September 5-12, 2025
7-Day Yoga & Transformational Wellness Retreat
Blending Coaching, Yoga, Creative Expression, Somatic Healing, and Experiences in Nature
Morgat, France
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Or do you already know that it’s time to embark on a new path, but it feels too intimidating to start?
You’ve found yourself at a crossroads:
You could keep doing what you’re doing, feeling more drained and less inspired with each passing day.
Or you could honor the whispers in your soul:
Deep inside, you know that more fulfillment, pleasure, and love is possible.
A bigger dream calls to you but you’re not sure how to get there. Perhaps you feel like you’re holding yourself back. The uncertainty and decision-making feels overwhelming and lonely.
You want to be intentional about the next steps you take to claim the inspired, purposeful life that your soul is hungry for — complete with meaningful work, healthy community, and happy love.
Transitions require courage to acknowledge what does not feel in alignment with your heart and to take inspired action toward your vision of wholeness and joy.
We have crafted a week of one-of-a-kind experiences and proven teachings to fill you with unshakable confidence to align with your right track and open up to the miracles and abundance that await you.
…What if, instead of being anxious about making new choices, you could clearly identify your next steps and easily say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ when it counts?
…What if, instead of feeling like you have to take care of everything, you felt supported by life, openly receiving gifts and synchronicities that lead you to the future you’re dreaming of?
The Inspired Life Retreat is lovingly and expertly designed to help you release the overwhelm and recreate your life as an ongoing dance with joy and pleasure, guided by your internal compass.
Through a combination of guided yoga with Kripalu-trained teacher Helena Marcus, playful moments in nature, simple creative practices, and nourishing group experiences with Certified Coach Jessica Yip, you will develop the peaceful, aligned mind-body-soul connection needed to make wise, inspired choices that move you toward the future your soul is craving.
Spending time in a new, luxurious environment gives us much-needed space from the pressures of daily life, relaxes the hold that old habits have on us, and primes us for more joy, ease, and soul-nourishing fun!
The Inspired Life Retreat is excited to welcome you to the beautiful town of Morgat on the Presqu’ile de Crozon (map) on the western coast of France.
Our Retreat Home is the stunning Manoir de Rulianec (yep, it’s a renovated castle!) with panoramic views of Douarnenez Bay. It’s a 2 minute walk to the beach or to stroll along the cliffs and a 10-15 minute walk to the local shops and charming markets of Morgat.
Enjoy the sauna and pool on the premises. You can also schedule sessions with our dedicated massage therapist for just 65€/hour.
Morgat is known for its dramatic natural beauty. We can’t wait to share the area’s hidden gems with you! In addition to our Retreat activities, you’ll have ample opportunity to indulge in optional scenic hikes/walks, water sports, and spontaneous adventures in this unique cliffside landscape.
Our talented French chef will prepare beautiful local, organic, vegan/vegetarian meals each day to ensure that we are nurtured from the inside out.
Psst… Because you will likely fly into Paris before making your way to Morgat, we encourage you to treat yourself to a couple days of Parisian delights before or after the Retreat 😍
You will:
Imagine reconnecting to your playful and creative self, releasing your worries, anxieties and overwhelm. No need to rush, no need to perform.
Imagine laughing and sharing with an intimate community of like-minded souls who understand the big changes you’re making and believe the happy possibilities you’re living into.
Imagine taking your next steps with grace, clarity, and wisdom, instead of defaulting to working harder or falling back to painful unconscious patterns.
Imagine feeling completely alive, overflowing with inspiration & commitment to live purposefully and love deeply.
You wouldn’t have come this far if you didn’t believe in the potential to live into your dream.
You don’t have to do this alone.
By the end of our 7 days together, you will feel reinvigorated, deeply motivated, and reconnected with your purpose and desires. You will walk away with a deep well of inner resources and skills to navigate the next steps of your transition with joy, ease, and total clarity.
This is your moment to hit ‘reset’ and say YES to the most delicious chapter of your life.
**Group meals start the day of arrival for dinner and end the day of departure after breakfast. We invite you to share any dietary concerns with us when you register.
