Affiliate Retreats
Affiliate Retreats at Ojas Retreat Center are an experience that include meals and hospitality services facilitated by our staff. These retreats are open for public registration and you are welcome to join!
A Devotional Exploration: Music, Mantra & Movement
January 19-22, 2023
Join Astrud & Arjun over the course of 4 days and 3 night as we will offer yoga, sunrise mantra meditation, kirtan, sound journeys, frame drum and harmonium workshop as well as time for hiking, swimming, relaxing and enjoying vegan and vegi meals. An excellent time to reconnect, recommit and nourish your practice as we enter the space of a new year.
Arjun Bruggeman
World percussionist, drummer, composer and session recording artist, is highly acclaimed for his unique hybrid of East-meets-West rhythms. He brings two decades of experience as a practitioner of Eastern and Western spiritual lineages to his playing, along with 16 years touring as a tabla player with Krishna Das.
Astrud Castillo has been teaching yoga and leading kirtan for over 20 years. She has taught workshops and shared kirtan in the U.S and internationally and is known for her inclusive and accessible teachings. Her yoga is infused with conscious breathing, mindful alignment and devotion.
Bhakti Yoga Shala Yoga Teacher Training
200 Hour Residential Program With Govind Das
February 13-24, 2023
The BHAKTI YOGA SHALA International Yoga Teacher Training is a rich, heart opening, and soulful Teacher Training program for aspiring and current teachers and sincere yet playful students of yoga.
This unique and uplifting residential course will take place over a 12 day and 11 night period. This heart-based joyful program offers an opportunity for students to live a yogic lifestyle as well as deepen their own bhakti-based yoga practice, practice teaching yoga classes, lead chants, study philosophy and share the blessings of bhakti yoga and satsang in a very loving and supportive atmosphere.
This course will focus on the ancient tradition of Bhakti Yoga as well as Bhakti Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Mantra, and Kirtan. In honoring the ancient tradition and art of Bhakti, the path of love, devotion and service, this course will provide a strong foundation and clear techniques for the student of yoga to transform into a teacher of yoga. For those that are currently teaching yoga, this is an opportunity to root deeply in the philosophy and techniques of Bhakti.
Spring Renewal Retreat
April 19- April 22, 2023
Enjoy twice daily yoga practices with Gabrielle and Beth, where you will learn and expand your healing repertoire with such modalities as yoga nidra, kirtan, meditation and breathwork. The morning session will be more movement-based, where you’ll have the opportunity to re-energize and heat up your body. The afternoon session will allow for more restoration and introspection. In between your yoga sessions, you’ll dine on delicious vegetarian meals and have the opportunity to rest or move at your leisure. In fact, the retreat center is located next to the Santa Rosa Ecological Reserve, which is home to nearly 40 miles of hiking and biking trails. The property has ample space for you to connect while lounging near the pool, soaking in the hot tub, or enjoying some downtime by the outdoor firepit. On-site massage therapy is also available for an additional fee. Retreat led by Gabrielle Om (Owner of Ojas Retreat) & Beth Snow Mac.
Conscious Journey Retreat
April 27- April 30, 2023
Step into an experience where you can quiet your mind, engage your body, and empower your soul. Feed your senses with the beautiful surroundings of our retreat locations. Nourish your heart with the love and support you will feel from your retreat community. Experience the best healing practices to reboot your energy, replenish your mind, and reconnect you to your soul. Whether you’re a seasoned traveler on your healing journey or you are just getting started, our Conscious Journey Retreat is designed for you.
Our time together will include daily yoga classes, meditation and breathwork sessions, sound healing, mindfulness walks in the natural surroundings of the property, individual body work sessions, healing touch, tribal drumming, art expression, delicious meals, ample time to decompress and re-energize!
This retreat is co-hosted by Stefany Reed, MATP and Lisa McJunkin, LMFT & CHTP
Radiant Women Wellness Retreat
May 5- May 10, 2023
On this retreat, you will have time to deeply connect to your divine wisdom in a welcoming space full of other radiant womxn. Posey honors your time and space, so we will have collective time together and plenty of personal time to process and go inward. She believes transformation is done collectively and individually and this retreat will have time for both. Pamper yourself and grab your best friends to join you!
Our time will include daily yoga classes (which will vary - vinyasa, yin, restorative, gentle flow, and authentic movement, & yoga Nidra), mindfulness walks in the natural surroundings of the property, delicious meals, a local wine vineyard tour, and ample time to decompress . Led by Posey Kettler Daves of Posey the Yogi
VETOGA Yoga Teacher Training
May 25- May 30, 2023
This hybrid online and residential teacher training will equip veterans with the holistic tools and teachings to pass on the healing benefits of yoga to their veteran communities. Through this work we enable and encourage veterans to create harmony peace for themselves as well as others, allowing them to continue their service in a more peaceful way.
This training is for active military, veterans, and first responders who have a desire to empower themselves and others with wellness tools using yoga practices.
VEOGA is a non-profit organization founded by former Marine, Justin Blazejewski. The training is led by Justin and Gabrielle Kali Om (VETOGA facilitator & owner of Ojas Retreat)
Insight Yoga Therapy Trauma Informed Retreat.
June 23-25, 2023
Trauma informed yoga retreat with a therapeutic focus. Classes will include restorative, yin, and gentle flow, all trauma informed. There will be opportunities for meditations, including inner child meditations, as well as hiking, swimming, and relaxing. Led by Mary Ortenburger, LMFT, CEDS-S, RYT
Quantum Leap Your Life:
From Lacking Inspiration to Unlocking Creation
July 27 - July 31
Tap into the quantum and unlock your creativity to start living as your best self! It’s always been in there, but society often doesn’t teach you how to tap into this energy, liberate it and how to never run out of it. After years of training, we have developed methods that will help you leave this retreat feeling like the most expansive, creative, and vibrant of yourself you've have ever been. Manifesting, quantum leaping, tapping into this creative energy isn’t hard, but you just have to know how to do it. This is what you are going to be refining at the Quantum Leap Your Life Retreat. Led by Rechaka Retreats
Conscious Journey Retreat
September 28 - October 1
Step into an experience where you can quiet your mind, engage your body, and empower your soul. Feed your senses with the beautiful surroundings of our retreat locations. Nourish your heart with the love and support you will feel from your retreat community. Experience the best healing practices to reboot your energy, replenish your mind, and reconnect you to your soul. Whether you’re a seasoned traveler on your healing journey or you are just getting started, our Conscious Journey Retreat is designed for you.
Our time together will include daily yoga classes, meditation and breathwork sessions, sound healing, mindfulness walks in the natural surroundings of the property, individual body work sessions, healing touch, tribal drumming, art expression, delicious meals, ample time to decompress and re-energize!
This retreat is co-hosted by Stefany Reed, MATP and Lisa McJunkin, LMFT & CHTP
Move With Grief: A Wellness Retreat
October 5-8, 2023
Join Nya Daley (Soulga Yoga) and Monique Minahan (The Grief Practice) for 4 days of community centered resourcing and body-oriented practices sensitive to trauma and grief in the body and mind, optional group walks, ocean outings, guided writing sessions, comfort and healthy food for mind and body, all in a supportive, spacious environment.
