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4640 Albion Little River Road

Little River, California 95456

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About Spirit Camp Retreat Center, Venue Rentals & Retreats

Spirit Camp Retreat Center, Venue Rentals & Retreats, nestled within the serene redwood sanctuary of Little River, California, offers a unique environment for personal growth, creative expression, and transformative gatherings. While not a traditional dance studio, Spirit Camp provides a sanctuary where movement and wellness are integral to its retreat experiences. Attendees can engage in "Transformative Classes" designed to "Deepen Connection & Creativity," with options for "Ecstatic Dance facilitation," "Yoga instruction (gentle to power vinyasa)," and "Barre" as add-ons, fostering opportunities for expressive and mindful practices. Specific retreats like "Witches in the Woods" explicitly feature "Dance" and "Creative Movement," while "Ritual & Renewal" highlights "embodied dance" for intuitive flow, and "FORGED" and "Sacred Feminine" retreats incorporate "Ecstatic Dance." The "Breathing Through Life" retreat also lists "Freeform Dancing" alongside other wellness activities. Beyond movement, Spirit Camp offers immersive programs like David Elliott's "Healer Training," a nine-day certification in breathwork healing, and "Transformative Breathwork" sessions led by Julian Hunter and Nathaniel Reagan, focusing on active meditation to release energy and foster inner awareness. Set on 27 acres of redwood forests with hiking trails and nourishing meals, Spirit Camp is an ideal venue for retreats, weddings, and offsites, creating an atmosphere to "Remember Your Magic" and foster deep connection and rejuvenation.

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Programs from Spirit Camp Retreat Center, Venue Rentals & Retreats

50 programs available

Classes

Transformative Breathwork

A powerful self-healing practice, Transformative Breathwork is an active form of meditation using a simple breath pattern to move stuck energy in the body and reconnect with your true essence. During a transformative breathwork journey, we’ll begin with an opening circle to ground our energy in the space, connect as a group, and review the breathing technique.

Guided Ecstatic Dance

Let go, move freely, and tap into your primal rhythm in a guided ecstatic dance journey. A carefully curated DJ set takes you on a wave of sound, designed to free the body and expand the mind. No dance experience needed—just a willingness to move, sweat, and surrender to the beat.

dance party

The lodge is always ready for a dance party, and tea n’ tarot in the sanctuary. We’ve also added a mile-long rugged hiking trail through 27 acres of redwood forest.

Ecstatic Dance

Practices include yoga, mindfulness meditation, reflective writing, ecstatic dance, and group process. Every activity is optional and choice-centered, allowing you to engage in ways that honor your own rhythm.

Transformative Classes

Deepen connection and creativity through transformative classes offered at Spirit Camp, fostering personal growth and artistic expression.

Dance and embodiment

Spirit Camp curates a multitude of transformative experiences, offering spiritual retreats in Northern California for those seeking inner alignment, dance and embodiment retreats for those craving deeper bodily wisdom, and yoga retreat Mendocino immersions for anyone longing to harmonize breath, movement, and soul.

Meditation

Mornings begin with Meditation, mantra, and flow to awaken the body’s innate vitality. Afternoons shift into nourishing restorative sessions supported by dharma reflections. Through these practices, participants have space to recalibrate, rest deeply, and rediscover their inner clarity.

Kirtan

Each evening, the retreat gathers around the devotional fire of Kirtan, the ecstatic call-and-response singing that unites hearts and voices. These nightly gatherings offer participants a sacred space to open their voices, let go of self-consciousness, and experience the joy of singing as a collective.

Yoga

Guests will gather twice daily for thoughtfully curated yoga practices. Mornings begin with Meditation, mantra, and flow to awaken the body’s innate vitality. Afternoons shift into nourishing restorative sessions supported by dharma reflections. Through these practices, participants have space to recalibrate, rest deeply, and rediscover their inner clarity.

Dance and embodiment retreats

Spirit Camp curates a multitude of transformative experiences, offering spiritual retreats in Northern California for those seeking inner alignment, dance and embodiment retreats for those craving deeper bodily wisdom, and yoga retreat Mendocino immersions for anyone longing to harmonize breath, movement, and soul.

