Autumn Series
Autumn Series | 2-5 October 2025
Each day is presented as
Courage, Connect, Create, Calm
Our Autumn mini series retreat experience offers a taste of our full retreat events;
These retreat experiences are a call inward, you are welcome to attend a single day, or book for all four days. You choose what resonates.
An invitation to meet the parts of you that have been silenced, hidden, or waiting for permission to be seen.
A nourishing day devoted to self development, healing, creative expression and reconnection.
(Click on each Retreat title below to expand)
Courage
- Thursday 2 October, 9am-6pm
- Paz & Amor, Alfeizerão
A day to yourself where you step into your body through embodied movement, breathwork, art, silence and ceremony as the greatest act of Courage.
Morning Session
Movement Towards Fierce Grace with Tabari Ayo
What does Courage look like in these times? Tabari’s workshop invites you to explore that question through movement, reflection and ritual. Together we’ll create space to release what no longer serves, reconnect with your authentic self and reclaim your presence. It’s about remembering who you are underneath all the roles you carry, the parent, the partner, the teacher, the leader. Through dance, meditation, you’ll be guided to shed old stories, embody truth and reclaim the Courage that lives in your body.
Afternoon Session
Tear the Fear, Unfold the Courage with Andrea Mattivi
Dare to confront what weighs you down. In this fierce and freeing workshop, you’ll rip, crumple, and hurl paper—pouring into it your fears, doubts, and unspoken weight—then cast it out of your body and into the room with force. This raw act of release cracks open the space for something new to rise: Courage.
From the fragments, you’ll shape a powerful collage, weaving together words and images that speak to your strength. Brought into movement, your artwork becomes a living embodiment of bravery, clarity, and resilience. Guided by Andrea’s heart-centered creativity, you’ll discover the power that comes when you no longer hold back.
What will you release, and what Courage will rise in its place?
Connect
A day to Connect how it feels to experience your own voice expressing from the heart and soul through voicework, art, stillness and ceremony.”
Morning Session
You Are The Instrument with Anne Van Tilburg
Your voice is more than sound—it’s vibration, resonance, and a way to Connect with your truest self. In this session Anne invites you to explore the healing power of your own voice through breath, movement and sound. No singing experience is needed only the willingness to show up as you are. Together, we’ll release stuck energy, express what words cannot, and discover how sounding your truth can bring relaxation, vitality and a deeper sense of Connection.
Afternoon Session
Your Tree, Your Voice with Andrea Mattivi
Carry the freedom of your morning voice into flowing colour and form. Paint your own tree with watercolours, letting each brushstroke reveal your inner landscape—your roots, your branches, the rhythms of growth and resilience that make you who you are. As the forest of individual trees emerges, you’ll witness the subtle interplay of connection: how your expression resonates beyond yourself, weaving presence, insight, and belonging into a living, shared creation. Like the roots that anchor each tree to the earth, you’ll be invited to feel your own groundedness—how strength and nourishment rise from deep within to sustain your life. Amid this forest of life, standing tall yet intertwined, what will Your Tree be?
Create
- Saturday 4 October 9am-6pm
- Studio Cê - Travessa da Água Quente 9, Caldas da Rainha, 2500-258. Portugal
A day to yourself where expressing Creation brings insight and clarity.
Let your hands lead the way.
Morning and Afternoon Sessions
Eve will open Create with grounding breathwork, inviting stillness and presence for the creative mind to unfold. As your nervous system settles and your hands begin to speak, there will be a short time of honoured silence allowing the connection to yourself and the clay be truly expressed. Before departing, we come together to celebrate our creativity carrying our emotions and insight into lightness and inspiration beyond the retreat experience.
Awakening the Senses: A Journey through Touch with Catherine Geenen
Close your eyes to the world you know and let your hands awaken to one you’ve never felt before. In this playful, meditative workshop, Catherine guides you to Create a clay ‘garden’ allowing form and texture to emerge through pure touch.
Blindfolded, you’ll wander through the gardens of others by touch alone, discovering strange new landscapes alive with texture and meaning. Each surface tells a story your hands can feel, long before your eyes see. And when the blindfold is lifted, your own creation is revealed—a piece shaped in silence, carrying symbols and emotions from somewhere deeper than thought. What will you uncover?
Calm
A day of Calm is the quiet confidence that arises when we feel present.
Breathe, soften and return to stillness.
Morning Session
Calm in Motion: Breath, Gentle Yoga Flow with Andrea Stern
Calm is the final note of this retreat series—a gentle exhale that invites you to pause, integrate, and receive. Andrea Stern, yoga teacher and physical therapist, guides you through breath awareness, gentle yoga flows, and mindful movement to quiet the nervous system and awaken inner presence. Through meditation, reflection, and optional journaling, you explore where true Calm originates within yourself or the world around you. The session concludes with a playful massage practice, creating space for care, connection and integration. Leave grounded, restored and carrying a quiet strength into daily life.
Afternoon Session
The Art of Calm: Mandalas on Stone with Catherine Geenen
In this calming workshop, smooth stones become anchors—steady, grounding presences you can hold in your hands. Guided by Cat, you’ll enter a quiet, restorative space where the simple rhythm of dot painting becomes a gentle form of meditation. There are no rules or patterns to follow, only the freedom to let colors and shapes emerge at their own pace. As you paint, the weight of the rock grounds you, inviting balance and calm into both body and mind. You’ll leave with a small, hand-painted stone—an intimate reminder of stillness you can return to whenever life feels unsettled. What intention or feeling will you carry with it?
The Fine Print (click for more information)
Each retreat takes place in hand-picked, nature-rich spaces along Portugal’s stunning Silver Coast—all easily accessible with nearby or onsite parking.
Full details will be shared upon your booking registration but expect gardens, peace and tranquility.
Cairo Restaurant will provide a delicious vegetarian Egyptian lunch with fresh salads, hearty grains and fragrant spices. Drinks and snacks are provided.
All tools and supplies for art work are included. If you prefer to wear an apron during the art sessions please bring one with you. Disposable aprons will be provided.
Each retreat includes a thoughtfully curated gift bag, filled with natural treats and little surprises to carry the experience home with you.
No experience required, just a curious mind. All welcome.
BOOKINGS CLOSE : Tuesday 30 September 2025
Ts & Cs: For both – 4 Day and 1 Day tickets, all Tickets are non-refundable. You can gift/transfer your place to someone else and inform us in writing at least 48hrs beforehand.
Thanks for understanding as these are small, intimate carefully crafted events. 
If you prefer to pay via IBAN, please request the info.