Medicine of Nature, Food & Movement 2021 in Portugal

option 1: April 10 - 16

option 2: May 8 - 14

option 3: June 4 - 11

Focus: yoga, somatic movement journeys, meditation, detox, workshops on conscious eating & cooking, nature reconnection, soul & body nourishment

NEW PRICING! YOU DECIDE HOW MUCH YOU CAN PAY!

in double room: 700EUR (minimum) - 995EUR (regular)

in single room: 1095EUR 

tent spots (own equipment): 600EUR (min) - 845EUR (reg) 

tent spots (rented equipment): 650EUR (min) - 895EUR (reg)

Celebrate and simplify your life!

This retreat offers you a daily yoga & somatic movement practice, pranayama, detox & mindful eating rituals. 

Melt into your body and offers a new perspective on eating and healthy nutrition: eating as a practice of yoga! Get into your body.

Understand your body to understand the dynamics of life & nature.

You are part of this huge cycle of life! And your choices make an impact.

Learn to prepare healthy, sustainable, local and nourishing meals (use of herbs and spices, fermentation, plant-based meals) in our non-dogmatic cooking workshops. Reconnect with your "gut intelligence" and the Source of life!

Every time we eat something we are literally saying YES to life. In its purest form, taken away from habits & stress, every meal you prepare for yourself is a gesture of self-love.

Unfortunately consumerism moved into our eating habits. We don’t listen to our hunger & eat too much or eat foods that don't feel alive. We are not connected to the inner voice of “healthy” craving that is guiding us not to the next source of sugar but to colors, smells & tastes that will help our body to get what it actually needs.

We are what we eat! Let's find back to our inner wisdom of what really serves our bodies. Let's understand the cycle of eating and digesting and gain a wider perspective of life and our physicality.

What does a Yoga, Somatic Movement & Conscious Eating Retreat look like?  

Conscious Eating

Olga has been dedicated to plant-based cooking and mindful eating practices for several years, has worked and curated healthy and creative meals as a chef in upscale yoga retreat centers and is always creating new and nourishing inspiration for yogis and people who are curious about a healthy lifestyle.

She will guide us through mindful eating rituals and share her wisdom on conscious & delicious cooking and inspire our understanding of our belonging to nature by eating. Our daily cooking sessions with her will include stories, recipes, room for questions and tons of inspiration to take home for a plant-based diet. 

Eating is not just eating. Fasting for example, can be an integral part of a healthy digestion. Therefore, this retreat will include a mini-fast. On day 3 of the retreat, the intake of food will conclude with lunch - and we will do an intermittent fast until breakfast the next day. Olga will share her wisdom on plants and herbs and we will harvest hers from the garden to prepare our individual fasting teas. 

The fasting time will be a special afternoon and evening of resting time and connection time in nature and meditation practices.

The Yoga practice

Begin to feel the vast nature of your body and its intrinsic wisdom. Jana will share practices from traditional hatha yoga and somatic practices such as Body Mind Centering and Feldenkrais and invite you to explore:

- healthy movement patterns to support your yoga practice  

- understand and feel the anatomy of your breath and how it changes your practice when the breath leads

- how to connect with your inner wisdom and "gut intelligence"

- how to reconnect with nature and the love for your body and this life

- rejuvenating practices to maintain health 

- connect with who you are beyond conditioned self images and habits

- research your own movement habits and create more freedom and spaciousness in your practice

- recognizing and respecting cycles & rhythms

- how it feels like to trust and to move from within your own body authority

- a way to embody yoga and to feel awake and alive. Understand your spiritual self through the experience of your body.

- explore the deeper purpose of this practice and how it can change everything in your life. Feel comfortable in yourself and in your human nature.

Yoga, Somatic Movement & Conscious Eating Retreat Schedule

Arrival Day: 

16:00 Arrival & registration 

17:00 Welcome & introduction 

18:00 Welcome Yoga Session & Opening Circle

19:30 Homemade dinner

Day 1:

7:00 - 8:00 Sunrise Meditation & Pranayama

8:00 - 9:00 Light, healthy breakfast (in silence)

9:00 - 11:30 Yoga workshop 

12:00 Nourishing lunch & break

17:00 - 19:00 Mindful Cooking Workshop

19:00 Healthy dinner

20:00 Evening Meditation Special 

Day 2:

7:00 - 8:00 Sunrise Meditation & Pranayama

8:00 - 9:00 Light, healthy breakfast (in silence)

