Upcoming Events

Join a four-month circle for artists, musicians, and writers to awaken the muse. Through Carly Jo Carson’s improvised breath and sound journeys and collaborative practices, Mirror Journey Work becomes a living mirror shaped by the wisdom of the group, inviting clarity, creative renewal, and meaningful inner imagery you can carry back into your work and your life.

Join us on the Spring Equinox for a unique inner journey through breath and sound with Carly Jo Carson, deepened by the medicinal essences of plants, artfully blended by Leanne Hirsh of Perfumera Curandera, and supported by herbal rest beds curated by Eve Gaines of Rituel—to invite deep communion, relaxation, and release.

Carly Jo has chosen the Rituel Nature Refuge to debut her newest music—born from the ashes of losing her home in the Palisades Fire—because this land, too, rests within the burn zone. Here, together, we can experience the vibrant regrowth and regeneration rising from the scorched mountaintop, a living reflection of resilience.

She will be introducing a new, more contemplative style of journeying—an offering to help us integrate the shifts we are all experiencing.

Rituel Nature Refuge will provide everything you need to enjoy this experience: mats, blankets, and pillows. If you’d like, you can also bring:

• Warm layers (the temperature drops significantly after sunset)
• An extra sheepskin or blanket — this is a fully immersive journey, and comfort is essential
• A journal for reflections

An intimate evening of ancestral sound under desert stars at The Mirror at Meander Canyon, featuring Carlos Niño in rare collaboration with his mentor, Luis Pérez Ixoneztli. Together they offer a musical communion that bridges lineage and evolution, weaving spiritual jazz, ambient, and pre-Columbian wind and percussion traditions into a deeply present listening experience. For those who want to go deeper, Luis also leads a pre-concert workshop on Mesoamerican wind and percussion instruments, followed by an optional plant-based dinner under the stars with chef Vanessa Wolfe, with ticket options ranging from concert-only to workshop, dinner, and camping.

March 28 – 29, 2026

Join us for a special 2-Day Meditation Retreat at The Mirror in Pioneertown with Dzogchen meditation master Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche. Through Rinpoche’s profound teachings and step-by-step guided meditation instructions, we will learn powerful techniques to uncover the spacious, expansive vibrancy of our natural state of mind. These methods support the cultivation of unconditional happiness and help us blend meditation practice into daily life. Rinpoche will illuminate our pristine awareness and demonstrate how we may decorate our mind, transforming our everyday reality into an extraordinary experience.   

Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche is a meditation master in the Dzogchen lineage of the Buddhist tradition. He studied for nine years at Larung Gar in Serta, Eastern Tibet, with his teacher, Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche. A long-time resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche has been a lecturer at Stanford University, is the founder and spiritual director of Pristine Mind Foundation, and is the author of Our Pristine Mind: A Practical Guide to Unconditional Happiness. 

Website: pristinemind.org

Scholarship available - email info@themirrorjourney.com 

In collaboration with Palma Colectiva

The Mirror Journey Work is a unique and ever-evolving improvisational practice that weaves breath, sound, and the wisdom of the group into a living mirror, revealing who we are and how our gifts serve the greater fabric of existence. The heavily layered original soundtracks invoke healing, transformation, and remembrance — offering a pathway for people to awaken the heart, ignite creativity and purpose, and connect with the divine without any external substances.  These journeys invite participants to witness the beauty that continually arises within life’s natural cycles of expansion and contraction, death and rebirth.

What to bring:

There will be mats, pillows, light blankets and eye masks.
Please dress comfortably and wear layers (temperature can dramatically fluctuate during breathwork)
Bring a journal, water bottle, and additional blanket or sheepskin if you like to journey in comfort! You will be laying down for the duration of the journey.

Join Carly Jo Carson at The Mirror in Pioneertown for a 3-day training devoted to the art of guiding breath and sound journeys. You’ll learn to create safe, held containers where emotion can move, trauma can be met with care, and the heart can open, supported by the power of sound and the alchemy of a devoted group. This is an immersion in presence, authenticity, and love, designed to help you tune your unique gifts and discover how you’re meant to serve.

This will be the first Mirror Journey with Carly Jo in London at the beautiful studio of Milena Silvano. The journey will flow naturally into a meditation accompanied by improvisations by Joe Harvey-Whyte.
Space is limited for this intimate gathering.

A heart-led screenwriting course with Jay Carson—guided by breathwork from Carly Jo Carson—designed to move beyond formulas and into deeper truth. Through craft, reflection, and nervous-system grounding, writers learn how to access emotional depth, clarify why they’re telling a story, and write from the place that makes scripts feel alive on the page. Suitable for first-time writers and seasoned professionals looking to reconnect with the work.