
Our retreats
A Mindful Escape offers retreats in nature, serenity and practices backed by science but rooted in ancient traditions. Each retreat location is chosen based on it being secluded, energetically aligned with the retreat’s theme and also a destination that Deyana feels a close connection to. Our retreats focus on 3 core areas - personal, professional and being a human being in a digital world.
The Self Worth Reset Retreat
Rediscover your worth, reclaim your peace.
Join us for a transformative retreat designed to help you break free from self-doubt and perfectionism. Through guided coaching, somatic practices, and soul-nourishing workshops, you’ll rebuild a compassionate relationship with yourself and step back into your life with confidence. Perfect for anyone who feels they’re “never enough” or struggling post a narcissistic relationship with a partner, family or a friend. This retreat is a powerful reset for your mind, body, and most importantly sense of self.
Ideal for those seeking self-worth coaching retreats in Sofia or London.
🧘♀️ Pre-register now to save your spot and start your journey back to you.
From Burned out to back to You retreat
Feel like you’re running on empty? This retreat is for you.
Designed for professionals, caregivers, and high-achievers on the brink of burnout, this immersive experience helps you reconnect with your body, reset your nervous system, and rediscover who you are beneath the stress. Through evidence-based coaching, breathwork, and restorative rituals, you’ll leave with the energy, tools, and clarity to make real change.
The ultimate burnout recovery retreat hosted in Europe.
💛 Pre-register to be the first to access dates, early bird pricing, and bonuses.
Offline & In Real Life Retreat
Tired of endless scrolling but craving real connection?
Step away from the noise and into a retreat that helps you unplug, slow down, and experience genuine human connection — starting with yourself. This digital detox retreat is designed to foster presence, emotional resilience, and authentic relationships through mindful workshops, nature immersion, and group coaching.
A mindful retreat for anyone feeling digitally drained hosted in peaceful locations across Europe.
🌲 Pre-Register the waitlist and be the first to unplug and reconnect with what truly matters.
What do we offer as part of the retreats?
A Mindful Escape retreat will offer 5-7 days, all inclusive retreats in a European destination that upholds to our values and criteria for location selection. Each year we choose a different spot but it always closely relates to our ethos.
There will be time to relax, to socialise, to learn, to care for your physical body and your soul. And, no, it is not all about yoga. Our retreats are a journey, and are curated to show you a glimpse of what life could look like when you are aligned with yourself. Our retreats are specially crafted to support our guests in a time of need, or challenging life circumstances. We carefully guide guests towards a happier and healthier version of themselves.
In 2024, our retreats were held in an exclusive villa in a gated complex that offers 5 star amenities to our guests, while also showcasing some traditional Bulgarian features. A Mindful Escape retreat will always be a maximum of 12 people, so there is time to get to know each individual and cater to their specific need, for the best outcome for each guest.
ARE YOU SUFFERING FROM BURNOUT OR WORRYING YOU ARE ON THE PATH TO BURNING OUT?
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Leave with practical tools to reduce stress, reset your nervous system, and build daily habits that support lasting calm.
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Rediscover your personal direction and create a grounded action plan that aligns with your values.
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Learn how to recognise burnout signs early, understand the science behind it, and create space for healing.
ARE YOU CONFUSED ABOUT YOUR LIFE PATH BE THAT PERSONALLY OR PROFESSIONALLY?
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Reconnect with what truly matters through reflective coaching, nature immersion, and emotional clarity.
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Gain the confidence and mindset tools to take the next step, with support that continues after the retreat.
DO YOU STRUGGLE TO GIVE YOURSELF ADEQUATE SELF LOVE, CARE AND CONNECTION?
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Practice self-awareness and emotional regulation techniques that empower you in everyday life
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Understand the why behind each practice, and take home rituals that are realistic, grounded, and lasting.
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Experience the transformational power of presence, silence, community, and authentic rituals.
The sessions part of your retreat
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1:1 Coaching
We use a blend of methodologies to help and guide our guests during the specific timing in their life we get meet to meet them. Our founder Deyana practices a blend of coaching, CBT and standard psychology to help guests reconnect with themselves, work through stress and anxiety or manage a difficult moment a little easier.
What will the session look like:
60 min dedicated 1:1 time where current challenges, emotions and desires are discussed
Defining success for the session and overall goals. Help with goal definition if needed or unclear
Opportunity to listen and discuss
The sessions can be done, indoors, outdoors, sitting or walking
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Yoga
Stephanie is an award winning movement specialist, who creates the most transformational yoga experience for our guests every day. Stephanie has been practicing yoga since 2017.
Moving our bodies is such a fundamental part of our wellbeing. We often forget about that, stuck in our desk jobs, too busy to dedicate time to move.
During your Mindful Escape retreat you will spend at east 1 hour each day doing yoga with Stephanie. The sessions will be suitable for absolute beginners, as well as more advanced practitioners. Stephanie will guide each group to achieve maximum satisfaction and results.
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Welcoming and working with our fears
When we are looking for or on the verge of change, transformation it is more than natural to feel fear, apprehension and maybe even utter panic for some of us.
In this workshop, using the Journey ® method, we will :
Look at the benefits of fear and why it keeps on showing up
Getting to know some universal fears and some of our own
Learn how we can befriend them
Learn what our fears have got to tell us
Make them an ally allowing leverage for action
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Self-compassion through self-care
Our bodies are the divine vessels for our Souls on this journey on Earth.
