For women, gathering with friends is essential to managing stress. Corrales Grief Spa, at The Oasis in New Mexico, offers personalized wellness retreats designed to help friends reconnect.

In 2000, psychologist Shelley E. Taylor and her team at UCLA published a landmark paper in Psychological Review that fundamentally challenged fifty years of stress research. Her work proposed that the dominant model of stress response—fight-or-flight—described male behavior under stress far more accurately than female behavior. Women, they found, responded to stress through a distinctly different pattern: tend-and-befriend.

Taylor’s team described two interlocking responses. The first involves protective, nurturing behavior directed toward the self and others when facing a threat. The second involves actively seeking out and strengthening social bonds—the drive to gather and be near others. The research found that oxytocin mediates both responses.

The result is a stress response that, in women, is biologically oriented toward connection. When stress rises, the female body defaults to the urge to reach toward other women.

Taylor’s 2006 follow-up paper in Current Directions in Psychological Science elaborated on the mechanism: positive connection under stress causes oxytocin to attenuate the body’s stress responses, dampening sympathetic nervous system activation and calming the HPA axis, the same system implicated in chronic stress and its downstream effects on the immune system, digestion, and sleep. In plain terms: being with women you trust, particularly when you are under stress, physically calms the body at a biological level.

The Longevity Research

The research on female friendship and health outcomes doesn’t stop at stress regulation. It extends to some of the most significant health outcomes researchers study.

A meta-analysis published in PLOS Medicine by Julianne Holt-Lunstad and colleagues at Brigham Young University found that individuals with adequate social relationships had a 50% greater likelihood of survival compared to those with poor or insufficient social relationships. The researchers noted that this effect was comparable in magnitude to well-established mortality risk factors, including smoking.

A separate longitudinal study examining social integration and longevity in women found that the depth and breadth of meaningful social connection was associated with significantly better long-term health outcomes.

This is not about having a lot of acquaintances, but about the particular, irreplaceable quality of being genuinely known by other women.

Why Life Pulls Women Apart

If the research is this clear, and the need is this biological, why do so many women find themselves, at a certain point in life, isolated from the friendships that once felt central to who they were?

The answer is not a mystery—careers accelerate, children arrive, and relationships shift. Grief takes up residence. Women who reach their forties, fifties, and sixties often describe a particular kind of grief around friendship—not the loss of a specific person, but the gradual erosion of the closeness they once had with women who still exist in the world, who still matter, but who have drifted to the edge of a life too full to hold them close.

This too is a form of loss worth naming, tending, and, when possible, reversing.

Group Retreats at Corrales Grief Spa

A group retreat at The Oasis is built around the same understanding that shapes everything Kristy does: that healing happens in relationships, that the nervous system softens in the presence of safe others, and that some things simply cannot be done alone.

Retreats can be tailored for small groups, offered as day retreats, overnight experiences, or multi-day stays. They are appropriate for friend groups seeking to reconnect, for groups of women navigating a shared loss or transition, or for women who simply know they need each other and are ready to make space for that.

What the group brings and what they need shape each retreat. Kristy offers her presence, her thirty years of experience, and access to the full range of healing modalities at The Oasis, including Reiki, sound healing, guided visual imagery, expressive art, the Reflections Room, breathwork, yoga nidra, and the Bosque itself. There will be food, thoughtfully prepared, and space for silence and space for laughter.

The Friends Who Need Each Other

If you are reading this and feeling the pull of the woman you once talked to every week, the friend you keep meaning to call, or the group that hasn’t gathered in longer than any of you care to admit, that pull is worth following.

The research is clear. The body knows it. The only question is whether you’ll make room.

Reach out to Kristy to begin a conversation about what a group retreat at The Oasis might look like for you and the women who matter.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a group retreat at Corrales Grief Spa?

A group retreat is a tailored healing experience for small groups of women, held at The Oasis at Corrales Grief Spa in Corrales, New Mexico. Retreats are available as half-day, full-day, overnight, or multi-day experiences, and are shaped around what the group needs. They can be focused on reconnection, shared grief or loss, life transition, or simply the restoration of friendships that deserve more time and space.

