Residency Integration

An Extended Integration Stay

Part of the I Am Awakening series within the Awakening Within field.

Hosted at Casa de Alegría, Spain

Entering The Residency

Residency Integration offers a longer and quieter container for those who feel the need for time, time to integrate, reflect, and allow what is unfolding to settle more fully into lived experience. 

While shorter stays are possible, many participants find that remaining for more than one week allows a different rhythm to emerge. 

Where the I Am Awakening Immersion provides a structured four-night container, Residency Integration provides space for lived integration over time. 

Support remains available, the rhythm of the stay is largely self-led. 

Participants remain within the same grounded environment at Casa de Alegría while engaging their own daily rhythm, with light-touch guidance and periodic integration conversations. 

Residency is not designed as a retreat programme. It is a period of living within the field.  For some, this period extends naturally beyond a single week, allowing the process to move from reflection into lived rhythm.

The Structure

Minimum stay: 7 nights
Flexible up to 30 nights 

Each week includes:

→ Access to the Awakening Within environment

→ Beginning of stay integration session (orientation) to explore your personal rhythm for the residency
→ Midweek silent practice window (30 minutes early morning studio opening)
→Unlimited access to scheduled in-person group yoga classes during your stay (subject to availability)
→Substack access during the stay for reflection and ongoing exploration
→Access to the Casa de Alegría reading shelf for personal study
→End-of-stay integration conversation

→Weekly grocery trip for those that choose not to hire a car

→Optional 30-minute integration conversation one month after completion 

The Integration Session may take the form of mentoring dialogue, somatic yoga practice, breathwork, restorative integration, or discernment work, chosen according to what supports your process during your stay. 

Additional 60-minute Integration Sessions may be booked separately if desired. Residents often choose 1–2 sessions per week, though this is entirely optional. 

There is no imposed itinerary.  The container exists and the rhythm is yours. 

For shorter stays, the structure provides an initial framework. Over longer stays, this framework often softens into a more natural and self-sustaining rhythm.

Longer Residency Stays

Residency Integration may extend beyond one week for those who wish to remain within the environment long enough for a more settled rhythm to develop. 

2-3 Week Residency

Alongside the elements above, longer stays include: 

→ additional weekly integration session
→ Ayurvedic living orientation
→ silent nature walk/walking meditation 

The 28-Day Residency Integration 

For those who feel called to remain for a longer period, the 28-Day Residency Integration offers a more continuous experience of living within the field. 

Over this time, the structure of the residency often becomes less visible, as practice, reflection, and daily living begin to integrate more naturally. 

Alongside the elements above, 28-Day Residency Integration includes: 

→ a simple healthy cooking session focused on nourishing snacks
→ guidance in designing a personal retreat day that can later be continued at home 

Many residents find that several weeks allow a quieter rhythm of practice and reflection to emerge naturally.

How The Work Unfolds Across The Five Layers

Residency Integration offers a quieter environment in which the five layers of being can continue to settle into lived experience.

Rather than structured workshops or daily guidance, participants remain within the same supportive environment while engaging their own rhythm of reflection, practice, and daily life.

Periodic integration sessions provide space to explore what is arising and to bring awareness to the layers through which experience is unfolding.

  • Attention returns to the body through personal movement practice, breath awareness, rest, walking in nature, and simple daily rhythms that support nervous system steadiness.

  • Residency allows time for emotional patterns to surface and settle without pressure to resolve or perform. Reflection and self-observation support the integration of emotional experience as it arises.

  • Space from daily pressures often reveals habitual thinking patterns more clearly. Participants may explore how perception, belief, and habit shape their experience of life.

  • Reflection on philosophical frameworks such as yoga philosophy, discernment, and conscious living may continue through personal study, conversation, or integration sessions.

  • With fewer external demands, awareness may naturally deepen into quiet observation of the cosmic field in which experience arises — allowing presence, stillness, and simple being to become more familiar.

The Environment

Residency is hosted privately at Casa de Alegría, a quiet mountain setting in Spain. Participants stay in a private on-site self-contained apartment, arranged as: 

• A 1:1 private residency stay
or
• Two participants sharing 

Shared immersions are designed for two people who choose to attend together, such as partners, family members or friends. Participants are not matched with others.

 Sessions are held jointly throughout the immersion. Participants share the private apartment at Casa de Alegría and book the accommodation together through Airbnb.

Time may be spent maintaining personal practice, walking, resting, reflecting, and integrating within the surrounding landscape. 

The space supports steadiness, not stimulation.

Residency is self-catered, supporting personal responsibility and integration into daily living.

A welcome dinner is provided on the first evening, with a structured grocery visit included. Residents staying longer than one week may join a weekly grocery trip if they choose not to rent a car.

Airport transfers from Alicante or Valencia may be arranged to support your arrival if needed. 

Casa de Alegría is located in a quiet mountain setting approximately a 40-minute walk from the nearest supermarket. For longer stays many residency participants choose to rent a car to support their independence and daily rhythm.

Participant Voices from the Work

  • Residency Participant

    “The structure of the residency was simple but powerful. Having space between practices allowed things to settle rather than feeling overwhelmed.”

  • Residency Participant

    “Casa de Alegría is incredibly peaceful. Being in the mountains and away from noise made it much easier to slow down and reflect.”

  • Residency Participant

    “Staying for a longer duration really helped me to integrate and process away from usual daily life.”

Residency Is For You If:

• You may have completed an Embodied Immersion and wish to deepen integration
• You already maintain some form of personal practice or reflective rhythm
• You value space as much as structure
• You do not require daily facilitation
• You are able to hold responsibility for your own process

 Residency is not suitable for crisis support, trauma-intensive work, or those seeking constant guidance.

Alignment & Booking

Residency begins with an Alignment Conversation. This conversation ensures: 

• The residency structure is appropriate for where you are
• Expectations are clear on both sides
• The integrity of the container is respected 

If Residency resonates, dates are confirmed and secured with a 30% deposit.

Book an Alignment Conversation

Investment (Two-Part Structure)

  • The Residency Experience

    Residency Integration consists of two elements:

     • the residency experience

    • private accommodation at Casa de Alegira

  • Residency Integration

    1:1 Residency Integration

    1 week €350

     2 weeks €650

    3 weeks €900

    4 weeks €1100

     Shared Residency (2 participants) Sessions held jointly

    1 Week

    €450 (€225 per person)

    2 Weeks

    €850 (€425 per person)

    3 Weeks

    €1200 (€600 per person)

    4 Weeks (28 Days)

    €1500 (€750 per person)

  • Accommodation

    Current guide prices are €110–€140 per night depending on the season at Casa de Alegria booked via Airbnb.

  • Accompanying Guest

    The Residency fee applies to the participating individual only.

    An accompanying guest may stay under the same Airbnb booking.

    Guest participation in classes or sessions is not included and may be booked separately.

Securing Your Residency

The Process

  1. Book your Alignment Conversation.

  2. Confirm your Residency dates.

  3. Secure your place with a 30% deposit.

  4. Reserve your accommodation at Casa de Alegría via Airbnb.

  5. Receive confirmation and preparation guidance.

A Final Note

There is no pressure here and nothing to prove.  You do not need to achieve or to perform, only clarity and commitment to yourself within a lightly held container. 

This is a structured space in which what is already present within you can be seen more clearly, remembered, awakened and lived more steadily. 

For some, this clarity unfolds gradually over time rather than within a defined period.

Begin The Conversation