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MAKE LOVE RETREAT | FOR COUPLES

Location: Landgoedhotel Woodbrooke, Barchem

Duration: 4 days, 3 nights (Thursday evening to Sunday afternoon)

Dates & Price: March 12 to 15 '26 | November 12 to 15 '26. €895 pp

Facilitators: Mariëtte Sinninghe Damsté and team

Privacy: all exercises with your partner in the group room

Inclusive:

  • intensive guidance

  • stay at the estate hotel (Woodbrooke, Barchem)

  • food and drink

  • aftercare video call (if desired)

Are you ready for a new way of connecting?
Touch is often one of the most beautiful ways to connect, but it can also become routine. When you're just getting together, it's all about discovery and fun. But over time, autopilot often creeps in, and touch becomes a mechanical act. What if you could relearn how to be mindful of each other?


Touch is central to the Make Love Retreat . You'll learn an intuitive massage technique I developed myself and have been successfully practicing for years. This technique utilizes the natural differences between men and women to open the flow of love. By building orgasmic energy and transforming tension and blockages, you'll discover how touch can lead to deep surrender and ecstasy.

This retreat offers you the chance to break your routine, deepen your intimate connection, and write a new chapter in your love life.


Who is it for? This retreat is for couples who want to rediscover each other, seek greater intimacy, explore new paths of sexuality, and learn to cope with stress, trauma, or a lack of time together.


What can you expect?

  • Learning to Touch : Intuitive Massage Techniques to Allow Love and Connection to Flow.

  • Communication : Develop a new language to share your wishes and boundaries.

  • Connection : Create a deeper bond with yourself and your partner.

  • Recovery : Break through routine and tension; make room for surrender and ecstasy.

Are you ready for a new way of connecting?
Touch is often one of the most beautiful ways to connect, but it can also become routine. When you're just getting together, it's all about discovery and fun. But over time, autopilot often creeps in, and touch becomes a mechanical act. What if you could relearn how to be mindful of each other?


Touch is central to the Make Love Retreat . You'll learn an intuitive massage technique I developed myself and have been successfully practicing for years. This technique utilizes the natural differences between men and women to open the flow of love. By building orgasmic energy and transforming tension and blockages, you'll discover how touch can lead to deep surrender and ecstasy.

This retreat offers you the chance to break your routine, deepen your intimate connection, and write a new chapter in your love life.


Who is it for? This retreat is for couples who want to rediscover each other, seek greater intimacy, explore new paths of sexuality, and learn to cope with stress, trauma, or a lack of time together.


What can you expect?

  • Learning to Touch : Intuitive Massage Techniques to Allow Love and Connection to Flow.

  • Communication : Develop a new language to share your wishes and boundaries.

  • Connection : Create a deeper bond with yourself and your partner.

  • Recovery : Break through routine and tension; make room for surrender and ecstasy.

WHAT YOU LEARN

COMMUNICATE – You learn a language to communicate with your partner what you like and don't like.

CONNECT – You learn to connect with yourself first, before you connect with your partner.

MASSAGE – You will learn an intuitive form of massage to turn on the flow of love in the body and open it up for surrender.

DEEPEN – You will learn about female/male sexuality and about the body as a place to transform sexual energy.

RELAX – You will learn to relax around the themes of intimacy and sexuality.

WHAT YOU TAKE HOME

CONTACT – Better contact with your body and therefore more contact with your wishes and boundaries.

CONNECTION – A deeper, more vibrant connection with yourself and each other.

UNDERSTANDING – Greater understanding of how the masculine and feminine function and are equal yet different.

RELAXATION – Tips for enjoying intimacy in a relaxed way, even when time seems short.

HEALING – The ability to heal past traumas and fears related to sex and the body.

WHAT A LOVE RETREAT IS NOT

SEX – Sex can be a pleasant consequence of your renewed connection, but it's never a goal in itself and always takes place in your bedroom. There will never be any sexual activity in the group room.

INTIMATE WITH OTHERS – Everything is focused on connecting with yourself and, in a partner retreat, with your partner. You are not invited to switch partners.

MANDATORY PARTICIPATION – You're not forced to do anything; not to talk, not to do an exercise. And certainly not to do anything.

HARD WORK – A retreat is a gift to yourself and your partner. It's a mini honeymoon with delicious food and drinks in a beautiful, natural, and peaceful setting.
There is ample time for rest in between.

WHAT A RETREAT DAY LOOKS LIKE

A Love Retreat begins at the end of the day, with all the space to land.
After arriving, you can settle in, enjoy a welcome dinner, and get acquainted with the venue and its atmosphere. The first evening is all about connecting with yourself—a crucial step, as we often lose that connection as soon as we enter into a relationship with someone else.


In the morning , we always start with a dynamic meditation (pajamas are welcome) to get out of your head and into your body. After breakfast, we delve deeper into the theory of the day's theme.

In the afternoon and evening, you'll have the opportunity to practice with the provided tools under supervision. This way, you'll combine theory and experience.

In between, there's plenty of time to walk, rest, or simply be. Before the start of a program, you're always welcome to contact me with personal questions .
The final day focuses on integration: how do you take what you've felt, learned, and experienced with you? What does this mean for your life and your relationship? After lunch, we'll wrap up together, with tools to continue building on what's been created at home.


A retreat day is a gentle undulating flow between insight, experience, peace, and loving attention. A foundation for rekindling love—with yourself and with each other.

MAKE LOVE RETREAT | FOR COUPLES

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