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MEET CHALLENGE WITH PRESENCE.

Two immersive retreats inviting you to expand what you believe is possible •

Sydney & Byron Bay • May & June 2026

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How long can you hold a plank?

Two minutes?
Three?
Maybe four?

Now imagine this: 9h 38min 47sec

When I first saw the news, I honestly had to splash water on my face.
Is this even possible?

Yes, it is. And that reaction is coming from someone who can hold their breath for over six minutes!

Joska Šálek — a calm, unassuming Czech man — who holds 3 world records and one of them is the Guinness World Record for the longest plank ever achieved in the world. And what struck me most wasn’t so much the number, but how he did it.

No force.
No aggression.
No obvious suffering.

He stayed present, calm, and deeply connected — even smiling — while meeting one of the most intense physical challenges imaginable.

Naturally, I wanted to understand: how? and why?

What mental skills allow someone to stay steady when the body is screaming?
How do you meet pain, fear, and fatigue without resistance — and without checking out?

That curiosity led to a powerful collaboration.

I’m incredibly grateful to be teaming up with Joska to bring this work to Australia through rare, immersive 4-day retreats, offered either as a Country Retreat near Sydney or a Luxury Villa experience in Byron Bay.

Together, we guide people through experiences that explore human resilience in a grounded, no-ego way — not to push limits, but to understand how we relate to challenge.

This retreat is designed to help you:

Meet fear with presence
Rebuild trust in yourself and
Reconnect with your inner strength — not by pushing harder, but by learning how to stay mindfully with discomfort when it arises.

So why trust us?

Because this work is grounded in lived experience, shaped by real challenges written by life, and refined through years of practice at the edge of comfort.

Our Story

TWO LOCATIONS. ONE EXPERIENCE.

Choose your location - an earthy, country retreat near Sydney or a luxurious villa in Byron Bay

COUNTRY RETREAT - WISEMAN'S FERRY (NEAR SYDNEY)

$2,500 pp

Early Bird Pricing (ends Feb 28) $2,900 Standard Price

Arrival Thursday 3pm-7pm + 3 nights accommodation
Gourmet meals & non-alcoholic drinks
Full retreat program guided by Joska & Miska
Thursday 21– Sunday 24 May 2026
Immerse yourself in nature, fall asleep to the sound of the birds and a nearby stream, and enjoy quiet evenings by the fireplace.
Shared rooms are part of the retreat experience. Private rooms are available for an additional fee, subject to availability.
Intentionally limited to a small group — maximum 20 participants.
Secure your place with a $500 deposit

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LUXURIOUS VILLA, MINUTES FROM BYRON BAY BEACHES

$3,500 pp

Early Bird Pricing (ends Feb 28) $3,900 Standard Price

Arrival Thursday 3pm-7pm + 3 nights accommodation

Gourmet meals & non-alcoholic drinks
Full retreat program guided by Joska & Miska
Thursday 4 – Sunday 7 June 2026
Relax by the beach, pool or spa, with space to slow down, reconnect, and gently integrate the experience.
Shared rooms are part of the retreat experience. Private rooms are available for an additional fee, subject to availability.
An intimate retreat setting — maximum 14 participants.
Secure your place with a $500 deposit

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7-DAYS MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE

Need a little time to be sure? Secure your spot with a deposit and you’ll have 7 days to change your mind for a full refund, as long as you’re more than 90 days out from departure.

It’s not about doing more.

It’s about remembering how to be with yourself.

Invitations. Not Expectations.

A glimpse into experiences that may be part of the retreat — always guided, mindful, always optional, and held with care. Each experience is designed not to push limits, but to invite mind–body connection, awareness, trust, and presence. You are never asked to prove anything — only to participate if it feels right. Often, the most powerful learning comes from choosing not today, from witnessing, and from noticing what arises within you.

ABOUT THE RETREAT

Where the Mind meets Body.

Over four immersive days, you’ll step into a carefully held environment designed to support both challenge and safety. Each experience is intentional — not to push you beyond your limits, but to invite your nervous system to expand its capacity in a grounded, supported way.

