EMBODIED ESSENCE
BOUTIQUE WOMEN’S RETREAT EXPERIENCE
ONLINE OPENING
15 FEBRUARY 2026
IN PERSON RETREAT
13-18 MARCH 2026
THE ALGARVE, PORTUGAL
ONLINE INTEGRATION
12 APRIL 2026
Welcome
You’re about to meet someone you’ve been missing: you.
The version of you who trusts her feelings,
says what’s on her heart,
believes in herself,
and feels at home in her body.
Maybe she feels far away right now.
Maybe life has worn you down,
or made you forget who you are.
She’s still there.
And you know it’s time to live as her again,
not later, but now.
only 17 women in total · Early Bird until December 31
What do you need?
You don’t need a perfect life, more time, or fewer responsibilities.
It’s simply time for a reset that actually touches your body, your energy, your heart, not just your mind.
That’s what the Embodied Essence Retreat Experience gives you:
a deep, lasting shift in the way you relate to yourself and to life.
One that follows you home.
How you transform
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 lately you’ve been draining.
You are not the only one.
None of this means something is “wrong” with you.
It’s conditioning. And in Embodied Essence, we change this.
This becomes possible for you:
You feel clear, grounded, and powerful in your body.
You participate in life instead of watching from the sidelines.
You receive support from others without guilt.
You stay true to yourself, even when it’s uncomfortable.
You bloom.
Overview
Inside the Embodied Essence Retreat Experience, you will…
Activate your Life Force Energy (the source of your power)
Learn to embody your power in everyday life
Stop outsourcing your power
Express yourself freely in a space where nothing about you is “too much”
Be witnessed and supported by up to 17 women rising with you
Be held and cared for by three experienced facilitators
Come as you are.
Leave as who you really are.
OUR 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.
We chose this place so you can experience the Algarve’s nature while being fully cared for.
Embodied Essence
THE JOURNEY
Prepare · Embody · Integrate
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.
Our structure makes sure your transformation doesn’t stay a “retreat high,”
but becomes your new way of being.
1. REMEMBER & PREPARE
Online Opening Call — Sunday, February 15, 2026 · 18:00–20:00 CET
(Replay available)
You begin by getting clear:
Who do you want to be?
What needs to shift?
What do you desire from life and from yourself?
You’ll meet the group, open the process, 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 — so you arrive in Portugal already in motion.
2. RETREAT & EMBODY
In-Person Retreat — Lagos, Algarve, Portugal · March 13–18, 2026
This is where the deep transformation happens.
We 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.
Day 1 — Arrival
Opening Ceremony · Welcoming the woman you are meant to be
Day 2 — Trust & Grounding
Building trust in yourself, others, and Life
Day 3 — Ask & Receive
Connect to your true desires, learn how to ask, and open to receive
Day 4 — Emotional Alchemy
Meeting and expressing suppressed emotions to reclaim your power
Day 5 — Joy & Pleasure
Teach your nervous system to hold joy, pleasure, and aliveness
Closing Ceremony
Day 6 — Departure
Breakfast & Goodbyes
3. RETURN & INTEGRATE
Online Closing Call — Sunday, April 12, 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
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 we love to see the shift:
in your actual life, not only during the retreat.
only 17 women in total · Early Bird until December 31
only 17 spots in total - Early Bird until 31 December
Twin Rooms with Seaview and Balcony
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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.
Please note: The Zavial Suite comes with a double bed that can’t be separated into two single beds. -
EARLY BIRD until 31st December 2025
save 200 EuroEarly Bird: 1.550 Euro p.p.
Standard: 1.750 Euro p.p.
Single Occupancy:
Early bird: 2.950 Euro
Standard: 3.400 Euro
THE ROOMS
Twin Rooms 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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EARLY BIRD until 31st December 2025
save 200 EuroEarly Bird: 1.350 Euro p.p.
Standard: 1.550 Euro p.p.See below what is included.
Single Occupancy:
Early Bird: 2.600 Euro
Standard: 2.950 Euro
Triple 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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EARLY BIRD until 31st December 2025
save 200 EuroEarly Bird: 1.250 Euro p.p.
Standard: 1.450 Euro p.p.See below what is included.
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.
What is included in your package
Accommodation including full board and non-alcoholic beverages like water and tea.
Except for one evening/ dinner where you can explore the nearby city of Lagos or the village of Luz.
Using the sauna and cold-plunge facilities of Quinta Bonita.
What is NOT included
Flights, transports from the airport to the Quinta. You will be able to organize yourself in groups for transfers from Faro airport before the retreat starts.
Optional Services
Future Self photoshoot by the sea
Massages
You will be able to choose these services two weeks before Embodied Essence starts
Embodied Essence
WHY RETREAT
Because you can’t change your life from inside the life that drains you.
A retreat takes you out of your routine long enough to feel what’s really going on, reconnect with yourself, and reset your system from the inside out.
And you’re not doing it alone —
you’re surrounded by women who are choosing the same thing:
to pause, to breathe, to rise.
Your power comes back when you pause.
This is the pause.
YOUR FACILITATORS
We are seasoned facilitators from diverse backgrounds, each having walked our own path.
Together, we combine our unique gifts to create a deeply safe and transformative space for you to return to Your True Essence and Power.
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Alexandra Novatova
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. -
Mirjam Grupp
Languages: EN & DE
Mirjam supports women in living their natural power and sensuality in everyday life.
She is a writer, a 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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Petra Hrusecka
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.
PRACTICES
During our time together, you will be experiencing the following practices to support your transformation. You will find a short description and what they do for you. They are our favorite ones as they work both fast and deep.
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.
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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.We trained with KAP Academy
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What it is:
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. -
What it is:
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. -
What it is:
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. -
What it is:
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.
GET IN TOUCH WITH US
You will find general questions below in our FAQs.
Please use this form to get you individual questions answered.
You can also book a free call with Mirjam (EN, DE) here.
FAQs
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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 speak to us.
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Travel to/from the venue, insurance, private sessions, personal expenses, optional trips.
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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 of our attention.
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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.
SEE YOU SOON
We are looking forward to meet ALL OF YOU.
All sunset videos on this page taken at the beaches close to our venue.
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