5/15 – 5/18 Joshua Tree Retreat at Gaia Villa!
May 15, 2025 @ 8:00 am - May 18, 2025 @ 5:00 pm
Overview
Spring Cleanse, Reset, and Renew | Yoga Therapy & Ayurveda Retreat
Spring is the best time of year to take action! To reflect, release the residue from the previous season, reset your systems, and gain clarity for the next season of life.
Spend 3 nights and 4 days with Be The Change Yoga Co-Founders, Allison and Katie in a gorgeous retreat center in Joshua Tree that is specifically designed for health and healing. Together, we will create a safe ashram environment where you can completely disconnect from your life, so you can nourish yourself on every level.
This transformative experience will consist of a 4-day Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy Lifestyle Medicine Retreat with simple, nourishing foods to improve digestion, elimination, and detoxification. Coupled with daily yoga, meditation, philosophy practices surrounded by natural beauty and a supportive community, you will gain all the tools you need to release undigested experiences and increase lightness in all layers of being.
What’s included:
- 3 nights at the stunning Gaia Villa
- Fresh, locally sourced, seasonal Ayurvedic meals
- Daily Yoga, Meditation, Cleansing and Lifestyle Medicine Classes with Allison and Katie
- Healing Immersion in Saltwater Grotto Pool
- Hiking and Picnic in Joshua Tree National Park
- Sound Bath at Integratron, exploring Pioneer Town
- Cacao Ceremony
- A night sky like you have never seen before!
- Community, Connection, and Nourishment!
Retreat Overview
Day 1: Get Grounded (Earth Element)
- 12:00 PM: Check-in, get settled
- 2:00 PM: Opening Ceremony – intention setting
- 3:00 PM: Grounding Yoga Practice + 5 Element Teachings
- 4:30 PM: Pool time, journaling, dosha quiz
- 6:30 PM: Welcome dinner – learn how to make ghee and kitcherie
- 8:00 PM: Root chakra restorative yoga practice with guided imagery
Day 2: Flow with Life (Water Element)
- 7:30 AM: Morning Yoga and Meditation
- 9:00 AM: Breakfast
- 10:30 AM: Hiking and Picnic in Joshua Tree National Park
- 3:30 PM: Yin Yoga and Yoga Nidra practice
- 6:30 PM: Dinner
- 8:00 PM: Cacao Ceremony
Day 3: Live with Purpose (Fire Element)
- 7:30 AM: Heat building and purifying morning Yoga and Meditation practices
- 9:00 AM: Breakfast
- 10:30 AM: Group Coaching / Discussion (vikriti, assessing imbalances and lifestyle medicine practices)
- 12:30 PM: Lunch
- 3:30 PM: Sound Bath at Integratron / Explore Pioneer Town
- 6:30 PM: Dinner
- 8:00 PM: Fire Circle
Day 4: How to Soar (Air and Space Elements)
- 7:00 AM: Meditation / Tea Ceremony / Closing Remarks
- 8:00 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
1 King, 1 Twin w/ Trundle sleeps 4
- Single: $2,200/person
- Double: $1950/person
- Triple: $1,650/person
- Quad: $1,550/person
ROOM #2
Twin bunk beds sleeps 2
- Single: $2,100/person
- Double: $1,900/person
ROOM #3
2 Twins or 1 King sleeps 2
- Single: $2,200/person
- Double: $1,950/person
ROOM #4
2 Twins or 1 King sleeps 2
- Single: $2,200/person
- Double: $1,950/person
ROOM #5
2 twins or 1 King sleeps 2
- Single: $2,200/person
- Double: $1,950/person
ROOM #6
2 twins and 1 bunk bed sleeps 4
- Single: $2,300/person
- Double: $2,100/person
- Triple: $1,700/person
- Quad: $1,650/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: 12/15, 2/15, 4/15
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
- Yoga, Breathwork, and Meditation Practices for Balance and Rejuvenation
- The Subtle Body: 7 Chakra System
- Ayurveda: The Wisdom of Life
- Ayurvedic Definition of Health
- Three Pillars of Health
- Pancha Mahabhuta: 5 Element Theory in the Body and the Natural World
- Tridosha Theory: Vata, Pitta, Kapha
- Prakriti Body Types
- Prakriti Personality Types
- The Gunas: Rajas, Tamas, Sattva
- Vikriti: Understading our Imbalances
- Developing your own Yoga Therapy and Meditation practices
- Dinacharya: The Art of Daily Self-Care
- Seasonal cooking practices
- Ayurveda Cooking for Beginners
- Agni: Metabolism and Transformation in Health
- Mala: Understanding and Maintaining Healthy Elimination
- Digestion and It’s Care: The Core of our Well Being
- Stages of Digestion
- Rasayana: Longevity, Anti-Aging, Rejuvenation
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.
