Imagine yourself in a place surrounded by the tranquil mountains of southern Portugal in an off-grid retreat set in a 6-hectare valley in the mountainous Serra de Monchique region of the Algarve.

Here you will find an approach to maintaining your energy as you re-connect your body, mind and soul through twice daily yoga practices, reiki sessions, massage for tension release, chakra alignment techniques for daily use, release of hidden stress points that block your flow, discovering your hidden resources as you go deep within yourself and connect with your soul.

What’s on offer

We offer a 6 days 5 nights The Soul Healing and Yoga Retreat with yoga twice a day, meditation, shamanic energy healing, chakras alignment, reiki, healing massage, sound healing, cacao ceremonial, silent walks in nature.

This healing retreat will incorporate yoga & meditation with the wisdom of the shamans of Amazonia.

The healing massage and reiki energy will be given by Nara. The workshop for chakra balancing will be led by Laura with her beautiful voice through the sounds.

The Shamanic practices led by Copal & the yoga classes taught by Monica will be significantly enhanced by Mugwort, a powerful spirit of Mugwort. Unlike some plants of the Amazon, Mugwort is not psychedelic. It is 100% legal and poses no risk to those who work with it.

By the end of the retreat, you will have a new friend, companion and ali from the plant kingdom who can support you all through your life. Mugwort has very caring, motherly and protective energy and looks after those who work with her and gives them what they need to heal and grow whilst keeping negative energies away.

The package is a perfect opportunity to unblock any stagnant energy, get in touch with yourself, learn to observe nature’s signs through archetypes and return home recharged.

Programme

We have prepared a programme to explore the beauty of nature, silent walks to listen to what is inside you and allow nature to teach us by observing the signs.

Each day begins with a yoga session and ends with meditation or a healing circle

• Mornings usually consist of a meditation walk to explore nature after breakfast and sometimes free time.
• Afternoons usually consist of healing sessions, massage, reiki, free time and yoga.
• Evenings usually consist of different combinations of meditations, shamanic work therapy, body movements and cacao ceremonial.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

• Deliciously, Nourishing & Lovingly prepared vegetarian meals
• Morning & Evening yoga – different styles (Power Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Restorative Yoga & Yoga Nidra
• Swimming Pool
• Guided silence walking meditation through the enchanted forest to a secret lake where you can take a dip
• Reiki 30min – 1 per person
• Holistic Massage – 1-2-1 Sessions
• Shamanic Energy Healing
• Sacred Cacao Ceremony
• Mugwort ceremony
• Sound Healing
• Chakra alignment workshop
• Yoga workshop
• Plenty of free time to play, explore, relax, or swim. Time for resting, digesting, and processing
• Fun, friendliness, connection

Facilitators

NARA ROSA

Nara is a transpersonal psychotherapist, master in Reiki, coach with NLP extension, massotherapist with training in holistic massage and thai yoga massage. Nara uses shamanic approaches in her energetic and massage treatments, often crystals and essential oils are part of her treatments. She believes that each being carries their own healing and what she does is facilitate that healing to externalize and the individual perceives immediately a change of energy.

MONICA DIONISIO

Monica’s yoga and healing journey began in 2013 when she got seriously injured and healed through yoga during her first teacher training. Amazed by the benefits yoga brought to her life, she took on a second teacher training with Dylan Ayaloo. She assisted many of his Teacher’s Training improving her skills in working and dealing with traumas and beliefs. Monica believes mindfulness is vital to success, a tenet she lives out through her interests in yoga and meditation. She graduated as a Master Personal trainer, Coaching and Nutrition with EIF – an internationally recognised school. She is also an NLP, Reiki and Theta Healing® Practitioner and is currently completing her further training in AeroYoga. Her goal is to help you to get in your best shape – Body & Mind.

COPAL DASELVA

Copal is a healer with over 30 years experience who began his education in the healing/mystic arts at just 16 years of age. With spiritual training from all over the world including over a decade in and out of Indian ashrams and monasteries and 13 years under an the tutelage of an indigenous Master Healer of the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, Copal brings a huge range of skills to help a person to step up to their next levels of evolution whether those steps are physical health, mental or emotional. He has also studied a variety of healing arts including: Inversion Therapy, Nutritional Health, Reiki, Tarot, Myofascial Release, Massage and the use of essential oils and other natural medicines.
Despite his extensive education, Copal believes that every human being is a powerful healer and his recent work, The Shamanic Energy Healer Training Course is designed to guide people to heal themselves and others purely with energy & intention. The Shamanic Energy Healer Training is a powerful, life changing course in energy work in which miracles become part of everyday life.

