Retreat Summary
Five days on the beach for couples who still love each other and are ready to find their way back to trust.
Every long partnership meets its ruptures: the argument that never fully resolved, the hurt that went quiet, the distance that slowly became normal. Left unrepaired, those moments settle into stored resentment and disconnection.
At Zel Punta Cana, on the Caribbean shore of the Dominican Republic, From Rupture to Repair gives you and your partner five days to come back to each other. Through Kundalini yoga, live music and chanting, breathwork, practical teaching and guided connection exercises, you’ll learn why ruptures happen, how to pause before they escalate, and how to repair, so you leave with a shared framework for the years ahead.
The Vibe
Honest. Tender. Embodied. A little sacred. Very human.
This is not couples therapy in a conference room, and nobody is going to put you on the spot in front of strangers. Mornings start with yoga, breath and live music. Then we teach, you practice together, and the afternoons are yours: beach, pool, spa, nap. Each day closes in a small circle of couples who get it.
Is This Retreat For You?
This is probably for you if:
YOU STILL LOVE EACH OTHER
You care deeply about each other, but lately you feel more like roommates than partners.
THE SAME FIGHT, AGAIN
The same arguments keep looping, and neither of you knows how to get off the merry-go-round.
THINGS LEFT UNSAID
Old hurts and quiet resentments have built up, and they shape how you treat each other.
YOU MISS THE CLOSENESS
You miss the touch, ease and intimacy you once had, and you want it back.
TOOLS, NOT JUST A GETAWAY
You want a real framework for the hard moments, not just a nice vacation that fades in a week.
READY TO INVEST IN US
You're ready to put your partnership first for a few days, together.
You don’t need to be in crisis, and you don’t need to have it figured out. You just need to be willing to show up for each other.
Meet Alice & Hargo Khalsa
We’re Alice and Hargo Khalsa. We’ve been married six years, together for more than a decade, and we live in Joshua Tree, California, with our son.
Alice is a life coach, writer and mother who has spent seventeen years walking alongside individuals and couples through life’s ruptures, returns and reclamations. Her work weaves trauma-informed coaching, inner child healing, heart-centered communication, somatic practice, Gestalt work, breathwork and Kundalini yoga.
Hargo was raised in a yoga ashram in New Mexico. He has co-facilitated men’s retreats for nearly a decade, hosts a weekly men’s work container, and is a certified NLP and Timeline Therapy™ practitioner trained in Qigong under Grandmaster Sung Baek. He leads the retreat’s live music, mantra and chanting.
What You Will Walk Away With
- A shared language for feelings and needs, so hard conversations stay connected
- A clear map of the patterns you each fall into when connection breaks
- A pause agreement you’ve actually practiced together
- The steps of repair: owning your part, hearing your partner, reconnecting
- Daily practices to keep using at home: the Pause Meditation, breathwork and yoga
- A couple vision and mission for the chapters ahead
- A few days of real rest together, with nobody needing anything from you
Your From Rupture to Repair Experience
Five days built on Alice and Hargo's Couples Counsel: foundations, frameworks and rites of passage, with long afternoons free so it still feels like a vacation.
Day 1 — Enter the Container
| 1:00 PM | Arrival + Meet & Greet Check in, settle into your suite, and meet the couples you'll share the week with. |
| 2:00 PM | Couples Counsel Circle The foundations and agreements that make this a safe space, and The Anatomy of a Rupture. |
| 3:30 PM | Rites of Passage Medicine Wheel Honor the seasons and thresholds your relationship has already moved through. |
| 5:00 PM | Talking Stick + Opening Chant Each partner speaks and is heard, then Hargo opens the week with live music. |
| 6:30 PM | Welcome Dinner A relaxed first meal, with connection questions to spark curiosity about each other. |
Focus: Arrive as you are, and name what you’ve been carrying.
Day 2 — Understand Each Other
| 7:30 AM | Kundalini Yoga Wake up the body and breath with Alice. |
| 9:00 AM | Terry Real's Relationship Grid + Conflict Mind See the patterns you each fall into when connection breaks. |
| 11:00 AM | Reflective Journaling Quiet time in nature to let it land. |
| 11:30 AM | The Feeling Wheel + Needs A shared language for what you each feel and need, and flexing the empathy muscle. |
| 1:00 PM | Lunch + Free Time Beach, pool, spa, nap. Whatever sounds good. |
| 3:00 PM | Intimacy Connection Practice Witnessed listening: one partner speaks, the other simply reflects back. |
| 4:30 PM | Cacao + Couples Counsel Live music with Hargo, then the daily circle. |
| 6:30 PM | Dinner + Rest Dinner together, then an evening to rest and restore. Couples' massage optional. |
Focus: Understand what really happens between you when things break.
