Rooted and Wild Womens Yoga Retreat in Asheville North Carolina
Mountain air, autumn light, and the kind of movement that makes you feel alive again.
Retreat Highlights
This fall, imagine standing at the peak of a mountain, breathing in the crisp autumn air, feeling rooted in the wisdom of your heart and wildly free. Our Rooted and Wild Yoga and Hiking Retreat in North Carolina offers you the perfect escape from the daily grind, where you can reconnect with nature and rediscover your aliveness, your calm confidence, and your wild and wise heart.
This Women’s Yoga and Hiking Retreat is for You If:
You Want a Break From Daily Stress So You Can Recharge
In the hustle and bustle of everyday life, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, stressed, and disconnected from yourself and your loved ones. The demands of work, family, and societal obligations can leave you feeling drained and out of balance. Your nervous system feels fried or you’re just plain burnt out. Our Rooted and Wild Retreat is your chance to step away from it all, to recharge and rejuvenate your body, mind, and spirit. This is exactly the break you need to focus on your well-being.
You Are Craving Time in Nature and a Bit of Adventure
When life is busy, it’s easy to forget how amazing you can feel after just a few hours outside breathing fresh mountain air. At our creekside retreat time has a way of slowing down, stress slips away, and your nervous system is soothed by the sounds of the rushing creek and crisp clean air. Rejuvenate your spirit with local hikes, outdoor yoga and meditation, and replenishing dips in the cleansing waters of the creek. You won’t want to forget your favorite hiking shoes, swimsuit, and cozy layers!
You Value Community and Connection With Likeminded Women
Maybe you’ve already been on one of the 30+ women’s retreats I’ve led over the past 11 years or perhaps you’re new here, but I have got to say that I am consistently blown away by the incredible women that show up on these retreats. The fast friendships, the connection, the stories, the vulnerability, the support, the tears, the laughter and the healing that happens when you bring women together and create a welcoming space to show up just as they are is what continues to inspire me. You are welcome here. All of you. The messy, the wild, the divine, all of your beauty. We see you and you belong here just as you are. This is for you too.
You Want to Deepen Your Practice Both On and Off of Your Mat
You’re ready to deepen your practice and embody the gifts of a fulfilling yoga practice. You know and love that post-yoga feeling and you want more of it. Or perhaps you’ve fallen out of a regular practice or perhaps you’ve been leaving class with more questions than answers? You’ll have ample individual attention and plenty of time to embody, ask questions, and reflect. Your yoga practice has so much potential to serve your wellbeing both on and off of your mat.
You Know in Your Heart You Haven’t Been Putting Yourself First
If this resonates, I just want you to know that I see you. I’ve been right where you are. This is just a season and it’s about to change. You are capable of living a life that feeds your soul, you’re already on the path. From a lens of self love, you’ll be invited to let down your guard, your masks, your many responsibilities and step into your aliveness. It’s from this place of wholeness and self love that you are able to show up as the best version of yourself full of vibrant energy, abundant joy, and clarity about what’s ahead. I want this for you. I know you deserve it. Do you?
Trusted by 700+ women across 40+ retreats since 2014.
“When I got home, and I was talking to my adult children, they said, ‘Mom, we can’t figure out what’s different, but you look happy.’ And that meant everything.”
Jayne Randolph, 2x retreat guest
This is the kind of shift we see again and again. When you give yourself this kind of space — to slow down, move your body, and reconnect with what matters — you don’t just come home refreshed… you come home transformed.
After This Yoga Retreat You Will:
- Have the tools to go deeper in your yoga practice. From a place of self love, inner strength, and empowerment you’ll be able to transfer the knowledge you’ve gained here to your practice at home.
- Feel vibrant and strong. With miles under your feet and empowering yoga you’ll be glowing.
- Embody a sense of calm confidence and deep trust. Rest and reflection will give you the space you need to access your inner knowing, intuition, and inner peace.
- Long lasting friendships. Leave knowing you are part of an ever evolving, supportive group of women that not only want what’s best for you, they want you to thrive.
- Remember Your Value and Your Wholeness. Your gifts are worth sharing.
- Embrace Your Inner Wild. And a life of aliveness.
North Carolina Women’s Yoga Retreat Highlights
- Daily Yoga Sessions: Picture yourself walking to morning practice with a warm coffee in hand. Invigorating morning vinyasa, evening slow flow and restorative classes cater to all levels. Your experienced instructor understands your journey and provides care and attention that elevates each practice.
