Lymphatic Massage Retreat
An immersive, hands-on training in breast & lymphatic health + embodied self care
OCTOBER 28TH - NOVEMBER 4TH 2025
Mazunte, Oaxaca
This intimate, in-person retreat is a return to the body’s inner ocean, the lymphatic system. A space to slow down, listen, and land fully in your body.
Through the wisdom of Ayurveda, somatic practice, and hands-on massage, we’ll explore how breast tissue reflects our emotional, hormonal, and energetic terrain and how tending to this terrain invites deeper health, vitality, and trust.
In a world that often disconnects us from our bodies and from each other, this retreat is both a training and a remembering. We come together not only to learn a new modality, but to be witnessed in our healing. To create new rhythms. To downshift our nervous systems in real time, and build tools we can carry with us long after we leave.
This is a retreat for those ready to root into their bodies and into community with other women. Because nervous system regulation isn’t something we do alone. It’s a relational act. One that we need now more than ever.
The physiology of the lymphatic system and its connection to immunity, hormones, and emotional well-being
How stress, trauma, and stagnation show up in the breast tissue and how to gently support release
Foundations of Ayurvedic elemental constitution and how it expresses through the lymphatic landscape
How to give and receive lymphatic breast massage and perform holistic breast checks for yourself & your women’s health practice
Herbal protocols, detoxification support, and nutrition for resilient tissue health
Somatic tools for regulation, attunement, and restoring internal flow
How to read the body through touch: tone, temperature, texture, and tenderness
You’ll leave with practical skills, a deepened relationship to your own body, and the capacity to offer this care to others— from a place of deep nervous system regulation and presence.
This retreat includes hands-on practice, herbal body care making, daily somatic movement, and plenty of spacious time for integration. Each woman will complete a full hands-on lymphatic breast massage and tissue assessment by the end of our time together.
What You Will Learn
Who This Retreat is For
This space is open to all women; practitioners and non-practitioners alike. Whether you’re a midwife, doula, herbalist, lactation consultant, nurse, massage therapist, or simply someone seeking reconnection with your body, your intuition, and your community, you are welcome here.
No prior experience is necessary. Just a willingness to show up as you are
Confidence and skill in lymphatic breast massage & tissue assessment for yourself or your Women’s Health / Birthwork Practice
An embodied understanding of Ayurvedic elemental constitution that is applicable to finding balance in your daily life
A deeper sense of nervous system safety, capacity, and resilience
Handcrafted herbal products to take home & inspiration to make more!
A personalized somatic & lymphatic care plan for your own healing
The experience of being held in a circle of women doing this work together
This is not a CEC-certified course - it’s something deeper.
A map back to yourself. A return to community.
A place to begin again.✺✺ Once you have completed this training, you will be able to participate as an apprentice and later a practitioner in The Breast Well — a collective of breast health practitioners who do breast massage and wellness checks at various women’s gatherings around the US, as well as be featured in our collective practitioner directory coming soon. ✺✺
You’ll Leave With
What to expect
This 7 Day Training Includes:
3 locally sourced, nutrient dense, protein forward meals daily + snacks, smoothies & desserts by amazing local chef Tayler Wilton
Lodging at the beautiful Mahala Rose Retreat Center in Mazunte, Oaxaca, Mexico
Lymphatic Breast Massage Training + Certificate with Anja Robinson, CNC
Foundations of Ayurveda & Elemental Theory
Ayurvedic Nutrition for Optimal Tissue & Lymphatic Health + Recipes
Herbalism + Medicine Making for Lymphatic Health & Self Care
Over 25 hours of class time: a blend of light lecture, group circle & reflection + hours of hands on massage practice
An 80 page training manual + pre-recorded lessons on anatomy & physiology, Ayurvedic foundations & nutrition for deeper integreation
Daily Yoga, Movement & Meditation classes focused around Somatic Emotion Experiencing with Ashton Tafoya, RYT600
Sound Baths & Ceremony to embody the process of coming home to our bodies
Embodiment Photoshoot + one FREE edited photo with Summer Hokulani
A private Oaxacan inspired dinner by chef Taylor at Jardin Cocomiel to celebrate Dia de los Muertos where we will construct a traditional Mexican Ancestor Altar together in celebration.
Traditional Temazcal (optional)
Lots of free time where you can enjoy the beach, take a dip in the natural swimming pool, explore Mazunte, read, write, nap or whatever feels most restful and rejuvenating for you! This retreat is all about Self Care!
As our gift to you, each woman will receive one beautifully edited self-portrait to take home.
We’ll spend the afternoon together on the beach, capturing both group moments and individual portraits. This is a space to let your natural radiance shine and to take home a lasting reflection of your beauty and presence after a week of deeply embodied self care with an option to purchase additional photo sessions with our talented photographer Summer!
