meet the mariposa tribe
Lucy
Founder of Mariposa Retreat, qualified Nurse, and Owner of Vanity Lab London. Passionate about nutrition and inner wellness, Lucy is a true nurturer who loves to share her experiences and skills with every person she meets.
What does Mariposa mean to Lucy?
Mariposa is a safe place to come and work on anything that might be bringing negativity to you. Over the years Ibiza has become a special healing place for me personally so it made perfect sense to host Mariposa amongst the magnetic magic of the island. When I started Mariposa I wanted to create a beautiful experience bringing together wellness, fitness, nutrition, healing, with great energy and beautiful surroundings. And we became a family, the combination of my Mariposa team is truly unique and brings so much more than the average retreat experience, each retreat we complete we add more guests to the family and its been beautiful to connect and continue with friendships and a Mariposa community outside of our retreat schedule. The feeling you get from a week at Mariposa is addictive and indescribable and has become as important and needed to myself and my team as it is a benefit to the guests that attend.
Astrid
Founder of Ibiza Body Business. fitness has played a central role in Astrid’s life from a very early age. Trained in fitness, personal training, nutrition, and massage, Astrid is a trainer that practices what she preaches.
After living for several years in Ibiza Astrid started to realise the importance of yoga in her classes, she studied Yoga and integrates poses from Vinyasa, Bikram Yoga and Kundalini in to her practices. Ibiza Body Business's functional, yoga exercises and fitness programs are designed to assist the client in a bespoke way by including cardio fitness, endurance , strength, power, weight loss and management, stress management, flexibility, deep breathing, stability and spiritualty.
What does Mariposa mean to Astrid?
Mariposa is very special to me, our team works from the heart, we are more like a family, and we give our guests an experience for life. Mariposa has a holistic aproach to health and wellbeing so through this it is inevitable you come home with a renewed feeling of self, we work on body mind and spirit as they are all connected.
Jojo
Meditation and Yoga Specialist, Jojo trained in Holistic Massage in London, and in Brighton she studied for her 200 hour yoga teacher training.
Dedicated to creating simple, guided, daily meditation practices. Her yoga classes include Hatha, Vinyasa Flow, and restorative and restful Yoga Nidra. Jojo also offers private treatments at the villa including intuitive healing massages which are the perfect remedy following our hikes or fitness sessions.
What does Mariposa mean to Jojo?
Mariposa is a blissful, reinvigorating and nurturing retreat where we come together with like minded people in a beautiful setting. I am passionate about teaching yoga and meditation at Mariposa to bring clarity, self love and peace of mind. Finding an equal balance between strength and flexibility, to awaken the body and release tensions. It’s great to see the transformations throughout the retreat week and watch our guests experience joy and freedom through healthy practices.
Marvin
A health and fitness professional and the UK’s top Personal Trainer for short burst workouts with his Fit Freaks fit in 5 routines. Marvin works with mega brands such as Selfriges, Weight Watchers, and Sky One, and runs in demand classes across David Lloyd health clubs and popular London fitness studio group Frame.
Marvin’s style is high energy - high intensity, as an ex-singer/songwriter music plays a huge part in each session, and Marvin prides his classes on being suitable for all fitness levels.
What does Mariposa mean to Marvin?
Mariposa is a space for positivity and achieving your goals, which is what I’m all about! Working with a retreat that’s promoting wellness and fitness for both mind and body, while enabling you to change your mindset and relationship towards food is a journey and I can’t wait to go full throttle next year. Also let’s talk about those views! You just can’t beat Ibiza for beautiful surroundings.
Sammi
Holistic health expert Sammi is a Reiki master, Intuative Energy Therapist, Light Worker, Sound Healer, and Crystal Healer based in London and Ibiza.
Sammi found herself highly sensitive to energy as a child, picking up on people’s feelings and thoughts but spent many years of her life trying to desensitise herself to her gifts. Working as a beauty therapist her clients often told her about her healing hands which in turn pushed her to embrace her sensitivity and pursue a spiritual healing journey by reconnecting with her natural abilities to love and heal.
What does Mariposa mean to Sammi?
Mariposa is such a special environment to me, allowing me to work with large groups learning to love and honour ourselves and create more openness. It also enables me to work one on one with guests and channel inner and outer peace during each week long retreat so you leave feeling a wholeness you may not have experienced before. Ibiza has such a magnetic healing ability that it’s the perfect place to bring you back to a place of joy and positivity to take away into your everyday life.