Meet your Founder and Host - Jess!

Hello to you, beautiful soul!

I started Omni Movement Retreats with a vision to help women build confidence through fitness, adventure and self love in paradise!

I have been a coach and in the fitness industry for 12 years now. After leaving the military at a young age of 23 to then spending the last 10 years living all over SE Asia from training athletes in Thailand to running a gym in the Maldives, to adventuring around Vietnam and Indonesia to making my way BACK to Thailand where Omni Movement Retreats was born! My mission is to bring you along on the same journey that completely changed my life! through movement, adventure and sisterhood.

Ive lived and breathed fitness and adventure in SE Asia over the last decade and want to bring you ladies along on a life changing experience all beautifully hand picked, experienced and put together by yours truly!

I’ve truly taken the hard work out of planning a fitness holiday for you, all you need to do is get on a plane, meet me in Paradise and I will take care of the rest! Looking forward to connecting with you in Paradise.

All my love

Jessie Petersen

Meet your Retreat Host - Mercedes!

Kia ora / hello beautiful people

I’m so excited to introduce myself to you all through Omni Retreats!

I’m Mercedes, born and raised in the beautiful Mount Maunganui, New Zealand, and now calling Scarborough, Western Australia, home. 

Movement has always been a huge part of my life. Growing up, I wanted to be a part of anything and everything physical, especially group sports. As I got older, that love shifted into group fitness, and later expanded into running , strength training and all things health and wellness.

My coaching journey began at F45, then grew into hosting community events, and has since led me to my current role as a Health and Wellbeing Coordinator in the mining industry, whilst also studying nutrition online.

After experiencing first-hand just how powerfully transforming training can be, not only physically, but mentally and emotionally, I felt drawn to building a career in this space. One of my favorite parts of coaching is reminding people how strong and capable they truly are and watching that confidence flow into other areas of life. Training is about so much more than just fitness- investing in your physical health has the ability to positively influence every other part of your life and doing that alongside others makes it even more special.

I’m here on this retreat to move with you, train with you, and remind you of the magic that is community and movement.

We’re going to have so much fun exploring paradise, meeting beautiful people and of course, enjoying a bit of fitness along the way. I cannot wait to share this with you all!

With so much love, Merc