Chaos, isolation, collective trauma, walking the underworld: the last few years have been a lot. It's time to gather, harvest the wisdom of the walk and return to ourselves through nourishment, adventure, and grounded, earth-honoring community. Together, we'll celebrate our EMERGENCE.
Nestled on the Silver Coast
is a unique
+ stunning
getaway -
a place for
emergence.
After years of tumultuous shift, uncertainty, and a collective sense of unsafety, it's time to exhale, gather and ground into devotion, tenderness and community care.
Together, we'll slow down, connect with the land and our body temples, and tend ourselves and each other with the nurturing and nourishment of the mature feminine.
Come and co-create a space of regeneration, liberation, and courageous self-expression inviting us to emerge as the versions of ourselves we (and this planet) need the most.
In gathering,
may we ...
- Find safety, freedom, and belonging in a group of grounded, caring, compassionate people
- Slow way down: wake with the sun, fall asleep with the stars, rest upon the land, eat slow meals of farm to table food, and move at the pace of nature
- Practice 'sourcing in' - resource yourself with movement, embodiment, nervous system regulation and mindfulness practices
- Move through and witness rites of passage to honor the maiden, remember the mother, and call in the wisdom of the crone
- Learn, explore, and attune to what it means to step into 'mature feminine' - ways to heal and balance our own lives, so we can do the same for our children and the planet
retreat +
regenerate
- Find serenity, simplicity and sumptuous slowness amongst centuries old-ruins that whisper of ancient magic
- Experience Portugal's stunning landscape, culture of kindness and slow, relaxed pace of living
- Weave connection through co-creation: guide or receive community-led well-being practices
- Honor your journey of growth and change through sacred feminine ceremony and rites of passage
- Deepen self-awareness and discovery with guided breathwork, sound + meditation experiences
- Explore the potentials and possibilites of a week devoted to sensory pleasure and the pace of nature
- Tend healing, liberation, and expansion through self-care and community-care
WOMEN CAN RESTORE
BALANCE
TO THIS EARTH,
BUT FIRST WE
MUST RESTORE IT IN OURSELVES.
Gathering folks
since 2012
what makes
us magic
Is You
10+ years and 1000+ attendees later, one thing is for sure: these retreats are life-changing because of the women who show up to them. Healers, heretics, mystics, creatives, wild ones, philosophers, sages, rebels, life long learners, witches and makers of good trouble - come on in. You're in good company here.
what she said
EVERYONE NEEDS TO TAKE A TRIP LIKE THIS. YOU DESERVE IT.
If you’re looking for connection, community, spirituality and straight up love from like-minded women, this retreat is a MUST. It truly taught me the meaning of connection to women and to myself. I left further healed from my experience with sexual assault and past traumas that I didn’t even know still lived in my being. If you’re ready to laugh, sing, giggle like little kids and even run around naked if that’s what your heart desires, you are welcomed here.
Gabriella DeLorenze
I RECEIVED EVEN MORE THAN I HOPED FOR.
I arrived with bold intentions- to connect with joy, pleasure, ease, and to uncover anything hidden subconscious hurts ready to surface to be received, processed, and met with grace, forgiveness, healing, and understanding. I wanted to to feel grounded in my power and spirit, and I received even more than I hoped for. Amelia has a gift for bringing people together, creating community while helping people uncover their own support within.
Laura Guilmain
THIS EXPERIENCE AFFIRMED A COMMUNITY OF WOMEN THAT HAVE MY BACK.
I had multiple experiences of deep healing. The breathwork session cracked me wide open: immediately after, a flood of new found gratitude for life, having this opportunity to be here on this planet. I didn’t always have a positive relationship to women, but this experience affirmed a community of women that have my back. Staring at the vastness of the stars, in awe of this experience, laying on the ground, cuddling under blankets. I felt like a magical, spiritual being. I let my wild woman free and was connected to everything around me.
