Our founders and community of wellness practitioners, workshop facilitators, hosts, guides, chefs, and collaborators are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for every guest. Our mission is to support your well-being—physically, mentally, and spiritually—while meeting your needs with care, intention, and genuine hospitality.
Meet the Team.
The Ranch Family
Shanon Day Drayton
Founder and Spiritual Guide
My work is rooted in vibrational sound healing. My path to hosting retreats began with a single sound bath experience that profoundly shifted me. From that moment on, I knew I was meant to share this medicine. We are vibration. Everything is vibration.
Through sound, I help align your chakras, soften your nervous system, and bring you back into harmony and flow… and sometimes, yes, I help crack you open to what’s ready to be released.
As a child, I often heard my name being called and there was nobody there. I sensed energies around me, communicating with me. In my twenties, I experienced moments of connection with those who had crossed over. But during my thirties and forties, while I worked and raised my family, my spiritual life naturally stepped aside. When I finally stepped away from the city and returned to nature, that part of me opened again. My connection with spirit deepened, and the messages became clear: this land is meant to be shared.
And so I’m here, opening this sacred space to those who feel called to it. As your host, I’ll support and guide you in whatever way feels comfortable and supportive during your stay here.
During your stay, I may also lead yoga, horseback riding, or other animal enrichment experiences Our practices are slow, intentional, and deeply nourishing—unless you’re craving something more playful, in which case we might put a goat on your back.
Rick Arreola
Builder and Land Co-owner
Shirlee Day Arreola
Operations Manager and Guest Chef
Petey, Daryl, and Peggy Sue
House Pets
Featured Partners
Energy Healer &
Transformational Intuitive Guide & Life Coach
Indra Kelly
I guide intuitive transformation and energy healing, helping people reconnect with their energy and intuitive gifts. I combine energy healing, past-life clearing, mediumship, intuitive activation, and channeling to facilitate deep emotional, energetic, and ancestral release. My work awakens what’s already within you - strengthening intuition, expanding confidence, and aligning you with your true self.
I'm a chef rooted in Southern tradition, trained in French and Italian kitchens in Beverly Hills, and inspired by the clean, vibrant flavors of Asia. I began cooking alongside my grandmother, whose Southern heritage taught me that food is love - a value that continues to guide everything I create. I was part of the service team in upscale Beverly Hills restaurants and in celebrity catering throughout Los Angeles before relocating to Hawaii, where I deepened my understanding of Asian cuisine and the healing power of fresh, intentional food. Today, I specialize in nourishing meals that make people feel energized, light, and truly cared for.
Traci Lee Burgard
Guest Chef
Sonia Flores
Holistic business coach, intuitive advisor, and podcast producer.
She helps soul-led women share their message and gifts with the world by starting and growing their business, or launching a podcast.
She’s also the host of Modern Latina in Midlife where she shares her journey of navigating the third chapter in a woman's life, offering stories about business, podcasting, spiritual awakening and personal growth.
Her work is rooted in the belief that everyone has a unique gift to share with the world. And when your message is clear and your energy is aligned, you live in fulfillment of your life's purpose.
I help women who feel overwhelmed or disconnected from themselves to feel clear, supported, and grounded with intuitive energy healing. We will call in your spirit guides to uncover what you truly need to be centered and to learn to trust your inner voice so that you can live your life to the fullest!
Brenda Lee Lenweaver
Intuitive Energy Healer
Steph
Your Ayurvedic Practitioner & Happiness Guide
I am an Ayurvedic Practitioner, the Curator of our Ayurvedic Herbal Tea line, a Yogi, Happiness Guide, a Creative and Mama of two. My worldly service is to be your guide, to walk with you as you walk along your path of health and wellness. Together we do the deep dive to heal your mind, body and soul.
I work with clients who are looking to naturally be on a path of wellness through a holistic lifestyle, diet, herbal suggestions, Ayurvedic treatments, Yoga, Pranayama and other integrative healing modalities.
Blessings on your journey to wellness!