“Within yourself is a stillness, a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself."
Winter's Whisper
Your Truth Attuning
February 14-20, 2026
Montferrato, Piedmont, Italy.
Listen: Winter's Whisper: Your Truth Attuning
You are invited to embark on a sacred journey within, attuning to the quiet wisdom of winter’s energies. In February 2025, at the peaceful Montferrato Retreat Center in the mountains of Piedmont, Italy, we gather to honor winter’s call for introspection and self-connection. This retreat, Winter’s Whisper: Your Truth Attuning, invites you to tune deeply into your breath, align with your inner truth, and embrace stillness.
In this serene sanctuary, we will cultivate practices of deep listening, gentle movement, and sound healing to explore our authentic selves. Through guided meditation, breathwork, and grounding rituals, you will create space to let go of distractions, sit in peaceful silence, and listen to the whispers of your true essence. Join us as we honor the season's rhythm, opening our hearts to clarity, renewal, and a deeper connection with our inner truth.
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Foundational Intentions
Season: Winter's Essence
Winter is a time of quiet reflection, where nature retreats into stillness and invites us to do the same. It’s a season that calls for deep introspection, for slowing down and tuning into the rhythms of our breath and inner voice. Under the winter moon, we have the chance to explore our inner landscapes, honoring the feminine, yin energies that encourage rest and gentle self-discovery. This season guides us to listen intently—to hear our own truth—and to express ourselves authentically as we connect with the deeper waters of our soul.
Elementals
Winter’s elements of Ether, Akasha, Space, and Earth hold a profound sense of openness and grounding, guiding us into the depths of inner awareness. These energies invite us to settle into the vastness within, to experience the expansiveness of silence, and to find our grounding in Earth’s steady embrace. The fluidity of Water flows through this season, supporting feminine wisdom, intuitive listening, and the resonance of sound. Through practices like mantra and chanting, we access the throat chakra, awakening our voice to speak our truth. Winter’s elemental blend encourages release and renewal as we honor the sacred space within.
Genius Loci: Montferrato’s Quiet Embrace
Nestled in the serene hills of Montferrato, the retreat center offers a sanctuary for introspection and healing. Surrounded by timeless landscapes and the enduring beauty of nature, this haven supports a journey into stillness, where every detail—down to the ancient stones and whispering trees—carries an energy of peace and grounding. In this sacred space, you are invited to honor winter’s call to pause, to listen, and to reconnect with your essence. Montferrato’s embrace provides the perfect setting for a retreat into authenticity and the gentle unfolding of your truest self.
What awaits you at this retreat...
Quietude & Rest
VILLA MONASTERO AT OPMD RETREAT MONTFERRATO
Quality level: ☀︎☀︎☀︎☀︎
Steeped in the peaceful countryside of Montferrato, our retreat villa is a beautifully restored former monastery from the 1500s, offering a harmonious blend of history and modern luxury. This serene sanctuary invites you to rest, reflect, and rejuvenate within its sacred walls, making it the perfect setting to unwind and reconnect with your true self.
Covering over 450 m², the villa features a Grand Salle—a former refectory that now serves as a magnificent 200m² space for communal gatherings and dinners. In the villa’s 19th-century wing, you’ll find cozy accommodations, a spa room, and a cinema, with a swimming pool just outside, perfect for moments of tranquility. The villa is designed to provide every guest with a restful and restorative experience amidst nature's beauty.
The villa offers a range of accommodations:
- 3 double rooms with private bathrooms
- 2 double rooms with shared bathroom
- 1 single room with shared bathroom
- 1 quadruple room with a private bathroom
- 1 yurt for up to 6 people, located close to the villa with shared bathroom facilities
Each room is thoughtfully designed to balance comfort with the villa's historic charm, ensuring a deeply nourishing retreat experience.
Sumptuous Replenishments
FOR BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT
Quality level: ☀︎☀︎☀︎☀︎☀︎
At OPMD Retreat Monferrato, you are invited to nourish both body and spirit with thoughtfully prepared meals. The vegetarian menu features fresh, organic, seasonal, and locally sourced ingredients, crafted to support holistic practices and enhance the retreat experience.
Meals are served buffet-style in the Grand Salle of the villa, offering balanced and varied dishes that promote wellness and vitality. Each dining experience is designed to satisfy hunger while fostering a communal atmosphere that encourages connection and mindfulness among participants.
