AWAKEN WITHIN RETREAT
An Immersive 4-Day Yoga Retreat for Clarity, Strength & Presence
23-26 July, 2026 | Malabar Hill, Sri Lanka
with Marie-Louise Strøyberg
Most of us spend our days moving between responsibilities, deadlines, decisions, conversations, and expectations. Life becomes full. Productive. Busy. Meaningful.
Yet even when life is good, there comes a point when we need space to step out of the constant doing, reconnect with ourselves, and return with greater clarity, energy, and perspective.
Awaken Within is a luxury yoga and wellness retreat designed to do exactly that.
Held in the serene sanctuary of Malabar Hill, a boutique hilltop retreat nestled between jungle and ocean on Sri Lanka's southern coast, the experience invites you into a different rhythm. One where everything is taken care of, allowing you to slow down, breathe deeply, and focus entirely on your own wellbeing.
At the heart of the retreat lies the yogic understanding that we are more than just a physical body. Yoga describes these dimensions through the koshas - the layers of our being: body, energy, mind, wisdom, and presence.
Over four days, you'll explore and nourish these layers through intelligent yoga practice, breathwork, meditation, sound journeys, gong baths, reflection, and deep rest.
You will strengthen the body.
Restore energy and vitality.
Create space in the mind.
Cultivate greater clarity, focus, and presence.
And reconnect with what truly matters.
This is not about escaping life or becoming someone different.
It is about creating the conditions to return home feeling stronger, clearer, more grounded, and more connected to yourself than when you arrived.
The practices, the place, and the experience become a quiet imprint that continues long after the retreat has ended.
This is your invitation to pause.
To breathe. To reconnect. To Awaken Within.
We can’t wait to welcome you!
Yoga & Meditation
Marie-Louise teaches a dynamic and diverse style of yoga—ranging from ecstatic Vinyasa to floaty slow flows and nourishing restorative practices.
Influenced and trained by renowned international teachers, Marie-Louise is best known for her signature class - Awakened Flow - a creative, alignment-based, breath-focused, and intelligent flow that guides students into deep states of flow.
Marie-Louise classes often weave in yogic philosophy, meditation, and mindfulness, especially in her slow flow and restorative sessions. With a strong focus on alignment, she is known for her hands-on approach, offering supportive guiding assists to help students explore and deepen their postures. At retreats, she integrates sacred rituals and ceremonies, creating an immersive and holistic experience.
Passionate about making yogic philosophy accessible, Marie-Louise conveys these teachings in a way that is both pragmatic and deeply transformative, empowering students to integrate yoga into their daily lives. For her, yoga is not just a practice - it is a spiritual path designed to cultivate mental, emotional, and energetic freedom.
The Retreat Space & Neighborhood
Malabar Hill is a contemporary boutique resort carved into the edge of the Sri Lankan forest. Immersed in the natural setting, the hotel offers a unique outdoor living experience
to revive and transport guests a world away from the ordinary.
Weligama in Sri Lanka is a quaint beach town in the South of Sri Lanka, famed for its sandy beaches, surfing and fishing villages. A short tuk-tuk ride from the beach, through rice paddies strewn with water buffalo, Malabar Hill rises from a cliff top to greet you.
During your leisure, if you would like to relax by the beach, we have a complementary shuttle service that can take you to “The Shack” our beach club in Mirissa.
Accomodation
Each exclusive villa is set within the natural landscape setting, providing both scenic views and comforting privacy. Floor to ceiling glass doors open out onto private terraces with salt-water chlorinated infinity pools, artisan furniture and a rare sense of space and seclusion
What’s included:
Villa with private plunge pool
Qualified yoga and meditation specialist
Daily Vinyasa practices to energize, align, and inspire
Evening meditation circles and sound journeys
Yoga workshops, ceremonies and rituals
Curated healthy & nourishing brunch
Healthy midday snack, teas and sweets
A-la Carte dinner
A guided nature walk with our naturalist Mendis
Daily shuttle to our beach club “The Shack” in Mirissa
What’s not included:
Flights to Sri Lanka
Breakfast & lunch on arrival day
Lunch and dinner on leaving day
Excursions outside of the retreat schedule
Travel insurance
Spa treatments
Pre & Post Stay Benefits:
If you would like to extend your stay, the below rates would be applicable
USD 357 per night on Bed & Breakfast Basis
20% daily discount on Spa Treatments between 9:00 am and 1:00 pm
Food
The cuisine at Hill House is local, fresh, inventive and environmentally thoughtful. Delicious, elegant, balanced dishes are the signature style of Hill House Restaurant. With a menu inspired both by Sri Lankan food heritage and the warm shores of the Mediterranean, the restaurant makes full use of Sri Lanka's plentiful ingredients.
Retreat Details
Date: 23-26 June, 2026
Location : Malabar Hill, Weligama, Sri Lanka
This exclusive retreat is limited to 16 participants, so we encourage you to reserve your space before it is too late.
SHARED DOUBLE OCCUPANCY
You share a villa with someone else
USD 1575 /per person
50% deposit - the rest is paid upon arrival
SINGLE OCCUPANCY
You have your own villa - all alone
USD 2250
50% deposit - the rest is paid upon arrival
For personal assistance:
For personal assistance: reservations@malabarhillsrilanka.com
OR
Via WhatsApp on +94 76 148 9830 (Malabar Hill) // +94 76 693 4983 (Awaken Retreats - me)
MARIE-LOUISE STRØYBERG
Marie-Louise is a certified E-RYT 500 yoga & meditation teacher with more than 10+ years of teaching experience and 20+ of practicing. Marie-Louise teaches everything from creative vinyasa flows to floaty slow flows and meditative yin to nourishing restorative yoga. She is mostly known for teaching her signature class - the Awakened Flow Class - an alignment based, creative and intelligent sequenced flow style class, sending students into deep states of flow. She is a prenatal and postpartum yoga teacher and a trained BabyOm teacher (yoga with baby). Besides teaching yoga she offers Thai Yoga Massage and 1:1 yoga sessions. She is also the owner of Mind-Your Business - a corporate moving mindfulness concept that brings yoga and breath techniques, meditation and mindfulness to companies in Europe.
She teaches internationally and holds yoga trainings, retreats, workshops and events around the world. Originally from Denmark, she now lives and works in Sri Lanka where she teaches through her online yoga platform - Awaken Collective - and at studios on the south coast.
Marie-Louise sees yoga as a deep spiritual practice and is through her teachings dedicated to creating profound eye-opening, mind-body experiences to her students whilst sharing and conveying yogic knowledge and concepts in a concrete and tangible way for people to live authentic and meaningful lives.
IG: @mariestroybergyoga + awaken__retreats + awaken__collective
Online: Awaken Collective