The Aliveness Retreat – An immersion into the living field of energy.

The Aliveness Retreat
- an immersion into the living field of energy — train and cultivate awareness, flow, and compassion.

The Essence of Aliveness

Energy—also called chi, life force, or simply aliveness—is the invisible thread that connects all things. It is the current that animates your body, the pulse beneath your emotions, the rhythm of nature itself. Like water, energy can flow, stagnate, nourish, erode, or polish. When it flows freely, life feels vibrant, inspired, and in harmony. When it stagnates, stress, conflict, and disconnection arise, affecting our health, relationships, work, and creativity. Although unseen, energy is always present. When the flow of your chi is restored, life unfolds organically—with less effort, more joy, and a natural rhythm.

This retreat is an invitation to step into seven days of immersion—a living laboratory where awareness, compassion, breath, and movement become your guides. You will not just learn about energy; you will enter into direct relationship with it—sensing, releasing, and expanding your capacity to flow with life as it is.

Four Pathways into the Field of Energy

🌿 Qi Gong – Flowing with Life Force
Qi Gong becomes a living dialogue with life energy. Through the body, we learn to reconnect to the Three Treasures—to gather, cultivate, nourish, and circulate energy. This ancient art of aligning breath, movement, and intention teaches you to cultivate chi with grace and precision. Through flowing postures, grounded stillness, and mindful repetition, you will learn to feel the subtle currents within your body, dissolve blockages, and strengthen your vital energy. Qi Gong reconnects you to nature’s rhythm, helping you sense the qualities of Yin and Yang within your energy—revealing that energy is not separate from you; you are energy in motion

🌬️ Breathwork – Unlocking Inner Power
The breath is a direct gateway into your energy system.Through powerful guided breathwork sessions, you will reconnect your vitality with your awareness, realigning your being with the deeper purpose of your life. This transformative practice opens the body and nervous system, dissolves stored tension, and allows access to deeper layers of presence. Breathwork awakens emotional release, inner clarity, and heightened states of vitality. Each breath becomes a reminder that life energy is always here—waiting to be received fully.

💫 Energy Clearing – Awareness and Compassion in Action
Energy Clearing opens the doorway to awareness and compassion. Through Systemic Constellations, the Dyad Inquiry Process, and Energy Clearing, you will refine your sensitivity to the subtle fields within and around you. By consciously engaging with different frequencies of your inner and outer landscape, you’ll learn to recognize, acknowledge, and embrace them in compassionate awareness. This multidimensional practice dissolves tension at its root, restores natural flow, and expands your energetic bandwidth—so you remain grounded, spacious, and compassionate, whatever life presents.

🕊️ The Dyad Inquiry Process – Communication and Self-Discovery
The Dyad is a beautiful form of communication and self-inquiry practiced between two people. In this retreat, we use the Dyad process to train our awareness and our compassionate capacity to be genuinely available for ourselves and for others. Through this deep presence and mutual attunement, a natural process of healing an integration unfolds—one that restores authenticity, compassion, and oneness. Dyads cultivate presence, empathy, and authentic relating, inviting a living experience of compassion in action.

Synergy in Practice
Each of these practices is a powerful path in itself. Together, they weave a tapestry of transformation:
• Qi Gong grounds and balances, cultivating flow in the body.
• Breathwork opens and intensifies, unlocking reservoirs of energy and release.
• Energy Clearing integrates, offering awareness and compassion that embrace and transmute whatever arises.
• The Dyad Inquiry Process refines presence and deepens connection, training awareness and compassion to be genuinely available—for ourselves and for others.

Together, these pathways form a complete cycle of transformation: move, breathe, become aware, relate, release, integrate—and flow again.

A Week of Transformation

Over seven days, guided by Mario Santoni and Juno Burger, you will enter into a rhythm of practice that strengthens sensitivity, resilience, and inner spaciousness. You will explore the full spectrum of energies that move through life—light and shadow, contraction and expansion, stillness and intensity. By meeting them all, you cultivate a profound freedom: the freedom to live connected, alive, and at ease with the ever-changing dance of existence. This retreat is more than a program—it is a lived experience of returning to your natural state of flow, where awareness, compassion, and life energy unite. Due to the international audience, all classes will be presented in English.

About Juno

Juno’s life motto, “Let It Be,” encapsulates the essence of the compassionate heart. Over time, he discovered the crucial role that the subtle energies within living and working spaces play in restoring balance and harmony.

With over 30 years of experience in the fields of energy work, awareness, and compassion, Juno specialises in the dynamics of energetic interaction between individuals and their environments. For the past 11 years, he has published monthly blogs under the title “The Paradox of the Compassionate Heart,” sharing his simple yet profound message of awareness and compassion. In September 2021, his book The Invitation was published, igniting an active and committed community of over 10,000 people.