- Gorgeous Hikes: It’s the beginning of leaf season in North Carolina. Explore some of the most stunning fall trails and absorb Mother Nature’s beauty while soaking in breathtaking views and stunning waterfalls.
- Meditation: Learn my favorite meditation and breathing techniques to quiet your mind, find inner peace, and make space for mental clarity.
- Yoga Nidra, Breathwork, and Sound Healing: Grounding practices to help calm your nervous system, access your intuition, and create space for healing.
- Downtime: Space to rest, read, reflect, and recharge.
- Nutritious Meals: Enjoy delicious, wholesome meals using organic and local ingredients. We accommodate most dietary restrictions with advance notice.
Daily Schedule
DAY 1
- 3:30 pm – Check-in opens
- 5:00-7:00 pm – Welcome Circle and Evening Yoga (slow flow + restorative)
- 7:30-8:30 pm – Dinner & Welcome Mocktail
- 8:30-10:00 pm – Connect and swap stories around the fire
DAY 2
- 6:45-8:00 am – Coffee and Tea available
- 8:00-9:30 am – Yoga (energizing vinyasa flow) + Guided Meditation
- 9:30-10:30 am – Breakfast
- 11:00-4:00 pm – Afternoon hike with light bag lunch
- 5:00-7:00 pm – Restorative Yoga + Sound Healing
- 7:30-9:00 pm – Dinner
DAY 3
- 7:00 am – Breakfast Available
- 8:00-12:30 pm – Morning Waterfall Hike
- 1:00 pm – Hearty Lunch
- 1:00-5:00 pm – Free Time
- 4:30-7:00 pm – Breathwork + Slow Flow + Yoga Nidra
- 7:30-9:00 pm – Dinner + Circle Ceremony
DAY 4
- 6:45-8:00 am – Coffee/Tea and pre-yoga snacks
- 8:00-8:30 am – Closing Circle + Group Photo
- 9:00-10:00 am – Yoga (energizing vinyasa flow)
- 10:00-10:30 am – Breakfast
- 11:30 am – Check-out
Travel Information
Flying into Asheville (AVL): Airlines serving Asheville include Allegiant, American, Delta, JetBlue, SunCountry, and United. Transportation from airport is approximately 55 minutes and around $50-65 Lyft. Airport pickup is not available. Attendees are encouraged to carpool via our Facebook group.
Arrival: Please arrive no later than 4:30 pm on opening day. Check-in starts at 3:30 pm.
Departure: Check-out by 11:30 am. Don’t schedule flights before 2 pm.
Cancellation Policy
- The deposit amount is non-refundable. If you can find someone to fill your space, the deposit can be transferred.
- Written Notice of Cancellation at least 45 days prior: full refund less non-refundable deposit.
- Cancellation within 45 days: no refund granted.
- If Ambuja Yoga cancels the retreat, 100% refund within 30 days.
- Final payment due by August 5, 2026 for both sessions.
Your body, your breath, your wild wisdom are waiting. Will you answer?
This North Carolina Yoga Retreat is for You If...
For women who...
- You want real yoga taught well — not influencer yoga, not gentle-only
- You miss being outside, in your body, with your phone put away
- You know how much you need a break from planning, organizing and managing life
- You want to connect with women who get it, without you having to explain yourself half a dozen times
- You're done waiting until life is calmer to do this
- You want food someone else planned, cooked, and cleaned up, eaten slowly, in a cabin next to a cozy fire
- You're ready to laugh louder, take up more space, say what you actually think
- You want to come home to your people feeling like yourself again
Picture This...
Imagine waking up in a cabin tucked into the trees, the creek running just feet from your window. Cool mountain air. Coffee in your hands as you walk to the yoga barn, fall color just starting to turn outside the door.
You move. Strong vinyasa, breath audible, sweat coming. Your teacher coaches you into Goddess pose and asks you to hold it longer than is comfortable — bigger than feels appropriate, take up more space than you’ve been taking — and somewhere on the third deep breath you remember what your body is actually for.
You eat a slow breakfast someone else cooked. You’re not in charge of anything.
Mid-morning, hiking boots on, you head out with the group. Switchbacks up through hardwoods — the leaves have just begun their turn to burnt orange, copper, and deep red. The trail asks more of you than you expected. You stop at a waterfall. Someone makes a joke that lands harder than it should and the laughter ricochets down the trail and you feel — for a second — like the version of you who used to laugh like that all the time.
Back at the cabin you have hours of nothing. You read, you nap, you swim in the creek if you’re brave enough for the cold. You sit on the porch with another woman and tell her a real story about your life. She tells you one back. Nobody is performing.
