“This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.”
-Henry David Thoreau
RETREATS, WORKSHOPS AND PLAY-SHOPS 2020
- Acro Yoga Workshops
- Dances of Universal Peace
- Raw Food Retreat
- Dance & Yoga Goddess Retreat
- Wind Spirit Tribe Gathering
- Photos of past retreats 2015 -2011
- 2010 – 2006
Past Retreats-2018
Retreat With Joanna Carichner
Ground in breath. Rejoice in dance. Connect with nature and tribe. Rediscover your core.

Radiant Embodiment
Yoga/Journey Dancing,
October 19-21, 2018
Please go to http://www.retreatswithjoanna.com/ for up to date information
Join Joanna Carichner for this full-emersion weekend delving into your embodied self. Take time away from the everyday, immerse yourself in nature, community, and your radiant being. Both Lyndi and Joanna find their sense of connection-to-all within their own bodies, and they are passionate and skilled at gently guiding you to that place within yourself. Full Radiant Embodiment!
Full emersion weekend including:
- energizing morning-flow yoga session
- luscious RESTORATIVE yoga session
- transformational JourneyDances
- fresh, delicious well water
- swimming pool
- community building games
- vision board making
- trees, trees, trees
- delicious food
- sauna
- time and space for hiking or lounging
- wildlife
- amazing star gazing
Arrive by 5pm Friday
Stay until 1pm Sunday
Please plan to stay the whole time
Our collective presence creates a sacred container for transformation.
Instructors: Joanna Carichner
Through free flowing organic movement, ceremonial community building and luscious yoga sessions, this weekend retreat inspires and encourages reconnection with self, others and Mother Earth.
Join us in the sun’s rays amidst desert wildflowers, fruit trees and majestic saguaros. Dine on scrumptious vegetarian cuisine. Nurture your body and soul with yoga and dance. Relax and detox in the sauna. Warm your heart by the roaring campfire. Experience Wind Spirit Community. Experience Joanna. Experience you.
First come First Served (Bus, RV, Deck Tent) Contact Don at Wind Spirit Community to reserve an inside space: info @ windspiritcommunity.org.
Healing Journey To Love (Closed/Past Event)
For women only

Arizona Goddess Retreat
3 DAY SELF-TRANSFORMATION, HEALING, MEDITATION& YOGA RETREAT!
- Fresh & Healthy Vegetarian Meals (herbal teas & juices)
- Sweat Lodge Cleansing Ceremony (cleanse our body and spirit)
- DEEKSHA Blessing, REIKI & Cosmoenergy Healing Sessions
- YOGA, MASSAGE & MEDITATION Cacao Ceremony, Rape` (tobacco) Ceremony
- Byron Katie “The Works” & Matt Kahn’s “ I Love You” Therapies
- PRE-REGISTER TODAY, LIMITED SPACE
To RSVP email: *Yulia julialauletta @ mail.com (do not leave spaces in email )
*Xeniya susha.perminova @ gmail.com
Call us: (480) 626 3832 Yulia
(480) 202 3315 Xeniya
Dance of Universal Peace (Closed/Past Event)
April 26 – 29, 2018 Thursday evening through Sunday noon!
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6th ANNUAL SOUTHWEST REGIONAL DANCE CAMP
IN THE BEAUTY OF RURAL ARIZONA
Almost like the hub of a wheel, Arizona’s lovely, earthy Wind Spirit Community is situated near the geographic center of many of our SW DUP communities: Phoenix, Tucson, Snowflake, Prescott, Cottonwood, Silver City – and not too far from Northern New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah – south of Globe, among beautiful mountains and near the Gila River. The spirit of love permeates the land and the beings who live here.
Vegetarian meals included – Delicious spring water on tap – Tent, RV, car camping; indoor options available – Heated and solar showers – Hiking and archaeology – Sauna and swimming pool – Beautiful indoor and outdoor Dance spaces!
The Dances of Universal Peace have been invited to this 16-acre intentional community. With decades of history, it has been lovingly cultivated and has become an ideal location for the DUP.
Please accept the invitation to bring the Love, Harmony and Beauty of the Dances of Universal Peace to Wind Spirit and this much loved Dance retreat in the SW Region! Your presence will help make this Wind Spirit Dance Camp a radiant and blessed event.
Raw Food Retreat
– The RAWstarant (Closed/Past Event)
May 11-13, 2018

