Bigger Life Adventures

28/04/2026

5 days 🌞🌕
40 miles 🥾🏕️
Daily delicious vegan food 🌯
Nightly yin yoga 🧘🏼

Countless unforgettable memories!

Here we come Catalina 2026! Spots still open for the trail starting May 7 and May 14! 🙏🏻

https://www.biggerlifeadventures.com/product/catalina-island-hiking-yoga-retreat/

27/04/2026

Some of us left a big piece of our hearts where the trees meet the clouds. 🐒🙏🏽⛅️

Forever missing Monteverde 🙏🏼🇨🇷

Had to showcase some of the many fabulous pics by 📷

23/04/2026

I mean if you don’t come for the epic views, yoga, and food, maybe come for the rest of this Zachalicios power buffalo rap? 🤣🦬🏝️🎼

Catalina retreat prep just got a lot weirder over here! 🪗🥳

Spots left to hike with us: May 7-11 & May 14-18!

20/04/2026

The people who will hold space for you for 21 days in person and beyond! 🚀🕉️👇

Swipe to meet your teaching team for the Bigger Life YTT.

→ Carrie Hoffman (that’s me) — E-RYT500, Ayurvedic Health Counselor, 8 years teaching, 100+ retreats in 7 countries, 7 years providing yoga at my home county’s Juvenile Detention Center. Yoga heped me get sober. I’m passionate about helping new teachers incorporate trauma sensitivity and conscious space-holding into every class they teach.

→ Sydney Jansma Kleis — 500h trauma-informed RYT, therapist in training, certified yoga nidra teacher, writer, and BLA yoga teacher & helper since 2022! Sydney embodies quiet confidence, mindful living, and connection to nature.

→ Zach Minnich — co-founder of Bigger Life Adventures, yoga philosophy contributor, Reiki Master, musician, vegan chef, and the human behind one special Zachalicious meal per week during YTT. He’s someone who actually lives this stuff, on the mat, in the kitchen, and every day.

I’m proud that this YTT will include group integration sessions and personal mentorship for each student even after you graduate and leave. That’s something valuable I’ve never seen offered. So we’re including it. 🙏🏼✨

17 students max. Applications open now. Link in bio.

19/04/2026

Something Carrie has been building for a long time is finally here.

The Bigger Life 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training!
March 1–22, 2027 Mystical Yoga Farm , Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. 🇬🇹

21 days. 17 students. Off-grid, connected to nature, fully present. 📚🧘🏻‍♂️

This training exists because of one belief we can’t shake: you never know who’s walking into the room when you teach. You don’t know who’s holding something heavy, who showed up because they didn’t know where else to go, who needed exactly what you had to offer that day. Trauma-informed yoga isn’t a side specialty for the teachers we want to train — it’s the foundation everything else is built on.

You don’t have to be certain you want to teach. You just have to feel the pull.

Applications are open now. Early bird pricing through September 30. Apply here: https://www.biggerlifeadventures.com/product/guatemala-yoga-teacher-training/

🌋 Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
📅 March 1–22, 2027
👥 17 students max

18/04/2026

"Each day had a different feel with the impact of the marine layer of fog that hugged the island each morning. Sometimes it never fully lifted, creating an almost Lord of the Rings feel as we hiked up and down, like we were all hobbits on a great quest. Everywhere we turned there were unique wildflowers, some I had never seen before, capturing our attention from the lush green and blue around us. Also, hello buffalo on day two! (The buffalo are not native to the island, and were brought to Catalina in the 1910s for filming a movie and left behind. Hopefully now humans know better, and can do better!)

While we experienced new things while hiking each day, what truly made this retreat so special was the community that formed from a group who were for the most part strangers a couple days before." -Sydney Jansma Kleis

2 spots left for the Trans Catalina Trail May 7-11! 🦬
And 2 spots left May 14-18! ☀️
🏕️🥾🧘🏻🌅

5-day Catalina Island hiking & yoga retreat. Hike the Trans Catalina Trail with gear support, plant-based meals, and ocean views.

17/04/2026

Whether you’re sober, sober curious, in recovery, or simply tired of party-focused trips, this style of travel offers something different: intentional experiences designed to support your energy, your nervous system, and your integrity..... 🤗

Alcohol free vacations designed for sober and sober curious travelers seeking connection, adventure, and clear minded travel experiences.