Somatic Movement & Bodywork

Somatic Movement & Bodywork is a modality that helps participants to connect with their bodies and release tension. This retreat includes sessions that explore somatic unwinding and energy healing, creating space for emotional residue and stored tension to release without force.

Yin Yoga

Yin Yoga and somatic movement melt tension that has been carried for years, while breathwork helps clear the debris of old stories and accumulated stress. Meditation and sound healing create openings where intuition becomes unmistakably clear. Reiki Healing supports the release of energetic burdens, giving rise to fresh clarity, renewed trust, and a deep inner steadiness.

dance and embodiment retreats

Spirit Camp curates a multitude of transformative experiences, offering spiritual retreats in Northern California for those seeking inner alignment, dance and embodiment retreats for those craving deeper bodily wisdom, and yoga retreat Mendocino immersions for anyone longing to harmonize breath, movement, and soul.

Nervous System Expansion

This modality is part of a retreat inviting men who have achieved much yet sense something deeper still calling. Participants are guided into vitality, truth, and freedom through various practices.

Meditation

This modality is part of a retreat inviting men who have achieved much yet sense something deeper still calling. Participants are guided into vitality, truth, and freedom through various practices.

Shadow Work

This modality is part of a retreat inviting men who have achieved much yet sense something deeper still calling. Participants are guided into vitality, truth, and freedom through various practices.

Chi Gong

This modality is part of a retreat inviting men who have achieved much yet sense something deeper still calling. Participants are guided into vitality, truth, and freedom through various practices.

Kundalini Yoga

This modality is part of a retreat inviting men who have achieved much yet sense something deeper still calling. Participants are guided into vitality, truth, and freedom through various practices.

Breathwork

This modality is part of a retreat inviting men who have achieved much yet sense something deeper still calling. Participants are guided into vitality, truth, and freedom through various practices.

Breathwork Coach Certification

This transformative experience is ideal for yoga instructors, therapists, counselors, holistic health practitioners, wellness enthusiasts ready to start a healing practice, existing breathwork practitioners, and anyone called to facilitate healing in individual or group settings. Most importantly, this retreat is for those ready to undergo their own healing journey while simultaneously gaining the skills to guide others.

Breathwork Facilitator Certification & Personal Healing

What makes this transformation breathwork certification retreat extraordinary is its dual nature—while acquiring professional skills, you'll simultaneously undergo your own profound healing journey. Each day includes both technical training and experiential sessions.

LEVEL 5: TRAUMA INTEGRATION & EMOTIONAL RELEASE

Facilitate True Transformation: Understand the body's relationship to stored trauma, learn techniques for identifying emotional blockages, master methods for safe and effective emotional release, develop protocols for supporting deep transformation, and complete your certification with confidence and clarity.

LEVEL 4: ADVANCED BREATHWORK HEALING TECHNIQUES

Elevate Your Practice: Deepen your intuitive abilities beyond the ordinary, learn to create and use healing altars and sacred tools, develop advanced awareness for complex healing scenarios, integrate multiple healing modalities with breathwork, and enhance your ability to perceive energy patterns.

LEVEL 3: GROUP BREATHWORK FACILITATION SKILLS

Expand Your Impact: Learn the art of holding space for collective healing, master group dynamics and energy management, create powerful healing themes for breathwork circles, develop your unique facilitation style and voice, and practice leading sessions with supportive feedback.

LEVEL 2: SELF-WORTH, EXCHANGE, AND VALUE

Deepen Your Relationship with Abundance: Explore and transform your relationship with self-worth, release limiting beliefs around money and energetic exchange, learn to value your unique healing gifts, develop a healthy relationship with receiving, and establish clear boundaries and energetic protection.

LEVEL 1: FOUNDATIONS OF BREATHWORK & SELF-LOVE

Master the Essentials: Learn the core 2-stage Pranayama Breathwork meditation technique, develop your intuitive abilities through guided practice, cultivate self-love as the foundation for all healing work, practice partnered exercises and energy clearing techniques, and understand the ethics and responsibilities of healing work.

Guided Ecstatic Dance

Free your body, free your mind. A playful movement journey about listening to your body and moving from within.

