The Nature of Coming Home Retreat (All inclusive)

THE NATURE OF COMING HOME

Find your green, find yourself.

A 5-Day Slow Retreat in Međimurje, Croatia.

Have you ever felt like life is moving faster than you can keep up with, like you’re always giving, producing, replying, but rarely just… being?

Most of us spend our days surrounded by screens, deadlines, and other people’s needs, with very little room left to hear our own thoughts, let alone rest in them.

The Nature of Coming Home is a slow, green retreat for anyone who feels the pull to step back, to breathe, to slow down, and to reconnect with the parts of themselves that everyday life tends to crowd out.

In nature, everything slows to its own pace

Between the thermal springs, the vineyard hills, and a small town, the week is built around one simple idea: nothing here needs to be rushed.

Mornings open gently. Meals are shared, not eaten in passing. Walks have no destination other than the walking itself.

This is a space to:

• – Rest without a strict agenda.
• – Reconnect with your own rhythm.
• – Create with your hands (cooking, blending, painting).
• – Share honestly with a small circle of people.
• – Leave with something real, a ritual, a letter, a habit, not just a memory.

Through simple, grounded practices (yoga nidra, foraging and community cooking, a barefoot tea ritual, art and music, and a closing gratitude circle), participants return to their own pace, without ever being told to “relax.”

Two halves, one journey

The first half of the week unfolds in Gornje Međimurje, at a private countryside house surrounded by vineyards and quiet roads, with evenings at the thermal springs of Sveti Martin na Muri. The second half moves to Čakovec and Donje Međimurje, where nature gives way to creativity, community, and a gentle return to everyday life, closing with a shared circle, a certificate, and an evening spent watching birds along the Drava river, part of the “Amazon of Europe” biosphere reserve.

The intention of this retreat

To give people permission to stop, even briefly, and to leave with practical, simple habits they can actually keep: a five-minute ritual, a way of eating, a way of listening to others, a way of coming home to themselves.

This retreat supports rest as much as reflection, and makes space for what usually gets lost in a full, busy life.

What You’ll Take Home:

• A short daily ritual you can actually keep, not a 45-minute routine you’ll abandon in a week.
• A hand-blended tea of your own, and the habit of slowing down for it.
• A letter from yourself.
• A clearer sense of what you want to keep, change, or nurture more in daily life.
• Real connections with a small group of people who showed up for the same reason you did.

Tentative Schedule:

• Day 1 – Monday: Arrival in Gornje Međimurje
  09:00 – 11:00 Transfer from Zagreb
  11:00 – 12:00 Check-in at Terme Sveti Martin
  12:00 – 14:00 Transfer to Sukha house (lunch and relax)
  14:00 – 17:00 Yoga nidra + introduction of the participants
  17:00 Transfer to the hotel + free time + dinner

• Day 2 – Tuesday: Harvest & Connect
  09:20 – 10:30 Picking local vegetables
  10:30 – 11:00 Break
  11:00 – 15:00 Community lunch cooking 
  15:00 – 18:00 Free time
  18:00 Dinner at the Mura river
  
• Day 3 – Wednesday: Walk & Ritual
  09:20 – 10:30 Nature walk to Suhka house
  11:00 – 12:00 Break
  12:00 – 13:30 Simple techniques for health and beauty
  13:30 – 14:00 Lunch       
  14:30 – 16:30 Musical timemachine
  16:30 – 18:00 Visit to Mađerkin breg
  18:00 Transfer to the hotel and dinner                                                                 
• Day 4 – Thursday: Into town
  09:30 – 11:00 Transfer to the Čakovec city + check in at the hotel
  11:00 – 12:00 City walk to the studio
  12:00 – 13:30 Barefoot tea ritual
  13:30 – 14:00 Lunch 
  14:00 – 15:30 Art workshop
  15:30 – 18:30 Free time
  18:30 Group dinner in the city
• Day 5 – Friday: Full circle
  09:30 – 10:30 Morning yoga session
  10:30 – 11:00 Break
  11:00 – 13:00 Closing circle + certification
  13:00 – 13:30 Lunch
  13:30 – 18:30 Free time
  18:30 – 21:00 Amazing Amazon of Europe bird watching
• Day 6 – Saturday
  09:00 Transfer to Zagreb