A 6-Day Mindfulness & Inner Development Retreat in the Piemontese Alps
Date: 20 - 25 July, 2026
Place: Ostana, MonViso Institute, Piemonte (Italy)
Your facilitators: Mirjam Luthe & Anaïs Saegesser with MVI Team

“Encounters Beyond Human” is an immersive 6-day retreat that invites you into a deeper relationship with yourself, other humans and the more-than-human. Informed by an ecocentric worldview and the Inner Development Goals (IDG) Guide, we explore the inner capacities needed to engage with the challenges of our time - self-awareness, presence, compassion, being-in-connection, complexity awareness, perspective taking, courage, and intraconnectedness - through the elemental forces that shape our lives.

Each day, we focus on one element and invite it to become our teacher. Through relational awareness and mindful self-compassion practices, (gratitude) rituals, insight dialogue and dyadic inquiry, as well as place-based nature meditation and dialogue, we learn to listen deeply to mountains, water streams, the breeze of air, the sun’s energy the subtle movements of our own hearts and those of others and encounter the other as part of our self. Rather than a retreat away from the world, this is a return to it. A return to our senses, our aliveness, and our kinship with all that lives.

Program details: www.thewayout-isin.net/retreats