Inner Alchemy

A private shamanic healing retreat for women on the Italian Riviera

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Inner Alchemy is a private, one-on-one healing retreat in the olive-covered hills of Liguria, with the sea just down the road. It’s for the woman who has been strong for a very long time and is ready to feel like herself again.​

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Alchemy is the art of turning something heavy into something precious. Through shamanic healing, yoga, meditation and spiritual guidance, we work with the weight you’ve been carrying and slowly turn it into strength, clarity and joy you can take home.

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You’re the only guest. No groups, nothing to keep up with, nothing to perform. Just deep care and real rest.

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Each day may include:

• Morning yoga + meditation to nourish your body and reawaken your breath

• Shamanic healing + ceremony to release emotional and energetic weight

• Somatic practices to reconnect you to your body’s wisdom

• Quiet personal space on your terrace for journaling and stillness

• Gentle plant-spirit rituals with local herbs (lavender, rosemary, sage) to guide heart-opening

• Nourishing vegetarian meals to ground and restore

 

Everything is slow, intuitive, and curated just for you.

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This retreat is for you if...

• You’ve spent years giving, achieving or simply getting through, and you’re exhausted

• You’re carrying grief - from a divorce, a loss or a chapter of your life that ended, including the kind you’ve never been able to name

• You feel disconnected from your body and your own pleasure, even after all the work you’ve done

• You’ve talked it through, and you want something that reaches deeper

• You want a safe, private place to feel what you’ve been holding back

• You’re ready for change, and you want a guide you can trust

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Why Private? Why Now?

Some healing needs quiet. It needs privacy, a steady person beside you, and a door you can close, so you can stop managing how you look and let yourself feel what’s actually there.

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You’ve probably learned a lot about yourself by now. This retreat isn’t just more learning. It’s a chance to release what was never yours to carry, and to find out what that weight has been hiding: your own strength, your desire and your joy.

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And you don’t have to be at breaking point to deserve a break.

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Retreat Options

All retreats are private and tailored to you, and can be arranged around your availability.

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3-Day Reset. A first step for the woman who knows something has to change. Three days of rest, shamanic healing and gentle practice to release what’s heavy and begin hearing yourself again.

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5-Day Deep Reconnection. This offers more time to go further, with more healing work, more rest, and simple practices to take home so what you find here stays with you.

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7-Day Full Alchemy. The complete journey, with two private shamanic healing sessions, integration days, a one-hour massage, and a half-day out to the sea or the medieval village of Dolceacqua.

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Please get in touch with us directly to book your preferred dates.

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Inner Alchemy Retreat Includes:

• Private shamanic healing sessions

• Yoga and meditation every morning

• Integration practices: yin yoga, yoga nidra, somatic work or guidance

• Brunch and dinner every day, vegetarian and cooked with love by our retreat chef, Ewan, and me

• Your own suite, with a bathroom that’s yours alone

• Pickup from Ventimiglia train station

• In the 7-day retreat: a one-hour massage and a half-day out.

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The Setting

Our retreats are held at Casa del Grillo, a 19th-century stone house in Verrandi, a tiny village in the hills above Ventimiglia, where Liguria meets the French border.

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Silver-green olive terraces fall away toward the Italian Riviera, wild herbs and lavender grow around the village, and the old stone walls glow in the soft light. Mornings begin with birdsong, and the stillness here is the kind that lets you finally hear yourself.

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Your suite is a quiet room of your own on the second floor, with a bathroom that’s yours alone. Meals are shared downstairs, slowly and with care. Ewan and I stay in an apartment on the top floor, close when you want us and out of your way when you’d like to be alone with yourself.

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WHAT YOU'LL TAKE HOME

• A body that remembers how to settle, and a calmer mind

• A clearer sense of what you need, and simple practices, like yin yoga, meditation and small daily rituals, to keep caring for yourself once you’re home

• Pain that begins to feel less like a weight and more like a source of power

• Intimacy with your own body, your desire and your joy, beginning to return

• The inspiration to pick up the things you’d put down

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We also warmly accommodate couples seeking a shared healing experience. Contact us for more information!

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Investment

Every retreat is private and tailored to you.

Investment begins at €1,850 for the 3-day retreat.

The 5-day and 7-day retreats are priced based on your needs, and we’ll go through all  the details on a call. There’s no rush to decide.

 

How to Begin

This is one-on-one work, so we always begin with a conversation.

If it feels right, book a free call, and we’ll talk about what you’re carrying, answer your questions, and see whether this is the right fit.

There’s no pressure and no obligation.

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You are not too much.
You are not too late.
You are not broken.

 

The sanctuary you’ve been searching for
might not be somewhere out there.
It might be inside you - waiting to be heard.

Let this be your soft return.
Let this be your rising.