May 4 - 10, 2025

Welcome to The Alchemy of Becoming, a catalyst for your next level of creation, integration, and enactment.

This unique retreat is tailored for CEE-certified coaches and advanced Certification students that are standing at a new growth-edge – ready for more Empowerment, more Prosperity, and more Prowess.

This is your invitation to step into a magical place where you can:

~ Dare to dream up the next amazing, abundant, and meaningful chapter of your life.

~ Identify the blocks, barriers, and dynamics that threaten to trip you up.

~ Express and integrate the emotions that tend to keep you small.

~ Lock-in a detailed protocol for nurturing a nervous system that can support your dream.

During our time together, we'll enjoy ample opportunities to rest, repair, and recreate, while also making sure that we can dive deep and do the potent work required to not only dream up and design this next extraordinary chapter in your life and get a jump-start on it, but also build a nuts-and-bolts protocol – for fine-tuning your nervous system to allow you to actually achieve and enjoy your dream.

We are welcoming 11 guests on this custom and not-soon-to-be-repeated adventure.

This retreat is for coaches at a growth-edge.

You know you’re at a growth-edge when you sense you’re standing on the precipice of something challenging and important. Maybe it’s a…

• New job

• New need for increased income

• New relationship

• New business, or new level in business

• New shift in relationship status

• New desire, goal, hope

• New challenge - sobriety, health issue, change in circumstances

This unique adventure is right for you if (any or all of the following):

• Your ideas for the life you want may be bigger than your nervous system has previously allowed.

• You have perhaps gotten complacent in using your tools.

• You’re experiencing enough fear that even dreaming up the next chapter is difficult.

• You’re not sure what the practical next steps are for the life you crave.

• You have the sense of being all alone in creating this next chapter.

• You know you need deeper support than you get in your daily life if you’re going to be able to manifest all that you dream.

🐦‍⬛ For those who boldly claim their spot quickly…

we’ll give you the Early-Bird Special of two coaching sessions with Natalie and Nathan (at the same time) for free! One session before the retreat, and one session after the retreat. 🐦‍⬛

(This is a limited time offer for a limited number of spots.)

 Send us an email to save your spot!

Here are some activities we will explore during our time together:

(Some elements will shift or change depending on the needs and interests of the group.)

• Ocean swims

• Hot tub soaks

• Pool play

• Horizon gazing

• Personal exploration via journaling and quiet time

• Holding Sessions with Natalie and Nathan, and group support

• Group work on dreams, blocks, emotions, strategizing

• Physical, Vocal, and Ritual emoting

• Free time for whatevs

• Individual support

• Mealtime talks and processing

• Walks to town and beaches

• Personal empowerment and energy work

• Restorative Yoga

• Rituals

• Cacao Ceremony (hosted by retreat center practitioner co-planning this offering with us)

• Spa treatments (purchased independently – spa on site)

• Boat trip to secluded beach (possible add-on, we’ll tell you more!)

Throughout our days, no matter the activity, we will focus on:
✨ Connection, Emotional Exploration, Dreams, Support, Analysis, Plans, and Magic.✨

 Just send us an email to save your spot!

Speaking of spots…

Yelapa, Mexico is owned by locals.

It’s an exotic destination that proudly remains untouched.

Yelapa was initially settled by four families who came down the mountain from the village of Chacala and started a life of fishing and agriculture. The town name is said to be an old Native American one meaning “where two rivers meet the sea.” About 1,500 Mexicans live is this little town as well as a growing number of foreigners. The four aboriginal families still live here and almost everyone is related.

Yelapa is a unique community—”one of the few remaining on Earth where the original inhabitants still reside on, own, and control their own land.” As a comunidad indigena, Yelapa is a land grant or reservation legally set aside and protected for its indigenous people. The land is held collectively by the community. Outsiders may not buy any land, but they may and some do lease it longterm.

The high mountains behind Yelapa have not been crossed by roads, so the only ways to get here are to come by boat from a nearby town, to walk or ride a horse or mule on the long, rocky coastal route, or to come down on the trail/dirt road from Chacala. Taxi boat please!

Modern conveniences are recent. Electricity and phones arrived in 2001. Before then, there were only lamps or flashlights and one local pay phone. Water is brought to the village from the rivers. There is a central water system but it doesn’t reach all, so many still manage their own water lines.

