Our Upcoming Retreat: 4/17 – 4/19
Strength in Stillness
Join us for a weekend of wellness designed to restore balance between strength and rest. Through intentional movement, breathwork, and immersive sound experiences, you’ll build resilience in the body while calming the nervous system and creating space for deep restoration.
This weekend invites you to slow down, reconnect with your inner rhythm, and release what no longer serves you—without pressure or expectation. Step away from the noise, return to yourself, and leave feeling grounded, clear, and renewed. We’ve created a weekend of activities: classes, sound baths, and workshops to be held at Spirit Barn and the surrounding area.
Resilience and Personal Empowerment
There is a pathway to power. Building resilience strength is not only about muscular strength—it is about clarity, confidence, and understanding your body’s limits so you can move beyond them safely and sustainably.
Our approach integrates physical training with mental awareness, helping you develop resilience that carries into every aspect of life. You’ll learn how to work with your body in ways that promote longevity at any age, focusing on both front and back-body kinetic chains. Practices include strength, mobility, agility, coordination, balance, and breathwork—because true strength is integrated, adaptable, and alive.
No matter where you are in your physical journey, your personal evolution and potential are waiting.
Restoration and Inner Peace
When we move with intention and rest with presence, the nervous system settles, the mind quiets, and clarity emerges. Through intentional movement, breathwork, and immersive sound experiences, you’ll build resilience in the body while calming the nervous system and creating space for deep restoration. There will be time to slow down, reconnect with your inner rhythm, and release what no longer serves you—without pressure or expectation.
Spending time in community and nature restore our souls. There will be opportunity for heart-opening, guided stillness, as well as time to connect with the stars, the ocean, Redwood trees and retreat center mountain views.
What’s Included:
- Access to Carmel’s Private, Sacred, Mountainside Retreat Oasis
- Off-site activities at nearby Redwood Grove and Carmel Beach
- Yoga Classes/Strength & Resilience Training
- Tibetan Sound Experience by Tibetan Sowa Kalden Kho
- Serenity Sound Bath with Restorative Yoga
- Morning/Evening Guided Meditation
- Stargazing and Beach Sunset Bonfire
- Organic Whole Prepared Meals
- Personal time with retreats hosts/teachers so you can take home your own personal practice—creating long-term self-care for resilience and restoration
- Full agenda available below
Strength in Stillness Agenda
Day 1: (Wind-down, Release and Restore- Sound, Song 1-1 healing)
- 3:00 – 4:00 PM – Out of town guests check -in at hotels
- 4:00 – 5:00 PM – Arrival for weekend guests/Opening Circle/Intros
- 5:00 – 6:15 PM – Multi-healer “Welcome to Serenity” Sound Bath with optional deeply restorative yoga poses
- 6:30 – 7:45 PM – Dinner indoors or seated by the outdoor fireplace by Chef Kari Bernardi and Stefano Moro
- 7:45 – 9:15 PM – Dessert/Tea, Stargazing meditation, vocals by Wendy Edelstein and reiki, plus 1-1 sound healing
Day 2: (Strengthen Body & Mind, Nourish your soul with Nature, Tibetan Sound and Sea)
- 8 AM – 9: 15 AM – Morning Pages/Meditation/Breakfast
- 9:15 – 11:00 AM – Strength in Length! Empowering your own personal physical strength, flexibility and mobility, agility, coordination and balance with lessons to take home for ongoing resilience and maintaining a strong anterior and posterior chain
- 11:00 – 11:30 – Extended Savasana with Accompanying Live Sound Meditation Music
- 11:30 – 1:00 PM – Lunch by Chef Kari Bernardi
- 1:30 – 2:30 PM – Forest Bathing &/or Nature hike to nearby Redwoods with Ocean views
- 3:00 – 4:00 PM – Relax, unstructured time to rest, socialize and/or prepare for evening activities
- 4:00 – 5:30 PM – Tibetan Experience with Kalden Kho (sound mediation followed by time for discussion and Q&A)
- 5:45 – 7:00 PM – Dinner by Chef Kari Bernardi
- 7:00 – 8:30 PM – Sunset at the Beach with a “Release Ritual” and Music/Didgeridoo, flute, drums & more 9 PM – After beach gathering by the fire continues
Day 3: (Stretch and Release, Balance and Integrate and Experience Nourishment and Joy in Community)
- 8 AM – 9:15 AM – Morning Pages/Meditation/Breakfast
- 9:15 – 10:45 AM – Morning Extended Yoga & Breathwork with David Stickler
- 10:45 – 11:30 AM – Restorative Sound Bath with Wendy Moro and Kalden Kho
- Noon – 1:00 PM – Lunch by Stefano Moro and Kari Bernardi
- 1:00 – 2:30 PM – Cooking class with Stefano Moro and Kari Bernard! Cook with the seasons, with ease and flexibility, nutritional tips 2:30 – 3:30 PM – Individual time with hosts and closing circle for weekend guests.
