Nourish in Nature – Join Fiona and Sara on this special Nourish in Nature Retreat with daily morning yoga classes and afternoon workshops in herbs and nutrition. This week is a chance to truly nourish and replenish yourself, take home new recipes and knowledge about herbs and nutrition, and return to life back home with a renewed energy and enthusiasm.

Dates: 3-9 March

Cultivate Contentment – A retreat encourages us to foster expectations in harmony with our experiences so that a more peaceful or blissful state, contentment, can arise.  Daily Morning Yoga Classes designed to challenge your strength, flexibility and stamina will be broken down into easily accessible steps so that the complete beginner along with the more advanced Practitioner can both experience the contentment that yoga posture practice encourages.  This Dynamic and Yin Yoga inspired week is aimed at broadening our hearts, opening our hips, and finally lengthening our limbs and spine so that we may walk a little taller in our lives, contentedly guided by each and every moment of life and each and every breath.

Dates: 10-16 March

Journeys into Inner Space – We spend a lot of time looking outwards, our minds occupied with distractions of the modern world, which at times can be overwhelming, leaving us to feel weary and depleted of energy…This retreat invites you to withdraw from these distractions, supported by the beautiful and peaceful surroundings of the Portuguese hills, nourished by wholesome and nutritious food, Mary will guide you though a week of yoga asana, breath-work and guided meditation with the intention to encourage self-awareness, self-compassion and create more inner space for yourself, that you can take on your onward journey.

Dates: 17-23 March

This Yoga Life – Moving the body with awareness and experiencing the rhythmic breath allows us to move into a state of ease, space and a willingness to surrender. We naturally release from tension as we witness the transformation of doubt, agitation and stagnant energy when we embrace yoga as a life practice. This retreat will focus on how we can use our yoga practice to expand our centre, to live with steady ease, to create the platform for more skillful action in all aspects of our life. Drawing on philosophy, nature, creativity and human experience Tashi encourages the group to creatively explore their experience of yoga.

Dates: 24-30 March, 31 March – 6 April

This Yoga Life – Moving the body with awareness and experiencing the rhythmic breath allows us to move into a state of ease, space and a willingness to surrender. We naturally release from tension as we witness the transformation of doubt, agitation and stagnant energy when we embrace yoga as a life practice. This retreat will focus on how we can use our yoga practice to expand our centre, to live with steady ease, to create the platform for more skillful action in all aspects of our life. Drawing on philosophy, nature, creativity and human experience Tashi encourages the group to creatively explore their experience of yoga.

Dates: 7-13 April, 14-20 April

Rainbows on Your Eyelashes – Being enclosed by the gentle rolling green hills of the Portuguese Forests easily invites our attention inward away from the normal concerns of daily life, heightening our awareness of our more intuitive or creative capacities. Released from the bombardment of modern stimuli, the countryside softens us and we become more conscious of our experience in each moment, fostering a childlike joy in the now, in the play of light through a window, through a Forest or through our own eyelashes.

As we take our early Morning walks we become more attentive to the details of the Forest, the texture of stone or the smell of the woodland floor underfoot.  We earn and give ourselves the time to observe the changing nature of the light at Morning Yoga Practice and Evening Sunset Practice. The silence and noises of the countryside provide the natural soundtrack to Guided Meditation as we enlighten our imaginations through contemplation of the Chakra System.

The heat of the midday sun on our backs while dangling feet in a cold running stream rejuvenates us. Medicated therapeutic or relaxing oil massage soothes away the accumulated muscular aggravations as we become more connected to the intuitive, mysterious, and not easily verbalized aspects of ourselves so that we may return to our lives with a little less tension and with a little more delight.

Dates: 21-27 April

Yoga with Mars – Give yourself that space to reconnect to your inner compass. During twice daily yoga, inspired by ashtanga vinyasa, vinyasa flow, and yin yoga, we will delve deep into our hearts to shed light on our truth. We will connect with nature and its rhythm to release old stories and invite new perspectives to our lives. We will explore the power of journaling, rituals, breathing exercises, sound, touch and meditation to help nurture our unique journeys and live our truth. There will also be plenty of time to just be and embrace the raw beauty of the valley. This retreat is led by Mars, an Australian yoga teacher based in Europe. Her intention is to create space that allows safe, honest, joyful self-enquiry and transformation.

