SANCTUM: Self compassion in relationship, Ubud April 2026

A retreat on self-compassion in relationship • Nyuh Kuning, Bali

So many of us move through life carrying more than anyone can see — tending, holding, giving, reaching — until something essential in us grows faint. We pour ourselves into work, into family, into love, into responsibility, and somewhere in the flow of caring for others we begin to drift from ourselves.

Sanctum is an invitation to return.

To return to the part of you that longs for steadiness in relationship, for warmth that doesn’t cost you your centre, for love that includes you as much as everyone else. To return to the delicate space where self-respect and tenderness can live side by side. To return to the simple truth that you deserve the same care you so freely offer.

Over four days in Nyuh Kuning — a village shaped by ritual, community, and the daily gestures of devotion — we explore the art of meeting ourselves and one another with presence. Through compassion-based practice, relational inquiry, somatic grounding, and cultural encounters, we explore what it means to stay open without disappearing, to repair without collapsing, to love without losing the thread of who we are.

This is a retreat for those who feel everything deeply, who give easily, who long for connection yet find themselves exhausted by the weight of it. For those who want to cultivate boundaries that feel alive rather than defensive; who want relationships that breathe. For those who sense that compassion is not a soft skill but a way of belonging to life with their whole being.

Here, you are invited to listen — with the body, with the breath, with the part of you that already knows how to come home. You are guided into the kind of awareness that restores dignity to your inner world and creates space for repair, reconnection, and genuine intimacy.

Sanctum is where you tend the relationship you have with yourself so that all your other relationships can begin to flourish.