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Wellness Retreat in Portugal
During these 4 days, you will have time to enjoy the silence, detox your mind from the digital world, relaxing your body, mind, and spirit with Ayurvedic and herbal healing practices, that include: self-care, rituals, meditation, movement, deep nourishment, rest, and reconnection. They invite you to join them in simple, beautiful, and ancient practices to nourish your soul by practicing rituals. Allowing yourself to the healing energy of nature, to awaken the senses, to nourish your inner and outer world, and to go deeper in the understanding of your unique body and soul
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Highlights
- Daily morning conscious movement / meditation
- Herbal, Ayurvedic workshops, and intro to Ayurveda
- Restorative self-care practices
- Earth wisdom and water ritual
- Flower essences, plant wisdom guideness, and mindful forest walk
- Integration eBook
- 3 daily organic vegan meals
- 3 nights accommodation
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Accommodation
Herdade da Matinha
Herdade da Matinha is a place of healing, friendship, community, and living in harmony with nature.
Each room was thought to detail that brings natural elements to the landscape and cultural heritage of the region in harmony with the simplicity and comfort of the architectural elements and modern decoration.
History of Herdade da Matinha
In 1994, they were packing for Australia, when they "stumbled" in Matinha. They fell in love with this lost valley in the opulent green of Serra do Cercal. The scent of the sea, the shade of the trees and the tracks carefully carved like lines in the palm of your hand.
While the kids became men, they fed with the same spoon and the same seasoning the idea of making this their home, built with the seeds they sow in the ground. The mother, already dedicated to tourism, and her father, a painter, and chef by vocation, welcomed the first guests with candlelights, because in the absence of electricity, they had love and will to spare.
More than 20 years later, the estate has grown and extends over 110 hectares of cork oak and pinewood. The old houses of the Lavrador, the Vacaria, and the barn were restored to create the main house and the 22 rooms of singular decoration, where silence is a rare luxury that must be listened to with time.
A Living and Transformational Place
Drop schedules, appointments, routines, and deadlines. Stay with the desire to set the clock by footsteps and not know where they take you. "What day is today? What time is it?" Herdade da Matinha is a space of transformation. It is rural tourism where immersion is sought in nature and leisure. Get time for yourself and space for whatever you feel like.
They believe in creative and experiential tourism that promotes contact with the cultural, social, and environmental heritage of Costa Alentejana and fosters learning, co-creation, and self-knowledge of those who visit them.
Herdade da Matinha can offer you silence made of gold, a yoga retreat for inner contemplation, a horseback ride to the sunset, or a bustling house with music, cooking, poetry, painting, and wine. The time is yours, so is the choice.
Program
About the Program
During these 4 days, you will have time to enjoy the silence, detox your mind from the digital world, relaxing your body, mind, and spirit with Ayurvedic and herbal healing practices, that include: self-care, rituals, meditation, movement, deep nourishment, rest, and reconnection.
During these days, they invite you to join them in simple, beautiful, and ancient practices to nourish your soul by practicing rituals. Allowing yourself to the healing energy of nature, to awaken the senses, to nourish your inner and outer world, and to go deeper in the understanding of your unique body and soul. Feel nurtured, connected, fulfilled, revived, and alive. Feel your unique essence.
Peace Within
Freedom from disturbance. Tranquility. Stress-free state, a calmness that comes when there's no conflict, everything coexisting in perfect harmony and freedom from the inner world, a state of presence, calmness, and harmony from the inside.
Imagine a place where you are totally free from the intensity / chaotic daily life. A place where you can feel inside yourself and in nature peace and ease - a stress-free state. This happens when you allow it to slow down, take off your shoes, and come closer to nature.
every day, you will get to enjoy body movement, conscious breathing and meditation, and homemade and organic vegan food. You will have time to reset yourself, listening to the sounds of nature that are welcoming spring, the season where you invite the energy of beauty and hope into your lives.
This is where you will get the inner feeling of rejuvenation. Specially curated by Teresa Feijó and Maria Peres to give you the most nurturing and safe space where you can regain your harmony and balance.
You are living in a moment of forgetting and remembering. When you see, the more endure cultures, their practices were focused on three things: Who you are? Where do you belong? What is sacred?
And that cultures they prayed, and ritualized in order to keep the connection rooted. They also were and are always in tune with the wheel of the year, so you keep remembering that you are nature and just like her, cyclical. These are ways to make your soul feel a sense of belonging so you can start to remember what it is to live this life on earth.
At the moment you are living, everything is so fast, that when you allow yourselves to slow down, you feel very fast bored, because your mind and as well your senses are overstimulated.
