Time away, with a teacher
Small retreats with teachers we know — in quiet houses outside the city or further afield: meditation, yoga, pottery and silence. Ask us for the details and we look after the rest.
November 2026 Wood firing in Jingdezhen, where porcelain began
Seven days in the hills outside Jingdezhen, the city where porcelain began: throwing and hand-building with three clays, blue-and-white Qinghua painting, and a wood kiln you help to load and fire with pinewood.
- Teacher
- Qian · Clay Garden Studio
- Contribution
- €1,400 single room · €1,300 per person in a double · 7 nights, meals and materials included
2 – 8 May 2027 An art & yoga retreat on Mallorca
Seven days of yoga, colour and sound at the Finca Limoncello, among lemon, orange and fig trees in the middle of Mallorca — with Nina Kranz, art and creativity therapist and sound facilitator, and the yoga teacher Caro. For at most nine women.
- Teacher
- Nina Kranz
- Contribution
- €1,099 for the programme · plus €525–585 for the room
15 – 22 May 2027 A sailing-boat retreat in Turkey
Twelve women, one boat all to ourselves: a week sailing out of Fethiye and back with Nina Kranz, art therapist and sound facilitator, and the coach Saskia — sound journeys on deck, mindset work, and time to do nothing at all.
- Teacher
- Nina Kranz
- Contribution
- €2,199 in a shared cabin · €2,650 in a single cabin
16 – 22 June 2027 Sound & colour retreat in Turkey
A week in Şirince, a former Greek village in the hills near Ephesus, for at most six women: singing bowls and intuitive painting with Nina Kranz, and the village, its people, its wine and its kitchen with Selin, who spent part of her childhood here.
- Teacher
- Nina Kranz
- Contribution
- €2,100 in a double room
More retreats are on their way.