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The Sacred Return Retreat – Enter the Sacred Temple ~ From Noticing to Embodying.An exploration of presence, curiosity, and relational aliveness
📍 Siena Tuscany, Italy
📅 November 20–24, 2026
👥 Limited to 14 participants
About the Retreat
The Sacred Return Retreat is an intimate somatic embodiment experience for both men and women who feel ready to move beyond understanding and into lived, embodied presence.
Held in the Tuscan countryside, this retreat supports both activation and embodiment, awakening aliveness through movement, breath, and relational exploration, while grounding experience through presence, pacing, and integration.
Rather than striving for change, catharsis, or peak states, the work invites participants to listen to what the body is already communicating beneath habit, conditioning, and performance.
Every element of the retreat is opt-in, consent-led, and gently paced, allowing each person to move at a rhythm that feels true for them.
The Field & Facilitation
This retreat is held by Buddhi Dana & Rebekah, in a shared and relational field of experience and lived transmission.
Buddhi Dana brings over 27 years of experience in embodied living, tantric embodiment, ceremony, ecstatic dance, and relational inquiry. He is a senior and deeply grounded professional in this field, known for his emphasis on integration, nervous system awareness, and lived presence over performance or intensity. His facilitation offers structure, depth, and stability, supporting participants to meet activation with clarity and choice.
Buddhi is also one of Rebekah’s teachers. This collaboration honours the lineage of embodied work she has received and now shares, not as hierarchy, but as continuity.
Participants are invited into a living transmission, sensing where the work comes from, how it has been integrated, and how it is now offered forward.
Rebekah holds the somatic and relational container of the retreat, shaping the pacing, consent culture, and embodied safety that allow aliveness to move without force. Her work supports attunement, self-trust, and direct connection with the body beyond performance or expectation.
Together, the facilitation balances ground and movement, structure and spaciousness, stability and flow, so experience can unfold naturally and integrate fully.
Program Overview
Arrival & opening circle
Daily ecstatic dance & embodied movement
Somatic mapping & consent-based embodiment
Breathwork and relational awareness practices
Conscious inquiry through conscious relating
Ceremony & temple night (held consciously, non-performative)
Integration & closing
Optional individual sessions with members of the team may be booked during free time.
This Retreat Is
Open to both men and women
Intentionally intimate (maximum 12 - 14 participants)
Strongly focused on embodiment, consent, and presence, not performance
Not a method or certification, but a lived experience
Suitable for individuals and couples (attending individually)
Especially supportive for those who understand a lot cognitively but don’t yet feel it in the body
Spacious, with time for rest, reflection, and integration
Pricing
€1,880 Early Bird (first 5 participants)
€1,980 Second Wave – until 31 March
€2,050 Third Wave – until 15 April
€2,200 Last-minute rate
Includes:
Accommodation (5 days / 4 nights), all meals, facilitation, guidance, and group sessions.
Not included:
Flights, insurance, extra sessions, recreational activities and transfers (can be arranged on request).
Practical Information
Nearest airports:
Perugia – approx. 1h30
Pisa – approx. 1h40
Florence – approx. 1h50
Rome – approx. 3h
Transfers can be organised. Participants are responsible for their own travel and insurance.
How to Arrive
Come as you are.
No prior experience is required.
You are never expected to touch, share, or participate beyond your own consent.
Bring curiosity, honesty, and a willingness to listen, to yourself, to others, and to the body.
Contact
For questions or to explore whether this retreat feels aligned for you
Rebekah
WhatsApp / DM: +356 9949 1380
There is no pressure, only conversation and the possibility to feel into alignment.
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Event Venue
Siena Tuscany, Siena, Italy
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