Alchemy of Sparks
Center for Transformations
The Center
Alchemy of Sparks is a retreat center surrounded by the mountains and forests of the French Pyrenees. Founded and run by Gert De Smedt and Nadina Šetić, it offers individual retreats and online guidance for people moving through personal transformation or seeking to deepen their consciousness. The profound silence, exceptional natural environment, and wide sea view are an essential part of the experience. They offer space to step away from daily demands, reconnect with yourself, and listen to what requires attention.
Our Approach
Transformation does not follow a standard path; each person’s process is unique. We begin with where you are, the question you carry, and the patterns that are asking to be understood. Our work focuses on the conscious and subconscious dynamics that influence how you feel, relate, make choices, and move through life. By exploring these dynamics at their roots in the cellular memory, space can emerge for greater awareness, freedom, and a different way forward. The process is personal, confidential, and adapted to your rhythm. We provide a safe setting in which sustainable change can unfold.
Our offer
Individual Retreats
Online Sessions
An individual retreat offers dedicated time and space to step away from your usual environment and give full attention to what is moving within you. Some guests come during a significant personal or existential transition. Others want to understand recurring patterns, work with trauma or emotional blockages, reconnect with their inner direction, deepen their awareness, or integrate an intense period in their lives. Together, we explore what brings you here and what kind of support would be appropriate. From there, we shape a retreat around your situation, with the care, clarity, and safe setting that a personal transformation process requires.
Online sessions offer a way to begin or continue your personal process wherever you are. Gert and Nadina each work from their own experience and field of expertise. Sessions can stand on their own or take place before or after an individual retreat as a follow up program. They provide space to explore what is happening in your life, understand underlying patterns, and integrate inner changes from the retreats into your daily reality.
Gert and Nadina
Gert De Smedt
Gert’s work is rooted in more than fifteen years of therapeutic practice within the field of karmic transformation, with a particular focus on trauma, emotional blockages, and the subconscious patterns underlying personal difficulties. At Alchemy of Sparks, he brings this experience into individual retreats, online sessions and long term programs for personal transformation. He also passes on his experience and methods to other therapists through professional training programs. Over time, Gert’s work naturally evolved towards mentoring transformational leaders going through profound personal and professional change.
Nadina Šetić
Nadina’s work centers on karmic astrology, inner-child and ancestral healing, and shadow integration. She uses the birth chart as a guide to bring karmic, inherited, and subconscious patterns into awareness, and then supports people in working with and integrating what becomes visible. Her approach is further informed by training in Reiki, massage, Bach flower therapy, and regression therapy. Alongside her individual work, Nadina offers warm and attentive hosting in the center, helping guests feel at home and free to focus on their process.
