13 years · 40+ retreats · 700+ women
Destination Guides
The first question I get about the Mallorca retreat isn’t about the yoga. It’s about the weather. Fair. So here are the real numbers, what the sea is doing, what the storms look like, and what’s happening in the villages that week — pulled from Spain’s weather agency data, the Calvià town hall, the boat […]
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Destination Guides
If you’ve been searching for yoga retreats in Spain, you’ve probably noticed the same thing I did: there are hundreds of them, and the listings all sound alike. Sea views. Daily yoga. Nourishing meals. Transformation. None of that tells you which part of Spain is right for you. I’m Autumn Adams, founder of Ambuja Yoga. […]
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Mindful Mondays
If you’ve ever sat down to “meditate,” lasted about forty seconds before your brain wandered to the to-do list or grocery list, and then decided you’re just bad at this, this post is for you. You’re not bad at it. You were doing dharana. Nobody told you that’s a different thing from dhyana. Understanding dharana […]
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Destination Guides
An honest look at what a women’s yoga retreat in Spain — specifically Mallorca — is like— the finca, the schedule, the sea, the food, the cost, and who actually comes. Table of Contents The first time I saw the terrace and yoga shala at Son Boronat it was love at first sight. Honey-colored stone, […]
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Retreats
I get some version of this question every year, usually from a woman in class who has a festival ticket in one tab and a retreat page in the other. Yoga retreat vs. yoga festival — they sound like they should be close cousins. They’re not. They’re built for two completely different appetites. Here’s the […]
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Destination Guides
Getting to the Puelo Valley from the US is two to three flights and one drive: your home airport to Santiago, Santiago to Puerto Montt, a 25-minute taxi to Puerto Varas, and then we pick you up and drive you the rest of the way. It’s the question I get asked more than any other […]
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Destination Guides
Patagonia mushroom season occurs during the southern autumn, roughly March to June, and peaks in April and May. This is when the temperate rainforests of southern Chile do the thing they’re quietly famous for: the rain comes, the temperature drops, and the forest floor erupts into violet, orange, coral, and red. I didn’t go to […]
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Destination Guides
April in the Puelo Valley is quiet, cool, and gold. The forests have turned, the summer crowds and biting flies are gone, and the lake goes glassy in the mornings. I wrote about why we chose that month in Patagonia in April; this post is about the week itself. I’ve been hosting women’s yoga retreats […]
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Destination Guides
Patagonia in April is cool, quiet, and gold. Days run in the mid-50s°F, the lenga forests turn red and copper, the summer crowds are gone, and the biting flies that make January miserable have disappeared entirely. In northern Patagonia — the Puelo Valley in Chile’s Lake District, where we host our retreat — April is […]
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Wellness
Summer is softening into fall, and the plants around us are offering a quiet lesson in change. The vegetable garden is shifting from abundance toward rest. Nothing is wasted. Nothing is rushed. The season simply changes. Perhaps we can learn to do the same. This is a good time of year for a fall equinox […]
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For Teachers
The best yoga philosophy books don’t read like textbooks. They read like stories, and the wisdom arrives while you’re busy following the plot. That’s my whole filter for this list. Six books, none of them about asana, all of them about living the thing rather than studying it. When I finished my first 200-hour, I […]
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Yoga Teacher Training
Dive into the ancient wisdom of yoga with these great yoga teacher training books. They're the ones you should have read during YTT, but probably didn't.
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