Yoga Classes

Flow into relaxation or power up with rejuvenation—on-site yoga sessions tailored to your group's needs and energy.

Transformative Classes

Deepen Connection & Creativity offered at Spirit Camp for guests seeking growth and new experiences during their retreat.

Freeform Dancing

Women’s Retreat, Hatha Yoga, Reiki Healing, Sound Healing, Tarot, Mini Chart Reading, Nature Walks, Women's Circle, Freeform Dancing, Creative Reflection and Self-Expression through Art and Journaling. Experience a transformative sanctuary of wellness and growth. Immerse in nature’s quiet grandeur, guided by dedicated experts. Return home empowered, refreshed, and intimately connected to self, others, and spirit.

Dance

Yoga, Dance, Meditation, Creative Movement. , Nature Play , Fire Ceremony , Witchery of All Sorts. This is a sacred gathering of sisterhood, nature, ritual, and creative expression. It offers a powerful blend of movement, meditation, and ceremony to awaken the wild within. Ideal for women who seek heart-led connection, embodied freedom, and the soulful embrace of a transformative experience.

Dance Party

Power Vinyasa Yoga, Yin & Restorative Yoga, Sound Bath & Live Music, Campfire Storytelling, Dance Party, Redwood Hikes, Ocean Cold Plunges, Healthy Vegetarian Meals. Connect to gratitude and wholeness beside ancient redwoods and the wild Pacific. Move, breathe, and sing with a community of kindred spirits. Leave nourished in body, mind, heart, and soul.

Dance

Yoga, Meditation, Breathwork, Somatic Healing, Dance, Music, Art + more! Please Note: Spirit Camp provides only the venue and lodging for retreats. All retreats listed here are hosted by independent practitioners and facilitators, who set their own rates and manage their own programs. For details or questions about a specific retreat, please contact the event organizer directly.

Morning Movement

Choose from one of our many morning movement activities: yoga, breathwork, guided movement or private hiking trail.

Guided Ecstatic Dance

A guided movement experience for 2 hours to move energy and emotions in the body. No dance experience required. Inquire for more details.

Courses

Breathwork Certifications

This training had a profound impact on my path as a healing practitioner. David's certification equipped me with an incredibly powerful modality that transformed my confidence. In the three years since, I've facilitated breathwork for over a thousand individuals in large group settings—something I never would have been capable of without the comprehensive skills and deep knowledge this training provided.

Breathwork Certificate Training

This comprehensive training begins with fundamentals and progressively builds to advanced techniques. Upon completion of all five levels (totaling 64+ hours of training), you will receive official certification as a David Elliott Breathwork Practitioner. Graduates can facilitate both private and group breathwork sessions, integrate these techniques into existing healing practices, and lead workshops and retreats.

Healer Training: Breathwork Levels 1-5

Step into the magic of the redwoods and embark on a healing journey that will transform your life. This summer, join renowned healer and breathwork teacher David Elliott for the Healer Training Levels 1-5 Series. This intimate training combines David's profound teachings, hands-on healing work, and the tranquil embrace of the redwoods for an unforgettable experience.

Workshops

Dance & Group Process Retreat for Women

From September 26–28 (Friday through Sunday), Spirit Camp hosts women ages 20+ for a weekend of movement, reflection, and shared presence. This Dance and Group Process Retreat invites you to explore ecstatic dance, yoga, reflective writing, and group process—all designed with consent and choice at their core.

Ecstatic Dance & Reflective Writing in the Redwoods

From September 26–28 (Friday through Sunday), Spirit Camp hosts a California Retreat for Women designed for authenticity, rest, and playful exploration. With optional ecstatic dance, reflective writing circles, yoga, and mindfulness practices, women ages 20+ are invited to connect with themselves and others in a pressure-free, choice-based container.

Bhakti Yoga

Anchored in the heart-centered traditions of Bhakti, this retreat invites guests into four days of steady practice, sincere devotion, and soulful connection. Under the guidance of Nat Kendall, participants will explore the pathways of mantra, movement, meditation, and music—an immersive experience designed to awaken the spirit and nourish the heart. Expect mornings infused with meditation, mantra, and flow, afternoons steeped in restorative ease, and evenings illuminated by song. Each day offers a rhythm that encourages slowing down, softening the mind, and opening to the vast inner landscape that Bhakti reveals.

