Connect Courage Create Calm
Autumn Series - Portugal | 16-18 October
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The Autumn Series is a thoughtfully curated weekend built around four interconnected themes—Connect, Courage, Create and Calm – each one unfolding naturally into the next. Guided by an exceptional team of experienced practitioners, every session has been carefully designed to support reflection, exploration, expression and integration.
Together, they create more than a weekend retreat; they offer a shared journey of exploration, insight and connection,
Fully catered throughout including vegetarian brunch, dinner and nourishing snacks
The Journey
Connect — Through Breath and Movement with Eve
Courage — Move Through Resistance with Jeremy
Create — Intuitive Clay Experience with Cat
Calm — Deep Rest Through Sound with Nina
Arrive and Welcome
Friday 16 October from 4pm
Connect, Courage
Saturday 17 October
Create, Calm
Sunday 18 October
Retreat Ticket
Deposit 350€ / 625€*
Location: The Naess, Alcobaça, Portugal.
The Autumn Series takes place at The Naess, a thoughtfully designed retreat centre set within the rolling hills of Alcobaça, close to the Serra de Aire mountains on Portugal’s Silver Coast. Contemporary accommodation, a light-filled movement studio overlooking the countryside and carefully considered spaces throughout create a peaceful environment for rest, reflection and meaningful connection.
Discover the practitioners behind Connect, Courage, Create and Calm.
Connect
- Saturday 17 October
- The Naess, Alcobaca
Time to Connect through breath, movement and embodied awareness.
Connect: Saturday Morning with Eve
Together we explore the body with intentional breathwork, somatic practices, fascia release in a move and flow style. This experience invites you to reconnect with yourself. The body begins the conversation, creating a foundation of awareness, presence and connection that supports the journey ahead.
Followed by a nourishing brunch and time for reflection.
Courage
- Saturday 17 October
- The Naess, Alcobaca
Discover the Courage to explore beyond the familiar.
Courage: Saturday Afternoon with Jeremy
Courage begins with taking a step into the unfamiliar. Through his unique chair-supported approach to movement, Jeremy gently encourages you to explore beyond what feels familiar, moving through resistance with curiosity rather than force. Courage is found not in pushing harder, but in staying present long enough to discover new possibilities within yourself—bringing awareness in your body has more to offer than you ever imagined.
Later, we soften for a meditation before moving into an unique silent disco experience a space for free, intuitive movement, preparing the ground for Creation.
Create
- Sunday 18 October
- The Naess, Alcobaca
Create without expectation. Let your hands lead the way with clay.
Create : Sunday Morning with Cat
The day opens with a meditation to ignite creativity. From here, Create invites you to step beyond thinking and into intuitive expression. Working blindfolded with clay, you’ll create through touch rather than sight, allowing curiosity and instinct to guide the process. This unique experience encourages creativity without judgement, revealing what can emerge when you let go of expectation and trust your hands to lead the way.
Followed by a nourishing brunch and reflection time.
Calm
- Sunday 18 October
- The Naess, Alcobaca
Time for Calm – where sound, breath and stillness invite deep rest and restoration.
Calm : Sunday Afternoon with Nina
The Calm workshop draws on the Taoist tradition of the Six Healing Sounds, weaving together breath, gentle movement, colour, visualisation and sound to create a deeply restorative experience. Guided through simple practices, you’ll be invited to slow down, soften and reconnect with the present moment before settling into a multi-instrument sound bath and symbolic burning bowl ceremony, creating space for reflection, release and renewal.
Our Closing Circle offers a final opportunity to reflect, honour the journey and return home with intention.
The weekend completes with a final shared dinner.
The Naess, in Alcobaça is located approximately 1 hr 15 mins from Lisbon Airport. The Naess offers an ideal setting to slow down, switch off and fully immerse yourself in the weekend experience.
*Accommodation is booked separately. We have arranged preferential rates for Autumn Series guests.
Once your retreat place has been confirmed, please contact Jeremy at The Naess directly to reserve your room and discuss the accommodation options available.
€350 Deposit // €625 Retreat Fee
The Fine Print (click for more information)
The Autumn Series takes place at The Naess, a thoughtfully designed retreat centre set within the rolling hills of Alcobaça, close to the Serra de Aire mountains on Portugal’s Silver Coast. Light-filled contemporary accommodation overlooking the countryside with beautiful considered spaces which create a peaceful environment for rest, reflection and meaningful connection. Located approximately 1 hour 15 minutes from Lisbon Airport, The Naess offers a peaceful space to slow down, switch off and fully immerse yourself in the weekend.
Full details will be shared upon registration, but you can expect a welcoming atmosphere, nourishing seasonal vegetarian food, time in nature and plenty of opportunity to rest, reflect and simply be.
Whether this is your first retreat or one of many, you are warmly welcomed—just bring an open mind and a willingness to explore.
Ts & Cs: All Tickets and Deposits are non-refundable.
If you are unable to attend, you can gift/transfer your place to someone else and inform us in writing before 1 October 2026. Thanks for understanding as these are small, intimate carefully crafted events.
If you prefer to pay via IBAN, or prefer a payment plan please request the info.