Wellness Retreat with Michelle Chua
December 3-6, 2022
Near Temecula, CA

Choose to stay 4 days and 3 nights, or visit for a full day on December 4 only.
Immerse in a 4-day or 1-day mindful pause before the year-end holiday rush to prioritize your wellbeing, regain perspective and connect wholeheartedly with life and those around you.  Surrounded by nature and health-inspired community, deepen your knowledge and practice of yoga’s tools for mental-emotional, physical, spiritual and interpersonal wellness.  Fortify your body with seasonal plant-based nourishment and culinary creativity. Welcome the winter season with a balanced lifestyle, clarity and joyful presence.

Let's ripple a movement of conscious self-care and peace before the busy winter holidays, starting within!

  • Proactively nurture your health and wellbeing, especially as the winter and holiday season approaches.
  • Explore and experience the benefits of yoga's myriad tools, in addition to physical poses, for inner peace and outer harmony.
  • Move and energize your body with joy and freedom.
  • Tune your body instrument with Mother Nature.
  • Strengthen your inner resources for managing and releasing stress.
  • Activate your creativity for preparing healthy plant-based meals.
  • Engage in meaningful conversation that impacts wellbeing.
  • Gift yourself, and consequently those you love, authentic presence.
  • Have fun choosing healthy habits and balanced living!

Imagine yourself here...

Our sanctuary is Ojas Retreat Center, nestled on a serene hilltop in Santa Rosa Plateau, California, near Temecula Valley Wine Country.  Ojas is Sanskrit for essence of vitality or vigor, evoked by its panoramic mountain views, airy pristine ​rooms and hybrid of indoor and outdoor dining and lounge areas, including a spacious yoga pavilion, fully equipped with props and an open-air option.  Gathering spaces abound throughout the garden and decks, with a fire pit, indoor private hot tub, outdoor community hot tub and outdoor swimming pool.  Nearby are the Santa Rosa Ecological Reserve, the Cleveland National Forest hiking trails, vineyards and horseback riding.

Here's the Itinerary:

​Day 1 - Saturday
4-5pm Arrival + Free Time**
5:00-6:00 Welcome Circle + Intention-Setting
6:00-7:00 Dinner
7:15-8:15 Harmony through Mantra & Music, Kirtan Workshop with Trevor
8:30-9:30 *Cultivating Clarity, Yin + Yoga Nidra + Breathwork + Meditation + Soundbath Savasana with Michelle

Day 2 – Sunday (This day includes 1-day guests.)
8:00-9:00am *Inviting Ease, Vinyasa Flow Yoga + Breathwork + Meditation with Michelle
9:15-10:15 Breakfast
10:30-12:30pm Carpool to Nature Walk + Forest Bathing**** 
**Free Time
1:30-2:30 Lunch
3:00-4:15 Balancing Your Energy (7 Chakras), ***Soul Movement PLAYshop + Soundbath Savasana with Michelle
**Free Time
5:00-6:00 Deliciously Wholesome Holiday Recipes, Cooking Class with Wild Love Vegan Food
6:00-7:30 Dinner

Day 3 – Monday
8:00-9:00am *Trusting Yourself through Discipline, Vinyasa Flow Yoga + Breathwork + Meditation with Michelle
9:15-10:15 Breakfast
10:30-1:00pm Carpool to Hike + Forest Bathing**** 
1:30-2:30 Lunch
**Free Time
4:00-5:15 Yoga Tools for Harmony in Relationships (the Yamas), Art-Making Yoga Integration Workshop with Michelle
**Free Time
6:00-7:00 Dinner
7:30-8:30 *Power of Surrender, ***Soul Movement + Yin Yoga + Breathwork + Meditation + Soundbath Savasana with Michelle

Day 4 – Tuesday
7:30-8:30am *Embody Loving Awareness, Vinyasa Flow Yoga + Breathwork + Meditation + Soundbath Savasana with Michelle
​8:30 Closing Circle
9:00-10:00 Breakfast
11:00 Check out

*Daily Yoga classes will explore and integrate Yoga's tools for inner peace, including the Niyamas, or observances.  
**Free Time could include booking a massage or Reiki session with a visiting bodyworker (at an additional price), soaking in the hot tubs, taking a cold plunge in the pool, lounging in the communal areas with new friends, journaling, reading a book, walking along the nearby trail or rejuvenating with an afternoon nap.
***To learn more about Soul Movement, click here.
****To learn more about Forest Bathing, and its health benefits, click here.

