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UPCOMING
RETREATS

Discover curated retreat experiences at Gaia Villa!

 

These are private programs for registered participants. Click “Learn More” for program details, then contact the facilitators for availability and registration.

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Seva Leadership Training Retreat

Hosted by: Tobi Fishel, Marc Weigensberg & May Che

February 23 - 26, 2026

A three-night immersive in Joshua Tree, California to strengthen your capacity to lead with steadiness, clarity, and heart.

This training is for those who support others in meaningful ways, including healthcare workers, wellness practitioners, educators, counselors, and teams within institutions and nonprofit organizations. You will learn to create trauma-informed group experiences and retreats that foster safety, connection, and healing, drawing on a blend of ancient traditions, expressive arts, nature-based practices, and modern therapeutic tools. Completion may open opportunities to intern, lead, or co-lead future Seva Seeds retreats and events.

Your enrollment directly supports retreats for at-risk youth through Seva Seeds. Gaia Circle Members receive $200 off.

Soulful Living Women's Retreat

February 22 - 26, 2023

Connect and align with your soul! An intimate women's retreat focused on healing, self-care, community, connection, clarity, and alignment. 5 days and 4 nights for you to disconnect from your busy life, enjoy daily yoga, meditation, journaling, soul journey and healing sessions, guided hikes, sound bath, and more!

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Passion to Purpose: Transform Your Health and Wellness Business into a 6-7 Figure Brand

Hosted by: Sasha Hovich and Evan Hovich

January 28 - February 1, 2026

This retreat is designed as both a mastermind and a yoga immersion—where business growth meets personal renewal. Our mission is to empower yoga teachers, wellness guides, personal trainers and health professionals to elevate their coaching businesses and build a 6-7 figure business, while also learning how to balance ambition with rest. Through workshops, mindful practices, and collaborative discussions, we aim to help you transform your passion into prosperity, creating a business that thrives without sacrificing your well-being.

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Sonic Tonic: Sound Alchemy
in the High Desert

Hosted by: Allison Bagg

February 13 - 16, 2026

This Valentine’s Day, come fall in love. With yourself, your life, and the pulse of the earth. Join us in Joshua Tree for a 4-day heart-opening retreat inside one of the planet’s most powerful energy vortexes. Through sound immersions, breathwork, and desert ritual, we’ll explore what it means to live from the frequency of love, beyond partnership, beyond expectation, beyond fear. You’ll leave feeling expanded, grounded, and in resonance with your true vibration. Highlights include: Nightly soundbaths under the cosmic desert sky, Heart-centered breathwork and cacao ceremony, Embodied movement and integrative journaling, Nourishing, high-vibe meals and conscious community The desert has a way of stripping away the noise. What remains is truth, tenderness, and the deep remembrance that you are love itself.

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REWILDING: A Womens Healing Intensive

Hosted by: Angie Corogin + Guest Teachers

February 17 - 22,  2026

You are invited to step into a soul-nourishing journey where time slows and your spirit expands. Each day includes a morning and afternoon or evening practice, including; yoga, qigong, somatic movement, breathwork, cacao, dancing, stargazing, storytelling, and more. We’ll wander through otherworldly landscapes on a desert hike, savor vibrant organic meals prepared by our private chef and team. We will hike, adventure to a medicine wheel, explore and create and leave with meaningful long lasting connections and lessons. As we go deep within our own landscape to transform and heal, we will draw support and renewal within this magical desert experience. 

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UNTAMED AWAKENING

Hosted by: Natali Melani + Emma Colangelo

February 26 - March 3, 2026

Come home to your body. Come home to your pleasure. Come home to yourself. Join us as we come together in sisterhood, to define our womanhood on our own terms. Beneath the full moon’s total eclipse, we gather to witness both shadow and illumination. A collision of light and dark that mirrors our rebirth. The feminine who knows that rest is creation, that stillness is power, and that her voice is a force meant to be heard. Together, we’ll gather in sisterhood for yoga, ritual, intimate (and spicy!) workshops to remember the sacred rhythm that moves through all of us. Connect to your body. Connect to your (sexual) power. Connect to your cycle. Connect to the collective.

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Seva Leadership Training Retreat

Hosted by: Tobi Fishel, Marc Weigensberg & May Che

February 23 - 26, 2026

A three-night immersive for wellness practitioners to evolve for deeper healing and impact.​ The program is designed specifically for healthcare workers, wellness practitioners, educators, counselors, and teams within institutions and nonprofit organizations who lead group experinces or retreats. Participants will learn to create trauma-informed group experiences and retreats that foster safety, connection, and healing, drawing on a blend of ancient traditions, expressive arts, nature-based practices, and modern therapeutic tools. Completion may open opportunities to intern, lead, or co-lead future Seva Seeds retreats and events.

Your enrollment directly supports retreats for at-risk youth through Seva Seeds. Gaia Circle Members receive $200 off.

