Nature knows. You remember.

KOMOREBI RETREATS

Who Are We?

In the Japanese language, there exists a word of profound beauty: komorebi—the interplay of light and shadow as sunlight filters through forest canopy. It speaks to those fleeting moments when nature reveals something deeper, something that stirs the soul.

We understand what it means to crave depth in a world that skims the surface. We also know that transformation doesn’t have to be so serious all the time.

At Komorebi Retreats, we create experiences where you can sweat, laugh, push your limits, and surprise yourself—all while reconnecting with the parts of you that have been waiting to come out and play. We work with the rhythms of the seasons and cycles of the moon, but mostly we work with the understanding that growth happens when you’re having too much fun to overthink it.

Think: hiking trails that make your legs burn and your heart soar. Yoga that challenges your body and quiets your mind. Conversations around the fire that go deep. Dance parties under the stars. The kind of experiences where adventure and stillness take turns, where you move beyond your comfort zone and discover what’s been waiting on the other side of fear—and maybe do a cannonball into a cold creek while you’re at it.

We honor both light and shadow, rest and intensity, the profound and the ridiculous. Transformation happens when you have space to breathe deeply, permission to play freely, and the courage to show up fully—because that’s where you find out who you really are.

Our Team

Casondra DAwn

RYT 500

Casondra guides others to reconnect with the ancient rhythms of nature—the seasons, the moon cycles, the patterns of growth and rest that the natural world has been showing us all along. She’d always felt a close connection to nature, but it was a near death experience-born from years in the darkness of alcohol addiction-that deepened it into something else entirely. A spiritual awakening. She felt a presence she’d neve known before, and the world she returned to looked completely different.

Nature became her guide and teacher. She found yoga and learned to move with rhythms she’d been resisting her whole life. During her first teacher training in Bali, her instructor Megan Mulrine introduced her to komorebi—the concept that would become central to everything she does. It gave language to what she’d lived: that light and dark aren’t opposites but companions, creating the depth, mystery, and peace that comes from embracing both.

Today, Casondra’s work invites people to trust nature’s wisdom, to sit with what surfaces, and to discover the transformation that happens when we stop resisting and start listening.

Sonja HurLey

RYT 500

Yoga has been part of Sonja’s life for 25 years—though like the ebbs and flows of nature, not always consistent. A few years ago, a chronic shoulder injury forced her to pause and rethink how she was moving through the world. That detour led her back to yoga, first for physical healing, then into the deeper philosophical and spiritual aspects of the practice that completely changed everything.

She’s studied in both India and Bali, two places rich in yoga history and wisdom, and those experiences shaped how she teaches today.

For Sonja, it’s all about balance. Being on the mat and in your body. Getting a good sweat in when it’s time to honor the physical. Creating space to just breathe and be. She lives for those moments when someone connects with themselves and the universal energy, even if just for a split second. If that happens? She’s done her job.

Her classes are accessible, grounded, and real—whether you’ve been practicing for decades or you’re stepping on the mat for the first time, you’re a yogi. You just have to breathe (and maybe laugh at yourself a little). Sonja creates space where creativity meets structure, movement meets stillness, sweat meets soul, and everyone belongs exactly as they are.

upcoming ExperIEnces

Nature Immersion Yoga Retreat in Zion

For the soul who craves more than surface-level wellness. This isn’t just a retreat - it’s a return to your authentic self through challenging adventures, healing yoga flows, and moments of profound stillness under star-filled skies. Surrounded by like-minded souls who understand your hunger for depth, you’ll push your physical limits, nurture your spirit, and excavate the wisdom that city life has buried beneath layers of should-dos and have-tos.

MAY 2026