This private four-day retreat offers a quiet pause from the demands of everyday life, creating space to slow down, settle the nervous system, and receive deeply personalized support.
It is designed for anyone feeling overwhelmed, emotionally depleted, or simply in need of a reset. With gentle guidance and a calm setting, you are supported in releasing accumulated stress while reconnecting with clarity, steadiness, and inner strength.
By the end of your stay, you can return to daily life feeling lighter, more grounded, and more in touch with your direction and next steps.
This four-day private immersion is a focused journey into how the mind, emotions, and communication patterns influence your lived experience.
Across four intensive morning and afternoon sessions, you will explore the foundations of mindfulness, the nature of emotional states, the impact of communication, and how to bring awareness into everyday life.
Each session blends direct experience, guided practice, and structured reflection, so insight is not only understood intellectually, but felt and lived.
The first session introduces mindfulness, what it involves, and how it is practiced.
You will also experience an informal introduction to conscious eating and a formal meditation practice known as the Body Scan.
To support continuity throughout the stay, each session ends with a mindful reflection and an activity plan to carry into the next session.
This session explores the message behind each emotion and how mindfulness can help you navigate emotional highs and lows with greater ease.
By the end, you will be better able to recognize, manage, and respond mindfully to challenging emotional states.
Here, the focus turns to mindful, conscious communication and the analysis of three communication styles.
Through this exploration, you will see how each style shapes both what you express and what you receive from others.
In the final session, everything learned during the retreat is brought together into a practical plan for daily life.
This plan combines formal and informal practices that support your goals and help you sustain the benefits of the retreat.
During your stay, you will be guided through a range of mindfulness-based meditation techniques, including mindful eating, breath awareness, body scanning, walking, and Yin Yoga.
What sets this retreat apart is the depth of attention and precision you receive.
Your experience is not forced into a fixed framework. Instead, it is met exactly as it is and understood in its own structure.
As you speak, emotional patterns, subtle tensions, and underlying dynamics are recognized and reflected back with clarity, helping you see what has been shaping your experience from within.
This creates space for what has long been felt, but not fully seen, to become clear.
As clarity emerges, the system begins to let go of what it has been holding.
The work unfolds in real time through direct awareness, intuitive attunement, and precise guidance. There is nothing to force; what needs to emerge becomes visible.
During your retreat, you are supported through:
Ms. Renata
Since 2015, I have been facilitating exclusive one-on-one mindfulness-based mental wellness retreats.
My tailored approach creates transformative experiences that support people through life’s challenges and transitions.
Through this personalized work, I help clients cultivate balance, clarity, and resilience on their path.
Renata Cortês is a mindfulness-based facilitator specializing in private, one-to-one retreats designed for deep emotional clarity and mental reset.
Since 2015, she has guided individuals through personalized retreat experiences that combine evidence-based mindfulness, emotional decoding, somatic awareness, and neuroscience-informed practices.
Her approach helps people understand their inner world through direct, present-moment insight rather than theory or fixed methods.
She is known for the precision and attention she brings to each person, creating a calm, structured, and deeply human space for clarity and inner balance.
Located between the green hills of Sintra and the Atlantic coastline, Cerrado das Fontainhas offers a private and peaceful setting where nature and stillness meet naturally.
With gardens, open landscapes, and soft light all around, the environment invites rest, reflection, and a break from external noise.
Close to Lisbon yet deeply secluded, it provides an ideal backdrop for renewal and clarity.
Private Villa
The villa combines comfort and charm within a carefully designed setting made for relaxation and rest.
Indian and Moroccan elements are woven into the interior, with textures and colors brought together in a balanced and elegant way.
Open living room with kitchenette and bathroom, and bedroom and ensuite bathroom on the first floor.
One bedroom with a suite
Private garden
Exclusive rod
Living room with double sofa bed
Equipped kitchen and dining area
Suspended fireplace
Air conditioning
Safe box
View of the pool and garden
Day 1
Arrive calmly from 3pm. Take the rest of the day to relax and get to know the Hotel.
Day 2
From 8:30am – Breakfast
From 10 am to 12 m – Session I - Introduction to Mindfulness. Session Resume & Practice Suggestions for session I
At 1 pm - Lunch
From 4pm to 6pm – Session II - Power of Emotions. Yin Yoga. Session Resume & Practice Suggestions for Session II
From 7pm - Dinner
Day 3
From 8:30am – Breakfast
From 10 am to 12 pm – Session III - Mindful Communication. Session Resume & Practice Suggestions for session III
At 1 pm - Lunch
From 4pm to 6pm – Session VI - Integrating Mindfulness into Everyday Life (goal reflection). Yin Yoga. Course Resume
From 7pm - Dinner
Day 4 - Departure
Breakfast will be available from 8:30 am.
Check-out will start at 12pm. Return home calmly. If you have time, enjoy the morning and after breakfast. I wish you an excellent journey back home!
The comfort and charm of this villa are enhanced by a carefully designed setting created for moments of true relaxation and rest. Indian and Moroccan touches bring a sense of the East, blending harmoniously with the textures and colors to form an elegant, inviting retreat.
It includes one bedroom with an en-suite bathroom, a guest toilet, and a living room with a double sofa bed. The equipped kitchen also features a dining area. Additional amenities include a suspended fireplace, air conditioning, a safe, and views of the pool and garden.
Guests at Cerrado das Fontainhas also enjoy access to:
Breakfast is included.
Ms. Renata
Renata Cortês
R. da Tapada 35, Tapada de Vale de Lobos, 2715-403 Almargem do Bpo., Portugal
Almargem do Bispo
Duration
3 nights / 4 days
Available any date