This one has been a long-held vision…
EVOLVE RETREAT PORTUGAL 🇵🇹 | Sept 25–30, 2026
After spending time in Portugal this summer, something clicked. The pace, the warmth, the landscape, the way life is lived. It felt deeply aligned with the essence of Evolve Retreats.
We’re gathering on the stunning coastline of Azenhas do Mar, and we are so excited to welcome you into this next chapter.
Comment EVOLVE for a personal reach-out from me,
or head to to learn more and reserve your place. 🙏🏻✨
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Tofino & Bowen Island Evolve Retreats | 2026 🌊
We’re heading back to two places that feel like home to Evolve Retreats. Tofino on Vancouver Island’s wild west coast for our second year @theshorelinetofino , and the forested sanctuary of @nectaryoga on Bowen Island for our fourth. There’s a reason we keep returning. These spaces support the rhythm, depth, and intention behind what we create together. 🌀
Tofino, BC: April 10-14, 2026
Bowen Island, BC: August 12-16, 2026
Comment EVOLVE to learn more, or head over to to view all details and see if one of these retreats is a full body YES for you. 🙏🏻
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A special friend and past retreat guest recently commented on one of my posts saying how grateful she is that these experiences still reach her to this day… and it brought the biggest smile to my face because I found myself nodding along thinking, yes, that’s exactly it. 💛
These retreats leave a lasting impact because of the care woven into every detail. The thoughtfully curated schedules, the daily themes, the guided conversations, the practices, and the ways we explore living our yoga throughout each day together. It becomes part of everything. The shared moments, the quiet moments alone, the way you return home. It leaves a mark.
Sharing some more heartfelt reflections in this post. I’m endlessly in awe of every single one of you, and I feel so grateful to keep sharing these experiences with more of you to come.
Upcoming Evolve Retreats with space remaining:
Azenhas do Mar, Portugal
Sept 25–30, 2026
Bowen Island, BC
Oct 16–18, 2026
Costa Rica + Mexico 2027
Join the “first to know” list. Details and dates will be shared this week/next week ✨
Visit: evolveyogaretreats.com
Big love,
Mik
Lately I’ve been sitting with something I feel really deeply as both a yoga teacher and a retreat facilitator, and honestly… as a human on a meaningful mission to build community through yoga.
Not all retreats are the same, and not all of us are looking for the same thing. For some, a retreat is about beautiful locations, daily yoga practice, shared meals, and time to explore somewhere new. And honestly, there is nothing wrong with that. Sometimes that’s exactly what we need.
But for others, there is something deeper we are searching for. More connection. More intention. More cohesion. More space to reflect and actually feel something shift within us.
This is something I’ve always been drawn to.
It’s what led me to start creating EVOLVE Retreats in the first place… from a desire to take what we feel and experience in a single yoga practice/class and expand it into something we can actually live together over days, not just hours.
If you’ve ever felt curious about what a deeper retreat experience could look like, I’m sharing more in tomorrow’s newsletter. Sign up (for free of course!) via the link in my bio.
With gratitude,
Mik 🌞
Dreaming of retreat days in Portugal 🇵🇹 !!
While the essence of these retreats goes far beyond any physical space, the environment we’re held in is deeply intentional. I seek out places that offer privacy (renting out the entire venue for our group!), quiet immersion in nature, and a sense of spaciousness and beauty. Spaces that support the unfolding of the experience itself.
This 1940s venue will hold us from September 25–30, and there are still a few spaces available! ✨
If it resonates, feel free to reach out. I’m always open to sharing more about the intention behind Evolve Retreats. You can also find all details at evolveyogaretreat.com 🌊
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We’re getting ready to share all the details for our 2027 Evolve Retreats in Costa Rica and Mexico! 🇨🇷🇲🇽
We’ll be returning in January and February, a beautiful way to step into a new year. These are places we feel deeply connected to, spaces that naturally hold both expansive energy and grounded presence for our time together.
Fun fact: we book the entire venue for our group! This allows us to create a private and intimate container, and this sense of closeness is at the heart of the Evolve experience.
