Ojai Retreat
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ASL-Centered Spiritual Wellness Retreat
August 14–17 | 4 Days / 3 Nights
Join us for an accessible Deaf-centered retreat designed to support purpose, boundaries, identity, and internal balance. This experience includes ASL-based wellness workshops, mental health and spirituality discussions, somatic alignment, yoga, vibration bath, Reiki healing, tarot/oracle reflection, meditation, and community connection.
The retreat includes 4 days of workshops and healing activities, 3 breakfasts,3 dinners, and 2 lunches. Lodging is offered as an add-on, with shared room options available for a more affordable experience.
Retreat fee starts at $675. Room add-ons cost at $350-$710 per person for shared occupancy (3 nights).
Note: Only two rooms (Cozy Room & Oak Room) & are available for Fri-Sat or Sat-Sun. See available room options under this cart.
Reserve your spot today with a $150 deposit plus your selected room charge.
The $150 deposit will be subtracted from the $675 retreat fee. Your remaining retreat balance of $525 is due by July 10. Room charges are due at booking to secure your lodging.
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Retreat Schedule
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Meditation
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Reiki Healing
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Sound Healing
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Yoga
🍃 Meditation 🌀 Reiki Healing ☤ Sound Healing ✨ Yoga
Meet your retreat hosts
Reiki Healer | Spiritual Teacher | Integrative Health Coach
ALLISON FRIEDMANDedicated to facilitating transformative healing. Through her business, Sharing My Noga—meaning "Sharing My Light"—her mission is to help people reignite their inner light by providing the intuitive guidance and energetic clearing necessary to reclaim their radiance. Since 2022, she has professionally coached clients, led immersive workshops, and released spiritual online courses and classes designed to help individuals clear life’s "static" to manifest a path of clarity and purpose.
Your host brings a unique, multi-dimensional depth to the retreat experience. With ten years of experience as a professional educator, actress, and award-nominated filmmaker, Allison is a master of heart-centered communication and expression. A lifelong advocate for Deaf children, she is deeply committed to making spiritual spaces accessible and inclusive for every soul. By weaving together her background in education and storytelling with energy work, Allison serves as a grounded, compassionate guide for your journey toward alignment.
Reiki Healer | Sound Healer | Yoga Instructor | Meditation Guide
ALISON LOPEZWork centers around helping people slow down, reconnect with themselves, and create space for healing from within. She believes healing begins when we feel safe enough to soften, listen inward, and return to ourselves. Having studied ASL in the past, she feels especially honored to be part of a retreat that brings together healing, community, connection, and accessibility in such a meaningful way.
Sound & Vibe Healer | Linguist | Wellness Event Organizer
YEH KIMYeh Kim is a Deaf Korean American linguist, educator, and wellness event organizer dedicated to creating transformative spaces through language, healing, and community connection. With over a decade of experience in sign language education, Deaf community engagement, and visual communication, Yeh brings a grounded and culturally centered approach to wellness experiences.Through Flowstate ASL, Yeh integrates sound healing, mindfulness, ASL wellness discourse, and reflective practices to help participants reconnect with clarity, balance, and embodied expression. Their work is rooted in creating Deaf-centered environments where visual-spatial communication, emotional regulation, and collective healing can thrive.Blending backgrounds in linguistics, storytelling, and healing-centered facilitation, Yeh creates intentional spaces where participants feel seen, supported, and empowered in their personal and professional journeys.
Sound & Vibe Healer | Natural & Wellness Chef | Artist
EFRAIN CASILLASEfrain Casillas is a Deaf Puerto Rican artist, wellness chef, and sound healer whose creative work is rooted in culture, vibration, and human connection. Through EderMoon, he blends visual art, handcrafted jewelry, nourishing food experiences, and healing sound practices to create spaces that inspire reflection, grounding, and imagination. His vision centers around building a community-driven café and creative healing space where art, wellness, and Deaf culture can naturally come together. Guided by intuitive creativity and island-inspired energy, Efrain brings a warm, expressive presence that encourages others to reconnect with beauty, authenticity, and inner calm.
MJ EvermoreMJ’s first love was for contemporary dance. Having summoned a studio into her rural hometown at the age of 9, she reflects on that as her first successful manifestation project. Dedicated to storytelling through movement, it makes sense to have found her roots in the world of ASL interpretation. Practicing since 2015 and certified since 2022, MJ strives to uplift every interaction she gets to be part of as she understands the inherent importance each moment of connection holds. She began facilitating yoga sessions in 2017 to spread the liberating techniques of movement as medicine and to hold space for the practice of self-regulation. The look of bliss upon the faces of practitioners at the completion of class is, to her, the most sincere reward. MJ volunteers as a circus event coordinator for Flow Fest Indy and as the Director of Cirque Programming for a beloved discovery festival known as Breathe. These are two communities to which she attributes much of her personal growth. You can find MJ in the aerial gym studying the endless complexity of the trapeze or in the garden with her fur babies Jethro, Cleo and Steela. Yoga Teacher | ASL Interpreter