Join us for an unforgettable holistic retreat in Ibiza with our founder Nita Arpiainen. This praised Authentic Me Ibiza Retreat will be the third of its kind in this beautiful and magical island of Ibiza.
This Meisner Technique based retreat will help you access and awaken the most important skills of both the actor as well as human being: authentic connection and listening, truthful presence and moment-to-moment living, the courage to follow your instincts, body and mind awareness, as well as your emotional capacity and intelligence. The mornings will start with gentle yoga, embodiment, and meditation sessions and during the days we will run two sets of workshop classes still leaving time to rest or explore the beautiful island.
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LIMITED AVAILABILITY
Early bird price with room and full board:
2150€ available until December 20th
Normal price with room and full board:
2650€ for bookings done after December 20th
See the pricing without accommodation below.
You can click the above booking link if you want to book a place on the retreat.
The deposit payment to confirm the booking is 750€
If you have any inquiries regarding the retreat prior your booking, please don't hesitate to contact us by email at
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About The Retreat
This retreat will help you to tap into (or up-level) your acting skills, enhance your personal awareness and support you with tools to connect with your truth and alignment, as well as clarify your career and life goals.
Ever since childhood and throughout our lives we've learnt to close ourselves from our natural impulses, senses and emotions. How would it feel like to have the permission to be fully humane and wholesome? How would it feel to be fully seen and heard as your true self without masks? How would it feel to not fear confrontation or being connected and vulnerable with another?
Through the Authentic Me Retreat we dive back into your true self, especially into your emotional life and its empowering spectrum.
Through embodiment and somatic exercises, meditation and other tools and warm-ups in a variety of group and partner exercises we will learn to express ourselves, truly listen to another and to be present. The Meisner Technique acting classes will help you to access and express your truthful impulses based on your partner's behaviour, through exploration of the famous 'Repetition Exercise', 'Independent Activity' and 'Emotional Preparation' exercises. The retreat suits beginners and all levels of Meisner Technique students. At the end of the retreat, all pairs will have rehearsed a scene and the final scenes will be captured onto camera. Participants will receive the filmed material.
Embodiment and awareness practices and meditation classes are built to connect you deeper into who you are, releasing restricting beliefs and patterns. This is crucial for creating a space that helps you tap deeper into your innate freedom and your unique instincts.
"Nothing more magical than the courageous moment a person drops their mask and steps into their authenticity. Nothing more empowering for them and nothing more appealing to anyone in their presence."
- Nita Arpiainen
SAMPLE RETREAT DAY
8:30 - 9:30 morning yoga/ body awareness/ meditation/ Breath work
9:30 - 10:30 breakfast
11:00 - 13:00 workshop session 1
13:00 - 14:00 lunch
14:00 - 17:00 free time & possible excursions
17:00 - 19:00 workshop session 2/ meditation, coaching
19:00 - 20:00 dinner
20:00 - 22:00 yin yoga, excursion, movie night, group gathering
WHO THIS RETREAT IS FOR
For actors (advanced and beginners) or for anyone wanting to understand and tap into their rich and empowering emotional life and the authentic human connections. For anyone wanting to create more freedom, courage and awareness in themselves. For anyone wanting to learn about the Meisner Technique or the basics of truthful acting. Also great for performers, directors, writers, artists, creatives and coaches.
WHAT DO YOU GET
Through this retreat you will:
Tools to release tension and restricting patterns in your body and mind, and how to access your natural self
Strengthened capacity to really listen and connect with your acting partner
A sense of freedom in yourself and deeper emotional expression and understanding
An enhanced capacity to drop down masks and live in your authenticity
Learn the Meisner technique Repetition and Independent activity practice, strengthen your acting instincts and capacity to take risks, and truly listen and follow spontaneous moment-to-moment impulses
Strengthened acting instincts and capacity to take risks, stronger trust in a sense of truth and spontaneous moment-to-moment impulses
Enhanced confidence towards improvised situations and means of working
Healthy and organic ways to let go of fear and pressure on stage, film-sets or within any performing or presentation situation to create a deeper connection and enjoyment in being in front of others
Deeper understanding and tools to enhance the body-mind connection and the mindset that supports a successful life and career
Techniques and daily practices for a healthy and free mind-body balance
Tools to train the mind to support overall wellness and empowerment to accomplish one's desired goals
An edited version of your practiced scene filmed on the final day of the retreat
INFO
SCHEDULE
Sunday - Saturday
November 23th - 29th, 2025
Check in 4pm 23th of November
LOCATION
Santa Gertrudis, biza, Spain
RETREAT TUITION WITH SHARED ROOM ACCOMMODATION
Early-bird retreat tuition price with full room and board:
2150€ (for bookings made by December 20th)
Normal retreat tuition price with full room and board:
2650€ (for bookings made after December 20th)
RETREAT TUITION WITH SINGLE ROOM ACCOMMODATION
Early-bird retreat tuition price with full room and board:
2850€ (for bookings made by December 20th)
Normal retreat tuition price with full room and board:
3350€ (for bookings made after December 20th)
The Full-board Tuition includes the following:
Accommodation in an exclusive villa in shared 2-person bedrooms (limited single room availability)
Delicious and healthy meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner)
Coffee, tea, water and light snacks available during the day
Full retreat curriculum including workshop classes and coaching, yoga & meditation (approx. 5h per day)
RETREAT TUITION WITHOUT ACCOMMODATION
The price without accommodation, including all meals:
Early bird price: 1850€ (for bookings made by December 20th)
Normal price: 2250€ (for bookings made after December 20th)
Please get in touch for Payment plans if needed.
