Valentine’s Edition
This Valentine’s, give yourselves five days just for the two of you. In a masía facing Montserrat, one hour from Barcelona. For couples in life and couples in the dance.
Valentine’s Edition
Valentine’s week, 10 to 14 February 2027. Bachata, inner work and theme nights in a masía facing Montserrat. You wake up together on Valentine’s Day.
Bachata technique
Personal feedback
Connection, communication, trust and sensuality as a couple
Theme nights and a Valentine's night together
Conscious Bachata socials
Everything in and on the dance floor
The film · Couples Retreat
From our past retreats
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Before and after
More than steps
Our last retreat · September 2026
Real people. Real moments.
5 days in the mountains
A day at the retreat
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For the two of you
On the floor, everything shows. Who leads. Who waits. Who holds back. Where you trust, and where you do not yet.
For five days, we work on the two of you. In the dance, and outside it.
It is Valentine’s week. Five days to celebrate each other, slow down and reconnect.
You dance together the whole retreat. We do not rotate partners.
Sound familiar?
One leads, the other resists.
On the floor it feels like control. At home it sounds the same.
You stopped really listening.
You know each other so well that you stopped feeling each other.
One gives more than the other.
And nobody says it out loud.
The play is gone.
You dance the same steps. You live the same days.
Michael & Mayra. A couple in the dance and in life.
Our story as a couple
“The dance shows the relationship. And the relationship changes the dance.”
We are international bachata artists, life partners and the creators of Conscious Bachata. We met through a social dance at a festival in Lebanon, in 2016. What made it different was not the attraction. It was the safety, the presence and the balance.
On 4 August 2020 we survived the Beirut port explosion, inside our car, 700 metres away. After that we could not believe that tomorrow was guaranteed. Presence stopped being a concept. It became how we live, and how we love.
We also know the hard part. We lived it.
The pressure of traveling the world together.
The pressure of working together.
The pressure of really confronting each other.
Our dance expressed so many parts of our relationship. We know the pain of loving to dance with someone but feeling the tension. Feeling how all the triggers get activated. Because the couple is your biggest mirror. The couple is your biggest teacher.
For us, dance was literally a doorway to improve our relationship. More than 10 years together as a dance couple, a dancing life, and married, taught us this and much more.
We are not teaching just a concept. We are teaching a life experience.
Everything from the moment you arrive. You only bring each other.
Not included: flights, transfers and travel insurance.
Booking & transfer conditions
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A room with a double bed for each couple. A private chef, three meals a day. A wooden floor to dance on, with a wood stove.
Exact address once your place is booked.
Getting there
The Bachata Van
Going up on Wednesday 10 February, the van leaves Barcelona at 1pm. Check in at the house is at 2pm. Going down on Sunday 14 February, the van leaves the house at 5pm. Book your flight home after 7:30pm.
About 25€ per person each way, paid directly to the driver.
It is optional. You can also come by car. The house is about one hour from Barcelona.
Our advice: arrive in Barcelona the day before. We share the exact pickup time and place two weeks before.
The exact address is shared once your place is booked.
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Clear frameworks, so you understand how the movement actually works.
Breath, sensation and movement together, so knowing becomes feeling.
Past comparison, perfectionism and the fear of being seen.
Listening, trust, giving and receiving, direction and surrender.
Turning technique into your own movement language.
Day by day
Every day has bachata in the morning, free time after lunch, inner work in the evening and a theme night. The full program comes before the retreat.
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An example day. The full program comes before the retreat.
Two things matter. The van up, and the van down. Book your flights around them.
You arrive
Wednesday 10 February 2027
check in at 2pm
The Bachata Van leaves Barcelona center at 1pm. There is no group lunch on Wednesday, so eat before you come. Snacks and something warm to drink will be waiting for you.
Our advice: land in Barcelona the day before, or the same day in the morning. A delayed flight cannot make you miss the start.
You leave
Sunday 14 February 2027
the van leaves the house at 5pm
Valentine’s Day. The last morning brings everything together. Check out is at 12 noon, then the closing circle. The Bachata Van leaves the house at 5pm and takes about one hour to Barcelona Airport.
Book your flight home after 7:30pm. If you can only find an earlier flight, tell us before you book.
Which airport
No car? Join the Bachata Van. Going up: Wednesday at 1pm from Barcelona center. Going down: Sunday at 5pm to Barcelona Airport. It is optional, about 25€ per person each way.
About two weeks before, we open a WhatsApp group. Everyone shares their travel times there and you come in together.
Send us your flight times before you book. We will tell you if they work.
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