The Inner Tide
Rediscover your rhythm to harmonize emotions and energy
1-3 May 2026
Villa Sambuca

Teacher:
Ilaria Di Donato
A Counselor, Trainer, and Supervisor, she has worked in the field of personal growth and integrated wellness since 1995.
She studied psychology and philosophy and is a meditation and mindfulness teacher. She holds master's degrees in Conflict Management, Mindfulness, and Neuroscience, and a PhD in Psychological Counseling and Body Therapies.
She is a Fitness & Wellness Coach, certified FastReset practitioner, and Reiki Master, with over 36 years of personal experience in meditation and natural health.
Throughout her journey, she has traveled and studied with teachers and therapists from various schools, integrating Western and Eastern approaches, nervous system regulation, body techniques, and energetic tools into a vision of wellness as an integrated experience of body, mind, emotions, and energy.
She accompanies individuals and groups on journeys of awareness, transformation, and realignment, combining theoretical depth with practical tools applicable to everyday life.
More info:
1-3 May 2026
Villa Sambuca
Check-in: Friday from 3 p.m. Start time: 5 p.m. Check-out: Sunday by 2:30 p.m.
Language: Italian
Included:
Full Board (Vegan Cuisine)
Accommodation: 2 nights
Practices and teachings
Return to Flow Within Your Inner Tide
We are constantly asked to live at an ever increasing speed, as if we were machines designed to produce and remain active at all times.
But in truth we are not linear. We are cyclical, complex beings.
Our body, in all its dimensions, has a rhythm. Just like the universe.
Every system within the physical body and the subtle bodies pulses between activation and rest, expansion and withdrawal.
Like the tides.
And when we lose this rhythm, we begin to feel out of alignment: hyperactive or stuck, scattered or rigid, tired without knowing why.
An Invitation to Recognize Your Inner Tide
In this 3 day retreat you will learn to know your inner tide, that subtle rhythm that regulates your emotions, energy, clarity and presence.
You will learn to recognize your energy, to perceive the subtle structure of your experience, and to read the signals of the physical body, the subtle bodies and the chakras, so you can move through the world and your life in a more natural and coherent way.
Through mindfulness practices, body awareness and energy awareness, we will explore cyclicality using the Moon as a biological and symbolic metaphor: growth, fullness, release, fertile emptiness.
Not astrology, but an archetypal language that helps you read your inner movements with greater clarity.
What You Will Experience During the Retreat
- Guided meditation and mindfulness sessions to refine awareness of your inner states.
- Nervous system regulation practices to recognize states of hyperactivation and shutdown that influence your emotions, energy and relationships.
- Energy awareness practices to perceive flows, blockages and dispersions, learning to listen more deeply to the signals of the physical body and the subtle bodies.
- An immersive morning in the forest called The Great Tide, with walking meditation, sensory activation and co regulation practices with the elements. Through forest bathing, nature becomes a spontaneous regulator of the nervous system. With mindful foraging, we will explore the respectful and symbolic gathering of wild herbs, ritualizing the act of collecting and integrating the experience consciously.
- A Full Moon ritual as a symbolic passage from noise to silence, using lunar cycles as an inner map of growth, fullness, release and fertile emptiness.
- Mindful movement and bodywork to understand the triggers that activate your emotional tide and to support rebalancing between activation and presence.
- An experiential emotional workshop to transform automatic reactions into conscious information and create your personal realignment protocol.
- Find Your Rhythm, Dance Your Soul, a free movement experience to embody your rhythm in a spontaneous and vital way.
- Detoxifying and rebalancing nutrition throughout the entire stay, designed to support energetic regulation and encourage lightness, clarity and vitality.
Join If...
- You wish to reconnect with your cyclicality, emotional, energetic and relational, and stop judging your fluctuations as fragility.
- You want to learn how to understand and regulate your nervous system instead of fighting or forcing it.
- You want to realign with your real needs of activation, rest, expansion and withdrawal, and build practical tools to honor them in daily life.
- You desire to reconnect with yourself and consciously flow within your inner tide.
A Return Home
The Inner Tide is a return home within yourself.
A transformative and deeply practical experience that brings awareness, micro rituals and simple tools into the heart of your daily and relational life.
It will not be an escape from your life, but a new way of inhabiting it.
We look forward to welcoming you.
Program Fee Including Accommodation
The retreat fee, including full board accommodation, varies according to room type:
Quadruple room: €390
Double room: starting from €450
Single room: starting from €570
All details and room availability can be found directly on the booking page.