Dates: 28 April – 4 May

Yoga with Mars – Give yourself that space to reconnect to your inner compass. During twice daily yoga, inspired by ashtanga vinyasa, vinyasa flow, and yin yoga, we will delve deep into our hearts to shed light on our truth. We will connect with nature and its rhythm to release old stories and invite new perspectives to our lives. We will explore the power of journaling, rituals, breathing exercises, sound, touch and meditation to help nurture our unique journeys and live our truth. There will also be plenty of time to just be and embrace the raw beauty of the valley. This retreat is led by Mars, an Australian yoga teacher based in Europe. Her intention is to create space that allows safe, honest, joyful self-enquiry and transformation.

Dates: 5-11 May

Forest Yoga with Craig and Tom – Craig and Tom warmly invite you to join them in deep rural Portugal for a week of Yoga, Meditation, Ceremony, Music and Dance​! It will be Spring so the rivers and waterfalls will be flowing and the valley will be carpeted with flowers – the perfect way to shed the layers of Winter and step in to the vibrancy and vitality of Spring! Comfy cosy beds, Ayurvedic food, surrounded by nature, practicing Forrest Yoga in a beautiful Shala on stilts overlooking the valley.This retreat is suitable for EVERYONE, all levels of experience and all yoga backgrounds.

Dates: 12-18 May

Forest Yoga Immersion – Join Tom for a very special week together at the spectacular Vale de Moses retreat deep in the lush valleys of rural Portugal and discover the power of Forrest Yoga. Forrest Yoga is a physical, dynamic and profoundly healing practice lovingly crafted by Ana Forrest for over 40 years. If you like Vinyasa Flow, Power Yoga, Ashtanga or Jivamukti then you will LOVE Forrest Yoga!

The 4 Pillars of Forrest Yoga are Breath, Strength, Integrity and Spirit. The practice weaves together ancient and modern techniques to empower you on your healing path. Much of what we practice in Forrest Yoga will feel very familiar to you – but some poses and sequences are totally unique to Forrest Yoga.

It’s a fun, challenging, and exhilarating practice – come see for yourself 🙂 During our week together we will also explore and play with different ways of embracing joy in our daily lives. We will sing, dance, swim in nature, gaze at the stars, eat delicious food, meditate, hike through the hills, and of course practice Forrest Yoga every morning together.

Dates: 19-25 May, 26 May – 1 June

Yoga and Pilates – This week will celebrate the similarities and differences between yoga and Pilates. Morning yoga practices will be breath initiated, mindful and flowing. At times we’ll go slow and keep it simple and soothing and other times we’ll pick up the intensity with some deep and strong poses. You will be encouraged to journey inside and explore your own felt sense awareness to facilitate presence and connection to yourself and discover freedom, clarity and joy.

In our afternoon Pilates workshops we will explore what ‘core’ really means and learn how to move from our centre whilst experiencing first hand the transformative power that this has in enhancing our yoga practice, making it safer, more powerful, graceful and fluid. All are welcome and no previous experience of yoga or Pilates is required.

Dates: 2-8 June

Yoga with Mars – Give yourself that space to reconnect to your inner compass. During twice daily yoga, inspired by ashtanga vinyasa, vinyasa flow, and yin yoga, we will delve deep into our hearts to shed light on our truth. We will connect with nature and its rhythm to release old stories and invite new perspectives to our lives. We will explore the power of journaling, rituals, breathing exercises, sound, touch and meditation to help nurture our unique journeys and live our truth. There will also be plenty of time to just be and embrace the raw beauty of the valley. This retreat is led by Mars, an Australian yoga teacher based in Europe. Her intention is to create space that allows safe, honest, joyful self-enquiry and transformation.

Dates: 9-15 June

Flow with Fleur – This week, music and nature will lead us the way. As music touches the soul, we will flow our yoga practice on inspiring vibrations. We will become aware of our breath and how it influences our being. Away from our daily routine, out in the beautiful natural landscape of this valley in Portugal, with nourishing food and therapeutic massage, let’s flow!

