A feminine retreat

From April 28th to May 2nd, Portugal

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A woman has the power to love herself and live her life as she sees fit.
– Marianna Moreno

A feminine retreat

by Vanda Vaz de Carvalho and Maria Vilalobos
Empowerment :: Action of becoming powerful, of having power, authority, dominion over; example: process of empowerment of disadvantaged classes. Take control of your own life; be able to make decisions about what concerns you, eg women's empowerment .

Female empowerment is linked to a collective conscience on the part of women, and consists of actions taken by women who do not allow themselves to be inferiorized by their gender, and take attitudes that disagree with the limiting beliefs imposed by society.

This is the starting point of our journey.
Photography by Hans Vivek
What is being a woman? What is pleasure? What is it to be a creator of life? 

We are conditioned by a society that imprisons us as sensitive beings that we are, that tells us that emotion, sexuality and pleasure must be controlled, hidden and repressed. We often forget that we are the sex that generates life, that brings sensitivity to the world, that allows art to breathe and express itself. We cannot forget that it is in us, Women, where life begins .

It is unnatural to deny what is innate for us to feel and experience. We should be able to express ourselves freely, without feeling like we need validation, and look at ourselves as the Goddesses that we really are.. To be free, autonomous. Connected with our Essence, without restrictions of beauty, pleasure or ambition. 

But our hurried daily life prevents us from stopping and thinking about these issues, going to the bottom, to the heart of our dissatisfactions. And that's why we open this space for you , and for all our sisters, who want to explore their inner Goddess, demystify their sexuality, and heal what makes it impossible to connect with their feminine power. We make room for everyone who wants to dive deep and rescue their Feminine Essence . We make room for love, friendship, sisterhood, life, creation, creativity, beauty and sexuality. 
Female hands holding yellow flower in the center, female power, female empowerment
Photography by Lucas Pezeta and Lina Trochez
This Retreat was created thinking of all women who feel trapped by constraints that no longer make sense , be they sexual , emotional , psychological , or  material . 

This Retreat is for You who...
:: You find it difficult to feel pleasure 
:: You feel the need for Liberation
:: You need time to nourish yourself
:: You feel that you don't have time for yourself
:: You want to feel the joy of living again
: : Do you want to know yourself deeply
:: Do you feel your feminine energy oppressed

If yes, then this is The Retreat for you.Created and facilitated by two women of the same lineage, whose understanding of the physical, emotional and spiritual transcends common knowledge . 

Here, the constraints of society are left at the door. Here, you will be among sisters .
 

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If you feel you need more information, email us at happyvanda.here.i.am@gmail.com

The Women of the Team

Vanda Vaz de Carvalho

Creation and Facilitation

Mother of 5 children, grandmother of 2 granddaughters. AND LOVE LIFE.
writer. World Traveler. Free and happy, teaching and spreading Freedom and Happiness.
Professionally, he is a Reiki, Biosintonia and CEMI - Integrative Multidimensional Stellar Consciousness, and NLP - Neurolinguistic Programming therapist. She is a speaker, life coach , psychotherapist, writer and poet, and cosmic traveller.
The world is where you walk, the limitless Universe is where you are. Creator and mentor of retreats, healing circles, spiritual celebrations, Reiki and Biosintonia initiations and CEMI. She practices yoga and teaches meditation, and LOVES what she does with her whole being. Her passions are inspiring people, touching them, transforming their lives, writing, painting, dancing, photography, traveling and teaching.

I am happy because I feel whole and because I love and accept myself as I am. Because I LOVE all living beings.
I believe with all my being that happiness comes from freedom. Therefore, I wish that All beings are FREE and HAPPY.
Love, Peace and Light.
Namasté

Maria Vilalobos

Facilitation
Creative actress with a degree in Theater from the University of Évora. Outside the country, she participated in projects such as Exchange-Breathe (Turkey, 2015); Say it Loud (Germany, 2017); Sometimes Je Ne Sais Pas Cómo Hablarte (Spain, 2017), Corps Intime, Corps Politique (France, 2018), Mr&Mrs Lover (Netherlands, 2018), Migr'art (Poland, 2019). Her main area of research is how sexuality is treated in our daily lives and how it is possible to use Theater and Performance as an essential tool in the development of sex education in Portugal. In order to explore this same theme, she completed a Masters in Interpretation and Artistic Direction at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo, in Porto. In this thematic context, she created the shows!REGA GENERAL and Nu Geral in which she stages and enters as an actress. In addition to being an actress and director, she is a teacher and poet at heart. She declaims recurrently in the Poemacto initiative; Winner of Poetry Slam Amadora 2021 and 2022, Slam Trafaria 2021 and finalist of the 7th Portugal Slam. Currently, she also works as an actress in the company Ninho de Víboras with the show “O Público” staged by Karas from the company Ninho de Víboras.

