At the Threshold of Renewal
“Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.” — Gertrude Stein
The yoga palapa at Equilibrium
February 2nd, 2026
📍Cabo Corrientes, Jalisco, México 🇲🇽
¡Saludos desde el desierto!
I recently returned from a site visit to Equilibrium Healing Spa & Resort. Spending time there reminded me why I chose this land in Mexico for the upcoming RENEW Janzu Retreat—some places make their purpose clear the moment you arrive.
What makes Equilibrium unique is the way this land has been stewarded. For more than twenty years, the owners have tended this property with intention, shaping it into what I can only describe as a contemplative's paradise.
The accommodations are beautiful and the spaces thoughtfully designed—eco-luxury rooms that keep you in relationship with the land rather than insulated from it. The casitas are filled with light, bright skylights, and large screened windows, some even with outdoor showers that keep you connected to the elements.
The property itself invites solitude without isolation. Candlelit walking paths wind through the jungle, ideal for quiet reflection, prayer, and the slow, attentive movement that supports practices like altar making. Though some rooms are shared (with separate beds), the casitas are intentionally spaced to preserve privacy. Benches and tucked-away corners throughout the grounds offer natural pauses—places to sit, breathe, and listen.
The rebirthing waters of their Janzu infinity pool
This is the kind of environment the Desert Mothers would have understood immediately.
They sought landscapes that supported withdrawal without escape—places where simplicity, beauty, and rhythm could form the soul. Wilderness was not something to conquer, but something to cooperate with. These wise women intentionally chose the wilderness—not as punishment, but as a teacher. They withdrew from the noise of empire and expectation to be shaped by silence, solitude, and land.
The desert, like the jungle, stripped away what was false and revealed what was essential. Transformation happened not because it was comfortable, but because it was true. The jungle of Equilibrium holds that same Wisdom. It does not demand anything from you. It simply creates the conditions for attention, prayer, and renewal to unfold.
But the land is only part of the container. What truly renews us is the WE we are weaving.
Renewal doesn't happen only in solitude. It happens when women gather with shared intention—when Wisdom is held in common, reflected back to us through presence, story, and embodied witness. This retreat is not about consuming an experience. It's about entering a shared rhythm of listening, learning, and remembering together.
The Desert Mothers understood this, too. Though they withdrew into the wilderness, they did not walk alone. Wisdom was passed through relationship—through shared practices, mirrored lives, and communal discernment. Formation happened in proximity, not performance.
This is the heart of RENEW.
The space, the land, the water—all of it serves the deeper work of community. They are fuel, not the source. Renewal comes from drawing from our shared well of Wisdom—together slowing down, together listening, together allowing our True Selves to rise.
Janzu, prayer, reflection, and rest become communal practices—not something we do to ourselves, but something we enter with one another. In this way, healing is not solitary; it is witnessed. Held. Integrated within the WE.
RENEW is an invitation to draw from a shared well of wisdom—to be both held and holding, listening and heard, receiving and offering. Not to escape your life, but to return to it more rooted, more embodied, and more awake.
RENEW is shaped by that same wisdom. And while the land matters, it's only part of the container—the deeper work is what we become together. When women heal, the world heals. And our world is hurting. This is an invitation into the kind of healing that doesn't stop with one person's nervous system, or one week in the jungle—it ripples outward into families, friendships, communities, and generations.
Will you join me?
With Love, unconditionally—
Jennifer
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