Yoga Teacher Training with Tanamá & Diego
2024-06-01 08:00 - 2024-06-30 17:00 UTC
A one-of-a-kind immersive experience of the study and practice of Yoga, surrounded by nature, in an oasis of peace. Our 200hr Yoga Alliance Registered Certificate course integrates a comprehensive experience of yoga study and practice with a self-care lifestyle experience inspired by yoga’s sister science of Ayurveda. This is a 4 week residential course that includes accommodation, meals, and all course content. Casa Grande Mountain Retreat is surrounded by a river and mountains with lush tropical plants and is away from the hustle and bustle of daily life. You can read more about the course here, but note that the dates for 2024 are June 1-30 and the price will be different. Contact us at yoga@casagrandepr.com for more details.

An Exploration of the Koshas: A Retreat to Nourish Every Layer of Your Being
2024-10-25 - 2024-10-27 | Casa Grande Mountain Retreat, Barrio Caonillas Abajo, Road 612, KM 0.3, Utuado, 00641, Puerto Rico
The Koshas in yoga represent the different layers of our being. We can picture the Koshas as Russian nesting dolls, each representing a part of the self that contributes to who we are as humans. The aim is to take care of every layer of who we are in order to release energy blockages and stagnation. When we do so, we can show up as our true authentic selves. Note that the nesting dolls start with the outer layer and move inwards. These layers are:

Our physical body,
Our energy (including our breath and energetic self),
Our thoughts and emotions (otherwise known as our ego),
Our wisdom, and
Our soul.

This retreat will offer guidance on how to relate to each aspect of our being in a productive and empowering way. It will offer tools to enable us to show up in life with more presence, intention, and direction.

When we don’t take care of ourselves in the present, it is impossible to be the person we want to be. If we are exhausted, overwhelmed or don’t take time out for ourselves, we are just a shell of who we are and it is challenging to find ways to regulate ourselves and stay calm in triggering moments. The more we push our own needs aside, the harder it is to be in relationships with others without resentment bubbling to the surface from feeling so overloaded and unanchored.
In the process, we may need to release what doesn’t serve us: stress and tension, dysregulation, overwhelm, exhaustion, a sense that we have to do it all, and our conditioning from childhood. In losing some of these “toxic” aspects of life, we can find the space to come back to who we truly are through well-deserved self-care and attention to ourselves. When we offer ourselves permission to find moments for ourselves to re-energize and reconnect with ourselves, we can show up and respond to life and others in our life with more intention, feeling more like ourselves. When we feel more connected to who we are, it is easier to engage our compassionate, patient, and kinder self with our interactions with both ourselves and others.
In this retreat, we will journal, workshop, practice yoga, breathe and meditate, hike, eat nourishing plant-based food, and immerse ourselves in nature. This is an opportunity to reset, find awareness about our needs and how to fulfill them, and to connect more deeply with our true self, so that we can show up in life from a space of more heart-centeredness.

Tentative schedule:
Friday: A Focus on the Physical Body
3pm Check-in
4pm Opening Circle – an overview of the Koshas and how they can help us
6pm Dinner
7.30pm Workshop on the Physical Body – learning to accept and love the vessel that we live in
8.30pm Slow Yoga Flow
Saturday: A Focus on the Energetic Body (Breathing, Thinking, and Emotional Layers)
8am Yoga with a Focus on Our Breath – using out breath to guide our energy
9.15am Breakfast
10.30am Workshop on the Ego – understanding our thinking mind and cultivating a healthy relationship with it
11.30 Hike to the River/Waterfall
1pm Lunch
6pm Dinner
7.30pm Bonfire and Movement – burning away what no longer serves us
8.30pm Breathwork – witness, understand, and experience our emotions
Sunday: A Focus on our Wisdom and Soul
8am Laughter Yoga – finding joy in being in the present and connecting with our silliness
9.15am Breakfast (in silence*)
10.30am Hike (in silence*)
11.30am Free time with ourselves (in silence without cell phones*)
1pm Lunch
2pm Workshop on How to Live from the Heart
3pm Closing Circle and Meditation
4/5pm Depart
*We will engage in a few hours of silence to practice connecting with ourselves and to get comfortable being with and accepting ourselves as we are.