Dates: 16-22 June, 23-29 June, 30 June – 6 July

Cultivate Contentment – Being cared for on retreat in a family home; having a simple and comfortable space to rest; wholesome food to nourish; revitalizing mud for the skin; experienced therapists to ease away persistent aches and pains; good company with time for meaningful conversation; silence and opportunity for reflection; early morning walks and late afternoon swims; visits to remote country villages, sampling the local fair. All of these things makes it just a little easier for those of us feeling stressed out and pulled in all directions, to feel restored.

A retreat encourages us to foster expectations in harmony with our experiences so that a more peaceful or blissful state, contentment, can arise.  Daily Morning Yoga Classes designed to challenge your strength, flexibility and stamina will be broken down into easily accessible steps so that the complete beginner along with the more advanced Practioner can both experience the contentment that yoga posture practice encourages.  This Dynamic and Yin Yoga inspired week is aimed at broadening our hearts, opening our hips, and finally lengthening our limbs and spine so that we may walk a little taller in our lives, contentedly guided by each and every moment of life and each and every breath.

Dates: 14-20 July

Yoga and Sleep Retreat – We are looking forward to welcoming our friend Nerina to this special retreat in July. It is a great opportunity to escape from our daily habits that prevent good sleep and learn how bad daytime habits such as: skipping breakfast, running on adrenaline, being permanently connected, alcohol, sugar and caffeine, all create barriers to quality, restorative sleep at night.  The daily routine at Vale de Moses of morning yoga classes with Vonetta, nutritious food, hill walking, river swimming with massage and acupuncture treatments will help reinforce the sleep-inducing habits that Dr Ramlakhan will teach us during her afternoon workshops.

Dates: 21-27 July

Flow with Fleur – This week, music and nature will lead us the way. As music touches the soul, we will flow our yoga practice on inspiring vibrations. We will become aware of our breath and how it influences our being. Away from our daily routine, out in the beautiful natural landscape of this valley in Portugal, with nourishing food and therapeutic massage, let’s flow!

Dates: 28 July – 3 August

Flow with Fleur – This week, music and nature will lead us the way. As music touches the soul, we will flow our yoga practice on inspiring vibrations. We will become aware of our breath and how it influences our being. Away from our daily routine, out in the beautiful natural landscape of this valley in Portugal, with nourishing food and therapeutic massage, let’s flow!

Dates: 4-10 August, 11-16 August, 25-31 August

Yoga with Mars – Give yourself that space to reconnect to your inner compass. During twice daily yoga, inspired by ashtanga vinyasa, vinyasa flow, and yin yoga, we will delve deep into our hearts to shed light on our truth. We will connect with nature and its rhythm to release old stories and invite new perspectives to our lives. We will explore the power of journaling, rituals, breathing exercises, sound, touch and meditation to help nurture our unique journeys and live our truth. There will also be plenty of time to just be and embrace the raw beauty of the valley. This retreat is led by Mars, an Australian yoga teacher based in Europe. Her intention is to create space that allows safe, honest, joyful self-enquiry and transformation.

Dates: 18-24 August

Flow with Fleur – This week, music and nature will lead us the way. As music touches the soul, we will flow our yoga practice on inspiring vibrations. We will become aware of our breath and how it influences our being. Away from our daily routine, out in the beautiful natural landscape of this valley in Portugal, with nourishing food and therapeutic massage, let’s flow!

Dates: 1-7 September

Forest Yoga Immersion – Join Tom for a very special week together at the spectacular Vale de Moses retreat deep in the lush valleys of rural Portugal and discover the power of Forrest Yoga. Forrest Yoga is a physical, dynamic and profoundly healing practice lovingly crafted by Ana Forrest for over 40 years. If you like Vinyasa Flow, Power Yoga, Ashtanga or Jivamukti then you will LOVE Forrest Yoga!

The 4 Pillars of Forrest Yoga are Breath, Strength, Integrity and Spirit. The practice weaves together ancient and modern techniques to empower you on your healing path. Much of what we practice in Forrest Yoga will feel very familiar to you – but some poses and sequences are totally unique to Forrest Yoga.

