Embodying Delight- A Queer & Trans Yoga Retreat

Retreat Dates

A luscious beachfront retreat just for 2SLGBTQIAA+ folks: Heal in community, embody delight as rebellion, reclaim your open heart! Join celebrated space holders Avery Kalapa, Kiki Williams, and G Tiarachristie as well as an amazing circle of QTs in intersectional paradise! Practice affirming, trauma-informed Iyengar yoga, meditation, and somatics in an open air studio surrounded by an oxygen-rich jungle and birdsong!

About the Teachers

Avery Kalapa

Iyengar Yoga

Avery is a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher (L2), eRYT500, YACEP, BFA is an internationally celebrated trans yoga teacher with over 25 years of experience. Known for their heartfelt enthusiasm, devotion, and depth of technique, Avery’s teaching uplifts inner healing rooted in collective liberation. Avery blends alignment and gender affirming spirituality in asana with somatic precision, reverence, and care. Both rigorous and accessible, Avery’s approach to will reorganize your energy, dissolve away old patterns, social conditioning, and dysphoria, and help you come home to a more loving, embodied connection within yourself.

Kiki Williams

Somatic Embodiment

Kiki is a black, queer teacher, meditator, yogi, outdoors enthusiast and dancer from Los Angeles, CA, unceded Tongva land. Kiki’s sessions skillfully weave together meditation, intuitive movement, connection building with community and nature, play, somatics, story, poetry, inspiration from movements for Black Liberation, rest, and authenticity. They are propelled by the belief that all people have the innate right to thrive, experience unmitigated joy, and be free, beginning with the freedom we each have in the capacity to feel in and through our own bodies and minds.

G Tiarachristie

Retreat Support

G is a queer, trans non-binary person of South East Asian descent who practices embodying joy, radical love, and root-grasping in all that they do. They have a vision for a more healed and liberated society–where systems of compassion replace systems of oppression; G is a skilled facilitator, coach, bodyworker (LMT & Reiki II), somatic practitioner, and a cultural transformation consultant. They founded Healing as Resistance–a trauma-informed, holistic practice dedicated to promoting a more just and equitable society through the healing and liberation of people, centering QTBIPOC and other historically marginalized groups.

About the Experience

Includes

  • Selected accommodation
  • 3 deliciously healthful meals served daily
  • Coffee, tea, fruit and granola
  • Daily yoga classes
  • Airport transfers and boat ride to retreat center
  • All taxes
  • Kayak
  • Snorkel equipment
  • Meditation classes

A Day in Embodying Delight- A Queer & Trans Yoga Retreat

Morning
Morning Coffee & Snacks
7:00 am - 7:30 am

Morning Session (Yoga/Somatics)
8:00 am - 10:00 am

Breakfast
10:00 am - 11:00 am

Afternoon
Afternoon Session (Yoga/Somatics)
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Lunch
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Free Time
3:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Evening
Dinner
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm