Retreats
New in 2025: small group retreats
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NEW: Online winter retreat 27-30 December 2025
The end of the year is approaching, a time for many people to look back on the past year and look ahead to the future, and therefore the perfect time for a retreat. I am now offering this online for the first time, via Zoom.
Basis: Orientation on Being (Dzogchen), spirituality with both feet firmly on the ground.
This 4-day winter retreat consists of the following:
- three meditations a day, which I offer in different forms,
- daily writing assignments,
- two sharing rounds,
- a one-to-one conversation on request (for example, if you encounter any difficulties),
- before and during the retreat, I will give you tips on how to organise this retreat for yourself. If you follow these tips, you will create silence and space: space to reflect, look ahead and grow.
Because it is an online retreat, the costs are low. I only charge € 59 for four days. For a possible individual conversation, there is an additional charge of € 25.
If you are wondering whether an online retreat works, my answer is, based on my own experience and that of many people around me: yes. I regularly do retreats from home and I also do my annual personal development training courses (with 2-day sessions) online. With good discipline and sticking to the agreements you make with yourself (for example, being offline as much as possible), it works almost as well as a retreat with physical presence. Another advantage is that you don't have to travel and you sleep in your own bed.
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In 2025, Villa des Abeilles will focus even more on a new target group. My guest rooms are already regularly used for individual retreats (see Individual retreats Morvan – Villa des Abeilles), in addition I now organise small-scale group retreats in the Morvan, staying in a luxury appartment (200 metres from my house) or a guestroom in Villa des Abeilles.
These retreats are open to everyone, including people with no or little experience of meditation. I offer these in Dutch / French / English / German.
Yoga retreats
I would also like to organise yoga retreats in the future. More information will follow here as soon as this offer is up to date.
In any case, these will also be small-scale retreats, with different meditation forms, yoga sessions, writing assignments, silence hours, good and healthy meals and plenty of free time.
Because life may also be celebrated during a retreat, there will be a wine tasting (included). A wine expert will pour 7 different wines (and explain their origin, etc.). Matching snacks will be provided.
These are the dates for group retreats spring 2026 in Bourgogne:
- Tuesday 10 March - Saturday 14 March,
- Tuesday 7 April - Saturday 11 April,
- Tuesday 28 April - Saturday 2 May,
- Tuesday 19 May - Saturday 23 May,
- Tuesday 9 June - Saturday 13 June.
I maintain very attractive prices, especially by Dutch standards, also because I want to make retreats possible for more people:
Price when staying in private room in luxury appartment: € 595
Price when staying in private room in my house: € 495
Would you like to stay one or more days longer, in my house? Then you only pay the normal room rate (see Rooms page).
Coming with a friend or sharing a room for some other reason? Then you both get €50 off the total price.
Is the rate for this retreat still a problem for you? Then contact me: we're sure to work it out.
Possibly you can combine this retreat with (in advance) a visit to Paris, reachable by TGV in a few hours, or a holiday in the south of France (4-5 hours driving).
Are you interested? Then let me know, via the contact form, by e-mail or via SMS/WhatsApp: I will be happy to give you more information without any obligation.