KUNDALINI YOGA RETREAT 2025 :: REGISTRATION OPEN
Kundalini Yoga Retreat Italy
Dates: 11 - 18 July 2025
Location: Ventimiglia, Italy
Teachers: Marieke de Lange & Tim Schipper
Group size: 26. Only 1 spot left!
Price: 725 euro for the whole program including all meals and camping with your own tent. Excluding flights & transport, extra costs for lodging or renting a tent.
Kundalini Yoga retreat Italy - Soul Connections
This year is our ten year anniversary of hosting the annual Kundalini Yoga retreat in the gorgeous foothills of the Ligurian Alps close to the Mediterranean Sea. Over the past decades many souls have spent these deep transformational weeks with us, building a strong soul connection, not just from human to human but also with the land. This location is serving as a loving container for us to come together, dive deep within and once again feel a strong connection with nature, not as a visitor but as an intrinsic part.
During this week we don’t live on the land, we live with the land, feeling how we are all part of the web of life in which everything is connected, recognizing how everything is animated by Spirit. This way of living brings back a sense of wonder, opens our hearts for the sacredness of life and our eyes to all the miracles and beauty that surrounds us, it’s a celebration of being here and now.
We are really looking forward to welcome you as a member of this gathering and celebrate life with us with daily early morning Sadhana during sunrise, deep dive Kundalini Yoga sessions, relaxing afternoon sessions, delicious (vegan) food, lots of laughter and fun, meaningful conversations, enjoying the natural pool, new friends for life, mantras and ceremony.
Location
The retreat is given in the beautiful hills surrounding Ventimiglia in the Northern part of Italy. There are several (basic) lodging possibilities you can also camp between the olive trees in your own tent, camper, or a rented tent.
Daily schedule
- 05:30 – 07:45 | Early Morning Yoga
- 08:00 – 09:00 | Seva
- 09:00 – 09:30 | Breakfast
- 10:30 – 13:00 | Morning Yoga
- 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch
- 16:30 – 18:00 | Afternoon Yoga
- 18:30 – 19:30 | Dinner
- 20:15 – 20:30 | Evening Meditation
Intensity
This is a deep-practice retreat designed for full immersion, inviting you to embrace the experience with dedication. Feeling a motivation to follow the daily schedule is key, as this shared structure supports our journey together.
Experience with Kundalini Yoga is recommended, and we encourage you to join online classes with Tim & Marieke beforehand. Their teaching style may differ from what you're used to, so this will help you familiarize yourself and ease into the retreat experience.
To maintain a sensitive and contained space, you are strongly encouraged to stay at the retreat location for the full 7 days, except when the program includes group outings. This deepens our Soul connections—the heart of our week together.
Accommodation
Our retreat takes place in a stunning natural setting atop a mountain near Ventimiglia, Italy. Enjoy breathtaking views of the Mediterranean Sea and surrounding mountain valleys. Accommodation options are available for an additional fee, or you’re welcome to bring your own tent at no cost. Explore the options below:
Oak House
Booked
Rustic small house with a double bed, a small kitchen, and a private toilet. Showers are shared. Including bedsheets and a towel.
Tree House
Booked
Treehouse stay with an optional open rooftop to sleep under the stars. Small double bed, shared facilities. Including, bedsheets and a towel.
Vineyard House
Booked
Basic house with a stunning vineyard view, 2 single beds (for single or double occupancy), and shared facilities. Including bedsheets and a towel.
Mountain House
Booked
Private house for two persons, a 7-minute walk along a small trail to the Yoga Space, with its own sanitary facilities. Including bedsheets and a towel.
Folding trailer
Booked
Cozy folding trailer with a comfortable mattress and private space, perfect for solo retreat participants. Includiing bedsheets and a towel.
XL tent
Booked
Extra-large, spacious tent for 2–4 people (no single occupancy) with shared facilities. Including sleeping pad, bedsheets and a towel.
Large white tent
€150
Spacious and comfortable tent for single or double occupancy with shared facilities. Including sleeping pad, bedsheets and a towel.
Large green tent
Booked
Spacious and comfortable tent for single or double occupancy with shared facilities. Including sleeping pad, bedsheets and a towel.
Single tent
Booked
Rent a basic single tent with a sleeping pad at the campsite, including bedsheets and a towel.
Arrival/ departure time
We warmly welcome you from 16:00 on Friday, July 11th. The retreat begins in the late afternoon at 18:00 with a light dinner. Our journey together concludes the following Friday, July 18th, after breakfast.
Transportation
Reach the retreat in the following way: Fly to Nice Airport (France) and from there you take a short bus ride to the train station in Nice. From there you start the beautiful train ride (50 min) along the coastline of the côte d’azur to Ventimiglia (Italia); from Ventimiglia you take a short (15 min) taxi ride up the mountain to our retreat place. We’ll also share the participant list, so you can travel together and/ or share the taxi from Ventimiglia. The other option is to rent a car from Nice airport or travel with your own car.
Testimonials
The retreat on top of the hill in Italy has been a very special week. Great to be diving into Kundalini yoga practice, seeing beautiful sunrises at Sadhana (gave me goosebumps every day!), beautiful people to share this week with, doing seva and a fantastic vision quest which gave me some good insights. It has been a wonderful journey and I would love to come again next year.
I so far had the opportunity to experience the Kundalini Yoga retreats in Italy twice. I had done some yoga before, even some Kundalini Yoga, but to be honest, I had no idea what to expect that first time I joined. Spending a whole week, at an indescribable beautiful location, with lovely weather and 25 amazing people, has really touched me. I really got a chance to go ‘inward’, to come home to myself, something I had never experienced before. Very special!
It was a very special yoga retreat and the classes are fantastic! I’m grateful for you and what the retreat has given me. Happy to come again on the next retreat on the hill in Italy and enjoy the magical sunrises during Sadhana.
This retreat has given me so much. In the week after it I noticed I was much more able to concentrate myself and my memory improved! Since then I am doing a meditation every day and that feels great. I’m so happy about this. I can truly recommend this retreat experience to everyone.
The atmosphere and safety you guys create during this retreat is thus that I can totally surrender to everything. And the way you explain things is a true enrichment of the process.
A week full of self-love and making new friends. Everything is taken care of: healthy food made by superb chefs, a fixed schedule, the sun, nature, clean accommodation and an open air shower to enjoy the mountain view. Only thing you have to do is opening up yourself to let the Kundalini flow, to work on yourself, supported by the energy, the love and the kindness of the group. Guided by Marieke & Tim who take care of you in any situation. Who smile throughout the week and who make Kundalini yoga more down to earth than you would expect beforehand.
Everything was organised to perfection! You seemed to enjoy giving this retreat just as much as the participants enjoyed being there and that made it a very special and fun experience.
This retreat has been very special, I experienced many beautiful things and I have met very nice people. Never guessed a group process could be so good (I’m not really a ‘group person’) and to see the goodness in everybody.
It's a week in which I've gained useful insights about myself. Some of the insights had been slumbering on the background for a while, so they were not totally new to me. But what I like about a week like this, is that you make time to stand still, get to the essence and make space for the things you would like tot change. For me the week is all about self development. Also there was enough time to relax in between the sessions so it felt like a holiday as well. I love the accommodation and teachers; the surrounding is beautiful and peaceful, the accommodations are pretty basic which matches the yoga well, and Tim and Marieke are incredibly skilled in leading such a week. I really recommend joining this retreat.
