TAKING THE RETREAT TO EVERYDAY LIFE

Discover the unique recipe to your wellness

Our retreat is not just a moment of relief or a week away from everyday life. You will remember what it truly meaningful for your life and wellness and find yourself returning back to basics.

When you slow down and begin to observe how you truly feel, you start to recognize the small things that genuinely support your wellbeing.

Before the retreat ends, you can choose and create a simple plan for what insights and routines you wish to bring back into your everyday life — and how.

Good intentions are wonderful, but at Utula we encourage turning intentions into action through a concrete plan and personal commitment.

The therapeutic retreat manual acts as a treasure chest from which you can explore different ways to strengthen your wellbeing:

deepening your connection with yourself through writing, reflection and mindfulness
emotional and body awareness practices, exercise and time in nature
discovering a sleep and rest rhythm that works for you
allowing yourself silence and personal space, without the need to hold space for others
nourishing food and eating rhythms that keep your energy balanced
healthier digital habits and more conscious use of technology
small daily rituals that support a more balanced life
and sometimes surprising little things that can have a profound impact...

The goal is not a perfect lifestyle transformation overnight, but discovering a few things that truly feel like your own.

A gentle permission to turn inward -

together and supported

Our retreat is a naturally beautiful, home-like and completely pressure-free haven, known for its warm, welcoming and accepting atmosphere.

Daily life at the retreat is organized collectively, yet completely free of pressure:

– breakfast and lunch are prepared at your own pace using the house ingredients and recipe book
– dinner is prepared together or in turns (the arrangements are agreed together on Monday)
– everyone simply cleans up after themselves and cares for shared spaces in their own way, without performance or pressure

In addition, the retreat includes:

– a personal welcome, orientation and start of the retreat and digital fast together
– self-guided activities and therapeutic exercises from the retreat manual
– the option to book individual wellness treatments to support relaxation and letting go

NOTE: Some weeks are open retreats for everyone, while others are reserved for small groups — friends, families, and teams who wish to pause together and experience the retreat as their own group.

The essential elements that support your retreat experience at Utula:

Orient yourself well in advance to your retreat from home by getting to know and our "Orientation to the retreat" -pdf guide and it's practices (emailed 2 weeks prior to retreat).

You can stay with us for anywhere from a week to four weeks (1-4 weeks or even longer, as agreed).

Cultivating silence and a stimulus fasting that supports individual reflection enables you to turn towards yourself - we come to the retreat primarily to face ourselves, our feelings, thoughts and physicality.

The day of arrival and departure is Monday for everyone, regardless of how many weeks your retreat lasts.

A shared digital fast for the first week of the visit (Mon-Mon), after which you can decide whether you want to continue the digital fast or get used to new digital wellbeing routines during the retreat.

Tasty and fulfilling vegetarian meals are prepared in your own rhythm, dinner is created together or in turns with from our recipe book and from provided ingredients.

Self-orientation and freedom to create your stay to support your current needs - everyone is welcome with their own needs and from where they are.

Possibility of self-guided activities and excursions in the surrounding area.

Possibility to work on important life themes with the support and guidance of the rich therapeutic retreat manual.

Possibility to book and enjoy versatile individual wellness treatments (read more about additional services)

Possibility to therapeutic individual support before and after the retreat.

Who is the retreat for?

Weekly program

"Adults with ADD face the most difficult task of all: learning how to be loving toward themselves. To love is to give attention to another or to oneself. If we can actively love, there will be no attention deficit and no disorder."

From Utula Nature forest library: Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds

Experience the impacts of zero pressures

At the retreat, you give your mind and nervous system the opportunity for a holistic rest, e.g.

from speaking
from digital devices
of other sensory stimuli (noise, lights)
social requirements
schedules
from everyday tasks

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Softening allows our repressed thoughts and emotions to surface

Connection to self shows as

to return to one's own body, to find a connection with lost feelings
awareness of one's own needs
awareness and hearing of one's own thoughts (usually deeper thinking than in everyday life)
facing one's own reality; what does my life look like, how does it feel and where do I want to go?

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Take time to for process your life experience

Self-reflection and working on challenges is possible

by intuitive reflection
by reflective reading
reflective writing
with the exercises of therapeutical retreat manual
etc.

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Silence allows you to hear your inner truth

Silence enables

rest for the nervous system
intimate time with yourself
freedom from social expectations
hearing your own thoughts
awareness of one's own feelings
sensitized opening to all senses
a stronger connection with the surrounding nature
the calibration of mind and body to nature's wavelength

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GUEST COMMENTS ABOUT UTULA

"It was worth coming this far. The warm staff with their dog and the unique atmosphere of the place will definitely be remembered. It is easy to recommend this retreat to others."

"Thank you for creating a place to stop and heal. In Utula, you can see that you have put your heart into the place. It was definitely worth it to drive this distance, I'm going home relaxed, thanks to you."

"The place is peaceful, personal, rest for the soul and eyes. Clean and fresh, Maiju and Paolo are really friendly and considerate. The very best place in Finland. The concept is excellent, not crowded! Everyone has room to relax."

It's a little piece of paradise tucked away among the trees!This retreat gave me a sense of peace. More in touch with myself, my goals for the future and with nature and all living things.I am less compulsive with my use of technology.
I slept better than I have in years."