Work Alive Retreat

💻 A week-long retreat in the French Pyrenees — except your actual work is the practice.

You bring your real project: the paper, the code, the book, whatever is alive for you. You work in focused blocks alongside honest, interesting people. Morning movement, communal cooking, evening fires. And somehow, you stop getting through your work and start fully being in it.

The resistance you feel opening a document is the same resistance a meditator feels sitting with discomfort — and it responds to the same thing: honest, gentle attention.

🔥 Days 1–2 — Deep dive
90-minute work blocks, no guilt, no rules. Like a hackathon without the performance anxiety. Mindfulness check-ins between sessions: “What are you noticing?”

🔍 Day 3 — Patterns emerge
Some blocks felt like flow, some like pulling teeth. We look at that contrast together — not to fix it, but to see what it’s telling you.

🪞 Days 3–4 — It gets real
Small group conversations, no advice, just being seen. Work becomes a mirror for everything else.

🌄 Day 5 — Landing
A final work block, closing circle, and reflection.

🌿 Throughout: morning yoga or qi gong, communal cooking, evening fires, games, and stargazing.

For researchers, writers, developers, designers — anyone who chose work they love and suspects they might have lost touch with the joy of it.

📅 September 27 – October 4, 2026 · French Pyrenees · 10–20 participants