Rejuvenate. Connect with beloved community. Ignite your soul in the Redwoods.
This is more than a retreat—it’s a warm, intentional gathering and a collaborative journey. Together, we’ll soften the grip of systemic conditioning, celebrate the joy of being alive, and reconnect with ancestral wisdom held by the land and our collective breath.
Center your spirit with movement and grounding practices
Two all-levels yoga classes
Meditation and heart-centered discussion
Sound healing & cacao ceremony
Two wholesome, organic, plant-forward meals prepared with care and intention
Make space for rest, serenity, and connection
Spacious free time for soaking in nature and hiking
Song circle & community-building
Opportunities to explore mutual aid and deep healing
Dance party
Hot tub, sauna & cold plunge
🧘🏽♀️ Begin or deepen your spiritual practice—especially yoga and meditation
🫂 Build authentic, heart-centered connection with others
🎭 Engage in play as a form of political resistance and neuroplastic growth
🌱 Cultivate the power of your voice through song and chant
🌳 Immerse yourself in nature as teacher, opening to wonder
🖤 Expand your capacity to respond to injustice, love and be loved
All beings are welcome. We will co-create community agreements and a sacred container rooted in Black feminist values, intentionally centering marginalized communities and honoring collective care.
Come as you are. Leave restored, connected, and lit from within. ✨
Arrival: Saturday, April 25 • 2:00 PM
Departure: Sunday, April 26 • 12:00 PM
Early Bird pricing extended until March 29. Prices go up $50-75 after that.
FAQ:
1. Payment plans available
2. All prices are per person.
3. All deposits & payments are NON-REFUNDABLE and NO EXCHANGES. This includes if the retreat gets canceled for reasons beyond the control of the organizers such as acts of God, Covid-19, or Mother Nature. We recommend you purchase of travel insurance if you're traveling from outside of Northern California. Please make sure you purchase travel insurance that would cover a cancelled retreat or your personal need or emergency to cancel your retreat. Make sure to check fine print. Fear of travel isn't the same as not being able to travel. Another option is plans that cover up to 75% of your expenses if you cancel for any reason. In these unpredictable times, this type of planning is important to protecting your investment in the retreat. As a small BIPOC-run business, we are unable to assume the loss for your investment.
Travel insurance recommendations: worldnomads.com or www.allianztravelinsurance.com
Click here for Insurance policies where you can cancel for any reason.
4. All meals are included and lovingly prepared by the retreat center chefs. The ingredients are all vegetarian and organic with an abundance of vegetables, protein, and fruit. Gluten-free, vegan, and other dietary needs are available upon request.
5. The practice space is ADA accessible but not all the rooms are. Check room descriptions for accessibility descriptions
Satya de la Paz August (she/her) is first and foremost a student of Yoga and life. She is also a Queer, Multiracial, Black Woman, trailblazer, ritualist, healer, and community advocate. Offering 18 years of experience teaching Yoga, and meditation, she infuses dynamic alignment, chanting, storytelling, and community-building into her classes. Satya offers Yoga as a means of collective and personal liberation and decolonization: accessing our innate healing capacity through therapeutics and compassion, meeting media-driven body shame through mindfulness and affirmation, freeing the heart of resentment and blame, and healing the mind of ableist and hierarchical ways of moving and acting. Multiple expressions of poses are offered as students are encouraged to listen to their body wisdom and access their needs. Satya is deeply grateful for her mentor, Abby Tucker, as well as her dharma and movement teachers, Sally Kempton, Rob Preece, and Sianna Sherman. Honoring the traditions of Hatha Yoga, Tantra Yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism, she empowers multiracial, multi-gender, and multigenerational groups to awaken their true nature of awareness and bliss.
Find out more about Satya and her offerings at soulfowoakland.com
Malka Lew (she/her) has been practicing yoga since she was 20 years old. While studying at UC Santa Cruz, she stumbled into an Iyengar yoga studio and fell in love with the practice. She later found her love growing for heated vinyasa yoga when she was working at the Yoga Tree in San Francisco as a massage therapist. It was there that she recieved her 200 hr YTT certificate. Her intention was to deepen her practice but a couple years later, she ended up landing a job in Thailand at a wellness center. This is where Malka found herself as a teacher and after many years of practice at this point, she could feel the teaching pouring out of her. She then went to New York city to pursue her 500 hr YTT with Dharma Mittra. With a committment to the practice, Malka continues to gain knowledge and the practice continues to evolve her into new understandings. For Malka, teaching yoga is a joy and an honor. She loves holding space for deep transformation. Her classes consist of pranayama, meditation, wisdom from the yoga texts, a vigorous flow, and she always ends her class chanting mantras on her harmonium. Malka believes that being embodied is the biggest tool when dealing with social change. If we and connect to even just a spark of liberation within, we can spread that feeling out into the world and together we can make change in this world. Currently, Malka’s studies and serves as a Priestess of the Ifa tradition of the Yoruba tribe of Nigeria.
Some retreat activities will be inside and some will be outside. Masks are optional. Feel free to reach out with any concerns or questions about safety.
A beautiful, secluded sanctuary nestled among the trees in the Berkeley Hills, at the foot of Tilden Park—quiet, grounding, and deeply nourishing. This is a private home in the Berkeley Hills. About a 25 minute drive from downtown Oakland. 35 minute drive from downtown San Francisco or Oakland airport. Exact address released at registration. We will help arrange carpooling from downtown Oakland.
Here are a few video testimonies from previous retreats
2 pm registration & unpack
3 pm Welcome, Orientation, Community Agreements, Ritual
3:30 pm Yoga
5:15 pm - 630 pm Dinner
7 pm Dance Party
830 pm Sound Bath & Cacao Ceremony
8 am-945 am Hatha Flow Yoga, Meditation, Song Circle
10 am breakfast
11 am Community Building & Closing Ceremony
All day:
opportunities for massage, forest bathing, hiking,