Do we need to be grieving to attend a group retreat?

No. Group retreats are for any gathering of women who want to come together with intention—whether that’s to reconnect, mark a life transition together, support a member of the group through a loss, or simply rest and restore in each other’s company. Kristy will work with your group to design an experience that fits where you are.

What modalities are available during a group retreat?

Kristy offers access to the full range of healing offerings at The Oasis, including Shamanic Angelic Reiki, guided visual imagery, expressive art, sound healing, breathwork, yoga nidra, the Reflections Room, and the MARI Card Test.

Can our group stay overnight at The Oasis?

Yes. The Oasis offers two beautifully appointed private suites—the O’Waken Oasis (1,350 square feet) and the Bosque Oasis (600 square feet, with direct Rio Grande Bosque views)—both available for extended stays. For groups who want an immersive multi-day experience, overnight accommodation is available.

How do we begin planning a group retreat?

Reach out to Kristy directly to start the conversation. She will talk through your group’s situation, size, and needs, and work with you to design an experience that feels right.

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Welcome to the Bosque Oasis executive retreat, just steps away from the Rio Grande Bosque, one of the rarest ecological environments in North America. It has drawn people to it for thousands of years—because something in the body resonates when it sees water, cottonwoods and a clear New Mexico sky.

For the executive, the founder, the leader who has spent months or years operating on no margin, the quiet is immediate, and the distance from the demands of ordinary life begins the moment you close the gate.

A Smaller Space. A More Complete Quiet.

The Bosque Oasis at The Oasis Spiritual Spa and Executive Retreat in Corrales, New Mexico is an elegantly cozy suite. At 600 square feet, it is intimate, warm, self-contained—looking directly out onto the Rio Grande Bosque.

Rated 5.0 on Airbnb across every single category, the Bosque Oasis is a lavish private guest suite on a fully gated luxury estate in one of Corrales’s finest neighborhoods.

The property is fully gated for security and privacy. Your parking is private. And while the Bosque Oasis shares a wall with the main house, it operates as a fully self-contained, private space, with its own entrance, its own rhythm, and its own quiet.

The Space

Warm decor and carefully chosen furnishings invite you to get cozy and deeply restore. Open your door, and look directly onto the Rio Grande Bosque, one of the rarest riparian corridors in the American Southwest. The cottonwoods, the water, the particular light of the New Mexico morning—this is what your nervous system has been asking for.

Inside, you’ll find:

• A sumptuously appointed king-size bed for the deepest sleep you’ve had in months
• A well-appointed kitchenette with a 2-burner hot plate, a combination microwave/air fryer/convection oven, and a full-size refrigerator and freezer — everything you need to eat well and simply
• A dedicated workspace for the days you need to stay connected
• WiFi and TV
• Private, fully gated parking
• Direct Bosque views from your door.

The Healing Is Available When You’re Ready for It

What sets The Oasis apart from any other private accommodation is not simply the suite itself, but what exists alongside it.

Kristy, your host and the founder of Corrales Grief Spa, brings over thirty years of holistic healing experience to her work. When you’re ready, entirely on your timeline, she offers access to a range of transformative healing modalities that are rarely available outside specialized clinical settings.

The Reflections Room: a modern reimagining of the ancient psychomanteum, developed under Kristy’s direct mentorship with Dr. Raymond Moody, the pioneering near-death researcher who brought this practice into contemporary therapeutic use. It offers a quality of stillness that productivity tools, standard vacations, and conventional therapy cannot typically reach.

Ericksonian Clinical Hypnotherapy, Shamanic Angelic Reiki with Color Infusion and Sound, guided visual imagery, the MARI Card Test, expressive art, yoga nidra, breathwork, sage support, each one working at the level where executive exhaustion lives: in the body, the nervous system, and the unconscious patterns that no strategic thinking can resolve.

Corrales, New Mexico: The Setting Itself Is Therapy

The village of Corrales runs along a stretch of the Rio Grande Bosque that has drawn people seeking beauty, quiet, and renewal for generations. The Bosque Oasis sits directly on it.

