Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
Up to 12 in group
Sep 29 - Oct 4, 2026
About this Retreat
Water is Moniek's calling. As a transformation guide and mentor, ceremonialist, freediver, water therapist and water dancer, she devotes her life entirely to water, in every dimension.
Originally from the Netherlands, she spent eighteen years as a serial entrepreneur and business leader, holding director roles in consultancy and running companies across India, South Africa, the Netherlands, Portugal and Mexico, alongside an MSc in Finance. She understands the world of leaders and entrepreneurs very well. Yet she has transformed, and today she channels the message of water.
Her training runs deep: a decade of silent retreats, two decades of yogic philosophy, and initiations into indigenous wisdom lineages, including the cacao tradition of the Maya and the path of mushrooms in Maria Sabina lineage. She walks these paths as both student and bridge, honouring indigenous healers while translating their wisdom for the world she once belonged to.
She has since guided more than a thousand leaders and high performers through lasting personal transformation, combining freediving, Janzu water therapy, ceremony and nervous system regulation.
She founded Born From Water to bring water's intelligence back into the world. Through the Water Intelligence Framework, retreats in extraordinary waters, and 1-on-1 work, she guides people through transformation that lasts.
Many leaders seek refuge in Mo for her ability to guide profound breakthroughs in transformation, ability to intuitively 'see' things that are hidden, wisdom in the body, the balance between heart and mind.
Details of this retreat
The Deepest Retreat is a six-day transformation journey for leaders, entrepreneurs and high-performers, combining freediving, water therapy, and indigenous wisdom with the latest understanding of nervous system regulation.
Moniek's own path bridges two decades of business leadership with deep transformation work, and she works alongside world-class freedive instructors, water therapists and retreat guides.
Even though freediving is a central practice, this is more than 'just' a freediving retreat: it's a journey back to trust, presence and your own body, designed to create lasting change, not just a powerful week.
For the fourth time, and for the first time in Mallorca, we experience freediving in some of the Mediterranean's clearest waters, a practice that deeply connects us to building trust and freedom in the body.
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Each of us deserves a life of purpose, presence, and real connection, to ourselves, to others, to the world we're building. There is no miracle cure, but with the right container, guidance and integration, real transformation is possible. We have witnessed it, again and again, and it still gives us goosebumps.
This retreat is designed specifically for leaders who have achieved what they once dreamed of achieving, and who sense that something essential is still missing. People who know that strategy, intelligence and material success no longer create the fulfillment they're looking for. We gently, but firmly, invite what's underneath the armor.
Our retreats are exclusive not only because of beautiful locations, but because we choose to run only a limited number of deeply personal journeys each year. We work with a small, intimate group, with real one-on-one attention during preparation and integration, not just the days on location.
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We created The Deepest Retreat in response to what we hear, again and again, from the leaders we work with:
How do I learn to trust my own body again? How do I feel real calm, instead of just performing calm? How do I stop overthinking, and start knowing? How do I lead the same way in public as I do in private? How do I find flow, instead of forcing my way through?
The Deepest Retreat is our answer.
We share what we deeply honour, and what has personally changed us: freediving, water wisdom, and indigenous ceremony.
Mallorca's hidden coves and ancient limestone cliffs and caves, connected to both mountain and sea, are the ideal setting for this kind of depth.
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The theme of this retreat is water.
This speaks to the sacred waters of the Mediterranean, and the inner waters of our own emotions. It includes freediving, Janzu water therapy, water dance, and an optional medicine ceremony to open the body and release what it's been holding.
Water composes over 70% of who we are. We believe water holds a key to regeneration, inside ourselves and in the world around us.
"Water is not a resource. She is a relative. A consciousness. A home." - Mo, Founder, Born From Water
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The Deepest Retreat is part of Born From Water, a collective devoted entirely to water: remembering her, transforming with her, and giving back to her. Every retreat contributes to something larger than the six days themselves.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
"Mo combines ancient wisdom, human behavior and spiritual guidance. She has a deep understanding of executive leadership, and the challenges corporations face. It has impacted me in a profound way, I feel happier and healthier."
- Sandra M., Executive, Portugal
"Trust is always something I've struggled with. The container held by Mo is very deep, the retreats burst you open, and the integration is grounded and extremely effective. This was, in fact, the most important experience of my life."
- Sacha G., Entrepreneur, France
"It was probably the most authentic transformation experience I've ever encountered. Truly a once in a lifetime experience."
- Daniel K., Investor, Switzerland
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To start with your application, visit www.bornfromwater.com, or reach out directly to flow@bornfromwater.com