9/25 - 9/28 Joshua Tree Retreat at Gaia Villa!
2026-09-25 14:00 - 2026-09-28 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Be The Change Yoga, 14988 Sand Canyon Ave, Studio 5, Irvine, CA, 92618, United States
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

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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
*3 SPOTS LEFT

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
SOLD OUT

ROOM #4 – FLEXIBLE ROOM (UPSTAIRS)
2 Twins or 1 King sleeps 2
Double: $1,795/personSingle: $2,495/person (limited availability)
SOLD OUT

ROOM #5 – FLEXIBLE ROOM
2 Twins or 1 King sleeps 2
Double: $1,795/personSingle: $2,495/person (limited availability)

ROOM #6 – VALUE QUAD
2 twins and 1 bunk bed sleeps 4
Quad: $1,395/person
*3 SPOTS LEFT

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
Allison Prince began practicing yoga in the early 2000s while pursuing her bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology. She took her first yoga training not to become a yoga teacher but to better understand the practice. However, within the first few weeks of the training, she realized she had found her path and purpose. Over the past twenty years, Allison has taught more than 15,000 hours of yoga in group classes, workshops, private sessions, and yoga teacher training.

Allison did a 200-hour and 300-hour yoga teacher program through Cloud Nine Yoga. She also completed over 1,000 hours of massage training at IPSB and Mesa Academy to become a certified massage therapist. She taught at many studios in Orange County at the beginning of her career until she found her first yoga home at Soul at Home in Tustin. While at this studio, she helped co-create 500 hours of yoga teacher training programs with her business partner. Also, during this time, she completed another 200-hour course, this time in Kundalini Yoga, because she has a passion for the more subtle tools that yoga offers.

In 2013, Allison left the comfort of the studio she loved to follow her dreams and open a yoga studio. She is the co-owner of Be the Change Yoga in Irvine, CA. Owning a yoga studio has been both a challenging and exciting experience and has helped her grow in so many ways over this past decade. Be the Change Yoga is the only yoga studio in Orange County offering yoga therapy training. Allison signed up to be part of the inaugural group of the AlcheMe yoga therapy program and became a yoga therapist in 2019.

Allison is passionate about learning more about women’s health, and how best to support them during different stages of life. She has done additional training in yoga for fertility, and yoga therapy for the endocrine system. She is forever a student and is currently receiving her Master’s degree in Functional Medicine and Nutrition. Once she has completed her Master’s degree, she hopes to develop different yoga therapy programs for balancing hormones, calming the nervous system, and mindful eating.

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.