Approximately 2.5 miles from the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Park, and minutes from shops, galleries, restaurants, breweries, and wineries, Corrales offers the rare combination of genuine natural solitude and easy access to everything you might want when you surface. The most effective burnout recovery retreats combine nature immersion, distance from daily demands, and structured wellness support as a single unified environment. Here, the Bosque handles the first. Kristy handles the rest.

Who This Is For

The Bosque Oasis is for the executive who needs something smaller, more contained, and more complete than a resort. For the founder who wants to be close to the water and far from the noise. For the leader who travels alone, needs to think, and deserves to rest deeply while doing it.

It is also for anyone at a threshold, whether a decision, a transition, a season of change, who needs a warm, private, beautiful place to remember what they actually want.

The Bosque is waiting just outside your door.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Bosque Oasis?

The Bosque Oasis is a 600-square-foot private luxury guest suite on the gated estate of The Oasis Spiritual Spa and Executive Retreat in Corrales, New Mexico. It looks directly onto the Rio Grande Bosque and holds a perfect 5.0 rating across every Airbnb category. It is designed for complete privacy, deep rest, and, if you wish, access to the holistic healing practice of host Kristy.

How is the Bosque Oasis different from the O’Waken Oasis?

The O’Waken Oasis is the larger of the two accommodations on the estate, at 1,350 square feet, and includes features like a cinematic projection screen, pool table, and four-post beds. The Bosque Oasis is a more intimate 600-square-foot suite, with direct Bosque views and a warmer, cozier feel. Both hold a perfect 5.0 rating and offer access to the same property, the same host, and the same healing offerings.

Is this only for people dealing with grief?

No. The Oasis welcomes anyone seeking rest, privacy, renewal, or meaningful retreat, including executives recovering from burnout, founders at a crossroads, remote workers who need a beautiful base, and anyone in a season of change who needs time and space to reorient.

Can I access healing modalities during my stay?

Yes. Kristy offers a full range of holistic healing services entirely at your discretion—Ericksonian hypnotherapy, Shamanic Angelic Reiki, guided visual imagery, the MARI Card Test, the Reflections Room, yoga nidra, breathwork, expressive art, and sage support. None of it is required. Your stay can be as solitary or as supported as you choose.

Can Kristy cook for me during my stay?

Yes. Kristy is available to prepare meals for guests who would like to be fully cared for during their time at The Oasis. This can be arranged as part of your stay.

Where exactly is The Oasis located?

The Oasis Spiritual Spa and Executive Retreat is in the village of Corrales, New Mexico, directly north of Albuquerque along the Rio Grande—approximately 2.5 miles from the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Park, and easily accessible from Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, and the surrounding metro area.

How do I book?

The Bosque Oasis can be booked directly through Airbnb. For extended stays, custom retreat packages, or questions about incorporating healing services into your visit, reach out to Kristy directly.

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An executive retreat may not be top of mind for the average CEO, but there is a number that should give every high-performing leader pause: 82%.

That is the share of executives and employees currently at risk of burnout, according to a 2024 Global Talent Trends report, conducted by Mercer, involving 12,000 participants conducted by Mercer. If you’re in the C-suite, the data is stark—over 53% of leaders report chronic burnout symptoms, according to Microsoft’s Work Trend research. Burnout makes executives 63% more likely to take a sick day, and 13% less confident in your own performance. Your well-being and quality of life—as well as the clarity your organization depends on—quietly erodes as burnout goes unaddressed.

Perhaps you already know this, and you feel it.

You’re not looking for a massage. You’re looking for nervous system relief, genuine mental clarity, and real distance from the demands that seem to follow you everywhere you go. The question isn’t whether you need a retreat. It’s whether you can find one that actually delivers.

A Different Kind of Executive Retreat

The O’Waken Oasis at The Oasis Spiritual Spa and Executive Retreat in Corrales, New Mexico offers something most high-end wellness resorts cannot: genuine solitude, total privacy, unhurried personal care, and access to a caliber of holistic healing that is exceptionally rare, all within a single gated estate bordering the Rio Grande Bosque.

