Return to Vitality: A Breath and Body Retreat, Centro Santillan, Malaga, Spain 19th – 26th April 2026

Late April in Andalusia is a time of renewal, re-energising, and revitalisation for both nature and ourselves. The days grow longer, the air warms, and nature begins to stir with gentle vitality.

Santillan Retreat Centre provides an ideal setting for a breath-centred event designed to help you reconnect with your breath, being and awaken your inner energy.

This retreat offers an opportunity to restore your well-being by exploring the full potential of your breath, thereby reawakening your body’s full capacity.

During this breath-centred event, you’ll learn a range of modern breathwork and more ancient pranayama techniques that will support you to:

• Breathe more effectively and with greater awareness

• Regulate emotional states and calm your nervous system

• Rebuild your energy and uplift your mood

• Develop inner resilience through practical, embodied tools

Laurent firmly believes that the breath, combined with specific physical and mental techniques, creates the ideal environment and is our most direct route to vitality and a sense of well-being.

Each day, he incorporates guided breath practices with somatic movement, therapeutic yoga, rest, and supportive techniques such as touch or fascial work – all intended to re-energise your body, strengthen your respiratory and cardiovascular systems, enhance mental clarity and peace, and help you feel more present and alive.

Inspired by Laurent’s extensive and honest experience in therapeutic and supportive settings, this retreat offers a space to pause, reset, and reconnect with yourself, becoming clearer, stronger, and more grounded.

The Venue

The retreat will take place at ‘Centro Santillan Yoga and Wellness Centre’, a family-owned farmhouse fitted with the perks of a luxury hotel such as a salt-water swimming pool, a tennis court, massage therapists, a boutique, hiking paths, and beautiful pine gardens for you to enjoy.

This remarkable venue was mentioned in The Times as “one of Europe’s best yoga and wellness centres.”

This authentic Andalusian farmhouse of 50,000 square metres, with gardens overlooking the sea, is set in a secluded location. Yet it is conveniently only 20 minutes from Malaga airport.

Retreaters can immerse themselves in the silence of nature in its lovely gardens and surrounding hills. You can relax in the extensive gardens or around the salt-water pool, and at night can enjoy stargazing under the night sky – we can provide a bonfire outside for those cooler nights.

One of Santillan’s jewels is the spacious state-of-the-art 170 m2 yoga shala with beautiful sea views. Due to its vast south-facing windows, you can practise yoga whilst enjoying the sunsets. The studio is equipped with everything a yogi might need. A thermally insulated wooden floor, an Iyengar rope wall, soft mats, foam blocks, wooden bricks, belts, bolsters, blankets, sandbags, chairs and wooden slant boards.

The Food

During your stay at Centro Santillan, you will be offered a selection of Mediterranean, vegetarian and vegan meals based on organic produce grown under the Spanish sun. Products are sourced from the farmhouses’ gardens and chicken coops and from local farmers. The kitchen also offers specially tailored dishes for attendees with dietary requests and allergies.