Join Me at the Sun & Light Retreat — Five Senses Retreats, Finland 31 July – 2 August 2026 · Haltia Lake Lodge

This is what permission looks like

Designed for relaxation and reconnection, this retreat offers a unique chance to unwind and embrace the rhythm of nature.

Photo by Narahari K R on Unsplash

Some of us need permission to stop. Not the idea of stopping — we've read the books, we know — but an actual place, with actual quiet, where the stopping is already built in.

This is that place.

Five Senses Retreats is a small-group Nordic slow-travel experience rooted in Finnish nature, culture, and wellbeing — foraging, sauna, kantele music, cyanotype photography, fire and lake and forest silence. The Sun & Light retreat brings these elements together over a long summer weekend.

I'll be there as a practitioner, leading Move & Settle — offering guided mindfulness sessions across the weekend, woven into the retreat's rhythm.

If you're a longtime listener, you'll recognise the thread — movement and stillness as two sides of the same practice. This retreat is a chance to live that, not just think about it.

Move & Settle — what to expect: Guided meditation and body-based stillness practices, offered across the retreat weekend. No experience necessary. Just willingness to slow down.

The full retreat includes: Sensory experiences across all five senses, led by expert practitioners in herbalism, music, photography, movement, and Nordic wellbeing. Small group. Finnish forest.

Still, Through Movement

For people who can't switch off by sitting still — and need stillness to arrive a different way, through the body, not against it.

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Listeners can save 15% with code MiMC15 — valid for this retreat and future Five Senses Retreats. Apply at checkout.

Podcast listeners: one upcoming episode goes deep with one of the retreat's hosts. And yes — you'll be hearing about this retreat in the weeks ahead.