Soulwork Intensive Retraite in Noord Portugal

A full-week retreat here with us in northern Portugal.

Where the space is given to you  to connect deeply with yourself in this beautiful and place in nature.

During these days, you will stay in the guesthouse here with us on our land. Your stay here will have a certain content of days of course interspersed with free time for yourself. Food and drinks (excluding alcohol) will be provided. Vegetarian options are available if desired. You eat with us, but if at any point you feel you want to be alone, just can take it with you. The idea is that you can take all your time and space to be in your process.

You will stay in a lovely and beautiful small house in nature surrounded by a wooded area 500 metres high in northern Portugal. Besides our own house and the guest house where you will stay, there is a beautiful yurt where we will do process work, among other things. You will also find a large vegetable garden, several fruit trees, chickens and our two lovely dogs. Then, when you walk out of the gate here, you can still choose which way you walk, into the forest or into the valley. So you will definitely experience a kind of holiday feeling.

Of course we will be working this week, it is not called ‘Intensive’ for nothing. After this week, you will definitely feel more clarity, experience a sense of space within yourself and go home tidied up. I cannot give you an exact format of the week, because I will work with you as I normally work with Soul Coaching. This is always tailored to the person and in the moment. Customised and totally individual.

I can assure you that after this week something will have changed in you. A choice, a way of seeing things anew, a heavy feeling that has fallen away and so on, and there are many possibilities as to why you choose to spend this week here.

Why a week you might ask?

For starters, you need time to arrive, land and explore where you are and how this feels to you. If you have decided to come here for this Intensive then you are doing so for a reason and your system already knows that something is about to happen.

Because we will spend a lot of time together, there will be more and more clarity in what is needed for you. This is exactly why I cannot make a fixed planning. It is important that your nervous system is given time and space. At the same time, not having a fixed programme can also be very valuable. Your system can then not really prepare itself, making it a little easier to see when something presents itself. From the moment you arrive here, we will first mainly work on getting to know each other, some quiet exercises and at the same time your body will slowly start to relax a bit. This is an important part, because only when we can relax a little and experience a certain level of safety will it be possible for our hidden parts to dare to show themselves. So this is why it will be an intensive week. It needs a certain form of safety and also intimacy, so that a safe space can be created to give space to that which wants to be heard and seen.

After the first two days, what is needed becomes clear each day. Letting go and coming fully into the moment. Only in the moment does the magic happen.

Although it will be fully attuned to what you need, you can think of the following components that I will be able to use among others;

• Breathwork

• Silence

• Meditation forms

• Creativity

• Movement

• Connection with nature

During the week we will also go out for walks or visit something, there will also be "alone" moments. Just to be in silence, sleep, walk, draw or paint etc. This is because it is also important to step back from time to time, so that you offer space for integration. There is also always plenty to do here in the garden and the vegetable garden. If you like this, you are welcome to be busy here. We do all this in coordination.

Would you rather not come alone or specifically with someone.

It is also possible to come on retreat with two people. Think of your partner, friend, brother/sister/parent etc. It can be very valuable to do a week's retreat together. It is important to note, though, that this is an intensive Soul Coaching retreat and not a holiday. Which of course is not to say that there won't be wonderful ‘holiday kind of moments’. Sessions can be intense and space is needed afterwards to integrate. If you both can handle this and can give each other this space, then you are also very welcome with two people.

To be clear, everyone has their own trajectory and there may be common ground. It is not the intention that one person does a trajectory and the other just ‘comes along’ for support.

You will both sleep in the guest house. There is a double bed, but if desired, a second sleeping place can also be created in the guest house. In the summer period we can set up our nice big tent if you like to experience even more of an ‘outdoor feeling’.

Please note that the use of Alcohol and other narcotics is not allowed during this week. Also no plant medicines.

If, based on what you have read here, you are interested in coming or have any questions, I invite you to contact me. You can do so here.
I will then contact you.