The Aliveness Retreat - an immersion into the living field of energy

Over seven days, guided by Juno Burger and Mario Santoni, you will enter into a rhythm of practice that strengthens sensitivity, resilience, and inner spaciousness. You will explore the full spectrum of energies that move through life—light and shadow, contraction and expansion, stillness and intensity. By meeting them all, you cultivate a profound freedom: the freedom to live connected, alive, and at ease with the ever-changing dance of existence. This retreat is more than a program—it is a lived experience of returning to your natural state of flow, where awareness, compassion, and life energy unite. Due to the international audience, all classes will be presented in English.

The Essence of Aliveness

Energy—also called chi, life force, or simply aliveness—is the invisible thread that connects all things. It is the current that animates your body, the pulse beneath your emotions, the rhythm of nature itself.

Like water, energy can flow, stagnate, nourish, erode, or polish. When it flows freely, life feels vibrant, inspired, and in harmony. When it stagnates, stress, conflict, and disconnection arise, affecting our health, relationships, work, and creativity. Although unseen, energy is always present. When the flow of your chi is restored, life unfolds organically—with less effort, more joy, and a natural rhythm.

This retreat is an invitation to step into seven days of immersion—a living laboratory where awareness, compassion, breath, and movement become your guides. You will not just learn about energy; you will enter into direct relationship with it—sensing, releasing, and expanding your capacity to flow with life as it is.

Four Pathways into the Field of Energy

Qi Gong – Flowing with Life Force

Qi Gong becomes a living dialogue with life energy. Through the body, we learn to reconnect to the Three Treasures—to gather, cultivate, nourish, and circulate energy. This ancient art of aligning breath, movement, and intention teaches you to cultivate chi with grace and precision. Through flowing postures, grounded stillness, and mindful repetition, you will learn to feel the subtle currents within your body, dissolve blockages, and strengthen your vital energy. Qi Gong reconnects you to nature’s rhythm, helping you sense the qualities of Yin and Yang within your energy—revealing that energy is not separate from you; you are energy in motion

Breathwork – Unlocking Inner Power

The breath is a direct gateway into your energy system.Through powerful guided breathwork sessions, you will reconnect your vitality with your awareness, realigning your being with the deeper purpose of your life. This transformative practice opens the body and nervous system, dissolves stored tension, and allows access to deeper layers of presence. Breathwork awakens emotional release, inner clarity, and heightened states of vitality. Each breath becomes a reminder that life energy is always here—waiting to be received fully.

Energy Clearing – Awareness and Compassion in Action

Energy Clearing opens the doorway to awareness and compassion. Through Systemic Constellations, the Dyad Inquiry Process, and Energy Clearing, you will refine your sensitivity to the subtle fields within and around you. By consciously engaging with different frequencies of your inner and outer landscape, you’ll learn to recognize, acknowledge, and embrace them in compassionate awareness. This multidimensional practice dissolves tension at its root, restores natural flow, and expands your energetic bandwidth—so you remain grounded, spacious, and compassionate, whatever life presents.

The Dyad Inquiry Process – Communication and Self-Discovery

The Dyad is a beautiful form of communication and self-inquiry practiced between two people. In this retreat, we use the Dyad process to train our awareness and our compassionate capacity to be genuinely available for ourselves and for others. Through this deep presence and mutual attunement, a natural process of healing an integration unfolds—one that restores authenticity, compassion, and oneness. Dyads cultivate presence, empathy, and authentic relating, inviting a living experience of compassion in action.

Synergy in Practice

Each of these practices is a powerful path in itself. Together, they weave a tapestry of transformation:

• Qi Gong grounds and balances, cultivating flow in the body.
• Breathwork opens and intensifies, unlocking reservoirs of energy and release.
• Energy Clearing integrates, offering awareness and compassion that embrace and transmute whatever arises.
• The Dyad Inquiry Process refines presence and deepens connection, training awareness and compassion to be genuinely available—for ourselves and for others.

Together, these pathways form a complete cycle of transformation: move, breathe, become aware, relate, release, integrate—and flow again.

Daily Schedule

Day of arrival

• Dinner: 19:00–20:00
• Introduction and opening session
  
  

Consecutive Days
(a general outline)

• 07:30–08:45 — Qi Gong
• 09:00–10:00 — Breakfast
• 10:00–11:30 — Breathwork
• 11:30–12:00 — Morning Break
• 12:00–12:45 — Dyad Inquiry Process
• 13:00–15:00 — Lunch & Siesta
• 15:00–16:30 — Energy Clearing
• 16:30–17:00 — Afternoon Break
• 17:00–17:45 — Dyad Inquiry Process
• 18:00–19:00 — Qi Gong & Meditation
• 19:00–20:00 — Dinner
  

Departure Day

• 07:30–08:45 — Qi Gong
• 08:45–10:00 — Breakfast & Check-out

Accommodation & Pricing

• Single Room - for 1 person or a couple | €2395 p.p.
• Twin Share Room - for 2 guests, 2 single beds | €1995 p.p.
  
  

For information about and booking of this retreat you can visit the website: junoburger.com