It’s a fun, challenging, and exhilarating practice – come see for yourself 🙂 During our week together we will also explore and play with different ways of embracing joy in our daily lives. We will sing, dance, swim in nature, gaze at the stars, eat delicious food, meditate, hike through the hills, and of course practice Forrest Yoga every morning together.

Dates: 8-14 September, 15-21 September

This Yoga Life – Moving the body with awareness and experiencing the rhythmic breath allows us to move into a state of ease, space and a willingness to surrender. We naturally release from tension as we witness the transformation of doubt, agitation and stagnant energy when we embrace yoga as a life practice. This retreat will focus on how we can use our yoga practice to expand our centre, to live with steady ease, to create the platform for more skillful action in all aspects of our life. Drawing on philosophy, nature, creativity and human experience Tashi encourages the group to creatively explore their experience of yoga.

Dates: 22-28 September, 29 September – 5 October

This Yoga Life – Moving the body with awareness and experiencing the rhythmic breath allows us to move into a state of ease, space and a willingness to surrender. We naturally release from tension as we witness the transformation of doubt, agitation and stagnant energy when we embrace yoga as a life practice. This retreat will focus on how we can use our yoga practice to expand our centre, to live with steady ease, to create the platform for more skillful action in all aspects of our life. Drawing on philosophy, nature, creativity and human experience Tashi encourages the group to creatively explore their experience of yoga.

Dates: 6-12 October, 13-19 October

Yoga with Mars – Give yourself that space to reconnect to your inner compass. During twice daily yoga, inspired by ashtanga vinyasa, vinyasa flow, and yin yoga, we will delve deep into our hearts to shed light on our truth. We will connect with nature and its rhythm to release old stories and invite new perspectives to our lives. We will explore the power of journaling, rituals, breathing exercises, sound, touch and meditation to help nurture our unique journeys and live our truth. There will also be plenty of time to just be and embrace the raw beauty of the valley. This retreat is led by Mars, an Australian yoga teacher based in Europe. Her intention is to create space that allows safe, honest, joyful self-enquiry and transformation.

Dates: 20-26 October

Yoga with Maryrose – This restorative retreat with Maryrose will be centred on a traditional Hatha Yoga practise.  Over the years Maryrose and has accumulated ideas and techniques from other traditions, so her classes include elements such as Dru Yoga Vinyasa and Alexander Technique alignment and relaxation practises.  The asana practise will be gentle, slow and in time with the breath. Sometimes we work with the help of a partner.  Each session will include strength work, flexibility, co-ordination and balance and will end with some time for relaxation. Meditation is an important part of Maryrose’s classes so, in the afternoons, after the asana practise, we’ll take time to enjoy a longer visualisation or meditation before supper.

Dates: 3-9 November

Yoga and Music Therapy – This Yoga and Music Experience retreat will take you deep into the layers of your feminine and masculine self, through yoga, music and music therapy. Stimulating an expansion of our perceptions, in a cycle of internalization and externalization, yin and yang through twice daily yoga and music therapy practices/workshops, we will dive into our inner universe, embracing whatever is happening inside, moving and breathing with awareness, letting go what doesn´t serve anymore, journaling, sound and music experiences, chanting and meditation.

You will also have plenty of time to just be with yourself, rest, restore and enjoy the beautiful surroundings of this magical valley in Portugal. Led by Lola, brazilian nomadic yoga teacher and Lucas, brazilian musician and music therapist.

Dates: 10-16 November

Feed Your Fire – Feed your inner fire during this week long retreat with us, Emily and Lola.  You will learn to honor the fire within your heart and body with daily yoga classes, ancient Tibetan practices, Thai Massage, morning meditation walks and so much more.  You will find and explore your edges as you learn how to soften them.  This week will be about purging old habits that no longer serve your highest self and forging new habits that will form the future self you deeply desire to be.

You will be gently guided on this journey of rising from the ashes of your former self and creating an intentional path for the future.  We will provide a sacred space for self-exploration within the peaceful setting of the retreat center.  Plenty of time to rest, nourish, play, pamper and explore the surrounding nature will allow each experience to thoroughly integrate into your body and mind.

Dates: 17-23 November