Melissa McEwen
Inclusions
WHAT YOU GET:
- 6 nights, 7 days accommodations in Portugal's
most unique, magical + artistic retreat venue - 2 farm to table meals, coffee + tea, snacks + dessert daily (GF, vegan, ayurvedic veg, omnivore options)
- Daily yoga, movement, breathwork and meditation sessions in the poolside shala or rooftop deck
- Surf or SUP lesson / session (choose your own adventure) at nearby Silver Coast praia (beach)
- Autumn equinox ritual circle: sacred fire ceremony and guided elemental sound healing journey
- Bespoke, thoughtfully curated, sustainable, eco-friendly gift bags made with love for you + the planet
RETREAT AGENDA
ROOMS + RATES
Each artistic, creatively designed room at Casa Alma and Casa Paco D'Ilhas is unique, with varied features to provide more comfort.
Below, you'll find a gallery of room types to give you a sense of the beautiful variety and whimsy of this unique space. If you know what works for you, you're welcome to book and pay in full.
If you prefer to book with deposit, you'll receive an email confirming your room type, and inviting you to choose from a more detailed selection of preferences, including room features and number of roommates (if applicable).
If you have special needs for your accommodations, please contact [email protected].com and we will be happy to help.
Flexible Rate, Room TBD
Open to receive any room available? Choose this option; pay deposit only and room will be assigned Sept 1. $1850
Bunk Bed, Shared Room
Make grown up summer camp memories with a twin bunk bed in a room shared with 2-3 other guests. $1950
Single Bed, Private Room
Sweet, simple, and private space. Twin bed space in your own private room. Shared bath. $2450
Single Bed, Shared Room
Comfortable and cozy accommodations in a shared room. Twin or bunk sharing space with 1-3 other guests. $2150
Double Bed, Shared Room
Enjoy more space to stretch out in a double bed. Room or casita may be shared with 1-2 other guests. $2350
Queen Bed, Private Room
Luxuriate and retreat in your own private room and bath, each with unique features and decor. $2750
Oh hey hostess
Amelia Travis
In second grade, I told my classmates and said we were all going to Disneyland in a hot air ballon for my birthday. That (surprise) didn't happen, but you could say I've always had a big imagination for events. Weaving wellness, indulgence, ceremony and celebration into unforgettable experiences is one of my favorite ways to serve in this world.
Fancy Papers + Street Cred
- Founder of Stoked Yogi + Women Awake
- Yoga E-RYT 500 + Breathwork Guide
- TEDx Speaker + feat. in Yoga Journal
- Surf + SUP Instructor (lifeguard certified)
- Astrologer, Priestess, Mama + Mystic
- 1000+ retreat guests served since 2012
Who This Is For
THIS IS DEFINITELY FOR YOU, IF:
- You're into ocean swims, late night fires, early mornings, long walks, deep talks, belly laughs, salty eyelashes, green juice, red wine, a midnight toke, earth medicine, signs and symbols, animal familiars, poetry, dance parties, movement as medicine, life as art, vulnerability and authenticity as superpowers.
- You're lit up by seeing women land fully in their bodies, power, agency, and wholeness. You celebrate vicarous pleasure and honor full self-expression, whether that's nude sunbathing, activism, singing loudly or speaking her mind with a fierce and fiery passion.
- You are open to making this trip an unapologetic, wildly self-loving, compassionately curious, exploratory, prayer-tending, heart-expanding ceremony for your life, because you matter.
- You're standing at the threshold, or have just tenderly emerged into a new season of life. Holding others and being held in loving witness as you step into the next stage of becoming is part of what calls you to this gathering.
IMPORTANT DETAILS + FAQ
what's left to do but
say yes to magic
My prayer for this gathering is that together, we'll remember and reflect the grounding, nurturing, abundant, ever-present love of the great mother.
My hope is that we'll step into deeper awareness of our gifts, power, and leave feeling clear in our paths and connected to each other, the earth, and our unique favorite selves.
My intention is that you receive exactly what you need, through the magic of saying yes to yourself and weaving, in community, a ceremony for your life.
What is your prayer, hope, or intention? In naming it and choosing this journey, may the magic of it's unfolding begin.