Re-Parent Your Inner Child:
A Retreat of Self-Awareness and Healing

Casa Grande, Utuado, Puerto Rico
April 25-27, 2025

This retreat will offer a safe space in which to reflect on your childhood, however supported or unsupported it may have been.

It will guide you to be curious about how your adult life today is influenced, and sometimes sabotaged, by those experiences. It will introduce you to your inner child: the part of you that was wounded during your childhood and that is reactive when it is triggered. It will offer you the skills both to recognize what was positive about your childhood, and to re-parent yourself in the ways that you wished you had been parented.

When you listen to and soothe your inner child, when you connect to the child you once were, you can allow your thoughts and actions to come from an adult space of calm rather than from an inner child’s space of hurt and lashing out.

When we experience trauma (including what some might consider small, inconsequential traumas) and when we don’t process them effectively, we become more fragmented in ourselves. We create survival methods that protect ourselves from more harm, yet in the process, parts of us may get suppressed, compartmentalized, or taken advantage of. This retreat seeks to help you reunite your fragmented pieces so that you can embrace the whole you!

​Befriending your inner child and re-parenting it may sound strange, but it can help you navigate the world more smoothly, including all of your relationships, be it with your parents, family, friends, partner, children, or even with yourself. It can also support you to live life from a more balanced space, with more confidence, joy, self acceptance, and compassion.

Throughout this retreat, we will practice yoga - including movement, meditation, breathwork, and yoga philosophy, such as the concept of svadhyaya, or self study - to guide us through this journey.

Benefits of the Retreat

  • Receive practical guidance on how to navigate life more smoothly through inner child and re-parenting work.

  • Learn tools to improve your relationship with yourself, your partner/future relationships, family, and friends.

  • Gain knowledge about how to reframe your childhood and how to better support yourself as an adult in triggering moments.

  • Become less reactive to what triggers you in life.

  • Find more self-acceptance, appreciation, and self-love.

  • Learn to embrace all parts of yourself.

  • Practice daily yoga, plus journaling, mediation, breathing exercises, hiking and water exploration.

  • Experience self-care in a stunning space with good healthy food, comfortable and beautiful accommodation, and fresh air while surrounded by nature.

  • Enjoy time to reflect and grow in a supportive environment.

  • Connect with other lovely people also willing to learn and grow.

Location

Casa Grande is located on 125 acres in the beautiful mountains of Utuado, a 90 minute drive from San Juan. It is nestled into a valley with views of the mountains that are covered in lush tropical vegetation. Bordered by a lovely river, it is possible to hike on the property as well as to the river, where there are waterfalls and swimming holes. Casa Grande is fully equipped with an airy yoga studio and an outdoor salt-water pool. For those without transportation, we usually find ways to carpool to and from San Juan.

Accommodation

Casitas are built on stilts and are surrounded by lush vegetation, fruit trees, and the sounds of nature. Each room comes with an en suite bathroom as well as a private porch and hammock. Rooms are tastefully decorated and boast comfortable beds with hypo-allergenic, organic bedding. Both single and double-occupancy rooms are available. 

Meals

The retreat includes all meals from dinner on Friday night to lunch on Sunday.  All meals are plant-based with much of the ingredients sourced from local farms. Our communal meals will be enjoyed in a covered outdoor space, overlooking the pool area and the mountains. Tea, coffee, infusions, and snacks are also included. Please note that alcohol will not be served during the retreat. 

Tentative Retreat Schedule

Friday
3pm Check-in and relax
4pm Opening Ceremony – meet your inner child and understand why this work is key to improving your life
5pm Dinner
8pm Reflection Workshop – be curious about your childhood, both the positives and the challenges. Find awareness about which of your needs went unmet. End the night with a slow yoga practice

Saturday
8am Yoga and Pranayama (yoga breathing) –breathe and stretch with your inner child!
9am Breakfast
10am Compassion, Validation, and Acceptance Workshop – befriend and listen to your inner child through journaling
Noon Lunch
1pm Curiosity – explore your inner child’s playfulness and creativity including creative mandala project* and river exploration
5pm Dinner
7pm Transformation and Metamorphosis Workshop – let go of patterns in which you have got stuck through a fire dance* ceremony followed by breathwork

Sunday
8am Yoga and Mantra Chanting* – as you hold space and soothe your inner child
9am Breakfast
10am Re-parent Your Inner Child Workshop – be the parent you always needed, supporting your inner child in a way that transforms your life and makes your inner child feel unconditionally loved and safe through role-playing* and journaling
Noon Lunch
3pm Closing Ceremony – reflection on what we have learned and a final meditation
5pm Depart

If you feel adverse to any of the activities listed above, this may be linked to the reactivity of your inner-child. I highly advise that you push through your fear and aversion while also supporting your inner child. Supporting your inner child through challenges/uncomfortable moments is a wonderful way to grow your inner child/parent relationship!

