Japa Health Wellness Retreat

Connection, Practices and Tranformation!

Dates and Location for our next Japa retreat coming soon!

Nothing makes us happier than sharing practices that create radical empowerment, transformation and vitality! We hope you can join us!

The Experience

Friday

2 pm: Welcome Ceremony
Introduction to the experience and intention setting. This retreat is designed to take you on a powerful journey of reflection and inspiration to develop tools for elevated daily living and move forward into the new year with clarity, vitality and joy.
3 pm: Yoga Basics
Explore a simple and playful posture practice that is both fun and challenging with the ancient principles of yoga philosophy woven throughout the experience. This includes the awareness of effort and ease, control of the senses, cultivation of inner heat, and observation of the fluctuations of the mind.
5:30 pm: Breathwork Journey
Guided by Robert, this journey is a blend of transformative breathing techniques done lying down with your eyes closed. Through intentional music curation and clear guidance, you’ll breathe your way into a non-ordinary state of consciousness where intuition becomes clear, creativity becomes expanded and you become empowered. In this experience, anything becomes possible… from emotional healing, to profound breakthroughs and crystal clarity not available in the ordinary waking state.
7 pm: Dinner

Saturday

- 8 am: Tea, Meditation
  There are many different meditation techniques so many in fact that it can be confusing which techniques to use in your daily life. We commonly get asked the best way to start a meditation practice at home. In our meditation sessions we will offer simple ways that we will practice together so that you can start meditating every day to improve every aspect of your life!
- 9 am: Neuroplasticity of Laughter
  Neuroplasticity Meditations are immersive learning experiences that introduce the science and benefits of practicing one’s neuroplasticity. Indy Rishi Singh invites participants to lovingly challenge their neurons while he shares various perspectives on neuroscience ranging from modern scientific breakthroughs to ancient human potential practices. Expect to laugh, connect, and contemplate how we approach our individual and collective health and happiness.
  Each Neuroplasticity Meditation is inherently unique as it encourages dynamic collaboration between all experimenters. Indy Rishi combines his education from allopathic medical school, his guidance from Ayurvedic sciences and Kundalini, and his training with leading storytellers, facilitators, & shamans from around the world to present an experience that combines active and passive experiences of Neuroplasticity Meditation
- 10 am: Yoga Basics
  Explore a simple and playful posture practice that is both fun and challenging with the ancient principles of yoga philosophy woven throughout the experience. This includes the awareness of effort and ease, control of the senses, cultivation of inner heat, and observation of the fluctuations of the mind.
- 11:30 am: Brunch
- 3:30 pm: Myofascial Release
  It has been said that our issues are in our tissues and there was a well known book written about how to heal from trauma called The Body Keeps Score. Unprocessed emotional energy can create pain and stagnation in the body and even lead to disease. In this workshop you will learn about your fascia and why some scientists believe it is the subconscious mind. We will explore how to use therapy ball exercises to care for it and aside from working through subconscious holding patterns and liberating yourself of stagnant emotional energy, myofascial release just feels awesome. It’s a form of self massage that is an excellent self care tool for sports recovery and to help you feel at home in your body, perform better, live with less pain and sleep better.
- 5:00 pm: Dinner
- 7 pm: Medicinal Mushroom Tea, Vocal Toning, Meditation, Sound Bath
  Guided by Lynda you will learn to access the healing power of your own voice. Vocal toning is a sound healing technique using the vibration of your voice. This is an energetic process of specific frequencies which restore harmony and balance in us. The conscious practice of accessing the vibration of your voice can restore well-being and help you express yourself in a way that is authentic and in alignment with your innermost truth.
  Following the vocal toning experience Lynda will offer a magical sound bath which is a meditative experience of sound created by special instruments including gongs, singing bowls, wind instruments, percussion, chimes, rattles, tuning forks, and a harmonium. The instruments are designed to work on the chakra system to bring the body into energetic coherence. You will lay on your mat and simply receive the sounds in complete relaxation. You may experience profound mental clarity, insights, visions, see shapes or colors and find a sense of deep peace. It is absolutely blissful!

Sunday

8 am: Tea and Beach Walk
Rising with the sun is an important part of optimizing health. Research shows receiving the light of the sun at sunrise stimulates the pineal gland as the direct sunlight hits the eye, moves through retinal-hypothalamic tract, and then hits the brain. This stimulates the pineal gland, also known as the “master gland”. This boosts the secretion of melatonin and serotonin, our “feel-good” hormones. These benefits are amplified by grounding, the practice of making direct contact with earth. A morning barefoot beach walk is the perfect way to start the day!
9 am: Yoga Basics
Explore a simple and playful posture practice that is both fun and challenging with the ancient principles of yoga philosophy woven throughout the experience. This includes the awareness of effort and ease, control of the senses, cultivation of inner heat, and observation of the fluctuations of the mind.
11 am: Brunch