Our days begin with Sadhana, our morning devotional yoga practice, which sets the tone for everything that follows. From there, we flow with the daily theme into a rhythm exploration, and connection through surfing, ocean swims, beach time, various workshops, ceremonies, and shared experiences!
There’s something that awakens here. A feeling that lingers long after you return home. 🌀
Comment EVOLVE to join the first-to-know list for 2027.
With gratitude,
Mikaela
Founder & Facilitator
📸: @reachivana & @fir_yoga_
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A Pilates ball series, movement that builds slowly, breath acting as the foundation of it all, the energy of good music, fresh air, and a crescent moon shining above. Name a better combo. 🙃🌀🌙
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We’re heading back!! 🇨🇷 @evolve.yoga.retreats is returning to the lush, quiet magic of Playa Azul, between Marbella and Nosara in Costa Rica, in January 2027… and I can’t help but reflect on what we experienced there just a few months ago.
Every retreat deepens this belief for me that living our yoga is not only something we feel and experience individually, but something we share together AND something we carry with us long after we leave.
It’s in the deep connection (with ourselves, with others, with the land, with something greater), the presence we cultivate, the way we soften through practice… the way we allow rest and invite play… that the layers begin to peel back and everything becomes clear again. We come home to ourselves, again and again.
That’s something I deeply love about Evolve Retreats… they’re created to meet you exactly where you are, in whatever season you find yourself in.
Booking opens in a couple of weeks. Join the first-to-know list at evolveyogaretreats.com 🌿
With gratitude,
Mik
📸: @reachivana
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A small glimpse into what I shared in practice this morning, woven around the story of Matsyasana, fish pose. It was an invitation to move like water, finding a steady rhythm and a sense of ease even in moments of effort or disruption. To trust your inner knowing, the quiet unfolding of life, and the process of belief itself. Even something that feels small or insignificant can grow into something meaningful when you give it your attention. When nurtured, it can grow into something that carries you forward into your next chapter, just as Matsya carried Manu into the renewal of a new world. 🌀🌊
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At Evolve Retreats, it’s never just about the practices we move through, it’s about how those practices begin to weave their way into everything. The way we speak to each other, the way we view the day with fresh eyes, the way we dream up what’s next, and the way we slow down enough to actually notice what’s here.
Each day carries its own energy. A thread that gently guides us from the mat and into shared moments, into reflection, and into connection. Nothing feels separate. It all becomes part of the experience.
And somewhere along the way, yoga stops being something you do… and becomes something you feel, something you live, something you return to, again and again. ✨
Gorgeous captures by @fir_yoga_
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A vulnerable share, but one that I believe holds truth and the potential to remind someone out there that they’re not alone. I’ve got so much to be grateful for in my life right now, and there is so much joy and love pulsing through me on the daily. There is also a deep fear and grief present right now, as I learn to sit with and accept the unknowns for someone in my life who I love so dearly and who is fighting for their life. The duality of it all is unlike anything I’ve ever experienced.
The only way I know how to hold it is to move my body, to dance, to blast music, to fill my lungs with big, expansive inhales and let it all out through emphatic exhales. In allowing myself to feel what’s alive in me and making space for my humanness, I somehow find moments of peace, of hope, and a connection to something greater.
Don’t shrink or hold back what’s true for you or what’s moving through you. This is part of being alive. 🙏🏻🌀💛
This Friday in Tofino, British Columbia, our next Evolve Retreat unfolds - a five day experience inspired by the practice of living your yoga and flowing with the rhythm of the coast! 🌊
Each themed day is filled with deep yoga practice, journalling, slow and silent mornings, nourishing meals, forest trails, wide ocean views, a group cacao ceremony, a private floating sauna experience, a group surf lesson, and plenty of time for rest and free flow. So much goodness woven throughout. 🌀
I feel so grateful to host here. A magical place I get to call home.
There is ONE spot left if you have the flexibility to join us last minute. And if not, sending love from this small island town and I hope to have you with us on a future retreat. Bowen Island in August and Azenhas do Mar, Portugal in September.
Let’s evolve together. ✨
Captured on film by @halsnapshot 📸
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