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Breathwork and Yoga Retreat: Nervous System Edition

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Breathwork and Yoga Retreat: Nervous System Edition

January 29 - February 1, 2026

Finestrat, Spain

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3 nights, 4 days

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4 person retreat

Highlights

  • Unique off-grid mountain location

  • Tools, practices and guidance in regulating the nervous system

  • Yin Yoga in a countryside yogastudio

  • Enjoy the intimate setting and attention of a small group

  • Receive something that's truly unique and different

  • Balanced program with yoga, EFT and breathwork

Details

Maybe you recognise this. You’ve worked on your mindset and done your emotional healing work, but still, this buzz of discontentment and stress is within you. Maybe you are one of many with an overactive or deregulated nervous system. Nowadays, through the stress-full and fast pace of life and the faster-growing digital world, many of us can not cope anymore on a nervous system level. In this retreat, you will receive a nervous system soothing program that is intended to regulate your body. You will get and learn many tools to take home, for when the moment comes that you need assistance in your day-to-day life! Nature, mountains, silence, slow-living, community, regulation practices, healing, breathwork, and yoga will be the main ingredients that are going to help you in the journey to balance your body and nervous system and arrive home in a new sense of self. In this retreat, you get a chance to undo yourself from all of this and to emerge completely in nature, slow-living and a digital-less valley. The simple, ecological and old way of living of Casa Rico Retreats will bring you straight into a state of relaxation and regulation. The place has animals. Like chickens, ducks, pigs, and cats. It's surrounded by mountains, and the sun leads the day. You will wake up by sunrise, and the day ends with sunset. We will cook seasoned fruits and vegetables and make some meals over fire so you can completely immerse yourself in a natural pace in life. The different sessions and practices you will receive from the hosts and facilitators will all be around connecting back with your true self and body, regulating and soothing the nervous system, and releasing and undoing yourself from traumatic triggers from the past. Yoga, Breathwork, and some practices we learned over the years are the tools that are going to help you with that. The team of teachers, hosts, and facilitators is a perfect mix that provides you with different things. Its main host, Femke, who welcomes you from her feminine, and provides you with practices, tools, and ways to soothe the nervous system yourself. It's guest-teacher Erika who provides the Yin Yoga class, where you can completely relax and let go! And Raymond, as the main facilitator, is there to guide you into breathwork journeys and meditations around letting go of the blockage or energy that holds you in a fight/flight state. It's our intention for you you walk away with a completely different feeling and sense of yourself. A sense of being and feeling whole, relaxed, safe, and grounded. We will also send you home with tools for your further journey in life!

Location

Finestrat, Spain

Venue

Casa Rico

Reviews

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We are so much more then just a retreat-centre. Casa Rico Retreats is our home, where we live our unique and authentic way of life. With the years, our offering became an extension of our individual and family-life. The things that we have learn to love and are passionated about we have translated into our retreat-programs, activities and workshops. This makes the experience with us authentic, real and personal. Casa Rico is located in Finestrat, a mountain village in the province of Valencia. We are surrounded by mountains, and our place is fully off-grid. The guest-spaces are ecological and rustic, we have animals and love to be active with permaculture and self-sufficient projects! Beside the retreat program, workshops and sessions we provide, we love to integrate you in our magical world as well!

Free Wifi

Free Wifi

Meals

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Meals provided

Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner

Diets catered

Vegan · Vegetarian · Gluten-free · Nut Allergy Friendly · Dairy-free

All food is provided by Casa Rico. Raymond will go to the local market and supermarket to provide the ingredients. The meals are prepared by yourself or together! In the daytime, you have the freedom to make your own food in our outside community kitchen. You can enjoy your lunch outside in the sun right in front of your yurt. And with dinner at night, we share it as a group. So you have the space and freedom to make the dishes you like, when you like them and as you like them. And dinner at night we share as a community, where we all contribute a part. Think of a homemade soup and eggs from the land made by the hosts, and the guests make a salad. Or Raymond loves to provide a barbecue where guests can help prepare the fire and cut the veggies. Every dinner is unique; one time it’s all about fun and laughter, and the other time it’s about deep conversations and insights. At any time, you can prepare yourself a herbal tea and grab some snacks. There is always fruit, veggies, and nuts, and we will make sure that the foods that you love to eat are available.