ABOUT YOUR RETREAT LEADER

Daniella Gould  

Daniella Gould is Owner and Instructor of Santosa Yoga and Health based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She holds a MA in Asian Studies from UC Berkeley, is RYT 200, Y12SR (addiction recovery), and breathwork certified. She has also attended multiple trainings, including on trauma, resilience, self regulation, inner child work, parenting, social justice, meditation, and mindfulness.
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Daniella has applied yoga philosophy to many facets of her own life. It has changed how she views and relates to herself, her husband, and their son in such a transformative way that she loves to share the practical benefits of yoga, meditation, breathwork, and yoga philosophy with others.

For Daniella, yoga is about connecting people with their bodies and breath in order to quiet the noise and distractions that often accompany our hectic lives. She loves to help students apply yoga philosophy to their lives in a practical, understandable way. Ultimately, she thinks that yoga allows us to find contentment and satisfaction, making it easier to navigate life’s challenges.

She enjoys working with students of all levels, and believes that everyone can benefit from yoga, meditation, breathing practices, and yoga philosophy regardless of flexibility and/or experience. She teaches with humor and playfulness, and she aims to make all students feel welcome and at ease in a supportive, safe space.

Daniella has taught retreats in a number of locations, but Casa Grande is her favorite space-to-date to take people on transformative journeys.

  • Daniella hosted a retreat focused on Inner Child work and it was so much more than I expected. A weekend in beautiful Casa Grande, Utuado filled with amazing people and life changing experiences. Daniella’s guidance during workshops and yoga enabled us to be aware of our feelings, emotional needs and our power to heal ourselves. Highly recommend for anyone who wants to feel re-charged and just better at showing up for yourself and others.

  • I rarely give 5 stars but in this case it was easy. My wife and I had an absolutely wonderful time at the Santosa weekend retreat. Had never experienced yoga, meditation or had vegan cuisine, and did it all in one weekend. The retreat took place in the most serene and beautiful Caribbean mountain resort with hiking trails and a river with a waterfall and a natural swimming pool. Made a ton of friends that were all there for self improvement. My wife and I are looking forward to our next retreat with Daniella.

  • I recently attended a retreat led by Daniella. She was outstanding. She took a group of complete strangers and made us feel like a family. She’s incredibly knowledgeable, thoughtful and put together an amazing itinerary with a breadth of resources and tools.

  • I just came back from a yoga/reparenting/inner child retreat with Daniella. I wouldn't know how to classify the retreat because it is all this and more. Daniella has attracted a curated experience of wellness and merged it with the experience of having an awesome community to help people heal, and grow from within. What makes Daniella great is her openness to listen empathetically, fostering a safe space and non-judgmental facilitation style. Her authenticity (and the fact that she has been able to incorporate what she teaches to her own approach in life) showed all throughout the weekend. I came out understanding that I don't need to be perfect and that nobody is but I can confidently say that Daniella was perfect for us over the 3 days we spent together. Oh! And the food at Casa Grande Retreat Center in Utuado was also outstanding, and the setting in the luscious mountain!

  • This is my 2nd retreat with Daniella at Casa Grande Mountain Retreat and it has been a life-changing experience. If you have a chance to take a yoga class or attend a retreat with Daniella, do not hesitate, just do it! You will not regret it. Daniella provides knowledge, wisdom, humor, and kindness. The topic of this past retreat was Re-Parenting your Inner Child and wow did we ever, LOL. Daniella provided us a safe space so we could be vulnerable and imperfect but also providing us with guidance, tools, and materials to understand ourselves and our emotional needs; to heal/love ourselves. Daniella is a treasure, the community she has created is amazing, and I hope I will be able to attend more retreats with her in the future.

Pricing:

  • Double occupancy - $845 per person (bring a partner, or a friend. Alternatively, we can pair you up with another attendee)

  • Single occupancy - $1,095 per person

These prices include accommodation, all meals and snacks, coffees, teas, juices, and all programming. It does not include travel to and from the retreat center (but we usually car pool) Nor does it include any additional wellness services such as massages. Payment plans and part scholarships are available. Text 310-227-9451 for more information.

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