Wellness & Wellbeing
EXPERT-LED MINDFULNESS, BREATH-WORK, YOGA, RECOVERY TREATMENTS, AND PRIVATE WELLBEING SESSIONS DESIGNED TO IMPROVE ENERGY, FOCUS, AND BODY
How the Wellbeing Suite Works
A composed system of regulation, embodiment, and integration.
REGULATION: Breath-work, calm, pacing, and restorative settings work together to settle the nervous system and restore steadier energy.
EMBODIMENT: Movement, body-based practices, treatments, sport, and time in the water reconnect guests to strength, rhythm, and physical ease.
INTEGRATION: Ateliers and selected one-to-one sessions help turn insight into something usable, so the effects of the week continue beyond the retreat.
What Endures
The value of the week lies not only in how it feels, but in what continues beyond it.
CLARITY & PERSPECTIVE: The shift is often first felt in the quality of thought: calmer decision-making, clearer priorities, and a steadier relationship with time.
PERSONAL RHYTHM: Guests leave with a more intelligent sense of pace — knowing better what restores them, what depletes them, and how to maintain balance in daily life.
CONTINUATION: For those who wish to go further, private sessions with selected facilitators can be arranged beyond the retreat, in person or remotely.
The Rhythm of the Week
Foundational practices, followed by deeper work, movement, and restorative time across the week
Each day is anchored by a calm, well-held rhythm rather than a fixed regime. Mindfulness, breathwork, and restorative yoga are offered across the week in a way that allows guests to engage according to energy, interest, and pace, whether to begin the day with clarity, return later for reset, or move between both.
These practices form the foundation of the Wellbeing Suite. They work first on the quality of the nervous system and the body: settling internal noise, restoring steadier energy, and creating the conditions for greater calm, physical ease, and receptivity.
From there, the experience broadens. Wellbeing Ateliers bring reflection and personal insight; sport and water activities support strength, flexibility, physical vitality, and rejuvenation; treatments and partner venues support recovery and physical ease; and the whole unfolds within a precise, well-paced structure shaped by selected facilitators and the character of each destination.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is used throughout the week to create greater mental clarity, steadier attention, and a quieter internal tempo. Rather than asking guests to step out of life, it helps them meet it with more composure, perspective, and presence. Within the retreat, this becomes one of the simplest ways to restore calm while sharpening awareness.
Restorative Yoga
Restorative yoga offers a slower, more supportive approach to movement, designed to release tension, improve flexibility, and return the body to ease. It is less about performance than about intelligent recovery: creating space, softness, and steadier physical rhythm. Within the Wellbeing Suite, it helps guests feel both restored and more comfortably connected to their bodies.
Breath-work
Breath-work works directly on the nervous system, helping to regulate stress, restore balance, and shift the body out of states of pressure or fatigue. Depending on the practice, it can be grounding, energising, or deeply calming. Across the week, it supports clearer energy, greater physical ease, and a stronger sense of internal equilibrium.
Wellbeing Ateliers
Structured spaces for reflection, insight,
and personal integration
Wellbeing Ateliers bring a more reflective dimension to the week. Held in quiet studios, private lounges, and considered indoor-outdoor settings, they create the conditions for clearer thinking, steadier perspective, and more individual forms of insight.
Led by selected facilitators, these sessions are designed to extend the value of the retreat beyond immediate restoration. Guests are invited into focused conversations and practical frameworks that help translate the week into something more usable: greater self-awareness, better judgment, stronger personal clarity, and a more intelligent understanding of what supports them in daily life.
The tone is calm, exacting, and highly personal rather than prescriptive. For some, the effect is subtle but decisive; for others, it opens a more meaningful shift in how they think, work, relate, and recover. This is where the Wellbeing Suite acquires greater depth: not only restorative in pace, but enduring in effect.
Sport and Sea
Physical vitality, freedom of movement, and a more active experience of the Adriatic.
Sport and sea bring a more energising dimension to the week. Tailored to each guest and shaped around the wider retreat experience, these activities introduce movement, release, and physical vitality in a way that feels natural and enjoyable.
Depending on destination, conditions, and appetite, the programme may include water-skiing, jet skiing, kayaking, windsurfing, kitesurfing, scuba diving, tennis, cycling, and other land- and water-based activities arranged in advance.
Everything is handled with care, from scheduling and equipment to local partners and timing, so that activity supports the experience rather than pulling against it. The result is a fuller experience of the Adriatic, where movement, exhilaration, and physical ease sit naturally alongside restoration and rest.
