INNER WATERS RETREAT IN SLOVENIA, 17 to 21 September 2025
Inner waters represent the essence of the relationship we have to ourselves and to any other being on this planet. Inner water represents our emotional, physical and spiritual wellbeing and directs our place in the world. The more fluid our inner waters, the better we feel in our skin, the better our relations and more connected we feel to the universe.
Through gentle somatic movements, transformative aquatic bodywork and sacred herbal ceremonies we shall provide the framework for healing of our inner waters.
Magic of healing in the water and with the water, a personal janzu session, transformative group temazcal ceremony in pristine Slovene nature, voice liberation workshops and bodywork that will unblock the fluidity of your inner organs are all integrated into this retreat to provide you a new balance of inner waters and new direction. You are invited to flow with your emotion and your intuition as they naturally unfold.
The retreat offers an integration of different healing techniques, wild nature and human connection that is unique to this place and time. This retreat is unique and unrepeatable. The retreat will be held in English, with translation into Slovenian and Spanish available upon request.
Join the international group and co-create the energy of space with your presence.
Are you ready to accept the invitation?
PROGRAMME OF THE INNER WATER RETREAT
1st DAY – ARRIVAL – WEDNESDAY 17 September 2025
2:30 PM | Arrival, Check-in, discovering of the village and free use of the pool
5:00 PM | Opening ceremony and intention setting
6:00 PM | Getting to know each other
7:00 PM | Vegetarian dinner
8:30 PM | Water healing ceremony
10:00 PM | Stargazing and sleep
2nd DAY – THURSDAY 18 September 2025
7:00 AM | Herbal tea and sunrise meditation in silence.
7:30 AM | Hatha yoga and breathwork
8.30 AM | Vegetarian breakfast
10:30 AM | Group workshop: Somatic Movement in water
1:00 PM | Vegetarian lunch
3:00 PM | Group workshop: Voice Liberation
5:00 PM | Group workshop: Somatic Movement in water
6:00 PM | Individual janzu sessions
7:00 PM | Vegetarian Dinner
8:30 PM | Blue Lotos Ceremony
10:00 PM | Stargazing and sleep
3rd DAY – FRIDAY 19 September 2025
7:00 AM | Herbal tea and sunrise meditation in silence
7:30 AM | Hatha yoga and breathwork
8:30 AM | Vegetarian breakfast
10:30 AM | Group workshop: Somatic Movement in water
1:00 PM | Vegetarian lunch
2:30 PM | Nature immersion: getting to know the local wild flora and medicinal plants
4:00 PM | Group workshop: Somatic Movement in water
6:00 PM | Individual janzu sessions
7:00 PM | Vegetarian dinner
8:30 PM | Singing circle
10:00 PM | Stargazing and sleep
4th DAY – SATURDAY 20 September 2025
7:00 AM | Herbal tea and sunrise meditation in silence
7:30 AM | Hatha yoga and breathwork
9:00 AM | Vegetarian breakfast
10:30 AM | Workshop: learning how to give yourself a proper belly massage
1:00 PM | Vegetarian lunch
2:30 PM | preparation and departure to temazcal (other sacred location in deep nature)
5:00 PM | Temazcal sweat lodge ritual
9:00 PM | Light dinner
10:00 PM | Stargazing and sleep
5th DAY – SUNDAY 21 September 2025
7:00 AM | Herbal tea and sunrise meditation by the river.
7:30 AM | Hatha yoga and breathwork
8:30 AM | Vegetarian breakfast
10:30 AM | Group workshop: Somatic Movement in water
1:00 PM | Vegetarian lunch
2:00 PM | Closing ceremony
3:00 PM | Departure
Please note that this agenda can still be subject to modest changes.
LANGUAGE OF THE RETREAT: The main language used will be English. Translation to Slovenian or Spanish is available upon request.
GROUP: we expect a small international community from 6 to up-to 12 people
DESCRIPTION OF THE VENUE:
This homestead is nestled into the heart of a traditional Slovenian village, Hinje, which is surrounded by pristine forest. This retreat unfolds in a traditional country house that has been a gathering place for generations. It is surrounded by wood-heated pool and orchard.