Not included in the retreat tuitions:
Flights
Transportation to the villa from airport and to airport (taxi ride approximately 35-50€/way)
Optional excursions (horse back riding, island excursions etc and optional meals outside the villa)
PAYMENT SCHEDULE
Book your spot by paying the deposit of 750€ (book via booking link on top of page)
Final payment due March 3rd.
OTHER
Places limited and will be filled on a 'first-come-first-serve' basis.
You do not need any previous experience, but an open and willing attitude is required
Teaching language is English (please keep in mind that you do not need to have perfect English skills, and you do not need to worry about accent and pronunciation).
All rights to changes reserved.
CANCELLATION POLICY
Deposit 750€ paid by the time of booking, deposit non-refundable. The student is eligible to pass on their place to another participant if they wish.
Cancellations made by March 3rd, deposit non-refundable, remaining tuition not charged. The student is eligible to pass on their place to another participant if they wish.
No tuition refunds after March 3rd. The student is eligible to pass on their place to another participant if they wish.
In case the retreat needs to be cancelled due to travel bans etc., students will receive back their whole tuition including the deposit.
ABOUT NITA ARPIAINEN
Nita Arpiainen is is an actor and acting coach, yoga teacher, health and life coach and the founder of Actors Academy Finland. In her previous careers she has been a professional snowboarded and also worked as a TV presenter and producer.
Nita's deep passion and curiosity for acting, learning and personal growth is the underlying motivation for AAF to come alive. The vision for AAF was formed while Nita attended numerous acting schools and workshops in London at the Actors Studio, Giles Forman Acting Studio, City Academy and the Actors Temple to name a few, ultimately falling profoundly in love with the Meisner Technique, and it making a powerful and lasting impact on the way she viewed acting. Nita has been studying the Meisner Technique with various teachers since 2015.
AAF has put together the One Year Actors Training as the optimal training course. It combines the expertise Nita has gathered on the subject around the world and eager to share it with her fellow actors.
TESTIMONIALS
Actors Academy Finland and Nita are one of a kind. Full of purpose, full of drive and dedication for the greater good and for the greater opportunity of how we get to represent real presence, to being present to one another’s beauty, to one another’s joy and light for the world. The way Nita holds space if magical. She has a very skilled and attuned way of allowing oneself to really bring the best version of truth, integrity and honesty for the purpose of one’s true personal transformation.
- Eric Balance
The retreat was very powerful and Nita is an amazing space holder. As individuals, and as a collective, we were given support and nudges to unfold and offload in many ways. The group was lovely, dynamic, fun and also very loving and respectful.
It is a fantastic, intense program I would recommend to anyone whether they're into acting or not. It is a gift I am grateful I was able to receive.
- Elodie Lefebvre
MEISNER TECHNIQUE
How would it feel like to have the permission to be fully humane and wholesome? How would it feel like to be fully seen and heard as your true self without masks? How would it feel to not fear confrontation or being connected and vulnerable with another?
Ever since childhood and throughout our lives we've learnt to close ourselves from our natural impulses, senses and emotions. We dive back into your true self, especially into your emotional life and its empowering spectrum, through Yoga & Meditation alongside with other tools and exercises. In a variety of group and partner exercises we will learn to express ourselves, truly listen to another and to be present.
The Meisner Technique acting classes will help you to access and express your truthful impulses based on your partner's behaviour, through an exploration of the famous 'Repetition Exercise', 'Independent Activity' and 'Emotional Preparation'. The retreat suits beginners and all levels of Meisner students as you will be paired up with someone with the same experience and you can work on the level you at the moment.
The Meisner technique is an approach to acting which was developed by the American theatre practitioner Sanford Meisner. The focus of the Meisner approach is for the actor to "get out of their head", such that the actor is behaving instinctively to the surrounding environment. To this end, some exercises for the Meisner technique are rooted in repetition so that the words are deemed insignificant compared to the underlying emotion. In the Meisner technique, there is a greater focus on the other actor as opposed to one's internal thoughts or feelings associated with the character.
Sanford Meisner said that his approach to training “is based on bringing the actor back to his emotional impulses and acting that is firmly rooted in the instinctive. It is based on the fact that all good acting comes from the heart, as it were, and that there’s no mentality to it.”
Learn to live in the moment as an actor, and let go of any idea of the result. Learn what it means to really “do” and to respond truthfully to a given moment based on what you get from your partner. Through improvisation, emotional truth and personal response learn to resonate authenticity within a given circumstance. Only in this way will you begin to understand the definition of real acting, which is “to live truthfully under the imaginary circumstances”.
“If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper.” - Sanford Meisner
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