Schedule

The program of this retreat will be a well-balanced thoughtout journey that's going to provide the right tools, soothing and transformation for your body and nervous-system. With Yin Yoga, practices like Tapping Method (EFT), dance and movement and breathwork we approach your journey holistic and from complementary angles. We start the first day, what's also the arrival day, with a dinner in the late afternoon/evening. This serves as starting point and first gathering together. After dinner you step into the first official sacred ceremony that's going to help you with regulating your nervous system. With an opening circle and connection practices. The second and third day will exist out of practices with Femke, an adventure to the countryside yogastudio of Erika for Yin Yoga and a breathwork session in the yurt on our plot with Raymond. The last day there is an integrating breathing journey in combination with a meditation to integrate the last few days. Afterwards there is a closing cirlce to close the journey as a group and individual.

Testimonials

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Transforming and reconnecting 3 days. Coming to the breathwork retreat with Femke was a very spontaneous decision for me. From our first call on (still back home) I felt very welcomed and safe sharing my topics with Femke. During the retreat I really ennjoyed staying in the (luxury) tent, relaxing, playing with Aram, talking to the hosts and other visitors and interacting with the animals. I always felt comfortable taking time for myself and just relaxing too (like lying around in the hammock, going on a morning hike). Breathing with Femke was a very new, intense experience for me - leading to such a fast, deeply transforming process. She always took a lot of time for sharing before and after the breathwork and shared really important knowledge with me. Now 3 months later a lot of things have changed for me - I've felt so much power to take bigger steps in direction of my individual path and releasing old patterns and anxieties. I am looking forward to staying with Femke and the family again soon! :)

Anja, Austria

I was feeling overworked from city life and wanted a place to unwind, reconnect to myself, and experience nature in its truest form. I chose this retreat because it offered the opportunity to go off-grid while being immersed in nature. It was set in a beautiful and remote location and the guide and his family sounded very warm and inviting, and they were. After spending the 4 days off-grid with Raymond, I had the space to realize certain things about my life that I then went home and changed. I feel more confident in who I am and in my own healing and incredibly connected to myself and the world around me. As long as you try to say yes to everything they recommend for you, it will allow you to grow and experience the retreat exactly how you are meant to experience it. Raymond and Femke are very good listeners and creative curators of this experience, and it's incredibly tailored to each person and what they need out of it.

Alexandra, New York, USA

Amazing experience! Needed a break and wanted to try something new. I chose this retreat as I already had flights to Alicante and this was close by. Breathwork, meditation, wrestling, singing round a campfire; a world away from city life! Ray, Femke and Aram are beautiful people. I'm definitely going back to see them!

Simon, UK

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Host

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Raymond Zijderhand

03509 Finestrat, Alicante, Spanje

Raymond is a man with love for integrating things together, permaculture, animals and practice spirituality on a practical way. The last one he does by traveling and having adventure by staying on the...

3 languages

English, Nederlands, and Español

Teaching for 2 months

Joined Insight Timer in Nov 2025

What's Included

3 Nights accommodation in a traditional and rustic Spanish finca

Home cooked food, snacks, tea

Multiple rituals and practices (like tapping method) to sooth and regulate the nervous system from Femke

2 Yin Yoga classes from Erika in her yoga studio in the countryside

3 Breathwork journeys from Raymond for healing, transformation and regulation

Time for yourself to reflect, journal, hike, relax and reconnect

Tools to take home

Not Included

Airport transfers

Flights costs

Travel insurance

Visa fee

FAQs

Guest requirements

  • Good vibes!

Cancellation policy

The remaining balance for the retreat is due 14 days prior to the start date. If this balance is paid earlier than these 14 days, you are eligible to cancel and receive a full refund of this remaining balance, provided you do so at least 14 days before the retreat begins.