Is traditional meditation not for you?

Have you been told countless times that the solution is to sit in meditation, close your eyes, and observe your thoughts?
Have you tried it—and it simply doesn’t work for you?

Me neither.

I’m Pilar, a yoga teacher, traveler, adventurer, and creator of a space for personal development retreats and alternative therapies in Granada, Andalusia. For years, I’ve divided my life between Spain and Puerto Escondido, Mexico—a magical place where I spend much of the year and that has taught me a different way of understanding connection, nature, and presence.

When I began my personal growth journey over 10 years ago, I constantly heard that meditation was the answer to everything. But the truth is, I was never good at sitting still and observing my thoughts.

For a long time, I thought the problem was me—until I discovered something essential: there are many ways to meditate.

Meditation is presence

Meditation is not just sitting in silence. Meditation is presence. It is being here, fully here.

It is stepping out of the mental loop of what happened, what will happen, or what is still unresolved… and inhabiting the present moment.

And I found that presence through movement:

Through yoga, conscious breathing, dance, authentic human connection, nature, the sound of the ocean, surfing, travel, writing, tantra (understood as vital energy), and the deeper way of inhabiting life itself.

Coming back to the body

We live in a society that is deeply disconnected from the body. We use it as a functional tool: to produce, to perform, to endure. But we rarely listen to it.

And yet, you are not only your mind—you are also your body.

Your body speaks constantly: through sensations, emotions, intuition, pleasure, fatigue, tension, or illness. Sometimes it whispers… and sometimes it screams.

Learning to listen to it changes everything.

This is where this retreat is born from: HABITAR EL CUERPO – “Inhabiting the Body.”

HABITAR EL CUERPO

Retreat in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico

3 nights · 4 days

There are places where the earth beats differently.
Where the ocean is not a landscape… but medicine.
Where the sun doesn’t only illuminate… it reveals what lives within you.

This retreat is an invitation to return to your essence, held by the power of the Pacific Ocean and the living magic of Mexico.

For four days, we will inhabit a space by the sea, where the sound of the waves becomes part of our practice.

🌺 The intention

To inhabit the body is to come home.

This retreat is an invitation to step out of the mind, expectations, and control, and enter into deep listening of the body as a living, wise, emotional territory.

A space to release what has been held inside, recover sensitivity, and reconnect with a more organic and authentic way of being—both in relationship with others and with nature.

This is not a retreat to do more.
It is a retreat to remember.

Your natural rhythm.
Your intuition.
Your inner fire.
Your deep calm.

🧘‍♀️ Practices we will share

Yoga
Guided meditation
Emotional release through movement, dance, writing, and tantra
Intuitive movement and dance
Tantra (as authentic connection with yourself and others, not sexual)
Creative writing
Ecstatic dance sessions
Sharing circles and integration
Connection with nature and the beach
Mexican cooking workshop
Sound healing / sound bath
Massage
Live music experience

Each practice is designed to open, soften, and expand.

🌮 Cultural immersion with soul

Because growth is also celebration.

Traditional Mexican cooking workshop using local ingredients
Intimate live concert under the stars

A sensory experience where culture, music, and community come together.

🍃 What’s included

3 nights of accommodation by the sea
Full board (breakfast, lunch, and dinner)
All practices and workshops
Mexican cooking workshop
Creative writing sessions
Ecstatic dance session
60-minute full-body massage
Live concert night
Materials for the practices
Close guidance throughout the experience

Not included: flights or airport transfers.

🌞 Schedule – Habitar el Cuerpo

Day 1 – Arrival & Opening (Thursday · 3:00 pm)

3:00 pm · Check-in
5:30 pm · Welcome circle
6:15 pm · Gentle grounding yoga
7:00 pm · Dinner
8:30 pm · Rest & soft integration space

Day 2 – Grounding (body & presence)

6:30 am · Sunrise on the beach
7:00 am · Sunrise yoga
8:30 am · Breakfast
11:00 am · Creative writing workshop
1:30 pm · Lunch
4:00 pm · Body expression workshop
6:00 pm · Ecstatic dance
7:00 pm · Dinner
8:30 pm · Sound healing session

Day 3 – Expansion (release & openness)

6:30 am · Sunrise on the beach
7:00 am · Dynamic yoga
8:30 am · Breakfast
11:00 am · Intuitive movement & partner work
1:30 pm · Lunch
4:00 pm · Massage sessions
6:00 pm · Sunset ritual on the beach
7:00 pm · Special dinner
8:30 pm · Live concert under the stars

Day 4 – Integration (closing & return)

6:30 am · Conscious sunrise on the beach
7:00 am · Gentle yoga
8:30 am · Breakfast
11:00 am · Sharing circle & emotional integration
1:00 pm · Light lunch
3:00 pm · Check-out & farewell

💫 Investment

Shared double room: €500 USD per person

Includes everything described.

Limited spots to maintain intimacy.

Payment plan

Full payment upon booking
or $100€ deposit + remaining balance in cash on arrival (non-refundable)

🌊 What you will take with you

Emotional and mental clarity
Deep connection with yourself, your body, others, and nature
Practical tools for daily life
Renewed energy
Community
An experience that stays in your body

Maybe nothing outside changes…
but the way you inhabit the world will.

🌿 Pilar Marín Ruiz-Coello

Founder of Molino del Zegri and born in Almería, Pilar has devoted her path to exploring consciousness, community, and the return to what is essential.

Certified yoga teacher (200h) in India in Vinyasa, Hatha, and Ashtanga, and in Conscious Hatha Yoga (200h) in Mexico, she integrates a sensitive, deep, and transformative teaching approach.

Her way of guiding combines presence and intuition, creating spaces where body, emotion, and spirit can align.

This retreat will be held in both Spanish and English, welcoming an international community.