Laura Godinho

She is a Mother, rediscovering herself and integrating the Healing through the Medicine of the voice music and Dance. A journey that has brought her back to the Heart , learning, growing, and sharing the music that comes to her as a prayer. She is also a Massage Therapist with 9 years of experience, a Crochet artist and connected to music and the art of creating as crafts of the Soul. Dance & yoga & Music & Crochet & Therapy’s & Photography are expressions of her Soul that finds a way to Nourish itself.

Price

Shared Room

€1,025

€955

You will have the unique experience in a place totally off the grid, you will know how to share a spacious bell-tent where there are two very comfortable beds with a beautiful view of nature, share four composting toilets and four solar heated showers. You will be living 5 nights in paradise where the owners live all year round producing their own food and even make their own gas using a biogas system, which uses old foodstuffs and converts them into gas and liquid fertilizer, which they use for the garden. It will absolutely be a unique and memorable experience.

Private Room

€1,275

€1,189

The opportunity to experience off-grid living in a spacious bell-tent shall be a great memory to cherish forever. There are four compost toilets and four solar heated showers.

You will be well accommodated in comfortable beds, always waking up to the sound of birds and with a fantastic view.

Contact us

Info.vidaharmonia@gmail.com

@espacovidaharmonia

Phone +351 935030083

Course overview

Have you ever dreamed of living off-grid but you haven’t a clue where to start? Then we have just what you are looking for.

Join Ellis for a no-nonsense practical guide to sustainable off-grid living. This is a 4-day hands on experience where  you will learn the basics to get you started on your dream.

Over the 4-days topics covered will be:

• The pros and cons of different energy (solar, wind, hydroelectric)
• How to design and install a basic solar energy system – learn about what you need, best places to purchase, how many panels, different types of batteries, inverters and chargers.
• Water management – where to find it, how to store it, water pumps, etc
• Eco-building – learn tips on how to build simple structures using the wood and mud available on your land. You will learn how to make a rammed earth mud wall (be prepared to get muddy) and different options for toilets eg dry compost toilets, sceptic tanks etc.
• Land management  – learn some basic tips on growing sustainably including creating compost and growing techniques.

What’s included in the price?

We want everyone to benefit from this course and are  therefore offering it on a sliding scale from 320€ minimum to 550€. Pay whatever you can between these two amounts.

• 20 hours of practical hands on guidance (see above for course overview)
• Opportunity to ask as many questions as you need throughout the 4-days
• Shared accommodation
• 3 breakfasts, 4 lunches and 3 dinners (all vegetarian or vegan)
• Tea and coffee throughout the day
• Film night
• Outdoor swimming pool (unheated)
• optional yoga

Please note the course begins on Friday at 10am and Ends on Monday at 4pm. 

If you would like to stay at our venue longer then you can book additional nights for 35€  per person per night (you can either make your own food or eat with us for a small charge). Please let us know if you decide to do this when you book.

We are off-grid and if we have many grey days you might need to take showers or heat up the water on the fire. This is all part of off-grid living.

What you will need to bring

• walking boots
• work gloves
• work clothes
• pen and notebook

Air Transfer

We can arrange airport pick up for an additional fee. The nearest airport is Faro.

More about Ellis

Ellis has been building for over 40 years. He had a small building business in the UK before moving with Camilla, his wife, to Portugal in 2016, where they bought 6 hectares of land which had only one ruin on it and no water bore-hole or electricity. Ellis was able to access water through a water mine in the rock, design water storage and he set up a solar power system.

Ellis renovated the ruin by cutting out windows in the thick mud  walls and adding a roof and an extension which he built using rammed earth, this building is now our yoga shala. As well as other temporary structures he has also built a passive house which consists of one rammed earth wall and three insulated walls.

