Your Path, Your Time: A New Type of Group Retreat Experience at Finca Sanuela

Introducing the vision of multidimensional, self-directed and shared group retreats – open every weekend

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Most group retreat formats are built around one topic and one fixed weekend. Everyone arrives together, follows the same programme and moves at the same pace. While this structure makes sense for the organiser, it requires you to adapt to the retreat rather than the other way around.

How about trying a new approach that gives you the freedom to choose your own timing? At Finca Sanuela, we are introducing a new format that trusts your inner guidance and self-responsibility rather than overriding them.

There’s no need to wait for a specific date, rearrange your calendar or convince yourself that a particular theme is right for you. When you find a growth path that speaks to you, you check the upcoming weekends and come when it feels right.

And if later a different path calls to you – the door is open. If you want to return to the same path and go deeper, that is just as welcome.

Here’s How It Works

Every weekend, a small group of guests arrives at Finca Sanuela in Tenerife. Each soul has chosen their own retreat theme that feels most important to them at this time.

We share meals together. Everyone practises heart-centred breathing. Three times a day, everyone comes together in a sharing circle. The purpose is not to explain one’s retreat path or compare progress, but simply to share what is alive in one’s heart at that moment: feelings, realisations or questions. There is no advice, no fixing and no judgement. Just honest, authentic presence and deep, shared listening.

Nobody has to adapt to a group pace. There is plenty of time for inner work, reflection, and journaling, as well as somatic practices and communication exercises with interchangeable partners.

This format allows us to value personal autonomy and respect each individual’s unique journey, while growing together in a nurturing sense of interconnectedness. Every guest follows their own path, but all are woven into one collective field of consciousness.

By Sunday, something has most likely shifted because the combination of dedicated inner work and living, breathing human presence allows something to open up.

What the Shared Space Can Give You

There is a significant difference between doing inner work alone at home and doing it inside a shared bubble of consciousness. At home, the surroundings are familiar and comfortable, but there are more distractions and less opportunity for creative input. At Finca Sanuela, you are surrounded by others who are also processing something deep. The energies in the shared space are palpable. It supports and amplifies your own development in ways that are difficult to fully describe, but which you will immediately feel.

The real strength of this format lies in the moments when paths cross. Each guest comes from a different background, carrying a different story and working with their own material. When they meet (in the sharing circles, during somatic practices or simply over a meal), new dynamic synergies emerge that neither could have created alone. Growth here is something that sparks between souls, in the contact between different energies and stages of the journey. This is much closer to how real life actually works.

Choose Your Own Retreat Path

Three retreat experiences are currently available at Finca Sanuela, with more in development. Each has been created to meet a different inner longing. As you read about them, see which one your heart responds to most:

🌻 Forgive & Come Home. This retreat experience is designed for those stuck in resentment or anger towards parents, (ex-) partners, men/women in general, or themselves. Practise heart-centred inner forgiveness rituals and start feeling lighter.

🌻 Authentic Human Closeness. For anyone wishing to explore deeper, closer connections through honest communication and non-romantic physical contact, such as holding hands and hugging meditations, in order to share these as a form of safe human medicine. Experience what it means to truly hold and balance each other.

🌻 The Confident Heart. This retreat is ideal for anyone who feels held back by inner walls of fears, self-doubts or emotional guardedness. Through partner practices, honest sharing and guided inner work, participants gently meet and overcome their own protective patterns, discovering a steadier, more open heart that is capable of deeper connections and more growth.

The Vision Behind

I created this format because I grew tired of the rigid, fixed structure of most workshops: one topic per group, everyone following the same steps at the same pace in the same direction. While this approach is well-meaning, it also subtly undermines the essence of inner work. Authentic growth doesn’t fit into a group schedule. It follows an inner readiness that only you can feel.

This format invites you to take responsibility for yourself. Rather than following a one-size-fits-all programme, you choose your own path. You do the inner processes that feel right for you. How would such a retreat weekend look for you? What old weight might transform? What unexpected moments of being truly seen, which inner shifts could be waiting for you? The only way to find out is to come and experience it for yourself.

I’d love to hear from you. Please reach out with any questions.

Much LOVE,