To support the integration of retreat breakthroughs and learnings in a meaningful way, you will also receive:
Calling in “The One” Coach
Hi, I’m Certified Coach Jessica, and I was put on this earth to help people unleash their full creative power in life and love.
I know how it feels when life looks good on paper but your soul is aching for more. This can’t be all there is. If you’ve been dreaming of a more connected, more fulfilling, more delicious life, you’re in the right place.
After transitioning from corporate retail management (which was my dream job until it wasn’t) and the lonely-busy hustle in New York and San Francisco to a life of coaching, hiking, and climbing with my love and our robust community in the mountains town of Bishop, California, I know firsthand what it takes to release outdated expectations of culture and society, how to graduate from the painful beliefs that keep us scared & small, and how to create a joyful, purposeful life and loving partnership on the soul’s terms.
Here’s my promise: if I can do it, so can you. (And you only have to move or change jobs if you want to!)
This Retreat combines somatic healing techniques using sound, art, and experiences in nature with principles of the transformative 7-step Calling in “The One” process — that I’ve used to help hundreds of people transform not only their love lives but their professional and personal relationships as well — to bring you the most impactful and invigorating retreat experience possible.
The best truly is yet to come.
I can’t wait to transform with you in September!
Jessica is a leader within the Calling in “The One” community and a Master Coach in the Your Big Voice Community, having coached hundreds of clients who are reclaiming their power and learning the skills to live and love to their full creative potential. Jessica serves as both a Faculty Coach for Calling in “The One” Coaches-in-Training and the Program Director for Katherine Woodward Thomas’ Calling in “The One” & Conscious Uncoupling Certified Coach Training Programs. Jessica is also an Executive Life Coach, and Certified Yoga Teacher.
🏳️🌈 Inspiration, clarity, & joy are for everyone. Our Retreat experiences are created to be inclusive of all gender identities and sexual orientations. Should you have any concerns or questions, please don’t hesitate to email Coach Jessica and Helena directly at jessica@jessicayip.com and oneloveninja@gmail.com.
Kripalu Yoga Teacher
Hi! I’m Helena, an American living in France raising 2 amazing children.
I teach yoga because I want people to feel good in their bodies and connected to their heart. When this happens we feel empowered to make shifts in our lives and manifest big dreams. I love practicing yoga outside, whether it is on the beach, cliff side, in the garden or the forest, connecting my feet to the earth helps me and my students anchor into the present moment. Here is where the magic unfolds, feeling connected to our breath, the earth and all its living inhabitants. In this place we can cultivate compassion, forgiveness, and understanding. A clarity emerges. And from this clarity comes a confidence in who we are and how we want to show up in the world.
I can’t wait to share this practice with you.
My yoga classes emphasise mindful movement with the breath in an alignment based flow. I use my intuition to create purposeful sequencing. The intention of my classes is for people to feel at home in their bodies and connected to their heart.
Before becoming a yoga teacher, I was an outdoor educator for 5 years and a high school science teacher for 8 years. I have always been immersed in the cycle of learning, teaching, learning.
I received my 200 and 300 hours RYT certification from Kripalu and have been teaching Yoga since 2016 . My most influential teachers have been Larissa Hall Carlson, Yoganand Michael Carroll, Coby Kozlowski, Shiva Rea, Nathania Stambouli, Rex Rafiq, Emily Fletcher and Fiji McAlpine.
I’m also a gardener. Watching things grow is a passion of mine. I make organic home care products from the plants in my garden under the label: La Bonne Sorcière.
12 Spaces Available
Early Bird Discount with Code HAPPY: Save $400 if you pay-in-full before March 15!
8 rooms remaining
$3950
Payment Plan Available Until June 1
(4 Payments of $1035)
2 rooms remaining
(1 room shared between 2 people)
$3150
Payment Plan Available Until June 1
(4 Payments of $826)
You’re not crazy — there is more waiting for you.
This is your moment to make the next chapter of your life the most delicious one yet.
