ARAYA

Araya Consulting, conscious retreats and gatherings

Conscious Retreats & Gatherings

You hold the space. I hold everything around it.

Araya

What I Do

I Organise Retreats So You Can Lead Them

Araya is the production partner behind conscious retreats, trainings and gatherings. I work with facilitators, teachers and organisations who carry deep work into a room, and who would rather spend their energy on the work than on flight schedules, villa contracts and dietary lists.

From the first location scout to the last shuttle home, I build and run the container around your offering. Quietly, in the background, so that the only thing your guests feel is that everything was taken care of.

You bring the teaching. I bring the structure that lets it land.

Participants lying in a circle around a candlelit flower mandala

Who I Work With

Facilitators & Teachers

You already know how to hold a group. You want a partner who takes the logistics off your plate and leaves you rested enough to actually be present on day one.

Schools & Organisations

Training bodies and organisations running recurring programmes across countries, who need a reliable production partner on the ground rather than a new improvisation each time.

Communities & Collectives

Groups growing from a small circle into something that needs real structure: registration, venues, catering, budgets, and someone who keeps the whole thing coherent.

Formats

Three Shapes This Work Takes

Most of what I produce falls into one of these three. The format decides almost everything else: how the days are built, what the venue has to carry, and how much has to be ready before the first guest arrives.

Format One

Retreats & Trainings

Multi day immersions where the group arrives as strangers and leaves as something else. Tantra and embodiment retreats, practitioner trainings, teacher intensives, silent and somatic work.

These formats ask the most of a container: privacy, rhythm, food and accommodation.

  • Location scouting and contracts
  • Programme timing and room logistics
  • Catering aligned with the practice
  • Participant communication end to end
An intimate moment between two participants during a session

Format Two

Festivals & Gatherings

Larger open formats where many teachers share one land. More moving parts, more people, and a schedule that has to breathe rather than tick.

I coordinate facilitators, build the timetable, handle ticketing and arrivals, and keep the crew and the site running from build up to teardown.

  • Facilitator coordination and scheduling
  • Ticketing, registration and guest lists
  • Site build, crew and vendor management
  • On site production during the event
Fourteen participants leaning on each other in a row

Format Three

Ceremonies & Initiations

Smaller, more intimate formats that live or die by their details. Cacao and fire ceremonies, initiations, closing rituals, integration circles.

Here the work is in the preparation nobody sees: the altar laid before anyone enters, the timing of light and food, the quiet handling of everything that could otherwise interrupt.

  • Ritual set up and materials
  • Sacred space preparation
  • Discreet support during the ceremony
  • Integration and aftercare logistics
Blindfolded participants during a guided ceremony

The Work

What I Take Off Your Plate

Book the whole production or a single piece of it. Most partners start with one retreat and keep me for the season.

A ceremony room prepared with an altar and cushions

Venue Scouting

The place carries the work. I find and secure venues that match your practice, your group size and your budget, then negotiate the contract and hold the relationship with the owners.

Hands laying an altar mandala of flowers, candles and cards

Production & Logistics

Budgets, timelines, vendors, transfers, permits, equipment. The unglamorous machinery that decides whether a retreat feels effortless or improvised.

A laughing group of friends in a tropical garden

Guest Journey

From the first enquiry to the message after they land back home. Registration, onboarding, arrival, rooming, and the small touches that tell a guest they were expected.

One participant tenderly holding another's face

Hospitality & Catering

Food that supports the work rather than sitting on top of it. Chefs, menus, allergies and rhythms built around what the group is actually going through that day.

A women's circle by candlelight during a session

Programme Support

Sound, instruments, practitioners, bodyworkers and everything the programme leans on. I source the people and the gear, and make sure they are in the right room at the right hour.

A session under way in a fully prepared event room

On Site Management

Someone awake and responsible while you are teaching. I run the days, hold the crew, and handle whatever comes up without it ever reaching the circle.

Pauli, founder of Araya, by the sea at sunset

Behind Araya

Hi, I am Pauli

I studied event management, then spent years in hospitality learning the part of this work guests never see: how a room gets ready before anyone walks in. Along the way I built and ran my own hospitality business, and today I also work as a project manager for a German agency. Araya is where those threads meet: the precision of event production, and the care that conscious spaces ask for.

  • EducationEvent management degree
  • FounderBuilt and ran my own hospitality business
  • TodayProject manager for a German agency
  • ExperienceYears in hospitality, events and retreat production

On the Other Side of the Circle

I Have Been a Participant First

Before I organised any of this, I sat in it. A number of retreats and trainings over the past years, several of them as part of the team. It taught me how much is decided before anyone walks through the door.

I build containers I would want to be held in myself.

  • Tantra Essence
  • Awaken as Love
  • ISTA

Tantra · Embodiment · Sacred Sexuality

Pauli embracing a participant at a retreat

Let’s Talk

Tell Me About Your Retreat

Whether you have a date and a country or just a feeling that this year is the year, write to me. I will tell you honestly what it would take, and whether I am the right person to build it with you.

Start the Conversation

Or write directly to contact@araya-retreats.com