iMatter Retreat
REST. REVIVE. RENEW.
Playa del Carmen, Mexico
October 14-18, 2026
An investment in your well-being begins with a single step!
To secure your place, please complete your registration to submit your room request.
Your accommodations will be confirmed once your deposit or payment in full is received.
Explore The Journey
This Is Your Invitation To Breathe......
You have held so much for so long.
This retreat is your invitation to put it down.
If you are craving rest that reaches deeper than sleep, revival that awakens your soul, renewal that reaches beyond a weekend, and a space where your body can exhale without apology, you are in the right place. This experience was created to support your return to clarity, calm, and inner alignment.
Arrive In Your Body
Morning
Each morning begins with gentle yoga, guided meditation, energy healing, and breathwork designed to help you arrive exactly as you are. These practices are not about performance; they are about presence, nervous system support, and opening space for what is ready to unfold.
Deepen The Work
Late Morning
After breakfast, the group gathers for transformational sessions and guided experiences that help release old patterns and invite in new perspectives and supporting practices you can incorporate into your every day life. These are not lectures, they are embodied moments of reflection, discovery, and awakening.
Afternoon
Sacred Spaciousness
Your afternoons are intentionally open for rest, integration, and choice. You may enjoy the spa, float in the ocean, swim in private cenotes on the resort, take a water coloring class, journal on your terrace, or simply do nothing at all.
This is where restoration becomes real. The spaciousness is part of the journey to renewal.
Evening
Integrate and Connect
After dinner on your own at one of the four resort restaurants, evenings bring optional community time for sunset reflection and play -- through music, dance and sacred circles for those who want to continue the conversation.
These moments are designed for fun and honest connection, shared insight, and the quiet magic that happens when women are truly seen and heard.
What You Will Experience
This retreat weaves together:
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Gentle yoga and breathwork.
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Guided meditation, belly dancing, and more.
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Sound healing and family constellation experiences.
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Transformational sessions and ceremonies.
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Healing circles, integration time, and community connection.
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Luxury accommodations, nourishing meals, and restorative resort experiences.
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And most of all...FUN as we REST, REVIVE and RENEW together!
Presented by iMatter.org
ENLIGHTEN.
ENHEARTEN.
ENABLE.
iMatter.org is a social enterprise founded in 2016 to create meaningful experiences that enlighten, enhearten, and enable women and girls to grow and bloom into their most vibrant and healthy selves. iMatter co-creates experiences working through strategic partnerships with corporations, organizations, schools, and churches that share our vision for supporting women and girls as we broaden our reach and impact by working together.
Meet Your Guides
PURPOSE. PASSION. SERVICE.
These heart-centered facilitators bring warmth, wisdom, and grounded presence to every part of your retreat journey. Each one is here in service, to guide, support, and inspire you as you move through rest, renewal, and deeper self connection.
Founder / Conscious Leader
Cheryl Wade
Cheryl is a passionate and spirit-led leader born to plant and nurture seeds that enlighten, enhearten, and enable. A dedicated champion for women and girls and an advocate for whole-person health, in 2016 she founded iMatter.org, a social enterprise that creates meaningful experiences to inspire growth, connection and possibility to empower women and girls to step into their fullest potential and live vibrant, healthy lives.
Belonging Strategist
Crystle Johnson
Crystle is the creator of underbelonging™, the experience of being included in a space but not fully seen, supported, or safe to fully exist. After more than a decade as a DEI leader at Nike, Electronic Arts, and SiriusXM, she left corporate, sold everything, and moved to Merida, Mexico to build Kinory
Medicine Woman
Mayasa Telfair
Mayasa is a medicine woman, certified birthworker and midwife, and founder of It’s Time For Healing Holistic Sanctuary, a sacred space devoted to women’s holistic health, womb centered healing, and ancestral restoration.Her work is guided by dreams, visions, and deep intuitive knowing. She formulates her own plant based medicines and works in alignment with the land, honoring ancestral traditions of cultivation, healing, and restoration.
