Part 1: Introduction

Overview

This 7-day retreat is designed to help you begin transforming your attachment pattern and to support you in moving toward more secure, intimate relationships.

Whether you are currently single or in a relationship, this retreat offers a structured and embodied approach to understanding how your nervous system shapes intimacy, closeness, distance, and conflict. If you are in a relationship, the work will support you in recognizing and shifting unhealthy relational dynamics. If you are not, it will help prepare you for future relationships rooted in safety, clarity, and emotional availability.

Your attachment pattern will likely not change fundamentally in one week, and it rarely changes through intellectual insight or talk therapy alone. Attachment is a deep procedural imprint in the nervous system and implicit memory.

This retreat is designed to help you take a decisive first step, and to equip you with evidence-based tools so that you can continue practicing on your own or with a partner after the retreat. With enough proper understanding and work, there should naturally come a positive shift in how you relate to others both socially and romantically.

Therapeutic Approach

The core of the retreat focuses on working directly with the nervous system and procedural memory.

We use hypnosis and Ideal Parent Figure facilitation, a well-researched attachment-repair method developed by Daniel P. Brown, psychiatrist, Zen teacher, and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. This method supports the nervous system in forming new internal experiences of safety, attunement, and emotional regulation.

In addition, the retreat includes:

• Mentalization-based practices to increase emotional awareness and relational clarity

• Relational practices such as Circling and group sharings, to create a safe environment where we can all relax in growth together as well as feel seen and heard for who we are.

• Somatic and nervous-system regulation practices to support integration.

The somatic and nervous-system work is led by Vide Chevalier and includes mindfulness, various self- and co-regulation practices, polyvagal-informed exercises and breathwork.

Part 2: Practicalities

Location: Trimurti Garden, Dharamkot, India

Next Retreat: 22nd to 28th of March 2026 (Seven days)

Assessment & Preparation

To ensure safety and clarity, all participants:

• Pay a small deposit to secure their place

• Complete an Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) with Tore prior to the retreat

This allows us to identify your attachment sub-pattern and tailor the work appropriately.

Daily Structure

Each day includes a long morning module and a long afternoon module, balancing deep inner work with integration and rest.

Typical daily elements include:

• Cold plunge (optional)

• Meditation

• Vagal toning and nervous-system regulation

• Group Ideal Parent Figure meditations

• Facilitated relational and somatic practices

Exact daily schedules will be shared before the retreat.

Who This Retreat Is For

This retreat is suitable for participants who:

• Are interested in attachment theory and embodied relational healing

• Want practical tools rather than only intellectual understanding

• Are willing to engage in inner work in a supportive group setting

No prior experience with therapy, meditation, or attachment work is required.

Facilitators

Tore
Rorbaek Tore is a (e.g., attachment-informed facilitator / therapist-in-training / background in IPF and attachment research). He specializes in attachment assessment, Ideal Parent Figure facilitation, and relational processes.

Vide Chevalier:
Vide is a certified mindfulness instructor with over a hundred days spent in silent meditation retreats, and has facilitated many group co-regulations and workshops. He will lead the somatic and nervous-system regulation components of the retreat, such as breathwork, meditation and simple polyvagal-informed yoga.

Vide is also a physical geographer (scientist) and a professional musician who will integrate some of his music skills into a relaxing concert during co-regulation practice, e.g. sound healing.

LIMITED SLOTS: We limit our group to maximum 15 participants, to create a safe and held space.

To apply or ask questions write to :

VIDE@LIVE.SE (email)

+919187350715 (whatsapp)

Do you want to be less anxious or avoidant and become relationally secure?

Join us and acquire the tools that actually work.