Private Retreat
Private Addiction Retreat
Looking Beneath the Behaviour
Three full retreat days · four nights · private, personalised and carefully held
It Began as a Strategy
Addiction and compulsive behaviour rarely begin as conscious decisions to damage our lives. Often, they begin as strategies.
Ways of changing how we feel. Managing pain. Escaping anxiety. Finding stimulation. Numbing something difficult. Creating connection. Avoiding loneliness. Or simply getting through experiences that, at the time, we did not know how else to hold.
Over time, the strategy can begin to create problems of its own.
The Private Addiction Retreat at Samyama creates three days away from the patterns and pressures of everyday life to begin looking beneath the behaviour itself. Rather than beginning with shame or judgement, we begin with curiosity.
What is this behaviour doing for me? And eventually: what might I actually need?
The retreat can be undertaken alone, as a couple, with a family member or as a closely connected private group of up to four people. For an individual, the programme can be shaped completely around your own experience.
For partners or families affected by addiction or compulsive behaviour, the work can also include the relationships surrounding it: trust, communication, boundaries, fear, hurt, responsibility and connection.
Not everything needs to happen together. Individual and shared work can be used according to what is appropriate for the people involved.
What's Included
- Three full days of private retreat work
- Four nights' accommodation at Samyama
- Accommodation in the Villa or Cottage
- All meals included
- Fully personalised programme
- One to four closely connected participants
- Daily 90-minute embodied yoga practice
- Daily two-hour private addiction work
- Daily 90-minute Yoga Nidra and nervous system regulation
- Curated evening experiences
- Final evening Water Ceremony
Our Private Retreat packages are designed and priced around four nights and three full retreat days. If your travel plans or circumstances require a different length of stay, talk to us. Where appropriate, we can adapt the duration and programme around you.
How the work is held
A Carefully Held Container
Deep addiction work can touch fear, shame, grief, relationships and experiences that have been avoided for a long time. For that reason, this retreat is not designed around three days of relentless emotional intensity.
The rhythm matters. We repeatedly move between embodiment, exploration, regulation and integration. We pay attention to what is happening psychologically, but also to what is happening in the body.
When activation rises, we notice it. When something needs space, we allow space. When enough has been done for one session, we do not assume that pushing harder must produce a better result.
Safety and regulation are part of the work.
Morning
Returning to the Body
Each day begins with a 90-minute yoga and embodied-awareness practice.
For someone who has become accustomed to escaping or altering difficult internal states, simply remaining present with the body can itself be significant. We begin to notice breathing, sensation, tension and emotional state without immediately needing to change them.
No previous yoga experience is necessary. This is not about performance. It is about learning to notice what is happening before automatically responding to it.
Midday
Private Addiction Work
At the centre of each day are two hours of facilitated private addiction work, divided into two sessions with space between them.
The behaviour matters. But we are also interested in the landscape beneath it.
Elements of Shadow Work and Jungian thinking may help reveal aspects of ourselves that have been hidden or rejected. Sometimes the work reveals how unsafe a younger part of ourselves once felt. Sometimes we recognise how fear or shame has influenced behaviour for years. Sometimes we begin facing consequences that have become difficult to look at: damaged trust, a relationship, financial problems or a life that has gradually become smaller.
And sometimes the discovery is quieter. A person may realise how long it has been since they genuinely enjoyed walking, nature, conversation or simply being present without needing to alter how they feel. The work follows what is actually there.
Depending upon the person, this might include
- Emotional triggers
- Fear and shame
- Inner child experiences and safety
- Loneliness and disconnection
- Relationships
- Grief
- Identity and self-worth
- Avoidance
- The need for stimulation or escape
- Compulsive patterns
- Consequences that have become difficult to face
Coming together
When You Come With Someone Close
Addiction rarely exists entirely in isolation. Partners and families can become caught in patterns around fear, rescue, secrecy, control, anger, withdrawal and loss of trust.
A private retreat allows some of those patterns to be explored without making one person “the problem”. Where appropriate, there can be individual sessions alongside carefully facilitated shared work.
A partner may need space for their experience. A family member may carry fear or hurt that has never been spoken. The person struggling with the behaviour may begin to hear the impact differently when shame and accusation are not dominating the conversation.
The intention is not forced disclosure or confrontation. It is to create conditions in which greater honesty and understanding can become possible.
Afternoon
Regulation Before More Analysis
Each afternoon includes a 90-minute Yoga Nidra and nervous system regulation session. This is an essential part of the programme.
Deep personal work can create significant physiological and emotional activation. Continually pushing further without allowing the nervous system to settle can become counterproductive. So we deliberately stop.
Through Yoga Nidra, breathing, awareness and regulation practices, the body is given time to process what has emerged.
Over three days, participants can begin developing greater awareness of their own nervous system and recognising what happens internally before an automatic behaviour takes over.
Evening
Remembering Other Ways to Feel
Every evening includes a curated restorative experience.
There is an important idea behind this part of the retreat. When compulsive behaviour has occupied a large part of life, it can become easy to forget that pleasure, calm, connection and meaningful experience can come from very simple places.
An evening does not always need to be analysed. Sometimes we can simply experience it.
This may include
- Sound Healing
- Reiki
- Therapeutic Massage
- Meditation
- Breathwork
- Fire Circle
- Other Samyama experiences
Final Evening
Water Ceremony
The final evening concludes with a Water Ceremony. It provides an opportunity to acknowledge what has been seen, what may be ready to change and what you wish to carry forward.
Three days do not erase everything that came before them. Nor should they pretend to.
The ceremony marks the end of the retreat while recognising that the deeper journey continues afterwards.
Who Is This Retreat For?
You do not need to arrive with a label.
The retreat may be relevant to people experiencing difficulties around alcohol or substances, but compulsive patterns can also develop around work, relationships, sex, pornography, gambling, digital behaviour, food, validation and many other ways of repeatedly seeking escape, stimulation or emotional regulation.
- You may simply recognise that something you once chose increasingly feels as though it is choosing you.
- You may want to understand what a behaviour is doing for you rather than simply trying to stop it.
- You may be a partner or family member wanting to understand the patterns you have become caught in.
- You may want private, confidential work rather than a group programme.
Retreat pricing
Clear, Complete Pricing
Each price below is the total cost of the private retreat — not a price per person.
One person
IDR 70,000,000
Total · IDR
Two people
IDR 53,000,000 per person
IDR 106,000,000
Total · IDR
Three people
IDR 42,666,667 per person
IDR 128,000,000
Total · IDR
Four people
IDR 37,500,000 per person
IDR 150,000,000
Total · IDR
The package includes accommodation, meals, facilitated sessions, daily practices and curated evening experiences.
Prices are in Indonesian Rupiah for the whole retreat. Where two or more people attend, they are always people who already know one another — we do not sell separate places to unrelated guests.
International cards accepted. Your card provider will handle any currency conversion.
Enquire About This Private Retreat
This retreat begins with a confidential conversation, so we can understand what you are hoping to explore and confirm that the work is right for you.
There is no obligation in enquiring. Tell us a little about your situation and timing, and we will reply personally.
All bookings are subject to our booking and cancellation policies.