Love Rules
'Yoga of the Heart' Retreat
Andalusia 2025
02. - 07. October 2025
6 Days in Paradise,
Ananda Forest, Orgiva, Spanien
international: Language is English
with a team consisting of Professional Psychologist and Energy Healer
Reconnect with Your Heart in the Beauty of Andalusia
Step into a transformative retreat designed to open your heart, awaken your inner wisdom, and deepen your connection with yourself and others. Whether you join as an individual or with a partner, this retreat offers a sacred space of safety, freedom, and love, where you can fully embrace self-care, emotional release, and deep connection.
To ensure a deep and transformative experience, we welcome participants who have some experience with meditation, self-inquiry, or personal development. In the serene nature of Ananda Forest, we guide you through tantric practices, Kundalini Yoga for the Heart, silent meditations, and heart-centered sharing circles.
Enter a safe and sacred heart field for deep listening and authentic expression.
Guided by Renate Heiss, an experienced psychologist, yoga teacher & yoga psychotherapist, and Wouter den Dulk, energy counselor & healer, this retreat blends Eastern wisdom with modern therapeutic techniques. Inspired by the teachings of Sufism, Tantra, and Kundalini Yoga, as well as The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak, we will journey into the heart’s wisdom through movement, meditation, and self-inquiry.
Love and Tantra
The spiritual-energetic heart is the center of Love, not always easy to access in everyday life. Travelling to the heart often seems like hard work requiring perseverance and trust. Love might sound sweet and soft to a lot of people, and yet it holds tremendous power. The shell around that power house can be the hardest thing to deal with. Let yourself be guided by great techniques, nature, the people around you and the teachers. Renate and Wouter will support you in your journey that you take in your own time and intensity.
Tantra is the art of recognizing yourself in the other. It is a path to deep inner connection, using presence, breath, and conscious touch to awaken the heart. Through tantra, we cultivate love, awareness, and a deeper relationship with ourselves and others.
The exercises we do at the retreat are easy to do and do not require any experience with yoga or any other technique. There will not be any sexuality involved, all the exercises are about connecting with your inner self, with love from the heart.
Meet Your Hosts
Renate Heiss
Renate is a psychologist, yoga teacher, and yoga psychotherapist with extensive experience in guiding individuals and groups through deep personal transformation. With a background in psychotherapy, emotional healing, and mindfulness-based practices, she combines Western psychology with Eastern wisdom to create holistic and impactful experiences. Her approach is heart-centered, compassionate, and empowering, allowing each participant to feel truly seen and supported.
Wouter den Dulk
Wouter is an energy counselor and healer, specializing in energetic alignment, trauma release, and holistic well-being. With a deep understanding of energy work and meditation, he helps individuals reconnect with their authentic selves, overcome emotional blockages, and cultivate inner peace. His teachings integrate body awareness, breathwork, and spiritual insight, guiding participants toward profound self-discovery.
Together, Renate and Wouter create a safe, nurturing, and transformative space where you can fully embrace yourself and your journey.
What You Will Experience:
✔ Daily Kundalini & Hatha Yoga to awaken your heart’s energy
✔ Tantric & Sufi-inspired practices to cultivate connection and presence
✔ Silent meditations & breathwork for inner peace
✔ Ecstatic dance & movement therapy to release blockages
✔ Cacao ceremony & mantra chanting for deep heart opening
✔ Guided nature hikes through the Sierra Nevada mountains
✔ Sharing circles & self-inquiry in a supportive group setting
✔ Optional 1:1 sessions (psychotherapy, energy healing, deep tissue massage)
The Program Flow
Each day, we create a sacred and intentional space, balancing structured teachings with personal time for integration and self-care.
Sample Daily Schedule:
☀️ Morning: Sunrise yoga, breathwork & meditation
🌿 Daytime: Teachings & heart-opening exercises (Tantra, Sufi psychology), hiking, silent reflection, and healing sessions
🌙 Evening: Movement meditations, mantra chanting, deep relaxation (Yoga Nidra)
💫 Special Sessions: Cacao Ceremony, Ecstatic Wave Dance, and ‘Love Rules’ self-exploration
Full program details available upon request.
