Connect Holistic Wellness Retreats

Connect Holistic Wellness Retreats Connecting mind-body-spirit-breath through holistic practices. Next retreat: Austria 11-15 August

Somewhere between a class and a sharing circle. 🤍Our „Let’s Talk“ sessions are one of the most loved parts of every retr...
22/07/2026

Somewhere between a class and a sharing circle. 🤍

Our „Let’s Talk“ sessions are one of the most loved parts of every retreat. Mini coaching sessions built around a single topic: mindfulness, authenticity, the seasons we move through, breath, purpose, just to name a few.
We ask the questions. We share what I know. And then the room takes over. It’s about real reflection, real discussion, everyone bringing their own experience into the conversation.

It’s not about getting answers handed to you. It’s about being asked the right questions, in the right space, alongside people who are asking themselves the same ones.

Some of the deepest shifts on retreat don’t happen on the mat. T
hey happen sitting in a circle, talking it out loud for the first time.

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11-15 August, Austria, come join us. 🌻

📷 Ash Smit

Yes, my movement sessions are challenging. They are strong, demanding real endurance, strength and focus. But they are a...
21/07/2026

Yes, my movement sessions are challenging.
They are strong, demanding real endurance, strength and focus.

But they are also designed as the Yang to our Yin, because true expansion needs a strong container to hold it. This is where we remember how strong, resilient and alive our bodies truly are.

There is a moment in every workout class where the mind wants to leave, but the body learns to stay.

We build strength and test our endurance, but we do it with deep mindfulness.

These sessions are never about pushing past your body’s boundaries out of ego. They are about inhabiting our bodies completely and exploring our edges with curiosity.

It’s about asking:
* How does it feel to breathe through the burn?
* Which exact muscles are showing up for you right now?
* How can a tiny shift in alignment or posture transform the entire sensation and make you feel stronger?
* How can we make hard work feel a little like play?

This is where pushing yourself meets listening to yourself.

And even if you were scared about keeping up at the beginning of class, you will leave with pride, pure joy and a deep connection to yourself. 🤍✨

captured by Ash Smit

There is a difference between doing yoga and entering the practice.In our fast-paced world, yoga often becomes another t...
17/07/2026

There is a difference between doing yoga and entering the practice.

In our fast-paced world, yoga often becomes another thing to tick off our Monday morning to-do list, treating an ancient, sacred ritual like a morning espresso.

But yoga was never meant to make you more productive for the outside world.
It was meant to make you more present to your inner world.

On a retreat, the clock stops ticking.
What’s left is the true essence of the practice: presence, depth by moving past the physical shapes to dive into the quiet spaces beneath our thoughts and a total surrender.

This is why yoga is so sacred in our retreat containers. I don’t want to teach a sequence, I want to cultivate an environment where you are safe enough to drop the armor, come back home to yourself, and just be.

Come as you are, your mat is waiting for you. ⛰️✨

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Es gibt einen Unterschied dazwischen, Yoga zu machen und in die Praxis einzutauchen.

In unserer schnelllebigen Welt wird Yoga oft zu einem weiteren To-Do-Punkt am Montagmorgen, als wĂźrden wir ein altes, heiliges Ritual wie einen schnellen Espresso behandeln.

Aber Yoga sollte dich nie produktiver für die Außenwelt machen. Es sollte dich präsenter für deine Innenwelt machen.
Auf einem Retreat bleibt die Uhr stehen.
Was bleibt, ist die wahre Essenz der Praxis: Präsenz, Tiefe – indem wir die körperlichen Formen hinter uns lassen, um in die stillen Räume unter unseren Gedanken einzutauchen und eine vollkommene Hingabe.

Deshalb ist Yoga in unseren Retreat-Räumen so heilig.
Ich mĂśchte keine Abfolge unterrichten, sondern einen Raum schaffen, in dem du dich sicher genug fĂźhlst, deine RĂźstung abzulegen, nach Hause zu dir selbst zu kommen und einfach nur zu sein.

Komm genau so, wie du bist. Deine Matte wartet auf dich. ⛰️✨

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📸: Ash Smit

There is a special kind of magic in a room just before class starts. The anticipation, the soft settling onto the mats a...
14/07/2026

There is a special kind of magic in a room just before class starts.

The anticipation, the soft settling onto the mats and those three conscious and collective breaths where we gently turn down the volume of the outside world.

There is always this beautiful sense of curiosity in the air before we begin.
You don’t quite know what to expect and you don’t yet know who you will be when you step back off your mat.
But you trust the process.

Whether you are stepping into a soft meditation, a powerful movement class or deep breathwork, each session is a sacred container.
A space specifically built for you to feel, to let go and to let whatever needs to move through you, move.

Inhale. Exhale. It’s almost time to begin. Come as you are, your mat is waiting for you. 🌿🧡

Details on our Austria retreat in August in our Bio

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Es liegt eine ganz besondere Magie in einem Raum, kurz bevor die Klasse beginnt.

Die Vorfreude, das sanfte Ankommen auf den Matten und diese drei bewussten, gemeinsamen Atemzüge, mit denen wir die Welt da draußen ganz leise drehen.

