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Attending a retreat is one of the rare opportunities in an individual’s life where they can completely remove themselves from their daily reality to immerse themselves in activities designed to improve their well-being. Back in 2019, I attended a yoga retreat in Mexico where I had the fortune of spending an entire week engaging in mindful movement, meditation and trust building exercises in an ideal tropical setting with a group of like minded yogis. The experience was truly healing, and the best part was that everything was organized and facilitated by professionals—all I had to do was pay a fee and show up with and open heart and open mind.
Retreats, whether designed for yoga, couples, meditation, reflection and inner-work, or simply rest and relaxation, are more popular now than ever. But what about the well-being of our ever faithful canine companions? One might scoff at such a notion, as after all, man’s best friend seem to naturally live lives of perpetual bliss, with happiness being merely a chew toy or back scratch away. However, without the means for intelligible communication, how can dog owners truly know if their beloved pooches wouldn’t enjoy a retreat custom made for their own particular desires?

To answer that question, the good folks at the Chaminade Resort have taken it upon themselves to host a dog-centric retreat on their idyllic compound where dog owners can spoil their companions with an event that’s sure to get their tails wagging. In a stoke of genius, Chaminade Director of Sales and Marketing Julie Jimenez devised an event, the first annual Pawsh Retreat to do just that. With the help of the Chaminade PR team, LGPR, Jimenez was able to connect with an exciting mix of local partners and vendors to create a canine retreat that aims to offer fun dog-related services and products to reflect the Chaminade guest experience—for dogs and humans alike.
“The idea sprung from a desire to offer locals and guests a fun opportunity to celebrate the kickoff of Spring with their pooches while highlighting all the dog-friendly amenities the resort has to offer,” says LGPR representative Tony Weiss.

Debuting on April 26th, the Pawsh Retreat will feature pet activities, adoption opportunities, art, training, grooming, dog massage, as well as tasty food and beverage offerings. Vendor highlights include: the <a href="https://spcasc.org/">Santa Cruz SPCA</a>, <a href="https://www.peaceofminddogrescue.org/">Peace of Mind Dog Rescue</a>, and <a href="https://www.scanimalshelter.org/">Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter</a>, who will bring a collection of dogs available for adoption; <a href="https://www.evasacher.com/">Eva Sacher Dog Photography</a>, who will be on-site with a special dog photo-booth experience; <a href="https://wishbonepetco.com/">Wishbone Pet Co.,</a> which will bring all the best treats from their dog bakery as well as a selection of pet supplies; paint-your-pet and puppy Picasso experiences with <a href="https://www.paintedcork.com/">The Painted Cork</a>; mini agility course, treats and training tips from <a href="https://www.bedandbiscuits.com/">Bed &amp; Biscuits Groomingdales</a>; prizes, spring-themed bows, and games from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/paradisepetsalonsc/">Paradise Pet Salon</a>; and mini massage sessions from <a href="https://whyknotspetmassage.com/">Why Knots Pet Massage</a>, among others.
The Pawsh Retreat also features the “Paws &amp; Relax” menu, just for dogs. Treats include the Barkuter-ie Board, Paw-casso Peanut Butter &amp; Banana Bites, Deep Sea Doggie with wild salmon, and The Bone Appétit with veal broth. Signature S-paw Treatments help them feel good, including the Paw-fection Smoothie, Tail Wagging Tacos, and Frozen Yogurt Paw Pops. Beverage options include Paw-secco and Pup-uccino.

Weiss believes it’s important to facilitate community events such as the Pawsh Retreat to, “highlight and celebrate the efforts of local nonprofits such as the Santa Cruz SPCA, Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter and Peace of Mind Dog Rescue. It&#8217;s also a privilege to both have the space and dog-friendly grounds to offer an event of this scope for community members to gather with their dogs and friends to explore and interact with local dog-centric businesses. We’re beyond excited for this event and plan on having a healthy turnout of resort guests, locals and dog-fluencers.”

