Step away from the pace of everyday life and settle into the quiet beauty of Oregon's high desert. This four-day retreat offers space to reconnect with your body, explore mindful movement, and deepen your understanding of yoga for back care.

Join Alix for an immersive experience centered on therapeutic yoga, restorative practices, and time in nature. With just 11–12 participants, the retreat offers an intimate setting where Alix can get to know each student and provide personalized guidance, support, and teaching throughout the experience.

Enjoy the peaceful surroundings of Green Rock Retreat, make room for rest and reflection, and connect with others who share an interest in caring for their bodies and well-being.

Whether you live with scoliosis, have other back concerns, or simply want to learn more about supporting your back through yoga, this retreat offers an opportunity to explore practices that meet you where you are.

An opportunity to:

• Explore yoga practices focused on scoliosis and back care

• Develop greater awareness of movement, posture, and the body's patterns

• Unwind through gentle and restorative yoga, breathwork, and meditation

• Enjoy the quiet, open landscape of the high desert

• Share practice, conversation, and community

• Take home ideas and practices to continue beyond the retreat

At the heart of this retreat is the opportunity to explore yoga as a way of caring for and understanding your body. Alix will share therapeutic yoga practices with a focus on scoliosis and back care, while also addressing the shoulders, neck, upper and lower back, and hips.

Through mindful movement, gentle strengthening, restorative yoga, breathwork, and meditation, we'll explore ways to build awareness, support mobility, and tend to patterns of tension in the body.

Alix brings more than 20 years of experience teaching yoga for back care and scoliosis, along with her own lived experience of scoliosis. Her approach is thoughtful and attentive, with modifications and variations offered to support individual needs.

An important part of Alix's teaching is SATYA, a somatic, floor-based movement practice developed by Tias Little of Prajna Yoga. SATYA complements traditional yoga postures through slow, gentle movements that invite greater awareness of the body and how it moves.

Practiced mostly on the floor, these movements may include sliding, gliding, stretching, and unwinding, allowing you to explore movement without force or strain. Through this process, SATYA cultivates somatic intelligence and proprioceptive awareness, helping you become more attuned to sensation, alignment, and the body's natural patterns of movement.

Alix weaves SATYA principles and movements throughout her classes, alongside therapeutic yoga, restorative practices, and other approaches to back care. No previous experience with SATYA is needed.

This retreat welcomes people with a range of experiences and reasons for coming. You might live with scoliosis, have other back concerns, want to be more proactive about caring for your back, or simply be curious about mindful movement and restorative practices.

With just 11–12 participants, Alix has the opportunity to get to know each person and offer individual attention and guidance throughout the retreat.

After registration, you'll be invited to share a little about your back, your experience with yoga, and what you'd like to explore. Alix will use this information to thoughtfully shape the practices around the needs and interests of the group, offering modifications, variations, and support along the way.

• All levels of yoga experience are welcome

• No previous yoga or meditation experience is needed

• Practices include both gentle movement and restorative approaches

• Modifications and variations are offered to accommodate individual needs

This retreat may be a good fit if you're interested in:

• Exploring yoga practices that support back care and scoliosis

• Developing greater awareness of posture, movement, and your body's patterns

• Supporting strength and mobility through mindful movement

• Slowing down through restorative yoga, breathwork, and meditation

• Spending time in a peaceful, nature-immersed setting

• Sharing practice and connection with a like-minded group

The experience is intentionally quiet and unhurried. It may not be the right fit if you're looking for vigorous power yoga, a full schedule of activities and excursions, or a retreat centered around alcohol and nightlife.

Green Rock is an alcohol-free property, and the retreat includes time for quiet, rest, personal reflection, and connection with nature.

Alix Northup has been practicing and teaching yoga for more than 20 years, with a particular focus on yoga therapeutics, back care, and scoliosis.

Her connection to this work is personal: she began practicing yoga as a teenager after her mother introduced her to yoga as a way to support her own experience with scoliosis. That early experience grew into a lifelong exploration of yoga and its relationship to the body.

Alix's studies include a 200-hour yoga teacher training with Prananda Yoga in 2007, followed by over 300 hours of study with Tias and Surya Little of Prajna Yoga. She is a certified Prajna SATYA teacher [Sensory Awareness Training for Yoga Attunement], a somatic floor-based practice that complements yoga, and completed specialized Yoga for Scoliosis teacher training with senior Iyengar teacher Elise Miller. She continues to study yoga for back care and scoliosis with mentor Deborah Wolk, while deepening her understanding of movement and the body.

A licensed massage therapist since 2008, Alix's work is also informed by extensive study of Thai yoga massage, craniosacral therapy, and Ayurveda. Her varied training brings a thoughtful understanding of anatomy, alignment, and movement to her teaching, along with an appreciation for the individual needs and experiences each person brings to their practice.

Based in Portland, Oregon, Alix leads group classes, private sessions, workshops, and retreats locally and internationally.

