An Empowerment & Renewal Retreat
This is an invitation to pause, realign, and step fully into the next phase of your spiritual journey — six nights on a private property in the high desert outside Palm Springs.
Away from every role you play in your everyday life.
No inbox. No one needing you first. Just land, sky, animals, rest, and the kind of quiet where your own inner voice finally gets to answer for once.
"The wild was never something to escape to. It's the frequency you forgot you were tuned to."
Meeting the Wild
What the land gives back
Each of these is more than a day trip. Every one of them asks something real of you — and sends you home with something you didn't arrive with.
A day with the wolves
Wolves don't perform and they don't pretend. Standing with the pack asks you to drop the self you manage for everyone else and meet your own instinct — the loyalty, the fierceness, the parts that were never meant to be tamed. You'll leave remembering your wildness was never the problem.
New moon under the desert sky
The darkest night of the month, nowhere near a city light — that's when the sky gets loud. We gather for an intention and manifestation ceremony: name what you're done carrying, name what you're calling in, and let the desert hold the space while you do the asking.
The heart of the horse
Horses respond to what you're actually feeling, not the story you're telling out loud. A morning with the Mustangs is a straight lesson in presence and honest power — they meet you exactly as you are, and gently show you where you're still bracing. It stays with you long after you're home.
The animal guide trail
On Sunday, a guided totem meditation along a quarter-mile trail set with thirty animal guides of the medicine wheel. The teaching goes like this: you don't spot them — they choose to let you see them, because they have something for you. Walk it slow, rest on the benches along the way, and notice which guide stops you — and what it's asking you to carry home.
Held Between Quiet Days
Two of us hold this week — me, and my co-host Heather Navarro. Between us: twenty-five years of yoga, a clinical social-work career, and a shared, trauma-informed sense of what safety actually feels like in the body. We've each done our own healing and come out the other side thriving — loving, clear, wide awake, and not pretending otherwise. That's the ground we're offering you to stand on.
This isn't a packed itinerary of boxes to check. It's spacious, on purpose — those four encounters held between long, quiet days built for nothing but rest, yoga, and each other.
You'll feel it in your body before your mind catches up — the exhale that finally goes all the way down, the moment your shoulders remember they're allowed to drop. That's the work. The rest is just where it happens.
