Release & Rise · Luxury transformational retreats
Your Next Chapter Starts With You
Step out of the life you built for everyone else, and find out what you want next.
When
The next retreat
Ask about a date and we will tell you honestly how much room is left in it.
Accepting inquiries
30 September – 4 October 2026
The Next Chapter, Tecate, Baja California, Mexico
You have been the steady one for a long time
You raised the children, or you built the career, or you did both at the same time and told nobody how tired you were. You were the one people called. You handled the diagnosis, the move, the funeral, the holidays, the payroll, the difficult phone call nobody else wanted to make.
You were good at it. Genuinely good at it. And somewhere in the middle of being good at it, the question of what you actually wanted stopped coming up.
Nothing is wrong. That is the part most people get backwards. You are not in crisis and you are not looking to be rescued. You have simply arrived at a stretch of road where the next twenty or thirty years are still unwritten, and you would like some say in how they go.
A question that size deserves more than a stolen weekend. It deserves room.
The retreat
Time away. One question. Room to answer it.
Release & Rise is built around private one-on-one work, small group practice, and real rest, the kind that takes more than a long weekend to arrive.
The days have a shape, but not a schedule you have to survive. Mornings open with group meditation and a teaching. Afternoons and evenings hold private one-on-one sessions with practitioners, booked to you alone. Meals are shared and they run long.
And there is time in the middle of every day that belongs to nobody but you. That is not filler. Integration is where the work actually sets.
More than a long weekend
Long enough for your nervous system to stop bracing. The days follow a consistent, restorative rhythm rather than a packed itinerary.
Private one-on-one sessions
Individual sessions with different practitioners, booked to you personally. Alongside the shared experience, this is where you are seen, heard and supported one to one.
A small group
Small enough that nobody disappears into the back of the room, and nobody has to perform.
You set the pace
The structure is deliberately predictable so you can soften into it and take part at your own speed.
The place
What it actually looks like
From Ixtapan de la Sal. Move through them at your own pace. Nothing here advances on its own.
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Guest rooms with terracotta balconies looking over the gardens and winding paths
The four truths
You are not a set of separate problems to be handled in separate appointments. The work moves through all four. They build on one another, and none of them quite lands without the others.
Nourish
What you have been last in line for. Real food, real sleep, and the unfamiliar experience of being looked after rather than doing the looking after.
Release
What you have been carrying without meaning to, and no longer have to. Some of it you will put into words. Some of it simply gets lighter.
Move
Your body, at whatever pace it is willing to give that day. Not a fitness programme. Movement as a way back into a body you may have been living slightly above.
Create
The part only you can do. What the next stretch is for, and what you would like to build in it, decided on purpose, rather than by default.
Past retreats
People who have already been
Real guests, in their own words. Nothing on this page is written by us.
A guest on her time at Release & Rise
In her own words, filmed during the week at Ixtapan de la Sal.
“I am feeling lighter energetically, like a weight has been lifted off of me. I feel a sense of peace more emotionally and more confident. I love it! I can’t wait to see what I feel like after all the sessions.”
W.S.
On working with Aaron Grosskopf
“Kim has been such a positive influence on me over the past 12 years. Her expertise in health coaching helped guide me through identifying areas of my life that I felt I couldn’t progress through. I keep coming back to Kim because she has proven to be such a valued mentor in my life.”
Diane, RN
On working with Kim Oliva
“Overall, I feel much safer! I have slept through the night without disruption almost every night this week. I even forgot to lock the door the night of our session! Major progress!”
J.S.
On working with Aaron Grosskopf
Who you will be working with
Meet the practitioners
A board-certified health coach, an energy practitioner, a physical therapist, and a holistic psychotherapist, all of them there for the whole week, not flown in for a session and gone.
Kim Oliva
NBC-HWC, MNT, E-RYT 200 · Transformational coach and board-certified health coach
Over twenty years in wellness, blending evidence-based coaching with breathwork and movement.
Aaron Grosskopf
IIN, QEC · Quantum Energy Practitioner and Ahead Map coach
Chef, health coach, Ahead Map coach, and Quantum Energy Practitioner.
Juana Crespo
Vice President of Creativity & Experiences · Holistic psychotherapist and certified thanatologist
A holistic psychotherapist designing experiences that help people create lasting change.
Claudia L. Sanchez
P.T. · Physical therapy, habilitation and rehabilitation
A physical therapist who started in massage and kept asking why the tension came back.
Or start with why the retreat exists.
Your next chapter starts with you
You have spent years showing up for the people and responsibilities that matter to you. Now create the space to show up for yourself.
Or write to us directly at releasenriseretreats@gmail.com