The Thalasso Coast
Tunisia is the world's #2 thalassotherapy destination after France — seawater pools, algae wraps and hammams perfected over decades in Hammamet and Djerba.
Seven centuries of seawater healing, whitewashed villages above a turquoise sea, and one night of silence under Sahara stars. Yasmine Retreats are small, unhurried journeys through Tunisia — designed for people who carry a lot, and are ready to set some of it down.
Our Philosophy · The Method
The inner journey is the product.
Tunisia is the sacred container — never the itinerary.
You do not come to Yasmine to tour Tunisia. You come to turn inward — and Tunisia holds you while you do. The sea, the desert, and this country's old silence traditions are not the product. They are the container: they serve the journey, or they are cut. An excursion earns its place here only if it carries the inner arc forward — purification, release, descent, return. If it merely entertains, it goes.
Every Yasmine journey walks the same five movements, in order — the five petals of our jasmine mark. You will learn this language on arrival night, and you will hear it every day until it means something personal to you.
I
Arrive
Settling
Phones away, the world released, the circle formed.
II
Ground
The exhale
The body, the place, the rhythm. Feet on the ground before anything is asked.
III
Release
Letting go
Breathwork, bodywork, naming and setting down the weight.
IV
Deepen
The descent
Silence, and the still point the whole journey bends toward.
V
Return
Carrying it home
Integration, the letter to the self, the 30-day practice.
Each journey has one protected peak — a single still point the whole arc bends toward. Everything before it prepares. Everything after it integrates.
From Our Door to Yours
Sidi Bou Said · Tunisia
A letter, before you pack
Dear traveller,
If you are reading this with your shoulders somewhere up around your ears — welcome. You are exactly who we built this for.
A Yasmine week is simple: the sea in the morning, your hands in clay or couscous by afternoon, jasmine in the air at night — and somewhere along the way, a desert so quiet you can hear your own life again. Nothing is rushed. Nothing is mandatory. Everything is held.
Come as you are. Leave carrying less.
Come back to yourself.
— Yasmine
Your host · Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia
The Daily Rhythm
One rhythm, held every day
The same sacred architecture, identical across all five journeys. Each day holds two to three anchored practice sessions, with rest and integration protected between them. Facilitators hold space and never do therapy — Yasmine is wellness, always.
Arrival day opens gently — evening welcome circle only. Day two is gentler, honoring jet lag. Desert nights run later, under the stars. In summer, the whole frame shifts earlier to respect the heat.
House Agreements
How we hold the week
These are the container that makes depth possible — and we tell you why each one exists.
Phones
Surrendered at check-in into a locked phone hotel: a real, visible, cared-for place. Full surrender on The Quiet Rebuild and For the Ones Who Listen; evenings-only minimum on the other three journeys. Families reach guests through the retreat manager at any time — no one at home ever worries.
Silence
Mornings in silence until after breakfast, every day, every journey. Evenings unwind toward silence: voices lower, the day settles, lights down at 22:00 into silence until dawn.
Why Tunisia
The Mediterranean's best-kept secret
Morocco gets the crowds. Tunisia gets the light, the sea, the silence — and three thousand years of layered civilisation, at a gentler pace and a gentler price.
The Sahara, Unfiltered
Near Tozeur, the dunes begin. No light pollution, no signal, no noise — just wind, sand, and the most stars you have ever seen in one sky.
3,000 Years in One Walk
Carthaginian ports, Roman mosaics, Ottoman palaces, Andalusian villages. The Tunis medina alone is a UNESCO-listed labyrinth of 700 monuments.
Land of the Olive
Some Tunisian olive trees were planted by the Romans. You'll taste oil pressed from groves that have fed families for forty generations.
#2in the world for thalassotherapy, after France
3,000years of Carthaginian, Roman & Ottoman layers
8–14guests maximum — never a crowd
300+days of Mediterranean sunshine a year
The Programs
Five journeys. One is yours.
Every journey walks the five movements — Arrive · Ground · Release · Deepen · Return — inside the same daily rhythm. Practices come first; experiences serve the arc, never more than one a day. Every meal shown on an itinerary is included; free-evening dinners are the guest's own, stated plainly on the day. Open any program for the complete day-by-day itinerary.
Sea, Sand & Stillness
For anyone who needs the whole journey
The complete Yasmine arc: arrive above the sea in Sidi Bou Said, be restored by thalasso water in Hammamet, learn the medina and the kitchen — then cross the country to sleep two nights in the Sahara, and let the desert finish what the sea began.
From$2,450
Carry Less
For high-achieving women
For the woman everyone leans on. Six days of putting down the performance self — sisterhood circles, hammam ritual, dance as release, one private session, and a desert night where nobody needs anything from you at all.
From$2,650
Two Shores, One Sea
For couples, to reset together
Partner yoga at dawn, a couples' hammam, guided connection sessions, a sunset boat, a private dinner in the dunes — and a full free day to simply be two people on holiday again.
From · per couple$4,900
The Quiet Rebuild
For the deeply tired
Our slowest program, by design. No alarms, nothing mandatory, sleep first. Eight days of gentle movement, seawater, float time and long unstructured stretches — a rebuild, not a bootcamp.
From$2,950
For the Ones Who Listen
For therapists & mental-health providers
You hold space for everyone. Here, the space holds you. Peer circles in the Balint tradition, a whole day of receiving bodywork, a half-day of noble silence, and a Sahara night — for the ones who listen, finally listened to.