Their initial plan was to run retreats on their land, however when covid lockdowns hit in 2020/21 their plans changed and prompted them to focus more on growing vegetables and planting fruit trees. This is still very much in its infancy stage, however they were able to live off the veggies from the garden for the entire summer of 2022!

What you will discover is that Ellis is an encyclopedia of knowledge which will be very beneficial to you. He is constantly being asked to run a course for people so he can share his knowledge, and here it is!  We hope you can join us!

For enquiries and to book

email info@ruralescapesportugal.com or WhatsApp Ellis directly +447767795999

“There will come a time when you can accept nothing less than the breath-taking truth of your soul, the voice of divine love within you.”– Meggan Watterson

Based on my book, Falling Awake – A Heroine’s Journey, this week-long immersion retreat invites you to answer the call to explore your own Heroine’s Journey. Come and join me in the beautiful mountains of southern Portugal, for a deep dive into the many practices and experiences that helped me tell my story.

This retreat for women will offer you a deep dive into healing practices including Qoya, mindfulness, writing, sharing, ceremony and ritual. Through the connection and support of each other, we will be able to delve deep, to go within, to feel, to let go, to find our voices, find our truth…and emerge through the other side!

About me:

With over twenty years’ experience as a psychotherapist and group facilitator, I am also a fully qualified mindfulness instructor, and three years ago I became a certified Qoya teacher. Last year I wrote and published my first book, a memoir. This process added to an already unfolding journey of discovering my true self – not the one I had been programmed to be! My passion is to help others to access their authentic selves and find their voices through a combination of these practices. For more information about me and my work, click here.

A bit about Qoya:

“We dance because we can no longer not dance.”- Rochelle Schieck, founder of Qoya.

Qoya is a movement practice designed for women based on the idea that through movement we remember that our essence is Wise, Wild and Free. Often described as movement as medicine, Qoya incorporates free dance, feminine movement and yoga. There is no way you can do Qoya wrong and no previous experience of any of the above is required. For more information on Qoya, click here.

A bit about what else you can expect:

• Daily mindfulness practices including some time spent in noble silence.
• Writing practices with the opportunity to share.
• Dispacho (native American gratitude) and cacao ceremony.
• Sharing and singing circles.
• Other ceremonies and rituals.
• The invitation for daily journaling (writing and artwork)
• Delicious locally produced plant-based food.
• Time for resting, digesting and processing.

Price

£777/900€

The Heroine’s Journey Retreat – Come as you are…and leave as more of who you are!

Join Kundalini Yoga teacher trainer Ashley on this 6-day immersion in nature in a private mountain valley – the invitation is to connect deeply to the energy of Gaia and fully surrender to her rhythm.

Tap into the alchemical tools of transformation that are inherent in Integrated Kundalini Yoga practices, combined with journaling, ceremony and tranquility you will cultivate a deeply satisfying connection to the wild nature within as well as without.

We will dial down our screen time for a complete digital detox as we go offline, giving our overloaded nervous systems time to heal and experience the joy that comes from simply being in the present moment.

THE YOGA

Integrated Kundalini brings into sharp focus awareness of the self that is deeper than whatever the mind narrates.  What better way to bring in that awareness through the deep nourishing connection to self and other that is lived in real time, in person and with Gaia.

The morning sessions will focus on dynamic practice and transformation, working with the body in specific and healing ways using a powerful combination of posture, pranayama (breath), music, mantra and meditation to bring into balance the hormonal system, mood and emotions. Strengthen the entire body and nervous system. Create inner vitality. Cultivate the ability to completely relax. All of which foster expanded states of consciousness, awareness and healing.

The evening sessions will focus on rejuvenation and relaxation, using meditation, yoga nidra and gong baths. Ashley will guide you through meditation practices including the rejuvenating practice of Yoga Nidra enabling a state of deepest relaxation and conscious awareness to be realised, supporting the body and mind to fully reboot and recharge.

Ashley will offer a sacred Cacao Ceremony. Cacao is known as one of the foods of the Gods, it is a powerful but soft feminine plant medicine. The spirit of which brings a subtle opening of the heart to welcome more love in and release fears that may be blocking us from thriving and living a life full of joy and bliss.

