Vitality Live Wellness Retreat
January 03 - January 10, 2026
Mary Sheila Gonnella, BCHN and Marcella Friel
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Sobre el retiro
A Retreat for Self-Care and Transformation
Strong, Wild, Wise: Living in Rhythm for Vitality & Longevity
Reclaim your vitality, fill your cup, and connect on your journey towards optimal health.
Come home to the rhythm of your own vitality. This immersive retreat is designed for those who are ready to age not just longer—but better. Set in a nourishing tropical landscape, we’ll explore how to align with nature’s rhythms and elements, rebuild strength from the inside out, and rewire emotional patterns that hold us back. Through guided movement, holistic nutrition, Ayurvedic wisdom, and the healing power of EFT, you’ll discover practical tools for reducing inflammation, enhancing longevity, and embracing the wild intelligence/wisdom of your body. This isn’t about chasing youth—it’s about claiming your rightful healthspan with joy, grace, and strength.
Programa
7-8 am – morning movement – mix of yoga, pilates, breathwork, somatic movements
Morning classes 10-1 –
Afternoon breaks after lunch
4:30-6 before dinner sessions
Some evening sessions after dinner
Tuesday morning off for excursions, Thursday free day for excursions.
Pago y Políticas de Cancelación
Tuition Cost
$950 + Mar de Jade Accomodations
Sobre los maestros
Mary Sheila Gonnella
Board Certified Holistic Nutritionist, Ayurveda Educator Mary Sheila Gonnella is a Board Certified Holistic Nutritionist, Educator, and Ayurvedic Practitioner known for blending the science of metabolism with the soul of earth-based healing. Her journey began not in a clinic, but on the land, through basketry, seaweed harvesting, wildcrafting, and fermentation, which continue to inform her whole-body approach to health. Mary Sheila has decades of experience educating, inspiring, and empowering others, with summits, mentorships, and spicy one-liners on blood sugar balance. Whether it’s decoding CTX scores or whipping up a wild rice kale salad, she meets people where they are and lifts them higher—with habit stacks, heartfelt encouragement, and a solid dose of metabolic truth. She’s not just teaching health, she’s helping people reclaim their vitality through food and craft a lifestyle that tastes good, feels right, and works.
Marcella Friel
Food & Forgiveness Mentor Marcella Friel is a transformational mentor who helps health-conscious women love and forgive themselves, their food, and their figure. In 2018, Marcella founded the Women, Food & Forgiveness Academy, an online community of women who help each other heal the emotional roots of yo-yo dieting, binge eating, sugar addiction, and chronic body shaming. Marcella is also author of Tap, Taste, Heal: Use Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) to Eat Joyfully and Love Your Body. Known for her playful humor, uncanny insight, and deep kindness, Marcella draws on nearly four decades of Buddhist meditation practice plus 3 decades in 12-Step recovery to help women reclaim their soul from restrictive dieting and love the woman they see in the mirror, no matter what the number on the scale.