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Spring Awakening Desert
Yoga Retreat

Hosted by: Rima Sophia with guest teacher Carl Grant

March 9 - 13, 2026

Join Rima and guest teacher Carl for a special yoga retreat nestled in the Mojave. This curated experience offers the perfect balance of structured practice and free-flowing relaxation in one of nature’s most beautiful settings. Start your day with a strong vinyasa practice, nourish your body with freshly prepared meals, and spend your afternoons enjoying the on-site amenities or exploring the surrounding desert landscape. As evening approaches, unwind with a gentle yoga session followed by a group dinner, with time afterward to relax under the clear desert night sky. Rima Sophia has been teaching yoga for over 22 years and brings her expertise as a Physical Therapist Assistant to create a holistic experience that supports balance, health and renewal.

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Harmony in the High Desert

Hosted by: Shawn Brown

March 26 - 30, 2026

Harmony is a peaceful alignment of self, relationships, and environment. It brings inner calm, balance, and deeper connection—through respect, cooperation, and living in tune with your values. This spring, welcome harmony, joy, and adventure at Harmony in the High Desert: A Wellness Retreat at Gaia Villa in Joshua Tree, CA. As we enter the season of renewal, join us for a long weekend of yoga, nature, and community. More than just a yoga retreat, this is a playful, restorative wellness adventure. Each day features energizing Vinyasa, grounding restorative yoga, breathwork, meditation, and sound healing. We’ll explore the magic of the High Desert, enjoy delicious meals from a local chef, and reconnect with the rhythm of effort and ease.

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Commune with Mother Earth: New Moon Aries in the Desert a yoga and breathwork retreat for women

Hosted by: Dana Damara

April 16 - 19, 2026

This desert retreat, aligned with the powerful New Moon in Aries (with six planets in Aries), is designed as a full reset for body, mind, and spirit. Held at Gaia Villa, a beloved and grounding location, it offers a chance to reconnect with nature and realign intentions for the next chapter. Retreat focus includes:

  • Reconnecting with Earth and feminine energy

  • Tapping into inner inspiration through stillness

  • Sharing authentically in a like-minded community

  • Recalibrating to a higher level of consciousness

  • Raising personal vibration in body, mind, and heart

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The SoulPod Retreat

Hosted by: Crystal Cassidy, Cat Mansfield and Stephanie Colson

April 23 - 27, 2026

If something inside you is calling, you belong here. You don’t need to be advanced in meditation or energy work. You simply need to be willing to open up to the full potential of who you already are. This retreat is for anyone who feels the pull to: activate the inner technology that turns belief into knowing stabilize future-self identity and live from coherent signal experience what happens when twelve humans hold “love + above” together bridge mysticism and science inside their own nervous system step into leadership that emanates from alignment, not competition If you feel called to become the kind of human who quietly architects the next timeline—this is your initiation.

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A Full Moon Reset Joshua Tree

Hosted by: Bella Vida Yoga with Kristina

April 30 - May 3, 2026

Beneath the desert sky and glowing full moon, this 3-night, 4-day retreat invites you to reset in nature. Through mindful movement, grounding practices, and evenings spent under the stars, you’ll reconnect with yourself and the rhythms of the natural world. A simple, restorative experience to return home feeling lighter and renewed.

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Eunoia Movement Retreat

Hosted by: Ari Vickers Davis & Samantha Deutchman

May 6 - 10, 2026

Discover balance and vitality at EUNOIA: A Movement & Wellness Retreat in the heart of the desert  May 6-10, 2026. Inspired by the Greek meaning “beautiful thinking,” this intimate four-day gathering invites you to reconnect with self through daily movement that includes yoga strength, mobility and breath work, communal meals, and time in nature. Nestled amidst otherworldly landscapes, you’ll unplug from the everyday and tap into presence, stillness, and joyful connection. Twice-daily movement sessions guide your body; soulful gatherings feed your spirit; and time to wander and wonder nurtures that deep sense of presence. Whether you choose a shared or private room, you’ll emerge renewed, grounded, and ready to carry this balance into your everyday. Come join our journey to self through movement and connection.

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Amplify Women's Retreat x Intensive

Hosted by: Mackenzie Stewart

May 29 - June 1, 2026

Amplify is an all-inclusive retreat created for women seeking renewal, direction, and deeper connection to themselves. With Coach Mackenzie as your guide, you’ll move through soulful coaching, women’s circles, yoga, journaling, and sound healing to shed old layers and awaken your inner fire. Nourishing meals from a registered dietitian and quiet moments of reflection allow you to soften, reset, and listen inward. Surrounded by a community of growth-minded women, you’ll receive support before, during, and after the retreat to ensure lasting transformation. See the full retreat details and feel into whether Amplify is calling you.

