Detour at Dalya Estate — A curated series of intimate workshops and retreats hosted at our private vineyard estate in Sonoma wine country.
Each Detour is a deliberate step off the main road of everyday life— days spent in a place where time stretches, and conversations deepen to open something new.
Some Detours are conceived and led by Dalya Estate and close artistic collaborators.
Others are created by guest facilitators—artists, writers, thinkers, and guides whose work resonates with the spirit of the estate. All are small, thoughtful, and rooted in the particular seclusion and beauty of this place.
Current & Upcoming Detours
August 2026
Dreams in the Grammar of Possibility
An immersive retreat for women
3 Sessions · 8 spots only · August 2026 · Sonoma, CA
August 3-5 – August 12-14 – August 14-16
This August, an art exhibition is becoming a retreat.
Over the past two years, a collaborative body of work called “Dreams in Memories of Youth / The Grammar of Possibility” has traveled from Austin’s Paggi House to New York’s historic Salmagundi Club, from two of Washington DC’s most intellectually engaged private clubs to the Minnesota Street Project campus in San Francisco—photographs and poems in conversation with women’s memories of youth, sensuality, their present bodies, and the futures they still want to claim.
Now, for the first time, this work is coming to a private setting, and we are inviting you in.
For three days, we’ll install the series throughout Dalya Estate in Sonoma wine country and invite eight women to live inside it—sharing meals, conversations, and creative experiments alongside photographer Stephanie Duprie Routh and poet Dalya Sachs.
This is not a conference or a spa weekend. It’s something more intimate and immersive.
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This is not a standard wellness weekend.
It is a small, highly curated retreat where an art exhibition becomes the container for transformation.
This summer, at Dalya Estate, it becomes something unprecedented: a private installation where the artists are present, the audience is eight women, and each guest’s story enters the work as a living extension of it.
The original series has been shown in respected galleries and cultural venues in Austin, New York, San Francisco and Washington DC.
Over 2 nights and 3 days, you will move through guided experiences designed to be both nourishing and provocative, with generous space for rest, wine, and conversation.
An intimate August getaway for women who are ready to reimagine their lives.
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For 2 nights and 3 transformative days, you'll step away from everyday demands and into our private, architecturally stunning vineyard estate and gather inside a living exhibition of photography and poetry exploring aging, sensuality, memory, and identity.
You will not just view the work. You will live inside it, in conversation with photographer Stephanie Duprie Routh and poet Dalya Sachs, and with your own unfolding story.
Engage in creative and thoughtfully curated conversations that matter—about desire, purpose, creative expression, and the life you're building next.
Photography, poetry, facilitated conversations, and guided self-portraiture work together to examine how women remember their younger selves, inhabit their current bodies, and imagine what’s still possible.
Host a Detour — A limited number of dates each year are reserved for outside facilitators who wish to bring their own workshops or offsites to Dalya Estate. Programs accepted into the Detour at Dalya Estate series benefit from the estate’s visual identity, marketing support, and setting, while you retain full creative control of your curriculum and participants.
If you are looking for a setting to draw a group or team together to engage with one another outside the usual parameters in search of unusually effective results, reach out to explore what’s possible at Dalya Estate.
If your work centers art, language, thoughtful conversation, or embodied personal growth—and you are drawn to the idea of an intimate, design-forward vineyard setting—we would love to hear from you.