CHOOSE YOUR RETREAT
solo
A solo retreat at haeven is designed to be a deep healing immersion, with all sessions tailored to exactly what is wanting to come through for you - in mind, body + soul.
If you're looking to reset your nervous system, quiet your mind, reconnect with your body and reawaken your soul, this solo retreat is for you.
Enjoy ultimate luxury with the entire property to yourself. Your healing practitioners come to the property for your completely personalized sessions, so you get to enjoy the heightened pampering of privacy and seclusion outside of your healing sessions.
- Daily yoga + meditation
- Crystal sound bath healing
- Astrology , Tarot Cards or Human Design reading
- Daily massage or reiki healing treatment
$2999
"bff"
A "BFF" retreat at haeven is designed to be the perfect combination of relaxation, fun, enjoying the desert while adding in some healing mind-body rejuvenation + soul-activating self-discovery.
Imagine an adult slumber party with your best girl friend - you're both craving a reset but also just want some time to kick back with your bestie.
Enjoy ultimate luxury with the entire property to yourself. Your healing practitioners come to the property for your completely personalized sessions, so you get to enjoy the heightened pampering of privacy and seclusion outside of your sessions.
- Daily yoga + meditation
- Crystal sound bath healing
- Group astrology, tarot cards or human design readings
- optional - daily massage or reiki healing treatment (added cost)
$2199 per person
CHOOSE YOUR RETREAT
group
A private group retreat at haeven is designed for friends (or colleagues) who want to come together with the perfect amount of time to just kick back and get away from it all while also adding a different element to your time together - wellness, rejuvenation, and unique Mojave Desert "la creme de la creme" experiences, for more than your typical girls weekend or corporate retreat.
Imagine an adult slumber party meets wellness resort vibes: time for everyone to relax + have a poolside cocktail/mocktail, while also adding a magical depth to the trip you can't quite sum up in words.
Enjoy ultimate luxury with the entire property to yourselves. Your healing practitioners come to the property for your sessions - thus, outside of your sessions, you get to enjoy the special nature of complete privacy and seclusion for your group only.
- Daily yoga + meditation
- Crystal sound bath healing
- Group Astrology, Tarot Cards or Human Design reading
Daily massage or reiki healing treatment
$1599 per person
couples
A couples retreat at haeven is designed to be the perfect combination of relaxation + enjoying the desert with your loved one, while adding in your specific level of healing + soul-activating sessions.
Imagine a luxurious, romantic getaway from the hustle and bustle with the added rare opportunity and magic of coming even closer together through unique + powerful wellness and/or healing sessions.
Enjoy ultimate luxury with the entire property to yourselves. Your healing practitioners come to the property for your completely personalized sessions, so you get to enjoy the heightened pampering of privacy and seclusion outside of your healing sessions.
- Daily yoga + meditation
- Crystal sound bath healing
- Couples astrology, tarot cards or human design readings
- optional - daily massage or reiki healing treatment (added cost)
$2199 per person
HOW IT WORKS:
step 1: choose your retreat type.
Simply decide whether you're looking for a deeper solo immersion or a unique + rejuvenating getaway amongst friends, your partner, or colleagues.
step 2: tell us about yourself.
After booking, you will receive a pre-retreat questionnaire to allow us to completely tailor your sessions + experience to you! This will also give you space to let us know if you are looking for assistance with food options/packages, any other important preferences/notes (injuries, allergies, etc.) about your group that your retreat guides should be aware of.
step 3: arrive + relax.
The week before your retreat, you will receive all information you need (arrival information, property information, your retreat itinerary w/ session times, etc.). Upon arriving, simply arrive, enjoy the incredible nature, energy + space around you, and get excited for your magical retreat sessions and an unforgettable experience.
FAQS:
what time are the sessions?
We have an itinerary that we have found to work best for the perfect amount of personal relaxation, while working with both the Mojave Desert's nature's rhythms, as well as the rhythm and cycles of your own mind + body for optimal enjoyment. If you prefer specific times for your sessions, please let us know with as much advance notice as possible, as this is subject to availability!
what days/dates are these retreats run?
