Seasonal Sanctuary - Women’s Day Retreat to Welcome Summer

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𖤓 Summer in the Netherlands carries a particular frequency, long days, full calendars, and a steady social and outward movement. It is a season of aliveness, connection, and expression, yet it also asks for care, boundaries, and moments of return to oneself 𖤓

On a day in early summer, we invite you to gather with us for a one day women’s retreat to welcome the season of fullness, warmth, and embodied presence. Together, we’ll celebrate life in bloom while tending to our nervous systems, so we can meet the beauty and busyness of summer with openness.
Through breath, movement, ritual, and sisterhood, we create space to be in the body, to feel, to express, and to remember our natural rhythms within the longer days.

At the heart of this gathering is a ritual bath with summer plants. Through intentional bathing, we soften, cleanse, and anoint ourselves, receiving the medicine of these plants as allies for the season ahead.


What to expect:
꩜ A gentle arrival with cacao, tea, meditation & sharing
꩜ Breathwork session to regulate and enliven
꩜ A nourishing organic lunch
꩜ Ritual summer bath with seasonal plants
꩜ Archetype dance to express and move energy
꩜ Live music, tea and snacks

This day is for women who wish to meet summer fully, to enjoy its beauty and intensity while staying rooted, resourced, and connected to themselves.

𓆃 Seasonal Sanctuary 2026
This day retreat is part of a cycle of four gatherings, each one honouring the turning of the seasons. You are welcome to join us for a single day that calls to you, or to commit to the full journey and ritualise your passage through the seasons across the year.
Moving through spring, summer, autumn and winter together allows space for continuity, deepening, and relationship with yourself, with the group, and with the natural rhythms that hold us. Each gathering stands on its own, while also connecting into a larger story of cyclical living.

𓆃 About the location:
Our Sanctuary day takes place at Het Verre Oosten, nestled in the green heart of the Dutch countryside near Wijhe, just a short distance from Zwolle. Het Verre Oosten is a retreat center held by a vibrant community devoted to conscious living, relational depth, and integration in everyday life.

Het Verre Oosten offers the possibility to arrive the evening before or to rest afterward by staying the night. There’s an extra ticket option for this. If you feel curious: https://welkominhetverreoosten.nl/.

𓆃 About us:
ANNA is a psychedelic ceremony facilitator, birth doula, postpartum professional, breathwork coach, musician, globe trotter and philanthropist. I love people. And I love seeing people heal and thrive. My dharma – or soul’s mission – in this lifetime is to guide and assist others through moments of metamorphosis: processes of personal growth and transformation.

NICKY is a relational psychologist, certified yoga teacher, breathwork coach and a lover of ritual and ceremony. Free spirited and on a mission to help the world transition into a more relational and loving place. I’m passionate about bringing together ritual, embodiment, playfulness and emotional intelligence to create spaces where people feel safe and deeply seen.