All of this means that the most basic tasks of living – walking, cleaning, cooking, carrying, and building, and certainly bringing needed items in – can quickly acquire new meaning and importance.

– Source: The Yelapa History Project

We traveled here with our family as a way to scout this location for you all, and we fell in love with Yelapa.

We felt extremely safe, and touched by the uniqueness and kindness of this land and its people.

We can’t wait to return with you! 💛

Our special week also happens to coincide with the village’s Virgen de Guadalupe festival. The rest of Mexico celebrates this in December, but Yelapa has its own local celebration in May. It is a very momentous and sacred time.

Our Lady of Guadalupe refers to the specific apparition of the Virgin Mary that an Aztec man named Juan Diego experienced in the 16th century in what is now Mexico City. She is a potent symbol in Latin American Catholicism and of Mexican identity.

This Marian apparition is described as a “young native woman” with black hair, high cheekbones, and darkened skin – which is why the Virgin Guadalupe is sometimes referred to as “la virgen morena” (the brown/brunette virgin).

She appeared to Juan Diego four times, speaking his native language, and performing miracles. The most famous of the miracles are leading Juan to a snowy hilltop to gather fresh roses to bring as proof to the regional bishop, and the colored image that appeared on the inside of Juan’s cactus-fiber woven tilma when he released the roses gathered in it before the bishop, and which (even though these garments normally don’t last more than a decade) still rests in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City 500 years later.

There will be a lot going on in Yelapa as they celebrate the Virgen de Guadalupe in May. We hope to enjoy some of the fiesta, and we will certainly be calling Our Lady in to aid us all in the work we’re doing, too. ✨

 So send us an email if you want to save your spot!

At… 👇

Pura Vida Wellness Center is a peaceful, secluded, literally oceanfront resort situated just a 10-minute scenic, coastal walk from the tiny Mexican village of Yelapa. It is nestled in a smaller bay within the Bay of Banderas, where Puerto Vallarta is also located. Pura Vida is just outside of town, just down from Playa Isabel, and almost like there’s no one else around.

This tranquil resort has breath-taking ocean-view rooms, an open-air yoga studio, a salt water infinity pool & jacuzzi overlooking the narrow bay, easy access to the beach, the most delicious cuisine, the kindest, caring staff…  and more.

👆 You could be right there, too!
Just email us to save your spot.

 All of the rooms at Pura Vida are beautiful and unique.

Open-air accommodations are available with queen beds and breathtaking views of the ocean, jungle, and beach.

A limited number of A/C rooms are also available with a large sliding glass door to the ocean.

All beds are fitted with organic metal-free mattresses, organic hypoallergenic pillows, organic bed sheets, and mosquito nets.

All rooms are spacious and individually designed with soft white LED lighting – good for the eyes and health. Rooms are handcrafted to collaborate with the natural beauty of the dramatic landscape while providing the modern comforts of home.

Each bathroom comes equipped with a waterfall shower, hot water, and natural stone and artisan tile walls.

Your room price also includes everything above, and everything you and we are teaming up to bring to and birth through this transmutational collaboration.

You can take a peek at the options below…

* Air-Conditioned Rooms

* Open-Air Rooms

You can see where each room and everything else is on this map!

(Please keep in mind that the terrain is quite steep, and some of the rooms that overlap or are shown as adjacent here, may in fact be stacked vertically. So, for example, 7 is above 8 which is above 17 and 18. And everything goes upward from the beach, so 9 and 10 are higher up the hill than 1 and 2, etc..)

 Send us an email to save your spot…
And tell us which room! 😉

Meals at Pura Vida are primarily organic and plant-based, and always wholesome and nourishing.

Pura Vida’s chefs have a background in Mexican cuisine, along with training from Californian chefs – creating a fusion menu loved by guests.

For this retreat, we’re going to be co-planning the meals precisely. But below you can see some of what the chefs typically do…

Pura Vida also offers an all-day juice bar with fresh-squeezed juices and healthy snacks for purchase.

Yelapa is a 10-minute walk away with local shops, cafés, and restaurants.

And as always, we’ll have some drinks and light snacks on hand for you too.

Send us an email to save your spot –
tell us what room you want,
and which menu item(s) above you like most!

