A 7-Day Intensive Retreat
with Shamanic Breathwork at its core
Shamanic Breathwork is an experiential journey of clearing, reclamation, healing, and release - letting go of whatever no longer serves your life. It is a modality that awakens access to your most authentic self and to the inner wisdom that lies beyond the ego.
It involves cyclical breathing, chakra-attuned music, focused energy work, bodywork, creative expression, and community sharing.This sacred process provides a loving container in which you can experience profound healing and transformation as you move through altered states of consciousness.
Shamanic Breathwork honours and weaves together the timeless wisdom of ancient traditions with the emerging methods of a new paradigm of healing. It serves as a rainbow bridge between these two worlds - integrating the best of both while creating harmony between body, mind, heart, soul, and spirit.
The gifts of Shamanic Breathwork Journeying
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​​​Reclaim your passion and power by recovering the lost aspects of your authentic self.
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Deepen your connection to unconditional love - for yourself and for others.
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Transform unresolved issues from the past that still influence your present, and create lasting, embodied change in your life.
This journey is a deep dive into a series of transformative Breathwork Journeys. The themes of the seven-day arc include exploring what is held in the physical body, the emotional body, our soul’s purpose, ancestral lines, and the imprints within our DNA. Each day also includes sharing circles, movement, intention rituals, and elemental meditations.
The core intention is to celebrate and reclaim life force - to die to what no longer serves us, and to welcome the rebirths that wish to land in us or return through us.
Throughout the week, we will weave the power of Breathwork with the Shamanic Shakti Art Process, deepening and enriching the harvest of insights and gifts that emerge through the journey. Each ceremony also includes a small group witnessing and integration circle.
This journey is created with love and care at its core, inviting you into a safe space to feel, release, and transform. It is also a brave space - one that calls upon your courage and intention to meet all that may arise within.
The Shamanic Breathwork Journey is intended as a deep personal immersion into this work. It is not a facilitator training, though it may inspire and prepare you for that path in the future. This Journey is open to individuals, couples, and triads of all genders, sexual orientations, and relationship constellations. It is for those who feel a desire to deepen their understanding of - and connection to - their inner wisdom, and who are ready to engage in an embodied, group-based process of transformation.
No previous experience with breathwork is required - simply a willingness to explore, feel, and be present with what arises.
Creator & Facilitator
ELAINE YONGE
"Shamanic Breathwork came into my life in 2012 and opened a portal that changed everything. I was initiated as a Certified Facilitator and ordained as a Shamanic Minister by Linda Star Wolf, the founder of this work. Since then, I’ve been guiding others through breath-led journeys that support deep personal transformation.
Rooted in the wisdom of the body and soul, my work weaves together Shamanic, Tantric, and Somatic practices - creating spaces where breath becomes a pathway to remembrance, release, and reconnection."
My First Shamanic Breathwork Journey
As I travel back through my timeline to the moment of my first Shamanic Breathwork Journey, I recall experiencing a mystical stream of memories and knowings. It seemed as if decades and generations of pain, wildness, suffering, anger, eros, suppressed love, divine awareness and fear came pouring out of the pore of my skin,
from every cell in my body....
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Our Venue for this Journey 'Hidden Paradise'
Hidden Paradise is a family-run retreat center nestled in the foothills of the Alpujarra-mountain range, near Orgiva in the South of Spain. It boasts stunning views down the valley to the Mediterranean Sea.
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Being in this natural environment paves the way for breaking through dogma and it encourages your transformational potential, looking beyond the norms of society by embodying the essence of our true nature.
At Hidden Paradise, we work alongside Nature. Powered completely off-grid, with the abundance of sun, spring water & homegrown food, Hidden Paradise offers you a luxuriously comfortable stay. With little effect on our glorious planet.
Accommodation
Hidden Paradise has six houses built in traditional Alpujjaran style, fully furnished tree-huts and tipis, two beautiful Temple-spaces, two swimming pools, a traditional wood-fired sauna, and comfortable communal spaces. Accommodation is in shared bedrooms. There is also a very limited amount of single bedrooms at an additional charge on a first come - first serve basis. (Please mention your preference in your application form).
