We’ll forage for mushrooms, find inspiration in nature for our painting class, move mindfully, share loving home-cooked meals and create new connections, friendships and memories.
No yoga experience, painting experience or mushroom knowledge required. Curiosity is enough.
Les means forest in Czech.
Learn how to spot, identify and responsibly collect mushrooms in the surrounding forests.
An accessible creative session led by Irene, using the colours, textures and strange little forms we encounter outside.
Mindful flow yoga classes, suitable for the absolute beginner to the most advanced practitioners.
Forest walks, fresh mountain air and room to wander without having to achieve anything.
Generous meals made for the group throughout the weekend.
Just 20 guests, with enough structure to bring everyone together and enough free time to let friendships happen naturally.
Expect home-cooked seasonal food made especially for the weekend — comforting breakfasts, colourful lunches, generous dinners and plenty of little things in between.
Meals are part of the retreat experience: time to sit down together, talk, share food and recharge after a day outside.
Dietary requirements?
Tell us when you book. We have experience cooking for different dietary needs and will do our best to accommodate everyone thoughtfully.
Arrival, intros
Yoga class
Dinner, icebreaker, getting to know each other
Free time
Lights out
Wake-up
Yoga class
Breakfast
Mushroom hike + mushroom processing
Lunch
Free / quiet time
Painting class
Dinner
Yoga
Lights out
Wake-up
Yoga class
Breakfast
Checkout / departure
The programme may move around a little depending on weather, mushrooms and what nature decides to do.
Part nature walk, part treasure hunt, part field lesson.
Igor, Irene and Zuzana will guide us through the forest, helping the group recognise mushrooms, understand what we’re looking at and learn more about the ecosystem around us.
We will learn how to identify, clean and sort our finds while on the hike, giving us the opportunity to practice the art of mushroom foraging in real time.
We can’t guarantee what the forest will give us that weekend. That unpredictability is part of the adventure.
A relaxed mountain cottage surrounded by the forests of the Jizera Mountains, accessible from Černý Most, Prague via buses with a journey time of around 1.5 hours.
Think shared breakfasts, muddy shoes by the door, long tables, cups of tea and somewhere warm to come back to after a day outside.
There are limited private room options with double beds, ideal for couples or close friends, as well as shared rooms with single beds. All rooms have their own attached bathrooms.
≈100 km from Prague
A small team of yoga teachers, artists, foragers, food people and practical support — all here to make the retreat feel easy, welcoming and personal.
Mindful, accessible yoga and a growing obsession with Czech mushroom hunting.
A multimedia artist whose work explores fungi, nature and surreal botanical forms.
A lifelong Czech forager with deep knowledge of local forests and mushroom identification.
Seasonal, generous cooking and an inability to walk past something edible growing outside.
Helping the weekend run smoothly, enjoying nature, meditation and any mushroom that makes it onto the plate.
You don't need to be a yogi, artist or expert forager.
Shared bathroom 5,000 CZK
Private bathroom 5,200 CZK
Shared bathroom 5,200 CZK
Private bathroom 5,400 CZK
Included
accommodation · mushroom-foraging guidance · painting workshop / materials · meals
Not included
transport to / from the retreat · optional paid extras at the accommodation
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