Retreats

Reviews from participants

“Everything was so well planned, organised. With so much structure, care and love. I can’t believe this was your first one.”

“This has not just been a yoga trip—it’s been a trip of healing, reconnecting with myself and a new beautiful community of powerful humans.”

"Such a beautiful program, a heartwarming location with delicious food, massages, and a waterfall like a fairytale."

“Your magic and the way you have touched each of our lives, continuously.”

"You are the reason I went along… ending up in the Garden of Eden was the icing on the cake. What a fantastic week you organized!"

“Thank you so much for all your care, all your love and all your effort to make this retreat an unique experience for me.”

Your Invitation with Janna Fassaert – Janna Yoga Life Retreats

I founded JYL Retreats to offer something essential: a real opportunity to pause, reset, and realign—whether you're leading teams or managing life's everyday demands. From my own journey as an actress and now founder of the Janna Yoga Life School, I've watched how immersive experiences lead to clarity, resilience, and renewed energy.

From my background as an actress, breath coach, and founder of the Janna Yoga Life School, I have experienced how movement, breath, stillness, and nature can bring us back to our essence. Not by becoming someone else, but by returning, step by step, to who you already are in essence.

Each retreat is carefully structured as a journey inward. With daily yoga, breathwork, meditation, in-depth workshops, nourishing meals, and the tranquility of the Portuguese nature, space is created to let go, recover, and feel a sense of direction again.

You go home with more than just beautiful memories. You take home:

- A calmer nervous system and more inner peace.

– Practical tools to experience more balance and resilience at home.

– Renewed energy and clarity.

– A deeper connection with yourself, your body and the life you want to lead.

Whether you have been practicing yoga for years or are visiting a retreat for the first time: you are welcome exactly as you are. There is no expectation, no achievement and no should.

The lessons are given in both Dutch and English and are accessible to all levels.

I look forward to meeting you and creating a week together where you don't have to prove anything, but can be alone. A week in which you discover that the answers you are looking for may have been within you all along.

Alles sal regkom.

Love,

Janna Fassaert

Actress, Breathwork Coach & Founder of the Janna Yoga Life School

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Renew & Empower Retreat- a Transformative Yoga Retreat in the Hills of Portugal!

19-26 June 2027
D’Alijo Retreat Center, Cabeceiras de Basto (Porto), Portugal,
23 to 26˚C

An exclusive 7-day yoga retreat in the heart of Portugal's breathtaking nature. A week where you leave the hustle and bustle of daily life behind and are given the space to slow down, recharge, and reconnect with yourself.

Surrounded by peace, silence, and the power of nature, you are invited to let go of what no longer serves you. Through daily yoga, meditation, breathwork, rituals, and moments of reflection, you create more balance, clarity, and inner peace step by step.

Whether you bear a lot of responsibility as an entrepreneur, partner, parent, or caregiver – this retreat offers a safe space to not have to do anything for a while and simply be.

At the end of the week, you return home with renewed energy, practical tools for daily life, and a deeper connection with yourself. Not only rested, but also more present, resilient, and balanced.