This is not a branded resort experience with group programming and shared spaces. It is a private, 1,350-square-foot luxury suite—rated 5.0 on Airbnb, named a Guest Favorite, and ranked in the top 10% of homes on the platform—on a park-like property that sits at the end of a cul-de-sac in one of Corrales’s finest neighborhoods. The property is gated. Your parking is private. A large buffer room separates your suite from the main house, and you have your own private entrance.

You can arrive and not speak to a single person. Or host Kristy can cook for you, care for you, and support you. An experienced healer, host, and Airbnb Superhost with five years of five-star hosting, Kristy’s warmth and responsiveness consistently makes guests’ stays extraordinary.

The Space

The O’Waken Oasis Suite is a world unto itself—extravagantly appointed, sensory and soulful, with enough room to breathe and enough comfort to fully release.

Inside, you’ll find:

• A 9-foot by 5-foot cinematic projection screen for the evenings you need to stop thinking entirely
• A cozy fireplace for the evenings you want to feel something quieter
• A queen-size four-post Indian bed and a full-size four-post Chinese bed—sumptuous, storied, genuinely restorative
• A massage chair, a pool table, and a disco ball—because joy is part of recovery too
• A fully equipped kitchenette with a full-size refrigerator, dishwasher, and washer/dryer
• A dedicated home office workspace—for the days you need to stay connected 
• A modern bathroom with plush, oversized towels
• Outdoor dining for six and indoor dining for four, plus two barstools
• Sofa seating for eight

Steps from the front door, the Rio Grande Bosque trail invites you into one of the rarest ecological environments in the American Southwest. Morning meditations, long walks, or simply sitting with the cottonwoods and the river allow your nervous system to remember what ease feels like.

The Healing Is Available When You’re Ready for It

What distinguishes The Oasis from any other luxury accommodation is what lives alongside it.

Kristy, your host and the founder of Corrales Grief Spa, brings over thirty years of holistic healing experience to her work. When you’re ready, she offers access to a range of transformative modalities that are rarely available outside of specialized clinical settings.

The Reflections Room: a modern reimagining of the ancient psychomanteum, built on a practice Kristy developed under the direct mentorship of Dr. Raymond Moody, the pioneering near-death researcher who brought this healing space into contemporary use. It offers a quality of stillness and inner reflection that productivity apps, typical vacations, and conventional therapy cannot typically reach.

Ericksonian Clinical Hypnotherapy, guided visual imagery, Shamanic Angelic Reiki with Color Infusion and Sound, the MARI Card Test, expressive art, yoga nidra, breathwork, sage support—each one works at the level where executive exhaustion actually lives: in the nervous system, the body, the unconscious patterns that no amount of strategic thinking can resolve.

You came here to rest. You can leave transformed.

Corrales, New Mexico: The Setting Itself Is Therapy

The village of Corrales sits at the south end of a stretch of the Rio Grande Bosque that has drawn people seeking beauty, quiet, and renewal for generations. It is approximately 2.5 miles from the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Park, minutes from shops, restaurants, breweries, and wineries, and a world away from the demands of everyday life.

The most effective burnout recovery retreats combine nature immersion, distance from daily stress, and structured wellness programming as a single unified environment. The Oasis delivers exactly this, without the jet lag of an international trip or the group-retreat dynamics that can become another obligation to manage.

Who This Is For

The O’Waken Oasis is for the founder who hasn’t had a week to themselves in three years, the CEO whose body is sending signals their calendar has no room for, and the executive who has been the one holding everything and needs, finally, to be held for a while.

It is also for anyone standing at a threshold, whether a major decision, life transition, or season of change—who needs space to think, feel, and find their way back to themselves.

The suite accommodates up to two guests and holds a perfect 5.0 rating across all guest categories on Airbnb.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the O’Waken Oasis?

