Loto Wellness Collective, Salida, CO (2026)

11/27/2025

“Let the person who cannot be alone beware of community.
Let the person who is not in community beware of being alone.”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together

We were never meant to heal in isolation — but neither were we meant to lose ourselves in the crowd.

The spiritual life asks both:
solitude and solidarity.
Stillness and sisterhood.
A rhythm of being alone together — what Bonhoeffer called a community of solitudes.

At RENEW Retreat 2026, we’re curating that very rhythm.
Six sacred days of rest and moments of solitude,
woven with shared meals, laughter, ceremony, and tears.

Each woman tending her own fire, yet all of us glowing together — a tapestry of light and witness.

Because true community isn’t built on performance; it’s born from Presence. And when we gather from a place of wholeness rather than hunger, we don’t consume each other — we commune.

Join Ileana and Jennifer LIVE tomorrow as they talk about the beauty of living in community, the power of being witnesses in each other’s healing, and the sacred art of weaving a "WE".

→ Early Bird applications for RENEW Retreat 2026 are open now. https://www.lotowellness.co/renew-retreat-2026

11/27/2025

In a world addicted to noise,
silence can feel unfamiliar—
even frightening.

But it’s in the stillness where the deepest work begins.
Where we remember that presence doesn’t need performance,
and prayer doesn’t always need words.

At RENEW Retreat 2026, we’ve built intentional spaces of silence and solitude into our six-day rhythm—
unstructured moments to wander, journal, rest, or simply breathe.
Because tra
nsformation doesn’t happen when we’re busy trying to force it.
It happens in the pauses.

Within these pauses, guests are invited into optional contemplative prayer activations (like Visio Divina)—simple, embodied practices to help you meet yourself and your Creator in the quiet.

Silence is not absence.
It’s invitation.
And when we allow ourselves to be still long enough, we discover that the Presence we’ve been searching for
has been here all along.

Join us in Puerto Vallarta this April for RENEW Retreat 2026— Six sacred days of rest, reflection, and renewal for the soul.

→ Early Bird applications are open now. https://www.lotowellness.co/renew-retreat-2026

$Beauty heals.Not because it fixes what’s broken, but because it reminds us that wholeness is still possible.In a fractur...$

11/26/2025

Beauty heals.

Not because it fixes what’s broken, but because it reminds us that wholeness is still possible.

In a fractured world, beauty is an act of defiance —
a sacred medicine that reawakens wonder, softens cynicism,
and teaches us how to belong again.

This is the heartbeat of Loto Wellness Collective
and the rhythm of RENEW Retreat 2026 — Six sacred days of remembering that restoration begins. when we let ourselves be moved by what is beautiful.

Because beauty isn’t shallow, it’s sacramental. Beauty heals what hustle has hardened.

Come see for yourself this April in Mexico.

Early Bird applications and Lotus Fund Scholarships for RENEW Retreat 2026 are open.

https://www.lotowellness.co/renew-retreat-2026

11/21/2025

“We have fallen out of belonging.
Consequently, when we stand before crucial thresholds in our lives, we have no rituals to protect, encourage, and guide us
as we cross over into the unknown.”
— John O’Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us

Somewhere along the way, we lost the art of crossing thresholds with intention.

We rush through endings. We numb the in-between.
We forget that rest, ritual, and reverence are how the soul recalibrates for what’s next.

RENEW Retreat 2026 was born to reclaim that rhythm —
to restore belonging where disconnection has taken root.

This six-day journey through Puerto Vallarta’s jungle coast invites you to slow down long enough to listen, to remember, to prepare the inner temple of your being.

You’ll arrive at the Vallarta Botanical Gardens, walk in silence among wild orchids, and begin to downshift from hurry into holiness. Through ritual, ceremony, and sacred stillness,
you’ll be guided across your own threshold — from exhaustion into embodiment, from fragmentation into wholeness.

On our next Instagram Live, Ileana and I will share what to expect at RENEW — how each day is crafted to hold you through that crossing. From Janzu water ceremonies to Morning Altars to silence and prayer, we’ve designed every element as a living ritual of belonging.

LIVE Details:
🗓️ Friday, November 21st, 2026, 5pm MST
🎥 Hosted by and

This isn’t just a retreat.
It’s a threshold moment.
And we can’t wait to welcome you home.

→ Early Bird applications are open now. https://www.lotowellness.co/renew-retreat-2026

11/19/2025

Winter Solstice Ceremony 2025

A Sacred Night of Stillness and Sound
December 21 | 7–9PM | Salida, CO
🎟 $35 | includes $5 donation to The Lotus Fund

As the longest night of the year descends, we gather by candlelight to honor winter’s quiet wisdom — the holy invitation to turn inward and rest.