From$2,750
The Experiences
Moments you will carry home
What's Included
Everything handled, from landing to farewell
Included in every program
- All accommodation — boutique coastal stays & a luxury desert camp
- Airport transfers from Tunis–Carthage (TUN) and all ground transport
- Breakfast every day — including on free days
- Every lunch and dinner shown on your program's itinerary — including the desert feast. If a meal appears on the day-by-day schedule, it is paid for
- Daily sunrise meditation & yoga with our resident teacher
- Full thalassotherapy course & traditional hammam ritual
- Hands-on cooking class with a local family (brik, couscous, mint tea)
- Dance / movement experience and all cultural excursions
- Night programs: Sufi music evening, medina by night, Sahara stargazing
- One private 1:1 session — included in Carry Less and The Quiet Rebuild, as marked in their itineraries
- A dedicated host team — small groups, 8–14 guests maximum
Not included
- International flights to Tunis
- Travel insurance (required — we will ask for proof)
- Dinner on free evenings — evenings marked “free” in the itinerary are yours to spend as you like: we happily book the table and share our favourite places, and the bill is yours
- Lunch on full free days — breakfast is always included; midday on a free day is yours to wander and choose
- Personal purchases in the souks (save room in your suitcase)
- Optional add-ons you book yourself: extra spa treatments beyond your program, a private hammam, and any 1:1 sessions beyond the one your program includes
- Gratuities for local guides — always appreciated, never expected
- Alcohol — we don't serve it at program meals or events; free time in town is your own
A note on pricing: prices shown are indicative “from” prices per person in shared accommodation (couples' program priced per couple). Final dates and pricing are confirmed personally with every guest before any payment is taken.
Questions
Before you ask
No — and we are careful about that line. Yasmine Retreats are wellness experiences: rest, movement, culture, food and reflection. They are not therapy, counselling, or medical treatment, and they are not a substitute for care from your own clinician. Our programs were designed with a psychology-informed eye for pacing and safety, but what we sell is a beautifully held week of restoration — nothing more clinical than that.
Fly into Tunis–Carthage International Airport (TUN). There are direct flights from most European capitals (2–3 hours) and one-stop connections from the US via Paris, Frankfurt, Istanbul or Rome. We meet you at arrivals and handle everything from there.
Spring (March–May) and autumn (September–November) — Tunisia at its golden best, warm sea and soft desert nights. We avoid the peak summer heat. Each program runs a small number of weeks per season; send an inquiry and we will share the current calendar.
Protected, and truly yours. Every afternoon holds kept emptiness — rest and integration with no sessions, no outings, no filling. Where an itinerary names a free evening, the evening is unstructured and dinner is the guest's own; we are glad to recommend places and book tables. “Optional” on a Yasmine itinerary always means attendance-optional, never extra-cost.
Not at all. Practices are gentle and invitational, designed for real bodies and busy minds. Nothing is mandatory, ever — resting during a session is a legitimate choice we will applaud.
Light layers, swimwear (two sets — thalasso days are wet days), comfortable walking shoes for medina stones, a warm layer for desert nights, and modest dress for old-town visits (shoulders and knees covered — we provide beautiful fouta wraps). A full packing letter arrives after booking.
Send the inquiry form below. We reply personally within two business days with dates, full pricing and a short call to make sure the program fits you. A deposit reserves your place; the balance is due 45 days before departure. Payments are processed securely from the US.
The coastal and tourist regions we use — Sidi Bou Said, Hammamet, the medina with our guides, and organised desert camps near Tozeur — welcome millions of European visitors every year. We travel with experienced local teams, vetted venues and drivers, and we monitor conditions continuously. As with any travel, check your own government's current advisory before booking.
Yasmine Retreats are alcohol-free — we don't serve alcohol at any program meal or event, because the work we do asks for clear mornings and a settled nervous system. On free days and free hours, what you enjoy in town is entirely your own choice.
Breathwork is a pillar of the method, so we screen it like one. Before anyone breathes deeply with us, our intake covers pregnancy, cardiovascular conditions, epilepsy, certain psychiatric conditions, and recent surgery — reviewed with you on the screening call, never buried in fine print. If anything is flagged, you are not turned away: you receive modified practices, and the facilitator is briefed.
Every journey needs a minimum of 6 guests. If a date doesn't reach it, the journey doesn't run thin — you choose: transfer to a later date, or a full refund.
Request a Place
Every guest is chosen for the journey
Requesting a place begins with intention. Tell us why now, what you are carrying, and what you hope to release — in a short intention form. Then a screening call, fifteen to twenty minutes, before any deposit: we talk through your intention, your readiness for silence and daily breathwork, and whether this journey is the right one. Guests who are not ready are told so, kindly, and pointed to the right journey or the right time. Only after the call does a deposit confirm your place.
Minimum cohort: 6 guests on every journey.
If a date doesn't reach it, the journey doesn't run thin — each guest chooses: transfer to a later date, or a full refund.
The journey continues
After final payment, a preparation packet arrives — an intention-setting audio, a letter to write on the plane, arrive-ready guidance. On arrival night, our recorded 2-minute welcome opens the retreat. On the last night, you receive the 30-day home practice plan and a printed Journey Journal Booklet. Two online follow-up circles, facilitator-led, at day 14 and day 30 — part of the journey, not an add-on.
