soulful nature camp

may 23-25, 2025. yuba river / nevada citY

DESIGNED & LEAD BY JULIANNE AIELLO AND KAYLA DIANA 

Hello dear one! Welcome to our page about our Soulful Nature Camp: Yoga & Heartsong retreat.

We are over the moon to be hosting this retreat again, together for the 3rd time over Memorial Day weekend in 2025. We wholeheartedly welcome you to get a cup of tea, and kick back as you read and get a sense for what we are about, how we’ve designed this retreat, and how we plan to care for you, to nourish and uplift your mind body and heart through this magical weekend together.

Hosting retreats is deep and sacred work for both of us, and a job that we take on with deep care. As women, artists, teachers, friends, daughters, lovers, people of the world that work, cook, love, and give a lot, we find it is essential to make time and space to set down our daily tasks, our goals, and slow way down. To come back to simple life, connected with the earth, our voice, our bodies. To nourish ourselves, exhale, and make space for joyful, restful being, together with other women. To sing and rejoice in the beauty of simply being alive, and come back to listening to our intuition and guidance for what is next.

Adyashanti has this quote that speaks to what we are connecting to on retreat, which is a remembering a sense of quiet and ease that is always here. “If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn’t that what silence is? It’s a listening, a deep, wordless listening.” - Adyashanti

In daily life we might touch into this deep space in moments, in glimmers. On retreat, we have more time to rest into this felt sense of listening to the earth, to simple joys, to our own bodies and voices.

And there is so much we play and celebrate and express! Through moving and practice in creative yoga flows, through joyful song, songs that relieve heartache and grief, through enjoying absolutely delicious locally sourced meals. We are nourished and reawakened by remembering we don’t always need to do more. We can simply listen, play, sing, be in awe of beauty!

Another favorite teaching by the incredible Joanna Macy: “By refreshing our sense of belonging in the world, we widen the web of relationships that nourishes us and protects us from burnout.”

To witness women come together, deepening in our relationship to the earth, to the waters, the trees, and reinhabiting our hearts and bodies with fresh attention. Mmmmm, it’s pure delight. I feel all of our grandmothers and ancestors are filled with delight too, as we reclaim our right to rest, play, sing, be taken care, be fed beautiful meals, and enjoy.

So its this energy we create together that has us continue to devote a really good chunk of our time and energy to creating retreats. The new world we want to live in, where women are honored, where we are connected to our intuition, where we make time and space to be well cared for, as we care for our our families and communities, that new world becomes more and more possible with us simply arriving on retreat, enjoying, moving, resting, being.

We look forward to welcoming you to this profoundly magical time together!