SOUL IN TOUCH Essentials Retreat
A 6-day journey into Yoga, Qi Gong & Thaï Yoga Bodywork, Tenerife : 7 - 13 December, 2025
Discover the healing power of conscious touch
Start Your Bodywork Journey with the SOUL IN TOUCH Essentials Retreat
A 6-day immersion in Yoga, Qi Gong & Thai Yoga Bodywork — blending retreat and training to help you reconnect, learn, and share. Release stress, restore your energy, and reconnect with yourself in the heart of Tenerife.
This 6-day retreat is an invitation to return to your center. Through Thai Yoga Bodywork, YogaQiFlow, Qi Gong, mantra, and community practices, we’ll explore presence, conscious touch, and connection — with ourselves, with others, and with life itself.
Whether you’re seeking to de-stress, recharge, or learn new skills, this retreat offers a balance of inner work and community. You’ll discover the SOUL IN TOUCH method — a unique blend of movement, breath, and bodywork — while enjoying nourishing meals, nature, and soulful connection.
Come as you are. Leave feeling lighter, clearer, and deeply renewed.
Course Outline & Key Components of SOUL IN TOUCH Essentials Retreat
From the very first day, we’ll focus on cultivating awareness, grounding, and embodied presence. You’ll learn how to prepare your body, breath, and mind before giving a session — because your state of being shapes the experience you offer.
You’ll be introduced to the philosophy and principles behind the SOUL IN TOUCH approach, rooted in compassion, mindfulness, and conscious touch.
As your confidence and sensitivity grow, you’ll gradually move into hands-on practice — learning a flowing sequence of bodywork techniques inspired by Traditional Thai Yoga Massage.
Throughout the retreat, we’ll explore:
- How to center yourself and work from a place of awareness
- The art of conscious, compassionate, intuitive touch
- How to feel and follow energy lines and read the body’s subtle language
- Safe and effective techniques using hands, forearms, elbows, and feet
- Assisted stretches and dynamic movements
- Body mechanics for longevity and ease as a practitioner
- Mindful preparation before and grounding rituals after a session
To support both your inner and outer practice, Qi Gong sequences and YogaQiFlow — my own blend of Yoga and Qi Gong designed specifically to prepare bodyworkers for intuitive, energy-based work — are woven into the daily rhythm of the retreat. These mindful movement practices help regulate your nervous system, deepen your ability to listen and sense, and cultivate the presence needed to truly connect.
Your Gateway to the SOUL IN TOUCH Academy
This 6-night Essentials Retreat also serves as the foundation for those wishing to continue on the path within the SOUL IN TOUCH Academy, officially launching in May 2026.
If you’ve already joined a SOUL IN TOUCH Essentials experience — whether as a 1-day workshop, a 2-day course, or the online program — this retreat offers the chance to revisit and deepen the content. Together we’ll refine what you already know, open space for new insights, and explore a few fresh elements added since your last experience.
This way, everyone — whether new or returning — moves forward on the same page: connected, grounded, and prepared for the journey back to being a human being rather than a human doing.
What’s SOUL IN TOUCH?
SOUL IN TOUCH is a bodywork method, that unites different healing arts to touch someone’s soul essence and to reveal the healing power of human to human connection.
Being present and aware of the food we eat, gives us the possibility to really feel into ourselves what foods we need at any given moment of our lives.
As we remain present & aware with nature, we will learn more about ourselves, and how we are closely connected with her. Practicing in nature will offer a feeling of inner contentment, which has a natural effect on your well being.
No matter if in between family members, friends or couples, to gift someone else with your attention and pure presence is already healing in many ways.
Through Bodywork, we relearn to just be, and actively listen, to give another the feeling to be heard, to be seen and to offer care from the heart.
The learnings of the SOUL IN TOUCH ESSENTIALS RETREAT can be adapted into your daily life, for instance:
- the way we physically approach others
- the way we communicate to others
- the way we respond rather than react, remaining in our center, no matter what occurs.
- what food our body is asking for
- understanding more the natural connection in between human to human and human to nature
- creating inner contentment with the healing power of being in a safe community
The healing power reveals through conscious touch, more so than simply applying technique. Technique comes with experience, but the lasting nourishing effect is due to the care and presence you are able to offer. In the SOUL IN TOUCH method we practice a soft, gentle, at the same time profound touch. A touch that consists of pure presence and awareness, the hand melts in the other and starts to become one.
As we would ask for permission to enter into someone’s space or body, that’s where touch becomes meaningful, with a memorable blue print. A co-created healing space where the feeling of oneness unfolds organically.
This may sound an unachievable task, but you will be amazed how fast you will be able to practice to touch consciously, and incorporate this quality into your daily life.
Conscious Touch is the oldest existing healing power of humanity, we just need to come back into the feeling body.
Who is the SOUL IN TOUCH Essentials Retreat for?
This retreat is open to anyone drawn to the healing power of touch and mindful connection. Whether you’re stepping into bodywork for the first time or already working in holistic fields, you’ll find value here.
