Sacred
Sacred is recognising that your life deserves your full presence. Your body, grief, pleasure, anger and longing can all be met with reverence. Bringing intention into how you move, connect and create.
As Samhain approaches, we enter a threshold between light and shadow, the seen and the unseen.
Together, we'll lift the veil between the conscious and the unconscious, and meet the parts of ourselves that usually stay hidden.
Through movement, ritual, voice, play, music and deep inner work, we'll make space for what wants to be felt, expressed and brought into the light.
Come ready to play. To be moved. To dive deep.
To let yourself be surprised by what emerges.
Are you ready to meet what's beneath the surface?
The Shift
From managing your life
to experience life itself.
Some parts of you can only be met through experience. Your body. Your instinct. Your voice before you edit it. Your desire before you explain it.
The part of you that knows when something is a yes. The part that knows when it is a no. Your capacity to play. To be surprised. To be moved.
To meet another person without managing how you are perceived. To create without immediately asking whether it is useful. To feel something without turning it into a lesson.
We are here not to give you another answer. Not to tell you who you are. Not to add another layer of understanding.
But to create the conditions for something else to happen:
- enough space to slow down
- enough beauty to open
- enough intensity to interrupt the familiar
- enough freedom to surprise yourself
And four days to experience parts of yourself that everyday life rarely gives you access to.
Step out of the life you already know
For four days,
life moves differently.
We leave the city. We put down the screens. We enter an old artists' residence surrounded by the wild landscape of Ardèche. And for four days, life becomes simpler.
Held with intention. Left open to life. Alive by nature.
We create the conditions and the experience does the rest — the architecture, the practices, the rhythm, the agreements, the people holding the space, the place, the music, the rituals.
And inside that architecture, we leave room for what is actually happening. For spontaneity. For the group. For the flow: for you to co create, take the lead and be held. For the unexpected conversation, for someone to bring a song, for a play to emerge, for an afternoon that needs more silence.
For the experience to become something none of us could have completely designed in advance.
Every edition is different. Because every group is different.
Your presence changes the experience.
- Your presence matters.
- Your curiosity matters.
- Your initiative matters.
- Your boundaries matter.
- Your willingness to participate matters.
We want people who can enter a room and contribute to its life. People who can be guided without becoming passive. People who can listen without disappearing.
The retreat is held by us. But it is created by everyone who enters it.
Wild
Reconnecting with your instinct, desire and untamed expression. Letting yourself move, sound, feel and play beyond familiar roles.
Mystic
Mystic is entering a direct relationship with mystery. Through silence, ritual, movement or connection, you may encounter experiences that exceed your usual explanations.
Together, Sacred, Wild & Mystic holds a powerful tension: reverence gives instinct a place to unfold; instinct brings ritual alive; mystery keeps both open.
It is an invitation to meet yourself where you cannot fully control, perform or explain who you are, and stay present for what emerges.
The Thresholds We Cross
What we explore together.
Returning to What Is Alive
Stepping away from screens.
From the imposed rhythm.
From the mind.
Returning to the body.
To sensation.
To nature.
To presence.
Connecting to Your Truth
Creating enough space to hear what is seeking to emerge.
A decision.
A desire.
A direction.
A truth long postponed.
Exploring Intimacy
The essence of intimacy is not becoming closer to someone else.
It is to grow closer to yourself while being in relationship with the other.
Daring to Be Fully Yourself
Daring to express it: through dance, voice, movement, presence.
Reclaiming your singularity.
Reclaiming your freedom of expression.
The Practices
Body
Kundalini Yoga.
Somatic movement.
Breathwork.
Ecstatic dance.
Cold river immersion.
Rest.
Presence.
What happens when your movements become less controlled?
Expression
Voice.
Movement.
Creative exploration.
Authentic expression.
Play.
What happens when you stop constantly adjusting yourself to the room?
Connection
Tantra.
Partner practices.
Authentic relating.
Circles.
Witnessing.
Intimacy.
Intimacy as the capacity to remain fully seen while another human being is actually there.
Shadow
Shadow work.
Parts we learn to hide because they are inconvenient, excessive, strange or difficult to explain.
Not to glorify every impulse.
To become more honest about what is actually there.
The Unknown
Meditation.
Chant.
Ritual.
Silence.
Nature.
Live music.
Drum journeys.
Ceremonial spaces.
Not everything needs to become a conclusion.
Sometimes the experience itself is enough.
You may belong here if
- You have already done significant inner work. You are curious. You are self aware. Your life functions, but you want to feel more alive inside it.
- You are tired of constantly observing, analysing or improving yourself. You want more play. More creativity. More honesty. More sensation. More contact.
- You want to trust yourself without needing certainty first. You want to explore intimacy without abandoning yourself. You want to truly meet people beyond networking, roles and polite conversation.
- You want to be around artists, creatives, entrepreneurs, seekers and people who refuse to live on autopilot. You don't need another teacher telling you what to think. You want an experience.
