Awaken As Love Stage One - Chelem, Mexico
Transformational Retreat for WOMEN ONLY
October 20-26, 2025
The Awaken as Love Initiation is a journey open to everyone – it begins with a choice to go on an adventure that will expand you beyond the boundaries of your current existence. What will it bring to you? More awareness, more love, more inclusion, more juice to your life and more depth if you allow it.
This first stage is called “Initiation” because if you choose this then all your experiences up til now have led you to this point and you are obviously ready to step into a wider reality – in doing so you enter fresh and new, open to discovering more.
As you step into this journey you will encounter maps that help you understand the larger world and your place in it (this is beyond your imagination), tools which help you to play more fully in this world, embodied experiences which help you to anchor a new reality and finally ongoing resources which help to integrate and incorporate this into your life.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Women Only Version: Note, this version of the training is for Women only - it runs the normal Stage 1 curriculum but is suitable for those who would prefer to do it with other women
Dates: The training runs from October 20-26, 2025.
Venue: Private Villa in Chelem, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Price per person, shared occupancy, 2 person room:
Shared Queen Room with a shared bath, on-site: $1700 Sale: $1,400 per person sharing Queen Bed
Private Queen Room with a shared bath, on-site: $3100 Sale: $2,800
Shared Room (two double beds) and a bath, off-site casita:
$1950 Sale: $1,650 per person
All options include 3 meals a day and snacks.
YOUR GUIDES:
CATHLEENE CIENFUEGOS - Lead Instructor
Awaken As Love Lead Facilitator, Healing Arts Practitioner & Trainer. She brings deep spiritual lineages, as well as contemporary philosophies, cutting edge practices and much humor, compassion and empathy. She creatively weaves ancient and contemporary wisdom streams to create Integral sessions and retreats that inspire and invite Conscious Evolution.
Cathleene spends her time traveling, learning and teaching Awaken As Love, Tantric Healing Arts Practitioner Trainings and her business program Standing in the Fire. She has been a featured teacher and author on Playboy.com and mytinysecrets.com for her groundbreaking work in pleasure and healing with full body orgasm.
Find her at www.bliss-life.com and receive your free copy of The Erotic Anatomy Guidebook for Women.
CAROL PAYSINGER - Instructor
Carol recently embraced the world of Tantra, building on years of experience in somatic sex education, yoga instruction, and leading women’s groups. Passionate about integrating body, mind, and spirit, she runs a thriving private practice as an intuitive bodyworker specializing in myofascial release and pelvic floor work.
Carol is captivated by the intersection of healing and pleasure, and after diving into the Awaken as Love training, she hasn’t looked back. Now an advanced apprentice, she’s grateful to be part of the Awaken as Love vision, feeling truly inspired by its diverse, holistic content and the deep connections it fosters. She brings wisdom, intuition, empathy, and a sense of humor to every setting. Carol is also a proud mother of three adult children, all of whom she would choose to call friends—a cherished accomplishment as a mother
LOURDES STARSHOWER - Instructor
Lourdes Starshower, MA, CCHT, ACTE is an Advanced Certified Tantra Educator, Sacred Sexuality Coach, Relationship Coach, Shamanic Breathwork Practitioner, Clairvoyant Energy Healer, Clinical Hypnotherapist and EMDR Therapist. Lourdes is the Founder / Director of the Ecstatic Tantra Practitioner Certification Program, catalyzing the success of Tantra practitioners around the globe. She’s the author of an online video program titled “Tantra Practices for Divine Ecstasy.” She holds a BA in Psychology and an MA in Wellness.
Lourdes awakens pleasure, and embodiment in women. She supports the healing of erectile and intimacy issues in men. And she counsels, reconnects and ignites emotional intimacy and sexual alchemy in couples. She has helped hundreds of people from all over the world to heal their inner wounding, enhance their intimacy, ignite their passion and expand their joy. www.tantrahealerflorida.com
VENUE:
The Venue – Private Villa
Join us this October in the small fishing village of Chelem, a barrier island nestled by the Gulf of Mexico on the Yucatan Peninsula. Our retreat venue is a beautiful, ashram-like home steps from the Gulf; featuring rooftop terraces, a private swimming pool, an outdoor shower, and ocean breezes.
We are also offering quaint cabana accommodations nearby . Here in Chelem you’ll find a peaceful space to connect, reflect, and grow, surrounded by the natural beauty of this tranquil paradise.