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She Rises Women’s Retreat

Hosted by: Alley Florin

June 7 - 10, 2026

A nourishing few days for women to reconnect, restore, and rise into their power. Experience daily yoga, inspiring workshops, a women’s circle, and a soul soothing sound bath. Enjoy trail walks, delicious meals prepared by a private chef, and plenty of time to relax with the pool, hot tub, cold plunge, and sauna. Gather by the fire pit, walk the labyrinth, and share in the magic of sisterhood.

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Sacred Pause: Serenity in the Sands

Hosted by: Kate Lessard & Lindsay Jones

June 11 - 14, 2026

If you’ve been craving space to unplug, reset, and reconnect — this is your moment. Join Kate & Lindsay this June in Joshua Tree for four nourishing days of yoga, guided meditation, and intuitive energy healing in the beauty of the desert. Free from constant pings, screens, and everyday distractions, you’ll have the chance to drop into presence and truly restore. Beyond the practices, enjoy desert hikes, a sound bath, stargazing under expansive skies, and quiet time by the pool or walking the labyrinth. This retreat is an invitation to slow down, soften, and come home to yourself. 

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Mother-Daughter Retreat: Adventure, Connection, & Magic in the Desert

Hosted by: Abby Malmstrom

July 19 - 22, 2026

Experience an unforgettable mother-daughter retreat in Tree National Park, hosted by Abby Malmstrom from July 19-22, 2026. This transformative journey fosters connection through breathtaking hikes, nourishing meals, sound meditations, and cozy starry nights. Enjoy memorable activities like photo shoots, special guests, poolside relaxation, and s’mores by the fire, perfect for moms and daughters ages 6–10. Embrace the desert's magic and create lasting memories together.

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Wild Light Wellness Retreat

Hosted by: Sam Hittle

September 20 - 25, 2026

step into the stillness of the desert and reconnect with your natural, luminous self. Wild Light Wellness Retreat invites us all to 6 transformative days beneath the vast Joshua Tree sky- where soulful movement, mindful rest, and nourishing connection unite. In our time together, we'll explore a variety of daily movements including yoga, pilates, and mobility work, instructional workshops, powerful meditations, sound healing therapies, various off-site excursions, and more! We will rediscover balance, clarity, and inner peace and redefine what it means to anchor deeply to self, others and nature. A place for connection- no comparison, no competition. Just love. Space is limited and rooms have been thoughtfully priced to allow for greater accessibility. You & your light belong here. You deserve to be here.

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Embodied Awakening Retreat

Hosted by: Katie Kreidle & Austin Shutler

October 16 - 20, 2026

This retreat is a sacred container for all walks of life to gather, remember, and return to the embodied knowing that lives within. Together, we honor the delicate balance of the inner divine masculine and feminine — Yin & Yang, flow and structure, presence and expression— to invite you to embody the rhythm of trust, safety, and exploration within the self. We will explore radical self-integration through meditations, breath-work, cold plunging, reflective inquiry, somatic expression, yogic practices, embodied primal work, and sound healing to journey through the inner layers, shed what no longer serves you, and awaken to your authentic presence. Join us in this voyage that will guide you toward your soul’s calling, reclaiming your essence, embodying your truth, and living the full blueprint of your life.

Awaken

Hosted by: BioEnergetika - Jason & Eryn Persaud

May 11 - 14, 2025

Our Guests' Experience

Guest Reviews

Our third time hosting a retreat at this incredible property. It never ceases to amaze and the hosts are incredibly responsive, helpful and available when needed. The amenities are well considered and the space has everything needed to host a restorative retreat for a group of people. Highly recommend and will keep coming back.

~ Elena

Guest Reviews

BEST HOSTS / VILLA EVER!
Just hosted our 5 night - all women’s retreat. We were 14 total and had the most beautiful time. Genuinely the most spacious home with more than enough space and corners to feel like a true RETREAT. The beds were so comfy, the bathrooms were super spacious and the place was spotless clean! The outdoor and indoor (fully stocked!) yoga shalas are beautiful. The new pool with waterfall is incredible. There’s also cold plunges and a grill outside. The living room was my favorite room as you could feel all the energy and magic from the previous guests. A truly magical home to rest, connect, eat, heal, laugh and get away from the noise. This felt like my happy place - connected with the hosts who are so kind and kept checking in. We will be hosting yearly!

~ Natalie

Guest Reviews

I got to host my first retreat with this beautiful home and I would totally do it again. Everyone that stayed here really enjoyed the scenic views and all the amenities and space that this place offered. So many nooks and spots to relax and getaway. I’m just disappointed I didn’t book more time. The hosts were so accommodating and were such a great help with everything. The yoga room has all the yoga needs one could ask for perfect for doing sound baths :)

~ Adam

Gaia Villa Retreat
Yucca Valley / Joshua Tree, Southern California

gaiavillajt@gmail.com

424.835.1168

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