2 pm: Future Self Design
Become the person and create the life you want. Guided by Sheryl you will be offered a series of exercises to distinguish your former, current, and future self. Research has shown that shaping your future self requires “deliberate practice,” or the ability to develop yourself towards a specific goal. You can’t effectively grow without a direction to that growth; you need a clear goal to shape the process. Together we will reverse engineer the identity narrative of your future self. We are all in a constant state of becoming. Who you become and what the future version of yourself looks like can be and should be intentional. Let’s write the story together.
3 pm: Closing

Our Teachers

Sheryl Utal

Event Organizer

Sheryl has been teaching yoga for over a decade. She is the founder of Japa Health and Red Diamond Yoga. Her mission is to empower people to see their own inner light and infinite potential. Before she discovered yoga and the other healing modalities that she currently teaches and promotes such as breathwork, meditation, sound healing and myofascial release Sheryl struggled with chronic health challenges. Learning about the art of healing profoundly enriched Sheryl's life and it is her greatest joy to share these practices with others. Through these practices one can attain the keys to their own kingdom and unlock higher states of consciousness, healing and magnetism. Her teaching style will take you on a deep inner journey and create the conditions for transformation. She is popular with beginners and advanced students and believes that no one is ever so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves so she remains a dedicated student and practitioner herself with a daily practice and commitment to her own personal disciplines. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself.

"When you become a leader, success is all about growing others." - Jack Welch

Robert Starbuck

Breathwork Journey

Robert Starbuck is an artist, designer and breathwork facilitator inspiring others to be an embodiment of their truth through the experiences he creates and the art he shares. The intention in every breathwork experience he designs is to create an energetically clean space for others to experience the essence of themselves, underneath the noise of the day-to-day grind and heaviness of past life experience. Through intentional curation of music, clear guidance and artfully crafted imagination exercises, Robert brings a unique and powerful approach to designing experiences that have been described as “worldclass”, “life-changing”, and “profoundly transformative”. Robert believes that we are our healthiest and happiest when we are able to be fully expressed in the totality of our truest essence. Breath is a tool that guides us there by unburying the truth of who we are and connecting us to the infinite depths of creative energy we all have access to. Robert has created breathwork experiences for NBA champions, Grammy award winning artists, Fortune 500 companies, and some of the most well known music festivals. He is always open to exploring co-creative opportunities where human connection and creativity are focal points.

Lynda Arnold

Vocal Toning, a practice of self expression and Sound Bath Journey

Lynda Arnold, founder of Sonic Devas Divine Feminine Sound Meditation Experience, is a Sound Meditation Facilitator, Vocalist & Multi-Instrumentalist, Composer and seasoned Performer on a life long mission to build healthy communities through the power of sound and music. She offers sound healing workshops, private sound baths, singing for wellness sessions at some of the top festivals, conferences, meditation/yoga studios in Los Angeles and beyond. Her intention is to provide a gateway for people to reduce stress, transform consciousness and heal through sound and meditation. She received a Certificate in ‘Sound, Voice and Music Healing’ at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco in 2010, has multiple music degrees and over 25 years of music education and performing experience. In 2020 she launched the Divasonic Music Academy and her online programs (Devotional Voice, Sound Meditation Design, the Yoga of Piano and Native Flute Magic) to inspire people of all ages to connect to their soul music through a combo of improvisation and musicianship approaches. As a multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer and music producer, she has spent years collaborating with other artists and bands and touring in support of her extensive catalog of releases as Divasonic. Her sound has varied through her 25 year, fiercely DIY career, touching on every electronic music genre accompanied by her transcendent, angelic flute and soulful vocal deliveries.

Layna Dakin

Yoga and Myofascial Release

Layna Dakin has been teaching yoga, fitness and meditation for over 20 years. She has trained with some of the most recognizable teachers in wellness and her highest intention is to help people feel amazing! Layna's classes are intelligently sequenced and delivered in a clear and easy to follow to way, perfect for both beginners and advanced students.

Indy Rishi Singh

Neuroplasticity Meditation

Indy Rishi Singh's Neuroplasticity Meditation is a new way to approach an age old phenomenon. Everyone is interested in regeneration, revitalization, and rejuvenation. Neuroplasticity Meditation is the process. It's the reinvention of the method. We cannot verbatim use the tools of the past when the environment is vastly different than it was then. There should be more laughter and lightness as we pursue wellbeing. Stress never produces better results. Efficiency diminishes and physical illnesses set in. If every industry promoted more laughter within their communities and management, there would be better communication, more open attitudes for adaptation, & healthier work=school environments. Even government agencies would be better if there was an understanding about the science of laughter and the power of neuroplasticity.

Wellbeing Engineering is a missing/forgotten science
Integrating Eastern and Western practice
can heal and enrich the world

Indy Rishi Singh is a wellbeing engineer, integrating Eastern philosophies with Western technologies. He is a seeker of the secrets of long life, happiness and personal evolution. He is a certified Ayurvedic practitioner, a certified hypnotherapist, has been teaching yoga and meditation for over a decade and also a former medical school student for 7 years.