For professionals
- Yoga, Qi Gong & Pilates teachers — deepen your understanding of conscious touch to enhance assists, refine anatomy awareness, and expand your offerings into one-on-one sessions.
- Massage therapists & bodyworkers — refresh and enrich your skills with a new perspective rooted in mindfulness, energy awareness, and intuitive flow.
- Energy workers & Reiki practitioners — broaden your toolkit with grounded, embodied practices that complement your energetic work.
For seekers & explorers
- Anyone curious about conscious touch, intuitive healing, and mindful connection.
- Those wishing to reduce stress, regulate the nervous system, and reconnect with themselves and others in a supportive, soulful environment.
A Foundation for the Academy
For those who feel called to go deeper, the Essentials Retreat also serves as the entry point to the SOUL IN TOUCH Academy, officially launching in May 2026.
Accreditation & Certification Path
This retreat is internationally accredited by IPHM (International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine) with a certificate of attendance.
Please note:
The Essentials Retreat is designed as a strong foundational course for personal enrichment or to integrate selected techniques into your existing professional holistic or movement-based practice.
It is not a standalone certification to professionally offer SOUL IN TOUCH sessions.
If you are an experienced practitioner and, after completing your 10 massage logs and a final supervised treatment, we both feel confident in your skills, you may professionally integrate what you’ve learned into your current practice — without using the SOUL IN TOUCH name.
To officially offer certified SOUL IN TOUCH treatments and use the name, you must complete the full SOUL IN TOUCH Academy pathway.
We choose this format because SOUL IN TOUCH stands for quality, depth, and integrity in holistic bodywork. Our aim is to provide not just techniques, but a solid foundation of embodied awareness, presence, and compassionate touch. This gradual and supported progression ensures that those who eventually offer professional SOUL IN TOUCH treatments do so with genuine skill, sensitivity, and a deep understanding of both body and soul.
Be in community
We humans are made to be in community. Experience the beauty of practicing with others, sharing touch, movement, and presence. Sing together, laugh, and feel held in a loving, safe environment where connection is celebrated and everyone is seen.
For those already working in holistic fields or aspiring to become professional bodyworkers, SOUL IN TOUCH Essentials + Modul 1 also serves as a foundational step into the SOUL IN TOUCH Academy, beginning May 2026.
SOUL IN TOUCH Essentials Course – at Casa el Riego, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Casa rural el Riego is a 120-year-old house on an ecological finca on the Eastern side of the beautiful island of Tenerife which is still authentic and very calm.
The house offers 6 guestrooms with private bathroom each and a 4x12 meter salt-water pool for common use with splendid views on the mountains and the sea.
The finca and the house are maintained in a sustainable and ecological way. We eat what we find in our gardens (and other ecological gardens), freshly prepared and with love.
Program
- Learn the essence of Qi Gong — a beautiful, grounding practice that teaches you body mechanics, breath awareness, and presence.
- YogaQiFlow sessions, my signature movement practice blending Qi Gong, Yoga, and embodied breathwork to prepare you physically, mentally, emotionally, and energetically for the bodywork we’ll practice.
- Deepen your skills, where you’ll learn a Thai Yoga Bodywork-inspired sequence, including assisted stretches, energy line techniques, and conscious, compassionate touch.
- Enjoy daily fresh, vegetarian brunches and dinners prepared with produce from our finca and local farms — because how we nourish ourselves is part of the practice.
- Receive your SOUL IN TOUCH Essentials Course Manual to support your continued learning and personal practice after the course.
- This 5-day immersion lays the foundation to join the SOUL IN TOUCH Academy starting May 2026.
5 days/6 nights of SOUL IN TOUCH Essentials Retreat + 1 x Manual + 1 x Excursion
Meeting like minded people & getting nourished by each other
Schedule
Example schedule:
08:00 – 09:15 Morning practice YogaQiFlow (Hatha Vinyasa / Qi Gong blend)
09:15 – 10:30 Silent Brunch
10:30 – 14:00 Qi Gong / Qi Exploration Exercise / SOUL IN TOUCH Bodywork practice
14:00 – 15:30 Fresh Fruits / Snacks / Rest / Pool
15:30 – 18:00 SOUL IN TOUCH Bodywork practice
18:00 - 18:30 Shower/Rest
18:30 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 - 21:00 Optional Evening Activity (Meredian Healing, Yin Yoga etc)
* Schedule subject to change.
Shared Room + Partner Special
€1199 - includes course, meals, and shared accommodation
Previous SOUL IN TOUCH Essentials Courses (online or in-person) will be accredited with €90 credit
Installment payment plans are available — feel free to reach out for details.
Partner Special: Book together with a friend or partner and save €75 each on your tuition when staying in Room 6, our most spacious and beautiful shared room at Casa el Riego.
Because presence and touch are even more powerful when shared. 💛
Single Room
€1499 - includes course, meals, and single accommodation
Previous SOUL IN TOUCH Essentials Courses (online or in-person) will be accredited with €90 credit
Installment payment plans are available — feel free to reach out for details.
My Online Courses
3-Exercise Qi Gong Set
44 Euro