9:00 - 11:30 Yoga workshop 

12:00 Nourishing lunch & break

17:00 - 19:00 Mindful Cooking Workshop

19:00 Healthy dinner

Day 3: 

7:00 - 8:00 Sunrise Meditation & Pranayama

8:00 - 9:00 Light, healthy breakfast (in silence)

9:00 - 11:30 Yoga workshop 

12:00 Nourishing lunch & start of intermittent fast

14:00 Preparation of teas & relaxation practices

19:00 Soundhealing 

Day 4:

7:00 - 8:00 Sunrise Meditation & Pranayama

8:00 - 9:00 Light, healthy breakfast (in silence)

9:00 - 11:30 Yoga & Somatic Movement workshop 

12:00 Nourishing lunch & break

17:00 - 19:00 Mindful Cooking Workshop

19:00 Healthy dinner

Day 5:

7:00 - 8:00 Sunrise Meditation & Pranayama

8:00 - 9:00 Light, healthy breakfast (in silence)

9:00 - 11:30 Yoga & Somatic Movement workshop 

12:00 Nourishing lunch & free time

19:00 Healthy dinner

20:00 Evening Special & Closing Circle

Day 5:

8:00 - 9:30 Meditation & Yoga 

9:30 - 11:00 Healthy Portuguese breakfast 

11:00 - 13:00 Departures

You will love this Yoga, Meditation & Mindful Eating Retreat!

We designed this program based on your feedback to dive deeper into the sense of feeling connected to nature and your life source. Learn about mindful eating, fasting & cooking and move your body in a healthy way. Explore somatic practices and how to apply the laws of nature into our yoga practice.

What we are interested in is to create a space that warmly welcomes everyone who is curious to explore the nature of body, mind & spirit. A place to feel home, accepted, loved & inspired to look for truth. To offer a yoga practice that serves humanity. A practice that inspires each of us to make smart choices in life.

Come and explore new forms of movement and eating to experience our connection to Source. We are greatly looking forward to guide you through these practices of well-being.

 - with love, Jana & Olga

This retreat includes

- 6 nights on an authentic, organic farm in double or single room (farmhouse, ensuite bathroom/shared bathroom) or tent (bring your own or rent equipment from us)

- all meals: breakfast, lunch & dinner

- healthy snacks & teas throughout the day 

- daily guided sunrise meditations and pranayama session

- 5x 2.5hrs yoga & somatic movement workshops

- 3x 2hr conscious cooking workshops

- concious fasting workshop & guidance

- evening specials: relaxation/yoga nidra journey, soundjourney, chanting or sharing circles/camp fire 

optional

- surfing classes with local surf school

- body work & massages

reviews from our 2020 retreat

"I feel so truly grateful and inspired for our time together. It’s was definitely a threshold for my new life.

I could integrate so much of the pearls of wisdom we discovered in the retreat.   I’m soaking so much food and eating almost vegan. My daughter became 200% vegan and I can support her thanks to all the recipes, tips and knowledge from the retreat. 

I did so much of Janas meditation and yoga sound-cloud resources in the back months, it was great to listen to her gorgeous and loving voice. It helped me to establish again may lost daily meditation practice and to connect back to yoga as one of my medicines. It was the best present for my self care and ritual connection I could do in 2020 and it was key in my attitude towards a massive challenging year.

I’ll definitely will come back."

- Veronica Alvarez, Mexico

"I still fantasize about the food we ate at the retreat. It was a complete eye opener for me. I came back full of inspiration and newly found love for my kitchen!!!! Olga, you taught us so much more than mindful eating. I understood for the first time in my life what is actually a "whole food diet”. I cannot tell you how influential this has been for me. I started fermenting again! And I often prepare breakfast porridge/nut butter/ fruits for my kids. They love it.

A lot of the physical yoga and somatic movement practice stuck with me ever since the retreat. Jana created a space for experimentation, fun, healing and (re-) connection. It was a truly magical experience for me as I worked through some of my physical trauma thanks to the practice and teachings. What I learned helps me especially when I feel stressed out. I also loved your music and singing, and the way you eased us in and out of the practice."

- Laurence Pagni, Germany

deposit payments & cancelation terms

due to the current situation with more difficult travel planning & lesser income for a lot of people, we have adapted out terms to support you in still coming to join for our weeks of reconnection: