Courage
WATERS OF COURAGE
A Transformational Creative Retreat
May 28 – June 1, 2026
Goladinha, Campelo • Coimbra District
Nearest airport: Porto (OPO)
Fee: 1650€
A Transformational Creative Retreat
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Awakening Courage Through Water & Creativity
Here, Courage isn’t demanded – it unfolds. Water teaches us that courage is not a sudden burst of strength—it is a gentle, persistent flow. It softens stone, shapes valleys, and carries us where we are meant to go.
In times of uncertainty and internal change, the Water Element becomes a guide: an invitation to listen, feel, dissolve, release, and create again from a place of deep truth.
This retreat invites you to meet your inner waters—still, wild, tender, or fierce—and to rediscover the creativity that moves through you like a river returning to its source.
A Retreat Designed for Fluid Transformation
Over 5 days and 4 nights, you’ll journey through experiences inspired by water, through movement, breath, meditation, voice, creative arts, ceremony, and nature, you will:
• Release emotional sediment
• Reconnect with your natural flow
• Awaken creativity as a healing force
• Feel held, softened, and seen
• Remember your inner rhythm and wisdom
This retreat is for those ready to soften, breathe, feel, and create—without pressure.
It’s for you if you:
• Carry emotions with nowhere to release them
• Long to reconnect with your creative essence
• Have been “strong” for too long and crave softness
• Want to be heard, deeply, without judgment
• Desire to feel alive, expressive, and real again
Come, let your inner waters move, cleanse, and inspire you—awakening new depths of emotional freedom, creative expression, and the gentle power of being fully yourself.
Goladinha
Goladinha is a collection of rustic revovated farmhouses resting between flowing river waters and lush Portuguese wilderness very near to Pedrógão Grande. Located about 1.5hrs from Porto Airport Goadinha is a sanctuary from all the noise and intensity of everyday life. Here the world slows down so you are held by river, forest and sky. The Goladinha offers spacious and naturally light shared rooms, each with a private ensuite bathroom. Guests can enjoy indoor and outdoor dining spaces, as well as a movement room with serene views overlooking the river.
Expansive outdoor areas provide the perfect setting to retreat, unwind, and soak in the stillness. You will be able to walk along forest paths, stretch, sing, move and create ceramic art beside the riverbank, under ancient trees and listen to the land as it gently dissolves your tension.
This is a place where, silence feels like nourishment, nature becomes your teacher, creativity emerges effortlessly while enjoying a background sound of calm waters, all ready so you return home to yourself.
All retreat sessions meals, drinks, and snacks are included.
Your Guides on this Journey
This retreat is held by 3 women whose paths have been interwoven for decades — through friendship, shared inquiry, professional collaboration, and a deep commitment to walking their own healing journeys.
Hamaima Love– A shamanic practitioner and kundalini yoga facilitator, Hamaima brings ceremony, cacao, and energy practices to open your body and spirit. Her sessions help release emotional blocks, awaken inner fire, and reconnect you with a sense of sacredness, flow, and deep presence in both body and heart.
Eve Ruffell – A skilled guide in somatic and emotional work, Eve helps you unlock the body’s natural wisdom to release tension, restore flow, and reconnect with yourself. Through breathwork, movement, and gentle guided reflection, she supports you in navigating your inner waters, rediscovering your natural rhythm, and cultivating ease, resilience, and presence in both body and mind.
Jewels Norburn – As a creative ceramic therapist, Jewels invites you to explore the healing power of the hands. Through clay, textiles, and intuitive art practices, you’ll reconnect with your creative essence, express what words cannot hold, and allow your intuition to guide your creations. This is a space for play, discovery, and gentle self-reflection through making.
COURAGE is not guided by strangers brought together for an event, but by a trio who trust one another deeply, challenge each other honestly, and know how to hold both intensity and joy with care.
Together, we create a field that is grounded, creative, and alive — where emotional depth is met with warmth, laughter, and genuine human connection. There is space here for tears and tenderness, but also for play, curiosity, and the simple joy of being together.
Each guide brings her own unique medicine, yet our work is inseparable. Somatic awareness flows naturally into creative expression. Ceremony is held with practicality and care. Movement, art, ritual, and rest are not separate offerings, but part of one coherent journey, shaped moment by moment by what the group needs.
Because we have walked together for so long, the space is held with ease and attunement. We know when to lead, when to step back, and when to let silence or laughter do the work. This allows you to relax, soften, and trust the process — knowing you are supported by guides who are not only skilled, but deeply connected to one another.
You’ll be welcomed exactly as you are. No performance. No fixing. Just real presence, thoughtful guidance, and a shared commitment to courage, care, and coming home to yourself — held within a community that values both depth and delight.
Daily Sessions
Each day unfolds as a gentle arc — awakening the body, opening creative and emotional channels, and allowing space for rest, integration, and connection. The sessions are designed to meet you where you are, offering both structure and freedom, depth and lightness. Nothing is forced. You are invited to listen, respond, and move at your own pace, supported by a steady rhythm of movement, creativity, voice, nature, and ceremony.
Move & Flow
Release stored energies through breath-led somatic movement, fascia release, softening emotional armour and awaken your body’s natural currents.
Kundalini Yoga & Energy Activation
Ignite inner vitality, awaken the spine, and dissolve stagnation.
Creative Mandala Art
Water-inspired mandala creation, expressive art exploration, colour alchemy and intuitive creativity.
Voice Activation & Song Circle
Free the voice, open the emotional channel, and allow the river of sound to move through you.
Ceremony & Ritual
Cacao, sound healing, water blessing rituals, and evening practices designed to integrate each day’s journey.
Estatic Dance and Sound Healing
28 May - 1 June 2026
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
It is your responsibility to fully understand the terms and conditions for the retreat. Please read carefully what is and is not included in your retreat package. All prices are per person and are set well in advance of the retreat start date.
No pets/drug or alcohol abuse. All events/classes workshops will be in taught English.
Please note: All Tickets are non-refundable. You can gift/transfer your place to someone else and inform us in writing at least 48hrs beforehand.
If you have questions regarding the retreat, we are available and happy to clarify any areas in advance. Please contact us via the website we aim to respond in 24hrs.
Thanks for understanding as these are small, intimate carefully crafted events. 