WEaving Our WE
“When you can honor and receive your own moment of sadness or fullness as a gracious participation in the eternal sadness or fullness of God, you are beginning to recognize yourself as a participating member of this one universal Body. You are moving from I to We.”—Richard Rohr
Zoom meeting from the plunge pool
April 27th, 2026
📍Bucerias, Nayarit, Mexico 🇲🇽
¡Saludos desde el desierto!
I can't believe that this is my final Monday letter from Mexico for the winter 2026 season. This week, I head back to Colorado, and my mind is already moving toward packing lists, summer planning, and the many collaborative gatherings waiting to be brought to life in Salida. Whew. It’s a lot.
But before I rush too quickly into what comes next, I want to pause long enough to look back. These past four months held far more life than I expected.
Over the past four months, I have:
Attended 3 retreats hosted by locals
Chartered 3 boat trips
Rode 1 horse
Swam in 3 rivers
Saw dozens of whales
Took 2 art classes
Visited 2 new areas of Mexico
Made weekly long-distance bus trips between Jalisco and Nayarit
Helped release 13 baby turtles
Spent countless hours taking meetings from the pool
Modeled for 1 photoshoot
Took 1 cooking class and 1 food tour
Created 2 WEavings and 6 Morning Altars
Used ketchup to get chlorine out of my hair 3 times
Co-hosted 1 luxury retreat and 3 collaborative beach events with locals
And made over a dozen new friendships that don’t end here
The Year of the Snake came to a close, and Fire Horse arrived with a noticeably different energy—faster, more relational, more alive.
In an effort for this solo traveler to meet more people, I started signing up for local gatherings and Conscious Community groups I found on Facebook. Thankfully, so many people in the Vallarta area speak enough Spanglish that I've been able to build meaningful relationships with minimal language barriers.
And somewhere along the way, something started happening. I would meet one person, and there would be an immediate sense of recognition. Not familiarity in the traditional sense, but resonance. The kind of connection where conversation moves quickly past surface-level introductions and lands somewhere more honest. The best way to describe the sensation is energetic alignment.
Through that person, I would meet another. Then another. And inevitably, the circles would overlap. A sound healer knows a local herbalist. A retreat host knows a cacao facilitator. A woman from Bucerías somehow knows someone I met in San Pancho.
The threads begin crossing one another. And before long, you realize you are no longer collecting relationships—you are participating in something larger.
Our RENEW Janzu Retreat WEaving
This relational connection-making looks a lot like weaving. Individual threads crossing, overlapping, strengthening one another, becoming something that could never exist through a single strand alone. Multiple connections overlapping and inter-connecting to create a web-like tapestry of Life. A WEaving.
I’ve often joked that much of my personal and professional success comes from my ability to talk to a wall. I’m a natural connector. But the older I get, the more I realize networking is not actually what I’m interested in. Networking is transactional. Weaving is relational. Networking asks, What can this connection do for me? Weaving asks, What are we creating together?
And this is where something deeper has started to clarify for me. My vision for Loto Wellness Collective has never been limited to retreats. Yes, retreats matter. Yes, the House of Loto and the dream of a modern-day beguinage matter.
But what I am truly building is a relational ecosystem. A shared field. A WE.
A space where women aren’t just attending something. They’re witnessing one another. Growing alongside one another. “Returning” alongside one another. A place where relationships extend beyond a single weekend. Where collaborations happen naturally. Where support is mutual. Where healing doesn’t happen in isolation.
This is part of what I witnessed so clearly during the RENEW Retreat at Equilibrium earlier this month. Women arriving as individuals and leaving as interconnected threads in something larger than themselves. A recognition that healing deepens when it is witnessed. RENEW was never designed to be simply a retreat. It was designed as a container for remembering who we are—that we are One.
Richard Rohr writes in his book, The Universal Christ:
“When you can honor and receive your own moment of sadness or fullness as a gracious participation in the eternal sadness or fullness of God, you are beginning to recognize yourself as a participating member of this one universal Body. You are moving from I to We.”
That line has stayed with me. Because this is exactly what I feel unfolding. The movement from I to We. From independence toward interdependence. From personal healing toward collective healing.
The video shared above was taken at the Pacific Ocean, releasing the WEaving we created together during the retreat. An offering of gratitude. A way of returning beauty back to the place that held us. Not as something ending, but as something blessed. A recognition that what we made together does not disappear simply because the retreat has ended. It continues to move outward.
And perhaps that is the deeper invitation of The Collective. Not simply to gather. But to weave our WE. To become a part of something living. To recognize that our healing is not separate from one another. To create a relational tapestry strong enough to hold us through every season.
Next week, I want to share more about where this vision is leading. About the Beguines. About the House of Loto and the exciting shifts coming to our summer programming. And about why I believe women gathering in intentional, contemplative community may be one of the most radical acts of healing available to us right now.
Stay tuned for photos from the RENEW Retreat. Until then, please pray for safe travels and that I don’t catch any sickness on my return flight.
With Love, unconditionally—
Jennifer
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