Yoga in Paradise Retreat: Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Bienvenidos! Welcome to Mexico!  You'll be greeted outside the airport by your private transfer and enjoy a short journey to the villa. 

Enjoy a leisurely check-in and get settled into your luxurious new home! Join for an optional welcome gathering while our private chef prepares our first delicious meal that we'll enjoy together at the villa. Dinner tonight is casual and family style, so sit back and kick your feet up as we prepare for our week together! 

We'll wake up to have an invigorating morning yoga flow class followed by a gourmet made-to-order breakfast. Join for an optional walking tour of the area and explore the old town, famous architecture and world-renowned Malecon beach boardwalk. 

Feel free to take the rest of the day to explore or shop... or maybe hang by the pool to dive into a new book. We'll gather in the early evening to walk as a group to an authentic + open-air Mexican restaurant for a dinner to remember! 

After our morning yoga class, enjoy another specialty breakfast dish + tropical fruit and local coffee. We'll head out late morning for an hour drive into the mountains to visit the Puerto Vallarta Botanical Gardens (voted top 10 in all of North America). Our guide will let us taste, smell and feel many of the most well-known foods from Mexico including vanilla, cacao beans and coffee bean plants. 

We'll have a 4 course lunch on-site with views of tropical birds and the distant mountains. Stay back for a frozen mojito - or use your free time to check out the hiking paths and even take a dip in a cool river swimming hole. 

We'll return to the villa late afternoon for free time and dinner on your own. 

After another amazing villa breakfast we'll head over to the marina to go on a morning whale watching boat tour. We will see the giant creatures up close and personal in the Bay of Banderas and even get a chance to hear their underwater songs. 

We'll return to the villa late afternoon, so after your morning adventure, you can choose to spend your time on the beach or kicked back at the villa. 

Enjoy our favorite combo of amazing outdoor morning yoga + incredible breakfast eats + tons of coffee. We'll head out for a walk and urban hike up to the highest point in downtown Puerto Vallarta to get amazing 360 degree views. After we wander through flower covered porches and staircases in the neighborhood, it's another 300 stairs to the top, but the payoff is worth it. 

We'll be back to the villa by lunch time, so we suggest you grab a beachfront lunch spot and laze the rest of your day away (maybe with a margarita?) Or head back up to the sun loungers on our rooftop pool. 

Enjoy our sunrise flow morning yoga class and breakfast (it wouldn't be our Mexico retreat without this blissful combo!)  and then we'll head off on a guided shopping tour in the markets along the Rio Cuale. 

You'll still have plenty of time to enjoy a free afternoon before a yin evening yoga class and another amazing private chef dining experience at the villa this evening.

Parting is such sweet sorrow! After your final made-to-order breakfast and last cup of delicious Mexican coffee, enjoy free time to grab some last minute photos or handicrafts and then we'll all head to the airport for bittersweet goodbye hugs.

But you're a part of the Above Yoga family for life and we know we will see you on another retreat soon!