Camino Integration
The term “Yanua” comes from Sanskrit for “path”.
By reconnecting with nature, rooting ourselves in our biological origins, we reconnect with our inner light, and ask ourselves the right questions in order to be better able to receive the guiding answers.
Yanua is an invitation to start an inward journey immersed in natural surroundings, allowing yourself time away from the busyness that you are drawn into daily. Mend your break with your inner nature.
We welcome you to a diverse natural environment with many hectares of orchard and forest, providing much vital space for different members of its community. As a guest on a reflective journey, we help you tailor your schedule to slow down so the inward journey can occur. You will have much physical space and time for yourself. We believe this is key. Immersion in nature is the guide to your inner self, to (re)learn your self-regulating capacity, nourishing the impulse to a fuller, more connected life.
Contemporary experience and ancient wisdom show that rebuilding our bridge to nature allows us to achieve a reconnection to the inner light that we all possess. This allows new ideas to flow from within that are more difficult to access otherwise, rediscover our creative force, adopt nurturing personal care habits, opening us to tools we can later use on a daily basis to guide and inspire us on our life path.
Based on our guests’ experiences, we can confidently say that a stay amongst us in Yanua will provide you with the following:
Opportunity
To remember your intimate relationship with nature and your authenticity. With our presence, we will help you be drawn to your own roots.
Guidance
Facilitators will be on hand to help you heal your connection with nature, lead you towards introspection, encouraging inner listening so you can better answer your needs.
Nourishment
We prepare healthy meals with fresh organic/local ingredients during workshops & retreats. We cook consciously so that your body gets good nourishment in a space where rest is provided.
Nature
A natural and diverse environment of 20 hectares with fruit trees, vegetables, aromatic and medicinal herb gardens, forest, ponds, a small lake, streams and animals with modern accommodations. Connect to the sentient beings that surround us in Nature.
Inspiration
When we say goodbye, you will have received the opportunity to feel a sense of renewal. You can take with you newfound wisdom to return to daily life in the best possible way.
Anne Lanevschi
I am Anne, daughter, sister, mother, teacher, dancer, and by training, veterinarian, pathologist, author and currently co-manager of Yanua. I do animal therapy, practice MBCT and Tai chi / Qigong, am a student of Gestalt psychotherapy as well as other disciplines.
I am now dedicated to the Earth and to facilitating people to feel the call to reconnect with their essence and to revive their intimate relationship with nature, as well as their ability to remember how to self-regulate and develop in harmony with our biology and environment to lead fuller lives.
Diederik Pietersma
I am Diederik, son, brother, father, farmer, and by training a scientist, agricultural engineer and computer programmer, and currently co-manager of Yanua. I apply my scientific background and inquisitive mind to explore the conditions of the environment we live in to encourage soil regeneration and sustainable agricultural practices for mineral, plant and animal health. I work intimately with the Earth to explore how it can nourish itself so that in turn it can nourish the beings it harbours, plants and animals, including humans.