“Helena has a soft and gentle teaching style. She is attentive to everyone’s energies. She knows how to put you at ease, whatever your reason for wanting to start a yoga practice… When I started yoga, it was because I had a bad back and there was no medical treatment that could help, so I went to Helena’s class a little reluctantly, because I hated the “New-age” spirit that surrounded yoga. I’ve been practicing with Helena for 6 years now, and I have no intention of stopping.”
« Helena offers classes for all levels, with advice on how to improve your mind, breathing and always kind, encouraging advice on how to evolve your asana practice – a teaching style that is serene and joyful, from which you emerge feeling better in your body and in your head – you learn to listen to your body, to take care of it as your home.”
« What I like about Helena’s classes is her positive energy, the fluidity of the sequences, the conviviality and the fact that she corrects bad postures and proposes adaptive solutions for individuals when needed. »
“Working with Jessica has helped me embody the version of myself I always hoped to become, but never knew how to be. Jessica is attentive, compassionate, an incredible listener, and has a talent for guiding you down the best road to help you reach your goals. I would recommend her to anyone to finally create the change you’ve been looking for. DO IT!”
“I feel like I have grown wings – and I am ready to welcome love into my life. Whether you are looking for love, or looking to simply love yourself more – this program will change your life – and is one of the best I have ever experienced.”
“This was one of the best groups I’ve ever participated in. It was very diverse…walks of life, age, sexual identity, everything. It’s been so amazing and powerful. Thank you for making it safe to share.”
“Jessica is an incredible listener, and very intuitive and together we were able to explore and unravel my own limiting beliefs that used to permeate everything from my love life to my business and personal life. I am much more clear, and confident in how I show up for myself, in my relationship and how I will continue to show up because of the discoveries and insights I gained being coached by Jessica. Thank you so much!”
The Inspired Life Retreat is for people who are feeling drained and unsure of their next steps and want to feel recharged, inspired, fun and playful again!
Have you found yourself in circumstances that don’t light you up? Does the day to day feel like a bore or a chore?
Are you craving a purposeful life based on your values and passions?
Do you know that it’s time to embark on a new path, but it feels lonely and intimating to start?
During the Retreat, you have the opportunity to surrender yourself to the experience of being taken care of instead of having to take care of everything. No need for decision fatigue or itinerary planning – from the moment you step into our beautiful castle, we’ve got you!
Our luxurious space overlooking the ocean will welcome you to indulge in peaceful sensory experiences with nature that bring you back to your body and nourish your soul.
We invite you to step away from the demands of daily life in order to connect with your body, your inner wisdom, and align with a life that generates meaningful contribution and joyful, count-on-able love of all kinds.
If you’re exhausted by constant doing, this is your chance to actually — finally — enjoy being .
To get the most out of this retreat, you simply need to be willing to self-reflect and explore. Together, we will practice yoga, explore gentle healing movement, creative exercises with paint or sculpture, reflective group learning, and play in nature. We will provide a safe space to honor your experience through every stage of transformation and support you in trusting the miracles and any breakthroughs that arise.
Retreat experiences are sacred group containers and we look forward to the friendships and connections that will be created.
You must be at least 25 years of age to register. There is no maximum age limit.
To protect the safety and the potential for the miraculous of the group, each participant must agree to take full responsibility for their own well-being during the retreat experience, agreeing to keep focus on their own personal transformation, to share from a solution-oriented place, to refrain from offering advice to fellow participants unless it is explicitly asked for, and speak up if they are in need of support.
Inspiration, clarity & joy are for everyone. Our Retreat experiences are created to be inclusive of all gender identities and sexual orientations. Should you have any concerns or questions, please don’t hesitate to email Coach Jessica and Helena directly at jessica@jessicayip.com and oneloveninja@gmail.com .
The Yoga will be adaptable to all skill and experience levels. It will be a mixture of dynamic and slow flowing movement with opportunities to learn more advanced postures. There will also be time to ask Helena questions about your personal yoga practice.
The Inspired Life Retreat is excited to welcome you to the beautiful town of Morgat on the Presqu’ile de Crozon (map) on the western coast of France.
