Embodied Essence: Women’s Retreat Experience
March 13th - March 18th, 2026 • Lagos, Portugal
It’s your moment to feel yourself again. Feel your worth again. Live life from your center.
You’re about to meet someone you’ve been missing: you.
To do so, you don’t need a perfect life, more time, or fewer responsibilities. It’s simply time for a reset that reaches your body, your energy, your heart, not just your mind.
That’s what the Embodied Essence Retreat Experience gives you:
a deep shift in the way you relate to yourself and to life itself. To best support you in this lasting transformation, you receive one month of online preparation before the in-person retreat in Portugal, and one month of online integration after.
This is not about a retreat high, it’s about an actual change in your life. So:
Be prepared to see changes in your daily life.
Right now, you might feel as if…
Life feels like it’s happening behind a glass wall.
Resting makes you more anxious than staying busy.
You’re exhausted from giving and don’t know how to receive.
You’ve twisted yourself to be liked and forgot how you feel.
You know you’re meant to bloom, but nothing is really happening.
You are not the only one. None of this means something is “wrong” with you. It’s conditioning.
This retreat will change it so this becomes possible for you…
You feel clear, grounded, and powerful in your body.
You participate in your life instead of watching from the sidelines.
You receive support from others (and Life itself) without guilt.
You stay true to yourself, even when it’s uncomfortable.
You bloom.
Embodied Essence is a two-month journey with the in-person Algarve retreat at its center.
Real change doesn’t happen in a few days. It happens through repetition, support, and embodiment — before, during, and after the retreat. This unique format makes sure your transformation doesn’t stay a “retreat high,” but becomes your new way of being.
Prepare · Embody · Integrate
The Full Journey
1. Remember & Prepare
Online Opening Call — Sunday, February 15, 2026 · 18:00–20:00 CET (Replay Available)
Who do you want to be?
What needs to shift?
What do you desire from life and from yourself?
In the first group call, you will begin by getting clear:
You’ll meet the group and start reconnecting with the woman you’re becoming.
In the weeks leading up to the retreat, you’ll receive weekly preparation emails that help you become aware of the changes you want to make: you arrive in Portugal already in motion.
2. Retreat & Embody
In-Person Retreat — Lagos, Algarve, Portugal · March 13th–18th, 2026
This is where the deep transformation happens. You will learn how to create conditions for your system to reset from the inside out — so safety, expression, trust, desire, and truth become embodied, not theoretical. You’ll be guided through somatic, energetic, emotional, and relational practices inside a space where you can let go fully and be held.
3. Return & Integrate
Online Closing Call — Sunday, April 12th, 2026 · 18:00–20:00 CET (Replay Available)
This is where your new choices take root.
For four weeks after the retreat, you receive weekly integration emails to help you stay connected to your new way of being instead of sliding back into old patterns.
You’ll also stay connected with the group, and we gather one month later to anchor insights, answer questions, and celebrate your breakthroughs.
Important to note:
You can join only the Portugal retreat — but the full two-month journey is what makes the change last.
Preparation sets the ground. The Retreat transforms you. Integration anchors it into your daily life. This is where really feel the shift: in your actual life, not only during the retreat.
You will experience the following practices during this retreat to support your transformation.
You don’t need any previous experience, just curiosity and the willingness to explore and expand. You are free to choose your own pace. You can lie down, cry, laugh, move, be quiet.
Practices
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What it is:
Lying-down energy activations and transmissions that open your system into deep presence, clarity, and connection with yourself.What it does:
Helps you release tension, soften your defenses, access your intuition, and feel supported from within — without effort or “trying.” It is a receiving-only practice.Facilitators are trained through KAP Academy
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Gentle and powerful somatic exercises that bring you out of your head and into your body.What it does:
Builds safety, trust, and grounding in your nervous system so real change can land — not just mentally, but physically. -
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Essential oil–based practices that use scent to influence mood, memory, and emotional states.What it does:
Calms your system, deepens presence, and anchors new emotional states so they stay with you beyond the retreat. -
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Free, guided movement that lets your body express what words cannot.What it does:
Releases stuck emotions, awakens joy and aliveness, and reconnects you with pleasure, spontaneity, and your natural energy. -
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Guided breathing techniques that shift your emotional and energetic state within minutes.What it does:
Releases tension, clears mental overwhelm, increases presence, and opens the body to feel more. And to hold more. -
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Energetic and relational exercises (individual or group-based) that shift how you show up with others and with Life.What it does:
Helps you break old patterns, expand your energetic capacity, and experience yourself in new, more powerful ways. This is a safe practice space where you can simulate real life without judgment and express your desires without being belittled. -
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Guided and silent practices that create stillness, clarity, and inner spaciousness.What it does:
Quiets mental noise, reconnects you with your inner voice, and supports emotional regulation and groundedness. -
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Gentle time outside, on the land and by the sea, intentionally woven into the retreat days.What it does:
Regulates your nervous system instantly, deepens grounding, helps emotions move more easily, and supports integration in a way no indoor practice can.
Nature has a healthy rhythm and we are part of nature. In cities, we are estranged from this rhythm, immersed in nature it is way easier to feel your natural rhythm again -
What it is:
Guided group sharing in a safe, honest, and non-judgmental space with clear boundaries and facilitation.What it does:
Helps you feel seen and not alone, reduces shame, builds inner strength, and accelerates transformation through reflection and connection. Helps you to speak up in a safe space.
The Retreat Space
Quinta Bonita — A Luxury Hideaway in the Western Algarve
A family-owned boutique villa with charm, soul, and space to exhale. Sea views. Serenity. Beauty. A place where you can breathe again.
