivals in Cancun airport MUST arrive between 1pm and 5 pm to qualify for the inclusive shuttle service.
All departures in Cancun airport MUST depart between 10 am and 2 pm to qualify for the inclusive shuttle service.
We will pick you up from the airport and take you 20 minutes south to the beautiful town of Puerto Morelos on the white sandy beaches of the Mexican Riviera.
We are located at 9 mza 26 sm 02 avenue javier rojo gomez, Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
"our intention is to create a healthy, healing, and clean environment and therefore we request no alcohol, no drugs, no smoking, no meat, no fish, no pets"' - Casa Om
TRAVEL INSURANCE
All participants are required to purchase travel insurance. In the light of the COVID-19 global pandemic, you are strongly encouraged to purchase a premium policy with a Cancel For Any Reason contingency. Group travel bookings are not protected so it is the individual’s responsibility to protect their own investment. To get an immediate quote for travel insurance, visit Travel Insured.
Cancelation Policy
If for any reason you need to cancel your reservation, you will receive a refund of your payment (minus non-refundable deposit and any PayPal transaction fees) if the space can be filled by someone else. No refunds will be given for failure to attend or complete the retreat due to personal reasons or due to the pandemic. All guests are required to explore their travel insurance options.
King with Japanese Soaking Tub, AC
Penthouse Ocean View Palapa
Queen with sofa bed for three friends or a couple, AC
Double Room 2 beds private bathroom for friends or single occupancy, AC
Double Room, 2 beds, Shared Bathroom with other room, AC
Bunk Dorm for 6 women, AC, private bathroom