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 her 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.

Awaken Retreat
2024-11-10 08:00 - 2024-11-16 17:00
You were built to fulfill great things, all you need to do is — awaken to them. When we choose the path to heal in the safe haven of nature, it’s an opportunity to come back home to ourselves. This 7-Day Yoga, Meditation, Sound Healing, Qigong, and hiking adventure will provide the space you need to regulate your nervous system. Give yourself the time to see the wounds that weren’t created by you. A journey to nurturing the inner child. Mother and Father Wound Healing work to guide your inner children into peace. Somatic exercises and therapies to help your body release the stagnancy. Cacao and Drum circle ceremonies to open your heart. Locally sourced plant-based meals to nourish your vessel. Secluded waterfalls, rivers, caves and lush forest to envelop you as you rest in the jungle. Explore ancient petroglyphs as you connect to the fertility of the land. Immerse yourself in the biophony and energy of this spiritual sanctuary.
Awaken your self-healing abilities.
Awaken your creativity.
Awaken to your authentic self.
Practitioner Bio:
Michelle Agudo is a firm believer in the healing and restorative power of yoga, sound, meditation, and qigong. She approaches all she does through loving-kindness and interconnectedness. As a Master of Science Psychology graduate, and researcher, she discovered how to integrate the physical and metaphysical aspects of healing. An experienced registered yoga teacher in the Vinyasa-Ashtanga lineage with 9 years of yoga teaching and sound healing experience. She incorporates sound therapy in all her modalities of teaching, leads sound healing trainings, events, and retreats. Through her purpose she has found inner strength, and has been able to help others pave the path for themselves as well.
Schedule:
Tentative Itinerary
Day 1 – Arrival
Early Afternoon:
Arrive in San Juan (if flying in) —travel to Utuado (transportation included)
Early Evening:
Check in, get settled
Welcome Dinner
Evening:
Pranayama (Breath work) + Restorative Yoga
Day 2
Early Morning:
Meditation / Taoist Yoga Flow (Qigong)
Breakfast
Morning/Afternoon:
Excursion in Cueva Del Indio + Rio Planta
(Packed Lunch)
Early Evening:
Yin-Yoga Sound Bath (Deep Stretch)
Dinner
Evening:
Healing The Inner Child Fire Circle
(Sacred Bonfire)
Day 3
Early Morning:
Meditation / Vinyasa Yoga
Breakfast
Morning:
Healing the Mother Wound
Afternoon:
Lunch
Afternoon/Late afternoon:
Hiking in Cañon Blanco + Explore Taino Petroglyphs
Early Evening:
Dinner
Evening:
Chakra Sound Healing – unblock • align • activate
Day 4
Early Morning:
Meditation / Hatha Yoga
Breakfast
Morning:
Earthing Meditative Walk to Centennial Tree + Waterfall
Afternoon:
Lunch
Afternoon/Late afternoon:
Free Time
(optional: book / pre-book massage, Ayurvedic Cooking Class, or Reiki session—pricing available upon request)
*experienced therapists & facilitators
Or, enjoy the amenities of CG.
Early Evening:
Dinner
Evening:
Ecstatic Dance + Drum Circle Ceremony
An integration of all the elements in a dance and song ceremony led by a local drum circle expert.
Day 5
Early Morning:
Power of Pranayama Yoga Flow
Breakfast
Morning:
Healing the Father Wound
Afternoon:
Lunch
Late Afternoon:
Free Time
Early Evening:
Vin-Yin Yoga Flow
Dinner
Evening:
Cacao Corral Ceremony
An intentional, heart opening ceremony with locally sourced cacao led by a practitioner experienced with the subtleties of energy work and wisdom of iXcacao.
Day 6
Early Morning:
Meditation / Taoist Yoga Flow
Breakfast
Morning/Afternoon:
Excursion in Rio Tanama – Cave Tour
(Packed Lunch)
Early Evening:
Dinner
Evening:
Full Moon Sound Therapy
Day 7–Departure
Early Morning:
Meditation / Gentle Yoga
Breakfast
Morning:
Clean / pack-up
Afternoon (12-1pm):
Check-out
Airport Drop-Off (If needed, transportation included)