 At least all this comes with your retreat:

✨ Pre-retreat digestion protocol

✨ Pre-retreat group session online

✨ Pre-retreat workbook (printable PDF)

✨ Overnight in beautiful boho hotel in Puerto Vallarta on May 3rd

✨ Private chartered boat to Yelapa on May 4th

✨ Gorgeous oceanfront accommodations

✨ Unparalleled personal development work

✨ Direct nervous system, neuroemotional , and energetic support

✨ Empowering rituals

✨ Restorative yoga

✨ 3 organic, intentionally designed meals per day

✨ Special goodies (that are return-travel-ready!)

✨ Strategic planning for your post-retreat re/integration

✨ 2 Post-retreat group sessions online

These things are not already included:

⭐️ Flights

⭐️ Taxi to and from the pier in Puerto Vallarta

⭐️ Trip Insurance

⭐️ Meals in Puerto Vallarta

⭐️ Spa Treatments - to be scheduled during free times

⭐️ Juice Bar snacks

⭐️ Tip for staff at end of the week (~$70)

⭐️ Extras

Travel Details (super important!)

✈️ Fly to Puerto Vallarta (PVR) at least one day early on Saturday May 3.

🏖️ Stay overnight in Puerto Vallarta at a gorgeous boutique hotel we have booked for you with a roof-top pool and more.

⛴️ The following morning on Sunday May 4 we will gather at 11am at Los Muertos Pier – just a short walk from your hotel – to catch our chartered boat to Yelapa.

🫂 We will meet you on the pier and together we will travel along the coastline to Yelapa!

✈️ Departing: Book your return flight for 1:30pm or later on Saturday May 10. Our chartered boat will take you back to the Los Muertos pier on May 10 where you can grab a taxi to the airport.
Or stay a few extra days to enjoy Yelapa or Puerto Vallarta on your own! 😉

We don’t know when we will do another retreat like this.

As some of you already know, we’ve only done one other retreat exclusively for certified coaches. (And that one changed our business and programs, as well as the forward trajectories of all four of us who went on it. It also changed how we have approached retreats ever since…) Building something like this takes time, and tremendous focus, and skill to co-create – but it also takes months and years to build a cohort of people like you who are ready for it! (That’s not a sales tactic, that’s a fact.) And this isn’t going to be anything like the last coaches retreat or even much like our other past retreats…

So if it speaks to you at all, you may want to make this happen.

To be clear, we likely will return to Yelapa in the years to come (we love it so), but we are considering a number of other ideas as to the theme and guest list for future retreats. We have no plan to do another coaches retreat within the next few years. And future retreats will likely not have the Alchemy of Becoming theme…

Please keep in mind as well, if your next chapter – the dream that you are cooking up – includes any piece of your business or your income, you can write this retreat off as a business expense. (We can even give you the invoice to include in your taxes!)

And as always, if it would serve to help you make this happen for yourself, we can set-up a payment plan for you. We are open to any arrangement as long as the final payment occurs before May 3. Just let us know what you need!

 So, really, send us an email if you want us to save you what may be a once-in-a-lifetime spot!

Wondering why we keep asking you to send us an email instead of providing you a button to sign up with? Because this offering is that exclusive! You are among only a couple handfuls of people in the world even getting to see this webpage. We’re making this retreat especially for (and with) you. So we didn’t make a button. We just want to hear from you.

Let us know if you want in on this. And we’ll gush with you over all the specific details!

Sending you love, cheering you on, and if it’s right for you, looking forward to being with you in Yelapa! 🙏🫂💛

And of course, tucked down here, but where you have it if you need it…

our retreat Cancellation Policy:

• If you decide to cancel your reservation, your deposit is non-refundable.

• Deposit is $500 or your first payment – whichever is smaller.

• Cancellations due to personal schedule changes or illness will be refunded as outlined below.

• Balances are refundable as follows:

  • Cancellation over 91+ days from start of retreat: 100% refundable, minus deposit.

  • Cancellation within 60 days from start of retreat: 100% refundable if we are able to fill your spot, minus deposit.

  • Cancellation 30 days from start of retreat: 50% refundable, minus deposit.

  • Cancellation within 2 weeks from start of retreat: No refunds will be issued.