How it all Began ...

28 years ago, Alanna was a young yoga teacher making waves in the blossoming Los Angeles yoga community. Her style was strong and fluid, incorporating more dance and fitness movements that had not been used in traditional yoga classes beforehand. After class one day, a woman approached her and asked, "Oh, Alanna, if you were to lead a yoga retreat I would definitely sign up!" Alanna's lighthearted reply was meant to be witty, "If I were to lead a retreat, it would be all women and we'd be fasting the entire weekend!" Neither laughed as they locked eyes and simultaneously stated, "That's a great idea!" And so it began ... Goddess Detox Retreats were born!

Our first retreats were intense. You could smell the garlic emanating from our hands for days after we returned home from our weekend retreats. We worked with Native American tribes to include powerful sweat lodges and silent nature hikes. We were creating something new, without limits or experience to guide us. It's too bad Instagram wasn't around back then - but honestly, we wouldn't have gone as deep as we had (nor would it have been as wanderlust) if it was. We stripped layers, sometimes too deep and too fast. Noting how people responded to fasting, Alanna began refining a technique and formula to gauge how deep to take her groups, while offering more experienced practitioners to go deeper and guiding those newer to the process. Sometimes less gives us a lot more when we take the time to just be.