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I was delighted with my experience at Ratna Ling and will most definitely return again and again.
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Autumn Insight - A Therapeutic Yoga Retreat
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Autumn Insight - A Therapeutic Yoga Retreat
4.94119 reviews
October 31 - November 2, 2025
About this Retreat
Your Guides
Jill Lindsay, M.A., E-RYT 500, YACEP, C-IAYT
Originally starting her career as a high school biology teacher, Jill shifted her presence from the classroom to the yoga studio. After a bout with cancer, Jill realized the yoga she’d been practicing could help with pain management, mood regulation, and overall strength and wellbeing. Yoga became an anchor in her life, and her passion for yoga blossomed as her drive to teach persisted. Jill’s focus in her classes is to cultivate a healing environment and empower students to become more connected with their bodies and minds from a kind, compassionate, and humorous perspective. After receiving her 200-hour training from the White Lotus foundation in Santa Barbara with Ganga White and Tracy Rich, Jill expanded her discipline to teach therapeutic yoga. Her teaching style is informed by Harvey Deutch and received both her 100 and 50 hour advanced training under his mentorship and still works with him on various retreats and advanced trainings. After over 1,000 hours of training, Jill became a Certified Yoga Therapist through the Stress Management Center in Marin.
Therapeutic yoga is a process of meeting the yogi where they are, of empowering individuals by helping increase self-awareness and learning how to work within one’s own strengths and limitations. The goals of this practice can include reducing or eliminating symptoms that cause suffering while improving foundation and function. Therapeutic yoga is not just for the maturing or injured, it is a practice every body can benefit from by going deep in a safe and healing way.
Details of this retreat
We welcome back Jill Lindsay for a sweet, relaxing retreat for the Fall!
Gather together for an unforgettable and deeply nourishing yoga retreat. This retreat will be a wonderful way to step away from the world and immerse yourself in the practice of yoga and mindfulness during the fall season. This getaway will be a perfect way to deepen your practice and better understand the foundations and principles that make up the therapeutic yoga discipline, helping you learn how to move with more awareness and safety whether it's in your day to day life or other yoga classes.
Daily practices will be offered along with a little body mechanics, ergo tips, and functional anatomy lectures peppered into our time together. Additionally, on Saturday morning we get to practice in a sacred Tibetan temple. The goal is to have all retreatants walk away from the weekend feeling rested, recharged, with a whole new awareness of how one moves throughout their world.
COVID POLICY ( as of JAN 2025 ): For your safety and ours, we require proof of vaccination AND negative test result from all visitors to Ratna Ling Retreat Center. We wish to provide peace of mind for all of our residents and guests.
SCHEDULE (Subject to Change):
Friday:
3:00pm Check in
5:30pm Dinner
7-9pm Introductions/Yoga practice
Saturday:
7-8am Breathwork/Chanting in Temple
8am Breakfast
10-12:15pm Yoga Practice
12:15pm Lunch
3:00-4:00 Yoga Practice
4:00-5:30 Optional Breathwork Journey
5:30pm Dinner
The rest of the evening is all yours!
Sunday:
8-10am Yoga Practice
10am Brunch
12 noon Checkout
Accommodations are beautiful lux cabins
Two participants share a cabin where you each have your own private bedroom and share a spacious living room and a bathroom. 5 vegetarian meals will be served during our weekend together. All ages, bodies, and skill levels welcome.
Yes, you can join if you’ve never done yoga before! The practices are slow, gentle and sweet.
What people are saying about our retreats:
“Space to move at your own space. Both meditation and movement classes were wonderful.”
“It was exactly what I needed – to disconnect, get in tune with my soul and recharge my spirit.”
“It helped me relax and center myslef. Space for reflection while also giving me anchor points through teachings. George is the best! He is such a wonderful and knowledgable host.”
“Gorgeous cottages! Delicious food! Friendly and warm volunteers!"
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Gather together for an unforgettable and deeply nourishing yoga retreat. This retreat will be a wonderful way to step away from the world and immerse yourself in the practice of yoga and mindfulness during the fall season. This getaway will be a perfect way to deepen your practice and better understand the foundations and principles that make up the therapeutic yoga discipline, helping you learn how to move with more awareness and safety whether it's in your day to day life or other yoga classes.
Daily practices will be offered along with a little body mechanics, ergo tips, and functional anatomy lectures peppered into our time together. Additionally, on Saturday morning we get to practice in a sacred Tibetan temple. The goal is to have all retreatants walk away from the weekend feeling rested, recharged, with a whole new awareness of how one moves throughout their world.
COVID POLICY ( as of JAN 2025 ): For your safety and ours, we require proof of vaccination AND negative test result from all visitors to Ratna Ling Retreat Center. We wish to provide peace of mind for all of our residents and guests.
SCHEDULE (Subject to Change):
Friday:
3:00pm Check in
5:30pm Dinner
7-9pm Introductions/Yoga practice
Saturday:
7-8am Breathwork/Chanting in Temple
8am Breakfast
10-12:15pm Yoga Practice
12:15pm Lunch
3:00-4:00 Yoga Practice
4:00-5:30 Optional Breathwork Journey
5:30pm Dinner
The rest of the evening is all yours!
