Podere Imposto · Massa Marittima · info@dojobianco.com
Boutique hotel · Maremma, Tuscany
The idea of a hotel is changing. For five days, the whole of Dojo Bianco opens for one guest or one couple: four rooms on twenty hectares in the Maremma. The day follows your rhythm, the kitchen cooks for you, and the Dojo Bianco Immersion, created and led by Dr. Ceren Akçelik Brunini and Giulio Brunini, is shaped around who you are.
There is no one you are required to become.
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Watch the filmA new idea of a hotel
Imagine a place where the day begins when you wake, the kitchen cooks for you alone, the land is open to walk, and the house moves at your *rhythm.*
The name
The way is not studied from a distance. It is practised in the body, in relationship and in the choices of an ordinary day. Dojo Bianco is that place for us: twenty hectares of olive groves in the Maremma, three horses, a kitchen, long quiet days, and two people who have spent their lives on the same question from two directions.
We changed the way the hotel works. Rather than fitting guests into a fixed programme, each stay is shaped around the person who arrives. The rhythm belongs to you: when to work, when to rest, when to be with the horses, when to eat, swim or walk. The hotel remains the hotel. Only the attention has become more personal.
Who stays with us
Some come because something needs attention. Others because something new wants to emerge.
Many of our guests carry great responsibility, and many are well known in their fields. Some come alone, some as a couple. We never name them. What they share is the wish to give a few days of their life to themselves, completely.
People responsible for companies and for many others, who want five days in which nothing depends on them.
Two people, each with their own process, side by side. For couples who want to understand what happens between them, or to go further together.
A decision to make, a role ending or beginning, a change already on its way.
Successful, well travelled, and interested in what else is possible, in their work, their relationships and themselves.
Who you will be with
Two people. Two ways of seeing. One life lived on the land.
The Dojo Bianco Immersion
Arrival, three full days of work and departure. The Immersion is our own work, created by us and found nowhere else: work with the horses, somatic work and expressive arts, shaped around your history, the season and the person you are. It begins before you arrive, with two preparation sessions, and continues after you leave, with four integration sessions.
In their own words
“I left Dojo Bianco feeling more inspired, rejuvenated, and equipped with a newfound sense of purpose and direction.”
Private Immersion guest
“Our stay has had a lasting impact on our relationship as we begin a new chapter together.”Couples Immersion
“Their approach was highly emergent and therefore I sensed that every intervention came at the exact right time for me.”Private Immersion guest
“You both helped me tremendously and I am so grateful I was able to find you. I am looking forward to coming back.”Private Immersion guest
Reflections shared by guests after their time at Dojo Bianco.
A day at Dojo
No two days are the same. These are some of the things a day can hold.
Before the heat, a walk with the dogs through the olive groves and along the paddocks.
Chef Cristiano Rapezzi cooks with what grows here and nearby, and with the olive oil from our own trees.
A session with us, a walk, sleep in the shade. Rest is part of the practice.
The light goes slowly here. Most evenings end outside.
Learn with us
A few of the ideas we work with every day, explained simply. Read them, try them, and notice what happens.
Grounding is a simple idea from body psychotherapy. It means being present in your body and in contact with the ground under you. When we are grounded, strong feelings can move through us without sweeping us away.
How do you know you are grounded? Some signs:
Stand with your feet shoulder width apart and soften your knees. Let your weight sink into your heels. Breathe down into your belly. Imagine roots.
A boundary is the felt place where you end and contact with someone else begins. We build our boundaries from experience, belief and what we learned growing up, and they shift with the roles we play.
Choose a type below and watch how it holds, or doesn't hold, the world around it.
A horse is a prey animal. It reads the body in front of it, its tension, its breath, its hesitation, and responds to that, not to our words or our job title.
That is why working beside a horse can be so clarifying. If you ask for something while your body is unsure, the horse will usually tell you. No riding is involved and no experience is needed. Most of the work happens on the ground.
When you ask for something today, notice what your body is doing while you ask. Does it agree with your words?
The place
Dojo Bianco sits in the Maremma, the quieter, wilder south of Tuscany, between the hills of Massa Marittima and the sea. Four rooms, a pool, a paddock, a kitchen garden and a great deal of sky.
Explore yourself
Long before we had words, our bodies learned ways to stay safe. Some of us leave. Some hold on. Some carry everything. Some take charge. Some get it exactly right.
Fifteen quiet statements. About eight minutes. You will see which shapes you lean on, what each one has been protecting, and one small thing to try.
Begin the reflection →A reflection, not a diagnosis. Nothing you answer is stored or sent.Questions
Our work draws on body-oriented psychotherapy, somatic practice and work with horses. It is a place to explore, not a clinic. It does not replace medical or psychiatric care, and if you are in acute crisis we will help you find the right support first.
No. There is no riding. The work with horses happens on the ground, at your pace, and many guests have never stood next to a horse before.
Yes. The Immersion is for one person or one couple. Couples often come when they want to understand the patterns between them, not only inside each of them.
No. During an Immersion the hotel takes no other guests. The house, the land and our days are given entirely to you.
The Immersion has one standard fee for the stay, not per person. Everything is included except your flights: the five days, all sessions, all meals, yoga, breathwork and massage, and private transfers from Rome, Pisa, Florence or Grosseto in both directions. We share the fee in our first conversation.
In the Maremma, southern Tuscany, near the medieval town of Massa Marittima. Grosseto is 35 minutes away and takes private aircraft. Pisa is about an hour and a half, Florence about two hours, Rome about two and a half. Private transfers are included. We help you plan the journey.
Begin
What you lean on most
Everyone carries all five, in different measure. Most of us return to one or two when life presses. None of them is wrong. Each began as a way of surviving, and each carries a gift.
Who stays at Dojo Bianco
Some come because something needs attention. Others because something new wants to emerge. For five days the whole hotel closes around them, and the work is shaped around their history, the season and the people they are.
There is no one you are required to become.
Inspired by body-oriented psychotherapy: the work of Wilhelm Reich, Alexander Lowen and John Pierrakos, and Steven Kessler's five personality patterns. Written by us, in our own words.
