Restore + Return
Rediscovering Our Interconnectedness
November 7-12, 2027
at Sansara Resort
Cambutal, Panama
Join Michelle C. Johnson and Misty Gabriel for a regenerative and restorative retreat in Cambutal, a stunning coastal town on the Pacific coast of Panama.
Restore and Return is for anyone longing to come back to their center, cultivate peace within, and carry that peace into their daily life. Together, we will explore ways to replenish our energy and respond to the challenges of our time—both individually and collectively—from a grounded, steady, and resilient place.
Five nights and six days in a beautiful natural setting for rest, reflection, connection, and joy.
The Place
Cambutal, Panama’s beautiful beaches and mountains provide the ideal setting for a relaxing vacation experience where you will find inspiration from everything that surrounds you.
Located on the Pacific coast of Panama, Sansara resort seamlessly weaves luxury with nature to accommodate relaxation and transformation. It is a space that is deeply nourishing, an experience that is intensely personal, and an environment to awaken the senses and seed your highest potential.
As dedicated practitioners, students, and facilitators on the path of yoga, Michelle and Misty share a deep commitment to healing—both for ourselves and for our communities. Together, they bring years of experience, diverse healing modalities, skillful guidance, humor, and playfulness to create a supportive and transformative retreat experience.
We invite you to join us for this unique opportunity to restore, reconnect, and return to yourself.
Registration Opens in October!
Join the Interest List to be the first to register and receive an earlybird rate!
About Your Guides
Michelle C. Johnson
Michelle Cassandra Johnson is an author, activist, spiritual teacher, racial equity consultant and educator, and intuitive and shamanic healer. She approaches her life and work from a place of knowing we are, can, and must heal individually and collectively. Michelle facilitates workshops and immersions, leads retreats and transformative experiences nationwide, and offers an array of healing services for individuals and groups. For over 25 years as a racial equity educator, she has worked with large corporations, non-profits, and community groups. Michelle is a six-time published author, and in May 2025, her sixth book, The Wisdom of the Hive, co-written with her best friend, Amy Burtaine, and published by Sounds True, was released. Her upcoming book, You Are Protected, published by St. Martin’s Essentials, comes out in September 2026.
Michelle was a TEDx speaker at Wake Forest University in 2019 and has been interviewed on several podcasts in which she explores the premise and foundation of Skill in Action, along with embodied approaches to racial equity work, creating ritual in justice spaces, our divine connection with nature and Spirit, and how we as a culture can heal.
Michelle leads courageously from the heart with compassion and a commitment to address the heartbreak dominant culture causes for many because of the harm it creates. She inspires change that allows people to stand in their humanity and wholeness in a world that fragments most of us. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, sweet dog, Jasper, and her honeybees.
Misty Gabriel
Misty is a yoga / spin instructor, connector of community, and lover of art, food, dogs and nature! Misty’s personal exploration of movement and mindfulness expanded through pilates, spin and yoga classes in her 20s but it was yoga’s ability to clear and calm her babbling brain that eventually led her to pursue her first yoga teacher training (RYT-200) in 2016 at Dancing Dogs Yoga (Greensboro, NC) and continue her studies (RYT-500) with Awakened Life School of Yoga (Bali, Indonesia) in 2019. Misty has deepened her skill set with numerous specialty trainings over the years including Yoga for Athletes, Advanced Art of Assisting and most recently the Skill in Action Yoga & Social Justice Course and Mentorship Program (lead by Michelle).
Expect a balance of effort & ease and always an invitation to clear & create S P A C E when taking one of Misty’s classes. Her grounded energy serves as a foundation for both the fiery flows and the slow somatic practices she weaves into her classes. Misty’s offerings are rooted in a desire to remind folks of their interconnectedness to self, community and all living beings.
Originally from Athens, Ohio, Misty and her husband Eric have been married since 2007. They relocated to North Carolina in 2008 and have called a few cities “home” since then but currently reside in Winston-Salem, NC with their two hound dogs Juniper & Ruthie.