Dolomites Silent Week
Five days of noble silence in a restored 1700s farmhouse beneath the Odle peaks. Dawn meditation, slow vinyasa and long ridge walks.
Est. 2014 · Edinburgh & Bolzano
Practice,
held by landscape.
Residential yoga retreats and Yoga Alliance registered teacher training in the Dolomites, on the Atlantic coast and in the Scottish Highlands. Never more than sixteen people.
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12
years running residential programmes
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3,400+
guests welcomed since our first week in Braemar
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640
teachers graduated from our 200 and 300-hour programmes
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16
the maximum group size on any retreat we run
Our approach
A retreat is only as good as the teaching at its centre.
Northline began as a single January week in a borrowed Highland lodge. Twelve years later we run around thirty residential programmes a year, but the principle hasn’t moved: senior teachers, small groups and places chosen for what they do to attention.
Every itinerary is written by the teacher who leads it. We scout every venue in person, work with local guides and kitchens, and keep the daily schedule honest — enough structure to deepen practice, enough space to actually rest.
Upcoming retreats
The 2027 season
Eight residential programmes across four regions, from five-night winter weeks in the Cairngorms to guided hut-to-hut practice in the Dolomites.
Costa Vicentina Surf & Vinyasa
Morning flow on a clifftop shala, afternoon surf coaching on the Arrifana break and evenings around a long table of Alentejo produce.
Levada Walks & Yin
Guided walks along Madeira’s ancient irrigation channels through laurel forest, paired with long yin and yoga nidra sessions.
Where we work
Four regions, chosen slowly
We return to the same valleys and coastlines year after year. It means we know the guides, the farmers, the weather — and which terrace catches the first light.
What stays the same
Three commitments on every programme
i.
Senior faculty only
Every lead teacher holds a minimum of 1,000 logged teaching hours and has trained with us before leading a group. No assistants learning on your week.
ii.
Groups of sixteen or fewer
Small enough for individual adjustment and a single shared table at dinner; large enough that nobody feels watched.
iii.
Locally run, honestly scheduled
Venues, guides and kitchens are local and independently owned. Daily timetables include genuine free time — usually three hours after lunch.
In their words
Guest testimonials
“I’ve done a lot of retreats that felt like a hotel with a yoga room attached. Northline is the opposite — the teaching is the spine of the week and everything else is built around it.”
“The 200-hour training was rigorous in a way I didn’t expect. Elin and Hannah never let us hide behind cues; we had to understand what we were asking bodies to do.”
“Five days in the Cairngorms in January, sixteen hours of daylight in total, and I came home with more energy than I’d had all year.”
Journal
Notes from the field
Essays on practice, teaching and place from our faculty and kitchen teams. All articles
Why we cap every retreat at sixteen people
Group size shapes almost everything about a retreat — the teaching, the food, the conversation at dinner. Here’s the arithmetic behind our number.
Sequencing for altitude: practising above 2,000 metres
Thinner air changes how the body responds to breath work and strong standing sequences. Notes from ten summers on the Alta Via.
The case for silence on a working holiday
Most guests who arrive sceptical of a silent week leave asking when the next one is. What actually happens in the quiet.
As featured in
The Sunday Review
Outpost
Condé Traveller
Yoga Quarterly
Monocle Weekend
Not sure which programme fits?
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