Healing retreats and soul trips in Lebanon, with Olga Safa: immersive experiences designed to create space for reflection, connection, self-discovery, and personal transformation. A day in the mountains, an evening indoors in Beirut, or several days away on retreat, each gathered around one theme.
Each experience explores a different theme and combines guided practices, reflection, movement, creative exercises, and other transformative techniques depending on the topic. Groups are kept small on purpose. Twelve people can be held; forty cannot.
Why a healing retreat in Lebanon
Lebanon is a small country with an unreasonable amount of landscape in it: the cedar forests of the Shouf Biosphere Reserve, the coast, vineyard terraces and the mountain villages strung along the Lebanon Mountain Trail, all within an hour or two of Beirut. That makes a real retreat possible without a flight. It also means the people in the circle share a context. The themes that come up here, family loyalty, leaving and returning, loss that was never grieved, land in a room where everyone understands them without explanation.
The retreats are facilitated rather than programmed. Olga brings Family Constellations, somatic breathwork, sound healing and expressive art, and lets the group and the theme decide the mix. Unlike a spa weekend, something is meant to move.
Topics We Explore
Our workshops and retreats may focus on themes such as:
- Relationships and emotional patterns
- Separation and divorce
- Finding your purpose
- Self-discovery and personal growth
- Emotional healing and release
- Reconnecting with yourself
- Life transitions and new beginnings
- Mother and father wounds, and the family patterns underneath them
Each experience is designed around its specific theme, creating an opportunity to step away from everyday life and explore yourself from a new perspective. The seven themed healing workshops are also run as stand-alone half-days in Beirut.
Different Experiences, Different Settings
In Nature & Outdoors
Immersive experiences surrounded by nature, using the environment as part of the journey: a mountain trail, a terrace above the sea, a forest clearing.
Indoors
A comfortable and intentional space for deeper reflection, connection, and guided practices, usually in or around Beirut.
Retreat Experiences
Longer immersive experiences combining multiple practices, activities, and moments of reflection, with accommodation in a guesthouse or retreat space in the mountains.
What You Can Expect
Depending on the experience, sessions may include:
- Guided reflection exercises
- Breathwork and movement
- Expressive art
- Meditation and relaxation
- Sound healing
- Family or business constellation work
- Group discussions and sharing
- Journaling and self-exploration
- Experiential and embodied practices
Each workshop and retreat is unique, with the content adapted to the theme and the group.
Upcoming Events
New workshops, retreats, dates, and locations are announced regularly. The upcoming ones, and the gatherings that have already taken place, are listed on the events page, and each is announced on Instagram at @soul_serenity_lb.