Upcoming Retreats:

Sept 18/19th-21st, 2025: HARMONIZE Fall Equinox Retreat at Heartwood Retreat Center in North Georgia... registration is open! 

Jan 17th-24th 2026: UNTAMED Costa Rica Retreat... registration is open! 

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Harmonize your body, mind, and spirit on retreat as light and dark come into transformative equilibrium. The fall equinox invites us back into balance, and heralds the season of abundance and graceful release. 

Join beloved yoga teacher Gina and yogi-musician Gershone for a weekend of yoga & mantra music to ground, balance, reflect and recalibrate, coming deeply present to yourself, your life, and the magic of the equinox. 

Enjoy sweet community, seasonal ritual and guided reflection, delicious meals, and plenty of downtime in the splendor of nature in the beautiful North Georgia mountains. 

As we move into the dark of the year we’ll do so with a greater resonance and connection to natural rhythm, refreshed and re-aligned. 

Activities & Accomodations

At Heartwood Retreat Center’s beautiful facilities, we will have private use of yoga studios and lodging in natural surroundings.

We’ll practice in the Sunrise Studio, a gorgeous 1800 square ft facility with a kitchen, lounge, two bathrooms, shower and a state of the art sound system.

Weather permitting, we will use the fire circles and the Garden Studio, and will also have exclusive access to amenities including the hot tubs, infrared saunas, outdoor showers, swinging bed, lounge areas, fire circles, and hiking trails.

You can book additional services such as Thai Bodywork, Emotional Trauma Release, and Reiki. (For a description of these services, click here. When you sign up, you will receive info on how to add these to your retreat package.)

The Heartwood House is the main retreat house at the facility. Relax and enjoy a full kitchen, dining area, lounge area, outdoor and indoor showers, infrared sauna, full baths, a fire pit and balconies that overlook the woodlands. This house comes fully equipped with toiletries, towels, linens and wifi. You will have access to the amenities at the Garden House as well.

The Garden House is a beautiful home with an organic garden and the lovely Garden Studio in the backyard. This house also comes fully equipped with toiletries, towels, linens and wifi. In addition, you will have access to all amenities including the hot tub, infrared sauna, outdoor showers, swinging bed, lounge areas, bonfire and hiking trails.

What’s included: 

Fri - Sun Pricing Package Includes:

• 2 nights of accommodation with amenities

• 6 Meals:

  • Friday evening dinner

  • Saturday breakfast, lunch and dinner

  • Sunday breakfast and lunch

  • + Fruit, teas, coffee, bread, filtered water, a variety of sweeteners, and milks and nut butters are available throughout the weekend.

Thurs - Sun Pricing Includes:

• 3 nights of accommodation with amenities

• 9 Meals:

  • Thursday evening dinner

  • Friday breakfast, lunch and dinner

  • Saturday breakfast, lunch and dinner

  • Sunday breakfast and lunch

  • + Fruit, teas, coffee, bread, filtered water, a variety of sweeteners, and milks and nut butters are available throughout the weekend.

Both packages include: 

• Yoga, Mantra Music, Kirtan with Cacao, and Satsang sessions with Gina & Gershone 

• Free Time Activities

  • Local hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains

  • Hot Tub and Sauna Access

  • Additional services are available for purchase by Heartwood including Thai Bodywork and Reiki

Accommodations are majority double occupancy with comfortable shared rooms with private beds. (You’ll be paired you up with a roommate if you’re coming solo.) If you’re coming with friends, partners or family simply add your roommate’s name to your registration. There are limited single occupancy rooms available at additional cost.

Heartwood specializes in gluten-free, vegetarian cuisine. You will be asked upon registration what your dietary needs are while on retreat. 

Space is limited. A non-refundable deposit fee of $200 is required to hold your spot. 

Final Balance is due by Sept 1st. Cancellation policy: full refund minus $200 deposit before Sept 1st, half refund before Sept 8th. After Sept 8th, no refund unless emergency situation or illness. If emergency canceling within 3 days of retreat, an additional $125 will be deducted from refund. 

Rainforest meets ocean at our private, boutique yoga and wellness destination. Immersed in nature steps from the beach at Golfo Dulce (sweet gulf) and a boat ride from Corcovado National Park, our location supports rebalancing the nervous system as we come into HARMONY with our circadian rhythms, and the simplicity of jungle life using methods of yogic sound (kirtan) and stillness (yoga nidra)

The bio-diversity found on the Osa peninsula is unsurpassed.  Corcovado National Park encompasses the only remaining old growth wet forests on the Pacific Coast of Central America, and 13 major ecosystems where there is a good chance of spotting some of Costa Rica’s shyest and most endangered inhabitants: Tapirs, Jaguars, Scarlet Macaws, Harpy Eagles, Red-backed squirrel monkeys and White-lipped Peccaries.

Our immersion is hosted by Amanda Trevelino, Gina Minyard and Gershone Hendelberg.  Together, they offer movement and music, with transformative practices emphasizing  body and Spirit. Their program is approved by Yoga Alliance for 20 continuing education hours.  We’ll begin by contemplating pure consciousness, or spirit; eternal, and unaffected by the physical world. We then explore Akasha, the field of Sound, and Prakriti, the active principle, through each of the elements: water, wood, fire, earth, air.  We’ll add the practice of yoga Nidra as an experience of embodied harmony.