9/25 – 9/28 Joshua Tree Retreat at Gaia Villa!
Overview
Elevated Elements Retreat.
Are you ready to step into your highest timeline?
To feel aligned, energized, and deeply connected to your purpose?
What would it feel like to wake up each day clear, grounded, and inspired?
What truly nourishes your soul?
These are the questions we will explore together over 3 nights and 4 days in a breathtaking retreat setting in Joshua Tree.
This experience has been thoughtfully designed to support meaningful transformation. Every element—from the space to the curriculum to the rhythm of each day—is curated to create the conditions for deep restoration, clarity, and personal growth.
If you are ready to reconnect with yourself, expand into your fullest potential, and elevate the way you live, we warmly invite you to join us this September.
What’s included:
- 3 nights at the stunning Gaia Villa
- Fresh, locally sourced, seasonal meals catered by Ethical Cornucopia
- Daily yoga, meditation, chanting, and soul-led philosophy classes with Allison & Katie
- Healing immersion in the saltwater grotto pool
- Optional cold plunge
- Guided hiking + picnic in Joshua Tree National Park
- Expansive desert skies and unforgettable stargazing
Retreat Overview
The Experience
Together, we will create a supportive, retreat-style sanctuary—an ashram-inspired environment where you can step away from the demands of daily life and fully immerse in your own healing and renewal.
Your days will unfold in a nourishing rhythm of:
- Yoga and embodied movement
- Meditation and breathwork
- Chanting and philosophy
- Rest, reflection, and time in nature
All held within the beauty and stillness of the desert, and supported by a like-hearted community.
What You’ll Leave With
- A regulated and nourished nervous system
- Greater clarity and alignment with your purpose
- Tools to support your daily well-being
- A deeper connection to yourself and others
Schedule:
Friday
- 11:30 AM meet at Be The Change Yoga to carpool to Joshua Tree
- 1:30 PM Opening Ceremony – intention setting at Earth, Yoga, and Spa
- 2:00 PM Grounding / Root Chakra Yoga Class + Overview of Panchamaya Kosha System at Earth, Yoga, and Spa
- 4:00 PM check-in to Gaia Villa
- 4:30 PM Pool time, Journaling
- 6:00 PM Welcome dinner – Ethical Cornuciopia
- 8:00 PM Pacifying the Manomaya Layer and Releasing Limiting Beliefs
Saturday
- 8:00 – 10:00 AM Yoga Practice: Diving into the Vijnanamaya Layer, Bhavana and Soul-Aligned Living
- 10:00 AM Breakfast – Ethical Cornuciopia
- 2:00 PM: Pool, Cold Plunge, Bhavana, Journaling, Freetime
- 4:00 PM: Vikriti Assessment
- 5:30 PM: Dinner
- 7:00 PM: Yoga Practice: Releasing blockages in the Chakra system and connecting to the Anandamaya Layer
Sunday
- 5:30 AM: Sunrise Hike + Yoga in Joshua Tree National Park
- 7:30 AM: Breakfast To Go
- 11:00 AM: Brunch at Food for Thought Cafe
- 1:00 PM: Pool, Cold Plunge, Breathwork, Journaling, Freetime
- 3:00 PM Restorative and Yin Cooling Practice
- 5:00 PM: Dinner
- 6:00 PM: Yoga and Meditation Practice: Activating Your Highest Timeline
Monday
- 7:00 AM: Yoga Practice: Living a Soul-Aligned Life / Anchoring back into the Earth / Preparing to Transition into Daily Life / Closing
- 8:30 AM: Breakfast
- 9:00 AM: Clean and pack up
- 10:00 AM: Check-out
What makes Gaia Villa so special?
- Beautiful indoor & outdoor yoga studios – fully stocked with props
- Saltwater pool with grotto waterfall & Jacuzzi Spa
- Beautiful living space, gorgeous outdoor area, and a rooftop patio with firepit and VIEWS!