Embodied Men’s Work

This modality is part of a retreat inviting men who have achieved much yet sense something deeper still calling. Participants are guided into vitality, truth, and freedom through various practices.

Breathwork Training Certification

Nestled among towering redwoods at the Spirit Camp Retreat Center in Mendocino, California, this immersive experience removes you from daily distractions and places you in an environment optimized for growth and transformation. The perfect environment for a breathwork teacher certification that empowers you to confidently start sharing this power healing modality.

BREATHWORK TRAINING CERTIFICATION: A Complete 5-Level Healer Training

Imagine standing confidently in your power as a certified breathwork practitioner, equipped with profound healing techniques passed down directly from one of the world's foremost breathwork masters. In just nine transformative days, surrounded by ancient redwoods and supported by a community of like-minded seekers, you'll emerge not only deeply healed yourself but certified to facilitate healing for others.

Free-Movement Dance

Insight Meditation, Enneagram Teachings, Somatic Practices and Healing, Free-Movement Dance, Creative Expressions, Playful Group Adventures. Turn down the noise and turn up your inner radiance at this life-changing retreat. Embrace your brilliance, release old patterns, and bloom into your truest expression—all in a community of like-hearted women. Come home renewed, inspired, and ready to shine.

Ecstatic dance

Yoga, Mindfulness meditation, Ecstatic dance, Group process. A tender, playful immersion into the way of the sacred feminine—where mind and body, power and vulnerability, are welcomed back into wholeness. Guided by Dr. Hillary McBride and Lisa Gungor, the retreat centers deep listening, connection, and choice. Designed for those who identify as women (ages 20+), this experience blends yoga, mindfulness meditation, ecstatic dance, and group process in the redwoods of Mendocino.

Ecstatic Dance

Holotropic Breathwork, Mindfulness Meditation, Ecstatic Dance, Vinyasa Yoga, Nature Walks, Nervous System Regulation, Somatic Healing. FORGED is more than a retreat—it’s a recalibration. Across five days in the redwoods of Northern California, this immersive gathering invites you to come home to your body, your breath, and your truth. Guided by trauma-informed facilitators Kate Mulholland and Chelsea Thompson (Chelsko), the retreat blends Holotropic Breathwork, Mindfulness Meditation, Ecstatic Dance, Vinyasa Yoga, Nature Walks, and practices for Nervous System Regulation and Somatic Healing. This retreat is designed for all genders and ages who feel the call to break cycles of shame, disconnection, and spiritual passivity, and who long to rise into sacred leadership, resilience, and embodied freedom.

Ecstatic Dance

Kriya Yoga, Breathwork, Intuitive Flow, Ecstatic Dance, Nature Walks, Yoga Nidra, Restorative Yoga, Fire Ritual, Ceremony. As the Wheel of the Year turns, step into a four-day immersion of nature medicine, ritual, and community. This is a space to remember your magic, move with intuitive flow, and embrace the transformative energies of the Samhain portal. This unique offers restorative practices, embodied dance, and ancestral connection.

Camps

Dance & Play

From September 26–28 (Friday through Sunday), Spirit Camp opens its doors for a Northern California Women’s Retreat in Mendocino County. Designed for women ages 20+, this gathering blends yoga, meditation, dance, reflective writing, and group process—all within a framework of consent and choice.

Dance & Group Process Women’s Retreat

From September 26–28 (Friday through Sunday), Spirit Camp invites women ages 20+ into a Dance and Group Process Retreat designed for authenticity and agency. Across the weekend, practices include yoga, mindfulness meditation, reflective writing, ecstatic dance, and group process.


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Call Spirit Camp Retreat Center, Venue Rentals & Retreats at (707) 234-5008 or visit https://www.spirit.camp/.

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You can phone Spirit Camp Retreat Center, Venue Rentals & Retreats at (707) 234-5008.

What city is Spirit Camp Retreat Center, Venue Rentals & Retreats in?

Spirit Camp Retreat Center, Venue Rentals & Retreats is in Little River, California.

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The quickest way is to call (707) 234-5008 or visit https://www.spirit.camp/.