Welcome to the Lab
at Commune Topanga
At the end of the end of the end of a road, nestled in a remote valley of the Santa Monica mountains, is Commune Topanga — a laboratory for living and learning on 10 acres of meandering paths, oak trees, and organic gardens.
Our Lab is where the ideas and practices embraced by Commune play out in real life. It is a gathering place for inspiring teachers and thought leaders. It is a setting to slow down and shift your brain to long-wave thoughts. It is a place to practice, plant, and cook. But, most of all, the Lab is designed to foster deep levels of connection between people, face-to-face. It is a place to commune.
Scroll down for a list of all our upcoming retreats and events as well as a peek into the many projects percolating in the Lab: solar installations, soil regeneration, beekeeping, chickens, and much more.
Upcoming Retreats
Balance Weekend Retreat
with Schuyler Grant & Jeff Krasno
This weekend retreat is all about practices that cultivate balance in your life. This will include movement (yoga and hiking), focusing the mind (meditation and breathwork), hot and cold therapy (ice plunge and sauna), and enjoying time together in community. While 58% of Americans report eating every meal alone (wow!), we will dine on scrumptious, farm-sourced food around big communal tables and sit by the fire at night for “storytime.”
Join Jeff and Schuyler as they dive into what it means to truly come back into balance!
Hot for Hormones
with Sara Gottfried, MD & Schuyler Grant
Join acclaimed doctor and author Sara Gottfried, MD, alongside yoga witch Schuyler Grant for a long weekend of rigor and restoration. Through both information and embodiment, we will dig into the complexity of modern womanhood. We invite you to bring whatever you've got going on under the hood… the questions and the inklings. The worries and the aspirations. We want all of you — every divine and deviant bit.
Sara and Schuyler are thrilled to be collaborating for the first time, and welcome anything and everything YOU bring to the weekend.
Breath, Soma + Love:
A Meditation Retreat with Scott Schwenk
Join us for an immersive retreat that will guide you in aligning with the living intelligence of Grace — a force that reveals our core inner nature as freedom, boundless creativity, vitality, and unconditional Love.
This retreat is crafted to help you recognize, align with, and allow Grace to reveal the most awakened, grounded, loving, and creative Self within you. Scott will guide you through powerful practices of mantra, breath, and meditative awareness, and offer gentle guidance and transmission from two core Tantric lineages. The aim: Dissolve, digest, and alchemize habitual tension patterns in your body, thoughts, and emotions, and unveil the inherent Grace within every particle of the cosmos.
Ayurveda & Emotional Wellness Retreat
with Dr. Siva Mohan
Dive into the enigmatic realms of Ayurveda and Emotional Wellness with Dr. Siva. While Ayurveda is frequently reduced to designing spa treatments or cleanses, and emotional health is often reduced to therapy sessions, this retreat illuminates a path to emotional wellness through the perspectives and tools of Ayurveda.
Join us for a weekend retreat unlike any other—a journey of self-discovery, healing, and empowerment rooted in the wisdom of Ayurveda and the art of emotional wellness.
Form & Flow Yoga Retreat
with Schuyler Grant
This retreat has something for everyone. Or, everyone ready for four days jam-packed with Schuyler‘s teachings, that is. Sprinkle in the splendor of Topanga Canyon in early summer and all the amenities of Commune Topanga and you have a most unusual and transformational intensive
Whether you are a teacher looking to hone your teaching skills or a dedicated practitioner interested in a more nuanced experience of Kula-style yoga, this intimate retreat is the perfect way to level up your relationship to your practice.
Take a Tour
Commune Topanga is also available for private events, retreats, and film shoots. For more information, contact us.
What's Happening at the Lab
Tour Our Video Set
It’s amazing how the yoga studio fills up with gear when it’s time to film!
The Joys of Yurt Living
So, why live in a 314-square foot, off-grid yurt? Let us count the ways...
Building Our Cob Art Barn
This natural building technique is climate-friendly and fosters community.
Digging a Waffle Garden
We are getting inspired by traditional methods from the arid Southwest.
Chicken Tai Chi
Our baby chicks are quite affectionate, but navigating the coop requires finesse.
