Quarterly weekend retreats in three of the most beautiful places in California. Hot springs in Ojai. High desert in Joshua Tree. Redwoods and ocean in Big Sur. Phones go in a basket on arrival. Mornings start slow. The work, when it happens, happens around a fire.
Three days in a place that resets the nervous system. A small group, a slower clock, real food, long sleep, and movement that doesn’t apologize. You arrive Friday with whatever the week has put in you. You drive home Sunday with something the week couldn’t reach.
Each location runs once a season. Different terrain, different weather, the same eight-person cohort cap. You can choose by date, by drive time, or by which one your body needs.
Hot springs at the foot of the Topatopa Mountains. Citrus groves, oak canyons, and a town small enough to walk across before breakfast.
High desert. Granite, juniper, and a kind of quiet you can hear. The retreat people sign up for when they need their values back at the surface.
Coastal redwoods on one side, the Pacific on the other. The only retreat with an optional Family Saturday, built for the people closest to you.
There is always somewhere to be, and always permission to take ten minutes alone.
Yoga or a guided walk. No bells, no shame for sleeping in. People who showed up exhausted on Friday are encouraged to stay in bed until breakfast.
Whole-food meals, gluten and dairy options, prepared on site. We eat together. Phones are not at the table.
What the week put in the body, brought to the surface, and let go of. Not talk, not bodywork. The point is to notice, name, release.
Two hours. Nap. Read. Walk. Sit with the cohort. Sit alone. No assigned content, no “should.”
What is the actual life you are building? Where is it strong, where is it thin, what comes home with you Monday? This is the group people tell us they remember a year later.
Coherence and box breathing, paced and grounded. Or a sunset walk for the cohort that has had enough sitting.
Family-style dinner, then an open circle around the fire. Nothing required. Stories happen. So does quiet. Bed by 10.
Calibrated to the destination and the cohort. Together they make a complete arc from arrival to re-entry.
Family Saturday at Big Sur adds two additional threads for partners, parents, and adult children: a family-systems circle and a structured “what I need to say” practice. Held with care, not performance.
Cohorts cap at eight and tend to fill weeks out. Send a note and we’ll share the upcoming dates and which destination might be the right one for where you are.