The Art Of Remembering

A Somatic Approach to Connection, Regulation & Remembering

International Retreat with Barbara Collier & her Team

Barbara Collier & her Team

The Art Of Remembering

The Art of Remembering is an invitation to return to what is already here.

During our time together, we will slow the pace enough for the body to speak, for the nervous system to soften, and for what has been long-held to gently come into awareness.

We orient toward remembering rather than fixing — toward the quiet recognition of what is true and alive.

Grounded in somatic therapies and held with care, attunement, dignity, and respect, we will spend time in embodied presence.

There will be some teaching, but the heart of this retreat is experiential.

You will be invited to feel, sense, rest, move, and listen — to your body, to relationship, to the natural world, and to the subtle ways life moves through you.

Together, we will explore developmental and relational conditioning with gentleness, bringing curiosity to patterns that once protected us and that now shape how we relate — without pathologizing or pushing for change.

Our intention is not to impose new patterns, but to create conditions where embodiment, coherence, and presence can deepen in their own timing.

Individual sessions with experienced practitioners may include touch, sound, and nature-based work, supporting what is emerging in your system and allowing for attuned, individualized attention within the wider group space.

We will also lean into the healing that can happen when gathering intentionallywitnessing one another, sharing silence, ritual, and simple human presence — supporting a kind of remembering that is difficult to access alone.

The group is held with clarity and care so that depth, tenderness, and protection can coexist.

The rhythm of the retreat is designed to nourish the body — mornings include gentle movement to awaken and arrive, evenings offer sound and settling to support integration, and there is unhurried time for rest, quiet, and reflection.

Thoughtfully prepared meals will nourish the body as we tend to what arises.

At its essence, this retreat is about remembering yourselfyour deepest wisdom, your truest self — in your body, in relationship, and in your aliveness.

We will gather at Casa Maya in the village of Triban, surrounded by olive trees, stone pathways, and the wide Istrian sky, with vineyards, artful towns, caves, waterfalls, and the Adriatic Sea nearby — the land itself participates in the remembering.

The Art Of Remembering

Guest Facilitator

Trained as a nurse and worked in the Intensive Care Unit in the early and mid-nineties, she has a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and several post-graduate three-year training certificates, such as:

 
  • Post-graduate studies in Dr. Stanley Greenspan’s DIR/Floortime model
  • Collaborative Counseling Social Inclusion and Bullying and Teasing certification
  • Attachment across a lifespan certificate
  • Biographical counseling certificate
  • Infant mental health
  • Sensory processing challenges certificates
  • Somatic Experiencing® Fascia
 

For years she has been working with children, adults, and families to build resilience and capacity within their systems, partnering with the wisdom that animals have taught her over five decades to join with and support clients in deepening and broadening their connection with Nature in honor of our mammalian heritage.

Meet the Team

Damjan Athah Beusan

Facilitator

Already in his twenties, he was drawn to the teachings of the enlightened master Osho, discovering meditation.

Trained in the process of Awareness Intensive with Ganga Cording and Jivan Sunder.

Trained as a holistic counsellor in the Path of Love founders Rafia Morgan and Turiya Hanover program for Working with People.

Trained in the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Healing Therapy by Peter Levine (SEP).

Ever since, he has been leading and assisting in all these processes and continues to learn all around the globe, fascinated by the ongoing discoveries and depth of the work.

The very core of all the work is who we truly are. Who is in process is for all those who long to have a direct experience of themselves and their being, connecting to what is, and what is beyond their past and conditionings.

Damjan Athah Beusan
Marina Šprajc

Marina Šprajc

Facilitator

Marina has been working with children and parents for over 20 years. She is an early childhood educator with additional training that has broadened her scope of work and enriched her professional approaches.

She began her work with children through play, and later worked in a children’s kindergarten. She has also led children’s camps, family workshops, and volunteered both after the Petrinja earthquake and as a storytelling volunteer.

Her personal life includes ongoing learning about living with a chronic illness, as she is the mother of a child with type 1 diabetes.

She now focuses on individual work through play, conversation, and creative expression with children and parents, aiming to support awareness of body, emotions, and sensations, which can be of great help in meeting everyday challenges.

Our Pricing

8-12

Participants (small group)

200 €

Non-Refundable Deposit​

1900-2200 €

Full Price

7

Days Retreat

WHO?

A group of some max 12 participants, places are limited, so book your place on time

WHERE?

Casa Maya Triban, Istria, Croatia

WHEN?

03.-09. August 2026.
7 days retreat

COST

Full price (accommodation and food included)
1900€ in hostel multibed accommodation shared bathrooms
2000€ in Casa Maya double and triple room with shared bathrooms
2200€ 3 private rooms with private bathrooms 10min drive (transfers included) Inclusions
7 days program
Accommodation
6 overnights and full boards (3 meals a day)
3 private sessions with certified practitioners

DEPOSIT

The non-refundable deposit is 200 €,
should be paid the latest until May 15th 2026

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