Alexander Technique Retreats

11/13/2025

🌿 The Final Malibu Retreat — Be Part of a New Beginning 🌿 After 20+ years in Malibu, we gather one last time at the beautiful Serra Retreat Center for a week of renewal, connection, and transformation. ✨ Amazing teachers ✨ Ocean views ✨ Space to breathe, reflect & celebrate the work we love If you’ve ever attended — or always meant to come — this is your moment. 📅 Dec 27, 2025 – Jan 1, 2026 📍 Serra Retreat Center, Malibu 🌊 🌿 The Final Malibu Retreat — Be Part of a New Beginning 🌿 After 20+ years in Malibu, we gather one last time at the beautiful Serra Retreat Center for a week of renewal, connection, and transformation. ✨ Amazing teachers ✨ Ocean views ✨ Space to breathe, reflect & celebrate the work we love If you've ever attended — or always meant to come — this is your moment. 📅 Dec 27, 2025 – Jan 1, 2026 📍 Serra Retreat Center, Malibu 🌊 https://conta.cc/3JMIShi

11/11/2025

🇺🇸 Honoring all who served — today and every day. Your courage, sacrifice, and dedication inspire us all. Thank you, Veterans. ❤️💙

11/04/2025

A Place to Step Into the Unknown
I first came to Serra Retreat in 2013 as an Alexander teacher participant. I wanted to work with the faculty on the retreat, most of whom I’d had little to no prior experience with. That was certainly checked off the list. But more importantly, the safe and supportive nature of the retreat itself invited me to explore outside my comfort zone and try some completely new and scary things for me, such as performing in front of a group of strangers for the first time.
I returned again as a participant several years later and was then asked to be part of the faculty starting in 2017. Over the years, as a teacher on the retreat, I’ve also found the same safe and supportive environment to explore and try new things without fear of failure.
And that’s what the Alexander Technique asks of us, isn’t it? To step into the unknown. To celebrate “being wrong”. That’s the only way we can learn and grow.
The sense of community created by the people attending and facilitating the retreat, along with the physical beauty of the location at Serra Retreat Center, combine to provide the perfect environment for stepping into the unknown.
Now, every time I set out for Malibu at the end of December, I can’t wait to see what the week will bring. I’m continually amazed by what I learn about myself that I wasn’t expecting. This year is no exception.

Lauren Hill

11/03/2025

11/02/2025

Michael's Thoughts on 20+ years at the Serra Retreat..

For more than 20 years, the Serra Retreat has been part of my life. What began as a simple idea—to bring together some of my dearest Alexander Technique colleagues in a beautiful place—has become a tradition that shaped not only my teaching, but also my friendships and my sense of community.

Each year, teachers and participants gathered at the Serra Retreat Center, high above the Pacific Ocean. The setting alone felt transformative: the ocean stretching out to the horizon, the mountains at our back, the silence and beauty of the land. Within those six days, something remarkable always happened. People arrived tired, stressed, sometimes carrying the weight of the year—and slowly, with the help of the Alexander Technique, Breath-Centered Yoga, and being together, they softened, opened, and rediscovered a lighter way of moving and living.

I’ve watched people come back year after year, some for more than two decades. I’ve seen long-lasting friendships form, marriages begin, and even careers reshaped as a result of what they experienced here. And I’ve had the privilege of teaching alongside extraordinary colleagues—friends who have carried this Work for more than forty years each. Together, we’ve learned as much from one another as from our students.

It’s hard to say goodbye to such a place. The Serra Retreat Center has been a kind of sanctuary, a container where the Alexander work could unfold in its purest form. As I write this, I know this final retreat will be both a celebration and a farewell—a chance to honor what we’ve built together, and to carry it forward into whatever comes next.

This last gathering will not be about endings so much as completions. We’ll mark the circle that began more than twenty years ago, and in closing it, we’ll open space for new beginnings—new retreats in other places, new friendships, new discoveries.

If you’ve ever thought of joining us, this is the time. One last chance to stand on that terrace at sunset, to breathe with the ocean, to share in this living tradition of transformation and community.

10/31/2025

🎃✨ Happy Halloween, Friends! ✨🎃

Join us for our Final Malibu Alexander Technique Retreat at the beautiful Serra Retreat Center,
December 27, 2025 – January 1, 2026.

After 20 amazing years at the Serra Retreat Center, this will be our last gathering in Malibu — a week of deep renewal, joyful movement, and community connection.

🌿 Experience the wisdom of incredible teachers
🌊 Restore balance and freedom through the Alexander Technique
💫 Welcome the New Year with clarity, vitality, and ease

Let’s make this final retreat a true celebration of life, learning, and new beginnings.

👉 Space is limited — come be part of something unforgettable.



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10/22/2025

“Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.” - Eckhart Tolle

10/20/2025

No matter how sharp your teeth are, you can’t bite water. 💧

That line carries a deep truth about life, not every situation can be conquered by force, speed, or stubbornness. Some things in life are meant to be understood, not attacked. Water flows, bends, and adapts, yet it remains unstoppable.

The same goes for the challenges we face. Each problem has its own nature, its own pattern, and its own solution. Some situations require action, some require patience, and others require silence and observation. Rushing to fight everything that opposes you can sometimes make things worse, just like trying to bite water only leaves you with an empty mouth.

Take time to understand the problem before reacting. Step back. Observe. Think. Every challenge you face carries a hidden lesson within it. The key is to understand what the situation demands of you, wisdom, calm, courage, or resilience.

Remember: even the sharpest teeth are useless against water, but the one who learns to flow with it becomes powerful beyond measure. 🌊✨

10/19/2025

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06/20/2025

🌞 Summer Solstice Greetings from Alexander Technique Retreats

As the sun reaches its highest point in the sky, we honor this moment of light, balance, and renewal—a perfect reflection of what we cultivate through the Alexander Technique and Hands-On Yoga

What better way to celebrate than by joining us in the heart of Tuscany this summer? 🌻✨

There’s still a final opportunity to be part of our transformational retreat in San Gimignano, at the beautiful Villa Ducci, where ancient hills, mindful movement, and meaningful connection come together.

Spend your days immersed in beauty—refining awareness, releasing tension, and restoring your natural poise—surrounded by olive groves, good food, and soul-nourishing community.

Let this Solstice be your turning point.
Last spots remaining—come move, learn, and grow with us in Italy.