Soma Yoga Retreat
New Mexico
Photography: Ragnar Freidank
Testimonials Accommodation Daily Schedule
You can now book a private rejuvenation or artist retreat (2 nights minimum/ 2 adults maximum, children come free!)
Artistic Residency Application upon request
Come explore, discuss and practice your art form, may it be Dance, Theatre, Music, Film or Creative Writing in our private creative sanctuary! You can also benefit from daily dance and movement, yoga, ayurveda and somatics classes during your stay. Treat yourself and enjoy a life/art process during a week’s retreat in the Mora Valley, New Mexico.
For Your Body
A daily individual or group movement session of your choice is designed to allow you to balance your unique constitution and health concerns.
For larger groups (camping slots available): a daily creative movement/dance class can be offered to allow a shift in perspective in you/your groups creative process.
For Your Mind
The simultaneous experience of roaming into the land, with daily yoga and movement education and practice, and lectures on ayurveda, allows you to develop a deep understanding of the nature of healing through ayurveda and yoga. You will leave this retreat with a personalized plan for maintaining an ayurvedic/yogic approach to health when you return to your daily life. If you are a yoga teacher or health care provider, you will expand your knowledge of the ayurvedic approach to health care.
For Your Spirit
Every moment of the time you spend with us will be imbued with Spirit. This will be an experience of healing, rarified teachings, and profound realizations. Guided pranayama and meditation, along with deeply embodied and reflective yoga asana practice each morning, will support you to fully relax and restore while in Mora Valley. You will be encouraged to rest, to take time for contemplation, meditation, or prayer, to enjoy walks in the surrounding nature, and to write, draw, daydream, and sleep. This will be a time of connecting deeply with Spirit as the source of healing and rejuvenation. You will also find yourself connected to the lifesource of New Mexico as you experience firsthand the beauty the wilderness adjacent to our property’s land.
Pricing
Private week-end or 2 days retreat (private room and meals): $550/couple
Small Group Summer Stay (1-2 weeks): Camping slots and glamping tents available, with casita accommodations for retreat leader(s). Prices depend on group size, please contact me for more details: camillelitalien@gmail.com
New Mexico Yoga and Wellness Retreat
Typical Daily Schedule
Activities can include, depending on the individual interests: gardening (permeculture discussion possible), participation in the building of our future expanded yoga studio, walks, play and meditations by the Mora River that runs at the back of the property, 60 acres of land to explore and enjoy, painting, drawing, and writing.
6:00 AM
Yoga Practice
7:30 AM
Tea and discussion
8:30 AM
rest time, explorations in the land or work in the gardens
10:30 AM
Expressive Movement
12:00 PM
Lunch Break
2:00 PM
Afternoon lectures/discussion/activities in the land
4:00 PM
Tea
6:00 PM
Evening Meditation/ Evening moving meditation
New Mexico Yoga and Wellness Retreat
Accommodation
Your secluded desert sanctuary.
Students may choose to find accommodations on their own in the city of Las Vegas, NM, or can opt to stay on the land with us and be housed in beautiful and comfortable tents. Bedrooms are also available on a first come first serve basis. All bathrooms and toilets are located in the main house/studio. Students are responsible for their own meals, and have access to a kitchen on the property. Communal cooking can be arranged. Children, partners and pets welcome! (Tents can accommodate up to a family of four)
ALL PARTICIPANTS HAVE ACCESS TO THE FOLLOWING:
Full Bathroom
Kitchen
Dinner Table
Internet Access
Studio Space
Main House Living Space
Hispanic kinships occupy this area on the small ranches and giant ranches. This is cattle/horse country today, once Apache/Comanche territory.
Slightly less than 60 acres of beautiful green, irrigated (2 historic acequias) grassland with the Mora River flowing through and a private well. Located in a tiny village with a population of 6 really good people and an old Mission Church which is still maintained.
Wild asparagus grows in the meadows, a 150-year-old cottonwood, still stands, which is an heirloom along with a variety of trees used in landscaping the property. Elks, deers and coyotes roam the meadows along with many species of animals and birds. The main house was built in 1865 of adobe and stone, added on to in time using the same materials.
The gardens are basic permaculture design with fertile soil including chokecherry, raspberry, gooseberry, hawthorne, currents, elderberries, mulberry, old apple trees from 1945, pears, peaches, tall spruce trees and aspen trees. There are two waterfall/pond areas and the gardens have always been on a extensive drip irrigation system. 30 min to Las Vegas. 1 1/2 hr to Taos and Santa Fe.
New Mexico Yoga and Wellness Retreat
Testimonials
“In nearly every yoga class I’ve taken I have heard some variation of the phrase “allow yourself to move with the wisdom of your body”. I’ve always thought that meant to align movement to inhale and exhale patterns but that barely touches the surface of what it means. Peter and Camille have taught me that beneath the destructive habits we have imposed on our bodies we have the ultimate wisdom and intelligence of moving and being, and our bodies are generous and bright enough to shine through if we can quiet the analytic mind. When I begin to move with the patterns that Peter and Camille have taught me, and learn to make adjustments based on my internal intelligence my body vibrates. It is what has allowed me to maintain a daily practice and has planted in me the seeds of the spiritual awakening. ”
— Lauren, 2019
“I have learned many beautiful things about health, yoga, movement and the universe from Cami and Peter’s classes at USU. I learned that the yoga pose is not the goal. Becoming flexible is not the goal. The goal is to create space where I was once stuck. To unveil the layers of protection I’ve built around my heart. To love my body and become aware of the mind and the noise it creates. To make peace with who I am. My amazing teachers showed me how to come to my mat to feel; not to accomplish. After being their student I shifted my focus and my heart has grown. I can now explore my subtle body consciousness in yoga asana and in my daily life. This is important to me in healing from physical pain and strengthening my mental health. That is everything.”
— Cassie, 2018
“If you ever have the opportunity to learn from Peter and Cami, you are in for a treat. The extent of their combined understanding of yoga philosophy is vast and deep. It seems that their practices have intuitively lead them to a trauma-sensitive, poly-vagal, body-mind model that is beneficial on many levels. ”