ONLINE HOME RETREATS, 1:1 PRIVATE GUIDANCE & IN-PERSON RETREAT
MAISON CALME
by Sarah Bounouira MSc
Learn the language of your body. Move out of survival mode and return to yourself.
LES OFFRES
Online Home Retreat
A curated collection of experiences combining mind-body work, nervous system regulation, identity work, parts work, and performance psychology. Every Maison Calme experience is designed to feel like a retreat — spacious, calm, and quietly transformative.
1:1 Private Guidance
A somatic experience to help you learn the language of your own body — reconnecting through body and mind. A customized journey, held with care, and shaped entirely around where you are.
In-Person Retreat
Maison Calme's in-person retreats unfold in selected wellness hotels — an invitation to step away, and return to yourself. A space held for stillness, and for what comes after it.
APRIL 2027 · PORTUGAL
Le Retour — Return to yourself through the wisdom of your body.
An Intimate In-Person Retreat.
Coming soon
ABOUT MAISON CALME
A house of calm, where you can return to yourself within the rhythm of everyday life.
Founded by Sarah Bounouira MSc, Maison Calme was born during her first year of motherhood — a season that invited her to slow down, seek calm, and reconnect with what truly mattered.
After more than a decade working in the field of performance and optimization, Sarah gradually moved towards a softer and more integrative approach to wellbeing.
After years of navigating chronic health challenges and pushing through physical and emotional resistance, she realised that what she needed was not to do more, but to pause. To listen. To understand what her body was asking of her.
With a background in Performance Psychology and additional training in nervous system regulation, somatic practices, Human Design and holistic wellbeing, Sarah brings together an integrative approach that supports the whole person.
Because it is through calm that we access clarity, self-trust, creativity, and the wisdom already within us.
LA PHILOSOPHIE
A Return to Yourself Through the Wisdom of the Body
We spend much of our lives looking outside ourselves for answers — through achievement, productivity, expectations, or the opinions of others. Yet beneath the noise, the body quietly holds an innate wisdom.
It speaks through sensation, emotion, energy, intuition, and the nervous system. It tells us when something feels aligned, when we need rest, when our boundaries have been crossed.
As the body begins to feel safe, the mind becomes clearer. As the nervous system settles, confidence grows.
This is not about becoming someone new. It is about returning to who you have always been.
This is the art of returning to yourself.
WHY MAISON CALME?
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Curated for you
It begins with you. Every experience is carefully tailored to your unique needs, challenges, intentions, and season of life. No two experiences are ever the same.
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Integrative & Holistic
Approached through an integrative lens, combining psychology, nervous system wellbeing, somatic practices, and holistic personal growth. You are seen as a whole person.
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Within Everyday Life
Unlike traditional retreats, Maison Calme unfolds within your real life — practiced and integrated within your routines, relationships, and responsibilities.
Mots de Clients
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“There are few people that have had such a lasting impact on me as working with Sarah. I've learned that my work self and my private self are ultimately one and the same person, both of whom I have to take care of equally - this has saved me from an inner conflict that used to be a big problem.”
— Suzana Knezevich, Managing Partner at We Make Stories
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"Sarah is an expert in her field, and only after a short amount of time working with her, she already helped me come closer to reaching my career goals. During an unsettling time, where I was lost which next step to take, she guided me professionally and gave me so much strength and power to get through all challenges.”
— Ronja Schistek, Producer & TV-Host
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“Sarah helped me become aware of bottlenecks in my habits and uncovered weak spots that are hard, if not impossible to detect by yourself. She takes time to reconstruct the full picture of how your performance was achieved, including mental imaginative exercises and going through a performance schedule together.”
— Paul Broek, Pianist
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“I highly recommend a session to every person, regardless of whether they already have a specific issue in mind or if it needs to be defined. It's not an exaggeration when I say that without Sarah, I would likely have been at a standstill for years, possibly frustrated or even experiencing burnout. I am very grateful to have Sarah as a support and to discover the positive effects of our work every day.”
— Shirin James, Managing Partner at papabogner
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“Working with Sarah has helped me realize my strengths and apply them successfully in my professional context. I especially recommend working with Sarah to every person starting their freelance career.”
— Billie Krobath, Freelance Producer
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“Sarah is a force of nature. Working with her elevated my way of planning, executing and resting on a new level. In a world of noise and information overload, Sarahs sessions have not only guided me towards a more confident and focused routine, above all they have brought more calm and peace into my life in general.”
— Julian Epok, Artist and CEO t.a.s.(c)
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"In a challenging phase of both my professional and personal development, I engaged Sarah. She assisted me in listening to my intuition and solidifying it with the right strategies and structures."
Kristina Giacomelli, CEO at Sangreal Properties
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"Sarah's compassionate and wise ability to dig below the surface of my daily struggles and concerns to what lies beneath has been profoundly eye-opening for me. Her companionship and support on this journey of self-discovery and growth has become invaluable to me! I am learning to approach my (work) life in unexpected and wholesome ways, and getting to know myself all over again in the process."
Anna Requat, Architect
A Few Things Worth Knowing
FAQ
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A house of calm offering private guidance and home retreats — held online or in person — that combine nervous system regulation, somatic practices, and performance psychology.
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Anyone in a season of overwhelm, uncertainty, or transition who wants a more intentional, aligned way of living and working.
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No — this is guidance rooted in performance psychology, nervous system regulation, and somatic work, not clinical therapy.
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A private, 1:1 conversation held at your pace, combining reflective guidance with embodied and somatic practices — with support continuing between sessions.
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Book a consultation below to explore together which offer feels right for you.
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An experience designed to feel like a retreat — spacious, calm, and restorative — from the comfort of your own home, unfolding within the rhythm of your everyday life.
ENQUIRIES
Book a consultation to explore together which offer feels right for you.
For all enquiries, please connect via email or direct message. Each message is received with care and responded to personally.
A House of Calm — a lighter approach to life.
MAISON CALME