Ana Calinhos

Logistics and Communication
Curious and creative by nature, from an early age she felt a great connection with the occult, personal development and the arts. Drawing, painting and crafts are some of her great passions, which she began to develop more professionally since 2020 with her projects Cali Made This and Calidoscope (instagram), and in logistical partnership and communication with Marta Carvalho at the Art Temple artistic ceremonies.  Her internal journey began in mid-2017, having started 2nd Degree Reiki in 2021.
She is studying Digital Marketing and has a degree in Management at Nova SBE, with professional experience in programming, communication, event management and volunteer projects. 

Casa Terra Raíz will welcome us with its harmonious outdoor spaces, its rooms inspired by the 4 elements of the Earth and amenities that we will be able to enjoy to relax and integrate our experiences during this retreat. Delicious vegetarian meals await us and nooks that bring us to the Here, and the Now. It is a true space of pure rest and soul rejuvenation, perfect to be the cradle of the feminine energy transformation that we are going to welcome. A space where Nature and its elements are carefully integrated, in harmony and fullness with the rhythms and cycles of those who visit it, the space and its energy.

~ Why should you participate in this retreat ~

❋ Awaken your awareness to your needs, which you know, but don't know you know. The liberation of paradigms, patterns and beliefs that limit your growth and your happiness.
❋ Carry with you the habit of practices that will help you to solve concrete issues in your life, integrating the powerful concept that training never stops.
❋ Learning to assume responsibility for your decisions and, through this super important step, awaken the transformational capacities that are within you.
❋ Access to empowering tools. Thus, discover your personal power by using them consciously and regularly, producing real changes in all areas of your life vida.
❋ Initiation to integrated practices, even if you have never used them so far, and that will lead you to a level of self-discovery and revelation of a new Self.
❋ Dive in 2 and a half days of self-assertion, self-esteem, self-worth and self-transformation. At the end of this process you have access to a golden key: you can consciously say IN ME STOP.

1

Day 1

April 28 ~ Thursday 
7:00 pm Arrival at Terra Raíz
8:00 pm Dinner
9:30 pm Opening Circle :: What is Empowerment?

2

DAY 2

April 29 ~ Friday 
7:00 am Opening Circle :: The Goddess Affirmations that You Are
8:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am Nature Walk & Rooting Circle
10:30 am I Am :: Affirmations of Female Empowerment
11:30 am Tea Break
12:00 pm Sharing experiences and personal objectives for the retreat
1pm Lunch
3pm Return to Earth, to the Body :: Consciousness of the various Bodies
4pm Extraphysical Anatomy in Sexuality :: Relationship between the chakras and the sensitive and erogenous points  ::What is touchless touch?
5:30 pm Snack break
6:30 pm Closing circle for the day
8 pm Dinner

3

DAY 3

April 30 ~ Saturday 
7 am Opening circle abroad :: Affirmations of Empowerment
8 am Breakfast
9 am Opening to the recognition of my Being
     ::  Who am I?
     ::  What does pleasure mean? What does absence of pleasure mean?
     :: I am a free and happy Whole 
     ::  Getting to know the Art that I am and all my dimensions
1:30 pm Lunch
3:30 pm Departure to Praia do Salgado
5:00 pm Snack
6:00 pm Sharing experiences and sensations
18:30 Closing Circle for the day
20:30 Dinner

4

DAY 4

1 May ~ Sunday 
7 am Opening circle :: Lakshmi, the Goddess of Abundance vibrating in me
8 am Breakfast
9 am Dilute definitions :: What defines me and what oppresses me
11 am Tea Break
11:15 am Mala Red
11:30 am Poetry and creative writing as tool and connection
13:00 Lunch
15:00 Questions about courage and personal power 
17:00 Snack
18:00 Meditation for the integration of practices
18:30 Closing Circle for the day
20:30 Dinner

5

DAY 5

2 May ~ Monday 
8:00 Breakfast
9:30 Opening
     :: Sacred Circle of the Goddess I Am
     ::Sacred Circle for the celebration of my Woman Power
11:00 am Tea Break
11:30 am Me and my mirrors
1:00 pm Lunch
3:00 pm The Pleasure of Living
4:00 pm The Affirmations of the Goddess that You Are
     ~ Closing of activities
     ~ Sharing time
5:00 pm Snack
5:30 pm Hug and Farewell Circle

OUR PRICING PLAN

€235

EARLY BIRD

From the 11th to the 31st of July

€ 240

NORMAL

August 1st

€ 241 + 1€ PER DAY

LATE BIRD

From August 2nd to 16th

€ 241 + 1€ per day until August 16

Come take a real dip in your transformation!

TESTIMONIALS

Andrea

Magdalene

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