- Entertainment Bar w/ wine fridge Washer + Dryer
- Alkaline Water on tap
- WiFi, Smart TV, board games, library
- Outdoor Kitchen
- 2 Cold Plunge Tubs
- Outdoor games: Bocce Ball, Cornhole,
- Jumbo Jenga
- Convenient access to JT National Park, trails & shops
- 4000 sq. ft. of gorgeous living space, and 3.5 acres of land
- Oversized natural boulder fire pit Plenty of parking!
Gaia Villa can accommodate up to 16 guests.
Room Rates
ROOM #1 – PREMIUM QUAD (DOWNSTAIRS)
1 King, 1 Twin w/ Trundle sleeps 4
Quad: $1,695/person
ROOM #2 – STANDARD DOUBLE (DOWNSTAIRS)
Twin bunk beds sleeps 2
Double: $1,595/person
ROOM #3 – PREMIUM DOUBLE (DOWNSTAIRS)
2 Twins or 1 King sleeps 2
Double: $1,795/person
ROOM #4 – FLEXIBLE ROOM (UPSTAIRS)
2 Twins or 1 King sleeps 2
Double: $1,795/person
Single: $2,495/person (limited availability)
ROOM #5 – FLEXIBLE ROOM
2 Twins or 1 King sleeps 2
Double: $1,795/person
Single: $2,495/person (limited availability)
ROOM #6 – VALUE QUAD
2 twins and 1 bunk bed sleeps 4
Quad: $1,395/person
Policies and FAQ’s
Spaces are limited, and will be saved first come, first serve, with a $600 non-refundable deposit.
- Please contact Tiffanie@bethechangeyoga.com in advance to confirm room availability/preferences.
- Remaining payments will be due: 5/15, 6/15, 7/15, 8/15
CANCELLATION POLICY:
All payments made are non-refundable, unless we are able to fill your spot (minus your deposit.)
Should we fill up, please let me know if you’d like to be added to the wait-list. Plans change, and spots occasionally open up!
Topics Covered
- We begin with self-knowledge and self-care
- Pancha Mahabhuta: 5 Element Theory in the Body and the Natural World
- Tridosha Theory: Vata, Pitta, Kapha
- Understanding your unique makeup
- Exploring and releasing limiting beliefs
- Panchamaya Kosha Model
- Connection to Vijnanamaya / Values and Wisdom layer
- Connection to Anandamaya / Spiritual / Bliss layer
- Bhavana, Visualization, and Manifestation
- Calling in your highest timeline
- Yoga, Breathwork, and Meditation
- Practices for Clarity and Connection
- The Subtle Body: 7 Chakra System
- Mantras and Mudras for Energetic Activation
Allison Prince, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500
Katie Allen, MPH, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500
Katie received her Master’s degree in Public Health from Tulane University. She wrote her Master’s thesis on Yoga’s ability to prevent and treat chronic disease and that has been her life’s work ever since! She studied yoga therapy in the lineage of Krishnamacharya with her teachers Ruth (Sraddhasagar) Hartung, Larry Payne, Robert Birnberg, Amy Wheeler, and the KYM faculty in Chennai, India.
She opened Be The Change Yoga Studio and Natural Health Center in Irvine, CA in 2013 with her teaching partner Allison Prince. Together they have been leading Yoga Teacher Training Programs since 2010, Katie loves sharing the life-enhancing wisdom of the Yoga Sutras as way to upgrade every single aspect of life. Katie launched OC’s first and only Yoga Therapist Training in 2016 and is the Founding School Director for AlcheMe Yoga Therapy Training.
She is passionate about bringing the empowerment based lifestyle medicine principles out of the yoga studios and into under-served communities, as well as hospitals and health systems. She utilizes her background in Public Health to effectively build community-based yoga therapy and health education programs to improve personal and community health, while training the next generation of integrative health providers.
She has been studying Ayurveda for over 10 years with Eleni Tsikrikas and Mas Vidal. She most recently formalized her Ayurveda education with James Bailey at the Sevanti Institute and is currently conducting her clinical internship hours.
