The house
Baja Alchemy is not a venue and not an agency. It is a pair of practitioners who build small containers and travel to good places.
Integration circles & breathwork
Entrepreneur, certified yoga instructor, aspiring organizational psychologist. Anne came to this work the long way around: through her own burnout, and the reset that followed. She leads the integration circles — the conversations that turn what you feel during the week into what you actually do differently once you're home. She is warm, direct, and very hard to perform for.
Lead guide — movement & breath
Jano came to yoga through rhythm. He was a drummer first, and it still shows: he teaches to a beat, and somewhere around day three you notice the whole room breathing on the same one. He's been a student of the practice since 2001, an E-RYT 500 trained under Tim Miller and Sri Dharma Mittra, a Lululemon ambassador, and the creator of SENSES, the yoga festival he built in San Diego. He leads the morning movement and the daily breathwork. He also still gets nervous before every class, twenty-five years in — which is most of what you need to know about him.
Ensenada, Baja California
A private property in the mountains and valleys outside Ensenada — domes, a round wooden pavilion, a long table, and a fire pit facing the range. Ninety minutes from the San Diego border. Not coastal, and that is the point.
The method
Baja Alchemy began in a valley outside Ensenada, and the name stays because that is where the work was built — the Temazcal, the fire, the long table, the drive back across the border on a Sunday afternoon. It is an origin, not a boundary. When we travel, we bring the same container: twelve people, two guides, and a place chosen for the practice rather than the view.
Every retreat runs the same three movements, whether it is three days in Ensenada or seven somewhere further. The practice changes the body; the open afternoon lets what surfaced actually surface; the circle at the end of the day turns it into language. The integration circle on the last morning is the part most retreats skip, and it is the reason people say the effect lasted.