1 Day Retreat: Envisioning 2023

Special Offer

Received a free 10 class pass if you sign-up for this 1 Day Retreat. A $160 savings! You must pay in full by 1/31/23 at 11:59pm to receive this offer. 

To save your spot, a non-refundable $100 deposit is due when you sign-up.

Join me for a full day of Yoga, Meditation, Creating Vision Boards, and Aromatherapy oils in the beautiful hills of Sierra Madre

Connect back to nature and step into a loving and nurturing personal one day retreat for self-reflection on what you want in 2023, healing obstacles to abundance, and manifesting abundance.  This is a time to recharge your batteries and fine tune what gifts you want to bring into your communities surrounded by the wilderness of the mountains in Sierra Madre. 

We will begin with a meet-and-greet, followed by a morning Kundalini or Yin (your choice) Yoga practice for prosperity. Then explore your relationship with receiving and giving, the roots of prosperity, through an iRest Yoga Nidra meditation practices. Nourish your bodies with an Indian lunch (vegan and gluten free options available). In the afternoon, we will create Vision Boards and make a bottle of essential oil to help support us in manifesting our vision for the year. You will also have the opportunity to book and receive  a magical facial or massage in the afternoon from 12:00-5:00pm (not included in the price of the retreat).  Sign-up sheets will be posted on the door. We will conclude with a Yoga Nidra practice and final sharing.  

Learn and experience some beautiful tools to clarify your life’s mission. Walk the grounds. Meditate at little secret nooks here. Book a private facial with Kathleen Van Dusen or a massage with a message therapist.  Soak up the energy at the vortexes throughout the beautiful grounds.   And, connect with like minded people.  All yoga levels welcome. 

Schedule: Sunday, February 5, 2023

  9:00-9:30am Settle-in, cards, and introductions

  9:30-11:00am Kundalini or Yin Yoga 

  11:00-12:00 iRest Yoga Nidra Meditation

  * 12:00-5:00 Book your one hour facial or massage during this time

  12:00-1:30 Lunch 

  1:30-3:30 Vision Boards

  3:30-3:45 Break

  3:45-4:30 Essential Oils

  4:30-5:00 Break to explore the grounds

  5:00-5:30 Yoga Nidra 

  5:30-6:00 Share and Farewell       

Please email me to reserve your spot or if you have further questions at: susannishizawa@gmail.com.

Submit a nonrefundable $100 deposit to hold your spot. Please send payment via Zelle or PayPal to (310)435-6075. You can also Venmo me @Susan-Nishizawa. For PayPal, when prompted, please choose “send money to family and friends” so I don’t have to pay a % fee.

Cancellation Policy

1. Full balance is due January 31, 2023, before the start of the retreat.
2. Cancellation within 14 days, starting January 22, 2023, of your retreat: sorry, but no refunds will be given, unless you have proof of having Covid-19 at the start of the retreat. 
3. Cancellation requests submitted within 30 days of retreat date, January 5, 2023, 50% of the total amount (less deposit) will be refunded.
4. Hold deposits are transferable to another attendee found and assigned by the original attendee.
5. If the retreat has to be postponed due to the high Covid-19 numbers, 100% of the total amount, minus the deposit, will be refunded. The deposit will be credited for the rescheduled retreat date.

Covid-19 Policy

*Negative Covid-19 test result within 3 days of arriving at Nature Friends are required. Please test in your local area before traveling to Nature Friends and maintain social distancing standards from the time that you test to the time that you get ready to leave. Test again right before leaving with an at-home Covid-19 test.  

Meet your facilitator 

Susan Nishizawa

My yoga, meditation, and reiki journey started after the birth of my first child. I had postpartum depression and was desperate for relief. My husband, of now almost twenty-three years, recommended the yoga studio down the block.  I had just started getting interested in Paramahansa Yogananda’s teachings and so was open to trying yoga. Spirit was always at work supporting me because the yoga studio was only a ten minute walk from our apartment.  I had experienced seeing Paramahansa Yogananda, who opened my heart and filled me with bliss, while taking a yoga class and felt a confirmation that this was my path. I started practicing 2 to 3 times a week. I felt so much more balanced and lighter and my husband noticed that I was much nicer when I came back from a yoga class! This began my journey as a yoga teacher. I took the 200 hour yoga training there and started teaching yoga in 2003. 

Becoming aware of the energy while practicing, I began reading about reiki and Kundalini Yoga. My aunt and I took a reiki 1 & 2 training with Jessica Miller, who had trained under William Rand. To further my studies of reiki, I then did another Reiki Tummo Training level 1 to 3a in 2003. I noticed that it stirred up quite a bit of energy in the clients that I worked on, and was wondering why it brought up so much stuff. I then decided to take a Kundalini Yoga Training at the Awareness Center and received my certification in 2008. This was a transformational experience for me. It cleared so much of the heavy energy I was carrying, but left me feeling ungrounded and unable to help process my traumas. 

After the death of my mother, I started working with Dr. Raven Lee to help process all the things I had been running from my whole life. I took her 3 year Mystic Shaman Training which really helped me work through and ground back into my body. The Integrated Shakti Reiki Master Training she was offering also felt right. I finally understood that I was always working with Shakti energy, but didn’t realize it! I became a Level 1 Integrated Shakti Reiki Master in 2013 and Level 2 in 2016.  

To appreciate being back in my body, I took the Yin Yoga 1 & 2 Trainings at Spiral Path in 2016 and 2017 and Restorative Yoga Training in 2018 with Cindy Li to start working with mindfulness and the nervous system. 

After my Shaman Training ended, I decided to hone in on my yoga skills, and took a 300 hour Advanced Yoga Training at Yoga Madre. I received my certification in 2019.  

During my Shaman Training, I was offered a job teaching recovering addicts and/or those suffering from mental illness. I know that without my own personal work, I could never have been able to teach this population. To support them I took a trauma training, Warrior at Ease Yoga Training, in 2020. This then led me to the iRest Yoga Nidra Meditation training by Richard Miller that I also completed in 2020. After these last trainings, I felt like I had a road map to working through the challenges of living in this world. I learned how to hold space for sensation, emotions, thoughts, and become Aware of Awareness and Being.  This has been invaluable to me in my own healing. I have always been looking for different modalities of healing, whether it be yoga, meditation, or reiki, to find a way to process my own suffering. Finding a connection to Spirit, which is inherently love and compassion, and sitting with what is arising is what I realize is what true healing is. In gratitude that I can share what has helped me, my hope is that it will help you on your journey towards conscious awareness of your own wholeness.