And some part of you keeps asking: what would happen if I stopped holding so much of myself back?
This is probably not for you if
- You are looking for a passive wellness weekend.
- You want a retreat focused primarily on relaxation.
- You want someone else to give you all the answers.
- You expect every practice to be comfortable.
- You are unwilling to take responsibility for yourself.
- You want a guaranteed personal transformation.
Sacred Wild & Mystic asks something from you.
Presence. Curiosity. Responsibility. Participation.
What May Become Possible
You may leave with greater clarity
about what you actually want.
- You may notice your body before your mind builds an argument.
- You may express something you have been editing for too long.
- You may rediscover parts of yourself that became buried under productivity, responsibility or habit.
- You may feel freer in your voice. Your movement. Your creativity. Your relationships.
- You may experience what it feels like to meet people without immediately constructing a role.
- You may play more than you have in months.
- You may simply remember how good it feels to be completely present inside your own experience.
We cannot tell you exactly what these four days will reveal. And we would distrust anyone who could.
A Unique Immersion
More than a retreat,
a true journey.
Song → Vulnerability → Intimacy → Truth → Courage
Each one nourishes the next. And courage allows something new to emerge.
This is not about becoming someone else.
It is about returning to what is already there.
The Experience
One practice
feeds the next.
A morning of breath and Kundalini may move into cold water in the river. Lunch creates space. An afternoon may bring somatic movement, shadow exploration, voice, intimacy or creative shamanic play.
Evenings have their own rhythm: live music, chant, ritual, tantra, a fire, a Temple Night, dance, silence.
The schedule provides direction.
Example Program
Our last immersion.
Day 1
- Opening ceremony
- Connection ritual (Tantra) · SELVA guidance sounds
- Dinner
- Rapé circle · Fire ritual
Day 2
- Breathwork · Cold river bathing
- Kundalini Yoga · Bruno live
- Lunch
- Cacao · Somatic Movement · SELVA sounds
- Shadow Work
- Dinner · Kirtan Kriya · Bruno live
Day 3
- Kundalini · Bruno live
- Tantra · Transmissions
- Lunch · Free time
- Workshops
- Dinner
- Temple Night · SELVA live sound
Day 4
- Cacao ceremony · Bruno live
- Ecstatic Dance · SELVA DJ set
- Echoes of the Self · SELVA live (100 min)
- NLP · Closing circle
- Final brunch
Each edition is unique. The program evolves based on the group and what seeks to emerge collectively.
The Place
Ardèche, France.
An old artists' residence surrounded by nature. A house with history. A river nearby. Shared tables. Music moving through the rooms. Places to gather. Places to disappear for a moment. Space to breathe. Space to move. Space to notice yourself again.
For four days, there is no commute between "the retreat" and ordinary life. We live there together. We eat there. Practise there. Rest there. Meet there. The place becomes part of the experience.
The real luxury is not excess. It is space. Time. Beauty. Nature. Attention. And sixteen people with nowhere more important to be.
Why only 16 people?
Because anonymity changes a room. Because intimacy requires scale. Because connection becomes different when you know everyone's face. Because every presence influences the experience. And because we are interested in depth, not volume.
Applications are read individually. We are not selecting the most spiritual people. We are looking for people who are: curious, responsible, engaged, open, self aware, and willing to participate.
The Four Days
An immersive journey,
one day at a time.
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01
Descent
Arrival, grounding, and first meeting with the group. We build together the container of trust that makes everything else possible.
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02
Depth
The practices intensify. The mind begins to quiet. The body takes over. The layers open.
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03
Opening
The heart opens. Vulnerability becomes strength. The community becomes real. What you've been keeping hidden begins to find its place.
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04
Integration & Commitment
Before you leave, you choose. One uncomfortable action. One courageous conversation. One public commitment to yourself. What you carry home, beyond the retreat.
Throughout: SELVA's live sound architecture moves through every session, every ceremony, every transition, holding the container open, making the unspeakable speakable.
40 day ritual. The retreat doesn't end on the last day. A 40 day ritual accompanies your integration, anchoring the shifts into daily life.
What Participants Say
Experiences that
are never forgotten.
"I found an indefinable magic in the place, the activities, every moment of this retreat with this group. A pure connection, a genuine curiosity, a rare uniqueness. And all without any substance. Like a dive into the unknown that turns out delicious and wonderful! I feel deep gratitude for these moments of surrender, discovery and intense joy that will stay with me."
"It was truly superb. I was able to go deep into my vulnerability, my fears and my wounds. Beyond limits I thought I had already pushed far enough."
"This retreat reconnected me with humans, the real ones. It nourished my heart and, I'm certain, changed the trajectory of my life in the long run."
"I felt like I was discovering a part of life, after 36 years on Earth. The capacity to be connected to one another completely disoriented me. Very strong and powerful."
"A saving experience, intense, powerful yet liberating and healing. An acceleration toward meeting ourselves, that brings the truth deep inside to the surface."
