Baja California · 2026–2027
Twelve people. Two guides. Places chosen for the practice, not the postcard — ninety minutes from San Diego, or a flight away.
The work
There is a kind of exhaustion that a vacation does not touch. It does not respond to a new morning routine. Baja Alchemy exists for that — a container small enough that nobody disappears in it, run by two people who have been doing this for twenty years.
Every retreat follows the same architecture: move in the morning, open the afternoon, close the day in circle. What changes is the place, the length, and how far you are willing to travel.
The method
Vinyasa and hatha with Jano, breathwork and integration with Anne. Every session optional, every level welcome.
Properties with no distraction built in — a valley outside Ensenada, and wherever the next departure lands. Never a hotel, never a resort.
The integration circle is the part most retreats skip. It is where what you felt becomes what you do on Monday.
The guides
Entrepreneur, certified yoga instructor, aspiring organizational psychologist. Anne came to this work the long way around: through her own burnout, and the reset that followed. She leads the integration circles — the conversations that turn what you feel during the week into what you actually do differently once you're home. She is warm, direct, and very hard to perform for.
Jano came to yoga through rhythm. He was a drummer first, and it still shows: he teaches to a beat, and somewhere around day three you notice the whole room breathing on the same one. He's been a student of the practice since 2001, an E-RYT 500 trained under Tim Miller and Sri Dharma Mittra, a Lululemon ambassador, and the creator of SENSES, the yoga festival he built in San Diego. He leads the morning movement and the daily breathwork. He also still gets nervous before every class, twenty-five years in — which is most of what you need to know about him.
From the last retreat
“I came for a break. I left with a decision I had been avoiding for two years.”
Guest · May 2026
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