In a world that’s spinning faster and faster, this retreat offers you a moment of respite. A place to settle in, take a deep breath, and reconnect—with yourself and with the living world around you.
OUR APPROACH
Through forest bathing, mindful walking, meditation, and creative processes, you are invited to slow down and return to what feels true and essential to you. Here, creativity is not about performance or production. It becomes the language of inner listening.
This five-day solo retreat is a space for reflection, presence, and renewal. A time to reconnect with your own rhythm—supported by the quiet, steadfast intelligence of nature.
GOAL & INTENTION
This solo retreat is designed for people who wish to pause, reflect, and reconnect more consciously with themselves—especially during times of transition or inner change.
In everyday life, personal desires, talents, and creative impulses often fade into the background. In a safe space of nature, mindfulness, and creative practice, you can reconnect with them and realign with your inner compass—with what feels true and alive to you.
Creative practice and experiencing nature open a mindful pathway to feelings, insights, and longings.
Instead of providing ready-made answers, the solo retreat invites you to listen—to what wants to be seen, lived, and expressed.
The structure of the solo retreat is gentle yet clear. It offers guidance while still leaving room for your own experience. It is not a therapeutic program, but a space for self-reflection, inspiration, and new perspectives for your journey ahead.
YOUR RETREAT COACH
- Angélique Verdel - has been working with people for over 30 years as a therapist, teacher, and creative guide. With a background in psychotherapy (HP), bioenergetic therapy, and creative, body-oriented work, she bridges two worlds: grounded therapeutic knowledge and intuitive, holistic, and spiritual approaches.
In addition to her therapeutic work, Angélique is a trained actress and singer. Through decades of work with breath, voice, emotion, movement, and the psyche, she has helped people recognize and gently release inner blockages—not through coercion, but through awareness, expression, and embodied experience.
As a theater and voice teacher, Angélique has experienced how deeply creativity reveals where energy is blocked and where true potential lies. This led her to deepen her therapeutic training and integrate approaches that address both the analytical and intuitive sides of the human being—mind and body, structure and intuition, left and right brain.
Her passion lies in guiding people to rediscover their unique gifts, talents, and personal life direction. Angélique Verdel is convinced that every person is fundamentally unique and that the world becomes richer, more colorful, and more connected when people live and express their true nature.
This retreat is the place where all her paths converge. On a powerful volcanic island in the Atlantic Ocean—surrounded by nature, the sea, and silence—Angélique has created a space where creativity, mindfulness, therapy, and nature merge into a holistic experience.
Here she brings together everything she loves: creativity, movement, voice, silence, nature, and deep human connection—and supports participants in reconnecting with themselves in an authentic and grounded way.
Angélique was born in the Netherlands, lived and worked for many years in Germany and Portugal, and now offers her retreats in English, German, and Dutch.