Re-Parent Your Inner Child: A Retreat of Self-Awareness and Healing
2025-04-25 - 2025-04-27 | Casa Grande Mountain Retreat, Barrio Caonillas Abajo, Road 612, KM 0.3, Utuado, 00641, Puerto Rico
This retreat will offer a safe space in which to reflect on your childhood, however supported or unsupported it may have been. It will guide you to be curious about how your adult life today is influenced, and sometimes sabotaged, by those experiences. It will introduce you to your inner child: the part of you that was wounded during your childhood and that is reactive when it is triggered. It will offer you the skills both to recognize what was positive about your childhood, and to re-parent yourself in the ways that you wished you had been parented. When you listen to and soothe your inner child, when you connect to the child you once were, you can allow your thoughts and actions to come from an adult space of calm rather than from an inner child’s space of hurt and lashing out.
When we experience trauma (including what some might consider small, inconsequential traumas) and when we don’t process them effectively, we become more fragmented in ourselves. We create survival methods that protect ourselves from more harm, yet in the process, parts of us may get suppressed, compartmentalized, or taken advantage of. This retreat seeks to help you reunite your fragmented pieces so that you can embrace the whole you!
Befriending your inner child and re-parenting it may sound strange, but it can help you navigate the world more smoothly, including all of your relationships, be it with your parents, family, friends, partner, children, or even with yourself. It can also support you to live life from a more balanced space, with more confidence, joy, self acceptance, and compassion.
Throughout this retreat, we will practice yoga – including movement, meditation, breathwork, and yoga philosophy, such as the concept of svadhyaya, or self study – to guide us through this journey.

Tentative Retreat Schedule:

Friday
3pm Check-in and relax
4pm Opening Ceremony – meet your inner child and understand why this work is key to improving your life
5pm Dinner
8pm Reflection Workshop – be curious about your childhood, both the positives and the challenges., and find awareness about which of your needs went unmet. End the night with a slow yoga practice.
Saturday
8am Yoga and Pranayama (yoga breathing) – breathe and stretch with your inner child!
9am Breakfast
10am Compassion, Validation, and Acceptance Workshop – befriend and listen to your inner child through journaling
Noon Lunch
1pm Curiosity – explore your inner child’s playfulness and creativity including creative mandala project and river exploration
5.00pm Dinner
7pm Transformation and Metamorphosis Workshop – let go of patterns in which you have got stuck through a fire dance ceremony followed by breathwork
Sunday
8am Yoga and Mantra Chanting – as you hold space and soothe your inner child
9am Breakfast
10am Re-parent Your Inner Child Workshop – be the parent you always needed, supporting your inner child in a way that transforms your life and makes your inner child feel unconditionally loved and safe through role-playing and journaling
Noon Lunch
3pm Closing Ceremony – reflection on what we have learned and a final meditation
5pm Depart

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 her 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.

Reclaiming My Voice and Roots Reconnecting with Soul and Ancestral Wisdom
2025-06-26 14:00 - 2025-06-29 15:00 | Casa Grande Mountain Retreat, Barrio Caonillas Abajo, Road 612, KM 0.3, Utuado, 00641, Puerto Rico
Reclaiming My Voice And Roots helps women and femmes of color struggling to find their voice by releasing their emotional wounds and restoring connection with intuition, soul, and ancestral wisdom to journey life feeling more empowered and grounded in who they are.

