Welcome to Yinsa.
Ancient Wisdom.
Sacred Community. Transformational Travel
Yinsa is a global wellness community rooted in ancient healing practices including yoga, Ayurveda, somatic work, and sacred ritual. Whether you're here to heal, lead, or travel with purpose, this is your home. Explore upcoming retreats, work with Daniele one-on-one, or join the LiveYinsa Collective to go deeper with a community of practitioners walking the same path.
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Daniele Gates
Coach, Retreat Host and Facilitator
Daniele is the founder of Yinsa, a global wellness community rooted in ancient healing practices.
With over 15 years of experience leading transformational travel around the world — from Costa Rica to Washington D.C., Bali, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, and Italy — she has cultivated brave, inclusive spaces for healing and self-discovery.
A Certified Yoga and Energy Medicine Practitioner, Daniele specializes in yoga, Ayurveda, somatic healing, and chakra-based work. Her deep understanding of these modalities informs the full retreat experiences she designs — including curriculum creation, budgeting, venue scouting, marketing, and team leadership.
Daniele is deeply committed to ethically, intentionally, and sustainably hosting retreats that honor the land, respect local cultures, and serve participants with care and consciousness. Through the Yinsa model, she has successfully trained dozens of practitioners to become heart-centered, profitable retreat leaders, empowering them to step into aligned leadership.
Her retreats are more than vacations. They are sacred spaces for true healing, embodied growth, and meaningful community.
More About Daniele
"Daniele is a beautiful spirit and a great leader and teacher... I would highly recommend [her] retreats to others who want to grow and learn and be surrounded by a great group of people. "
— Angie Oldham
What Services Do We Offer?Â
 Mind-Body Intensive - Private Coaching
This is not life coaching. This is a deep, private container for the woman who already knows something has to change and is willing and ready to do something about it.
The Mind Body Intensive is built for you if you are showing up for everyone else while quietly running on empty. If you are capable, accomplished, and still feel like something essential is missing and you have tried to think your way out of patterns that live in your body. Everything else you've tried hasn't worked.
We work at the level where the real shifts happen, through somatic healing, breathwork, rituals, ancestral wisdom, and honest, rigorous conversation combined with a private retreat in Dominican Republic. Together we identify what is holding you back at the root, reconnect you to your purpose, and build a path forward that your whole self can actually walk.
This is for you if you are navigating a major life transition, stepping into a new level of leadership, or ready to stop waiting to feel ready.
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Yinsa Global Retreats
Yinsa Retreats are not vacations, they’re initiations.
Each experience is thoughtfully curated to offer deep healing, cultural immersion, and sacred connection to self and community. We travel with purpose, combining multiple modalities and practices curated by well-trained teachers, social workers, and community leaders, combined with local wisdom. We create retreats that are both expansive and grounding.
Expect daily workshops, embodied movement practices, nourishing meals, and unforgettable excursions, all aligned with a central theme. You won’t just rest, you’ll remember who you are beneath the noise.
Whether you’re coming to heal, release, reconnect, or rise, Yinsa Retreats hold space for your full transformation.
Yinsa Coursework
Yinsa Courses are where spiritual practice meets practical tools.
Whether you're learning how to lead global retreats, hold space for others, or deepen your own healing, our digital offerings are designed to be transformational and immediately applicable. We blend wisdom traditions, energetics, and business strategy to give you the structure and support to move with clarity and purpose.
These aren’t passive programs; they’re invitations to step into leadership, integrity, and impact. With a mix of video lessons, downloadable tools, guided practices, and optional live support, each course helps you turn intention into action.
You’re not just learning — you’re becoming
What's Happening at Yinsa?
Dominican Republic –
Girls Trip
May 22-25
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Join us for a weekend of nothing but fun and relaxation in a beautiful, lakefront villa in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Join us for a BBQ at Api Beachhouse in Cap Cana - the Destination City - A private Catamaran Trip, ATV rides, an AMAZING private in-villa chef, all you need to do is land, we handle the rest.
Portugal – Awaken Your Inner Artist
July 19-26, 2026
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Over eight days between the sunlit Algarve and vibrant Lisbon, this narrative therapy focused retreat blends yoga, meditation, narrative writing and hands-on art to reignite your creative spark and invite joyful expression.
Bali – An Introduction To Self-Healing
August 10-20, 2026Â
A ten-day immersive journey in Bali that moves through each chakra with yoga, somatic healing, ritual and cultural excursions, offering you tools and spaciousness to release, receive and realign.
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