Curator of Afrikan Culture
Its Time For Healing Holistic Sanctuary
Website: www.itstimeforhealing.com
Instagram: @MayasaWombtherapist
Facebook: Mayasa Telfair
Website:https://www.doterra.com/US/en/site/itstimeforhealing
Goddess of Awakening
Wendi Cherry
Wendi is a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, producer, and host of The Sanctuary Radio Show on DCRadio.gov. Her voice and insight have been featured across 89.3 WPFW, 93.9 WKYS, and 96.3 WHUR, and her writing appears in the AARP Sisters Newsletter and Medium. Her interactive memoir, From Jersey to Me: The Awakening & Healing of a Goddess has inspired countless people from all walks of life.
Sound Healer
Marsha Evans
Marsha is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Sound Healer, Reiki Practitioner, and founder of the FELT Experience — a healing methodology rooted in the belief that wellness is a lifelong journey back to wholeness. With over 17 years of experience serving women, children, and families, Marsha bridges the clinical and the sacred through somatic healing, sound, and community.
Instagram: @marshalistens
Why This Experience Is Different:
We do not believe transformation happens only in workshops. It also happens in the in-between moments: over breakfast with a new friend, in quiet journaling on a private terrace, or while floating in the ocean and remembering you are allowed to rest.
That is why this retreat is intentionally designed as a complete journey, not a packed schedule.
We create the container for you to feel seen, valued and held.
You step into the unfolding.
What's Included:
When we say an all-inclusive retreat experience, we mean it:
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4 nights in your luxury suite: ocean views, private terraces, bathrooms that feel like spas
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All gourmet meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, 24/7 room service (and all absolutely delicious)
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Unlimited everything: mocktails, cocktails, fresh juices, specialty coffees, smoothies
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Beach ritual experience, a ceremonial opening to release what no longer serves so you are open to enjoy the fullness of your experience
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A special edition Kinory welcome dinner experience with Crystle Johnson
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Belly dance, movement, and womb healing with Mayasa Telfair
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Engaging LIVE taping of the "We Ain't Dying for This" Podcast with Crystle Johnson and Cheryl Wade
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A powerful sound healing, gentle yoga and family constellation experience with Marsha Evans
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Transformational workshops: not generic content, but practices you'll use for years
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Healing circles & ceremonies, the kind of sharing that changes you
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Access to 30+ resort activities: yoga, sound healing, fitness classes, meditation, breathwork, water coloring, etc.
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Pool & beachside service: drinks and snacks delivered while you lounge
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Spa discount (20% off), because you deserve that massage
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Fitness center, bikes, paddleboards if movement calls you
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Private cenotes on property for mystical swimming in sacred waters
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WiFi throughout: stay connected if you must (but we hope you won't)
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Private iMatter group pre-retreat welcome call and post retreat check-in and integration call via Zoom
What's Not Included:
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Flights to Cancun, Mexico
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Ground transportation - A link to the resort's preferred vendor is available in the FAQs
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Spa services - A 20% discount is available to retreat attendees when you book prior to arrival
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1:1 coaching and healing sessions
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Optional gratuities for resort staff (please note, gratuities are covered for group meals)
Optional Add-On Experiences:
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Yoni Steam with Mayasa ($55 - private 1:1 session)
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Private Group Temazcal Ceremony (sweat lodge $295/per person)
Accomodations
Immerse yourself in mindful luxury. All suites are designed to make you relax and feel connected to the natural elements within and around Palmaïa.
** ONLY THREE ROOMS REMAINING - BOOK TODAY!!!
**As of July 1, first payment is due at time of registration to secure your selected room category and confirm registration.
Single Occupancy
King Bed Suite w/Bath Tub & Swim Out
$3800
Single Occupancy
King Bed Suite Ocean View
$3900
Single Occupancy
King Bed Suite Ocean View w/Bath Tub
$4000
Frequently asked questions
FAQ's
