Escape to the black-sand beaches of Panama to renew and energize the body, mind, and spirit! This transformative retreat offers daily beachside practices of restorative and vinyasa yoga, healing yoga dance with LIVE percussion, and meditation to release stagnant energy, uplift the vibration of love, and ignite JOY.
For five days and five nights we will RESTORE with movement, nourishing food, hammock naps, and ocean dips, and EXPLORE with surfing, stand up paddle boarding, kayaking, hiking, bike riding, and more!
Pilin Anice, E-RYT 500 is a skilled wellness guide who believes that the disciplines of Ayurveda, meditation and yoga, ritual, self-care, nutrition, dance & drum, allow us to reconnect to ourselves; to evolve, heal and live authentically.
She is also an experienced health coach, artist, and commercial model.
For well over a decade, she has guided students through her offerings to find their way back to the wisdom of their own bodies, and the joy that is the essence of their being.
Pilin is passionate about building community and looks to create and cultivate non-judgemental spaces where everyone can be seen & heard and where everyone can move freely & wholly.
A graduate of Howard University and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, she is on faculty at Kripalu, Ailey Extension and was a lululemon Studio Trainer and Ambassador for nearly four years. She is also a Chopra Yoga Training, Visiting Faculty and IIN and an Ambassador for Bayan Botanicals. Pilin is the founder of Restore & Explore Retreats and her forthcoming cookbook 'Mmm...Good', focuses on using real, whole food as both fuel and medicine.
Her studies in West African dance, Dunham Technique, and the African Diasporic dances of Haiti, Cuba, and Brazil span nearly twenty years.
She has featured on GMA, The Today Show, The NY Times, Dance Spirit, FORBES, ESSENCE, MindBodyGreen and SELF as well as appearing in over one hundred commercial campaigns for Fortune 500 companies such as Disney, Visa, and Google. She has partnered with THE WELL, Omega Institute, 1440 Multiversity, Dubai Yoga Fest, and SoulFEST.
As a professional performer, Pilin has performed Off-Broadway, on National Tours, and in regional productions as well as working extensively as a vocalist performing in concerts and cabarets throughout New York City. She lives in the NYC area with her husband and two children.
