Reparent Your Inner Child: A Retreat for Self-Awareness & Healing

October 30 – November 1, 2026
Casa Grande Mountain Retreat | Utuado, Puerto Rico

Join us for a transformative weekend dedicated to self-discovery, healing, and personal growth. Through yoga, mindfulness, reflection, and guided workshops, you will explore your relationship with your inner child—the part of you shaped by your earliest experiences—and learn practical tools for cultivating greater self-acceptance, self-love, and emotional resilience.

This retreat offers a supportive and compassionate environment to reflect on your childhood experiences, recognize how they continue to influence your life today, and develop healthier ways of responding to yourself and others. Whether your childhood felt nurturing, challenging, or somewhere in between, this work can help you reconnect with parts of yourself that may have been neglected, wounded, or suppressed.

When we experience difficult events or unmet emotional needs, we often develop protective patterns and coping mechanisms to help us survive. While these strategies may have served us in the past, they can sometimes limit our ability to experience connection, joy, confidence, and authenticity in the present. Through the process of reparenting, we learn how to offer ourselves the understanding, validation, and support we may have needed all along.

Throughout the weekend, we will integrate:

  • Yoga asana and mindful movement
  • Breathwork and pranayama
  • Meditation and mantra
  • Journaling and self-inquiry
  • Yoga philosophy and the practice of Svadhyaya (self-study)
  • Creative expression and nature connection
  • Group discussion and reflection
  • Rituals for release, healing, and transformation

By learning to listen to and support your inner child, you can begin responding to life’s challenges from a place of greater awareness, compassion, and emotional balance.

Retreat Schedule

Friday

3:00 PM – Check-in and settle in

4:00 PM – Opening Ceremony
Meet your inner child and discover why this work can be a powerful catalyst for healing and growth.

5:00 PM – Dinner

8:00 PM – Reflection Workshop
Explore your childhood experiences and identify unmet emotional needs. The evening concludes with a gentle, restorative yoga practice.

Saturday

8:00 AM – Yoga & Pranayama
Move, breathe, and reconnect with your inner child through mindful practice.

9:00 AM – Breakfast

10:00 AM – Compassion, Validation & Acceptance Workshop
Explore the coping strategies you developed in response to unmet needs and begin building a more compassionate relationship with yourself through guided journaling and reflection.

12:00 PM – Lunch

1:00 PM – Curiosity, Play & Creativity
Reconnect with your inner child’s creativity through a collaborative mandala project and time in nature, including river exploration.

5:00 PM – Dinner

7:00 PM – Transformation & Metamorphosis Workshop
Release limiting patterns through reflection, a symbolic fire ceremony, and guided breathwork.

Sunday

8:00 AM – Yoga & Mantra Practice
Cultivate presence, compassion, and inner support through yoga and chanting.

9:00 AM – Breakfast

10:00 AM – Reparent Your Inner Child Workshop
Learn practical tools for becoming the supportive, nurturing presence your inner child needs through guided exercises, journaling, and experiential practices.

12:00 PM – Lunch

3:00 PM – Closing Ceremony
Reflect on insights gained throughout the weekend and conclude with a guided meditation.

5:00 PM – Departure

Some activities may invite you outside of your comfort zone. These moments often present meaningful opportunities to deepen self-awareness and strengthen your relationship with your inner child through compassionate support and gentle courage.

 

ABOUT YOUR RETREAT LEADER

Daniella Gould  

Daniella Gould is Owner and Instructor of Santosa Yoga and Health based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She holds a MA in Asian Studies from UC Berkeley, is RYT 200, Y12SR (addiction recovery), and breathwork certified. She has also attended multiple trainings, including on trauma, resilience, self regulation, inner child work, parenting, social justice, meditation, and mindfulness.

Daniella has applied yoga philosophy to many facets of her own life. It has changed how she views and relates to herself, her husband, and their son in such a transformative way that she loves to share the practical benefits of yoga, meditation, breathwork, and yoga philosophy with others.

 

For Daniella, yoga is about connecting people with their bodies and breath in order to quiet the noise and distractions that often accompany our hectic lives. She loves to help students apply yoga philosophy to their lives in a practical, understandable way. Ultimately, she thinks that yoga allows us to find contentment and satisfaction, making it easier to navigate life’s challenges.

She enjoys working with students of all levels, and believes that everyone can benefit from yoga, meditation, breathing practices, and yoga philosophy regardless of flexibility and/or experience. She teaches with humor and playfulness, and she aims to make all students feel welcome and at ease in a supportive, safe space.

Daniella has taught retreats in a number of locations, but Casa Grande is her favorite space-to-date to take people on transformative journeys.

 

Accommodation

Guests will stay in charming casitas elevated on stilts and surrounded by tropical vegetation, fruit trees, and the soothing sounds of nature.

Each room includes:

  • Private en-suite bathroom
  • Covered porch with hammock
  • Comfortable beds with hypoallergenic organic bedding
  • Beautiful views and natural surroundings

Both single and double occupancy accommodations are available.

Meals

All meals from Friday dinner through Sunday lunch are included.

Meals will be primarily plant-based and prepared using fresh ingredients sourced from local farms whenever possible. Meals are enjoyed communally in a covered outdoor dining space overlooking the mountains and pool area.

Included:

  • Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
  • Tea, coffee, herbal infusions, and snacks

Participants wishing to include fish or meat with their meals may do so for an additional $50 fee.

Investment

Early Bird Pricing

Available through May 31, 2026

Double Occupancy – $795 per person
Share with a partner or friend, or we can pair you with another participant.

Single Occupancy – $1,045 per person

Regular Pricing

Beginning June 1, 2026, pricing increases by $50 per person.

Additional Information

  • Payment plans available
  • Partial scholarships available
  • Tickets are non-refundable but transferable
  • An additional $50 applies for participants requesting fish or meat with meals

For payment plan or scholarship information, please contact us at 310-227-9451.

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