The program combines meditation inspired by classic yoga texts, walks, breathing exercises, and body treatments at Eremito Hotelito del Alma, a 14-room accommodation located in a protected natural space in Italy.
Datu Wellness has added to its programming a retreat focused on meditation and introspection, held from October 9 to 15 at Eremito Hotelito del Alma, in the Italian region of Umbria. The accommodation, surrounded by more than 3,000 hectares of protected natural reserve, recovers architectural elements from ancient medieval hermitages and offers a stay marked by austerity and digital disconnection.
Under the title A Withdrawal into the Art of Introspection, the program takes as its reference the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, a classic text of yoga philosophy. The sessions work on concepts such as pratyahara, the withdrawal of attention from external stimuli, and dhyana, the practice of sustained meditation. The schedule also includes meditative walks, gentle yoga postures, and controlled breathing exercises.
The stay is completed with body treatments of Ayurvedic and therapeutic orientation, group sessions, and a diet based on seasonal products. The accommodation has 14 individual monastic-style rooms, known as Celluzze, built in stone and equipped with basic furniture. They have no electronic devices and lack artificial lighting during the night.
A retreat model far from conventional tourism
The initiative responds to the working line of Datu Wellness, an operator of itinerant retreats that combines practices from different traditions with stays in accommodations selected for their surroundings and architectural identity.
Its founder, Constantin Bjerke, maintains that contemporary wellness needs to pay more attention to the human dimension and less to performance. The company presents the Umbria retreat as an opportunity to recover contemplative practices in a context far from everyday distractions.
The price starts at 2,950 euros for six nights with full board and a shared double room. It includes five private treatments, daily group classes, meals, and clothing for the activities. The stay in a single room is approximately 4,130 euros.
The program is part of Dimora di Datu, a line with which the company expands its usual offerings linked to Ayurveda toward other approaches and destinations. Its activities also include a stay at The Postcard Hotel in Goa and the retreat Return to Balance Ayurveda, held in a 17th-century palace in Salerno, on the Amalfi Coast.
At the beginning of the year, the company organized at the latter establishment a gathering dedicated to Tibetan Tummo breathing practices and Dzogchen meditation, led by a lama and scholar of Tibetan medicine.
The Eremito proposal is part of a segment of wellness tourism that combines accommodation, contemplative practices, and contact with nature. Its main differentiating feature lies in the space itself: an ancient hermitage adapted for hospitality, with reduced capacity and stay conditions designed around silence and simplicity.
