Bringing the Dream into Form

A Creative Makers Retreat in Carmel valley

September 12-15, 2025

This home and property itself is a vibe. Perfect for creative activity and contemplation on freeing up and expressing your personal style.

This retreat is for creators and makers of all sorts who are birthing a soul inspired, purpose driven project, of any sort into form. Particularly if you are pushing the boundaries of your comfort zone, allowing more of yourself to be seen and known. Bringing forth who and what you are in service to the whole.

Do you need a chunk of time to focus on that song or album you’re working on, on a painting project, a curriculum you’re developing, a business plan you’re laying out, designs for a home you’re building or remodeling, a book you’re writing, articles you’re publishing, a social media strategy you’re developing, a website you’re building, a video series you’re filming….

No matter where you are in your creative process, as long as you are working on a dharmic project that you are birthing into form, this retreat is for you.

Over the course of the weekend there will be time for process, practice, connection and reflection. As we explore some of the dynamics of creative flow and what sometimes thwarts or limits the execution of our purpose driven goals.

When your creative projects arise from a soul level of expression, authentic and reflective of the truth of who you are, it is so much more vulnerable to bring them forth and share them with the world. It can confront your sense of security and self leading to procrastination and under prioritizing the time it takes to bring a project like this into form.

Taking this time to clarify your vision and invest time, awareness and energy into your process and project, will offer significant returns on your capacity to create, complete and birth your offers into form. As well as offering you tools and more insight into your own creative process that can help you in all of your future creative endeavors.

We will hold a strong field of coherent creative alignment and flow.

Some of how you’ll spend your time:

• Self Inquiry & Relational Reflection

• Movement and Somatic Practice

• Meditation & Transmission Teachings

• Creative time slots for you to drop into your creative process and get stuff done (Most of your time will be spent here).

• Time lounging- by the pool or with your feet in the creek, laying in the grass under the stars to seed your inspiration…

It has never been more important to bring forth our gifts and creations as it is right now. So that we are creators of the world we live in rather than just observers and consumers of the distortions and conditioned realities that are being perpetuated.

Price and Accommodations

We will be staying in an incredible artistic house and property that has plenty of room to find an inspired spot to drop in and create.

Room Rates:

master Single $2000- Double Occupancy $2500 ($1250 per person)

Queen Single $1230- Double Occupancy $1730 ($865 per person)

Shared Suite- Queen $950- Day bed $700

Pool House Bunks $740

“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”

― Martha Graham

If you feel the call to the magic of this unique offer, join us

Spots in this small curated program are limited. 

Email us with your interest to see if this program is a good match for you and you for it.

FAQs

“Retreats with Gitanjali are always unexpected and surprising, exquisite and profound. Life changing.”

— A.H.- LMFT and repeated retreat participant. 

Spots in this small curated program are limited.

Email us with your interest to see if this program is a good match for you and you for it.

Facilitated by Gitanjali Laila D’Costa

Gitanjali is a master energy healer, mystic, writer, creative, mother, entrepreneur and the founder of Syntara System, a deeply integrative, evolutionary energy healing and awareness modality. In her work with people, she brings together over 23 years of study and training with healers and masters from some of the world’s richest traditions and most cutting edge healing models. She has spent 25 years in active practice, both as a practitioner, and teacher: facilitating retreats, workshops, professional trainings, virtual courses, ceremonies, women’s groups and working as a consultant for system level change across industries. It is her joy to help bring forth the world we know is possible.

“Gitanjali holds a space that I’ve never experienced before. It’s hard to put into words…Loving, Nurturing, Accepting…. Delicious. And I’m completely surprised by the caliber of the teachings and practices.”

— E.C. Owner and Director of a Spiritual Retreat Center & past retreat participant.

“Your calling (creations) is tired of being in a situationship with you. It craves a committed relationship. ”

— Xavier Dagba

It is imperative that we bring for the source and essence aligned creations that are ours to birth at this time. presenting the culture with new possibilities and ways of being moving forward.