The incredible thing about our retreats is that they are yours - you aren't stuck within the confines of one specific week or weekend. You get to choose your date + day of arrival (you can add on extra days before or after, subject to availability, added cost)!
will i meet other people?
These are private retreats, whether they are solo, with a "BFF", a partner, or your own group of girlfriends, colleagues, etc. This is not a retreat on a specifically run date where a big group of strangers comes together. This is a very unique opportunity to experience a truly magical slice of the Mojave Desert that can accommodate up to 9 people for personalized experiences + gatherings.
why is a retreat at haeven so unique?
There are many retreat offerings nowadays, which is incredible. What makes haeven unique are 2 things:
1: the land and the celebration of immersion + reconnection with the wild, untouched Mojave Desert land. If you are looking for a perfectly pristine, modern, concrete desert experience (and thus, sterile, in our opinion ;)) this is not for you.
If you're looking to reconnect with yourself and others in a truly authentic way, the power of untouched nature will unlock this for you. We celebrate the rugged, wild, calming + re-energizing desert elements and everything this will bring about within you.
2: haeven is owned by mindfulness teacher + wellness expert of 12+ years Mel Daly. She lives and breathes the joy of bringing as many humans as possible the experience of a greater depth of living - one that is only available in the physical, present moment. She believes deeply in the power of becoming more embodied - getting out of the head and into the body, leaving behind the mentally-based go-go-go, constantly thinking culture we live in.
Every element of your retreat experience, your practitioners and your sessions, and the property itself, has been thoughtfully + authentically designed to reconnect you to this way of being. If you're looking for a truly authentic Mojave Desert retreat experience, look no further.
is there a deposit and/or cancellation policy?
Your initial deposit is simply 20% of your retreat package!
The remainder will be charged 30 days prior to your retreat, in order to fully confirm your retreat. If payment is not successfully received 30 days prior to your retreat arrival date, your booking will be considered cancelled.
The deposit is 100% refundable if cancel 60 days prior to your retreat.
The deposit is 50% refundable if you cancel 30-60 days prior to your retreat.
The deposit is non-refundable if you cancel 30 days or less prior to your retreat.
If your initial booking is already within 30 days of your retreat, it is considered non-refundable and the full payment will be required upon booking to fully confirm your retreat experience.
Thank you for honoring the time and energy of our retreat hosts and the desire of other guests to experience haeven!
A DAY AT HAEVEN:
7AM: Sunrise Meditation, Journaling + Coffee
8AM: Breakfast Al Fresco (local rec: order in from The Frontier Cafe or make a homemade smoothie)
930AM: Yoga, Sound Bath + Meditation
11AM: Poolside Relaxation (or optional private massage or reiki treatment)
12PM: Poolside Lunch
130PM:Tarot Cards, Human Design and/or Astrology Readings
3PM: Nature Walk, Cold Plunge, Sauna, Relaxation Time
530PM:: Poolside Sunset "Golden Hour" (local rec: indulge in our famous floating hors d'oeuvres + drinks platter)
7PM: Dinner Al Fresco (local rec: buddha bowls + various treats from The Dez)
830PM: Sauna, Cold Plunge + Hot Tub Under the Stars
930PM: Stargazing and/or Full Moon Firepit
TESTIMONIALS
What Our Guests Have To Say
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"I would highly recommend Mel + her magical retreat property "haeven" for any group experience that you are interested in. She did an amazing job tailoring a group event for my friends. We had a healthy, holistic night that brought about friendship and connection. I have also worked with Mel in the mind-body training capacity. She is incredibly personable, proactive and focused on understanding your unique physical, mental + spiritual needs. Mel is the absolute best and if you have the ability to join a retreat at her place, do it!
- Heather S., Utah; (group retreat)
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Working with Mel has surprised and astonished me in the best possible way. I came to her to work on my relationship with myself, my body image, my body/food/movement, and my overall happiness in life. I have experienced a mindfulness evolution that has already – and continues to - change the way I see myself, my relationship with my body/body image, and my life in profoundly amazing ways.
I finally feel free from spending almost all of my time (previously) consumed by thoughts of my body/food, which I honestly wasn't sure was possible. I am finally infusing movement into my day in a way that feels natural and enjoyable versus full of pressure/perfectionism.