Be aware that this venue does require some walking up and downhill to access the various buildings. If you have any mobility issues or questions about this, please contact us.
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The experienced chefs take pride in creating delicious, healthy meals using home-grown ingredients. Where possible organic- and always locally-sourced, to prepare nutritious raw, vegan, and vegetarian dishes. They are happy to accommodate your needs in case of allergies or intolerances.
Practicalities
​Arrival & Closing times
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Arrival & registration: 18 May 2026 between13h30 and 14h30
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Closing: 24 May 2026 from 15h00
If you would like, an extra day can be added after the retreat for integration and a relaxed transitioning. To book it, please tick the box about it in your application form. For those who stay this extra day, departure will be on 25th May 2026 at 1pm.
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Getting there and away
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Nearest cities with airports and trainstations are Malaga (1h45) and Granada (1h). We will provide suggestions on how to get from the airport/station to the venue once your application has been approved.
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Important note: Do not plan to arrive late or leave before the end of the retreat.
Investment for this All Inclusive​
Includes the 7 day retreat, nutritious homecooked meals, a stay at the lovely 'Hidden Paradise' on a mountain of the idyllic Spanish countryside, sauna, swimming & plunge pools and plenty of falling stars.
Early Bird ticket
EUR 1.920
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Available: Yes
Regular ticket
EUR 2.070
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Available: Yes
Optional: One extra day to stay for integration, relaxed transitioning
and being with community. (EUR 100)
The Deposit to make a reservation for this Journey is EUR 500,-
The full retreat fee must be paid six weeks before the Journey starts.
​How to Register?
This Journey has an application process.
To secure your spot:
​Step 1:
Pay the Deposit
The deposit to make a reservation
for this Journey is EUR 500,-.
Step 2:
Fill in the Application Form
After receiving your deposit, we will send you the Application Form.
It invites you to reflect on your deeper motivations for participating: You will be asked to answer 7 in-depth questions and upload a short informal video of yourself (max 3 minutes).
Please send the application
within 7 days of paying the deposit.
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Get the Confirmation
After approving your application, you will receive the Welcome Letter with all practical information about The Journey.
In the unlikely event that - during the application process - you or we feel this Journey is not the right match at this moment, we will communicate this within 7 days and return the deposit you have transferred.
Do you want to know more about The Journeys, Shamanic Breathwork or about the way we work? Check the Frequently Asked Questions page or reach out to organiser Joyce via Contact@ElaineYonge.com
Groups from Previous Retreats
Shamanic Breathwork Journey Spain
What participants expressed
after being on a Journey with Elaine
Oh my Goodness where shall I start?? Just came back from attending the Shamanic Breathwork Journey workshop and had SUCH a phenomenal experience. Elaine Young has to be one of the coolest shaman practitioner out there, she oozes wisdom, integrity and beauty. She is such an inspiration! Her workshop was very powerful and exquisitely lead. I felt very safe and supported by her and Simon her facilitator, which allowed me to deeply connect with the exercises, meditations and breathwork. What a workshop, thank you!
Milly
The Shamanic Breathwork session I experienced with Elaine
was one of the most potent and powerful healing releases I have ever experienced.
She is an amazing, wise and compassionate facilitator and I felt totally safe in the space.
I accessed deeper layers of childhood trauma that I was able to let go of
and felt enormous relief afterwards.
So much space opened in my heart and being as a result of the journey.
I’m so grateful and honored to have gone so deeply into my own healing.
It felt like years of therapy in a couple of hours!
Sally
A powerful wise master. I’m deeply grateful for all the transmissions you shared with us. Thank you for the commitment you have to your own journey that has led you to where you are now to share the wisdom with us all. Appreciate and love your humor as well. Your authenticity and raw transparent power made me feel incredibly safe and supported. I felt so held in your way of holding space. You are a true inspiration to me. Thank you.
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