Sunday:
8-10am Yoga Practice
10am Brunch
12 noon Checkout
Accommodations are beautiful lux cabins
Two participants share a cabin where you each have your own private bedroom and share a spacious living room and a bathroom. 5 vegetarian meals will be served during our weekend together. All ages, bodies, and skill levels welcome.
Yes, you can join if you’ve never done yoga before! The practices are slow, gentle and sweet.
What people are saying about our retreats:
“Space to move at your own space. Both meditation and movement classes were wonderful.”
“It was exactly what I needed – to disconnect, get in tune with my soul and recharge my spirit.”
“It helped me relax and center myslef. Space for reflection while also giving me anchor points through teachings. George is the best! He is such a wonderful and knowledgable host.”
“Gorgeous cottages! Delicious food! Friendly and warm volunteers!"
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Getting Here
Directions
San Francisco International and Oakland International airports are approximately three hours south of Ratna Ling by car. Alaska Airlines flies to and from Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa which is approximately 1.5 hours from Ratna Ling by car. Unfortunately, there are no shuttles that bring you directly to Ratna Ling, so it is best to rent a car or email us to support in coordinating a carpool with fellow retreatants.
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Accommodation
14 guest cottages on 120 acres of property. Each spacious, quiet cottage has 2 private rooms, with high ceilings and a deck with a view. Cottages include jet tubs (or ADA shower), towels, deluxe linens, refrigerator, tea kettle, coffee/tea, kitchen sink/counter, diningware, dining table, and living room with a stove fireplace. Free wifi available and a landline telephone. Guests can choose to have an exclusive cottage for ONE person; a private room for ONE person in a SHARED cottage; or a cottage for TWO people. Any additional guest after TWO is $100 per person per night. Meals and classes included.
For 1 guest in Private Room (2 people per cottage).
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Venue & Amenities
A/C in Rooms
Free Wifi
Spa
Sauna
Pool
Towels
Free Parking
Kitchen
Tour Assistance
Hot Tub
Coffee/Tea
Cafe
Restaurant
Fitness Center
Yoga Studio
Housekeeping
Bicycles For Rent
Three miles from the beautiful Sonoma coast. Organic, vegetarian meals. 120 acres of redwoods, canyons, reservoirs, and wildlife. Sacred architecture timber cottages and communal spaces. Featured stupas, gardens, and temple empowered by Tibetan Buddhist Lama Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche.
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Meals
Menu Types
Vegan
Vegetarian
Pescetarian
Ayurvedic
Includes Meat
Organic
Gluten Free
Dairy Free
Nut Free
All of our meals are organic and vegetarian, made with love and care.
We provide homemade yogurt and granola for breakfast. Lunches and dinners always include salads or salad bar. Each meal is self-served on a buffet table.
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Customer Reviews
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Center
Beautiful location. Lovely people. Housing accommodations are exquisite.
Some helpful suggestions - more accurate directions from Meyers Grade Road to center, my food limitation included eggplant and it was served as the main meal one day so I ate salad for dinner so I wondered why you asked about my food allergies. There was no cleaner to wipe down the yoga mats after using.
Overall a great experience and I plan on returning Read More
Some helpful suggestions - more accurate directions from Meyers Grade Road to center, my food limitation included eggplant and it was served as the main meal one day so I ate salad for dinner so I wondered why you asked about my food allergies. There was no cleaner to wipe down the yoga mats after using.
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Beautiful rejuvenation
Such a calm and delightful context for a beautifully designed retreat. So nice to see how Olivia’s work and the center drew a lovely community into being. Well prepared vegetarian food at all three meals.
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Lovely weekend yoga retreat with the amazing Olivia Barry at RatnaLing
Inspiring weekend at RatnaLing Retreat Center in the trees.
Olivia's program was well rounded and accessible for most yoga practitioners. Her heart & soul goes into to her work to share movement, fundamentals of philosophy for a gentle and happy life, and how to nurture a healthy body. If you ever get to practice with her at any one of her classes do not miss it!
The Center itself is lovely set in a large site with basic but very large comfortable cabins for overnight guests. The only thing I missed was my hair dryer so bring if you require. The food was simply incredible vegetarian fare (with gluten free & vegan options) served buffet style in the dining room. Read More
Olivia's program was well rounded and accessible for most yoga practitioners. Her heart & soul goes into to her work to share movement, fundamentals of philosophy for a gentle and happy life, and how to nurture a healthy body. If you ever get to practice with her at any one of her classes do not miss it!
The Center itself is lovely set in a large site with basic but very large comfortable cabins for overnight guests. The only thing I missed was my hair dryer so bring if you require. The food was simply incredible vegetarian fare (with gluten free & vegan options) served buffet style in the dining room. Read More
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timely
Nature respite and retreat grounds well managed.
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