De-stress upon arrival. With your feet on the earth, begin to connect with nature’s rhythms, inside and out. This 4-day retreat brings together Yoga Nidra, somatic movement, breathwork, sound, forest bathing, and quiet time on the land to help you return to a more natural relationship with your body.
Join us at Still Mountain Wellness Retreat for a physical, energetic, mental, emotional, and spiritual re-alignment. Through gentle practice and time in nature, you will learn how the layers of your experience influence one another, and how to meet them with more steadiness, attention, and care.
Bare feet, quiet breath, open sky, and the slow remembering of yourself.
Develop a relationship with your body
Our property is nestled in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on 240 acres of private, pristine land. From the moment you arrive, the retreat begins through the body: feet on the earth, wind on your skin, sun on your face, and the sound of the river in your ears.
In daily life, many of us become overwhelmed by what is happening around us and within us. The mind moves quickly. Emotions become full. The body may become the place we leave rather than the place we live. This retreat offers a different rhythm, one that invites you to come back into contact with the body in a safe, grounded, and practical way.
Using the Pancha Kosha system of Yoga as a map, we will observe the layers of experience: body, breath, mind, intuition, and inner well-being. Through somatic practice, rest, breath, sound, and nature, you will learn to soften the pull of the chattering mind and develop a more genuine relationship with your body.
Somatic Workout on the mountain top
The body is not something to fix. It is a place to return to.
Somatic Experience
The retreat is centered on lived experience. You are not only learning ideas about the body; you are practicing ways to feel, listen, move, and settle.
Pancha Kosha Map
The yogic five-layer model gives a simple way to understand how body, breath, mind, and deeper awareness influence one another.
Nature as Co-Guide
Practice happens both inside the Yoga Temple and outside on the mountain property, allowing the land to support the process of embodiment.
Restorative Rhythm
Yoga Nidra, gentle asana, breathwork, meditation, forest bathing, sound bathing, meals, and personal time create a steady container for renewal.
What Makes This Retreat Different
This is not a fast-paced yoga weekend or a packed wellness schedule. It is a thoughtful retreat into embodiment. The focus is not performance, flexibility, or doing more. The focus is learning how to inhabit the body again with steadiness, curiosity, and kindness.
The retreat blends somatic techniques, natural movement, restorative yoga, breathwork, Yoga Nidra, forest bathing, and sound. Each practice is chosen to help you notice what is happening in the body and how to return to presence without forcing or overriding yourself.
Guided by Practitioners Who Live the Work
This retreat is held by teachers rooted in lived practice, not performance. Kristin English brings decades of devotion to yoga, Vipassana meditation, natural movement, and the study of the body. Her work is grounded in service, presence, and the wisdom of nature.
Sound bathing and Yoga Nidra for deep rest
What You Will Experience
• Daily experiences and practices inside the Yoga Temple and outdoors on the mountain.
• Time in the oak woodlands, with space to feel the land, the air, the light, and the quiet.
• A seasonal excursion to a beautiful Sequoia grove for forest bathing medicine.
• Two carefully held masterclasses that teach somatic techniques through direct experience.
• Study of the chattering mind and how to remain embodied and present.
• Daily Yoga Nidra for guided relaxation and renewed contact with the body.
• Sound bathing, breathwork, meditation, and gentle restorative movement.
• Delicious vegetarian meals prepared with care.
• Personal time for rest, walking, reflection, and rejuvenation.
Quiet time on the land for rest and reflection.
Oak Woodlands, Sequoias, and the Living Land
This retreat is rooted in place. Still Mountain offers 240 acres of oak woodlands, quiet hills, open sky, river sounds, and a rare feeling of distance from the pressure of ordinary life. The land is not a backdrop. It is part of the retreat container.
During the spring, summer, and fall seasons, the retreat includes an excursion to a nearby Sequoia grove for forest bathing. In the stillness of the trees, the body often remembers what the mind has forgotten: how to pause, how to listen, and how to be held by something older and steadier than personal stress.
Let nature bring you into embodiment.
Forest bathing in the Sequoia grove during spring, summer, and fall retreats.
A More Embodied Relationship With Yourself
A felt sense of how to return to the body when the mind becomes loud or life feels overwhelming.
Somatic Tools for Daily Life
Simple practices to help you notice tension, soften reactivity, and come back into presence.
A Rested Nervous System
Deep rest through Yoga Nidra, gentle movement, breathwork, forest bathing, and personal quiet time.
A Practical Understanding of the Five Layers
A grounded introduction to the Pancha Kosha map as a way to understand body, breath, mind, intuition, and well-being.
A Renewed Bond With Nature
Time on the land, in the oak woodlands, and in the Sequoia grove to support a slower internal rhythm.
A Sense of Personal Renewal
Space to pause, remember who you are, and leave with more ease than when you arrived.
Vegetarian meals prepared with care.
Food as Part of the Retreat
Meals are part of the retreat rhythm. You will be nourished with vegetarian meals made with care, giving the body simple support while the nervous system softens. Eating becomes another way to slow down, receive, and return to the body.
This Retreat Is For You If
• You feel disconnected from your body or overwhelmed by stress.
• You are seeking a gentle, nature-supported reset.
• You want practices that help you become more present rather than more busy.
• You are drawn to Yoga Nidra, somatic movement, breathwork, forest bathing, and sound.
• You want time away from screens, pressure, and the pace of everyday life.
• You are ready to pause and remember a quieter relationship with yourself.
When the body feels safe, the mind no longer has to work so hard.
This Retreat May Not Be the Right Fit If
• You are looking for an athletic yoga intensive or physically demanding retreat.
• You prefer a highly social vacation-style weekend with little quiet time.
• You are seeking medical treatment or a replacement for therapy.
• You are not comfortable with gentle structure, self-reflection, and periods of inward practice.
What's Included
Meet the Teacher
Kristin English
Kristin brings intuitive guidance and a gift for holding space for deep personal transformation.
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[DEMO - Please update] Somatic yoga focuses on internal physical sensation rather than outward appearance. It is a practice of becoming more aware of and connected to the felt sense of your body in each moment.
No advanced practice is required. The retreat centers on gentle somatic movement, restorative yoga, breathwork, Yoga Nidra, and embodied awareness.
No. The emphasis is on embodiment, restoration, and nervous system care rather than intensity or performance.
Yes. Practices are held both in the Yoga Temple and outdoors on the mountain property. Seasonal retreats may include a Sequoia grove forest bathing excursion.
Organic vegetarian meals are included and prepared with care.
Yes. Rest, reflection, walking, and quiet personal time are part of the retreat rhythm.
The retreat takes place on 240 acres in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, with oak woodlands, open sky, and a strong feeling of quiet. In a small group setting.