There is no better time to be photographed than when you are actively reconnecting and returning home to your body. These photoshoot are a patient, embodied practice of connecting and grounding deeply into one’s self and powerfully transmitting what is true.Focus on branding photos, embodied portraits, or simply to mark this moment in your life. The choice is yours.
You’ll receive one hour of shooting time and 10 edited photos of your choosing with the option to purchase more. For our group only, Summer is offering these special 1-hour private photoshoot packages at a deeply discounted rate of $300 (a $900 value)
Dia de los Muertos in Oaxaca
During our week together, we’ll also gather to honor Día de los Muertos, one of Mexico’s most sacred and beautiful traditions.
This is a time when the veil between worlds is thin, and the spirits of our ancestors are close.
We have a special private, Oaxacan inspired dinner planned at Jardin Cocomiel with chef Tayler in a beautiful outdoor garden, where we’ll construct an ancestor altar together in traditional Mexican fashion. This ritual is a space to honor those who came before us, reflect on the lineage of wisdom and care that shaped us, and celebrate the continuity of life in community.
This is truly one of the most special holidays here in Mexico and there is such rich and beautiful culture surrounding it here in Oaxaca. We will spend the night in town immersed in the towns festivities — a once in a lifetime experience!
MEET YOUR FLOW FACILITATORS
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Anja Robinson
OUR BREAST HEALTH SPECIALIST
& LEAD EDUCATOR FOR FLOWHer introduction to this work began in 2017 when she studied Clinical Ayurveda & Lymphatic Breast Massage with DeAnna Batdorff at the Dhyana Center. Since then she has been specializing in lymphatic health supporting holistic breast checks, lymphatic breast massage and breast health workshops at the Spirit Weavers Gathering & Northern California Women’s Herbal Symposium with the Aerola Collective,supporting hundreds of women in their breast care. She incorporates this type of hands on care in her birth work, hormone balancing mentorships & gives lymphatic massage in her community on the coast of Oaxaca.
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Ashton Tafoya
OUR YOGA, MOVEMENT & SOMATICS FACILITATOR
Ashton has been teaching yoga and facilitating mind-body experiences since 2012. She has over 600 hours of training internationally in several different styles of practice, from yin yoga, vinyasa, yoga nidra, to meditation. Most recently, her studies have taken her to Guatemala to study sound ceremony. With the incorporation of sound vibration, intentional movement through somatics and yoga her classes are designed to support the body inside and out. Ashton’s mission is to create sacred spaces for students to discover their infinite potential for healing.
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Taylor Wilton
OUR KITCHEN QUEEN & CHEF
Inspired by earth's delights, Taylor’s intention with food is to orchestrate the weaving of culinary design and cellular nourishment. She is inspired by empowering people through nourishing their inner and outer world.
The menus she designs are enriched with a mix of nutritional biohacking, flavor fusion, textural delicacy, and are collaborative to harmonize with the flow of the retreat. For Taylor, food is a pillar of the adventure and by using a combination of fresh locally sourced produce and intentional technique she creates a culinary experience that ignites the journey of inner world alchemy, to outer world ecstasy.
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Summer Hokulani
OUR RETREAT PHOTOGRAPHER
Summer is a medicine woman with a camera. Her eye for evocative lighting and creative composition lends her photographs a sense of nostalgia and magic, but her real gift is in the way she holds her muses through the experience of revealing their most embodied, powerful, tender, open selves to her lens.
For the past eight years, Summer has been holding experiences centered around her photography as a healing modality, and as such, one of her favorite ways to photograph people is when they are deep inside a container of embodiment, connection, opening, healing and remembrance.
Daily Rhythm
Our days will be filled with embodied movement, shared meals, learning & exploring our bodies, classes on lymphatic + hormonal health, lymphatic massage, watching sunsets, beach walks and simply being together and creating a container for healing as a circle of women.
Some of the topics we will explore throughout the week:
Setting the stage: The Ethics of Touch
Ayurvedic Foundations// Elemental Theory
Why our breast health is FOUNDATIONAL to our health as women
Pathways of detoxification + hormonal balance
Breasts as an intuitive center
How to come home to our bodies & support our lymphatic + emotional flow
How somatic movement facilitates emotional release + lymph flow
Herbal body care making for vibrant lymphatic health
How to give a holistic breast exam + lymphatic breast massage
Reading our terrain: how to decipher what our body is telling us through our tissues
Cysts, lumps + cancer and how to know the difference + navigating testing
Nutrition for tissue health & lymphatic vitality
plus so much more!!!
This work matters because the way we care for ourselves & the women in our lives shapes the health of the next generation.
Now, more than ever, this work feels essential. In a world that pulls us into chaos and distraction, tending to our body sovereignty and practicing preventative care becomes an act of resilience. Through nervous system regulation, we begin to expand our inner capacity so we can show up with presence, creativity, and vitality in our daily lives. Flow is an invitation to come home to your body, to feel both embodied and educated so that you not only deepen trust within yourself, but also model this wisdom for the next generation of women rising up.
