“If in every breath you strip naked just like winter the joy of spring will grow within.”

                – Rumi

This joint retreat with Ruta, the creator of Be Outside Coaching will be about releasing, letting go, empowering and re-connecting with your deepest self through breathing and nature practices.

We will dedicate important part of the retreat for Transformational Breath®, sharing and human connection. The days will be topped up with very gentle hikes, nature connection practices and yin yoga and yoga nidra.

Food will be beautifully created by our exceptional food and nature loving chef, Donata.

We welcome you in a small village of typical Swiss houses surrounded by pristine alpine environment. Come and enjoy the energy of this exceptional valley while dipping into a hot tub after a full-day of breathwork and nature!

To keep very special and intimate, we will only host 6 participants.

This retreat is for you if:

• You are holding onto the past, have cumulated emotions and feel heavy inside
• You tried a number of different healing techniques but none helped you to create a long lasting change
• You are longing to manifest your deepest desires but feel stuck and nothing is moving to a direction you wish for
• You are curious to discover a life changing breathing technique
• You wish to improve your wellbeing holistically
• You wish to expand your awareness and connect further with your inner self
• You wish to reduce your anxiety, stress and clean the messiness inside of you
• You value nature and believe in its impact on a human wellbeing

Val d’Hérens – The Wild Valley

Val d’Hérens is known for its unspoiled nature, variety of landscape- mountain lakes, glaciers, and the protected area of Ferpecle that is known not only for its breath-taking landscape but also for high energy.

In autumn  due to the vegetation in this valley, it becomes a colourful valley.

Nothing recharges your batteries like a breath of alpine air. Genuine valley traditions, unspoilt nature, ancient houses made of sun-darkened wood.

The Val d’Hérens stretches from the Rhône Valley near Sion, some kilometres south of the majestic Dent Blanche, which, at 4,358 metres, is the emblem of the valley.

Retreat Venue

In the Val d’Hérens valley rich of patrimony and culture, one can find 300-400 old houses called ,grenier’, ,raccard’, ,mayen’, some preserved, some getting demolished and lost.

The place where we will be staying has saved 6 of them and created a tiny village, this is where we will be staying- this is an exceptional place, old from outside, creative and limitless inside.

Activities during the retreat

• Transformational Breath®
• Forest Bathing (Shinrin Yoku)
• Hiking – easy level
• Yin yoga & Yoga Nidra
• Creative healthy food​
• Hot Tub
• Sharing

Food during the retreat

• Feed your body with nourishing food
• Develop a healthy relationship to food & eating
• Learn to eat healthier and more balanced foods

Retreat Chef Donata

Inspired by nature, Donata creates food with love & passion. She is a nature lover and gets her main inspiration to cook from the nature – using natural products. Aesthetics of food is part of her style, she  spoils multiple senses of the one who tastes her food.

​Lithuania is her home country and her initial inspiration to cook came from her mothers vegetable & fruit garden.

​You will eat healthy & natural food prepared by Donata. Allow your body to energize with seasonal & local goodness. Find joy in eating the rainbow on your plate and feel yourself becoming more grounded and feeling comfortable in your own skin.

About Ruta

Ruta Mikulenaite did her first hike back in 2013- she then realized that the real life is not happening in the indoor- office environment but rather outside.

This made her realize that she was missing something important in her life- connection with Nature. Since then, most of her time she spends outside- climbing, hiking, wild camping, walking in the forests, parks and other natural places. She has become hiking ‚guru‘ and is now passionate to share the most beautiful places in the Swiss Alps with the others. Retreat participants often say that Ruta’s passion for Nature is contagious.

Ruta is a professional neuro-coach (Neuroleadership Institute, London), forest therapy guide (Association of Nature and Forest Therapy, USA) and mountain leader (Association of Mountain Guides in Switzerland). Ruta has also studied ancient yoga in Bali and is a certified yoga teacher. She loves bringing nature to the mat through the practice of yin and and yang yoga.

By creating Be Outside Coaching movement, she has connected her 2 major passions: activities outside and human evolution. Be Outside Coaching delivers immersive and holistic Nature experiences in the different corners of pristine the Swiss Alps.

About Alev

Alev discovered Transformational Breath® by chance in 2007. Fascinated by the power of this technique, she pursued her trainings internationally. She is the Transformational Breath® Foundation’s National Leader and International Breathwork Foundation’s National Representative for Switzerland. She is a Certified Senior Trainer of Transformational Breath®, completed various trainings as a shamanic practitioner and is a Reiki Master Teacher. She gives private and group sessions and leads training and workshops. Her mission is to inspire and support others on their journey of self-realisation, with the guidance and wisdom of their own breath. Session after session she witnesses with awe and appreciation the unbounded healing power of breath. Supporting others towards their own inner light fills her with gratitude.