4 Day Mandali Experience – Mandali Retreat Center, Quarna Sopra

The 4 Day Mandali Experience is a short wellness retreat at Mandali Retreat Center in Quarna Sopra, in the province of Verbania (VB), Italy. It is the centre's own in-house retreat, made for anyone who wants a few days to step back from daily life and reconnect with themselves through movement and meditative practice.

What to Expect

The Mandali Experience is the foundation of the retreat programme at Mandali. The centre describes its in-house retreats as restorative, running from three to seven days, and offering a connection to self at a flexible pace. The practices are movement and meditation, and the pace is meant to leave room for you rather than fill every hour.

This four-day edition sits in the middle of that range. It is long enough to settle in and short enough to fit into a working life. It is the standard Mandali Experience, not one of the seasonal Special editions with added music, movement or elements workshops, and not a Themed Retreat led by a guest teacher on a single teaching. It is the centre's own retreat, held in its own setting.

Mandali groups its retreats into three kinds: the Mandali Experience, the Mandali Experience Special, and Themed Retreats. The Mandali Experience is the place to start if you are new to the centre or to retreat life, or if you simply want a restorative few days without a particular teaching or theme.

The Setting

The retreat takes place at Mandali Retreat Center in Quarna Sopra, a small village in the Piedmont hills of northern Italy, in the Verbano-Cusio-Ossola area. Guests can stay in the centre's rooms, which Mandali presents on its own pages. Travel advice for reaching Quarna Sopra is also provided by the centre, so check it before you plan your journey.

Before You Go

This is a restorative retreat at a flexible pace, so it suits both people who have practised movement and meditation for years and those who are new to it. Mandali also runs separate silent editions and retreats in Italian, but this four-day Mandali Experience is the standard English-language format.

Come with the intention of slowing down. If you are looking for a wellness retreat in Italy that is simple and unhurried, centred on movement and meditation and held in a quiet hill village, this is the retreat for that.