What is the minimum group size?

Twelve people. 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?

From €70 per person per night in winter and €85 in summer, self-catered, over six nights. A group of twelve in winter pays €5,040 for the week, which is €420 a head. Catering adds €65 per person per day. There is no minimum spend beyond the twelve-person threshold.

Do we get the whole site to ourselves?

At thirty guests or more, yes, and at no extra charge. Below thirty, the campus may host a few residential guests or occasionally another small group. Your group room, your cottages 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 for €65 per person per day: 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, and glamping and camping are available for larger groups. Winter runs 1 November to 30 April: heated cottages, empty land, woodsmoke, and a capacity of thirty-two. Winter is roughly eighteen per cent cheaper.

What if we are more than thirty-two people?

In summer, groups beyond thirty-two spill into glamping and then camping, which cost less per person. Our maximum is sixty. Winter is capped at thirty-two, since only the heated cottages are open.

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,
from twelve people up

A hillside in southern Tuscany,and a centre that will hold whatever you bring to it.
Bring twelve people, bring sixty. There's space for you here.

WHAT IT COSTS

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.

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 IT COSTS

And here is the part
nobody else will tell you

Most venues make you send an enquiry and wait three days for a number. We would rather you knew now, and decided for yourself whether this is worth a conversation.

One rate, per person, per night.
No minimum spend. No venue supplement. No surcharge for heating in January.

WHAT THE RATE BUYS

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

Your people, together

We put your group in the same cottages. Nobody stranded on the far side of the campus. The week holds better when everyone wakes up in the same building.

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 thirty people,
the gates close behind you

Bring fewer and the land is shared: a handful of residential guests, walking the same paths at a distance. Your room, your cottages and your week remain entirely your own. Bring thirty 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. Twelve people, self-catered, is a week you can actually run at a profit. Bring your first cohort and allow the thing you have been planned to flourish.

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.