Private Retreat
Private Shadow Work Retreat
Three Days to Explore What Lies Beneath
Three full retreat days · Four nights · Fully private
What Lies Beneath
There are parts of ourselves we know well. And there are others we learn to hide, suppress or leave unexplored.
Sometimes those hidden parts appear through recurring relationship patterns, emotional reactions, fear, shame, self-doubt or behaviours we struggle to understand. Sometimes there is no obvious problem at all, simply a growing sense that something deeper is asking for our attention.
A Private Shadow Work Retreat at Samyama creates the time, space and support to explore those less visible parts of yourself with curiosity rather than judgement.
The retreat is built around the people who are actually here.
This is not a fixed group programme. The retreat can be experienced alone, as a couple, with a sibling, family member, close friend, or as a closely connected private group of up to four people.
For an individual, this creates an unusually private environment in which the entire retreat can develop around your own experience.
For couples, families or close friends, the work can also explore the patterns that exist between you: the roles we adopt, the things left unsaid, the ways we trigger one another and the family or relationship dynamics that may have developed over many years.
Not every session needs to be shared. The retreat can move between individual and collective work according to what is most appropriate. There is no group of strangers and no programme you have to keep pace with.
What's Included
- Three full days of private retreat work
- Four nights' accommodation at Samyama
- Accommodation in the Villa or Cottage
- All meals included
- Programme personalised around you or your private group
- One to four participants
- Daily 90-minute yoga and embodied practice
- Daily two-hour facilitated Shadow Work
- Daily 90-minute Yoga Nidra and nervous system regulation
- A curated experience each evening
- Final evening Water Ceremony
Arrival
Arrive Before the Work Begins
Your first evening is intentionally spacious. After travelling to Samyama, there is no expectation that you immediately begin deep personal work.
You have time to arrive, settle into your accommodation, eat, rest and allow some of the momentum of everyday life to begin falling away.
The following morning, the three-day retreat journey begins. After the final day's work and Water Ceremony, you remain at Samyama for one further night before departing the following morning.
This creates a four-night container around three complete days of retreat work.
Morning
Coming Into the Body
Each retreat day begins with a 90-minute yoga or embodied practice.
Shadow does not exist only in our thoughts. Our bodies can hold tension, protection, emotion and habitual responses long before the conscious mind has found words for them.
The morning practice helps quiet some of the mental noise and encourages awareness of what is actually happening in the body.
There is no requirement for previous yoga experience and no expectation of physical performance. The intention is simply to become more present before moving towards deeper exploration.
Midday
Private Shadow Work
At the centre of each day are two hours of facilitated Shadow Work, divided into two focused sessions with space between them.
Shadow Work explores aspects of ourselves that have become hidden, rejected, protected or difficult to acknowledge.
Depending on what is present, the work might explore
- Emotional triggers and recurring patterns
- Fear and shame
- Inner child experiences
- Relationships and family dynamics
- Self-worth and identity
- Anger, grief or vulnerability
- Limiting beliefs
- The roles we learned to play
- Life transitions
- Parts of ourselves we have struggled to accept
Working together
What Happens Between Us
For two or more closely connected participants, another dimension becomes possible. We may begin to notice not only our own patterns, but what happens between us.
A brother and sister may recognise roles formed within childhood. A parent and adult child may begin to understand an old dynamic differently. A couple may discover that a recurring conflict is touching something much older in each of them.
The purpose is not to decide who is right. It is to become more conscious of what is actually happening.
No two retreats follow the same path because no two people arrive carrying the same story.
Afternoon
Integration and Regulation
Insight can be powerful, but deeper work also needs time to settle. Each afternoon includes a 90-minute Yoga Nidra and nervous system regulation session.
Rather than continually pushing for another breakthrough, the pace deliberately changes. Attention returns to breathing, sensation, rest and the body's ability to move towards a more regulated state.
This creates space for what has emerged during the day to be experienced and integrated rather than simply analysed.
Over the three days, participants may also begin to recognise their own patterns of activation, withdrawal, tension or protection more clearly. That awareness can become part of the work itself.
Evening
A Different Kind of Experience
Each evening concludes with a curated experience selected to complement the retreat.
These experiences are not simply additions to the programme. After a day of exploration, they create another way of being with yourself: receiving rather than analysing, experiencing rather than explaining.
Depending on availability and what feels appropriate, this may include
- Sound Healing
- Reiki
- Therapeutic Massage
- Meditation
- Breathwork
- Fire Circle
- Other experiences available at Samyama
Final Evening
Water Ceremony
The final evening includes a Water Ceremony. This creates a symbolic moment to acknowledge what has been explored, what may be ready to be released and what you wish to carry forward.
It is not intended to suggest that three days completes the work. Rather, it marks the end of a particular journey and the beginning of whatever comes next.
Who Is This Retreat For?
You do not need to arrive with a crisis. You may simply recognise a pattern you want to understand more deeply.
This retreat may be appropriate if you are
- Repeating behaviours or relationship patterns you struggle to change
- Navigating a major transition
- Curious about Shadow Work or Jungian approaches
- Carrying unresolved experiences from the past
- Wanting to understand emotional triggers more clearly
- Exploring identity, purpose or self-worth
- Seeking deeper personal development
- Wanting to undertake meaningful work with a partner, family member, sibling or close friend
No previous experience of Shadow Work is required.
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.