Leah Donatiello

We’ve got everything you need in place so you can…
✔️ Start catching more waves with ease and less frustration
✔️ Feel more confident and comfortable in the water and on a board
✔️ Experience the magic of Lobitos with other likeminded women

DM me to save your spot for the November retreat! Save $200 when you book by Friday July 12th 🗓️

Details👇
- November 17th-24th 📍 Lobitos, Peru
- Surf level: beginner - intermediate (1:3 instructor student ratio)

Includes:
✔️ Accommodation in private room
✔️All meals
✔️ 6 surf sessions with instruction / coaching
✔️ 3 surf video analysis sessions
✔️ Videos or photos from each surf
✔️ 6 Yoga classes & Reconnect Empowerment coaching sessions
✔️ Airport pick up
✔️ Lobitos tour
✔️ & more!

$1800 USD

($1600 if you book by Friday July 12th)

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Nature’s teachers 💧🐚🧜🏻‍♀️🌸

The process of learning to surf affected every aspect of my life from how I spoke to myself, how I spent my time, who I hung out with, where I lived, and how I nourished my body.

Learning to surf did not come “naturally” to me. I had to overcome a lot of negative self talk, discomfort and fear.

But, it’s becuase surfing was such a challenge for me that I grew so much as a person out of this process.

Now, it is my absolute privilege to work with others who love the ocean and what to incorporate surfing into their lives in a more meaningful way.

RECONNECT Surf & Yoga Experience is a 8 day retreat for ocean inspired people who want to drastically improve their surfing!

➡️ Gain confidence in the water with our surf therapy inspired curriculum

➡️ Unlearn old habits that are keeping you stuck at your current level

➡️ Overcome mindset blocks that prevent you from going for those steeper, bigger waves

Over the 8 days we will:

* Have 6 surf lessons / coaching sessions with local instructors trained in surf therapy techniques
* Review our photos & videos with our head coach
* Practice yoga designed to facilitate a deeper connection to our mind, body and spirit
* Enjoy healthy local food and learn best practices to fuel ourselves as surfers and women
* Push ourselves out of our comfort zones to develop a sense of confidence and self empowerment
* Enjoy local activities and adventures in Lobitos as energy levels permit!

We include everything so once you’re here you just need to focus on yourself and your experience.

We can’t wait to surf with you!

Upcoming Retreats:
May 24th-31st 2024
Nov 17th - 24th

DM me the word “Retreat” and I’ll send you more details and how to sign up!

It’s not out of your hands and it’s not too late ✨ If experiencing life with a sense of ease, love and freedom is important to you, then just know that it’s a practice.

So much of coming into alignment with ourselves is unlearning what we have taken on as our truth. What we’ve let others decide for is, and concepts we internalized without meaning to.

It’s finding new concepts & ideas that feel aligned with out values; and then finding the community and experiences where we can put those into practice.

Create, don’t discover 🤍

(A concept inspired by the book Conversations with God)

➡️ Next Reconnect Surf & Yoga retreat
🗓️May 24-31st, Lobitos Peru
💌 DM me the word Retreat and I’ll send you more details!

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In 8 days I’ll be back in the jungle 🌿 Sharing yoga, learning from the plants, and her maestra and supporting others in their dietas.

The dedication, commitment, and surrender to this process isn’t easy.

It’s everything. It’s intense. It’s the Amazon.

There are moments of extreme discomfort, clarity, ease, sadness, heartbreak and euphoria.

And don’t get me wrong, I know I know nothing, I’ve only scratched the surface ✨

But what a special process it is, to start shedding the old, the dead, the unnecessary and transition into something more aligned 🪐

We all need to be a little more self-centered, not selfish, self-centered. We need to put ourselves first, by doing , thinking and speaking things that serve our highest purpose. When we do this, we unapologetically step into our authenticity. When we live from the space, we are truly ourselves, and that becomes enough.

However, the hard part comes when we have to recognize that other people need to do the same. We cannot take it personally when someone else’s actions serve their higher purpose but don’t serve our own.

Begin this process by deeply connecting with your values. What are 1-3 things that you resonate with, that you would want all future decisions to be in alignment with?

Get to know yourself 🤍

For me, this slowing down did not start until I first visited Lobitos in 2011. The simplicity was a shock to my system. We would take hours to make ravioli from scratch on any given weekday, just because. 

I don’t believe in coincidences, but I’m extremely grateful that I stumbled upon this lifestyle when I did. 

And honestly, the more I lean in, the better it gets. 

Join us in Lobitos! ➡️ Reconnect Surf & Yoga retreat 
May 24th - 31st 2024

👉 Gain confidence in the water with our surf therapy inspired curriculum

👉 Unlearn old habits that are keeping you stuck at your current level

👉 Overcome mindset blocks that prevent you from going for those steeper, bigger waves

Read more about the experience, what past participants had to say, and how to sign up👇
https://subscribepage.io/ReconnectLobitos

💌DM me your questions!

