The Silent Retreat
Seven days of meditation, movement & breathwork . To unlock the next version of you.
🗓️ 17 May – 24 May 2025
📍 Portugal
The Silent Retreat
Portugal • May • €980
A Journey Into Your 'Self'
This is a deep journey designed to bring you to a state of inner clarity, strength & joy.
Our third Silent Retreat, after the life-changing effects of the first two.
If you're looking for a true break in your life, to get clarity over next steps, or are curious about who you are beyond your thoughts … this is for you.
For the first 4 full days, this retreat combines a committed meditation practice with yoga sessions, breathwork & healthy food. In a completely silent and screens-free setting.
On the fifth day we shift into sharings, and more playful activities. Before using the final day to capture the insights into a vision for our life going forwards.
So that you can you can reconnect with your innate being – finding the stillness, purpose and fulfilment that is within you.
From the depth of this seven day inner journey, the space may arise within you for something wonderful to emerge.
Retreat Highlights
Recognise your attachments through meditation. Enter stillness through the breath. Enliven your body through yoga asanas. Release the mind through deep silence.
It's time to step into the next version of you.
✔ 4 hours meditation daily
✔ 3 yoga & pranayama sessions daily
✔ lots of free time to relax, in nature
✔ 7 day retreat; silent & screens-free
✔ 3 fresh healthy meals everyday
✔ introduction to meditation & teachings daily
✔ embodiment practices, group sessions, future-self visualisations and more, over final two days
✔ opening and closing ceremonies
✔ Beautiful venue in nature. With shala, lounges, outdoor hikes and more.
The Schedule
With 7 hours practice per day – there's a balance of rigor and free time. One thing is for sure ... you won't come out the same.
In Coimbra, Portugal
We'll be in a beautiful retreat centre, Bella Colina. Surrounded by forests, rivers & blue skies.
The Silent Retreat
Portugal • May • €980
Accommodation
You can stay in a shared room, with your own bed. Or in a private bedroom all to yourself. The venue is a new retreat space, run by two people who are a part of the Innate community. with 16 rooms, a big shala, professional kitchen, huge lounge, hangout areas outside, pool, hikes and nature around us ... it's a lovely place to go on our inner journey together.
Meals
We'll serve three meals per day. The food will be vegetarian. Expect a clean, hearty breakfast; an abundant lunch; and nourishing dinner. The meals will be freshly prepared by a chef, using local seasonal ingredients where possible.
This method and style of eating is key in our inner journey. Enabling a clear mind, lightness of body and detoxing of our system.
Your Guides
Jurjen Van Rees
Karolina Lunk
Karolina is an international yoga teacher and wellness expert, blending years of teaching experience in ashtanga and yin yoga with a passion for functional movement. At the heart of her practice is a commitment to guiding others toward empowerment and authenticity.
She believes movement is a tool to reclaim your power, shed limiting beliefs, and live boldly and unapologetically.
She'll be leading the yoga asana practices we do during the retreat.
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Harry Verma
Harry has over seven years of creating and running colivings that bring people together from around the world, to immerse themselves in meditation and spiritual practices.
He has run four silent retreats before, as a lead facilitator.
An explorer of different practices, he brings the creative vision to building this retreat.
What's Included
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7 nights of accommodation
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4 hours of meditation daily
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2 hours guided yoga daily
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guided pranayamas
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3 chef-made, fresh & healthy meals per day
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opening and closing ceremony
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teachings on meditation and asanas
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sharing circles, 1on1s, ecstatic dance
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'future self' workshop
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at a retreat centre with shala, pool, home-gym, & more
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surrounded by silent nature
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'screens-free & phones-free' environment
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likeminded group of people to share the inner journey with
FAQ
This retreat exists so that you can remember your Innate being.
That there's no need for screens or processed foods, stimulants or societal expectations. And, in fact, once clear of those influences, we can use meditative practices ... to see reality as it is.
Finding clarity, joy and insight – all within ourselves. Feeling strong, open and alive.
Upto 3 weeks before, if you can't make the retreat, tell us by email. And we will give you a full refund, minus a 4% processing fee (which goes to Stripe)
A deposit of min. €300 is paid now; and the rest of the payment due is paid 3 weeks before the retreat begins.
Yes, we don't want pricing to be an obstacle to you coming, if you feel the calling. Just email connect@innate.global, and we may be able to offer a space at €790 to you : )
This offer is also extended to Portuguese locals (admissão nativo).Yes, some experience would be useful. Whether you've done retreats before, or are simply doing some meditation through apps when you're at home ... we welcome different levels onto this retreat. But it's useful to have some familiarity, even if it's just 15 minutes per day for the 2 weeks before joining the retreat.
An alternative to more rigorous silent retreats that have 8-10 hours of meditation a day, where other practices are prohibited ... we provide a a variety of methods that support meditation. And have lots of free time too for you to contemplate, in silence, in nature.
For those used to vipassana retreats, expect a lighter and more playful journey through this retreat. A lovely compliment to those stricter experiences; all with their role to play on your spiritual path : )
As long as it is completely silent and you are able to follow the structure of the retreat, you are more than welcome to do your own method. We do recommend you to come with an open attitude and try our guided sessions though : )
We've experienced the profound power of Vipassana retreats. Designed by the renowned Buddhist Goenka, it's a very rigorous 10 day silent retreat that's doing wonderful work across the world.
For us, it took us to a state of deep clarity and profound joy.
BUT – they're pretty rigid and very tough experiences.
So, we set off to create a more playful and varied retreat to bring people towards this state ... inspired by the Vipassana.
At 7 days instead of 10, we allow 8 hours sleep too instead of 5. Having 3 meals per day instead of 2, and the final days not in complete silence. Incorporating some other tools that we've found supportive of meditation; yoga, ayurvedic eating, breathwork, some sharing and visualisations.
YET still keeping it rigorous enough – with a backbone of 7 hours meditative practice per day, deep silence kept most days, and no screens allowed.
Disciplined, but a little playful.
Structured, but a little fluid.
Intense, but also relaxing.
You may confront your ego during this. That may prove difficult.
But with the support of the group, our teachers and the setting ... you'll make it through. And onto the other side.
Spacious. Open. Calm & joyful.
Your innate nature.