Erotic Yes · A Puerto Rico Retreat

Your Erotic Yes

A Puerto Rico retreat for women ready to come alive again.

January 21 to 25, 2027 · Rio Grande, Puerto Rico · A small, intimate group

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Anjua with the group at a Puerto Rico beach bar, flags raised

There's a sound the coquí frogs make at night in Puerto Rico, a small, insistent, two-note call that fills the whole jungle after dark. It was one of my first memories of the island. I was a kid, playing in the backyard of a family friend's house, and I swear I saw a giant plant-shaped man moving in the dark. To this day I don't know if it was real or imagined. But that's Puerto Rico to me. Magic, music, family and the feeling that anything could happen.

Awilda Velazquez-Warfield and Wallace Warfield

Awilda Velazquez-Warfield & Wallace Warfield

My mother was first generation New Yorican, her parents having migrated from the island in the 1920’s. My father was Black American. Together they gave me a love for music: jazz, classical, salsa, the call-and-response rhythms my dad taught me to hear as African before they were ever called Latin. My mother used to pull me out of school for last-minute flights to the island because "the deal was too good to pass up." Teachers would ask if there was a wedding, a funeral. There wasn't. She just needed her happy place. I understand that now more than ever. It's why every time I bring women to Puerto Rico, I'm bringing them somewhere that has always brought me back to myself.

What this retreat is

This is an invitation to slow down. To reconnect with your body. To soften out of survival mode.

To move, breathe, laugh, rest, and remember yourself again.

You'll arrive January 21st, landing anytime before 3pm so Casa Alternavida can arrange the group pickups. Check-out is 11am on the 25th, and your flight home can be anytime that day, as early or as late as you need. Four nights at Casa Alternavida, three full days in between, plus dinner and a light welcome activity the evening you arrive. A stunning home tucked between the rainforest and the ocean in Rio Grande, where every other detail has been thought through: chef-prepared meals made with intention, an energy in the space that's been carefully and lovingly calibrated, mornings on the rooftop with coffee and the sound of the jungle waking up.

And at the center of it all: sensual movement.

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What that actually means

I'll be honest with you, because I think you deserve honesty before you say yes to something like this.

This isn't a dance class where you learn choreography. It isn't burlesque, and it isn't a "sexy heels" class, though I have nothing but respect for those modalities and the women who teach them.

What I do is different. This retreat includes sensual movement sessions that are slow, intimate, and body-centered, built from training I started in 2006 and have been refining ever since I came back to it. Sessions may include floor work, heels, and shedding layers as a practice of release.

My job is to observe. To notice where you're holding on, where the feeling gets stuck, where the music starts to melt something loose in you, and sometimes gently call it out so you can move through it.

Here's what I watch for, over and over:

I watch for the moment a woman's jaw unclenches without her noticing, when her belly goes soft and her hips start moving on their own before her brain catches up to ask if she's doing it right. That's the work. Not correcting her. Just being there when her body answers before she does.

That's the work. It's slow. It's intimate. And it changes something.

This may be for you if...

  • You've been craving deeper connection to yourself
  • You feel disconnected from your body or sensuality
  • You're moving through transition or reinvention
  • You want softness without losing your power
  • You're tired of performing perfection
  • You want to feel it in your body, not just think about it

Willingness is the only prerequisite. You don't need to already know how to move, that's actually the point of coming.

What you'll experience

  • Four nights at Casa Alternavida (land by 3pm Jan 21, check out 11am Jan 25, fly home anytime that day), nestled between jungle and ocean
  • Daily sensual movement sessions, in a small and intimate group
  • Integration circles to process what's moving through you
  • Beach and ocean time, with space to simply rest
  • Bomba dance: Puerto Rico's own ancestral rhythm
  • One-on-one and group coaching conversations
  • Chef-prepared meals, intuitive massage, and a space designed for your nervous system to finally exhale
  • Genuine, unhurried connection with other women on their own journeys

Investment

The price goes up September 1. This is the last group at the current rate.

Shared room

$4,200

Booked by August 31. $4,700 from September 1.

Private room

$4,500

Booked by August 31. $5,000 from September 1.

A $750 non-refundable deposit holds your spot. The balance can be paid in full or split into monthly payments through December 15. Payment plans total slightly more than paying in full.

One thing worth knowing: your balance spreads across the months left before December, so the earlier you book, the smaller each payment is. A shared room booked in August is four payments. The same room in October is two.

Cancellations received on or before October 22 are refunded minus the deposit. After that the refund steps down, because my venue's terms do the same and I owe them for your space whether or not you come. Travel insurance covers this and I recommend it.

Flights not included.

Book before September 1 and you also get:

Paying in full: all three workbooks, a 60-minute preparation session with me before you travel, and three months of the membership when it opens.

On a payment plan: the price lock and all three workbooks.

The group is small on purpose. I'm reading the room the whole time, and I can't do that at scale.

Something shifts when women gather like this, in a place this beautiful, doing work this honest.

If some part of you already knows this one's yours, apply today.

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In their words

"I came to the retreat because I'm in a season of expansion, and I was practicing being comfortable with the discomfort of being seen. This retreat did exactly that for me. If you're thinking about going, treat yourself to this experience."

Nikki

"It brought me back home to myself. It was the reset I totally needed: the movement, the location, the people, the food, all of it. I'm so grateful to Anjua, to Casa Alternavida, and to myself for saying yes, to my erotic yes."

Jenna

"What's stuck with me most is how the small things, how I eat, how I move in the morning, how I treat my body, completely shifted how I live my life. I'm living life more. And that's a hundred percent because of this retreat."

Sonia

"The combination of Anjua's coaching, her sensual movement work, and the island itself is incredible. It's a container to really sit with what you need to feel good, and to meet other wonderful women, with a kind of laughter and camaraderie you just don't get in everyday life."

Sara

Ready?

If some part of you already knows this one's yours, apply today.

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