Day 3 — Create Your Framework
| 7:30 AM | TRE Practice Tension release exercises to help the body let go. |
| 9:00 AM | The Anatomy of a Pause How to stop a spiral without abandoning each other, and writing your pause agreement. |
| 10:45 AM | The Four Truths + Language of the Compassionate Heart Validation, invitation and honoring in hard conversations. |
| 1:00 PM | Lunch + Free Time Beach, pool, spa, nap. |
| 3:00 PM | Practicing the Pause Try your agreement together, with Alice and Hargo there to support you. |
| 4:30 PM | Chanting + Couples Counsel Music with Hargo, then the daily circle. |
| 6:30 PM | Dinner + Pause Meditation Dinner together, then a guided meditation as a couple. |
Focus: A shared plan for the next hard moment.
Day 4 — Repair
| 7:30 AM | Kundalini Yoga Morning practice with Alice. |
| 9:00 AM | The Benefit of the Doubt Holding each other's goodness, and the hidden yearnings that can look like ill intent. |
| 10:45 AM | Inner Child & Inner Teen Where each partner's reactions really come from. |
| 11:30 AM | Hot Seat + Breakout Groups Putting it all together: guided repair of a real rupture. |
| 1:00 PM | Lunch + Free Time Beach, pool, spa, nap. |
| 4:00 PM | Breathwork + Appreciation A practice of gratitude for each other, then Couples Counsel. |
| 6:30 PM | Celebration Dinner Live music with Hargo. |
Focus: Complete a real repair, start to finish.
Day 5 — Take It Home
| 7:00 AM | Kundalini Yoga + Closing Chant One last morning practice together, then breakfast. |
| 8:30 AM | Couple Vision & Mission Your relationship as a thriving ecosystem, and the shared values and intentions you'll carry into the chapters ahead. |
| 9:45 AM | Closing Couples Counsel What you're each taking home. |
| 10:15 AM | Farewell Lunch A relaxed early lunch together before you go. |
| 11:00 AM | Departures |
Focus: Leave with tools you’ll actually use at home.
The Overall Feel
Enough structure to make real change, with enough space that it still feels like a getaway for two.
Built around yoga, breath, live music, honest conversation, the beach, the spa and long dinners together. Not marathon therapy sessions. Not a lecture hall with an ocean view.
The goal: couples leave thinking we feel closer than we have in years, we finally understand what happens between us, and we know what to do the next time it gets hard.
What's Included
- Daily Kundalini yoga, breathwork and TRE
- Live music, chanting and cacao with Hargo
- All Couples Counsel teachings and practices with Alice & Hargo
- Group meals, including a welcome dinner and a farewell lunch before departures
- Take-home toolkit, including the Pause Meditation recording
Retreat Inclusions & Booking Details
Pricing includes all-inclusive accommodations at Zel Punta Cana, all workshop sessions and meals for the five-day retreat. A non-refundable deposit of $750 holds your spot, with the balance due 30 days before the retreat. Flights and travel to Punta Cana are not included.
The first ten couples to sign up will receive:
$400 off – use code VIP
Private 30-minute prep call with Alice & Hargo
- Couple Pricing
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4,275
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All Workshops with Alice & Hargo
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All Accommodations + Meals
- Private 30-minute complimentary prep call with Alice & Hargo
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Why We're Doing This
We’re human, just like you. We experience rupture, resentment, stuck energy and disconnection in our relationship, and we use these same tools in our own marriage. We’ve learned that no amount of practice replaces honesty, accountability, and courageous, compassionate action.
We don’t see ourselves as having mastered partnership. If we have any mastery at all, it’s in our willingness to keep showing up: to be accountable to ourselves and each other, stay humble, and choose love even when it’s hard.
These are the practices we want to share with you, not as a formula for a perfect relationship, but as tools for finding your way back to each other with greater trust, openness, intimacy and love.
What We'll Actually Talk About
Not lectures. Real conversations about the things couples go through behind closed doors.
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Why ruptures happen, and why they’re not a sign that something is wrong with you
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The patterns you each fall into when you feel hurt or unseen
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How to pause a fight without walking away from each other
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Saying what you feel and need without blame
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Giving each other the benefit of the doubt again
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Where your reactions really come from
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Repair: what it actually takes to come back together
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Intimacy, trust, and what you want the next chapter to look like
And probably a few conversations we can’t predict yet. Put a small group of couples together for five days by the ocean, and something good happens.