This intimate retreat offers a quiet space to restore balance between heart, body, and mind in a peaceful, supportive setting. Led by Skadi van Paasschen, the experience takes place in a small group of up to 17 participants, allowing for personal attention, reflection, and a deeper sense of connection throughout the stay. Set in the beautiful mountains of Lago d'Orta in Italy, the retreat combines nourishing food, inspiring surroundings, and elegant architecture and design. By the end of the retreat, you may feel more aware of your emotions and clearer about the values that truly matter to you.

Throughout the retreat, the focus is on bringing heart, body, and mind into harmony. When these three aspects work together, it becomes easier to care for yourself in a more balanced way. This can support you physically, emotionally, and spiritually, while also helping you make wiser choices in everyday life.

This retreat is especially suitable for people who want to step away from busy daily routines, yoga practitioners and teachers who wish to deepen their yoga practice, and anyone looking to restore or strengthen their energy.

What do we do during the retreat?

Yin Yoga – Holding postures for five minutes allows you to work deeply into the muscle tissue. This helps release stored toxins, emotional patterns, and thoughts, creating deep relaxation and supporting physical and emotional balance.

Being Surrounded By Water – The retreat is set among lakes, and water is associated with JOY in Chinese medicine. In this tradition, water also helps move emotions and metabolic waste through the body. Since the body draws water from the bones, muscles, and brain when it needs more liquid to flush out toxins, drinking and swimming in clean natural water can support both your physical and emotional process.

Walking meditation – Time spent walking mindfully outdoors brings you into contact with the negative ionic charge found in nature. This can help shift difficult emotions and bring greater clarity. The breathtaking landscape surrounding the retreat adds support to your inner process and offers a welcome sense of relief.

Food – During the retreat, you will enjoy inspired medicinal food designed to help your system relax and detox. The menu excludes meat, dairy, bread, sugar, and coffee, and all products are organic. Detoxing is not the same as fasting. Meals are served buffet-style, with plenty of food available if you need extra energy.

Sleeping more than 8 hours – Throughout your stay, you are encouraged to treat yourself with care and rest. When complex emotions begin to build, sleep can offer an important reset for the emotional body. Getting enough sleep during the retreat is essential.

This retreat will be held in English.

INCLUDED

5 nights accommodation in Shared, Single, and Double Rooms
Full board – vegetarian meals
Fruits, teas, and filtered water
Free use of Body Care Center facilities: sauna, steam room, jacuzzi, indoor heated swimming pool
All workshops and sessions as written in the program

NOT INCLUDED

Flights to/from Malpensa International Airport
Transfers to/from Mandali Retreat Centre
Massage and therapies at the Body Care Centre

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