Working for the spa industry I saw that people do not solve their stress situations with a massage or a bath. It was my conversation with them, that unlocked a free lifestyle. Honest conversations. The right questions and then aha moments happened. My own retreat experience was an interesting one.When I was invited from a friend of Mauritius to join him in Florence in an ashram, where I stayed for one month, it was the first time I had not planned anything of my journey. I planned to stay in the guest house of the ashram. Which would have exploded my budget of travelling and without knowing it turned out to be a stay that cost nothing. I arrived and saw my luggage going from the guest house to the volonteer house without any discussion. Which meant I would pay nothing and serve. And one day the monks wanted me even to sleep in the monk grounds, where there was no normal privacy. So I listened to my intuition and saw my luggage moving around  in the ashram without my input. I was so at peace throughout the time just watching things unfold without my constant input of how things should be and how I planned them. I ended up serving the monks and sleeping in non-private rooms. At first I wanted to change the situation. My ego was like , I dont want this and some voice said, go with the flow and dive into a new experience. It made me practice serving others and being at peace eventhough 4 women were in my room. One day  I saw a woman who moved in who was giving retreats for marshall arts once a year. And that was when it clicked, bringing massage, art, nature, experience, destress workshops, swimming, food into one place as a retreat.Now it is time to give others the opportunity to retreat into themselves to transform. it is not something that happens in a normal holiday, that is what I had learned. Everything there freed me in a way I will always be thankful for