You’ll be guided through a series of embodied journeys that encourage presence, trust, and self-awareness. These experiences are not about performance or endurance, but about how you meet yourself when things feel unfamiliar or intense.

At different moments throughout the retreat, you may experience:

Fire walking (if weather permits), where you learn to meet fear with calm focus and grounded awareness
Water-based experiences, using breath, stillness, and softness to explore surrender and inner calm
Glass walking, inviting clarity, conscious choice, and precision in the moment
Trust fall, inviting you to explore trust in your own decisions and in the support of others
Breath and nervous system regulation practices, offering practical tools you can take into everyday life
Reflection and integration sessions, creating space to process, understand, and embody what you experience
Group connection and shared witnessing, where presence and support become part of the journey

Nothing is forced. Participation is always by choice.
Each experience unfolds through presence — allowing insight, confidence, and calm to emerge naturally.

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Joska's Mission

To strengthen bodies.
To awaken spirit.
And to ignite the belief that when courage, determination, and purpose come together —
everything truly is possible."

Josef Salek

Miska's Philosophy

You can’t fight water — if you do, you will lose.
And life is no different.

When we stop resisting and move with awareness, we conserve energy, protect our life force, and discover a deeper kind of strength. I call it soft power..

Water reveals.
Water heals.
Water teaches.

Michaela Werner

Itinerary

Here’s a typical taste of what your retreat might look like — a balance of nature escapes, carefully held challenges, and spacious moments to contemplate and integrate. The exact flow may shift slightly depending on weather, group energy, and what feels most supportive in the moment.

Day 1 - Welcome

Arrive at your own pace on Thursday afternoon / early evening and check into your accommodation, allowing time to land and settle. We begin by meeting each other exactly where we’re at — with no expectations and no pressure to share more than feels right.

After a shared dinner, we’ll close the day with a screening of Joska’s full-feature documentary, "Vsechno je Mozny /Anything’s Possible" by the Czech director, Tomas Adam — an honest and inspiring story of resilience that sets the tone for the days ahead.

Day 2 - Earth & Fire

We begin the day early with a grounding morning meditation, followed by an optional barefoot run with Joska — an invitation to connect with your body, breath, and the earth beneath your feet. Through a sharing circle and a practical, motivational talk, Joska introduces clear mental frameworks, real-life examples, and simple techniques for meeting challenge with confidence and focus. These are then explored through a guided plank challenge, where physical discomfort becomes a gateway to presence, resilience, and conscious choice. Join Joska as he performs a plank with 25kg backpack!

A glass and fire walking experience invite you to meet and release fear of injury through calm awareness, softness and acceptance, reinforcing the understanding that soft power — not force — is what keeps us safe, grounded, and strong, both in the water and in life.

Day 3 - Water & Air

The day begins with gentle breathing practices designed to awaken and softly challenge your system, preparing both body and mind for the water. Guided by Miska, you’ll move into an underwater meditation where breath holds, stillness, and awareness invite a deeper connection — not only with the water, but with yourself.

Through simple, fluid movement, Miska embodies the essence of no-fins freediving, offering a living example of efficiency, softness, and trust. Nothing is forced; everything unfolds through presence.

And speaking of trust — you’ll also be invited into a powerful, carefully held exercise that explores trust in your own decisions and in others: a conscious backward fall through the air, safely received by the group. It’s a simple moment, yet one that often reveals far more than expected.

Day 4 - The Journey Continues

We greet the final morning at sunrise, with an optional barefoot run alongside Joska — a quiet opportunity to reconnect with the body, breath, and the ground beneath your feet.

A final plank challenge invites you to put the skills of presence, clarity, and self-regulation into practice, noticing not how long you last, but how you meet the moment.

We close the retreat with a final sharing circle — a space for reflection, integration, and intention — before departing, not with an ending, but with tools, insights, and embodied experience to carry forward into everyday life.

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Introducing...

Joska Salek

The Man Who Redefines What's Possible

Coming to Australia from the Czech Republic.

Some people inspire simply by being present.
And then there are those whose life becomes a living proof of what’s possible.

Joska Salek is one of them.