Slovenia is a land where the water really shaped the landscape and the land where water has been traditionally considered sacred, thus the land itself offers the perfect sanctuary to explore your emotional and spiritual fluidity.
Homestead in Hinje, Slovenia, is also a campervan friendly destination. You can set up your camper and you can also prolong your stay in Slovenia, having a memorable summer vacation. Camper friendly locations are available in this brochure: (https://camperstop.si/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/camperstop-2024-brosura.pdf)
WHAT MAKES THIS RETREAT SPECIAL?
Inner Waters Retreat is guided by three facilitators who've united their expertise to craft this one-of-a-kind experience. Their integrated approach guarantees that you will have access to transformative techniques and tools in every session - each revealing a new layer of yourself, each propelling you toward your highest potential.
This retreat is rather a ceremony than a retreat. It is a convergence of healing arts, wild nature, and human connection. Its uniqueness comes from the fact that it combines the unique knowledge and connection of two different cultures and two different continents and two different countries: Mexico and Slovenia.
Mastering your inner flow will enable you to foster your inner peace and take space in the chaos in the world around us by bring gentleness and order to it.
DESCRIPTION OF THE RETREAT
It is a retreat that will purposefully balance your inner waters.
The art is to listen to this gentle voice inside of us and act according to its teachings. Inner waters teach us how to take up the space with full flexibility and responsiveness, maintaining our core essence intact while taking account of personal boundaries of other human beings.
We have carefully designed each self-discovery and emotional liberation experience to equip you with empowering tools for daily life that you can share also with your loved ones.
Your inner waters will be brought to balance through the loving language of:
● Janzu aquatic therapy
● Chi Nei Tsang abdominal massage
● Voice liberation
● Temazcal sweat lodge
● Somatic Movement Workshop
● Morning Yoga & Vipassana Meditation
● Sacred herbal ceremonies
This retreat is for those who:
● feel "stuck" in emotional loops or perfectionism
● crave deeper connections but fear losing themselves
● know their voice matters but struggle to find it and voice it
The goal is to remind you that you’re already whole. Retreat will enable you to connect to your inner water wells and your inner strengths, talents and inner wisdom.
WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS PACKAGE?
● 5 days, 4 nights in an authentic Slovenian country house, surrounded by orchards, wildflower meadows and pristine forests
● 3 nourishing and locally sourced daily vegetarian meals – so that food already connects you to the local landscape
● Transformative Water Bodywork – Janzu aquatic therapy in a private pool with hotwater of 34 degrees (includes one private 60-minute Janzu session per person) provides for a deep emotional release by effortlessly floating in warm waters
● Somatic Movement workshops – unravel stored trauma through earth-anchored embodiment, rewrite body memory.
● Vocal Liberation – where your unfiltered voice meets ancient trees, and echoes return truths you’d forgotten you carried.
● Learning how to give yourself a transformative Chi Neit Tsang abdominal massage - so that you will be able to treat your abdomen with greater love and care every day for the rest of your life
● Daily practices in emotional fluidity: morning Yoga & Vipassana meditations
● Morning tea purposefully prepared from wild herbs - hold your cup of tea with awareness and use that time for setting intentions for our daily practice
● Evening sacred ceremonies with pure water, blue lotus, cacao - to use the time for contemplation and daily integration
● Embodied nature rituals: forest bathing and wild herb foraging
● Purification in the ancient Temazcal sweat lodge, where volcanic stones and medicinal steam cleanse body, mind and spirit, in the way it´s been practiced by Native American ancient traditions.
● Time for deep nature immersion – silent hikes to pristine forests and stargazing from open wild meadows.
● Experience the power of water-wise community through Authentic Relating circles, where every voice becomes a tributary to our collective river.
● Lasting integration tools – comprehensive post-retreat guidebook and supportive connection with facilitator after retreat to help anchor your experience.
