Holiday Train-cation Retreat

The Holiday Train-cation Retreat is a stay at Casa Chango in Barra de Navidad, Jalisco, Mexico, built around open gym time, group workouts, private lessons, celebration and rest. It suits aerial and circus arts people, movers, and anyone who wants to spend the holiday season training and relaxing in a warm, creative community on the Mexican coast. Guests can stay for one to three weeks.

What to Expect

A train-cation is a vacation with training woven through it. Days are shaped around the things the retreat names: open gym, group workouts and private lessons, with room left for celebration and plain relaxation. You can lean into practice, rest, or move between the two as the stay unfolds.

The length of stay is flexible. The retreat runs across the holiday period, and guests choose between one, two or three weeks, so it works for a short reset or a long, unhurried block of time away.

Casa Chango hosts a wide range of retreats through the year, including aerial and circus arts, flexibility and mobility, and conscious dance with partner acro and massage. The Holiday Train-cation draws on that same spirit of play, connection and physical curiosity, in a looser format where you set much of your own pace.

The Setting

Casa Chango is in Barra de Navidad, a small town on the Jalisco coast. The centerpiece for training is a 2000 square foot open air gym and dance and yoga studio, which guests of the open gym train-cation retreats can use. Training in an open air space means the weather, the light and the surrounding nature are part of the room.

The house describes its retreats as combining nature, food, relaxation and a creative community, and the same atmosphere carries into this holiday stay. Casa Chango welcomes couples, singles and groups of friends, and also hosts family and friends reunions, so you can come alone or bring your own people.

Before You Go

This retreat is open to people who want to train, whether that means working independently in the gym or taking private lessons. Because the format is open gym with optional group workouts and lessons, it is not a fixed class curriculum, and guests shape their own balance of effort and ease.

If you want a stay with no structured activity at all, Casa Chango also offers a Get Away Retreat with no classes. For questions about what is included, rooms, meals or travel to Barra de Navidad, contact Casa Chango Retreats directly before booking your stay.