The YanaSamyay Journey
Dark & Silence Retreats
Inhale. Reset. Restore.
Upcoming retreats
Supportive guidance
Our team of experienced guides accompanies you with respect and compassion throughout your journey.
Total Darkness
Immerse yourself in complete darkness to free your mind from visual distractions and access deeper levels of consciousness.
Sacred Silence
Absolute silence allows you to hear the voice of your soul and reconnect with your authentic inner wisdom.
Transformation
An experience that profoundly changes your relationship with yourself, with others, and with the world around you.
The YanaSamyay journey
YanaSamyay Retreat – Dark & Silence Retreat in Peru
In Quechua, “Samyay” means inhale, reset, and restore and “Yana” means dark. It perfectly captures the essence of this retreat: a sanctuary to step away from the noise, rest the mind, and reconnect with your inner world. Here, darkness and silence become more than absence; they transform into profound tools for self-inquiry. In stillness, the mind slows down, awareness expands, and new insights arise, like a fresh breath filling your being with clarity, healing and transformation.
This ancient practice, honored for centuries, invites you to pause, breathe deeply, and journey inward. The retreat is designed to awaken your full awareness through sound, touch, smell, taste, and movement, grounding you more deeply in the present moment.
Discover a unique spiritual retreat in darkness and silence. A transformative experience that reconnects you with your deepest essence.
The benefits of our spiritual retreat in darkness and silence
CLARITY AND INTUITION
Find a new perspective and clear vision. Mental silence provides direct access to innate intuition and a level of clarity rarely reached in daily life.
TRANSFORMATION
Awaken your inner potential and evolve. Deep silence and complete darkness open pathways to the deepest layers of consciousness, freeing the soul from its conditioning.
SENSORY RESET
In the absence of visual and auditory stimuli, your other senses become sharper. This sensory reconnection leads to a heightened perception of yourself and your inner environment.
CONSCIOUSNESS DEVELOPMENT
Awaken your inner potential and grow. Explore the deepest layers of consciousness, gaining new perspectives on life and spirituality.
Healing
Strengthen the mind-body connection, significantly reduce stress and anxiety, and improve sleep. Allow your mind and body to restore themselves.
EMOTIONAL RELEASE
A safe, distraction-free environment allows for the release of stored emotions and past patterns that hold you back, fostering authentic healing.
Reconnection to Self
Encourage deep introspection and self-discovery. Away from noise, rediscover your authentic essence and creativity for a profound reconnection to your true self.
INNER PEACE
The mind gradually quiets down. In this gentle darkness, mental activity slows, emotions settle, and a space of deep peace emerges. It is a return to a state of essential calm.
Schedule of the 8 days
Day 1: Preparation & Welcome
Introduction to the practice, mental preparation, and entry into darkness and silence.
Days 2–4: Full immersion
Complete darkness and total silence for inner exploration.
Day 5: Beginning integration in silence
Return to the light in complete silence.
Days 6–8: Integration and sharing experience
Gentle reintegration of sound and inner observation: Noticing changes, emotions, and insights.
Awaken mindfulness
The retreat is designed to fully awaken your awareness through sound, touch, smell, taste, and movement, grounding you deeply in the present moment.
Sound
Listen to the silence and subtle sounds.
Touch
Feel every sensation with awareness.
Smell
Notice the scents in your surroundings.
Taste
Savor every flavor fully.
Movement
Connect with your body in motion.
Our mission
Our mission: To offer you a safe and sacred space where you can rest, relax, listen, and reconnect with the parts of yourself often stifled by daily life.
About the founder of our darkness and silence retreat
I am Kamel, a somatic therapist, breathwork facilitator, and guide in spaces dedicated to inner transformation.
My approach is the result of many years of exploring the breath, integrating trauma, working with sound, and studying indigenous spiritual traditions. What I share today does not come from theoretical knowledge, but from lived experience—felt and embodied.
I founded YanaSamyay and created the Darkness and Silence Retreat to offer a space for deep reconnection. My role is not to ‘fix’ anyone, but to hold a safe space that allows each person to remember their true nature, beyond stories, expectations, and conditioning.
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