The O’Waken Oasis is a 1,350-square-foot luxury private suite on a gated estate at The Oasis Spiritual Spa and Executive Retreat in Corrales, New Mexico. It is rated 5.0 on Airbnb, holds Guest Favorite status, and is ranked in the top 10% of homes on the platform. It offers complete privacy and total self-sufficiency, or access to the care and healing offerings of host Kristy—depending entirely on what you need.

Is this only for people dealing with grief?

No. While Corrales Grief Spa is built around grief support and healing, The Oasis welcomes anyone seeking rest, renewal, privacy, or a meaningful retreat, including executives recovering from burnout, founders at a crossroads, and anyone in a season of transition who needs time and space to reorient.

Can I access healing modalities during my stay?

Yes. Kristy offers a full range of holistic healing services to guests who wish to incorporate them into their stay, including Ericksonian hypnotherapy, Shamanic Angelic Reiki, guided visual imagery, the MARI Card Test, the Reflections Room, yoga nidra, breathwork, expressive art, and sage support. These are entirely optional. Your stay can be as solitary or as supported as you wish.

Can Kristy cook for me during my stay?

Yes. Kristy is available to prepare meals for guests who would like to be fully cared for during their time at The Oasis. This can be arranged as part of your stay.

Where is The Oasis located?

The Oasis Spiritual Spa and Executive Retreat is located in the village of Corrales, New Mexico, directly north of Albuquerque along the Rio Grande. It is approximately 2.5 miles from the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Park and easily accessible from Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, and the surrounding metro area.

How do I book?

The O’Waken Oasis can be booked directly through Airbnb. For extended stays, custom retreat packages, or questions about incorporating healing services into your visit, reach out to Kristy directly.

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Divorce support is grief support, too. Sometimes grief means the life you had planned, and the relationship you’ve lost.

When people think of grief support, they often picture loss in its most recognizable form: a death, a funeral, a period of mourning. They rarely picture sitting in a lawyer’s office, opening a social media memory that shows a vacation with someone who is no longer in their life, or explaining to their children, for the first time, that life is going to look different now.

Divorce carries grief that society rarely names as such, and that absence of naming makes it harder to heal.

At Corrales Grief Spa in Corrales, New Mexico, Kristy has worked with many guests navigating the end of a marriage. Over more than thirty years of practice, she has seen the weight that divorce carries—not only emotionally, but physically, relationally, and spiritually. The divorce support she offers draws on the same full range of healing modalities she brings to every form of loss, because at their core, the mechanisms of grief are the same regardless of their cause.

Divorce Is Grief, and Research Confirms It

Psychologist and family therapist Pauline Boss introduced the concept of ambiguous loss in the 1970s to describe a form of grief that lacks the social recognition and ritual of death-related bereavement. Divorce is one of the most common causes of ambiguous loss. The person who experienced it may grieve the relationship, the shared experiences of being married, and connections that existed through that marriage, a former mother-in-law, a shared community, a version of daily life that is simply gone.

When ambiguous loss isn’t recognized and supported, grief gets stuck. The effects can include depression, anxiety, hopelessness, a confused sense of identity, ambivalence, and lost trust in the world as a fair and rational place. Grief gets stuck in part because there are no cultural rituals for supporting someone experiencing an ambiguous loss. When there is no burial or mourning process to bring others together, grief from an ambiguous loss can feel profoundly isolating.

Research on relationship dissolution shows that 60 to 70 percent of divorced individuals experience clinical symptoms of grief. These symptoms may include intrusive thoughts about the former spouse, difficulty sleeping, and idealization of past moments of connection. Loss of a spouse often includes loss of routines, physical intimacy, shared dreams, and your identity as a married person.

Research on identity and loss has found that the grief process in divorce closely mirrors the grief process following death and job loss: all three produce significant post-loss identity disruption. The loss of a marriage is, among other things, the loss of who you were within it.

Divorce Grief: The Felt Experience 

Kristy describes it in the language of her clients: the loss of a family unit, the loss of a marriage, the loss of the planned and imagined future. Memories surface constantly through social media, showing the past in a way that feels unavoidable.