When:
Saturday, April 26, 2025
1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
RSVP
Free event entry; suggested donation of $10 (proceeds benefit the Santa Cruz SPCA); RSVP encouraged at <a href="https://www.chaminade.com/things-to-do-santa-cruz/pawsh-dog-retreat/">https://www.chaminade.com/things-to-do-santa-cruz/pawsh-dog-retreat/</a>
Where:
Chaminade Resort &amp; Spa
One Chaminade Lane
Santa Cruz, CA 95065
About Chaminade Resort &amp; Spa:
Chaminade is one of San Cruz’s most beloved resorts – and a favorite of pet families! The property is proudly dog-friendly. Having completed a renovation to restore its 1930s Spanish Revival architecture, the hotel features 156 guest rooms including 44 suites, a restaurant and lounge, a full-service spa and fitness center, and approximately 12,000 square feet of meeting space that is IACC certified. Notably, the resort recently unveiled a second pool area, private cabanas, and a poolside food truck. Activities on and around the property include hiking, tennis, pickleball, spa, daily happy hour, and live music, to name a few. Chaminade is located just minutes from the Santa Cruz Boardwalk, its beaches, galleries, and vintage shops. <a href="https://www.chaminade.com/">www.chaminade.com</a>

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Hard-rocking Santa Cruz band, Return to Nagoya, have been entertaining local music fans for over thirteen years with their sludgy, hypnotic, and raw sound. Forty-three year-old lead singer and guitarist, Jeremy Davis, and thirty-five year-old drummer, Anders Cochran, were drawn together over their shared love of desert-rock legends Kyuss and Queens of The Stone Age, but have a forged an identity of their own, to great acclaim.
Now, infused with some new blood in the form of twenty-two year-old bassist Cole Sandman, the three-piece outfit is gearing up for their first international tour next month with Australian upstarts, Couch Wizard. I had the pleasure of wrangling the trio together for an extended chat to discuss their origins, evolution, and excitement for their upcoming international tour.

Let’s start from the beginning. How did Return to Nagoya come into existence?
Jeremy- I used to live in a warehouse on Seventh Avenue, a space that allowed us to do these creative musical endeavors. Anders, I believe, worked at Harbor Cafe, which shared the the property with the warehouse. I kept hearing this kid play the drums regularly and thought to myself, “This kid has got some chops!” So we got introduced and started jamming. He was frothing to play a lot, so it kinda evolved from there. 
It was cool because I was predominantly a bass player in bands, and I was always wanting to kinda do vocals and play some more guitar. We started playing some songs for about a year before we played any shows and slowly released an album. On that first album I wore a few hats, playing guitar, vocals, and bass. We started incorporating a bass player and I think Cole was our fourth. Slowly, we’ve been doing more shows and now we’ve got this Australian tour. So, that’s kind of a big deal for us.

Return to Nagoya is a pretty unique name for a band. How did you guys come up with that?
Anders- If you look at any shipping container that’s been from one country to another it’ll say “Return To,” this port or that port. So the name, Return to Nagoya, came about due to some writing on the shipping container that we played in, as Nagoya is a port in Japan. Jeremy’s a carpenter, so he retrofitted the whole thing out with help from our old bass player, Evan Nolan, who’s an electrician. So, to this day, if you look behind Harbor Café, there’s a shipping container that’s super unassuming that used to say Return to Nagoya.
Jeremy- It sounded kinda cool, obscure and random and it felt fitting. People are always asking “where does the name come from,” and we say, “a shipping container.”
Anders- That shipping container is where we’ve practiced and recorded things and that’s a big part of our story. Before Evan, we had this guy Marco who’s a badass El Salvadorian surfer who was up here working. Dave Rafferty stepped in for a while and we were also gonna have Kalu (Coletta) join as well, but he was too busy with other things. So that’s the lineage.

Now, more than ever, Return to Nagoya is a multi-generational band. What’s that dynamic been like?
Anders-Jeremy’s in his 40’s, I’m in my 30’s, and Cole’s in his 20’s. It’s interesting, because we all bond over surfing&#8211; having that same experience, except in different generations. Cole, since he was a grom, was always hanging with older people, Jeremy’s an amazing surfer from back in the day, and I’m kinda right in the middle. It’s been cool— I never had an older brother and Jeremy’s the closest thing I’ve had to a brother. I remember telling Cole, when he was really little,“fuck surfing, just play music—you’re so good!” And not to say I influenced him at all—he was already on his way—but I definitely encouraged him to pursue music.
Cole- Dude, you definitely played a big part in it.
Jeremy- Anders has been busy recruiting Cole for a couple years.