Quinta Bonita will be exclusively ours during the retreat. It’s a warm, elegant home overlooking the ocean, with its own light-filled yoga studio where we will gather each day. The owners take care of every detail with heart so you can slow down, soften, and be held. You’ll be nourished with fresh, local, mostly vegetarian meals prepared daily, including herbs from their own garden.
Experience again (or maybe for the first time) what it feels like to be fully cared for.
Choose your room
All rooms are equipped with towels, bathrobes, AC, floor heating in the bathrooms, hair dryer, electronic safe and black out electric curtains to ensure your deepest most comfortable sleep.
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The Quinta has three Double/ Twin Rooms with Seaview, each with their own balcony or terrace.
The largest room, Zavial, features a Balinese-style four-poster bed, a separate lounge, and a spacious bathroom with a spa bath. Step onto your private, bougainvillea-clad balcony for beautiful sea views—an ideal choice when you want a special treat.
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Single Occupancy: 3.400€Double Occupancy: 1.750€ p.p.
Twin Room with Seaview and Balcony
Twin Room with Terrace
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There are three beautiful Twin Rooms located on the ground floor of the villa, each with their own terrace.
All rooms have private bathrooms with walk-in rain showers.
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Single Occupancy: 2.950€Double Occupancy: 1.550€ p.p.
Triple Room with Seaview
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Bordeira Triple — The Quinta’s largest room takes its name from the owners’ favourite West Coast beach. Bathed in earthy tones that mirror the lush nature outside, it opens onto a generous terrace perched above the ponds, facing south-west towards the bay of Praia da Luz—perfect for savouring that end-of-day G&T.
This room comes with 3 single beds
and a spacious bathroom.All rooms have private terrace or balcony with table & chairs from which to enjoy the beautiful gardens and sparkling ocean views.
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1.4500 € p.p.
What is included
Accommodation including full board (3 meals per day except one dinner outside the Quinta) and non-alcoholic beverages. Access to the sauna & cold-plunge facilities. Full program (meditations, embodiment, practices, rituals), guidance from facilitators, materials, and small gifts.
What is NOT included
Travel to/from the venue, insurance, private sessions, personal expenses, optional trips.
You will be able to organize yourself in groups for transfers from Faro airport before the retreat starts.
Optional Services
Future Self Photoshooting - 350€
Massages
(You will be able to choose these services two weeks before Embodied Essence starts)
Meet your facilitators
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Languages: EN & SK
For more than 15 years, Alexandra has worked with Energy Medicine and Psychotherapy.
As an experienced KAP Facilitator and Spinal Energetics Practitioner, she helps women release old patterns quickly and create space for a new expression of self.
Through Alexandras’s unique gifts, she facilitates inner harmony through integrative healing.
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Languages: EN & DE
Mirjam supports women in living their natural power and sensuality in everyday life.
She is a writer, ECA certified Systemic Life Coach, and KAP Facilitator. She also trained as a breathwork facilitator and with Ivan Rohe in the Impersonal Dimension, which is not a modality but rather a standard of living she holds for herself and those around her.
Above all, she is a woman who knows from personal experience how it feels to exist at the sidelines of her own life - and liberating it is to move into life’s very center.In her work, she combines Taoist and Tantric approaches with modern embodiment practices — opening a pathway for women to a life filled with vitality, beauty, and Eros, no matter their relationship status.
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Languages: EN, SK, HU & DE
Petra supports women in reconnecting with themselves.
In her work, she combines KAP (Kundalini Activation Process), Reiki, modern Shamanism and guided aromatherapeutic rituals. On her own path, she experienced several losses of loved ones. Yet these experiences have led her into a deeper connection with body, soul, inner stillness, and true joy.
Today, she creates a clear and sensitive space where women can pause, turn inward, navigate grief and loss, and reconnect with their essence.
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Faro Airport, Portugal, is the closest airport (about 1 hour by car)
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Accommodation, full program (meditations, embodiment, practices, rituals), guidance from facilitators, 3 meals per day (except one dinner outside the Quinta), water/tea, materials, and small gifts.
To secure your spot, you will make a 550 Euro deposit which is non refundable.
The open balance is due one month prior the retreat.Payment plans are available. Please reach out for more information
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Travel to/from the venue, insurance, private sessions, personal expenses, optional trips.
Future Self Photoshooting can be booked in advance for 350 Euro (15 images). -
Healthy, local meals with vegetarian/vegan options. Please inform us in advance about any dietary restrictions.
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All rooms (excepts the Master Suite) are shared twin rooms. Each room is cosy, with privacy, own bathroom, terrace or balcony.
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An intimate group, max. 17 women, to ensure each of you have enough attention from each of the faciliators.
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English (with Slovak/German support as needed).
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Gentle morning movement or meditation, a late-morning workshop, free time in the afternoon (ocean/rest), and an evening ritual/embodiment/yoga. Space for quiet and sharing.
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No. It’s designed to be safe and accessible for every body. We offer variations; everything is optional.
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Generally yes—but please consult us in advance and inform the facilitators about your needs. We are not a medical facility.
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We photograph discreetly and only in selected and agreed sessions. We believe in the power of going offline during sessions and encourage limited phone after sessions, too. You will have enough opportunities to take wonderful pictures of you and the beautiful surroundings.
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You secure your spot with a 550 Euro non-refundable deposit.
The rest of the full amount is due 13th of February, 1 month before the start of the retreat.Cancellation before 31st of December: The deposit amount will be retained and no further payment will be due.
Cancellations after 31st of December: full amount is due.
We advice you take a travel insurance to cover unforeseen cancellations.
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Yes—please send your billing details.
