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 & Support guide
Anne Nungaray is an entrepreneur, community builder, creative, and founder of Baja Alchemy Curated Retreats. A lifelong entrepreneur and passionate creator of experiences, she is also the owner and operator of the multi award winning Shear Envy, as well as The Art Envy and Mono & Co. A certified yoga instructor and team building specialist, Anne brings a distinctive blend of wellness, leadership, creativity, and community building to every retreat. Her deep love of Baja inspired the creation of Baja Alchemy, which has evolved into thoughtfully curated retreats in inspiring destinations around the world. Anne’s retreats bring together exceptional places, unique experiences, and genuine human connection, inviting guests to slow down, explore, recharge, and create lasting memories. For Anne, alchemy is what happens when the right people, place, and energy come together. Travel beautifully. Connect deeply. Create your own alchemy.
Lead guide, movement & breath
Jano Galindo has been teaching yoga for more than two decades, with a style shaped by years of practice, teacher education, music, and the experience of working with thousands of students. His classes are dynamic and intuitive, grounded in breath, rhythm, careful observation, and the belief that good teaching begins with meeting people where they are. An E-RYT 500 and YACEP, Jano began teaching in 2003 and has continued his studies with teachers including Tim Miller and Sri Dharma Mittra. Over the course of his career, he has led more than twenty 200-hour teacher trainings and helped prepare hundreds of yoga teachers. He is also a Lululemon legacy ambassador and the creator of SENSES, a yoga festival founded in San Diego. At this retreat, Jano leads the morning movement practice and daily breathwork. After more than twenty years of teaching, he still feels the nerves before stepping in front of a room, a reminder that for him, teaching has never become routine.
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: a small group, 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.