What is the minimum group size?

There is no minimum headcount. The minimum booking is four rooms and six nights. Below that, individual rooms are available through the Alchemy Residential Club, either in summer or winter.

How much does it cost to hire ASHA for a retreat?

We quote per room rather than per head, so it depends how many rooms you use and whether you want us to cook. Send us your dates and your numbers and we come back within two days with a written quote. There is no minimum spend.

Do we get the whole site to ourselves?

At ten rooms or more, yes, and at no extra charge. Below ten, the campus may host a few residential guests or occasionally another small group. Your rooms, your practice space and your schedule remain entirely your own either way.

Not by default. Groups are self-catered, with full use of the professional kitchen, and many find that cooking together is half the retreat. If you would rather not, our kitchen team can take it on: three plant-based meals, buffet style, with all service and clean-up handled.

How long is a booking?

Six nights, Sunday to Saturday. Thirteen-night stays are available on request, as are custom windows if the calendar allows.

What is the difference between summer and winter?

Summer runs 1 May to 31 October. The pool is open June to September, the Prana Shala is standing, and glamping is available for larger groups. Winter runs 1 November to 30 April: heated cottages, empty land, woodsmoke, and two practice spaces instead of three. Thirty in winter, forty-five in summer. Winter rates are lower.

What if we are more than thirty people?

Thirty is the most we sleep under roof, in either season. In summer, groups beyond thirty go into glamping, up to forty-five in total

Where exactly is ASHA?

Castell'Azzara, in the Maremma, in the far south of Tuscany. Roughly two hours from Rome, two and a half from Florence, and a long way from anywhere with a tour bus. The nearest airports are Rome Fiumicino and Florence.

Send us your dates and your numbers. We confirm availability, send a contract, and take a fifty per cent deposit to hold the week. The balance is due ninety days before you arrive.

ASHA GROUPS · CASTELL'AZZARA, TUSCANY

Retreat venue hire in Tuscany,
with a room for everybody.

A hillside in southern Tuscany, and a centre that will hold whatever you bring to it. Sixteen rooms in five separate cottages, so twelve people can have twelve rooms.
There's space for you here.

WHAT A WEEK LOOKS LIKE

ENQUIRE

DREAM ON

SEASON

THE LAND

You will hear the difference
before you see it

There is no traffic here. No flight path. The loudest thing most mornings is wind through the oaks, and somewhere in the distance, trickling water.

ASHA sits on forty-two acres in the Maremma, the far south of Tuscany, where the coaches do not go. Wild boar cross the track at dusk. The stream runs all year. In August the fields go gold and the cicadas start at eleven and do not stop.

It is a working agriturismo, not a landscaped estate. The olives are for oil, the vegetables go to the kitchen. What people notice first is the quiet. What they notice second is what the quiet does to a group.

Whatever your people arrive carrying, this land has room for it.

THE ROOMS

A space that has held
this work before

The Dharma Den is timber, floor to ceiling, with a pellet stove in the corner and windows that look straight down the valley. Twelve people or more can sit in a circle and see each other properly. It is where a group goes inward, and where most winter weeks end up.

The Nadi Shala is a round yurt above the olive grove. Smaller, contained, and the room people describe afterwards as the one that held them. Sessions here tend to go deep quite fast.

The Prana Shala is open to the trees and wind, moving with whatever the afternoon is doing. It goes up for the warm months and comes down again, and it is where the loud work happens: movement, dance, the breathwork that needs room.

The Dharma Den takes fifteen to eighteen mats, the Nadi Shala twenty-five. In winter those two are the rooms; the Prana Shala comes down for the colder months.

These rooms were built for group practice, not converted into it. They have held ceremony, month-long trainings and a great deal of joy.

They can hold yours too.

WHAT A WEEK LOOKS LIKE

Sixteen rooms,
and you decide who shares

We quote per room rather than per head, so the shape of your week is yours to set. Give everybody a room of their own, or put people together and bring more of them. Tell us which and we come back within two days with a written quote.

