October 22-26, 2025
May we use the word
becoming
becoming
becoming
as our central mantra
and accept everything that it brings in its wake.
~ Bayo Akomolafe
This retreat is a return—a quiet unfolding into stillness, attuning into what is felt, and a rekindling of our relationship with the subtle.
Here, we will immerse ourselves in the wisdom of our own remembering, letting it guide us as we steep in presence, awareness, and a gentle unfolding.
As we dance between the internal and external, the personal and the collective, may this remembering create a more harmonious and authentic connection with the world around us, allowing the outer web to reweave into a deeper wisdom.
May we know the nectar that flows from a willingness to sink deeply within, to ground ourselves in quietude, to listen intently, to sing, to move, to impulse, and to be fully witnessed in it all.
We were put here to gawk: To be amazed. That is our spiritual responsibility. What is asked of us in return for all of this beauty is to acknowledge the majesty of this world and to reply with rituals of appreciation and gratitude.
~ Brian Swimme
Gather with us as we steep into the darker season, drawing towards center, circle, and each other. Expect slow practices and soft kinship, restorative meanderings, as weave a collective sanctuary of slowness, ritual and rest.
Imagine fireside poetry, sitting with tea, somatic breathwork, contemplative movement, mythic wonderings, melty flows, candlelit yin and remembering our nature - together.
SOMATIC BREATH WORK | The breath as a bridge. Music as a guide. A space to listen deeply. This is an opportunity to allow what wants to emerge and be metabolized. Whether through ripples of emotion, symbolic images, somatic release, or deep stillness—this is an invitation to trust the intelligence of psyche and soma - to come home to the body’s knowing.
POETRY + WRITING | The alchemy of language, the art of re-membering. In a world pulling us outward, poetry offers a doorway inward—a place to land, to listen, to let language be a vessel for resonance. Through the practice of both receiving and creating, we allow words to shape-shift into mirrors, guiding us home.
FIRESIDE CHATS + MYTHIC WONDERINGS | Fire. Stories. Kinship. These are the elements of collective return. Beneath the night sky, with embers flickering, we’ll sit in the ancient rhythm of storytelling, letting the skies, the voices, and the silence wrap around us —rekindling our nature.
TEA AS VIBRATIONAL MEDICINE | Tea as a teacher, a ritual, a vibrational medicine, a quiet conversation. This ancient art of cultivation lives in many traditions, midwifing us into deepening a relationship with both flow and structure and the kaleidoscope of the subtle realm.
ASANA + EMBODIMENT | Slow, wiggly flows. Deep, steeped yin. A practice of inhabiting the body in the way it longs to be moved—fluid, intuitive, and reverent. These long form morning practices will invite exploration and deep listening to the ways in which we each want to be moved. Light on alignment, big on individual curiosity.
VOCAL EXPRESSION
We’re honored to welcome Ahlay Blakely for a fireside, embodied song ritual. Through call and echo, she’ll share songs rooted in the community singing movement—simple, soulful, and meant to be felt.
After days of tending our small container, we’ll open the afternoon to the village, inviting local folx to join in shared song. Together, we’ll turn towards of collective resonance—a weaving of voices and hearts.
This is a space to remember sound as a birthright and to let the voices carry what words cannot. A coming together toward center—of self, of community, of song.
Nestled within the Columbia River basin, outside of Portland, Oregon, we’ll be gathering on a secluded twenty-acre sanctuary of old-growth cedar, open meadows, and a bubbling creek—offering the perfect refuge for deep rest and renewal.
Nurture your senses in the cedar barrel sauna and cold plunge for the senses as well as a couple outdoor bathtubs.
FOOD
Meals at this retreat are lovingly crafted by Aleya Love with seasonal, locally sourced ingredients, focusing on nourishment and digestibility. She works closely with local farms for and uses organic ingredients when possible. Meals are primarily cooked in her small batch handcrafted ghee. Special attention is given to digestion, using practices like soaking and sprouting grains and nuts, and incorporating fiber, ferments, and Ayurvedic principles to create balanced, wholesome meals.
“Here is my love letter to you, dear wanderer. You deserve to be alive while you are still alive. Be here in your life."
Jayla John
Logistics + Inclusions
- All meals + workshops are included.
- Transport to the venue is NOT included but we will have some rideshare options from Portland.
- Those flying will fly to Portland.
- Checkin @ 3:00 on the 22nd
- Checkout @ 10am on the 26th
SAMPLE SCHEDULE
7:30 am | Morning sadhana (movement / asana / meditation)
9:30 am | Breakfast
11:30 am | Contemplative workshop (fire building, tea ceremony or earth altars)
1:30 pm | Lunch & rest
4:30 pm | Community gathering + ritual (song & story circle or yin)
7:00 pm | Dinner
This is not a yoga retreat. While asana is a powerful tool we will explore, it is just one of many modalities and medicines we will engage with. This experiential retreat offers a diverse range of practices, inviting us to explore ourselves and the world from multiple perspectives.
Christine Calvert
Christine Calvert is a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor and a certified Holotropic Breathwork® facilitator. She is a facilitator and teacher of Holotropic Breathwork both in the US and internationally. She enjoys finding ways to weave her personal and professional experience of different therapeutic and spiritual systems such as Shamanism, Somatic Experiencing, Jungian psychology, attachment theory, and mindfulness practices into her work with others. Christine maintains a private counseling and consulting practice in addition to facilitating Holotropic Breathwork® workshops regularly.
COLE CHANCE
Cole is a mover, a seeker, and a devoted student of the human experience. She believes movement is medicine, story is a bridge, and curiosity is the truest compass. Teaching in many capacities from studios, retreats and trainings to festivals and prisons, her offerings fuse flavorful asana and embodiment practices, nervous system and trauma literacy, yogic and Buddhist philosophy, eco-somatic and mytho-poetics all swirled up with compassionate self-inquiry.
Rooms from US $1995-2995,
with US $600 deposit