Es liegt immer eine wunderschĂśne Neugierde in der Luft, bevor wir beginnen.
Du weißt nicht genau, was dich erwartet, und du weißt noch nicht, wer du sein wirst, wenn du wieder von deiner Matte aufstehst.
Aber du vertraust dem Prozess.

Egal, ob du dich auf eine sanfte Meditation, eine kraftvolle Bewegungseinheit oder tiefes Breathwork einlässt, jede Session ist ein besonderer Raum.
Ein Ort, der genau dafßr geschaffen wurde, dass du fßhlst, loslässt und all dem Raum gibst, was sich in dir bewegen mÜchte.

Einatmen. Ausatmen. Gleich geht es los. Komm genau so, wie du bist – deine Matte wartet schon auf dich. 🌿🧡

Details zu unserem Österreich-Retreat im August in der Bio!

The parts nobody puts in the retreat program. 🤍The workshops, the sessions… that’s probably primarily why you come and i...
10/07/2026

The parts nobody puts in the retreat program. 🤍

The workshops, the sessions… that’s probably primarily why you come and it’s the backbone of every day here.

But it’s not the whole story.

It’s the laugh over breakfast that turned into an hour.
The book read alone, in no rush to be anywhere else.
The 1:1 conversation that cracked something open you didn’t know was closed.
The quiet at the table when no one needed to fill the silence.
Jumping off a waterfall because someone said „why not”.

Growth doesn’t only happen in the sessions.
It happens in the pauses.
The integration, the downtime, the in-between.
The moments where nothing is being taught and everything is being felt.

That’s what a retreat actually is, underneath the schedule.
A room held long enough, and softly enough, for all of that to happen too.

I hope you get to co-create that space with us soon. 🧘🏽‍♀️

11-15. August, Dornbirn, Austria. 🌻
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Die Teile, die niemand ins Retreat-Programm schreibt. 🤍

Die Workshops, die Sessions… das ist wahrscheinlich primär der Grund, warum du kommst, und sie sind das Rückgrat jedes einzelnen Tages hier.

Aber das ist nicht die ganze Geschichte.

Das Lachen beim FrĂźhstĂźck, das zu einer Stunde wurde.
Das Buch, allein gelesen, ohne Eile, irgendwo anders sein zu mĂźssen.
Das 1:1-Gespräch, das etwas geÜffnet hat, von dem du nicht wusstest, dass es verschlossen war.
Die Stille am Tisch, in der niemand das Schweigen fĂźllen musste.
Der Sprung vom Wasserfall, weil jemand „warum nicht“ gesagt hat.

Wachstum passiert nicht nur in den Sessions.
Es passiert in den Pausen.
Der Integration, der Downtime, dem Dazwischen.
Den Momenten, in denen nichts gelehrt wird und alles gefĂźhlt wird.
Das ist, was ein Retreat eigentlich ist, unter dem Zeitplan.
Ein Raum, der lange genug und sanft genug gehalten wird, damit auch all das passieren kann.

Ich hoffe, du darfst diesen Raum bald mit uns mitgestalten. 🧘🏽‍♀️

11.-15. August, Dornbirn, Österreich. 🌻

Someone asked me recently what kind of retreat this is.And honestly? It depends who you ask.Some come and experience dee...
04/07/2026

Someone asked me recently what kind of retreat this is.

And honestly? It depends who you ask.

Some come and experience deep transformation.
Others find grounding they didn’t know they were missing.
Some leave with a spark of inspiration, a surge of momentum, a decision they’d been putting off for years.
Some have quiet revelations.
Some have loud ones.

What we actually do is simpler than any of that… we hold space for what needs to move through you.
Sometimes that’s a physical block releasing in a yin session.
Sometimes it’s emotion surfacing during breathwork.
An insight in a group coaching circle.
A spark in meditation.
A conversation that shifts something you can’t quite name yet.

Every person arrives with their own story.
Every person leaves with a new chapter.

What’s yours?

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Our next retreat is August 11–15 in Austria (held in German)🏔️

A small group. A held space. An open invitation.

Link in bio to join us. Or send us a DM

Please visit our Instagram Page to take part in our Giweaway!Your CONSCIOUS RESET - SUMMER GIVEAWAY valued at R25.000 🧚‍...
18/02/2026

Please visit our Instagram Page to take part in our Giweaway!

Your CONSCIOUS RESET - SUMMER GIVEAWAY valued at R25.000 🧚‍♂️🎁

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Competition closes by 26 of Feb 2026 at midnight. The winners will be announced on 27 of Feb.

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- winner must be Cape Town based
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The most valuable gift.Space to live your true self.Until December 31st, you can gift yourself or someone you deeply car...
15/12/2025

The most valuable gift.
Space to live your true self.

Until December 31st, you can gift yourself or someone you deeply care about a 22% discounted ticket for one of our 2026 retreats.

Not a thing.
A space for authenticity, connection and honest change.

A gift for the people you love.
Or a meaningful acknowledgment for yourself.

Comment REFLECTION below and we’ll send you the discount code privately.

 

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