Meet Your Wellness Support Team:

Retreat Host & Yoga Facilitator

Inspired to support whole-being wellness, Michelle Chua is a lifelong student, Registered Yoga Teacher and Founder of Root 2 Rise Yoga, based in Hollywood, CA. Lover of creative flow and nature, Michelle offers weekly yoga classes integrating meditation, breathwork, yoga philosophy and psychology, mindful movement and postures and nature immersion.  She hosts wellness retreats in California and abroad.  Connect with Michelle on IG @root2riseyoga and learn more here.  

​Michelle's intention for offering this retreat is to support conscious healthy habits for whole-being wellness, especially at the time of year when authentic self-care can be more challenging, so that we can impact collective peace and well-being.  She believes that world peace begins within.

Guest Facilitator for Yogic Mantra & Music
A longtime practitioner of Ashtanga vinyasa yoga, Trevor Arthur was first introduced to kirtan by his teacher, Tim Miller of Encinitas, a great Hanuman devotee. Trevor has studied at the Ramakrishna Seminary at Kali Mandir and at the Kriya Tantra Institute at Yogini Ashram. He has received initiation into Kriya Kundalini Pranayam and Mantra diksha from Swami Ayappa Giri. He hosts bi-weekly kirtans at Yoga on State, in Carlsbad, where he also teaches pranayama and asana, and he offers individual chanting and harmonium mentorship, as well as private mantric sound-bath healing sessions. Contact Trevor on IG @etegandhapushpe or via email: [email protected].  Thirsty for new experiences of illumination, devotion, and elevated consciousness, he relishes the opportunity to chant mantras in communion with fellow spiritual seekers. 

Guest Facilitators & Chefs for Cooking Class & Meals

Chef Itzel and Chef Drew from Wild Love Vegan Food are passionate about creating culinary experiences that are nourishing, comforting, healing and totally scrumptious! Their colorful food is inspired by cuisines from around the world and is served with loving and attentive service. Find them on IG @wildloveveganfood.

Inclusions & Investment for 1-Day Guests

1-Day guests are welcome on Sunday, December 4.  The following are included in your retreat investment:
  • All curated activities, workshops and classes listed in the itinerary on Day 2 and materials
  • Access to Ojas Retreat Center's outdoor hot tub, pool, yoga pavilion and indoor and outdoor communal spaces
  • 3 Plant-based, seasonal and mostly organic meals prepared by Wild Love Vegan Food
  • Parking at Ojas Retreat Center
  • Parking and admission to nature walk trail
  • Special gift to support your well being​
Early Bird thru November 1st: $250 per guest for 1-Day
After 11/1: $275 per guest for 1-Day

What's included in the 4-Day Retreat:

  • 3 nights + 4 days accommodation at Ojas Retreat Center with full access to its amenities (hot tubs, pool, deck, yoga pavilion and indoor and outdoor lounges)
  • All curated activities, workshops and classes listed in the itinerary and materials
  • Plant-based, seasonal and mostly organic meals each day prepared by Wild Love Vegan Food
  • Parking at Ojas Retreat Center
  • Parking and admission to hiking and nature walk trails
  • Special gift to support your well being

Accommodations & Investment for 4-Day Retreat Guests:

Choose single or shared accommodations in the following rooms.  In double and triple occupancy rooms, guests must register (one registration form per person) with their pre-selected roommate. Rooms include comfortable beds with organic cotton sheets. All the showers include organic shampoo, conditioner and soap that are kind to the earth.  Purified drinking water runs through all the faucets.  

(1) Mountain View Room (Up to 5 Occupants) - Shared & Gender-Inclusive 

This room is now reserved.

This airy room has up to 5 single beds sharing a balcony with mountain views and a large restroom with a shower and additional indoor hot tub.  This room is for individuals identifying themselves as women.
Early Bird thru Nov. 1st: Single Bed/Shared Occupancy, $1,200 per guest
After 11/1: Single Bed/Shared Occupancy, $1,275 per guest
A cot is available at an additional $50 discount.

