28 day INTENSIVE Transformative RETREAT

Connect, discover, let go, and grow.

Join us in a warm community setting and become part of a small family tribe, where you are invited to release what no longer serves you and make space for the pure essence of who you are. This immersive experience encourages you to open every part of yourself, so life can unfold from your deepest truth.

Here, peace and unity are explored beyond fixed beliefs and the inner and outer worlds we have created. You are also supported to move beyond your comfort zone, growing into the person you have always been meant to become.

Availability:

• June
• September
• October

What is included:

• Accommodation, with access to community and nature spaces, a natural swimming pool, and an art/creative studio
• Nutritious and delicious vegan/vegetarian lunch, prepared together from Monday to Friday
• Wholesome ingredients for breakfast, weekend lunches, and dinners
• 1:1 sessions with hosts and healers No'an, Milla, and Andres, with each healer guiding you individually through healing and self-discovery
• Meditations
• Qigong or yoga
• Connection with animals
• Art supplies
• Use of tools
• Local excursions and trips, such as visits to local markets

Extras available upon request:

• Additional treatments and therapies
• Breathwork sessions
• Creative healing sessions, including dancing, writing, drawing, painting, and woodwork
• Visits to other communities
• Half-day trips to nearby beautiful locations, including beaches, towns, mountain ranges, and a waterfall
• Full-day trips to destinations further away, such as the West Coast, East Coast, and Alentejo
• Other interesting events

The retreat begins with a 21-day transformational journey

This unique experience offers 21 days of deep inner work alongside connection with like-minded people. During this journey, you can benefit from the healing modalities, meditations, qi gong, creative workshops, nature, and animal connection offered at Healing Circle Sanctuary, as well as therapists in surrounding areas when this is helpful.

After the guided 21-day inner journey, an additional 7 days are offered for integration at your own pace. This time can be used to rest, create a holiday-like rhythm, or continue with additional therapy or guidance if desired.

The journey holds space for both intensity and deep rest. All emotions and inner movements are welcome — joy and doubt, light and shadow — and are met with awareness, honesty, and curiosity. In this way, the idea that we need to be “fixed” begins to soften, and we remember that at our core we all long for the same things: love, belonging, and authenticity.

Connection and authenticity

True connection is essential for a joyful, thriving life. When it is absent, fear, loneliness, anger, and sadness can arise. Yet beneath these emotions often lie gifts, talents, and qualities that have been carried within you all along.

Through education, conditioning, and social structures, we often forget these natural gifts and begin to live from what we were taught rather than from what flows through us as our unique expression.

This retreat is an invitation to reconnect with that authentic spark that only you carry.

Through spontaneous interaction, shared presence, and community life, masks can gently fall away. Your essence is rediscovered, revealed, and brought back to life. The rhythms of your heart and soul are respected and nourished, while heartache and old wounds are met with compassion and care.

Whether gardening, cooking, painting, making music, cleaning, talking, practicing yoga, meditating, walking, or resting, life is approached with full presence, remembering that everything belongs.

Community living

At Healing Circle Sanctuary, community is not an extra feature; it is part of the healing. You are not treated as just a guest, but welcomed as part of a wider family. You will live alongside others who may, like you, be seeking something deeper than society’s expectations.

Together, you will share meals, creative projects, and time with the land and animals. Community becomes a mirror, a medicine, and a catalyst for growth — not a duty, but a source of connection and learning.

Spiritual foundation

The work here is grounded, embodied, and heart-led. The focus is on reconnecting with the inner child and multidimensional nature, allowing forgotten passions and dreams to resurface.

This journey is not about perfection on the yoga mat or in life, but about honesty, authenticity, and integration. The path may not always feel comfortable, yet when what arises is met with love and sincere interest, it becomes possible to experience yourself beyond limitation and duality.

The process is gently guided, helping you recognize and soften protective patterns. As the pain beneath them is released, hidden strengths and gifts can naturally emerge.

Practical rhythm of life

Daily life is simple and closely connected to nature. Drinking water comes from a natural spring collected in Alte or Caldas de Monchique, known for its alkaline water. Alte also offers a beautiful waterfall for much of the year.

Local beaches along the Algarve coast are visited regularly, and on Saturdays the group goes to the farmer’s market in Silves. At times, excursions also head west toward Aljezur and Sagres, or east toward the Loulé area, combining nature walks with shared meals.

Integration and completion

The final 7 days are intentionally spacious and unstructured, allowing everything you have experienced to settle naturally. These days may feel like a gentle holiday rhythm, with time to rest, reflect, enjoy nature, and simply be. If you feel called to continue therapy or guidance, this can also be arranged according to your personal needs and preferences.

This closing phase supports the transition from deep inner work back into everyday life, helping you embody what you have discovered in a grounded and sustainable way.

Daily itinerary example, Monday to Friday:

• Each weekday begins with either Qi Gong or meditation in the morning
• Breakfast is self-catered, with ingredients provided
• A session with one of the healers, with a personal program created for you and therapies varying each day
• Lunch is a group activity, with ingredients provided
• Afternoons are free for rest, time by the pool, or spending time with the animals, or a trip or creative workshop may be organized
• Light dinner is self-catered, with ingredients provided

Weekends:

• Weekends are intentionally left free so you can enjoy your own time if you wish. On Saturday mornings, you may join the farmers market in the historic town of Silves.
• Depending on what is happening locally, there may also be opportunities to join an ecstatic dance or singing circle, not included in the retreat price.

Price: from 2400 €