Photos taken in Lobitos cerca 2013/14 😍

What’s meant for you won’t pass you by✨ Every wave we don’t catch teaches us what we need to work on. Every wave we do catch reminds us how lucky we are & how magical life can be 🤍

Upcoming Surf & Yoga Retreats
📍 Lobitos, Peru

May 24th - 31st
Register by Feb 1st to save $200

November 17th -24th

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Surfing taught me that it’s not the situation that creates the problem - but how we interpret and mange it 🌊

Waves of the same size provoke different feelings in different people depending on how confident each one is about what to do.

We often want to blame the wave, the current or the crowd for our lack of confidence or abilities. But really it’s on US to learn how to navigate those things.

Situations don’t happen to us - they happen for us. Each time something feels challenging or like we’re failing, we’re actually just being presented with an opportunity to lean more about ourselves and tools we might be missing.

Remember - nothing is personal ✨🏄‍♀️



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This past week in the Reconnect Community we spent 60 minutes reflecting on 2023 ✍️ Without judgement, we reflected on what happened, what we learned, what we want to take with us into next year, what we want to leave behind, what we’re proud of ourselves for, what we need to forgive ourselves for… and so much more.

If you’d like access to this workshop and more send me a DM! In our next connection call we will be sharing & setting our commitments for the following year 🔥✨

Sometimes, living in alignment is about getting through hard moments, facing disappointment and processing it all in order to create space for something different 🔥

When I look closely, there’s really nothing mundane about it 🤍

As spiritual beings having a human experience, we already have everything we need. At our core, we are whole, and instead of pushing ourselves to learn or do more, I think we should do the opposite.

In order to reconnect with divine wisdom, I find the more I slow down the more moments of clarity I have. This doesn’t mean I don’t do anything to cultivate these moments, but they definitely don’t come when I’m stressed, anxious or busying myself with ‘to dos.’

✨Ready to take action? I have a free mini course availble now to help you:

👉 Identify where you’re not living in alignment

👉 Learn how to reconnect with yourself

👉 Start living unapologetically in your authenticity

📲 DM me the word Course & you’ll receive an automated message with the link to sign up!

In my opinion, forcing things to work out or get done just doesn’t work. There needs to be some ease, a natural feeling of flow rather than “pushing through.”

Last week I sat down to work on something and basically *nothing* was coming through. It was like 🦗🦗( which is funny because lobitos is FULL) of them right now.

Anyway! It was 2pm and the feelings of disappointment, anxiety and laziness started to invade.

I did not “feel” like surfing, I wanted to crawl into bed and sulk about the morning to be honest.

Instead, I told myself to just go through the motions. Put your wetsuit on, pick up your board and go to the beach. Whatever happens next doesn’t matter, zero expectations but get out of the house.

I immediately felt 1000% better, and even had some downloads come through about the project I’m working on.

Having a toolkit of things I know will make me feel at least 1% better is a game changer - and I’m privileged to have surfing be one of those things 🙏

What’s in your toolkit? And how do you make sure you use it? 👇

➡️ Next private coaching availability: August (DM to inquire about the waitlist)

➡️ Reconnect Surf & Yoga Retreat - September! Link in bio!

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This was one of the smaller days of a recent swell. Before getting in I stood on the shore with the tide coming in around my ankles. I watched an overhead set roll through and tried to time my paddle out accordingly.

The next set came too quickly and I couldn’t make it out to the lineup so I turned around, and rode some white water back in.

A past version of myself might not have bothered trying again. I would have been able to easily talk myself out of it.

But lately I’ve been working on pushing past those narratives that my mind somehow has the creativity to invent.

I made it out the back on the second try and I sat on the shoulder watching, knowing that at any moment a big set could come though.

I let the adrenaline settle, and after catching a couple waves I realized I wasn’t actually scared.

Yes, I could feel my nervous system on high alert. And thank goodness, our bodies are only trying to protect us!

Reframing these sensations of “fear” and “nervousness” into excitement allowed for a more easy going surf.

As much as I wish I could cool my nerves, sometimes I just have the surf alongside them.

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The range of emotions that surfing can stir up is unlike anything else ⚡️Just like with life, without the lows we can’t fully appreciate the highs.

I feel like these 6 things stay fairly consistent no matter how good someone gets a surfing - there’s always going to be a moment in the water that makes you feel small 🌎

What would you add? 👇

Ways to connect further:
➡️ 1 open spot for private health & nutrition coaching (June/ July 2023)

➡️ Reconnect Surr & Yoga retreats August & September 2023

DM me for more info

Falling or flying? Either way I made it 🤣

I remember dropping in that foam and the board feeling so light under my feet and I just thought, this really could go either way 😅

Sometimes you just trust the process and it all works out 🤷‍♀️

➡️ Let’s surf together in Lobitos!

Upcoming Reconnect Retreats in August and September 🏄‍♀️🏄‍♀️
➡️ Link in bio with all the details or DM me to chat!

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Falling or flying? Either way I made it 🤣

I remember dropping in that foam and the board feeling so light under my feet and I just thought, this really could go either way 😅

Sometimes you just trust the process and it all works out 🤷‍♀️

➡️ Let’s surf together in Lobitos!

