The Ancestral Watch

The work of Tony Skrelūnas is enlivened at 1440 through his Ancestral Watch curriculum. Each workshop resource is drawn from his novel Stone Breath and the body of work Tony has built for decades: Stone Breath, Gratitude Session, Ancestral Council, The Centering, Canyon Exercise, Museum of Proof, and the Headlamp Circle. Through these tools, attendees will learn to:

• Use breathwork to calm the nervous system and improve focus
• Apply gratitude and reflection practices to build resilience and rewire outlook
• Access inner wisdom through guided visualization and perspective shifts
• Reframe challenges into strength through storytelling and journaling
• Develop simple, portable rituals for stress, clarity, and daily resilience
• And much more

This intimate workshop is limited to just 15 attendees, ensuring an immersive experience in the redwoods.

One afternoon, the weekend gathers in the Teaching Kitchen with Missy and Henry Webster, a Navajo family from Gray Mountain, Arizona, cooking alongside their daughters Jada and Darion Babbitt. Together you'll make frybread, blue corn mush, Navajo tacos, and a sumac dessert — learning the stories, traditions, and healing wisdom behind each dish, then sharing the meal at one long table. Come cook with them. Come eat with them. Come feel what it means to gather as a family.

This workshop is also available as a 1440 Discovery Dinner, which includes the workshop followed by a nourishing dinner in Kitchen Table. Learn more and register here.

This immersive retreat is all-inclusive, so you can focus on wonder, learning and growth. Pricing starts at $1,100 plus tax for this weekend program ($430 per night plus $240 workshop tuition), and includes:

• The Ancestral Watch program workshops
• Overnight accommodations (shared Pod or private room)
• A complimentary digital copy of Tony's novel Stone Breath: An Ancestral Code for Modern Lives — guests receive a download code before the weekend, so they arrive having met the stories the tools come from
• A printed Ancestral Watch guided journal — to write in through the weekend and keep
• All sustainable, locally sourced meals beginning with dinner on Friday and ending with lunch on Sunday
• Daily signature classes such as yoga, meditation, art, and movement activities (hiking, tai chi, and qigong)
• Access to campus amenities including 4 miles of walking trails

A Commuter Pass is available for this program, which includes everything listed above except for overnight accommodations. CLICK HERE to purchase a commuter pass.

As a nonprofit philanthropic campus, each booking contributes to serving our community by providing scholarships and volunteer services in support of creating hope for living well.

The first tool you'll learn is the simplest. Hold a smooth stone. Breathe in for four counts, hold for four, out for six, hold for four. One minute, and your nervous system settles and your ready to learn and experience. It's a practice passed down five generations — and one you'll carry home in your pocket. Every guest receives their own stone.

DINÉ · LITHUANIAN · ENTREPRENEUR, AUTHOR · PhD CANDIDATE

“The wealth is not in front of you, waiting to be earned. It is behind you, waiting to be claimed.” – from The Ancestral Watch

Tony was raised on Black Mesa by his great‑grandmother Masan, who taught him to run at dawn with a stone in his mouth—not as ritual, but as technology. His Lithuanian grandfather drove 25 miles of dirt road each year to sit in a hogan and pass on a tradition that survived Soviet suppression. His grandfather Dineh Yazzie walked six miles a day and died at 103, surrounded by family.

He carries two lineages that have survived displacement, suppression, and the modern world’s noise. He spent decades leading economic development for the Navajo Nation, co‑founding clean energy companies, and running nationally acclaimed programs at Grand Canyon Trust. He is writing three books on what ancestral systems can teach the modern world.