Cole, you’re the new blood in the band. When did you jump on board?
Cole- It’s been almost a year now since I moved back and we’ve been playing, but Anders has been dangling the carrot since I was about 15. It was always an intriguing thing for me because I was always a fan of the music before I started playing with them.
Where do you guys draw inspiration from? Jeremy, I know that in our generation we’ve always been fans of band like QOTSA and Kyuss. Has that style of music been influential in the style of music you guys are playing?
Jeremy- My musical taste was initially influenced by my cousin, who was a skateboarder, then reinforced by the music in older surf films by guys like Tony Roberts. That made a lasting impression. Josh Pomer, another local surf videographer, has some good musical taste as well, so it started from religiously watching those flicks. Then, Kyuss came into play, as well as Black Sabbath. They also made a huge impression on me when I was about 10 years old. Queens of the Stone Age is still my favorite band to this day, so that’s firmly in my musical DNA
Cole, you were studying music down south at CalArts before this, right?
Anders- Yeah, Cole’s the best musician out of all of us for sure.
Cole- I don’t know about that…(laughs).
Do you guys think that education has been helpful or an asset for the band as someone who’s studied music in a really disciplined way?
Jeremy- I’d say so. He picks up on stuff quicker than most people would, for sure, and has some insight to add from a structural standpoint.
Anders- Cole’s so well rounded, musically. On top of his bass chops, he’ a really good drummer and guitarist. Jeremy is a good drummer as well. So I’d say, it’s weird, as much as I’m the drummer in the band, they can both play what I can play, but I can’t play what they can play. For me, the cool thing about the band is that Jeremy can play what he plays very well—that desert rock style— yet also has other bands that he plays with and that he’s interested in. He’s really good at rhythmic stuff because he’s a drummer, is really good at song writing, and has this really unique timing. Sometimes we get into these fights, where Jeremy’s style even has Cole saying, “what the fuck?” 
What Cole adds is that, being such a good musician, he can suggest things on the drums that I might not hear, because I play the drums the way I like to play. Cole will hear something that I’m working on and say, “try this,”—things that I’d not have thought on on my own. The same thing goes for Jeremy. We’ve developed this shared humility where it doesn’t really matter how we come up with it, we’re all open to input from each other. I can be pretty anal about things, so working with these guys encourages me to be more open about things.
Cole- I think Anders is being a little humble. He’s about as good as any musician or producer that I’ve had the pleasure playing with. With that, we all have some influence, spoken or not, on what we’re doing. The result is that everything ends up sounding pretty tight, to my ear.
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Let’s talk about the upcoming Australian Tour. It must be really exciting for you guys. Tell me about how that all came about.
Anders- So, basically, we’re going on tour on the East Coast of Australia with one of my good friends, this dude named Ollie, who I met through Cheyne Pearson, who’s also from Santa Cruz. He met Ollie back in the day on a surf trip and later introduced us. He’d come to town, saw that I was playing in a band, and told me he’d really like to start his own band some day. I encouraged him to pursue it, and the next thing I know, he’s started a band called Couch Wizard. Their style is very similar to our own. For the past few years, we’ve been talking about going on tour together. 
Their band has gotten pretty popular and they’ve already have gone on some tours before this. They lined everything up and asked us to headline some shows with them. We’re going to play 8 shows with them, after which they’re going to continue on to Tasmania and some other places. The basis of the tour is, we’re going to link up south of Byron Bay, where they all live on a little farm. We’re gonna hop in these vans that one of their beer sponsors owns and we’re just gonna tour around with them. They’ve got a booking agency setting it all up, and they’re starting to sell out already. We had Kevin Walsh do some really rad art for us as well. We’re playing some sick venues. Ollie coined it the “Thrash Magick Tour.”

Are you guys gonna try to get some waves while you’re down there?
Cole- I hope so! We’ll be out there for 2 1/2 weeks. It’s 8 shows— 4 shows in a row and 3 days off in between, so I’m sure there will be time for that.
Anders- I’ve got a bunch of friends out there, including some guys from Namotu Island who are going to take us to a rugby match. So what ever we get up to, it’s gonna be a “hell time”, as they say Down Under.
Cole- Definitely. I’m so excited for this opportunity. I just want to express my love and gratitude to Anders and Jeremy for getting me on board. Joining the band has been surreal and the whole thing has truly been a dream come true for me.
Anders- Well, you’ve got a long life ahead of you, Cole. Jeremy and I are going to be watching and supporting you even when we’re all shriveled and turkey’d out (laughs all around).

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