Too often, we go beyond our limits and push forward, forcing our body into situations it does not enjoy. Be it at the gym, at work sitting for hours on end, at home not giving enough rest, in crowded public transport etc…
We will give it a proper break. This will be a loving and caring workshop where we will :
Brainstorm simple ways we can care for our bodies through Presence, Touch and Loving Kindness
Listen to what our cells have got to tell us
A supportive Sūkshma Marma Therapy® routine to help relieve blockages and restore harmony
Learn simple self-massage techniques that can be applied daily
How to incorporate self-love into our existing daily routine without adding more on our plate
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Meditation & Mindfulness
In our sessions we will teach our guests how to meditate successfully. Trust us, it is easier surrounded by nature and the sounds of the forrest or the sea.
The practice of mindfulness allows us to sit in the present moment. To avoid distractions. To acknowledge emotions both positive and negative, yet learning to gently push them away when they do not serve us.
We will provide 1:1 guidance to each guest who struggles with practicing meditation in their daily life, so they can take it back with them. Different approaches work for different people and our team will work with each individual to select the best way for them to practice daily, when they go back to their busy lives.
Being able to switch off, look inward and feel grounded is a gift that will allow guests to live a more fullfiling, present and less anxious life.
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Discover the forgotten Power of your Breath
Breath is Life. The way you breathe is the reflection of the way you live.
During this 90-minute workshop, using our breath alongside various other tools such as sounding, touch… we will create a safe cocoon to:
Look at various breathing dysfunctions
Explore your individual breath pattern
Go into a practice to reconnect with our “baby’s breath”
Become more conscious of our bodies and breath
Liberate some of those long held emotions and patterns holding us back
Restore balance into your nervous system
Open ourselves up to receiving
Even though this is held in a group setting, deep healing can happen at an individual level, being magnified by the energy of the group.
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Dance meditation
There is so much beauty in dance. Feeling our bodies, our skin and the air that caresses us while we move through space. These sessions are designed for people from all walks of life, no previous dance experience required.
This movement session draws inspiration from contemporary dance, yoga and mindfulness. It aims at allow participants to connect to their bodies and ideas of heritage, release emotions and access communal joy.
Stephanie leads the guests into a free dancing session, with carefully curated instructions which layer to inspire movement, release and transformation under the grooves of the music. There’s no choreography to be learned, no movements to be repeated. Bodies dance together, being only here, only now – connecting to the music.
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Exploring nature
Nature is going to be a big part of our guests transformational experience. Living a busy city life often deprives us of the beauty comprised in connecting with nature.
A Mindful Escape retreat has chosen a location surrounded by centuries old forrest, allowing for peaceful walks and hikes.
During a retreat, our guests will have the opportunity to go on a short hike one of the days. This will be a light climb and won’t be compulsory should a guest have injuries that prevent them from doing light hikes.
This will be an empowering walk, focusing on the power we hold within us and how to conquer conditioning that is holing us back in life. The conditioning making us feel we cannot achieve our goals and dreams, we say goodbye to those thoughts.
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Barre, dance and movement
So many of us are conscious of dancing, thinking we should have skills of a professional dancer in order to hit the dance floor.
During a Mindful Escape retreat our guests will learn that movement is innate to us as a species. It was given to us for a reason.
Everyone can be a dancer in their every day life an his is a sill w are confident our guests will walk out with.
Why is this important? Because your brain releases so many happy chemicals and hormones when you do so. Even a short moment of dance will set the tone of your day to happiness. We will teach you the art of letting go of limiting thoughts and fully embracing joy and movement in your kitchen, or just in your own space, if dancing on the street feels like a stretch at the moment.

Why choose a Mindful escape retreat?
Award winning teachers
Our award winning teachers have touched and helped 1000s of people between them to live a better, more fulfilling life. The sessions we provide during the retreat will help you re-start your mind, body and soul to recognise there always is light at the end of the tunnel, there always is happiness and gratitude buried deep down in us, there always is strength when we may only see weakness in this moment.
Real results
We are truly invested in all of our guests having a marvellous experience but also walking away with techniques that make their lives better in the long term. This is why this is not another yoga retreat. This is a retreat that gives real tools for our guests to cope with stress and anxiety, it asks our guests to dig deep as to what is bothering them all done in a safe and serene environment.
Authentic location
Experiencing a retreat in a very little known area that has kept its authenticity, traditions and nature for many centuries is something special that we bring into our guests’ lives. Surrounded by the forrest, birds, clean air and literal silence from your busy city life. Our villa has all amenities needed to relax in nature, including a sauna and a steam room. The rooms are airy and large, allowing you to enjoy your me time.
real connection with nature
Our guests experience a cleansing of the mind, body and soul while eating our cuisine which is prepared in line with nature and the seasonal offering of the land. We have an in-house dedicated chef who will be preparing foods that help us reduce inflammation and stress on our organs.
improving your physical health
You will move your body daily and see the difference it makes in how you feel. We have sessions to explore dance, yoga, barre and some dance meditation, which is our personal favourite. We will offer pain relief marma sessions as well, for all the pains and aches from your day to day.
improving your mental wellbeing
We will do daily meditation practices, breath work, 1:1 coaching sessions, group talking circles and workshops. You will be able to discuss your challenges, get structured feedback and support, while connecting with like minded individuals, helping you on your healing path. We all go through moments where we need a little extra support to feel our best.
Emma:
“I joined A Mindful escape retreat in a moment where I needed to disconnect from the world. I felt consistently overwhelmed with my day to day and struggled to disconnect and carve time out to care for my mind, body and soul. The experience was truly transcendental, I loved moving my body and made me reconsider my daily practices once I was done with the retreat. Would definitely recommend. ”

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