Dear loving BIPOC community, healing from the emotional scars living inside you,
So much of our journey is about finding our voice. We often lose our voice early in life, when we are silenced through painful childhood experiences.
Sometimes this happens at home.
Oftentimes we learn to silence ourselves from the systems and toxic environments we grow in.
We are told and shown that our words don’t matter.
Our feelings don’t matter. Our bodies don’t matter.
The historical trauma in our lineages has created legacies
of wounding passed down the generations.
Our ancestral grief follows us like a shadow.
It is both an individual and collective grief.
A grief so heavy that we cannot hold by ourselves.
We begin to feel disconnected to our roots, our soul, and our intuition.
We grow further and further away from our truest nature.
Does this sound familiar? Is this part of your story?
Love, we need you to know that you’re not broken.
But you may hold within your heart burdens of shame and people-pleasing.
You might struggle with being vulnerable and trusting others, including yourself.
Know that your healing journey is liberation work.
It is reclaiming what was taken from you and was your birthright.
Feeling safe in your body, owning your power, your connection to Soul,
ancestors, your voice, your Self-trust and love.
This is YOURS. It was always Yours.
It’s time to retrieve all that has been lost and taken from you.
Are you ready to reclaim your voice, your roots, and finally see ALL of you?

We have curated something so beautifully special, and we’re putting so much heart, love, and soul into this offering just for you.In this retreat, we’ll guide you into your inner world and help you witness what lives within you. You will connect with different parts of you, practice holding yourself with compassion, and talk about your undigested grief, including the grief of being uprooted from your ancestral land.
You’ll have the experience of being loved, held, and cared for by our group.
We will take daily walks on the hiking trails, visit the natural river with waterfalls, build community as we’re swimming in the saltwater pool, sit around the fire, laugh, dream and set our intentions together.
We will engage in rituals and ceremonies to help us collectively release internalized messages, shame, and pain from our inner child and from our lineages.
We will work toward reclaiming and reconnecting more to our roots because when we feel more grounded and rooted in who we are, we embody soul energy. We fully embrace our voice and power. We give ourselves permission to take up space again and reclaim what is ours.

Will you join us?
Will you be part of this community of grounded and connected BIPOC women and femmes fully embracing our voice and power?

This retreat is for you-
Women and Femmes of Color

✅ If you struggle with people-pleasing, shrinking yourself, or speaking up. ✅ If you’re feeling shame and loneliness. ✅ If you’re needing the space to grieve the loss of connection to your Soul, land, and ancestors. ✅ If you’re afraid to be vulnerable, be seen by others, or fear seeing yourself. ✅ If you have a hard time setting boundaries. ✅ If you feel guilty taking up space and caring for your needs. ✅ If you’re uncomfortable receiving love, or scared to love. ✅ If you’re wanting to heal your relationship with your inner child(ren). ✅ If you’re tired of always being the “strong one” and pushing through everything. ✅ If you’re wanting to build community with other women and femmes of color on the journey toward reclaiming. ✅ If you’re of the Boricua diaspora and are trying to deepen your connection to your roots.

Our retreat days together will begin co-regulating with nature as we greet the morning, walk through the trails and take in the love of the mountain valley. We will spend our time together in community, courageous conversation and both inner and collective processes.
We will make space for rituals, including grief rituals and that of reconciliation.We will travel inside and work to see ourselves more.We will see and hold each other more too.
At the end of our days, we will continue building together. So much of healing really is about doing it in community. Connection, both inside and out, is the antidote to stress responses from trauma.Our intention really is to co-create and facilitate a sacred space that feels loving to everyone in it.

The journey will also include:

A community-based group chat (WhatsAPP) to foster connection with each other before and after the retreat
Pre-retreat group call: tentatively scheduled for TBA
Post-retreat group calls: 2 monthly calls to help integrate what was revealed in the in-person retreat and into your day-to-day life. They will be on TBA
