You can de-clutter a desk and clear out your inbox, but it’ll take more than a “delete” button to reset your mind. Hit “Escape” and cleanse your body and soul with a two-day retreat at The Expanding Light in Ananda Village, California.

Eject yourself from your daily routine and steal away to the Serenity House, a simple and clean inn-style accommodation with a dozen rooms, four hall bathrooms, and a cozy lounge.

Stay Mondays to Thursdays for a two-day Personal Retreat in a shared room ($ 118), or settle in for a Friday and Saturday Weekend Program of meditation and reawakening in a shared room ($ 158) or private room ($ 224).

The Personal Retreat includes one additional program a day, where you can explore activities like healing prayer, restorative yoga, or a guided tour of the Ananda Village and its spiritual community.

For the Weekend Program, you’ll be able to choose from more than a dozen specific programs and dates. How to Be Happy All the Time, for example, runs from October 21 to October 23, while Restorative Yoga for Women runs from November 25 to 27.

Bring a friend to share your room, or make a new friend in your roommate. Bond over yoga classes and enjoy the vegetarian buffet meals, which come with your stay.

Reboot your energy levels with a twice-daily (morning and evening) sadhana, a spiritual practice that includes energization exercises, yoga, chanting, and mediation. No pressure to stick with the schedule—take advantage of the classes and activities available, or simply relax and find inner peace your own way.

Reviewers on TripAdvisor can attest to The Expanding Light’s healing touch. “My week at EL changed my life in so many positive ways,” says one. “I left there feeling refreshed and happy, having met wonderful people in a beautiful environment.”

Wander the grounds in silent meditation and explore the 800 acres of meadowland around you, or soothe your worries with a massage at the Center for Radiant Health.

Infused with nature’s beauty and inner radiance, you’ll be refreshed, recharged, and ready to jump back into life.

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Visualize a getaway wherever you can lose yourself in a type of easy elegance: one particular that bathes you in tranquility but gives you access to journey right outside your door. That’s specifically what you get with this week’s Escape to Rio Inn &amp Suites in Marysville, California.

Nestled behind picturesque greenery, the Spanish-style Rio Inn &amp Suites has been a landmark because the 1940s, steeping vacationers in tranquil, quaint luxury, although offering them awesome accessibility to close by shopping malls and lush Ellis Lake for ample green time.

Your two-night time keep for up to four guests gets a sumptuous begin in your premium area, an exceptionally huge, renovated abode that capabilities your choice of king or queen-dimension beds. The rooms are outfitted with tile-and-carpet floors and sparkling new amenities. Sense no cost to boot up your laptop computer and browse the internet with free Wi-Fi.

Head out to Yuba Sutter Mall for a tiny retail rejuvenation before hitting up the farmers’ marketplace for some clean California goodness. (For those who Escape in July, verify out the yearly Marysville Peach Festival for reside enjoyment and mouthwatering cobblers.)

Affectionately referred to as the Gateway to the Gold Fields, the Yuba-Sutter area is house to historic shopping districts and Gold Rush-era communities begging to be explored. Although the women head out on the town, the boys can choose up their poles and fish for salmon in the Feather River, or hunt the Gray Lodge State Wildlife Refuge for a mantle-worthy souvenir.

Consider a detour on your way back again to the hotel by strolling close to close by Ellis Lake. Found in the heart of the metropolis, it really is known as the jewel of Marysville. Carry a little bag of bread to feed the pleasant ducks and geese as you soak in the stunning views of the nearby gazebo and fountain. If you have acquired fishing enthusiasts in your group, be confident to bring along your poles and wait for the fish to nibble.

Back again at your hotel, fire up the coffee pot in your space and brew a cup of Melange De Choix coffee. Get pleasure from your 32-inch LCD flat-display screen Television as you sip in peace, channel surfing from among 40 Dish Network channels (like a few Starz motion picture channels).

Following a restful sleep, awaken to complimentary, manufactured-to-purchase waffles in the hotel’s new Continental Breakfast Cafe. Between forkfuls, take pleasure in the early morning newspaper with your feet up and be reminded of how treating your self can be awesomely sweet and perfectly simple.