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Waitlist onlyJoin Swami Ramananda, Swami Divyananda Ma & Mirabai Warkulwiz and reconnect with inner peace, and renew your commitment to living with clarity and courage.
Single room SOLD OUT waitlist only | $725 Early bird, use promo code RETREAT, exp. 9/4/25 | $795 Regular
Shared rooms (per person) SOLD OUT waitlist only
$600 Early bird, use promo code RETREAT, exp. 9/4 |
$670 Regular
In today’s fast-paced world, we all need moments to truly rest and replenish our energy. This four-day, in-person silent retreat offers a rare opportunity to turn inward, reconnect with inner peace, and renew your commitment to living with clarity and courage. Held in the serene, oceanside setting of the Commonweal Retreat Center in Bolinas—nestled on sacred Native American land—this retreat invites you into the healing embrace of nature and silence.
The program includes daily yoga classes suitable for all levels, guided meditations, workshops, inspiring evening programs, nourishing vegetarian meals, and ample free time to walk, rest, or read. In the quietude of this sacred space, surrounded by natural beauty, you’ll begin to release the physical and mental toxins accumulated through constant stimulation—and return home feeling lighter, clearer, and more deeply connected.
Spaces are limited—join us to experience the transformative power yoga practice and silence.
Swami Ramananda, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, is the Executive Director of the Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco, C-IAYT, and a greatly respected senior teacher in the Integral Yoga tradition who has been practicing Yoga for over 45 years. Ramananda offers practical methods of integrating the timeless teachings and practices of Yoga into daily life and transforming the painful aspects of human experience into steps toward realizing one’s full potential.
He leads beginner, intermediate and advanced-level Yoga teacher training programs in San Francisco and offers a variety of programs in many locations in the U.S., Europe and South America. Ramananda co-developed the Stress Management Teacher Training program with Swami Vidyananda, has trained many teachers to bring Yoga into corporate, hospital and medical settings, and has taught mind/body wellness programs in many locations. He is a certified Yoga therapist and founding board member of the Yoga Alliance, a national registry that supports and promotes yoga teachers as professionals. He co-founded The Spiritual Action Initiative (SAI), which brings together individuals committed to working for social justice for all beings and for the care and healing of our natural world. His warmth, wisdom and sense of humor have endeared him to many.
Swami Divyananda Ma, E-RYT 500, has had a wealth of experience teaching Integral Yoga around the world since 1973. She has taught at corporations, universities, the Commonwealth Cancer Center, and for the Dr. Dean Ornish Reversing Heart Disease programs. She has also served as one of Integral Yoga’s Basic Hatha teacher trainers. Swami Divyananda Ma took monastic vows in 1975 from the great saint and yogi, Sri Swami Satchidananda. Over the years she has served as the director of the Integral Yoga Institutes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and as Ashram Manager at Yogaville. She also served for ten years as the director of the Integral Yoga Institute in Coimbatore, India; this immersion into the South Indian culture has given depth to her understanding and practice of Yoga. Now an itinerant monk, Swami Divyananda is constantly “on the road.” She leads the annual Sacred India Tours to sacred sites in India in addition to international Yoga retreats and trainings. Learn more at sacredindiatours.org.
Mirabai Warkulwiz planted her yoga and meditation roots in San Francisco at the Sivananda Center in 1998. Amazed at her healing of a back injury and many other positive life changes, she became yoga certified through 200-hour teacher training programs both at the Integral Yoga Institute in 2004, and at the Greenpath Ashtanga Studio in 2005. In July 2008 she completed another 170 hour Intermediate Teacher Training program in Asana and Pranayama through the Integral Yoga Institute in Virginia. She is attuned to Reiki Level 1, studies Aryuveda, is a dancer, and enjoys being in communion with nature. She invites all of her yoga students to transcend physical, emotional, and mental blocks to experience more spaciousness, comfort, happiness, clarity, and inner peace. As a Kirtan musician (Mirabai and Friends Kirtan Band) Mirabai leads Kirtan around the Bay Area, and enjoys implementing chanting, sound, and music into class.
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Commonweal, 451 Mesa Rd, Bolinas, CA 94924-8701, United States
