Mount Shasta, California
YogaFlow with Tom Machado + Crystal Bowl Sound Baths with Rebecca Machado
September 18th - 22nd, 2025
Come, join us for this extended weekend and experience YogaFlow, Breathwork, Yoga Nidra, and Crystal Bowl SoundBaths in the majestic beauty of Mount Shasta, California.
Daily modules of Yoga, Breathwork and Meditation.
Mount Shasta is the Earth’s Root Chakra. Surrounded by this captivating nature with time to enjoy the beauty. A private chef offering Organic Vegan/Vegetarian meals of nourishment daily! Evening’s at the campfire!
Everyone is welcome!
What our retreat includes:
4 night lodging at the magical Guru Shasta location
3 culinary, nutritious meals prepared fresh each day by private gourmet chef Elaina Love
75 minute YogaFlow class (all levels) each morning
Breathwork and Crystal Bowl Sound Baths each afternoon
Evening bonfires, Satsang/Community Building
Free time to journal, hike, explore, take a sauna, enjoy a hammock
Book Your Stay at Guru Shasta
3 types of lodging available with 2-3 beds in each
Prices are per person and includes the 4 nights of lodging, 3 meals each day, and all programs
Meet Your Guides:
Tom Machado E-RYT 500, YACEP
With an original voice and a natural ability, Tom’s teaching centers on insightful perception. Through this insight a clear, thorough understanding into the principles and wisdom of Yoga and its direct application to daily life is heightened.
Tom masterfully balances accuracy with accessibility, depth with clarity, and intellectual integrity with inspiration.
Elaina Love - Master Chef
Elaina Love is a leading authority on nutrition and health. She's an author of 3 plant-based recipe books, a speaker, and an internationally renowned chef with over 20 years of experience. Elaina Love is the founder and director of Pure Joy Culinary Academy, a cutting-edge plant-based culinary arts and nutrition school. The Academy is designed to teach students how to prepare the best meals on the planet while healing and nourishing their bodies.
Over the last 20 years, Elaina’s low glycemic, grain-free, full-flavored holistic recipes, and gourmet dishes have shaped the vegan food industry. She has coached and inspired hundreds of aspiring chefs and individuals who want to change their life, both in person and through her online programs.
Through whole, and mostly plant-based foods, cleansing, and fasting, Elaina has healed herself from a serious case of systemic candida, chronic fatigue, hormone imbalances during menopause and cleared up her severe skin problems. She is the creator and producer of the first-ever nut milk bag, The Amazing Nut Milk Bag, and continues to create new recipes and content for online courses and retreats.
Stay at Guru Shasta
This sweet, mid-sized retreat center has all the features needed for a perfect stay: great location, majestic property, various indoor and outdoor spaces, unique and delightful rooming options, a good-sized central kitchen, and space to wander.
With many accommodation options to choose from, Guru Shasta is a home-away-from-home that offers coziness in many unique settings. From rooms in the main house to modern-day cabins to beds in charming bell tents, each location is special and holds its own magic.
The land itself has winding pathways leading to many nooks, spacious meadows, towering pines, lazy hammocks, and other sweet spots to stumble upon. There are also outdoor and indoor bathrooms, showers, and bathtubs, creating a range of experiences to delight all of the senses.
Morning and late-afternoon practice will either be inside the house or outdoors on one of the lawns, and the central fire pit will be our evening destination for song, lively conversation, drumming, and soaking in all of the vast and twinkling starlight bathing us from above.
About Shasta
The mountain itself is strikingly beautiful as it infuses the area around it with powerful presence. Crystal clear, energized, and structurally intact waters flow through, famed for their healing abilities one can soak and drink in. Outdoor activities are abundant: hiking, swimming, boating, bird watching, and so much more flourish here due to the beauty and vitality of the land.
Mount Shasta has been famous for centuries, considered by native peoples to be one of the most sacred sites of the planet. It has been called the “belly button” of the Earth due to it’s location on the energetic grid lines as well as its direct, felt connection to the spirit of Mother Earth.
People have utilized this energy for as long as we know to activate prayers, receive powerful visions, connect to higher frequencies, open to greater understanding, and bring potency to their spiritual path in manifold ways.
What a fun and powerful way to spend our High Summer: together in joyful community, deepening our understanding of self and life, exploring and revelling in exquisite nature, and furthering our spiritual practices: all at one of the most powerful spots on all of Earth.