Fall Equinox retreat in Mt.Shasta

Fall Equinox 2026

September 18-24, 2026 | Mount Shasta, CA

with guest healer, Dr. Paul Wang LAc plus catered breakfast baskets and farm to table dinners by Chef Peter

Space is limited to 15 people.

 
 

What aspects of your life need balance and restoration this fall?


Join us in Mount Shasta, the powerful root chakra of the earth, during Fall Equinox, for a deeply restorative sabbatical week to slow down, reset and come back into balance with your body, mind and spirit with our guest healer, Dr. Paul Wang, Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine.

Equinox is a potent time to transition into a new balance with inner connection, outer community, greater cosmos. We gather for spiritual self-care and grounding ceremony as we deepen into presence during this critical seasonal turning point. We seek to shift our mindsets with refined intention. We inquire into our beliefs with open hearts. We dissolve habitual patterns with dynamic embodiment.

Dr. Wang will share his integration of martial, medical, and mystical paths as our collective story of mythic mastery — a process which actualizes our full potential. Through practical principles and meaningful flows, he will orchestrate a series of three 2-hour morning activation sessions throughout the sabbatical week to harmonize our mind, heart, body with soul, spirit, source.

We will explore what it means to be an Earth Warrior in the fall season, represented by the metal element, through personal & collective inquiry around…

  • What matters most to us?

  • What does it feel like to defend and protect what we cherish, starting with ourselves and our bodies as our temple?

  • How do we establish healthy boundaries to expand our inner capacity for staying centered & grounded amidst the chaos and complexity of the outer world?

  • How do we allow the falling, releasing, composting of this seasonal cycle to happen with more grace and surrender… without holding on to what no longer serves us?

Enjoy entering into your center, nurturing your original nature, and unfolding the mystery of majesty that is this life here and now. Join our Fall Equinox Sabbatical week at Hestia to:

  • Ensoul universal principles through meditation, movement, memetic practices;

  • Encounter fellow lovers of solitude, plentitude, gratitude;

  • Enrich your mind, body, heart, spirit with the eternal elements;

  • Enter a reality of greater possibility and creative play;

  • Enact insights into your daily lifeways.

Our Fall Equinox Flow

SEPT 18: DAY 1 >> GROUND & SETTLE IN

  • Be greeted by your Hestia hosts and settle into your sweet home and resting space for the week

  • Enjoy our opening dinner at 6:30 pm with Chef Peter

SEPT 19: DAY 2 >> ANCHOR YOUR INTENTIONS WITH THE LAND

  • Join a 2 pm experiential guided group walk to ground and connect with the powerful energy spots on the land

  • Enjoy a group dinner at 6:30 pm with Chef Peter

SEPT 20: DAY 3 >> CULTIVATE TO DEEPEN INTO INNER AND OUTER BALANCE

  • Enjoy our first 90-minute group morning activation session from 10 am - 12:30 pm with Dr. Paul Wang to deepen into inner and outer balance

  • Use the self-guided journaling tools and connect with the land to support your intentions

  • From 1:30 - 5:30 pm, enjoy free time to explore the land, sacred sites around Shasta or book your wellness sessions to help you heal, rejuvenate and harmonize with your body, mind, spirit

  • Enjoy a group dinner at 6:30 pm with Chef Peter

SEPT 21: DAY 4 >> HARNESS THE POTENT ENERGY OF FALL

  • Enjoy our second 90-minute group morning activation session from 10 am - 12:30 pm with Dr. Paul Wang to deepen into inner and outer balance

  • Practice embodying and living your intentions while you’re here by consciously choosing how you want to spend your time and energy

  • Deepen your connection to the land by meditating on Hestia’s energy spots or explore the areas around Mount Shasta listed on our welcome guide

  • From 1:30 - 5:30 pm, book add-on guided experiences with our community hosts or with our recommended Shasta tour operators

  • Enjoy a group dinner at 6:30 pm with Chef Peter

SEPT 22: DAY 5 >> PREPARE FOR THE EQUINOX PEAK ENERGY

  • Enjoy our final 90-minute group morning activation session from 10 am - 12:30 pm with Dr. Paul Wang to deepen into inner and outer balance

  • Co-create a fall equinox gratitude altar with the land before dinner

  • Enjoy a group dinner at 6:30 pm with Chef Peter

SEPT 23: DAY 6 >> RELEASING RITUAL

  • Deepen your connection to the land by meditating on Hestia’s energy spots or explore the areas around Mount Shasta listed on our welcome guide

  • Enjoy a group dinner at 6:30 pm with Chef Peter

  • Attend a 8 pm group fire ceremony to release what no longer serves you and make space for the shifts you want to catalyze in your life when you return home by letting go of what no longer serves you.

DAY 7 >> GIVE GRATITUDE & PREPARE TO TRANSITION

  • Visit the spots that you felt a special connection to on the land and give gratitude before you leave!

  • Create a mantra/visual reminder to facilitate a smooth transition back

Guest healer Paul leading a fall equinox ceremony at Mount Shasta, California.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

  • Three 2-hour guided morning sessions with Dr. Paul Wang

  • Comfortable private accommodations

  • 6 breakfasts and 6 farm to table dinners by Chef Peter

  • Sabbatical toolkit and special wellness gifts made by local artisans

  • Self-guided journaling tools to keep track of your experience and insights along the way

  • Access to private meditation spots, yoga studio and ocean views

  • Guided group rituals and curated ceremonies to sacred sites aligned to our personal and group intentions

  • S P A C I O U S N E S S !

  • Group releasing ritual to let go of what no longer serves you

  • Custom curated excursions aligned with your personal intentions

EXTRA SERVICES

  • Extended lodging beyond the 6 nights provided in the program

  • Massage, acupuncture, energy work and other wellness services

  • Private dance, movement, yoga classes

  • Somatic and trauma healing sessions

  • Guided tours to our favorite sacred sites and energy spots around Mount Shasta

  • 1:1 post-sabbatical life coaching sessions to support your transition back

BOOK YOUR SPOT TODAY!

 
 

 

About Dr. Paul C. Wang, DACM, LAc, founder of Dao Arts Center in Albany, CA:

I am a Memetic Healer and Cultural Acupuncturist who specializes in Clinical Cosmology and Mythic Engineering. I prescribe potent memes to shift physical burnout, emotional constipation, mental diarrhea, spiritual amnesia, and natural deficit. My main tools are Dao Alchemy (Self-Cultivation), Dao Acupuncture (Self-Healing), Dao Astrology (Self-Awareness):

  • Doctorate of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine 

  • Masters of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine

  • Bachelors of Science in Integrative Biology

  • Instructor of Balance Method Acupuncture

  • Transmitter of Daology (Dao De Gong Fa)

  • Sifu of WingChun