Silent Solstice Digital Detox – A Meditation and Healing Reset – Mandali Retreat Center, Quarna Sopra

The Silent Solstice Digital Detox is a silent meditation retreat and healing reset at the Mandali Retreat Center in Quarna Sopra, in the Verbano-Cusio-Ossola province of Italy. It is for anyone who wants to set the phone aside, be quiet for a few days and give attention back to themselves. It is led by Nishta Matarese and Evangelos Diavolitsis.

What to Expect

The retreat combines silence, meditation and healing practices with a break from digital devices. It is one of the themed retreats in Mandali's wider programme, where each retreat is built around a specific focus and guided by its own teachers. Mandali describes its retreats as spaces for deep insight, meant to bring meaningful shifts into everyday life.

The title points to the shape of it: a silent stretch, a digital detox and a reset for body and mind, held around the winter solstice. This is a retreat for turning inward rather than for socialising or sightseeing.

About the Teachers

Nishta Matarese and Evangelos Diavolitsis lead this retreat together. They are the named facilitators of the Silent Solstice Digital Detox at Mandali.

The Setting

Mandali Retreat Center is in Quarna Sopra, a small town in the Verbano-Cusio-Ossola area of northern Italy. Its in-house programme is built around restorative retreats that offer a connection to self at a flexible pace, through movement and meditative practices. That quiet, unhurried character shapes the atmosphere of the place and of this retreat.