"I discovered myself through at least four or five different aspects. The retreat was so rich in varied experiences. 10/10 without hesitation."
"Deep, human, alive, regenerating, innovative and artistic. A capacity to seize the present moment to change what needs to change."
A first: live sound architecture for the entire retreat
The music guides
the immersion.
SELVA, sound alchemist, producer, and live performer, will be present for the entire retreat, creating live music that moves with the experience itself.
SELVA is a sound alchemist, producer, and live performer operating at the intersection of electronic music, frequency science, and ceremony.
His work moves between driving downtempo live sets with organic percussion and electronic architecture, and precision crafted sound journeys designed to guide audiences into states of deep presence, restoration, and expanded awareness.
- Performed at
- Burning Man · Las Dalias Ibiza · Six Senses · Hedoné Germany · SACBE · Astral Plan Paris
- Shared stages with
- Lemurian · Oveous · Tony L. Issac · MOM
- Curated lineups alongside
- Jo.Ke · Viken Arman · Monolink
- @selva.wav
His presence throughout the retreat means every session is held in a sonic field built specifically for the work. Echoes of the Self, his live 100 minute sound architecture, will run as a dedicated ceremony during the retreat.
With
The People Holding
the Experience
Ophélie Duvillard
Teacher · Alchemy & Intimacy
Trained in coaching at HEC Paris, Ophélie then traveled the world to study with masters of consciousness and transformation — from shamanism to initiatic sexuality.
Since 2021, she has created initiatic spaces across Europe: 19+ retreats and more than 200 people guided. She guides each person toward their truth, their sensuality, and their deep inner freedom.
She opens spaces to reveal:
- Raw truth.
- Buried desire.
- The power waiting to be claimed.
Dorcas Coppin
Actress · Facilitator · Co-founder
Her work lives in the body, on stage and in the spaces she holds through Kundalini Yoga, breathwork and dance. What she offers isn't a technique, it's a return: to our breath, our instincts, our joy.
As a performer, she knows what it means to inhabit a feeling fully. As a facilitator, she brings that same permission to others: to feel without editing, to move without explaining, to let the body lead.
Her spaces are playful and alive, but never surface-level. Joy, for her, is not the opposite of depth. It's often what depth makes room for.
Bruno Arcaine
Musician · Vocal Liberation
Bruno has explored music since childhood, blending voice and sound with a sensibility shaped by his path through cinema. Between Paris and Ibiza, he guides people toward vocal liberation through spaces of expression and creativity.
He guides:
- Spaces where freeing the voice becomes a path back to oneself.
- Journeys into vocal roots, between improvisation, intuitive chant and singing circles.
SELVA
Sound Alchemist
SELVA is a sound alchemist, producer, and live performer operating at the intersection of electronic music, frequency science, and ceremony. His presence throughout the retreat means every session is held in a sonic field built specifically for the work.
Practical Details
Dates
29 October to 1 November 2026
Location
Saint Sauveur de Montagut, Ardèche
Approx. 45 minutes from Valence TGV station. A WhatsApp group is created before the retreat to organise shared transport.
Format
Four day residential immersion. 16 participants maximum.
Included
Accommodation, all vegetarian meals from the first dinner to the final brunch, snacks and herbal teas, all practices and workshops, musicians and invited artists, access to all shared retreat spaces. Not included: transport to and from the residence.
Accommodation
Shared Room
€880 per person
Non mixed shared room. King or twin beds depending on configuration. Accommodation, meals, all practices and workshops.
Room With a Person of Your Choice
€770 per person
Queen bed. Available when the room is booked together with your chosen roommate. Accommodation, meals, all practices and workshops.
Private Room
€1,770 private solo room, subject to availability
Accommodation, meals, all practices and workshops.
A €300 deposit is required to confirm your place after acceptance. The remaining balance must be paid according to the booking terms. The most desirable rooms are allocated in order of confirmed registration.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I come alone?
Yes. Most participants arrive alone. The group becomes part of the experience — sixteen people meeting each other for real, beyond roles and polite conversation.
Is this retreat only for women?
No. The retreat is open to all. Shared rooms are non mixed, and every practice is held with clear agreements and respect for each person's boundaries.
Do I need experience with tantra, Kundalini Yoga or shadow work?
No. Every practice is guided step by step. Curiosity and willingness to participate matter more than experience.
What does tantra mean here?
Here, tantra means presence, attention and connection: practices of breath, eye contact and conscious relating. It is not sexual practice. Your boundaries remain yours at every moment.
What happens if I don't want to participate in something?
You can say no, observe, step out of any practice, or change your mind at any time. We are interested in honest participation, not compliance.
Is the programme fixed?
The architecture is set: the practices, the rhythm, the agreements, the people holding the space. Inside it, the content evolves with the group. Every edition is different.
Is this therapy?
No. This is not therapy and does not replace it. It is an immersive experience designed for functioning adults who take responsibility for themselves.