His story reminds us that even the tallest mountains can be climbed — not through force, but through trust, determination, and unwavering purpose.

“Everything is possible.”

For Joska, this isn’t a cliché. It’s a lived truth — one that reshaped his entire life. At the age of 48, Joska stood at a crossroads. Struggling with excess weight, alcohol, and a sense of stagnation, he chose change.

Seven years later, he holds three Guinness World Records:

Longest abdominal plank (male): 9h 38min 47sec
Barefoot half marathon in snow & ice: 1h 50min 42sec (surpassing the previous record held by Wim Hof, widely known as “The Iceman”)
Weighted plank (18 kg): 1h 25min 02sec

The numbers are remarkable.
But what matters more is how — and why — they were achieved.

Joska is also a survivor of 66 days of wrongful imprisonment in an Arab jail. He emerged not bitter, but stronger — with a deep understanding that even when the odds are against us, we remain responsible for creating our own happiness.

Today, Joska is planning to rewrite more world records and he has dedicated his life to helping others reconnect with their inner strength, step beyond comfort zones, and become the heroes of their own stories.

Miska Werner

Guiding people back to calm, clarity, and self-awareness — through breath, water, and soft power.

Michaela Werner is a freediving athlete and coach based in Newcastle, NSW. She's life-long student of water and two-time Guinness World Record holder. Her mission is to guide people to reconnect with themselves on a deeper level — not by pushing harder, but by learning how to slow down, listen, and trust.

Her work is shaped by years of high-level freediving, motherhood, and a personal journey of self-discovery. Michaela believes that true strength is quiet, that water is one of our greatest teachers, and that growth happens when we stop resisting discomfort and start meeting it with softness and acceptance.

Known for her calm, intuitive approach, she creates safe, grounded spaces where people can explore their edges, regulate their nervous system, and rediscover what it feels like to move through life with clarity, ease, and confidence.

Two Guinness World Records:

Longest Distance Underwater in 1 Hour (Female)
2,525m — Dynamic No Fins (25m × 101)
Longest Distance Underwater in 24 Hours (Team, Breath-Held) 98km — Dynamic No Fins (25m × 3,920)

Country Retreat near Sydney

Set in the Hawkesbury region, just under an hour from Sydney, this place offers the kind of quiet that’s hard to find without going far. Spread across a few simple, self-contained cottages and surrounded by bush, river, and open land, it’s a space that naturally invites you to slow down. You’ll wake to birds, move through the day with views of forest and hills, and have plenty of room to rest, reflect, or sit outside between sessions.

And when you feel like stepping back into the world, the small riverside town of Wisemans Ferry is only a short walk or drive away — close enough for ease, far enough to let the retreat do its work.

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What Others Are Saying:

John Cejka

"An incredible event full of intuition, inspiration, freedom, and powerful experiences. Try it at least once."

Simona Hechtova

"You don’t have to climb Everest or run barefoot marathons — everyone has their own “Olympus.” What seemed like entertainment sparked a deep desire for personal change. This experience truly changed my life."

Jarka Jungova

"Walking across hot coals felt natural, fearless, and deeply empowering. The energy, support, and trust in ourselves was extraordinary. This was my first step into a more conscious life."

Stanca Prochazkova

"The results came surprisingly fast — fears dissolved, balance returned, and the change within me positively affected those around me. A deeply meaningful experience."

Petra Vernerova

"A truly special day with amazing people. Something profound shifted for me immediately after — I’ll carry this experience with me."

Sarka Sofie Ledvinkova

"I felt reborn and euphoric. Walking on coals and glass was powerful — but feeling the shared energy of the group was unforgettable. I wholeheartedly recommend it."

Luxury Villa - Byron Bay

Set amongst quiet bushland and gardens, the retreat accommodation offers a calm, private space just a few minutes from Byron Bay’s town centre and beaches. The house is light-filled and spacious, with views over greenery from every room, creating an easy sense of openness and ease.

With comfortable bedrooms, shared indoor and outdoor spaces, a pool and spa, it’s a place designed for slowing down — somewhere to rest, reflect, and simply be between sessions.