Are you inspired to go deeper into your healing journey and connect with community in nature? Come join us for a transformational weekend as we practice yoga, meditation and sit in sacred ceremony with Grandmother medicine. With two ceremonies, music that ignites the soul, catered healthy meals, and daily yoga and meditation practices, this retreat is catered to feed your soul with the nourishment it needs to let go of what isn't serving, connect with the wisdom of the earth and the ancestors, and align with your purpose and destiny. 

Located on Bass Lake three hours North of Oakland. The exact location will be shared upon registration. Our intention is to welcome and celebrate folks from all levels of experience, 18+ in age, religions, abilities, immigration statuses, races, genders, sizes, and sexual orientations. We will co-create community agreements to embody this intention.

Arrival: Friday, November 11th 4 pm

Departure:  Monday, November 14th 12 pm

FAQ: 

1. If you would like to arrange to pay by cash or money order,, please contact Satya directly info@soulflowoakland.com

2. 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. Purchase of travel insurance is required to attend. 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. 

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3. Carpooling will be made available but is not guaranteed.

4.  All meals are included and lovingly prepared by a local chef. Ingredients are organic with an abundance of vegetables, protein, and fruit. Gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan, and other dietary needs are available upon request. 

5. Land and spaces are wheelchair accessible with the exception of a few of the rooms.

6. Most practice will be indoors. 

Malka 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. Malka’s first experience with Grandmother medicine was in 2012 in Puerto Rico. After spending some time with the Yawanawa tribe in Brazil and doing her own plant diet in Peru with the Shipibo tribe, Malka was given the blessing to be a keeper and giver of the medicine. Currently, Malka’s study and journey as a Priestess of the Ifa tradition of the Yoruba tribe of Nigeria is intensive and therefore to not mix traditions too much, Malka doesnt serve the medicine often. However, when the time arrives, Malka is extremely grateful to be im communion with Grandmothet wisdom which has played a pivotol role in her own transformation, healing and connection to her ancestors. The wisdom of this medicine is in its essence love, humility and grace.

AshEL SeaSunZ Eldridge is a creative immersed in healing arts. He is a TEDx speaker, founder of and performer with music, art, and media collective, Earth Amplified, and a vocalist with West African/West Oakland band Dogon Lights. www.LyftRapper.com is his critically acclaimed ridshare webisode. Soulestial Church, brings a unique perspective to spiritual world music, transmitting stories and ceremonial songs from spirit. He uses sound, meditation, and plant consciousness for global transformation. His Galactic Language Activations, PrayerSongs, and karmic purification practice via Sukyo Mahikari works to clear inhibitions to our true self. His latest project, EFAM: Essential Foods and Medicine, is a community and land regeneration org transforming food surplus into medicine for the unhoused, formerly incarcerated, and low income of Oakland, Ca. 

www.ashelseasunz.com

Www.essentialfam.org

Satya de la Paz August (she/her) is first and foremost a student of Yoga and life. She is also a a Queer, Multiracial, Black Womxn, trailblazer, healer, and community/joy/radical self-love advocate. Offering 14 years of experience teaching Yoga, dance, 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 own body wisdom and access needs. Satya is deeply grateful for her mentor, Abby Tucker, as well as all of 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. Off the mat, Satya is active in social justice movements, gardens, and cooks.

Find out more about Satya and her offerings at soulfowoakland.com

Redwood Hill (ours/Red)

Born in the Mid East of the US to upwardly mobile black folx and professionally raised in bars and restaurants in the Bay Area, Redwood Hill has collaged a career within and around food & beverage service for the past 15 years, engaging every role from the dish pit to conceptualization and ephemeral pop-up proprietorships. Having deciphered a distinction amongst the illusory divisions between “Front of & Back of House" to be direct connotations of the pre-antebellum hierarchies of chattel slavery, Redwood seeks to disrupt classifications and bifurcation to become a comprehensive service provider, in the interests of food sovereignty and decolonizing food systems and working towards right relationship with this planet and the reality of abundance for all. They are a cheffy dive bartender, a busser who dish-washes as a student of fine dining & simultaneity and are stimulated by the invented and inspired diets of Afro-futurist communities found in the works of Octavia Butler and Samuel Delany. Redwood constructs and reconstructs culinary perspectives incorporating the aesthetics of a timeless nutrition that is sustainable & renewable. With Transplanted Californian sensibilities, mindful indulgence, and folding language intersect with the comforting provocations of Southern dishes of their ancestors, as an exploration of color, texture, nostalgia, and being/belonging. Food and words are cites of their reclamation.

Please note that this retreat will go on regardless of the state of Covid-19. Purchase of travel insurance that covers Covid-19 and other emergencies is required. Covid-19 test is required for all participants regardless of vaccination status within three days of the retreat start. Feel free to reach out with any concerns or questions about safety.