Environment and Schedule
An intimate retreat structure, fully hosted and shaped for ease
Reserved for no more than 16 guests, Novalume is intimate in scale and fully hosted from arrival to departure. The atmosphere has the ease of a private house party, with the polish of a high-end retreat at sea.
Everything is arranged in advance, yet nothing feels compulsory. Days are shaped around personal preference, energy, and pace, allowing guests to move through the week in a way that feels both free and fully supported.
The experience extends beyond the vessel through exceptional partner venues, access ashore, and a sequence of treatments, sea time, dining, and activity that broadens the week without disturbing its sense of ease. Beginning with the morning Wellbeing Atelier, each day opens naturally into a wider experience of the Adriatic.
The result is a retreat that feels spacious and unforced, with each day opening naturally from one experience to the next.
Reserve Your Experience
Choose your cabin, review the details, and reserve your place within Novalume.
Split, Croatia
7 nights
Prestige 520 - F Line Master Suite
Ensuite Bathroom | Spacious Wardrobe | Private Access and Relaxation Nook | Queen Size Bed
Split, Croatia
7 nights
Prestige 520- F Line Queen Bed Cabin
Dedicated Shared Bathroom | Comfortably Sized Wardrobe | Queen Size Bed
Split, Croatia
7 nights
Prestige 520 - F Line Twin Bed Cabin
Dedicated Shared Bathroom | Comfortably Sized Wardrobe | Queen Size Bed
Split, Croatia
7 nights
Prestige M48 - M Line Master Suite
Ensuite Bathroom | Spacious Wardrobe | Private Access and Relaxation Nook | Queen Size Bed
Split, Croatia
7 nights
Prestige M48 - M Line Queen Bed Cabin
Ensuite Bathroom | Comfortably Sized Wardrobe | Queen Size Bed
Split, Croatia
7 nights
Prestige M48 - M Line Twin Bed Cabin
Ensuite Bathroom | Comfortably Sized Wardrobe | Twin Bed
Professional Facilitators
A multidisciplinary faculty selected for depth of practice, credibility, and real-world relevance.
The Wellbeing Suite is guided by selected facilitators whose work brings depth, perspective, and applied insight to the week. Drawn from fields including breathwork, movement, occupational therapy, performance, human development, and the arts, they are chosen not only for experience, but for the quality of their presence and the clarity of their thinking.
Their role is not to impose a method, but to support each guest with intelligence and range. Across ateliers, one-to-one sessions, and informal moments of exchange, they help turn reflection into something usable: clearer perspective, stronger self-awareness, better judgment, and a more grounded way of moving through work and life.
What matters here is not credentials alone, but the standard of guidance they make possible. The result is a faculty that gives the Wellbeing Suite greater depth — informed, personal, and enduring in effect.
Professional Facilitator
Rebecca Stephens MBE
Rebecca is a distinguished mountaineer, journalist, author, motivational speaker, and life and executive coach.
She serves as an adjunct professor at Hult International Business School, specialising in Strategic Management, Leadership, and Change.
Rebecca made history on May 17, 1993, as the first British woman to reach Everest's summit, and later as the first British woman to conquer the Seven Summits.
Her keynote speeches and master classes, inspired by extreme mountain expeditions and journalism expertise at the Financial Times, focus on leadership, motivation, and teamwork.
Rebecca also leads transformative mountain-based learning experiences, such as the RSM MBA Kilimanjaro Elective.
Her adventurous spirit extended to sailing the Southern Seas and competing in the Canadian Rockies Eco-Challenge.
Among her published works are “On Top of the World” and “The Seven Summits of Success.”
As director of Seven Summits Performance Ltd. and principal consultant for Skarbek Associates, Rebecca provides leadership development.
Her contributions extend to being a trustee for The Himalayan Trust UK, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and an Alpine Club member.
Professional Facilitator
Ben Bidwell
Ben Bidwell is a renowned expert in personal transformation and fulfilment, specialising in guiding high achievers toward realising deep, meaningful purpose beyond traditional metrics of success.
With extensive experience, Ben's approach addresses stagnation often tied to career achievements, financial gains, and external validation.
His proficiency is underpinned by training in numerous disciplines, including NLP, Logo-therapy, Hypnotherapy, Life Coaching, Meditation, and Breath-work.
Ben’s work has garnered attention in prominent publications like Forbes, The Independent, and Esquire.
A pivotal element of his methodology is breath-work, which aids in freeing individuals from mental constraints, fostering personal evolution. Through his Heart-Opening Breath-work Training, Ben equips coaches and wellness professionals with the tools needed to incorporate this transformative practice, ensuring impactful and safe client experiences.