In addition to nourishing the body, the beautifully restored 16th-century monastery and wellness center provide a tranquil environment for spiritual rejuvenation. With its serene design, inviting spa facilities, and lush surroundings, this retreat serves as a haven for relaxation and inner reflection.
Come unwind in the spa or enjoy the peaceful ambiance of the grounds, allowing nature to soothe the spirit as you replenish your energy and reconnect with your essence. OPMD Retreat Monferrato harmoniously integrates every element to support each individual's journey toward wholeness and well-being.
Practices On & Off the Mat
KUNDALINI YOGA / MANTRA EXPLORATION / MEDITATION / SOUND HEALING
“Yoga is not just what we practice on the mat—it’s a journey of self-discovery, both in movement and stillness, on and off the mat.”
Eunice’s Practice:
Kundalini, Vinyasa, Yin, Nidra, Sound baths with Alchemy Crystal Bowls
Intensity: ★★★☆☆
Gentleness: ★★★★★
Spirituality: ★★★★★
Eunice, a certified 200-hour Kundalini yoga teacher from Kundalini University, with further 300-hour master studies in Radiant Yoga, specializes in sound healing with Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls. Her passion for pranayama, mantra, and meditation allows her to guide you through practices that work with the subtle energies of your being.
The retreat will include daily practices of Kundalini yoga, breathwork, meditation, and sound healing. These sessions are designed for all levels, helping you tap into your inner rhythm. Each kriya and breathwork session will be a powerful tool for your personal transformation, offering something you can take home to incorporate into your daily practice.
OUR COMMITTED VISION
This winter retreat is a journey for those seeking to reconnect with their authentic selves, attuning to the stillness and quiet wisdom that winter offers. Rooted in the gentle, reflective energies of the season, it invites participants to embrace introspection, nurturing a deeper listening and true expression. Through sound healing, breathwork, and practices of inner alignment, this retreat serves as a sanctuary for reconnecting with one’s inner voice and creating space for genuine transformation. Here, participants are supported in tuning in to their truths, and aligning their purpose with renewed clarity.
Programme Highlights:
Throughout this seven-day retreat, participants will immerse in practices designed to foster inner attunement, clarity, and self-expression. Each day begins with gentle yoga and pranayama, grounding the body and quieting the mind. Workshops and guided meditations will encourage the release of untruths, inviting a renewed connection to inner peace. Nature walks, reflective journaling, and small group sharing will deepen the experience, providing tools for navigating true growth with authenticity.
This retreat offers a nurturing space to align with winter’s introspective rhythms, rekindling self-awareness and embracing the essence of true self-expression.
Day 1: Arrival and Opening
Set intentions with an opening circle, grounding yoga, and a ceremony to begin the journey.
Day 2: Deep Listening
Tune inward with meditation and introspection, exploring the power of deep listening.
Day 3: Authentic Expression
Open pathways of self-expression through yoga, creative activities, and chanting.
Day 4: Inner Harmony
Balance through sound healing, journaling, and a circle for unified voices.
Day 5: Identifying Untruths
Explore and identify untruths with reflective exercises and gentle practices.
Day 6: Expanding Self
Reconnect with nature and expand into your true self through grounding practices.
Day 7: Integration and Closing
Integrate experiences with final reflections, closing circle, and gratitude ceremony.
The retreat is a sacred stillness that invites you to listen deeply, attune to your inner truth, and embrace the whispers of your authentic self.
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About Your Retreat Host: Eunice
Eunice is originally from Hong Kong and has now been living in the South of France since 2019. She’s a creative soul starting from her study in Architecture, career in Interior Design and entrepreneurship in eco friendly paints; and since 2016 became an avid meditator utilising the crystal alchemy singing bowls. In 2019, she received her 2 week sound healer training program with the International Association of Sound Therapy in Alcalali, Spain. In 2021, she completed Level 1 and 2 Crystal Alchemy Sound Healing 4 day Intensive Training with Professor Jeralyn Glass.
In the same year, she and her sister in Hong Kong started Crystal Bowl of Light, each of them a guardian to their respective temples in France and Hong Kong. Today, Crystal Bowl of Light is an accredited training school by The Complementary Medical Association serving individuals and groups with immersive Alchemy Crystal Sound Healer Training, discovery course, sound healing journeys, meditation classes, 1:1 individual healing sessions, and integrative & collaborative workshops and events for brands, vips and organizations. They are also official partner distributors of Crystal Tones Alchemy Crystal Bowls in France and Hong Kong serving the global community of healers and lightworkers expanding their offerings with crystal singing bowls.
