January 2–5, 2027 | Topanga Canyon, California
The Retreat
What if you didn’t start the new year by asking yourself what you need to fix, change, or accomplish?
What if you started by asking: What makes me feel truly alive?
The Year of Aliveness is an intimate three-night retreat in the hills of Topanga Canyon designed to begin 2027 from a different place — not pressure, resolutions, or becoming more, but presence, connection, movement, and the courage to live more fully.
Led by Jayne Gottlieb and produced by Yogando Retreats, this experience brings together a small group of women for a weekend devoted to reconnecting with themselves and with what they want this next chapter of life to feel like.
This isn’t about reinventing yourself. It’s about coming home to the parts of you that are already alive.
What to Expect
Across four days, we’ll move, gather, reflect, eat beautiful nourishing food, spend time in nature, and create space for the conversations we rarely have time for in everyday life.
Expect daily movement and mindfulness, meaningful workshops and conversations led by Jayne, nourishing meals prepared by our private retreat chef, time outdoors in Topanga, and plenty of space to simply be.
There will be moments of energy and expansion, and moments of stillness. No packed schedule. No pressure to perform.
Just an intimate New Year experience created around movement, mindfulness, connection, nourishment, nature — and aliveness.
Why Topanga
Hidden in the hills just outside Los Angeles, Topanga feels worlds away from the pace of everyday life.
Our home for the retreat is Commune Topanga, a secluded wellness property surrounded by canyon landscape and nature, with gathering spaces, a yoga studio, sauna, hot tub, cold plunge and quiet corners to retreat to throughout the weekend.
We’ll have the property to ourselves, creating our own little community for the beginning of the year.
The Food
Food is an important part of the experience.
Our meals will be prepared on property by Chef Ali, with an emphasis on wholesome, seasonal, nourishing food made with organic, local and sustainable ingredients.
From morning coffee and tea to beautiful shared meals around the table, food becomes another way we gather, slow down and connect.
What’s Included
Your retreat experience includes three nights of accommodation at Commune Topanga, daily movement and mindfulness, programming and workshops with Jayne, nourishing meals throughout the retreat, snacks, coffee and tea, full access to the property and its wellness amenities, a curated retreat goodie bag, and the on-site support and concierge care of Yogando Retreats.
Airfare and transportation to and from Topanga are not included. Travel insurance is strongly recommended.
Accommodations
The property offers a collection of different accommodations — from nature-immersive A-frame cabins to shared indoor rooms and private retreat spaces.
Pricing begins at $3,095 per person, with several accommodation categories available depending on the level of privacy and experience you prefer.
Availability is intentionally limited to keep the retreat intimate.
Who This Is For
This retreat is for the woman who has spent a lot of her life doing.
Building. Caring. Achieving. Showing up. Holding everything together.
And somewhere along the way, she started wondering: What about me?
You don’t need to arrive with a goal, a resolution, or a perfectly articulated vision for 2027. You simply need to arrive open.
Open to connection. Open to possibility. Open to joy. Open to feeling more like yourself again.
A Different Way to Begin the Year
January often arrives with a list of everything we think we should change.
We want to begin differently.
Not with restriction. Not with resolutions. Not with another version of new year, new you.
But with a question: What would happen if 2027 became your Year of Aliveness?
Come begin it with us in Topanga.
January 2–5, 2027
Topanga Canyon, California
Limited to 14 guests
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