YOGIC LIFESTYLE RETREAT
Menla Center, Catskill Mountains 

An Immersive Weekend into the realms of Yoga, Meditation, Ayurveda & Nature
November 14–16, 2025 | Menla Nature Preserve | The Catskills, NY

With Sue Bonanno
Soulspace Founder | 25-Year Yoga & Meditation Practitioner | Chopra-Certified Ayurvedic Guide 

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every port and cell of us”
– John Muir

In a world spinning faster than our nervous systems can track, where inboxes pile up faster than breath cycles and burnout is baked into the architecture — what does it mean to actually be well?

Not performative wellness. Not hashtag spiritual bypassing.
But grounded, rooted, whole-body knowing.

This retreat is not about escaping your life — it’s about remembering how to fully inhabit it.

For one luminous weekend in the mountains of the Catskills, join seasoned guide and yogic practitioner Sue Bonanno for a direct experience of what the ancient seers knew and modern science is only just catching up to: that the mind and body are not separate, that breath is a portal, and that ritual — done right — regenerates and renews.

This is your invitation to a full-spectrum reset.
A cognitive, emotional, and somatic rebalancing.
A space to come home — to your body, to your rhythm, to your Self.

What You’ll Step Into

  • Movement as Medicine

    - Vinyasa flow to awaken your system

    - Candlelit restorative and yoga nidra to return you to source

    - Asana not as performance, but as presence

  • Stillness as Sustenance

    - Silent mantra meditation to quiet the monkey mind

    - Mudra and metta to plug into deeper circuits of connection and compassion

    - Learn the subtle languages your nervous system speaks

  • Ayurveda as Biointelligence

    - Tune into the five-sense matrix: what you eat, touch, see, hear, and smell becomes the code

    - Create daily rituals that realign your system with the rhythm of the Earth

    - Detox not as deprivation, but as devotion

  • Resonance and Breath

    - Experience breathwork as a doorway into coherence

    - Let crystal bowl sound healing retune the deeper strata of your body-mind-energy

  • Nourishment on All Levels

    - Organic meals, wild views, stillness between the notes

    - Healing sounds, deep rest, and space for integration

  • Teachings that Land

    - Explore the Eight-Limbed Path of Yoga as a map, not a metaphor

    - Embrace the Ayurvedic wisdom of health & longevity

    - Embody ancient insights with modern context

  • Sacred Connection

    - Free time for integration walks, journaling, or sacred solitude

    - Optional spa treatments to support somatic release and restoration

Why This,
Why Now?

Because we're not here to grind through life anesthetized.
Because peak performance without purpose is boring.
Because the old maps are failing us — and the ancient ones are glowing again.

Step outside your all too familiar ways.
Come reclaim the sovereignty of your body, your breath, your time.
And return home — rested, resourced, and reconnected.

Space is intentionally limited.
Because real transformation doesn’t happen in crowds — it happens in containers.
Sacred ones. Like this. Join us this November 14-16 for our Annual Yogic Lifestyle Retreat.

Can’t make it this year? Get on the waitlist for 2026 (November 13-15)