Upcoming Reconnect Retreats in August and September 🏄‍♀️🏄‍♀️
➡️ Link in bio with all the details or DM me to chat!

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If you make it through the learning curve of surfing, you’re resilient AF.

If you haven’t - keep going, it gets better 🙃

Next Reconnect Surf & Yoga retreats in Lobitos Peru:
➡️ August 6th-13th
➡️September 3rd- 10th

Link in bio with alll the info! 🏄‍♀️🏄‍♀️

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Surfing is not my escape. It’s not a place where nothing else matters. Actually it’s the place where everything matters. The idea that the ocean and surfing wash away our problems is inherently problematic, at least it is for me.

If surfing gives you all the feels, and it’s not an escape; in other words if it brings a hyper presence to how you’re feeling physically, emotionally or mentally, that’s such a helpful starting place for personal growth!

If you’re as fascinated by this topic as I am you might relate to my latest blog post “Surfing is not my Escape” link in bio!

P.s- these are the types of things we work on during our Reconnect Retreats in Lobitos. We have one in August and another in September! Info in bio or DM me to chat about it!!

When I think of someone who’s confident, I think of people doing things that I struggle with. There’s no clear cut definition of who’s confident and who’s not because confidence doesn’t spread itself evenly over every aspect of our lives.

In listening to one of my new fav podcasts by Mel Robbins, she shared that confidence is just the willingness to try! ✅

Ok but surfing can be scary, right? We’re always taking calculated risks and we can’t just surf any wave.

These are the things that I would consciously focus on first in order to boost my confidence in surfing. I rely on these foundations every time I go out for a surf. It’s a practice not something you learn once, and forget about. 🏄‍♀️

For me, these are aligned actions that help improve confidence in the water in the water and allow for more enjoyment in surfing 🤗

Is there anything you’d add to this list? 👇

If you’re not having fun, you’re doing it wrong… There’s so much we can’t control in the water so I think it’s important to set ourselves up for success as best as possible!

What would you add to this list?! 👇

Next Reconnect Surf & Yoga experience is happens in July! DM for the details!

I can still remember what the fear in my body felt like when I started surfing. The tension in my stomach, the beating of my heart and the racing thoughts over analyzing every situation.

The goal was to learn how to stand up, surf down the face of the wave, and down the line.

Nothing more.

What I didn’t realize was that surfing would become this vehicle for energetic shifts to happen through me.

It became a tool that helped me observe and retrain how I spoke to myself.

It pushed me though moments I didn’t know I had the capability to handle.

So now I understand those years I spent longing to learn how to surf wasn’t just because I wanted the life of the girls from Blue Crush.

It was an energetic connection, a pull, that wasn’t ever going to go away.

Because what’s meant for you, won’t pass you by.

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Since the first Reconnect retreat in November I’ve been trying to figure out how to create something that can bring us together in community and friendship, foster transformations, and provide a safe space for sharing - without having to travel.

Now, Reconnect Holistic Coaching will be able to do just that!

12 weeks of learning, connecting, and sharing for the purpose of personal growth and transformation.

Change your habits, elevate your energy and mood, improve your gut health, reconnect to your values and priorities, & find support within our community 🤍

DM me if you think it might be a good fit for you!

No surfing experience required! This is a diet, lifestyle and mindset based program 💪

Change the mindset you approach your diet with and watch how easy it becomes to maintain.

The way you nourish yourself is a direct reflection on how you feel about yourself.

So do it from a place of love, not hate 🤍

To say I had low self confidence when I started surfing would be an understatement 😅

As surfers we are ALWAYS learning - and I'm not just talking about the technical stuff.

Our behaviour, mindset, and energy can make a massive difference to how we progress and more importantly how much we ENJOY being in the water.

I wish I knew about all of this when I first started surfing. Even though I understand them now, it's still a practice to implement these and some days are easier than others.

Can you think of anything you'd add? Comment below and let's create a list of resources together⬇️ 🏄🏽‍♀️✨

Tuning into the energy moving through our bodies✨

Renewing connections through breath✨

Observing the spaces that feel tense, tight, or blocked✨

Moving with intentionality - not a performance but a practice✨

Knowing when to keep going and when to slow down✨

Reconnecting to your authentic expression 🤍

If surfing ever feels draining, anxiety provoking or exhausting, you may be experiencing burnout! 😓

It happens to the best of us but there’s a lot you can do to overcome it without feeling stressed or overwhelmed.

The first step is figuring out WHY you’re experiencing burnout and take it from there.

🔗If you find this post helpful, you can read the full blog at www.leahdonatiello.com/burnout-in-surfing/

Let me know what part you most identify with! ⬇️

Reconnect™ is designed to foster and enhance a deep connection to surfing, the ocean and your own personal development.

Over the week we work on overcoming the obstacles that aren't letting you progress in your surfing.

We use holistic strategies that help with confidence, catching more waves and having more fun in the water!

We also have all of your logistics covered for the week so you can just focus on yourself!

Join us in Lobitos from March 5th- 11th for the next retreat ✨

Al agua 🏄‍♀️