Wellness Retreats

Wellness Guides

Shane Davis
While enjoying a career in cardiac technology and studies in classical piano, Shane was introduced to yoga at the age of 30. While he was about to sit for his stock broker's exam, Shane found that the Tantric yoga philosophy embodied many of his deeply held beliefs. He followed his intuition, left the stock market behind, and immersed himself in the practices that lead to yoga. Shane brings years of musical and harmonium meditative experience to teaching a harmony-filled, bhakti-based flow. While teaching classes overflowing with vinyasa flow, meditation, and kirtan, Shane offers classes devoted to revealing your own inner truth, joy, and love.

Deacon Carpenter
At the age of 16, chronic illness and obesity led Deacon Carpenter to a local Ayurvedic doctor, which created a seismic shift in his perception of nutrition, health, and physical balance. Heeding the advice of his doctor, Deacon modified his diet, started to practice yoga, and shed over 140 pounds, which led him to pursue Ayurvedic studies at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. In 2009, after a successful 16-year career in global advertising and branding, Deacon obtained his certification as a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist, eventually moving to Sonoma, California, and establishing his practice in 2010. He continues to teach his practical approach to Ayurveda & yoga at Maharishi University of Management, where he has been a guest faculty member, adjunct professor, and co-creator of MUMs MS in Maharishi Ayurveda & integrative medicine.

Vinita Laroia.
Vinita’s yoga and meditation practice began in 1998 while she was a student and ski bum in Colorado. Since then, she has made long-term homes in Wyoming, Japan, and California. Influenced by the natural world and the many places she has traveled; her personal practice is based on a sense of deep ecology and global philosophy. She practices and teaches various movement modalities, including vinyasa, yin, and barre sport, as well as Buddhist and guided meditation.

Charlotte Keane
Charlotte is an Ordained Priestess in the Order of the Rose, Sisterhood of the Magdalene. Her Shamanic ancestry began in central and South America and comes from a tribal matriarchal lineage. She shares this gift through drum healing, oracle work, ceremony, and plant medicine. Charlotte is led to heal the Divine Feminine in all of us, bringing us back into alignment and healing.