(2) Lotus Room (Up to 4 Occupants) - Shared & Gender-Inclusive ​

On the ground floor, this spacious room has a private entry to the garden and rests beside the lotus pond.  A private bathroom with shower is shared among this room's occupants.  This room can be shared with individuals of any gender.
​Early Bird thru Nov. 1st: Single Bed/Shared Occupancy: $1,200 per guest
After 11/1: Single Bed/Shared Occupancy: $1,275 per guest
A cot is available at an additional $50 discount.

(3) Hawk's Nest (Up to 3 Occupants) - Shared, Double or Single

This room is now reserved.

This room has a balcony with table and chairs and bird's eye views of Santa Rosa Plateau.  The 2 single beds can be joined together to make 1 king bed. Its occupants share a private restroom with shower with the 1-2 other occupant(s) upstairs in the loft.
Early Bird thru Nov. 1st: Single Bed/Shared Occupancy, if 3 guests, $1,200 per guest
After 11/1: Single Bed/Shared Occupancy, if 3 guests, $1,275 per guest
​​Early Bird thru 11/1: Single or Shared King Bed/Double Occupancy: $1,300 per guest
After 11/1: Single or Shared King Bed/Double Occupancy, $1,375 per guest
Early Bird thru 11/1: King Bed/Single Occupancy, $1,600
​After 11/1: King Bed/Single Occupancy, $1,675
A single cot is available at an additional $50 discount, if triple occupancy.

(4) The Loft (Up to 2 Occupants) - Double or Single

This room is now reserved.

Upstairs of Hawk's Nest Room is a cozy loft with 1 single bed and a sofa bed.  Its occupants share a restroom with shower with the occupants of Hawk's Nest Room below it. 
​Early Bird thru Nov. 11/1: Single Bed/Double Occupancy, $1,250 per guest
After 11/1: Single Bed/Double Occupancy, $1,325 per guest
Early Bird thru 11/1: Single Bed/Single Occupancy: $1,400
​After 11/1: Single Bed/Single Occupancy: $1,475
The sofa bed is available at an additional $50 discount, if double occupancy.

(5) Sage Brush Room (Up to 2 Occupants) - Double or Single

​This quaint room has 2 single beds that can be joined together as a king bed.  This room shares a tea station and restroom with shower and tub with the adjacent Avocado Room.
Early Bird thru Nov. 1st: Single or Shared King Bed/Double Occupancy, $1,300 per guest
After 11/1: Single or Shared King Bed/Double Occupancy, $1,375 per guest
Early Bird thru 11/1: King Bed/Single Occupancy: $1,600
​After 11/1: King Bed/Single Occupancy: $1,675

(6) Avocado Room (Up to 2 Occupants) - Double or Single

​This quaint room has 2 single beds that can be joined together as a king bed.  This room shares a tea station and restroom with shower and tub with the adjacent Sage Brush Room.
Early Bird thru Nov. 1st: Single or Shared King Bed/Double Occupancy, $1,300 per guest
After 11/1: Single or Shared King Bed/Double Occupancy, $1,375 per guest
Early Bird thru 11/1: King Bed/Single Occupancy: $1,600
​After 11/1: King Bed/Single Occupancy: $1,675

BONUS OFFERS:

Register for this retreat by September 30, and be entered in a free raffle to win a 1-hour private yoga session with Michelle Chua, either in-person or online via Zoom.  Enjoy a personalized yoga session at your pace before or after the retreat!  Entries and raffle drawing will be video-recorded and shared on our eNews.

Additional Perks for All Guests:

All registered guests will be entered into a free raffle to enjoy one of the following (See photos from left to right): An hour Reiki Energy Healing and Intuitive Tarot Session with Aneyda Zinky in-person during the retreat, a personal natal chart reading from Los Angeles-based Astrologist Keeley Weber at another date outside the retreat and an hour private or semi-private yoga session (up to 5 people) in Los Angeles area or on Zoom outside of the retreat. 

How to Register:

To apply to attend this retreat, click the button below to register.  After, you'll receive an email to confirm your accommodation choice availability with options to submit your deposit or full investment amount.  To hold your spot on the retreat, a $250 nonrefundable retreat deposit is due within a week of your registration form being received.  The remaining balance is due by November 1, 2022 to complete your reservation.  If you're registering after November 1st, reserve your spot with the full investment amount.  Payment methods include cash, check, Zelle or credit card.  See registration form about cancellation policy.