Four rooms minimum, six nights. No venue supplement, and no surcharge for heating in January.
No minimum spend. No venue supplement. No surcharge for heating in January.

WHAT THE WEEK INCLUDES

Everything below is included

Not add-ons. Not upgrades. Not something we surprise you with in the third email.

THE ROOM

A group room, yours alone

One of our cosy rooms - yours for the whole week. Nobody else uses it, books it, or walks through it while you are working.

THE LAND

Forty-two acres of it

Oak woods, streams, open field, and paths that start at the door. No gate to ask about, no opening hours. And if you're exclusive, then no other guests wondering who you are.

THE BEDS

A room each, if you want one

Sixteen rooms across five separate cottages, fourteen with their own bathroom. Every room can be made up as a double.

THE WARMTH

Heated, all of it

Every room warm through the winter, included in the rate. Wood and pellet stoves in the communal spaces. A Tuscan January done properly.

THE KITCHEN

Six hobs and a pizza oven

A proper professional kitchen: two Vitamix, juicer, dehydrator, full prep kit. Cook as a group, which many find is half the retreat - or hand it to our team.

THE TEAM

Present, then invisible

Reception, arrivals, orientation, linen, the final clean. Our team knows when to step forward and when to disappear, which is most of the job.

SHARED OR EXCLUSIVE

At ten rooms,
the gates close behind you

Book fewer and the land is shared: a handful of residential guests, walking the same paths at a distance. Your rooms, your practice space and your week remain entirely your own. Book ten rooms and there is nobody else here at all, and it costs you nothing extra.

WHO COMES HERE

Eight kinds of group,
one piece of land

ASHA was not built as a villa that happens to take bookings. It was built for people doing work that needs space, quiet, and a container that will hold it.

01 Breathwork & somatic facilitators

Yoga teachers · breathwork facilitators · naturopaths · bodyworkers

Wooden floors, good acoustics, doors that open onto the hillside. Our own wellbeing team is here if you want to add massage or one-to-one sessions to your programme.

02 Writers, artists & makers

Writers · filmmakers · musicians · visual artists

Quiet rooms for the solitary part, communal ones for the arguing. ASHA Studios is a proper recording space, for voice, sound, podcast or score. The nearest distraction is a forty-minute drive.

03 Coaches & retreat leaders

Wellness entrepreneurs · coaches · emerging facilitators

If you are building a retreat business, the numbers have to work. A week here can be twelve people in twelve private rooms, which is a thing almost no venue at this price can offer, and it is what lets you charge properly. Bring your first cohort and let the thing you have been planning come to life.

04 Personal development facilitators

Therapists · leadership coaches · group process facilitators

The Dharma Den is small enough that twelve people in a circle can actually see each other. Nobody will walk through your session. Nothing outside the gate will pull anyone back out of the work.

05 Teams & company offsites

HR leads · founders · people teams

Space to think, without a hotel conference room. Rooms for strategy, land for walking, and a kitchen where a team cooks together, which does more for cohesion than any facilitated exercise ever has.

06 Environmental & land-based groups

Permaculture teachers · sustainability groups · conservation organisations

Forty-two acres, largely untouched, our own water, and a site working towards off-grid. Seasonal harvesting, craft workshops, and land that gives a group something to put their hands into.

07 Weddings & celebrations

Couples · event planners · conscious weddings

The Ark Lawn for ceremony, Outdoor Cafe for the eating and the dancing, and the whole valley doing what it does at seven in the evening in June. Weddings do not follow the six-night group booking, so talk to us and we will build the shape around what you want.

08 Families & friends

Milestone birthdays · anniversaries · reunions

Cottages spread across the land so people can find their own corner, and one long table for the evenings. Bring your own cook or let ours feed you. Some groups do nothing at all here, and that turns out to be the point.