Our Retreats
“And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end”. — Pico Iyer
What if the most important journey is the one that brings you into honest conversation with yourself?
In a culture that prizes momentum and measurable success, many people move through life capable and accomplished, yet aware of a deeper current that has not fully found expression. They yearn for a space where they can truly meet themselves: where reflection is unhurried, where imagination is welcomed, where the parts of them that have been set aside can come forward without apology.
Our retreats are designed to help you explore this space. To come into closer alignment with yourself — both the self that is known and the selves that are calling for expression. To create conditions where what we dream of for ourselves is treated as a responsibility, something to cultivate with care and courage.
What emerges is a world within a world — an atmosphere in which depth feels natural and connection feels immediate. Mornings invite contemplative attention and embodied awareness. Afternoons move into creative practice, shared inquiry, walking, reading, making. Evenings gather around long tables where conversation deepens beyond the expected and into the meaningful. Curiosity meets playfulness. Pleasure sits alongside thoughtfulness.
The places we choose support this encounter. Landscapes and homes where reverie does a slow dance with wonder. Experiences that leave you thinking: I did not simply visit a place, I entered into relationship with it. Environments that foster coherence, making it easier to sense your own inner ground.
Each retreat is facilitated by experts in their fields — contemplatives, artists, writers, therapists, wilderness guides. What unites them is a shared desire to take us further. Further into honest conversation. Further into creative risk. Further into the questions that refine a life. They are devoted to depth and to guiding experiences that invite you to meet yourself with clarity and courage. They share their practice so that you may discover and develop your own.
Our guests leave with a renewed reverence for what is most alive: nature, community, belonging, love. They speak of meaningful shifts — emotionally, spiritually, physically — and of returning home more whole, more enriched, more open to possibility. A renewed contact with dreams that once seemed impractical. A sense that the life they are living can move closer to the life they inwardly imagine. And an enduring practice and community to return to.
We take care with every element — the collaborators, the places, the curation of the group. We cultivate beauty alongside depth, working with qualified and experienced facilitators skilled in the art of holding space.
DEYA is for those who long, in their short while on earth, to live fully. For those who want their lives to echo their deepest aspirations. For those willing to honour the sacred duty of imagination — and to give that inner space the attention it deserves.
This is the world of DEYÀ. Come and discover what unfolds when you step into that conversation with yourself.