“We try to help people stay in the moment, stay present, stay empowered while they’re caring for a tender broken heart,” she says. “I like to say to people that while you’re a broken love dove, you are also a phoenix rising at the same time.”

This dual awareness—of the wound and of the emergence—is at the heart of the divorce support Kristy offers. It holds them while they move through it at their own pace, with skilled support, in an environment designed for exactly that.

Why Skilled Support Matters

The isolation of divorce grief is well-documented and clinically significant. Research on divorced and separated individuals has highlighted an intense decrease in social support and a sense of failure and shame associated with marital breakdown, contributing to elevated rates of depression and other mental health challenges in the first years post-divorce.

Peer support and skilled companionship in mental health recovery promote healing through the modeling of coping strategies and by providing hope and an example of recovery to those navigating mental health difficulties. What Kristy offers goes a step further, drawing on three decades of clinical training, spiritual practice, and a genuinely holistic approach to regulation and restoration.

In this regard, her role is perhaps closest to that of a grief coach and guide: someone who helps clients stay grounded in the present, regulate their nervous systems, and access their own resilience during one of the most destabilizing transitions a person can experience.

Healing the Whole Person Through Divorce Support

All of the modalities at Corrales Grief Spa are, in Kristy’s words, “very nurturing to someone going through a divorce.” Each one addresses a different layer of what divorce grief actually touches.

Shamanic Angelic Reiki with Color Infusion and Sound speaks directly to the nervous system, quieting the chronic activation from upheaval and uncertainty, and invites the body toward ease that it may not have felt in months.

Ericksonian Clinical Hypnotherapy works with the unconscious to address the thought patterns, emotional loops, and identity disruptions that divorce often triggers.

Guided Visual Imagery and Yoga Nidra offer the nervous system a guided path toward rest and safety, particularly valuable when anxiety and sleeplessness have become chronic.

Expressive Art and Mandalas provide a non-verbal language for the grief that words cannot always hold—the complexity, contradiction, and simultaneous sadness and relief that divorce so often carries.

O’Waken Yoga, Meditation, and Breathwork restore a sense of physical agency and presence that loss can erode, bringing the person back into their body and into the moment.

Sage Support and the Reflections Room offer companionship and contemplative space for the deeper spiritual and existential questions that divorce raises: Who am I now? What does my life mean without this relationship? What am I becoming?

Care for the Caregiver is specifically available for those who have been supporting others through the divorce, including children and family members, while neglecting their own processing.

An Extended Stay for a Season of Change

For those who need more than a session or two, Corrales Grief Spa offers something rare: the opportunity for an extended stay in the beautifully appointed lodgings at the Oasis, nestled along the Rio Grande Bosque in Corrales.

More than a conventional retreat, this is an immersive experience in a nurturing environment, surrounded by nature, beauty, and intentional care, designed to give the body and mind the sustained space they need to genuinely begin to restore. Stays range from a few days to months, or longer.

For someone navigating the disorientation of divorce, stepping into a space that is peaceful, beautiful, and entirely focused on their wellbeing can be profoundly reorienting. The Bosque is right outside the door. The healing is right inside.

Frequently Asked Questions: Divorce Support Near Albuquerque

Is divorce grief real, or am I overreacting?

Divorce grief is real, documented, and clinically significant. Research consistently shows that the majority of people going through divorce experience symptoms of grief comparable to bereavement. Intrusive thoughts, sleep disruption, loss of identity, and emotional upheaval are not overreactions.

What makes the divorce support at Corrales Grief Spa different from therapy?

Kristy brings over thirty years of training and practice in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, Reiki, yoga, and spirituality to her work. The holistic divorce support she offers addresses the body, the nervous system, the emotions, and the spirit. Many people find it works powerfully alongside existing therapeutic support. Kristy will always be honest about what she can and cannot offer.

I’m not sure I’m “grieving.” I just feel stuck and overwhelmed. Is this still for me?

Yes. Stuck and overwhelmed are two of grief’s most common presentations, particularly in ambiguous loss like divorce. You do not need to identify as grieving, or have a clear sense of what you need, to reach out. Kristy will help you find where you are and what would serve you best.