EARLY BIRD PACKAGE PRICES until 31 July 2025
‘The Timber Nest’ - Private Apartment = 1465 EUR
Private king size bed and private shower, only one apartment available, with 22% VAT included
‘The Hops & Honey’ - Shared Space = 1085 EUR
Shared spaces and shared bathroom, 9 beds available, with 22% VAT included
‘The Alpine Nomad’ (Camper Parking) = 815 EUR
For those who carry homes on wheels. Parking is (almost) unlimited. With 22% VAT included. They do have an electric charging station.
‘The Apple Orchard Nest’ (Camping in your tent) = 677 EUR
Claim your private circle of grass beneath those apple trees that have sheltered dreamers. Please bring your own camping equipment. Price with 22%VAT included
PACKAGE PRICES from 31 July 2025 until the start of the retreat
‘The Timber Nest’ - Private apartment = 1665 EUR
Private king size bed and private shower, only one apartment available, normal price with 22% VAT included
‘The Hops & Honey’ - Shared Room = 1222 EUR
Shared spaces and shared bathroom, 9 beds available, with 22% VAT included
‘The Alpine Nomad’ - Camper Parking = 1015 EUR
For those who carry their homes on wheels. Parking (almost) unlimited. Price with with 22% VAT included.
‘The Apple Orchard Nest’ - Camping in your tent = 877 EUR
Claim your private circle of grass beneath gnarled apple trees that have sheltered dreamers since the 1930s. Please bring your own camping equipment. Price with 22%VAT included
Information and booking:
=> Dunja Perko (via email: dunja.perko@coleurope.eu)
Direct booking link in English:
https://lifetime-experience.com/?re-product-id=311598&rwstep=product
Direct Booking link in Slovene:
https://shaman.si/retreat-prebujanje-notranjih-voda/
DESCRIPTION OF THE THREE FACILITATORS:
Dunja Perko
Dunja used to be a diplomat and has been posted in Europe and Latin America but in order to address her health challenges she has returned to nature. In 2024, she founded her own private practice, Reviving Inner Wisdom, to educate adults about alternative healing techniques and shamanic herbalism.
She is reviving sacred plant medicine, which has been traditionally present in Slovenia and broader Slavic cultural space. She has tested therapeutic benefits of belladonna and red fly agaric on herself before she could offer that as a sacred medicine to others. She upgraded her experience by studying the use of psychedelics for therapeutic purposes.
Over the past decade she has been trained in those healing techniques that have led her through a breakthrough (Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chi Nei Tsang abdominal massage, Transactional Analysis, Neuromechanics, Tesla Metamorphosis and Shamanic Healing Techniques). She is offering an integrated approach to healing. She works holistically on the intersection of the body, mind, soul and ether, while always searching for the best herbs to support her clients.
Recently, she has discovered water therapies. As she is a cancer in horoscope, she feels the water speaks to her. The depth of the experience of healing in the water and with the water continues to fascinate her. She was trained in janzu by Ivan Gonzalez in Hungary (2024) and in Mexico (2025). She was trained in aquasoma by Giovanni Baccarani in Spain (2025).
She is ‘the local’ in this group and should you need travel advice, how to combine the retreat with your summer holidays and thus extend your stay in Slovenia or Croatia, she can provide you with lots of interesting ideas and must-see places.
Ivan Flores Lagos
Ivan is a polymath healer weaving engineering and management precision with artistic soul, Iván bridges worlds as co-founder of Juntxs Somos un Bosque & DeepRoot Movement Hatha Yoga teacher (300hr), contemporary dancer, contact improvisation guide, and journalist with his devotion to Vipassana meditation. His work cultivates social transformation using movement, voice and ritual as tools for community healing.
His engineering mind meets ceremonial heart in retreat design—mentoring practitioners worldwide through his signature blend of:
Embodied Activism (using dance/vocal work/meditation for social change); Sacred Systems Thinking (permaculture as healing framework) and Village-Building Technologies (decision-making through somatic awareness).
A lifelong student of liberation arts, he has developed his unique approach to vocal liberation through extensive work with many professionals and independent research and has blended non-violent communication techniques with permaculture principles for land-based activism.
Currently, he is touring globally as musician and tour manager for the medicine music project Ima Nazca, he simultaneously mentors emerging facilitators in his signature methodology - where artistic practice becomes a vessel for systemic change
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