About Mario

Mario is a multidisciplinary holistic practitioner with over 30 years of experience in Shiatsu, Breathwork, Craniosacral Therapy, and Reiki. His lifelong passion lies in Tai Chi Chuan, which he has practiced daily since 1997, training and teaching across Asia, Europe, and the Americas. A certified Yang Family Tai Chi teacher since 2005, Mario continues to refine his art through diverse masters and the Buddhist lineage of Lohan Qi Gong. His 15-year journey with the Charles Berner Institute deepened his understanding of self-inquiry, breathwork, and consciousness studies.

Founder of Xin Dao, one of central Italy’s leading Tai Chi and Qi Gong schools, Mario taught over a thousand students before expanding into online teaching and international workshops. His unique approach blends movement, visualization, and intention to harmonize energy and reconnect with nature’s flow. Each of Mario’s classes is a living experience—intuitive, tailored, and rooted in joy, peace, and the art of simply being.

Daily Schedule
 (a general outline; subject to change depending on group dynamics)

Day of arrival
• 19:00–20:00 – Dinner
• 20:00-21:00 – Introduction and opening session

Consecutive Days
• 07:30–08:45 — Qi Gong
• 09:00–10:00 — Breakfast
• 10:00–11:30 — Energy Clearing
• 11:30–12:00 — Morning Break
• 12:00–12:45 — Dyad Inquiry Process
• 13:00–15:00 — Lunch & Siesta
• 15:00–16:30 — Energy Clearing
• 16:30–17:00 — Afternoon Break
• 17:00–17:45 — Dyad Inquiry Process
• 18:00–19:00 — Qi Gong & Meditation

Departure Day
• 07:30–08:45 — Qi Gong
• 08:45–10:00 — Breakfast & Check-out

The Retreat Venue: Soul Valley, Sardinia (Italy)

Tucked away in a private valley with breathtaking views of the azure Mediterranean Sea and surrounding mountains, Soul Valley is a boutique retreat created for deep rest and renewal. Here, you’ll find true silence, crystal-clear air, and starry nights that invite your whole being to recharge. Surrounded by pristine nature, Soul Valley offers a tranquil atmosphere that can be felt the moment you arrive.

Discover peaceful walking trails that wind through olive groves and wild herbs, or follow hillside paths to panoramic meditation spots overlooking the sea. Every corner of this valley seems designed to bring you back to balance. Nourishing vegetarian meals are prepared fresh each day, celebrating the island’s abundance and simplicity.

The boutique rooms and cottages—built from natural materials and equipped with luxurious mattresses—offer both the comfort of home and the beauty of a Mediterranean escape. The included wellness facilities—from the sea-view pool, sauna, and steam bath to serene rest areas—create perfect conditions for complete rejuvenation. Surrounded by Sardinia’s magical energy, Soul Valley is a place to move, recharge, breathe deeply, and rediscover the quiet joy of simply being.

Transport and Transfers

Soul Valley Retreat Centre is located 45 minutes by car from Cagliari Airport, the capital of Sardinia. Depending on your country of origin, you will most likely fly into Milan and then take a connecting flight to Cagliari. Direct flights to Cagliari are rare after mid-September.

Soul Valley organises grouped transfers twice in the afternoon from Cagliari Airport and Cagliari Bus Station (city centre) at €40 per person, one way (max. 6–7 participants). These transfer times are fixed and cannot be adjusted to individual arrival schedules. Alternatively, you can rent a car or take a taxi (€120 one way from Cagliari Airport or €100 from Cagliari city centre).


Accommodation & Pricing (per person)

All prices include 21% VAT, accommodation, tuition, and meals. Travel, transfers, and optional massages are not included.

• Twin shared room (2 guests, 2 single beds): €1,895 per person. Please note that twin shared rooms cannot be booked for single use.
• Single room: €2,195 per person.

Payment in 3 instalments:
• Deposit: €750 (non-refundable) due at booking
• Balance: payable in three equal installments in the months following the month of paying your deposit upon booking.
• For more details on payment in 3 installments, email juno@junoburger.com.

Cancellation Policy
• Deposit: €750 (non-refundable).
• Up to 6 months before the start of the retreat: 100% refund of the balance (excluding €750 deposit).
• Between 3–6 months before the start of the retreat: 50% refund of the balance.
• Less than 3 months before the start of the retreat: no refund of the balance.

We recommend booking comprehensive travel insurance for all international travel, including this retreat. Unexpected events can occur, so please consider coverage that includes trip cancellation. If your travel insurance does not include this, we recommend purchasing cancellation insurance separately.