It is by creating space to be with yourselves, alone or with nature, that you start to connect again to life and to yourselves. The answer always lies within, and this is your invitation, to open yourself, to listen to what is good for you, for your path, and for your life.
What You Will Get
They aim to bring more harmony to your being, restoring your central nervous system at a physical, mental, and spiritual level, bringing the sense of belonging as one with nature and existence, which means in just a few days you can feel more rested, restored, nurtured, and in peace on a deeper level. You’ll leave feeling more grounded and connected back to who you are, relaxed, calm, focused, and balanced.
Immersed in the beautiful Herdade da Matinha are several bush walks offering breathtaking spaces and a chance to open to a more profound way to connect with nature, by prayer, sitting alone, in silence, and slowing down.
Remember your own natural pace. This retreat is an invitation to be with them in a more intimate and unique space so you feel and embody deep nourishment moments with space and time to be by yourself as well. You will be supported to have a more caring and regenerated experience.
For Whom?
Everyone is warmly welcome. Whether you’re feeling a little burnt out, disconnected, depleted, lifeless, joyless, anxious, unsupported, or feel like falling in a heap. Or you’re doing "okay" but need a little more energy, re-focus, and re-alignment. Being able to get away to reconnect and restore could be what your body, mind, and soul has been asking for, in order re-set, flourish, and thrive once again.
What They Offer:
- Daily meditations and flowing movement
- Forest bathing and connecting with nature
- Restorative morning and calming night-time rituals
- Ayurveda and herbal practices
- Restful and beautiful accommodation with wonderful surroundings
- Time to be in silence and rest
- Digital detox
- Integration eBook
Sample Daily Schedule:
- 08:00 Morning meditation
- 09:00 Breakfast
- 10:30 Morning session
- 13:00 Lunch, free time
- 15:30 Nature meditation / walk
- 16:20 Afternoon session
- 19.30 Dinner
- 20:30 Evening ritual
- 21:30 Bedtime
Instructors
Teresa Feijó
Teresa is a seeker, sensitive, creative, alchemist, botanist, curious, manifester. Fascinated by cultures and ancestral wisdom, by nature, by alchemy, by dreams, by history beyond history and a navigator of dimensions. She's an alchemist, retreat facilitator, and perfumera (perfumeros are healers from South America who prepare alchemical potions for healing). She actively practiced and studied various integrative therapeutic methods together with ancestral wisdom, meditation and energy care, as a gateway to evolution and well-being.
Maria Peres
Maria is the founder of Apoema and Living as Sacred Journey. She's a soul therapist, practitioner of Ayurveda Medicine, Natural Gynecology, in a continuous study and alchemy with plants, where she seeks to make her own medicines so that they can serve as support to the people with whom she works. For a decade, she pilgrimaged through South America and a little through Asia to heal herself, to heal her uterus and ovaries that were intoxicated, silenced, malnourished, for a life far from her essence.
Location
Cercal do Alentejo
This program will take place in Cercal do Alentejo in the Setubal District in the region of Alentejo in Portugal.
Vincentian route
About the Venue
Herdade da Matinha is part of Rota Vicentina, a network of walking routes in the Southwest of Portugal that totals 750 kilometers and passes through some of the most beautiful places in the region.
If you want to discover another side of Portugal, with a cultural, social, and environmental heritage untouched by time and by the hand of man, this is your home.
Features
Activities
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
General
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Air-conditioned rooms
- Bar
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Fireplace
- Garden
- Lounge
- Multilingual staff
- Restaurant
- Yoga shala
Services
- Meeting room
- Parking lot
Food
Vegan Meals
The package includes daily organic vegan breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Lacto-ovo Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Gluten Free
- Lactose Free
Things to do (optional)
- Yoga - From 25 EUR
- Hiking - Circular route within the estate.
- Visit the closest towns
- Relaxing massage - 80 EUR / 60 minutes
What's included
- Daily morning conscious movement / meditation
- Herbal and Ayurvedic workshops
- Restorative self-care practices
- Earth wisdom ritual
- Water ritual
- Intro to Ayurveda Flower Essences
- Plant wisdom guideness
- Fire ceremony
- Mindful forest walk
- Integration ebook
- 3 daily organic vegan meals
- 3 nights accommodation
What's not included
- Airfare
- Other meals
- Beverages
- Other activities (not mentioned in the inclusions)
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Faro Airport
110 km
Transfer not provided
Lisbon Portela Airport
113 km
Transfer not provided
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 100% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
