An Invitation to Joy
We invite you to step away from the demands of daily life and into a place of deep peace and wild beauty for The Joy of Living: A Women’s Retreat with Satya Gita Aune and Alaya Babineau This is a powerful opportunity to reconnect with the most essential and authentic part of yourself.
What to Expect
Are you feeling a yearning for more joy in your life? Do you wonder how to tap into that feeling, not just when things go your way, but as a foundational state of being? This weekend is for you.
Join us at the deeply restorative and sacred grounds of Harbin Hot Springs, a sanctuary renowned for its healing thermal waters and peaceful inland beauty. Here, surrounded by the mineral springs' gentle flow and the quiet embrace of the rolling hills, you'll be part of a loving community of women, all curious and open to exploring their inner worlds.
Under the guidance of Satya Gita Aune and Alaya Babineau, we will embark on a deep dive into the inner landscape. This isn't about quick fixes; it's about doing meaningful work to bear lasting fruit. You'll leave with a renewed sense of purpose and a profound appreciation for the simple pleasures and hidden treasures that exist in your everyday life.
“What an amazing retreat with Satya! This was my first time working with Satya who came highly recommended, also my first time at Sierra Hot Springs and both exceeded my expectations. Satya's healing energy mixed with being in nature at the hot springs made the weekend magical. I am looking forward to doing more work with this beautiful yoga practitioner.” - Retreat Participant
Our Focus:
Cultivating Joy: Discovering practices to nourish and sustain a deeper, more fundamental joy.
Celebrating Life: Awakening to the inherent goodness and beauty of the present moment.
Inner Exploration: Traveling your personal inner landscape to find wisdom and resilience.
Featuring:
Yoga and Movement
Guided Meditation
Inspirational Teaching
Inquiry & Community Council
Delicious Vegan Meals
This retreat is a chance to move beyond fleeting happiness and discover the essential quality of joy that is your birthright. It's an invitation to pause, to breathe, and to remember what it feels like to truly live.
Come gather with us as a pod of loving women, ready to stir your soul and discover the joy of moment-to-moment presence.
Please join us!
Investment: Sliding Scale $450-900* ($300 non-refundable deposit required to hold your space)
Not sure how much you should pay? Please read more about sliding scale payments here.
Make your Harbin Hot Springs lodging or camping reservations at https://harbin.org
“Satya is such a special individual and it’s an honor to have any time at all in her presence. Add in therapeutic hot springs, yoga, meditation, chanting and the intimacy of a small group in a beautiful natural environment – at the end of the weekend you pretty much feel like you’ve “gone to the moon.” I can’t recommend this retreat highly enough for anyone wanting to s-l-o-w, move more inward and come home to themselves”. –2019 Retreat Participant
Who We Are
We are two dynamic and passionate women, each with over 30 years of experience living close to the earth and sharing the gifts we've gathered along the way. Our mission is to create a space for intimacy, authenticity, and freedom, using the powerful tools we've cultivated to help women reconnect with themselves and each other.
Harbin Hot Springs was the home for us both for almost 20 years. This land and the community provided a lifestyle very close to the earth. A life that valued freedom. As we mature we have both discovered that true freedom is inner freedom, the freedom to discover and be who we are in a real way. Our lifes at Harbin invited walking barefoot, carrying our water, sitting in many women's circles for moon ceremonies, sweat lodge, singing, dancing and celebrating diversity. We together learned the way of the earth from the community's grandmother, Lorindra Moonstar.
About Retreat Co-leader Alaya Babineau
Alaya’s way of sharing reconnects us to our indigenous place within: as we are nature remembering in human form, our belonging to the natural world that birthed us into being. Alaya is a graduate of Wilderness Reflections-Wilderness Quest Apprenticeship and Training. Blessed by the vision quest leader and pipe carrier, Lorindra Moon Star to carry forward the gift of guiding. Alaya is currently offering a 30 Day Online Program: Kindness Kitchen Restoration Practices and Reset. Private bodywork sessions and personal massage instruction for couples. She lives currently in Sebastopol, CA and Louisville, Kentucky.