Morgat is known for its dramatic natural beauty. (Think: hidden beaches and coves, rocky cliffsides and lush landscapes, with charming French towns nestled throughout!) We can’t wait to share the area’s hidden gems with you.
In addition to our Retreat activities, you’ll have ample opportunity to indulge in optional scenic hikes/walks, water sports, and spontaneous adventures in this unique cliffside landscape.
Our Retreat Home is the stunning Manoir de Rulianec (yep, it’s a renovated castle!) with panoramic views of Douarnenez Bay. (See photos)
We’re just a 2 minute walk to the beach or to stroll along the cliffs and a 10-15 minute walk to the local shops and charming markets of Morgat.
We offer private room accommodations and rooms to share between 2 people. Please note that because this is a renovated castle, ensuite bathrooms are not part of the layout, however there are many beautiful bathrooms to easily share.
There is a sauna and pool on the premises. You can also schedule sessions with our dedicated massage therapist for just 65€/hour.
While our talented French chef will prepare beautiful local, organic, vegan/vegetarian meals each day, you will also have access to the kitchen throughout the day. There are laundry machines on the premises for our use and we will have daily housekeeping for common areas and bathrooms each morning.
And as we mentioned above, because you will likely fly into Paris before making your way to Morgat, this is a perfect opportunity to treat yourself to a couple days of Parisian delights before or after the Retreat 😍
Sharing delicious, nutritious meals that balance our bodies and minds is an important part of this experience. Our talented French chef will be preparing a nourishing vegetarian/vegan lunch and dinner daily.* Local organic products will be used whenever possible. Breakfast will be a self-serve option provided by a local organic bakery. Tea, coffee and snacks will be available throughout the day as well.
Please let us know about any dietary restrictions, allergies, or other food-related questions on the registration form.
You will have access to the kitchen throughout our stay.
*Group meals start the day of arrival with dinner and end the day of departure after breakfast. If you decide to dine out at any point during the retreat, please simply let us know the day before so our chef can adjust.
Helena and Coach Jessica believe in providing “just enough structure” to ensure everyone’s needs are accounted for and “a generous helping of spaciousness and play” to maximize the potential for relaxation, fun, and happy possibilities.
We encourage you to attend all Retreat sessions to maximize the benefits of our time together. In addition to daily free time, we have built in a choose-your-own-adventure day, where you have the option of joining our guided activities or doing whatever your relaxed heart desires.
Here is an example of one day on The Inspired Life Retreat; please keep in mind that we will make small adjustments to flow with what emerges for the group and to include special events like the Crozon market (a must-do French experience)!
7-9am Open Breakfast at the Manor with fresh local bread with a selection of fruits and cheeses, coffee and tea.
9am Reflective/Creative Group Practice Facilitated by Coach Jessica
9:30/9:45am (depending on the tides!) All-Levels Yoga on the Beach (or on the pool deck at the Manor) with Helena
11:15am Nourishing, Love-filled Vegan/Vegetarian Brunch by our talented French Chef
1pm Playful Learning & Exploration Group Session Facilitated by Coach Jessica
4pm Free Time
6:30pm Nourishing, Love-filled Vegan/Vegetarian Dinner is Served
8:15p Optional Evening Activity (Think: “Gifts of Nature” Walks, Fire Pit Sharing/Singing, or Sounding with the Ocean)
Yes, we encourage you to invite any friends who might be excited to share in this transformative journey with you!
Yes! If you want to request to share a room with someone in particular, both parties should each register for a Shared Room and simply note when you register that you wish to room together.
When you register for The Inspired Life Retreat , your commitment is confirmed with a non-refundable $800 deposit.
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Of course! We would love to connect with you to answer any questions or address any concerns regarding The Path of Love Retreat. Please click here to schedule a time. If no listed times work for you, please email Coach Jessica and Helena at jessica@jessicayip.com and oneloveninja@gmail.com and we will find a solution!
“There is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky.
And you ask, “What if I fall?”
Oh, but my darling, “What if you fly?”
-Erin Hanson