Breezy Wilson of The RAWstarant will be offering a RAW Foods Retreat!
A weekend filled with information and demonstrations on RAW foods preparation.
Everything you need to know to start your healing journey.
Learn how to create healthy & simple Vegan/RAW foods on an affordable budget.
2- four-course Dinners,
2- Breakfasts,
2-lunches,
Green Smoothies,
Snacks and Desserts.
Come getaway, relax, and eat delicious RAW food.
Come for the weekend, enjoy Wind Spirit Community inthe pristine mountains of Southeast Arizona. Accommodations are tent camping for free or indoor space options, prices vary.
Saturday only workshop.
All RAWstarant events are Pay What You Want. Contact:
cherokeesunstore @ gmail.com (close spaces)
Facebook: RAW Foods Retreat
812-598-0170
Download double poster PDF, help us promote the The RAWstarant retreato
NOT at Wind Spirit Community
Inaugural Southwest Regional Inter-Community Retreat
Labor Day weekend: Friday, August 31st – Monday, September 3rd
Lama Foundation opens its doors this summer for a Southwest Regional Inter-community Retreat. In partnership with fellow communities and with the help of the FIC (Fellowship for Intentional Communities), we are co-creating this exciting opportunity for networking and commingling among folks from diverse communities.
Through discussion and activities we will explore best practices, challenges and problem solving, and sharing resources. All participants and communities will benefit through learning from one another, by discovering our similarities and differences, and experiencing our strengths and weaknesses.
Our aim is to enrich each participating community and participant by providing an opportunity for collective reflection on the meaning and possibilities of community in our unique age.
Cost: In the gift plus $50 registration fee
Are you affiliated with a community? We’re looking for community partners to co-create this event with us. We would love to have your assistance and input.
Lama Foundation opens its doors this summer for a Southwest Regional Inter-community Retreat. In partnership with fellow communities and with the help of the FIC (Fellowship for Intentional Communities), we are co-creating this exciting opportunity for networking and commingling among folks from diverse communities.
Through discussion and activities we will explore best practices, challenges and problem solving, and sharing resources. All participants and communities will benefit through learning from one another, by discovering our similarities and differences, and experiencing our strengths and weaknesses.
Our aim is to enrich each participating community and participant by providing an opportunity for collective reflection on the meaning and possibilities of community in our unique age.
Cost: In the gift plus $50 registration fee
Are you affiliated with a community? We’re looking for community partners to co-create this event with us. We would love to have your assistance and input.
PeaceFest
September 21 – 23 2018
Feature EarthDance Global – a celebration of the U.N. International Day of Peace, September 21st with the dance held globally on Saturday 9/23. [ www.earthdance.org ]
Mission – to hold a Peace festival , and be peaceful in comm-unity with each other and our world. Vision – to increase the peaceful , heart centered, nature of all humans present.
Nature, dance, hugs, yoga, massage, play, sweats, food, NVC, healers, watsu, hoopers, kid craft’s.

The AcroYoga Retreat is an opportunity to play and reconnect with fellow acro yogis, and to enjoy the remote, quite, peaceful surroundings of the Windspirit community.
It is a time to find joy and courage in your body, mind, and spirit. The retreat will include lots of acro yoga instruction, acro yoga jams, acro yoga exhibitions/performances, yoga, slack lining and plenty of free time to enjoy the facility and surrounding area.
All levels are welcome, no partner required.
- Acro yoga, yoga, slack lining – classes, jams and exhibitions (included)
- Great vegetarian food (included)
- On site sleeping accommodations (included)
- Sauna, hot tub, pool (included)
- Student to Teacher ratio – 4 to 1
Includes:
- 4 Acro Yoga Workshops
- 6 Healthy Meals (Ask about dietary accommodations)
- Communal Indoor Sleeping Accommodations*
- Limited Private Indoor Accommodations
- Slack lining, hiking, sauna, campfires, mountain biking and just hanging out opportunities in the surrounding beautiful mountains
- … and be prepared for a mean game of Janga!
General Information for Retreats
Please bring a towel for the shower and another if you want to use the pool and or sauna. Bring a tent, sleeping bags and flashlights for camping. We will provide 6 vegetarian meals — starting with a dinner on Friday, Saturday breakfast/lunch/dinner and breakfast/lunch again on Sunday. If you have any special dietary requirements, please let us know 2 weeks in advance. If you arrive early or stay later, you are welcome to cook additional meals in our community kitchen or join our community meals if happening.
Refund Policy for all retreats unless noted:
Full refund minus $20 processing feeLook around our website. It will answer most of your questions, or you can email info@windspiritcommuity.org
Wind Spirit Community4514 E Dripping Springs Winkelman, AZ 85192Don or Sara 520-201-1075
Directions to Wind Spirit Community
ACCOMMODATIONS: Contact Wind Spirit Community for Current Accommodations & Rates
info@windspiriticommunity.org
Upcoming Retreats:
Contact us via email if you would like to be notified about future retreats. info@admin_teamlight
Feedback from previous retreats: Also see photo’s below from past retreats
Thank you again for your hospitalityWind Spirit -Thank you so much for hosting us! Everyone at Wind Spirit was so giving, caring, and supportive. We so much appreciate that! The food was excellent! I do not even know how to express all my gratitude for the opportunity to host our little retreat in your beautiful paradise.Yulia Goddess Retreat 2018
Dearest All,
I had such a fantastic time and want MORE retreats! As many as possible! I’m being greedy now, but it would be a wonderful thing to do for myself regularly, and to be so close and feel so far away is a real treat! The land and people, energy, and food at Windspirit are beyond fabulous and Joanna sure seems meant to do retreats! in her element! Again! I’ve never taken a class from her oddly enough, and was amazed by her teaching style and presence. So, Windspirit, Joanna, yogis, you have my love and support for energetic expansion in all subjects!
Dr Cindy – Cynthia Gerszewski, DC ..and then I realized that there is no way to happiness, happiness IS the way.
I want to thank everyone for the amazing retreat. I WANT MORE!! The experience over the weekend was profoundly rejuvenating, inspiring, and joyful. The love, generosity and kindness of all of you truly touched my heart and spirit!Thank you Wind Spirit community for sharing your gorgeous light filled land and for amazing food, laughter, and love!
Again, Thank you all for an amazing weekend!
Much Love and Namaste! Alden