Join Jennifer Axcell and Alice Smyth for an intimate evening of sacred sound and embodied prayer.

Let the resonance of Himalayan bowls and gongs wash over you as you move through gentle stretching, breath, and guided meditation designed to still the mind, soften the body, and open the heart to Presence.

Every detail — the glow of candles, the altar, the elegance of sacred space — reminds us that beauty heals, even in winter.

🕯 Wear warm, comfortable clothing
🧘‍♀️ Bring a yoga mat and/or blanket
📍 Address shared upon registration (near the Salida Hot Springs Pool)

Space is limited to preserve the intimacy of the circle.
✨ Reserve your place in the stillness: https://www.facebook.com/events/1166033361739323

11/17/2025

Retreat isn’t escape.
It’s remembrance — of how to be held, how to let go, how to trust again.

In Janzu, the water teaches the body what words can’t.
It shows us that safety isn’t found in control — it’s found in trust & surrender.
Each gentle movement, each exhale, becomes a prayer of release.

This is how we return to Presence.
This is what renewal feels like.

→ Join us in Puerto Vallarta this April for RENEW Retreat 2026, where we honor the water as your teacher.

Find out more at
https://www.lotowellness.co/renew-retreat-2026

11/16/2025

There’s a truth I’ve learned again and again:
Rest should never be a privilege.

And yet, for far too many women — especially those carrying the weight of systemic inequity and generational exhaustion — access to deep rest, healing, and spiritual renewal remains out of reach.

That’s why I created The Lotus Fund.
A scholarship initiative to uplift and empower BIPOC and marginalized women to experience the healing power of retreat through RENEW 2026 and beyond.

The lotus is our symbol — rooted in mud, rising toward the light.
It reminds us that beauty and resilience are born from the same soil.

Through this fund, we’re not just providing financial support —
we’re practicing creation care, community care, and collective healing. Because when one woman is renewed, her whole community rises with her.

Between now and April 2026, I’m personally giving my first fruits — 10% of my household income — to this fund.

It’s my way of sowing into the soil of equity, so that all women — regardless of circumstance — can rest, heal, and remember they belong.

🪷 Join me.

My goal is to raise $1K from Instagram and another $5K through the Loto website (lower fees). Your contribution, no matter the size, becomes part of this sacred circle of restoration. Together, we can make beauty a form of justice.

→ Give or learn more: https://www.lotowellness.co/loto-gives/lotus-fund

With Love, unconditionally—

Founder of Loto Wellness

11/13/2025

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
— Mary Oliver

Every morning, creation answers that question without hesitation.
The sun rises. The tide returns. The flowers open — even after the storm.

At RENEW Retreat 2026, we join in that conversation.
Through the practice of Morning Altars, we gather leaves, petals, stones, and seeds — sacred fragments of the landscape — and arrange them into living prayers.
Each altar becomes a mirror for the inner landscape: a reflection of what’s blooming, what’s shedding, and what’s asking to be released.

This is more than art.
It’s communion.
A collaboration with the Creator and the creation.

Because when our hands meet the earth, our hearts remember what the mind forgets —
that beauty heals,
that we belong,
and that this one wild and precious life was never meant to be hurried through,
but to be lived as an offering.

🌿 Join us in the jungles of Puerto Vallarta this April for RENEW Retreat 2026 —
six sacred days of stillness, creativity, and communion with the Divine through nature.

→ Early Bird applications are open now:
https://www.lotowellness.co/renew-retreat-2026

10/29/2025

Janzu water healing invites us back into the body’s knowing—
where healing happens in silence,
and the Spirit meets us in stillness.

Join us this Wednesday at 3pm MDT for our first Instagram Live with Ileana Cortez and Jennifer Axcell, Co-Hosts of RENEW Retreat 2026. We will share our hearts and the story behind Janzu that brought us together.

→ Early Bird pricing and guest applications for RENEW Retrat 2026 are now open.
https://bit.ly/4niES5C

10/27/2025

Each day at RENEW unfolds like a prayer:
🌿 Earth — Morning Altars and barefoot grounding
💧 Water — Janzu immersion in surrender
🔥 Fire — Evening ceremonies under the stars
🌬️ Breath — Meditation amidst the jungle

Life flourishes through rhythm, not rush.

→ Early Bird pricing and guest application now open.
https://bit.ly/4niES5C

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