Can Corrales Grief Spa help with high-conflict divorce or recovery from difficult relationships?

Yes. Kristy regularly works with people recovering from high-conflict situations, difficult relationships, and experiences of mistreatment and abuse. The modalities she offers, particularly nervous system regulation through Reiki, breathwork, and hypnotherapy, are specifically supportive for people whose bodies and emotional systems have been under prolonged stress.

What is the extended stay option?

Guests can stay in the beautifully appointed lodgings at the Oasis on the Corrales Grief Spa estate for anywhere from a few nights to an extended period. Surrounded by beauty along the Rio Grande Bosque, guests enjoy full access to all of Kristy’s healing offerings. For someone in the middle of a major life transition, this kind of immersive, nurturing environment can be deeply restorative.

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Some places let you visit. This one lets you stay. Most wellness retreats hand you a schedule and a checkout time. The Oasis in Corrales, New Mexico does something almost unheard of in the world of healing travel: it lets you stay as long as you need.

Situated within a large, gated estate in one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in Corrales, the Oasis is just steps from the Rio Grande Bosque, a lush cottonwood forest that runs along the river’s edge. This one-of-a-kind property is home to Corrales Grief Spa and two extraordinary lodging options that, together, offer true sanctuary, on your own timeline.

Whether you are arriving for a weekend of restoration, an extended healing stay, or something in between, the Oasis gives you a place to land that is unlike anything else in the Albuquerque area.

The O’Waken Oasis

The Lodgings

The O’Waken Oasis—1,350 Square Feet of Cinematic Luxury

Rated 5.0 on Airbnb | Guest Favorite | Top 10% of Homes

The larger of the two accommodations, this oversized suite spans 1,350 square feet and delivers extravagant decor designed to delight the senses and relax the soul.

What awaits you inside:

• A 9-foot by 5-foot cinematic projection screen for a true movie theater experience
• A cozy fireplace for evenings that deserve to slow down
• A queen-size four-post Indian bed and a full-size four-post Chinese bed
• Sofa seating for eight
• A full kitchenette with dishwasher, full-size refrigerator, and washer/dryer
• A dedicated home office workspace
• A pool table and a massage chair
• A disco ball—because healing includes joy
• A modern bathroom with plush, oversized towels
• Outdoor dining for six and indoor dining for four, plus two barstools
• A 108-inch TV
• Private, gated parking with a gate clicker provided
• Private entry, with a large buffer room separating your space from the main house

Guests wake up to southwestern sunshine and may walk directly to the Rio Grande for morning meditations. This suite accommodates up to three guests and holds a perfect 5.0 rating across all categories.

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The Bosque Oasis—600 Square Feet of Warm, Private Refuge

The Bosque Oasis

Rated 5.0 on Airbnb across all categories

The Bosque Oasis is a lavish 600-square-foot guest suite that looks directly out onto the Rio Grande Bosque. Warm decor and carefully chosen furnishings invite guests to get cozy, deeply relax, and restore body, mind, and soul.

What awaits you inside:

• A sumptuously appointed king-size bed
• A kitchenette with 2-burner hot plate, combination microwave/air fryer/convection oven, and a full-size refrigerator and freezer
• Dedicated workspace for remote work
• WiFi and TV
• Private, fully gated parking
• Direct views of the Rio Grande Bosque

The Bosque Oasis accommodates up to two guests and holds a perfect 5.0 rating across every category.

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What Makes the Oasis Truly Unique

Beautiful accommodations exist throughout New Mexico. What separates the Oasis from every other option in the region is their unique blend of welcoming comfort and luxuriously distinctive decor, their proximity to the Rio Grande, and the opportunities for healing and wellness care that come with them.

Guests staying at the Oasis have access to the full range of healing services offered through Corrales Grief Spa, led by Kristy—a five-year Airbnb Superhost with a 100% response rate, and a healer with more than thirty years of training in the healing arts.