For accommodation and location information email info@ruralescapesportugal.com

WHAT’S INCLUDED

• Airport transfers to and from Faro airport to the mountain retreat 
• 5 nights accommodation
• All food and snacks Deliciously Nourishing & Lovingly Prepared
• Twice daily – Kundalini Yoga / Meditation / Yoga Nidra / Gong Bath/Ceremony
• Manifestation Rituals
• Swimming Pool
• Dawn walk through the forest to a secret lake where you can take a dip
• Guided journaling / mindful creativity sessions
• Cacao Ceremony
• Plenty of free time to play, explore, relax or swim
• Fun, friendliness, connection 

To Book

Shared accommodation is £620/730€ early-bird price before April 1st £690/815€ thereafter

Single accommodation is £720/845€ (early-bird price before April 1st £790/930€  thereafter

Do you desire to (re)connect with your higher self? Are you looking for a safe, small group setting to experience a healing retreat of personal growth with sacred medicines? Are you struggling with some patterns of behavior in your life and want to learn ways to change those patterns? Do you want to find your purpose and step into a better way of living?  Then this 4-day retreat is sure to answer that call. Honoring sacred medicines, we’ll have ceremony, workshops and integration to guide you in your healing journey of growth, awakening and transformation.

Using sacred plant medicines (Psilocybin, Mapacho, Sananga, Cacao, and Rapé), you’ll experience a safe, legal (all medicines are decriminalised in Portugal), healing retreat guided by an experienced facilitator, former Paramedic and initiated Curandera (healer). We only use medicines that are grown/infused with intention for ceremony.

This offering includes:

•  A 1-hr  1:1 pre-session video call in order to help you deepen into the work and better prepare for the transformational experience.
• Psilocybin ceremony (one healing journey dose)
• Other Amazonian sacred medicines used in ceremonies (Sananga, Mapacho, Cacao, Rapé)
• Sound Bath
• Workshops (various topics that compliment the work of healing, integration and ceremony)
• Integration
• Body Movement
• 1:1 post-retreat integration session
• Double occupancy accommodations (private accommodations available for added cost)
• All catered meals during retreat
• Access to facilitators at all times throughout the retreat

Arrival & Departure times

Friday, we’ll begin the work, in the early afternoon, so that everyone has time to arrive and settle in. Opening circle will be at 15:30.  The next days will be balanced between nourishing the Spirit, soul, and body.  You’ll connect with your Spirit through sacred ceremony, reflection time and integration; with your soul through workshops, relaxation time and integration; with your body through movement, plant based foods, and meditation, all while connecting with nature in this serene, off-grid retreat center nestled in the mountains of Monchique. When we finish the retreat on Monday afternoon (13h), you’ll have insights and tools to take with you to continue your healing journey. I also offer a 1:1 post-retreat integration session (included) so that you’re able to touch base in the weeks to come. You are not alone in this journey & I’m honored to be a part of your transformation.

Conscious Contribution

Conscious Contribution (prices) allows you to choose how much you’d like to contribute to participate in this program. Feel into your financial situation, the value for the offerings and choose which price point you’d like to have. It’s an energy exchange and we want to make this transformational retreat available to as many as possible. No matter which contribution tier you choose, you’ll receive equal treatment. It’s part of our commitment to helping the world heal and making sacred ceremony available to more people.

777€ – 829€ (Sliding scale) If you prefer to pay in Euros, please choose the BANK TRANSFER option at checkout

More about Kasham

I’ve been an Intuitive since childhood. I began healing work at the young age of 18, with therapeutic massage. I’ve lived in the US, Haiti, South Korea and Portugal, sharing my gifts there as well as multiple other countries for short term trips.

In 2013, I completed the Advance Angel Tarot Card Reader course from HayHouse Publications. I am able to reach into the depths, using my strong intuition, to create a safe space for personal transformation.

In Mexico, a Mayan Elder and the only crystal reader in their tribe, performed a recognition ceremony for me as a Healer and Reader in December 2020. In Peru, I was initiated as a Curandera (Healer),  and was given permission to serve medicine as a sacred form of healing.

It’s my honor to do this work, to help you identify your road blocks, heal, raise your vibration, transform and live your best life now!

To find out more about me visit my website

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