Eunice has practised yoga for 30 years, and received her yoga teacher training in Kundalini yoga in 2023. She is passionate about Mantra, Pranayama in Kundalini yoga and found the teachings she received as a yoga teacher deepen her knowledge of chakras, the subtle systems of our physical body as well as the subtler realms beyond. Her passion is weaving knowledge and wisdom as she has gained through her own training and experiences from yoga, meditation, mantra, breathworks, personal development, into the greater understanding of us and beyond through sound healing. Her mission is to share this purpose to learn about our “Self” - tuning to the truth of our highest vibrational self.
Pause
Dream
Nourish
Observe
Move
Gather
Listen
Retreat
Soak
You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.
- Eckhart Tolle
Room Types
Quadruple Room
Single Size Bed, Shared Private Bathroom
All inclusive retreat package price:
€ 3090
Early Bird Pricing : Limited spots
€ 2630
Double Room
Single size Bed, Shared Private Bathroom
All inclusive retreat package price:
€ 3390
Early Bird Pricing : Limited spots
€ 2890
Single Room
King Size Bed, Single Occupancy, Shared Private Bathroom
All inclusive retreat package price:
€ 4230
Early Bird Pricing : Limited spots
€ 3600
Our Daily Schedule
Morning meditation/journal session
Breakfast nourish
Morning Session: discussion / yoga / meditation / journal
Lunch break
Afternoon session: group activity / practice
Outdoor activities
Free time to integrate / reflect
Dinner
Evening sound bath / share circle / chill
*run down of the day may vary depending on daily workshop themes and activities,
meals and free time will be adjusted accordingly to suit the daily program where necessary
Retreat activities in planning: yoga, soundbath, meditation, group work, journaling, nature walk, 1:1 coaching time
Practical Info / FAQs
Who is this retreat for?
This retreat is for anyone yearning for introspection and authentic connection with their true selves. It’s perfect for those who wish to slow down, reflect, and embrace the quiet energies of winter through yoga, meditation, and creative practices. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced practitioner, you’ll find a nurturing and supportive space to explore deep listening and personal truths. If you feel called to pause, tune in, and harmonize with the stillness of nature, this retreat is for you.
What is included?
Your retreat package includes:
- Daily yoga and meditation sessions
- Breathwork and creative workshops
- Guided nature walks and sensory explorations
- Accommodation in a serene, nature-inspired setting
- Three nutritious and delicious meals daily, made with locally sourced ingredients
- Access to all retreat facilities, including the swimming pool and relaxation areas
- Welcome ceremony and closing circle
- All materials for workshops and journaling
What is excluded?
The following are not included in the retreat package:
- Airfare or transportation to and from the retreat location
- Optional excursions or activities not listed in the retreat itinerary
- Travel insurance (recommended for all participants)
- Personal expenses, including additional spa treatments, souvenirs, or extra snacks
- Any additional meals or beverages outside the provided retreat schedule
Food Allergies & Intolorences
We are committed to providing a nourishing and inclusive dining experience. Please let us know in advance if you have any food allergies or intolerances, and we will do our best to accommodate your dietary needs. Our plant based meals are prepared with fresh, local ingredients, and we offer a variety of options to suit different preferences, including vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free choices.
Optional Activities
In addition to the retreat program, there are optional activities available to enhance your experience. These may include:
- Additional guided hikes or nature walks
- Spa treatments such as massages or facials
- Excursions to local attractions or cultural sites
Transportation
Transportation to and from the retreat location is not included in the retreat package. However, we can assist you with arranging airport transfers or car rentals upon request. Detailed directions and travel recommendations will be provided upon booking to help you plan your journey. Whether you’re flying in or driving, we’ll ensure you have all the information you need to arrive smoothly and stress-free.
Deposit & Payment Plans
To secure your spot, a deposit of €500 is required at the time of booking. We offer flexible payment plans to accommodate your financial needs. You can choose to pay in full at the time of booking to take advantage of the early bird discount, or opt for a payment plan that spreads the cost over several installments. Full payment is required 60 days before the retreat start date. Please contact us to discuss the best option for you.