Those offerings include:

• Shamanic Angelic Reiki with Color Infusion and Sound—an immersive, multisensory energy healing experience
• Expressive Art and Mandalas—intuitive creative work drawn from Kristy’s Art Psychotherapy training
• Guided Visual Imagery and Yoga Nidra—healing journeys through guided story and stillness
• O’Waken Yoga, Meditation, and O’Yama Breathing—restorative movement and mind-body practices
• Ericksonian Clinical Hypnotherapy—working with the unconscious to shift patterns of grief, anxiety, and sleeplessness
• Sound Healing—blissfully immersive vibrational tones for deep relaxation
• Aroma Touch—therapeutic touch with DoTerra essential oils
• Care for the Caregiver—specialized support for those who have given themselves to caring for others
• The Reflections Room—a contemplative space inspired by the work of Dr. Raymond Moody, the pioneer of near-death studies
• Nourishing, Restorative Meals—plant-based nutrition and custom options, including eggs, cheese, fish, poultry, and meat
• Tea and Tarot, Mandalas and Margaritas—because healing and delight belong together

Far from the common model of a hotel with a spa attached, this is a healing sanctuary where the lodgings and the healing work are inseparable parts of the same experience.

Who Stays at The Oasis

The Oasis welcomes guests navigating grief, burnout, life transitions, and the particular exhaustion of caring for everyone but themselves. It also welcomes anyone who recognizes joy and beauty as part of healing—and who wants a stay that goes well beyond the ordinary into an immersive experience of sensory delight.

Guests come for a night, a week, a month, or longer. The estate sits at the end of a cul-de-sac in a high-end Corrales neighborhood, along the peaceful bosque, far from the noise of the city while remaining minutes from everything Albuquerque and the surrounding area has to offer.

Frequently Asked Questions About Staying at the Oasis Wellness Retreat

What are the two lodging options at the O’Waken Oasis?

The Oasis offers two distinct accommodations: the O’Waken Oasis, a 1,350-square-foot luxury space with two beds, a fireplace, a cinematic projection screen, a pool table, and private entry; and the Bosque Oasis, a 600-square-foot guest suite with a king bed and direct views of the Rio Grande Bosque. Both hold a perfect 5.0 rating on Airbnb.

Do lodging guests have access to Corrales Grief Spa’s healing modalities?

Yes. Guests staying at the Oasis can access the full range of modalities offered through Corrales Grief Spa, including Reiki, Clinical Hypnotherapy, Expressive Art, Sound Healing, Yoga, Meditation, Guided Visual Imagery, Aroma Touch, Plant Based Nutrition, and more. Everything can be customized for individuals, couples, or small groups.

How long can guests stay?

Stays range from a single night to a full year. Contact Kristy directly to discuss options for extended visits.

Is the property private and secure?

Yes. Both accommodations sit within a fully gated estate. The Oasis has a private entry with a large buffer room separating it from the main house. The Bosque Oasis is completely private and fully gated. Both include private, gated parking.

Where is the Oasis located?

The Oasis sits at the end of a cul-de-sac in a high-end neighborhood in Corrales, New Mexico, directly on the Rio Grande Bosque and approximately 2.5 miles from Balloon Fiesta Park. It is minutes from shops, galleries, restaurants, breweries, and wineries, and a short drive from Albuquerque and Rio Rancho.

Who is the host?

Kristy is a five-year Airbnb Superhost with a 100% response rate and a 5.0 overall rating. She is also the founder of Corrales Grief Spa and a healer with over thirty years of experience—a Reiki Master, certified Ericksonian Clinical Hypnotherapist, yoga and meditation teacher, and ordained interfaith minister and spiritual guide who conducts weddings and memorial services.

How do I book a stay or inquire about healing services?

Both properties can be booked directly through Airbnb. To inquire about healing modalities, customized retreat packages, or extended stay options, contact Kristy at Corrales Grief Spa:

• Email: info@corralesgriefspa.com
• Call or text: (505) 991-9129

The riverbank is just outside the door. The healing is just inside. All that’s left is to arrive.

Book your stay and begin. 🌿