Join 500hr RYT Shelby Hicks for a luxurious escape at the 5-star Mizata Wellness Resort, where the jungle meets the ocean on El Salvador’s stunning coastline. Stay in beachfront treehouses, practice yoga with ocean views, and relax in a world-class anti-aging spa featuring sauna, cold plunge, massages, hyperbaric oxygen and stem cell therapy.
Earn your Function Flow Certification: A 20-Hour Mobility Training that is Yoga Alliance Accredited – YACEP Continuing Education. This certification is revolutionary approach that integrates the science of functional mobility with the art of vinyasa. You’ll learn how to unlock greater range of motion at every major joint, build intelligent stability, and master fascial flossing techniques to hydrate and heal connective tissue—then learn how to weave these tools into dynamic, creative flows.
Whether you're looking to level up your teaching or radically transform your own movement practice, this experience is the edge where tradition meets evolution.
Mitzata is only 1 hr 30 minutes from the San Salvador airport and a private airport transfer will be provided!
🌞 Retreat Only
Start your day with energizing vinyasa yoga, then spend the afternoon surfing, relaxing, or exploring. Ideal for those seeking restoration, nature, and movement.
🧠 Retreat + 20HR Functional Mobility Training (YACEP)
Join daily afternoon workshops focused on joint mobility, stability, and intelligent movement. You’ll leave with a Yoga Alliance-accredited 20-hour certificate and new tools to elevate your teaching.
Shelby's signature Functional Flow
Yoga Alliance Accredited
- 4:00 pm Checkin in to Mizata (you are welcome to arrive before that to use facilities, they will store your luggage)
- 5:00 pm- 6:30pm Functional Flow at the Beach Front Shala
- 7:00 pm Organic Dinner
- Early birds surf hours, coffee/tea available
- 8:30 am Functional Flow
-10:00 am Breakfast
- 11:30 am - 1:30 pm Functional Flow Training Module 1
-1:30 pm Lunch
- Free Time the rest of the afternoon... sunbathing, reading, massages, surfing, naps
- 7:00pm Fam Dinner
- Early birds surf hours, coffee/tea available
- 8:30 am Functional Flow
-10:00 am Breakfast
- 11:30 am - 1:30 pm Functional Flow Training Module 2
-1:30 pm Lunch
- Free Time the rest of the afternoon... sunbathing, reading, massages, surfing, naps, hike a volcano?
- 7:00pm Fam Dinner
- Early birds surf hours, coffee/tea available
- FREE time for surf lessons or an excursion to hike the volcano (can be booked upon arrival at hotel)
-9:00 am Shelby will lead an optional weighted mobility training session (aka a workout) at the Jungle Gym!
- 10:00 am breakfast
- 3:30 pm Functional Flow Module 3
- 5:30 pm Sun set Yin Yoga
- 7:00pm Fam Dinner
- Early birds surf hours, coffee/tea available
- 8:30 am Functional Flow at the Beach Front Shala
-10:00 am Breakfast
- 11:30 am - 1:30 pm Functional Flow Training Module 4
-1:30 pm Lunch
- Free Time the rest of the afternoon... sunbathing, reading, massages, surfing, naps
- 6:00pm Sunset Dinner on the Beach!
- Early birds surf hours, coffee/tea available
- 7:30 am Optional Functional Flow (early class just in case people's flights are early in the day)
-10:00 am Breakfast
- 1:00 pm Checkout/Departures
