For women
A retreat designed entirely for your group.
For lawyers, doctors, notaries, friends, and retired women who want something rare. Morocco, co-designed for you.
Why Umnya
Not a wellness hotel. A private journey.
Umnya doesn't run open retreats. We co-create private tailor-made experiences for groups of 8 to 14 women, around your dates, your destination, your desires. You tell us who you are and what you seek. We design something you haven't seen before.
The women behind the retreat
Led by women. Rooted in place.
Every Umnya retreat is built around a team of women, local and international, whose knowledge of the landscape, the body, and the stories of Morocco is what makes the experience possible.
Documentary Photographer
A Moroccan female photographer documents the journey. Not staged. Not filtered. The real light, the real faces, the real silence between sessions. Images returned to guests one month after the retreat, a record of who they were when they arrived, and who they became.
Yoga & Meditation Guide
A certified female teacher who knows Morocco's landscapes well enough to design a practice around them. Sunrise sessions on dune crests. Rooftop sequences in Marrakech at first light. Alpine breathwork at 2,400 metres. Evening meditation in silence.
Amazigh Storyteller
An Amazigh woman who carries the oral tradition of the Atlas. Stories about the land, the seasons, and the women who shaped this culture, told at night, by fire, in Arabic or Tamazight with French translation. The oral tradition of the Berber people is held primarily by women; these are not performances but transmissions.
Local Musicians
Women who play the bendir and who sing the ahouach, the collective music of the Atlas that UNESCO has declared Intangible Cultural Heritage. On the final evening of the retreat, they arrive in traditional dress: tiznit silver, handira cloaks, indigo fabric. The ceremony lasts as long as the stars allow.
Rose Valley Masseuses
In the Dadès Valley, local cooperative women trained in traditional touch therapies offer outdoor rose-petal massage among the blooming Centifolia fields. Fresh petals, rose water hydrolat, and argan oil from the cooperatives they belong to. An experience that cannot be replicated in any spa.
Les expériences
Quatre circuits. Votre vision.
Ancient paths. Amazigh wisdom. Living culture.
Walking with Berbers
Led by Berber guides through the High Atlas valleys, with stops at working olive orchards, the saffron cooperatives of Taliouine, and Amazigh villages where hospitality is practised as it has been for a thousand years. Eight days where every meal begins in a field.
Explorer →
Desert knowledge. Ancient routes. Stars as compass.
Walking with Nomads
Guided by nomad families through the Drâa Valley and Erg Chigaga, through date palm oases dense with Morocco's finest Mejhoul dates, across ancient caravanserai routes, and into the deep Sahara where desert culture is still practised as knowledge rather than performance.
Explorer →
Rose valleys. Living cooperatives. Seasonal rhythms.
Walking with Locals
Through the Dadès Valley and Kelâa M'Gouna, where the Centifolia rose blooms each May and the cooperatives distil rose water that supplies hammams across Morocco. Walking at the pace of the season, with the people who made this valley what it is.
Explorer →
No words. No screens. Just the landscape and your nervous system.
Silent Trek
A 2 to 4-day period of complete silence woven into the retreat. Walking routes through Atlas valleys, Saharan dune corridors, or Rif mountain cedar forests, without speaking, without devices, without distraction. Guided by a single practitioner who speaks only when safety requires.
Explorer →Patrimoine UNESCO · Ahouach
The ahouach.
On the last clear evening, Amazigh women arrive in traditional dress. They play the bendir and sing the ahouach. Guests sit on carpets on the dune or in the mountain clearing. Mint tea is served. No translation is offered, the music translates itself.
Vallée du Dadès · Coopérative féminine
Massage among the roses.
In May, when the Centifolia rose blooms in the Dadès Valley, local cooperative women set up outdoor massage spaces among the flower rows at dawn. The treatment uses fresh petals, cold-distilled rose water, and argan oil. It lasts 60 to 90 minutes. The morning air is cool. The scent is extraordinary. Nothing about this experience is possible in any other season, at any other latitude.
Walking with Locals →Who comes
Built for women who demand the extraordinary.
Professionals
Lawyers, doctors, notaries, judges. Demanding, rigorous, and looking for an experience as serious as they are. No programme imposed. Everything co-created.
Groups of friends
Eight to fourteen women who know each other and want something they will never forget. A private circuit in Morocco, designed for your group and no one else.
Active retirees
Women with time, curiosity, and the freedom to go further. Morocco offers extraordinary access to landscapes and traditions that require a guide who knows how to listen.
Journal
Huit regards sur les femmes,
le paysage et la transformation.
9 min
Empowering Women Through Landscape: What Morocco Offers That Nowhere Else Can
8 min
The Team: Why Every Umnya Retreat Is Built Around Women
8 min
The Ahouach: When Amazigh Women Sing Under the Stars
7 min
Massage in the Rose Fields: What the Vallée des Roses Offers That No Spa Can
9 min
The Silent Trek: Three Days Without Words in the Atlas Mountains
8 min
Walking with Nomads: What the Sahara's Date Culture Teaches About Nourishment
8 min
Women's Group Retreats in Morocco: What a Private Circuit Actually Delivers
8 min
Why Morocco Is the Ideal Destination for a Women's Retreat
Tell us about your group
Share your vision.
A few words about your group, your desires, your preferred dates. We'll come back to you with a proposal designed entirely for you.