A Hidden Paradise – Ananda Forest, Spain
Nestled in the serene mountains of Andalusia, Ananda Forest is a true sanctuary. You will stay in charming glamping tents or rustic cabins, surrounded by olive groves and natural rock formations. Days are spent outdoors—breathing fresh mountain air, feeling the earth beneath your feet, and reconnecting with the simplicity of nature. The retreat center offers beautifully designed outdoor facilities, an open-air kitchen, and a peaceful mountain stream nearby. At night, you will gaze at the starry Andalusian sky, embracing the deep silence of nature. Amaratva Yoga | Yoga and Retreat Center
Yoga in stunning Panorama Views of the Sierra Nevada
Booking
Total Price - all inclusive - 1.375 €
Early Bird 1.245 (before June 30th 2025)
Price includes:
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6 Days/5 Nights accomodation and 3 vegetarian meals plus snacks and non-alcohol drinks
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18 Yoga/Somatics/Meditations units (duration varying from 30 to 75 min.)
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4-5 Group Therapy Sessions with professional group therapist plus daily inspirations from the tantra/yoga philosophy
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Kundalini shaking meditations and embodiment excercises
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Several hikes/walking meditations (of course, at your own risk)
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Airport shuttle (Please communicate your flight number and exact ETA at Malaga airport)
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30 minute massage (schedule upon arrival)
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Cacao Ceremony
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Musical surprise
Not included:
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Flight or travel insurance
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Psychotherapeutical sessions one-on-one or Energy Healing, please book separately upon arrival or tell us on the registration form.
You may add to your booking:
Individual one-on-one Psychotherapy sessions with Renate (60 min - 120 €) or Energy Healing session with Wouter. Please indicate on the registration form and choose a time slot. Renate will confirm your booking. Payment will be on site.
Please note:
In order to provide a safe group experience, there will be a video-call with each participant after the registration process.
Please fill in the registration form below. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. Looking forward to spending this deep, fun and transformative time with you!
This is what participants say
"The retreat with Renate was very special! I particularly like the variety of yoga and embodiment-excercises, the days were well planned and filled with. Also, the hikes in the absolutely glorious mountain nature wer grand. Still, there was definitely enough time to relax. Renate managed to address all the needs of the participants sensitively and at the same time to create a beautiful community feeling in the group. In the therapeutic sharing everyone got to decide without pressure, how much to share. I will definitely come back!" S., 28
"The five retreat days with you in this unbelievably beautiful place have touched me deeply in side. For me, everything was perfect. This retreat has brought me back into connection with myself, i was able to let go of my worries and of the usual tensions of my every-day life. You have designed a wonderful flow of Yoga and group therapy time taking care to adjust to the individual's needs and and guided us mindfully and empathically through our processes. Your program was for me a perfect mix of movement, inner work, joy and lightness! The lush nature with the surrounding hills, little rives and lovely mountain villages, the yummy food and the beautiful location made me feel very nourished and deeply relaxed. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this wonderful retreat. I will come back for sure!" M.F., 47
"The sun rise yoga on the rock formation was a
true highlight for me. To catch the fresh mountain
air and the first sun rays of the day on the cliff
was balm for my soul and a very special moment.
I also really enjoyed the movement, dancing and
singing in the group. The food was amazing and
freshly prepared, I always liked it. I highly recommend this reatreat with Renate, I really appreciate the programme."
"Totally successful retreat. Beautiful landscape, great location. I was atotal yoga beginner and had my reservations at first, but Renate was able to meet me where I was and accompanied me through the days. The food was sensational and freshly prepared right there. My personal highlighs were the sun salutations and the hikes up high through the idyllic region of the Sierra Nevada with its powerful views and places. This way I found myself greatly balanced in wonderful company. Many thanks to Renate....
"I keep thinking of these five days in Bayacas and how they helped my with letting go of my dad. Right the beginning with the meditation of "Coming and Going" at the wild river Rio Chico, the group sessions and the amazing choice of music to the movement excercises.
The warmest welcome, how quickly we all became a supportive community, in which everyone opened up, the yoga units and the hikes, where no one was left behind (i was very stiff and not f very fit😉), the landscape and location is unforgettable for me, thy have left a deep impression for me. This was supported by the wonderful vegetarian cuisine - i was very surprised that I never missed meat. For me, the biggest highlight was the berathing exercises that Renate gave me. In the years past, iIhad always "quickly run out of air". Through the concentration practice and the slow, deep belly breathing I astonished myself and climbed up the altitude of 400 meters to the GR7 "above us", the longest Hike route through Europe, and I was fine! I still benefit from this when I play volleyball now. I will be back!!"
"I enjoy remembering the retreat in Andalusia with Renate. It was a transformative experience, the meditations helped me calm down, the hikes and the wonderful time togeher as group was inspiring. As a long term effect, I feel more equanitmity and clarity in my life. The surroundings, Bayacas, Orgiva and nature will stick in my memory. The yoga was very nice interesting for me as beginner. It was definitely a very rewarding experience."
