Description

Awakened Path : a vision quest retreat

A Return to the Rhythms of Nature – and to Your True Self

This retreat is an intentional withdrawal from modern life and an invitation to step into direct relationship with nature, stillness, and inner truth.
Held in a secluded off-grid mountain valley in southern Portugal, this is not a passive retreat, but a guided Vision Quest held within a supportive retreat container.

During this retreat Participants are invited into:

• A digital detox
• A simplified way of living
• Time in nature
• Silence
• A 24-hour fast
• Practices designed to gently but clearly challenge habitual patterns

By removing distraction, stimulation, and comfort-seeking, we create the conditions for true listening to the body, the land, and the quiet intelligence beneath thought.

A Phoenix Moment – Vision Through the Inner Fire

A vision quest is not about escaping life, but about meeting it more honestly.

This retreat is a personal vision quest experience for each participant, a threshold moment where you are invited to step beyond familiarity, remain present through discomfort, and allow what is no longer needed to fall away.

This is the Phoenix Moment:
a conscious descent,
a shedding,
and a return with renewed clarity, direction, and inner authority.

Insight here is not forced  but it is earned.

Rebirth

A Vision Quest Within a Held Retreat Space

This retreat is a deep immersion into your personal healing and rebirth process.

Through Integrated Kundalini Yoga, meditation, ritual, nature immersion, fasting, silence, and creative inquiry, you are supported to:

  • Reset and strengthen your nervous system
  • Release outdated identities and patterns
  • Reconnect with inner guidance and intuition
  • Receive insight into the next chapter of your life
  • Return with clarity that can be lived, not just imagined

Each day is carefully structured, yet spacious allowing insights to arise through direct experience, not mental effort.

This is not about self-improvement.
It is about remembering what remains when the noise falls away.

Digital Detox, Fasting and Nature Immersion

Throughout the retreat, participants are required to engage in a complete digital detox, creating space for the nervous system to recalibrate and perception to deepen.

At the heart of the week is a 24-hour fast, undertaken within a guided and supported container, as part of the vision quest process. Fasting has long been used across cultures to sharpen awareness, access intuition, and mark a threshold moment.

Supported by:

  • Extended time alone in nature
  • Forest walk at dawn
  • Time by wild water and open sky
  • Silence, simplicity, and rest

In the absence of constant input:
clarity returns,
creativity reawakens,
and a deeper inner rhythm is restored.

What’s included

This retreat is for those who feel ready to meet themselves at an edge, within a held and supportive environment.

  • Guided 24-hour fast as part of the vision quest experience
  • Structured solo time in nature
  • Kundalini Yoga
  • Ritual Practices
  • Journaling Prompts
  • Sound Bath
  • Conscious Connected Breathwork
  • Vegetarian meals
  • Guided hike
  • Airport transfer
  • Trip out

The Yoga and Meditative Journey

Two daily sessions support both activation and integration, helping participants meet challenges without overwhelm and insight without bypassing.

Morning practices build vitality, resilience, and inner fire.
Evening practices support assimilation, grounding, and nervous system repair.

All practices are accessible to all levels, and no prior experience with fasting or vision quest work is required — only willingness

Investment

Shared accommodation: £950
Early-bird before May 1st: £870

Single accommodation: £1175
Early-bird before May 1st: £1100

Instalment payment plans available
Contact me directly to book or enquire at ashley@loveisinyou.com

Retreat Leaders

Ashley Jones

With two decades of experience guiding transformative retreats and groups, Ashley draws from Integrated Kundalini Yoga, meditation, ritual, and spiritual inquiry to support deep inner change.

Her work is rooted in helping people reconnect with their inner well of wisdom and personal power not as something to strive toward, but as something to remember.

Ashley holds retreat spaces with clarity, warmth, and depth, supporting both individual healing and collective evolution during these potent times of change.

Camilla Bergman (Co-facilitator)

With over two decades of committed inner work, Camilla’s path has been shaped through 26 years in 12-Step fellowships alongside ongoing practice in yoga, breathwork, ritual, and sound.

She has been teaching yoga since 2012 and has guided retreats in Tenerife, Brighton, and Portugal. Recently certified as a Conscious Connected Breathwork facilitator and trained in Sound Healing with Don Conreux, Camilla brings a grounded, intuitive presence to the spaces she holds.

Her work is devoted to supporting honest self-inquiry, embodied awareness, and the gentle unfolding of insight through breath, practice, and connection.

Join Us

This retreat is for those who feel the call to pause, reset, and listen more deeply.

For those standing at a threshold.

For those ready to let something old fall away and allow something truer to rise.

Contact Me to Book