At dusk you’re back in the yoga barn — slow flow, sound bowls, lights low. You eat dinner together. Someone at your table says the thing she’s been holding for two years and the table goes quiet, and then someone else says hers, and by the time you get to the firepit you all know each other in a way you don’t know most of the people in your life.
You stay up later than you meant to. You sleep deeper than you’ve slept in months.
You’ll do this for four days. By the end, you won’t be the woman who arrived.
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After this Asheville Yoga Retreat
You will...
- Have a body that remembers what coming alive feels like. Real movement on Blue Ridge trails. Strong yoga that asks something of you. Cold creek air. Not as a memory — as a recent, somatic experience your nervous system can find again at home.
- Have tools you'll actually use after you leave. Breathwork that downshifts your stress in 90 seconds. Restorative shapes that work on your living room rug. The polyvagal science underneath both, so you know why they work — and can teach them to your daughter, your sister, your friend.
- Have friendships with eleven women who watched you become more yourself. Not abstract supportive sisterhood — actual women who saw you laugh at the dinner table on Day 2, who heard you say the real thing at the fire circle, who text you in November when you need it.
- Have one specific commitment you made in the Blue Ridge that you're not going to undo at home. Something you decided about your life this week. You carry it forward.
- Have the kind of self-trust that comes from doing something brave on purpose. You came on this retreat. You showed up. You let it land. That's a practice — not just an experience.
- Have your inner wild back. Not as a memory of the woman you used to be — as the one you came back to, on purpose, in the Blue Ridge, with eleven other women who watched you do it.
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Meet the Women Guiding Your Journey
Autumn Adams
Lead Instructor & Founder, E-RYT 500, YACEP
Autumn Adams is the founder of Ambuja Yoga, leading transformative yoga retreats for over 13 years. Her teaching blends vinyasa flow, restorative practices, and profound inner exploration to help women reconnect with their authentic selves.
Read MoreWhat's Included
- Daily yoga sessions (vinyasa, slow flow, restorative)
- Guided meditation and breathwork practices
- Yoga nidra and sound healing sessions
- All meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner)
- Hiking activities (afternoon and waterfall hikes)
- Cabin accommodations with linens provided
- Access to yoga props (mats, blocks, straps, blankets, bolsters)
- Welcome circle and closing ceremony
- Community gathering spaces
- Welcome mocktail
Why We Love This Location
INDIGO Nature Retreat
Getting There
Nearest Airport: AVL - Asheville Regional Airport
Airport Pick-up is not available. Transportation is approximately 55 minutes and around a $50-65 Lyft. Attendees are encouraged to carpool via the Facebook group.
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Rooms
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Creekside Cabin - Double Occupancy
From $2,047 Sleeps 4
This option is PERFECT for two friends, sisters, mother/daughter who want a bit more privacy to connect with one another or just need a little more space to rest and recharge.
The treetop bedroom in the loft gives you a birds eye view of the towering trees. You'll be lulled to sleep by the sounds of the nearby creek. Rate is per person.
Your bedroom has two cozy twin beds
Full private bathroom within your cabin
Complete kitchen, living room and front porch.
You'll be steps from the creek.
Birds Nest -Single Cabin
From $1,897 Sleeps 5
These adorable tiny cabins are perfect for one or two. Your private home-away-from-home gives the best cozy mountain cabin vibes. You're about 100 feet from the creek and 30 seconds from the shared bathrooms.
Each cabin has a bunk bed with a traditional top bunk and convertible table to bed below. Nesting tables, chest of drawers, refrigerator, and additional seating.
Creekside Cabin
From $1,797 Sleeps 4
You'll share your cabin with three other women. The four person creekside cabins sleep four in two separate bedrooms. Each evening you'll crawl into your cozy bed and drift off to the sounds of the nearby creek. Rate is per person.
The details:
2 bedrooms - each with 2 twin beds ( one lower level bedroom and one loft bedroom)
Full private bathroom within your cabin
Complete kitchen, living room and front porch.
You'll be steps from the swimming hole.
test-package - no booking attached
From $1 Sleeps 2
Birds Nest - Single Cabin
From $1,897 Sleeps 2
Creekside Cabin (Shared 4-person)
From $1,797 Sleeps 4
Frequently Asked Questions
- Airport transportation (~$50-65 Lyft from Asheville airport)
- Travel insurance (strongly recommended)
- Private yoga sessions (available as VIP add-on day)
- Gratuity for staff/chef (suggested $5-20 per person)
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