If you believe in mindfulness and self-healing as I do, I can’t imagine a better practitioner and teacher than Mel. She truly puts her heart and soul into her work, and it shows; she’s authentic and hilarious and I’m so grateful to be working with her!
I can't wait to attend more of her retreats and do a group retreat with my friends for my next birthday.
- Vickey V.; California; (solo + group retreat)
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"This retreat was one of the best things I’ve done for myself. I was burned out and on a hamster wheel of work, worry, stress repeat. Out of sheer desperation I went on this website and booked a retreat with the owner Mel, knowing little about what was in store for me. Through her pre-session meetings, I got a better sense, but you never really know until you get there.
From the moment I set foot on the property, I felt serene and taken care of. Mel is incredible in so many ways: as a host, a curator of experiences tailored to your specific energy and season of life, and a cook of amazing, nutritious meals. Best of all, she hones in on the practical elements of a spiritual transformation that you can take back to “real life” with you so that your shift transcends the amazing but brief time in the desert.
While meditating at home tonight, I remember a little bit the look of the stars in Joshua Tree, and somehow, I’m accessing the same incredible feeling. If you’re on the fence about booking this, all I can say is it’s worth it."
- Marilyn M.; California (solo retreat)
YOUR RETREAT GUIDES
meet Mel, owner, and haeven's healers.
It is my deepest passion (besides my 2 children!) to help guide humans back to their most joyful selves.
I've been helping individuals find greater joy in their mind, body and soul for 12+ years now, as a mindfulness teacher, personal trainer, brain-body expert, mindset coach + yoga teacher who brings ancient arts + modern science together.
While I've always been passionate about fitness, wellness, and the mind-body connection, there were times my Capricorn, East Coast, societally conditioned type-A ambitious (but deep down free spirit) self got caught up deep in the rat race.
Thankfully, my body kept speaking to me and bringing me back to myself, my purpose, and my zest for life. From a young age, I remember always thinking how dulled down adults looked - robotically shuffling from a job they hate back to their couch, passing the time with TV, hunched over from "computer life".
Everything I've done - personally and professionally - has been to challenge this status quo. So that my soul doesn't feel like it's being stomped on by the "just suck it up and grind it out, this is just how life is" mentality. And so my body isn't crammed into cubicle hustle life that leaves us feeling like crippled zombies (I say jokingly, but also sadly seriously, as I found myself in this corporate reality for a few rough years).
But all roads kept leading back to the body. The body as our portal to not just health, but greater calm, happiness, wholeness, inner peace, confidence, creativity, abundance, the list goes on. I now know that the human body is our greatest source of power - it holds everything we desire.
It is where we feel joy, it is where we source our energy + vitality from, it is where we can hear our intuition + create our most abundant life, and it is where we quite literally live our lives. Yet, the human body has been pushed to the sidelines in the hustle and bustle of modern life, and it's time to reclaim its rightful place at the forefront of our lives.
It is my greatest passion to help people deepen their relationship with their body, so they can physically, mentally, and spiritually experience the fullness of life that is available to them.
I hold a wide variety of rigorous trainings + certifications:
- fitness and wellness: certified personal trainer (ACE), restorative + orthopedic fitness specialist (ACE), fitness nutrition specialist (ACE), and more
- pain, the nervous system + brain-body connection: Z-Health Practitioner (4 certifications - R, I, S, and T phase) on the functional application of the nervous system to wellness and performance
- behavior change, mindset coaching + mindfulness (ACE-Certified Behavior Change Specialist; advanced mindfulness courses with Eckart Tolle, Dr. Joe Dispenza; student of Deepak Chopra, Rapid Resolution Therapy, and more)
- yoga - 200 HR YTT - Yoga Renew
Because motherhood is precious to me, I only run a select number of private retreats personally. For all other retreats, I partner with the Mojave Desert's "la creme de la creme" - the best of the best - healers + practitioners, to bring you a powerful retreat experience that is personally vetted by me and everything I believe in and stand for. Thus, your retreat is naturally infused with my intention of deeply recalibrating you to your most alive self - in mind, body + soul.
What will haeven reawaken within you?
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