Turn Up The FREAKuency: Release Your Inner WILD

Turn Up The FREAKuency: Release Your Inner WILD is a week-long yoga retreat at Xinalani Retreat, an oceanfront jungle resort near Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. It is led by yoga teacher Jenn Dashem and built around creative movement, breath focus and time in nature. It suits anyone who wants to loosen the grip of perfectionism and guilt, step out of everyday noise, and rediscover a more playful, curious way of moving through the day.

What to Expect

The retreat is described as a safe and fun space, and the teaching follows that spirit. Jenn brings light-hearted kindness, big breath and movement to her classes, with attention to safety, comfort and body-positivity. The aim is to release held-back energy and reconnect with a wilder, more curious self, without taking any of it too seriously.

Days follow an easy rhythm:

- 7:00 to 7:30 am: morning coffee and snacks
- 8:00 to 9:30 am: morning meditation and yoga
- 10:00 to 11:00 am: breakfast
- 2:30 to 3:30 pm: lunch
- 5:15 to 6:15 pm: evening yoga
- 7:30 to 8:30 pm: dinner

The long stretch between breakfast and lunch is left open for kayaking, snorkeling and resting. The week also includes a jungle trek and a sound bath. Yoga takes place in open-air studios.

About Jenn Dashem

Jenn Dashem is an E-RYT 500 teacher whose work spans yoga, meditation, sound healing, mindful movement and humor. She completed her yoga teacher training at Lotus Seed in Portland, Oregon in 2009, then co-founded the Karma Farm yoga studio in Walla Walla, Washington, where she also taught yoga fundamentals and philosophy at Whitman College. She now teaches in Central Pennsylvania, where she owns Dancing Tiger – Movement & Meditation, and leads local and international retreats. She has also taught private sessions and corporate wellness classes, and has presented at yoga festivals including The Yoga Round Up in Pendleton, Oregon, and YogaFest in State College. With her husband, Matt, she makes music as the duo Anchor&Arrow, who often accompany special yoga events. She describes herself as a lifelong student of all the disciplines of yoga.

The Setting

Xinalani sits in oceanfront jungle, and the retreat is reached by airport transfer and a boat ride to the center. Seven nights are spent in your choice of accommodation: the open-air Big Palapa (shared by four), or Deluxe Rooms and Eco Chic Suites, each offered open-air or with air conditioning, for double or single occupancy. Three meals a day are prepared by the resort kitchen, with coffee, tea, fruit and granola available in the morning. Guests often call it the best week of their year.

Before You Go

No particular level of experience is required. The classes are playful and welcoming, so newcomers and long-time practitioners will both feel at home.

The rate includes:

- Seven nights in your selected accommodation
- Three meals daily, plus coffee, tea, fruit and granola
- Daily yoga and meditation classes
- Airport transfers and the boat ride to the retreat center
- Kayak and snorkel equipment
- A jungle trek and a sound bath
- All taxes

This retreat is currently sold out.