His practices empower individuals to achieve unparalleled fulfilment and purpose in their lives.
Professional Facilitator
Pamela Barry-Das
Pamela Barry-Das is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist (CPsychol) and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS).
She's an EMCC accredited coach, an NLP practitioner, and a member of the BPS Division of Coaching.
Fluent in Bengali, German, and English, Pamela specializes in Emotional Intelligence, Resilience, Learning Agility, and Cultural Diversity. She supports individuals and organizations by identifying and developing talent, enhancing self-awareness, and fostering personal and professional growth through strategic coaching and psychometric tools.
Professional Facilitator
Jackie Gillies
Jackie Gillies is Australia’s most sought-after psychic medium, boasting over 20 years of experience and having helped more than 50,000 people worldwide.
Known for her powerful psychic insights and effective coaching methods, Jackie assists clients in realizing their true potential and overcoming barriers to create a fulfilling life. Her personal struggles have transformed into strengths, enabling her to guide others with empathy and wisdom.
Jackie's comprehensive TransformU program, designed for holistic growth, includes modules on Manifestation, Money & Wealth, Relationships, Boundaries, and Self-Empowerment. This program empowers individuals to harness their intuition and craft a life filled with purpose and joy. Through TransformU, Jackie provides the tools to listen to life's messages and translate them into actionable steps.
Professional Facilitator
Nikolina Jovanovic
Founder, Indigo Sails
Nikolina is a dynamic entrepreneur with expertise in hotel, property development, travel, technology, and social impact sectors.
She holds a Bachelor of Science with Honors from RIT and the American College of Management and Technology.
Starting at Vail Marriott Mountain Resort & Spa, she advanced to CEO roles in luxury boutique hotels across Southern Europe. She transitioned to the yacht charter industry, managing logistics for over 1,000 yachts globally.
As Founder and CEO of Indigo Sails, she combines luxury yachting with wellbeing, aiming to inspire social change and self-discovery.
Professional Facilitator
Roger Delves MA (Hons) Oxon, FRSA
Professor of Practice in Leadership - Hult International Business School; Ashridge Executive Education
A Fellow of the RSA, and Oxford-educated, Roger is Associate Dean and Professor of Leadership Practice at a leading international business school.
His special interests are helping others to understand the roles of authenticity and emotional intelligence in leadership and in team engagement.
Roger has taught and coached extensively internationally and in the UK.
Among many others, Roger has co-authored “The Top Fifty Management Dilemmas – Fast Solutions to Everyday Challenges”, contributed to and co-edited “Inspiring Leadership: Becoming a Dynamic and Engaging Leader” the same as a chapter to “Management Development that Works”.
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Private Sessions
Private one-to-one coaching for founders, creatives, and senior leaders, available in person or online.
Private Sessions are Indigo Sails’ private coaching offering, designed for founders, creatives, and senior leaders navigating transition, growth, pressure, or complex decision-making. Offered independently of our retreats or as a continuation beyond them, each engagement is tailored to the individual and delivered either in person or online.
Sessions combine strategic perspective, somatic work, disciplined reflection, and carefully chosen tools according to the client and context. The work may focus on leadership, clarity, resilience, performance, decision-making, personal recalibration, or moving through demanding periods with greater steadiness and self-command.
Between sessions, clients may receive selected readings, personal practices, and follow-up support to help sustain progress. The aim is not generic coaching, but highly individual work that sharpens judgment, steadies energy, and strengthens how a client leads, lives, and operates.
Private Sessions provide a more individual setting for high-level support, delivered with discretion, care, and close attention throughout.
Explore Other Indigo Sails Experiences
Three distinct ways to experience Indigo Sails at sea
Beyond the Wellbeing Suite, Indigo Sails is expressed through Novalume, private yacht charter, and a limited number of Secret Retreats. Novalume brings together hosted retreat life, wellbeing, and hospitality in one complete Adriatic experience. Yacht charter offers a more private format, shaped around freedom, setting, and life on the water. Secret Retreats open selectively, with a more discreet character and limited access.
Each offers a distinct way into the Indigo Sails world, while holding to the same standard of discretion, hospitality, and care.
Novalume
Novalume is a private, restoration-focused retreat created for those seeking genuine recalibration in an exceptional setting.
Yacht Charter
Private yacht journeys worldwide, shaped by trusted expertise, thoughtful planning, and seamless life on the water.
Secret Retreats
Curated retreats at sea, released in limited editions, offering selective access through registration and advance notice.