Having facilitated more than a dozen retreats in places including Nepal, Costa Rica, Iceland, Hawaii, Peru, and Norway, Alix enjoys bringing people together through yoga, travel, and connection with the natural world.

Retreats offer Alix the opportunity to create a more expansive and thoughtfully tailored experience. Her classes weave together carefully sequenced active and restorative yoga, gentle unwinding movements, breathwork, meditation, and Yoga Nidra, with practices shaped around the themes and needs of the group.

Alix especially values the intimacy of smaller groups, where she can offer individual attention and guidance while allowing trust and a sense of community to develop among participants.

She hopes that what students explore together continues to inform their practice and daily lives long after the retreat ends.

Outside of teaching, Alix finds inspiration and solace in nature. She enjoys exploring the outdoors with her cattle dog companion, Peya, through rock climbing, hiking, skiing, and surfing.

Set in Oregon's high desert, Green Rock Retreat is a peaceful, off-grid sanctuary overlooking the beautiful Crooked River Gorge, near Smith Rock.

Surrounded by open landscapes, expansive skies, and the quiet beauty of the high desert, Green Rock offers a welcome change of pace from everyday life. It's a place to slow down, spend time outdoors, and enjoy the simplicity of being immersed in nature.

When Alix first visited Green Rock, she was drawn to the stillness of the landscape and the sense of ease she felt there. From morning walks around the property to watching the sunset near the wading pool, she found herself slowing down and appreciating the simple experience of being there.

Alix is looking forward to returning and sharing this special place with you.

During your stay, you'll have opportunities to:

• Take in expansive views of the Crooked River Gorge and surrounding high desert

• Enjoy quiet mornings and the changing light across the landscape

• Walk and explore the natural surroundings

• Notice the desert's unique plants, rock formations, and abundant wildlife

• Find moments of solitude, reflection, and connection with nature

Double-occupancy packages are priced per person. Roommates may book together or register and pay separately. If booking separately, simply provide your roommate's name during the booking process.

If you don't yet have a roommate, please contact Meghan before booking to discuss options: Retreats@AlixNorthup.com

Payments for the retreat can be made by debit/credit card or bank transfer. Avoid extra fees by selecting bank transfer at checkout. You can manage your payment method anytime in your WeTravel account.

You may pay in full or choose our monthly payment plan through WeTravel. Both payment options are the same total price—choose what works best for you.

For payment support or adjustments, please contact Retreat Manager, Meghan, at Retreats@AlixNorthup.com We’re happy to help in any way we can!

• If you register after a scheduled installment date, any past due amounts are redistributed across the remaining installments.

• There is no additional charge to use the payment plan (beyond standard credit/debit processing fees). Avoid extra fees by selecting bank transfer at checkout.

• You may pay your remaining balance in full at any time.

$550 deposit due with registration is nonrefundable.

• Friday, January 1, 2027: Full refund minus $550 nonrefundable deposit

• Cancel after Friday, January 1, 2027 & prior Friday, March 5, 2027: 50% refund minus $550 nonrefundable deposit

• Cancel after Friday, March 5, 2027: No refund

Transfer Policy

If you are unable to attend, you may transfer your registration to another person up to 30 days prior to the retreat start date (by May 11, 2027). All transfer requests must be submitted in writing and approved by the retreat host.

If the retreat is sold out and a waitlist is in place, we will make reasonable efforts to fill your spot and issue a refund (less your $550 nonrefundable deposit) if a replacement is confirmed.

Health & Safety Cancellations

Cancellations due to COVID-19, injuries, or illness follow the same refund and transfer policies listed above.

If you can find someone to take your place, registration may be transferred—please contact Meghan at Retreats@AlixNorthup.com for assistance.

Because this retreat represents a meaningful investment (both financial and energetic) we recommend all participants to carry travel insurance.

Travel insurance helps protect you and your plans should unexpected circumstances arise before or during your journey. It offers peace of mind and allows everyone to arrive feeling supported and cared for.

We recommend choosing a plan that covers trip cancellation, interruption, medical care, and emergency evacuation, as well as lost or delayed baggage.

Green Rock Retreat is located approximately 30 miles north of Bend, Oregon, along the rim of the Crooked River Gorge.

Participants are responsible for arranging their own transportation to and from the property. There is no group airport shuttle included with this retreat.

Please plan your travel so you arrive in time for check-in beginning Thursday, June 10 at 3:00 PM. Departure is by noon on Sunday, June 13.

Use the map below to explore Green Rock's location and plan your route.

Green Rock's high desert setting brings sunny days, cooler evenings, and plenty of time outdoors. We recommend bringing:

• Reusable water bottle

• Sun hat and comfortable clothing for warm weather

• Layers for cooler mornings and evenings

• Comfortable walking or hiking shoes

• Easy slip-on shoes for indoor gathering spaces

• Swimsuit for the ridge-top splash pool

• Flashlight or headlamp

• Earplugs, if you're sensitive to wind

• Minimal scented lotions and personal care products

Yoga props are available at Green Rock, so you don't need to bring your own unless you prefer to.