About Us
We want to share the luxury of silence with you.
Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.
– Deepak Chopra
Founded in 2022, Silent Focus’s mission is to provide companies a place where their employees can find clarity, focus and connection in a healthy environment in silence without the noise of technology. We believe silence is a luxury and the best way to gain its wisdom is through silent corporate retreats.
We are a remote team of wellness practitioners with our base in Barcelona, Spain.
We work with experts in the wellness industry who have a passion to improve the mental wellbeing of others. Our team is dedicated to teaching business leaders how to find silence and use the silence to become a more productive, happier team member.
Our team
Heather Anderson
Founding Director
Heather is the founding director of Silent Focus, she is originally from Toronto, Canada. She has been teaching yoga, meditation and breathwork since 2010. She is Yoga Alliance certified to teach vinyasa, hatha and prenatal yoga. Heather owned a hot yoga studio in Barcelona for 10 years and ran 200 and 300 hour yoga teacher trainings for over 9 years. For the last 5 years she has been a business consultant for entrepreneurs in the wellness industry and has recently completed her Post Graduate degree in Coaching. Heather is the lead organizer, breath and mindfulness facilitator on most of the silent retreats. Heather feels such joy in allowing her clients find silence, perspective and focus on silent corporate retreats.
Lezanne Swart
Lead Wellness Facilitator
Lezanne is the lead wellness facilitator on our English language retreats. She is originally from South Africa. Lezanne is a senior certified yoga teacher (E-RYT 500, YACEP) through Yoga Arts, Australia and has been teaching since 2009. In 2014, she completed a Prenatal Yoga certification through SansYoga. She is a certified Roll Model® Method practitioner and a Yoga Tune Up® teacher and has completed a 9-month Yoga Anatomy course with Leslie Kaminoff.
She has been running silent retreats with Heather Anderson for over 5 years and has extensive knowledge in meditation techniques, mindfulness, breathwork and yoga philosophy. Her style of teaching encourages her students to mindfully explore their asana practice from a place of joy and fun, all the while drawing on the rich philosophical foundations of yoga.
Javier Salinas
Mindfulness Author & Spanish Wellness Facilitator
Javier is an expert in personal and organizational wellbeing. Javier has been a meditation and yoga teacher for more than 15 years. He is also a well known author of mindfulness and fiction novels such as “How to be unhappy for once and for all”, “50 ways to save your life”. He is a speaker in wellbeing, happiness, mindfulness, personal development and organizational mental health. Javier is an advisor in wellbeing for individuals, companies, and startups. Javier is a professor of wellbeing & Yoga as well as a Content Director for the Aire Fresco Meditation App. He is fluent in English, German, Italian, French and Spanish, with experience working abroad as a Professor at Italian and German universities. Javier is a Literature Professor and Literary Advisor for Planeta Publishing Group.
Monika Varela
Mindfulness, Public Speaking & Leadership Expert
Monika is an experienced In-Company Trainer with a demonstrated history of working in the professional training & coaching industry in Barcelona. She is skilled in mindfulness training, emotional education and public speaking skills. She graduated in Psychology and has trained in Mindfuness, Leadership, Coaching, and NLP. She took her first meditation class when she was eight years old, but didn’t start a formal practice until she was 20 years old in 2005. She hasn’t stopped practicing Zen meditation since then because of the benefits and life tools she’s been able to take out of it. Monika is known for her ability to talk about meditation in a natural way and makes mindfulness easy and accessible to everyone, no matter their prior experience. She has also been collaborating with a public hospital in Barcelona for 8 years, facilitating mindfulness to oncology patients and their carers.
Would you like to join us?
We are always on the look out for new talent to join our team. Send us an email to let us know how you think you can fit Silent Focus.
Retreat testimonials
“Perfect retreat! The food was a major highlight for me – pure joy 3 times a day. Also, Lezanne and Heather were fantastic hosts both brilliant yoga teachers and meditation guides. Setting was stunning. Lezanne and Heather were occasionally hilarious – which helps lighten the mood during a silent retreat. Can’t say enough good things about this retreat! I found the schedules sensible – you do a good deal each day so you feel like you’re really getting the time but it’s not too much – you get nice bits of free time especially in the afternoon to have a dip in pool or just wander around.”
– Roisin Mcloughlin, Ireland
“Heather and Lezanne were great, really attentive and empathetic. The house and location were beautiful and comfortable, a great place to be at one with oneself and nature. I really enjoyed the silence and appreciated that it was enhanced by the fact that we couldn’t make eye contact or interact with anyone else on retreat – it sounds intense, but it was really conducive to staying with ones thoughts. The food was delicious. The activities (like breathwork, silent walks, ecstatic dancing, meditation, philosophy) were diverse and all really helpful for navigating this journey. I could have stayed for an additional week.”
– Victoria Monteiro, Italy