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4 days, 3 nights - Vital-Ice yourself!
Vital-Ice retreat with breathwork, ice bath & sauna experience training during this long weekend retreat with Kim Padding at a retreat & wellness center in Zeeland. With healthy vegetarian organic food, saunas, outdoor swimming pool, massages, and optional coaching. A powerful start to the winter with relaxation, movement, deepening, and connections with like-minded people.

The program consists of a series of lessons or workshops from your instructor in a private group. There are also open classes from the present instructors (including your own instructor). Join the class that suits you. Our retreat motto is: 'Everything is allowed, nothing is required.'

SIGN UP?
Step out of your comfort zone and discover your inner strength at our upcoming Vital-Ice retreat. We challenge you to embrace stress positively, which will make you stronger and improve your health.

What can you expect?

• Explore ancient techniques with a modern twist, such as mindfulness, focus, and flow, in beautiful nature.
• Learn to listen to your body and mind again, and discover your inner superpowers.
• Experience breathing techniques, yoga spirit, and cold training to reduce stress and increase your focus.
• Swim in cold water, walk barefoot, and meditate while working on your inner strength.

What will we do and how?

• Daily multiple breathing exercises* (also for home) and deep guided breathwork experiences.
• Cold experiences in various forms: walking in shorts, a dip in the sea, ice bath, barefoot walk.
• Also, explore your boundaries in the sauna.
• Learn relaxing and activating (morning) rituals.
• Introduction to your (8) senses.
• Psychoeducation.
• Narrative, cognitive, affective, conative, and being. In short, learning at the level of stories, knowledge, (interoceptive) feeling, doing, and being.

Why participate?
The experiences of this weekend support you in:

• Optimal breathing, day and night
• Balanced energy
• Stress management
• Immune strengthening
• Expanding the mind
• Restoring or improving connection with your body
• Adapting to the constant changes of life
• Self-acceptance, feeling at home within yourself

Embrace this opportunity to embrace and transform yourself. With us, you book a retreat for relaxation full of growth and adventure!

*The breathwork experiences are based on Buteyko, Oxygen Advantage, Max Strom, Kasper van der Meulen, Wim Hof Method, Pranayama, Connected Breathing, and more.

The program will be announced at the start and will look approximately like this:

Thursday
17:00 Arrival (with tea/coffee and soup)
18:00 Opening
18:30 Thematic lesson - 90 min
20:00 Dinner
21:00 Thematic lesson - 60 min
22:00 Free time: sauna and chilling

Friday and Saturday
08:00 Open class - 60 min
10:30 Thematic lesson - 90/120 min
14:00 Free time. Optional: beach walk
17:00 Thematic lesson - 60 min
20:00 Open class - 60/90 min
21:30 Free time: sauna

Sunday
08:00 Open class - 60 min
10:30 Thematic lesson - 90/120 min
14:00 Closing

Meals
09:00 Breakfast
13:00 Lunch
18:30 Dinner

Relax Program
For (travel) partners who do not follow the program, there is a Relax Program at a reduced price. This gives you access to the 3/4 open lessons (Saturday/Sunday before breakfast, possibly Saturday before dinner, and Saturday evening). On-site, you can expand this to full participation.

Free Time
There is also space for relaxation and rest outside the program. Time for yourself! But also for movement, deepening, processing, silence, meeting others, and nature. Sauna, cold water tub, outdoor pool, and sunbathing lawn.

At this beautiful location, you can enjoy (massage) treatments, wellness with saunas, a (solar-heated) outdoor pool, and a sunbed. But you can also enjoy a beach walk, borrow a bike, relax with a book, or chill in the living room or on the terrace.

Treatments
Our professional team offers treatments. The available services depend on the team composition. There is always a relaxation massage, but also regularly rebalance or coaching. This ultimate physical relaxation is optional and available for an additional fee. You can sign up on-site.

Rates (per person)
Room with bathroom: €755 - single room | €640 - double room | €565 - 3/4-person room
Room with sink: €700 - single room | €605 - double room | €545 - 3/4-person room
Camping with your own tent or camper: €495
Overnight elsewhere: €465
Relax package without the program, including open lessons: minus €155

SIGN UP?
Fill out the form and submit. You will immediately receive an automatic confirmation of your registration, and within 2/3 days, a confirmation with an invoice. Check your spam folder if you haven’t received anything after 3 days. After payment or a deposit of €100 per person, your booking is confirmed. The remaining balance is due two weeks before the start of the retreat.

This program will proceed with a minimum of 8 participants. We will inform you by email once the retreat is confirmed, no later than two weeks before the start. If canceled by us, you will receive your (deposit) payment back immediately.

The rates include:
Full board with mostly organic vegetarian meals, tea, coffee, water, fruit, and snacks | Bed linen and towel set (for rooms) | Use of saunas, pool, and massage chair.

The rates exclude:
Drinks at the bar | Massage, treatments, and optional coaching | Local tourist tax | Travel and cancellation insurance

Additional information about accommodations:

• There is sufficient sanitation available in the accommodation for guests in rooms with a sink and for campers.
• If you are traveling alone and choose a shared room, you will generally be paired with someone of the same gender.
• Your room choice can be adjusted as long as rooms are available, so your travel partner can also sign up later.

You can find the full overview of the rates for our retreats in Zeeland on the Locations & Rates page.

Learn more about the details and prices of my Vital-Ice retreat and the background of Iceman cold training retreats.

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