October 12 - 17, 2026 at Serra Vida, Serra de São Mamede, Portugal
Dance in the mystery of life - in your own body. Remember the safety in your bones, access memory in your waters, experience clarity in your mind and activate energy to walk your life in beauty.
This 6-day program offers a holistic approach to transforming physical symptoms, limiting thoughts, belief systems, or overwhelming emotions, by addressing your body, emotions, and mind. The combination of receiving daily 1:1 Transformative Bodywork sessions over the course of several days with accompanying group sessions of integration practices makes this specific format so powerful.
You work on your personal story of transformation, and you are also held and supported by the circle of humans who are entering this work all together. Our group work during this retreat consists of Fluent Body group sessions in the mornings, releasing tension and warming the energy for the day, (expect your heart dancing!) and sessions of evening yoga with guided relaxations to integrate the day and your 1:1 session. Expect relaxing and deepening practices of restorative yoga, yin yoga and mythic, trance-state inducing yoga nidra along with supporting embodied rituals to open and ground your process of the day.
This format can be a great introduction to the universe of somatic healing and a fresh start to address topics of your life with a somatic approach. If you already have experience with somatic therapy, this can be a great dive into a deeper exploration. Open to all who are willing to reconnect, to be vulnerable, to learn and to take responsibility for this life.
Guided by the sounds of nature, we will begin the mornings in silence. We gather in the spacious dome on top of the hill overlooking the forest for a full body morning practice of Fluent Body guided by Masha. Like this, your day may unfold with a topic, an intention, an inspiration for our days of connecting with life force.
After a homemade breakfast under the trees or in the cozy riverjouse kitchen, you will receive your 1:1 Transformative Bodywork session personally by one of the retreat facilitators in one of the treatment rooms and you will receive personal guidance to expand the work of your session in the coming hours. In the afternoon you have time off to enjoy walks around the river or in the forest. If you are in the afternoon sessions group, you have time for yourself in nature in the morning and will be receiving your individual Bodywork session in the afternoon.
For lunch and dinner, we meet for healthy, vegetarian meals. As daylight fades, evenings bring us together for rich somatic integration and sharing circles to go deeper into connection and relaxation and restoration. We journey deeper into our sense of being guided by mythic yoga nidra, sounds and music.
The retreat closes with a special ritual: a Trance Dance ceremony to close our experience in prayer, grounding our learnings, and preparing us for the journey ahead.
We are part of a huge and intelligent web of life, and through this work, we remember our part and place in it. Holistic Bodywork is a way to explore elemental connection through breath, touch and presence.
Create wisdom that is needed for this world in transition.
1:1 Transformative Bodywork is the main pillar of this retreat, we could call it the heart-piece. During the 1:1 sessions with one of retreat facilitators, you will learn about your life and thought patterns, the design of your trauma, and meet your fears and dreams. You may allow yourself to fall, to feel, to be with it all and shape a new reality.
Fluent Body is a specific method guided by Masha that combines movement and somatic exploration as effortless and fluid movement. The method is a practice of creative movement, rhythm, and breathing to connect with the body and mind, break through limitations, and foster self-acceptance and emotional exploration.
Yoga informed by somatic schools is a methodology that Jana uses to enter the wisdom of the body through the wisdom of traditional yoga and modern, research-based somatic schools. In these ways, you will manage to release tension, to build stamina, and to land in the here and now.
Yoga Nidra is an ancient technology used by many animist traditions to restore body and mind thus promoting longevity. Taking shape as a guided relaxation practice, this method brings systematic awareness to all parts of the body, inducing a state of deep rejuvenation that shifts brain wave activity from active beta waves to slower, more meditative alpha and theta waves. A state of trance and deep clarity can occur.
Trance Dance Ceremony is a dynamic ritual to reconnect with the power and prayers of our ancestors - and with our own prayer within the greater whole. it is a way to pray for the path ahead. When the body moves without being controlled, we reach deep layers of ourselves – the soul begins to dance and moves beyond its usual boundaries. This passionate physical process can be an experience of liberation and invite the integration of dissociated parts of ourselves as well as the emergence of visions. The dance is accompanied by drumming, smudging, and energy work.
People who want to come for an intensive deep dive, connect to nature, and the elements within.
Women and men who feel the world shifting and want practices that help them stay centered and grounded.
Monday, October 12by 15:00 Arrivals & Check-in16:30 Welcome & Practicals17:30 Homemade dinner 18:30 Grounding body relaxation practice & opening circle20:30 Sauna or bedtime
Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday October 13/14/158:00-9:30 Fluent Body, Meditation & Talks9:30 Breakfast10:30 - 13:30 1:1 Bodywork group 1 / nature & relax time group 213:30 Lunch15:00 - 18:30 1:1 Bodywork group 2 / nature & relax time group 118:30 Dinner19:30 Yoga informed by somatic schools, Yoga Nidra & Evening Inspiration Talks
Friday, October 168:30 Somatic meditation9:30 Breakfast 10:30 Trance Dance Ceremony13:00 Lunch16:00 Integrative somatic group session18:00 Homemade dinner19:30 Sauna
Saturday, October 178:30 Closing body practice & ritual11:00 Celebration brunch Around 13:00 departures
Masha, born in Ukraine, spent 20+ years in New York CIty, and currently based in Berlin – is a somatic practitioner, multidisciplinary educator, meditation, and Fluentbody™️ facilitator. Following a holistic approach, with a passion for embodied movement, she explores how to bridge understanding of oneself, people, and our environment more deeply through the body, nurturing our relationship to our innate nature. Her joy is to guide people into pathways of awareness of emotions and patterns, to create more freedom and connection with the natural rhythm of life. We move to remember our innermost joy. We return to the body to rediscover ways of improvisation – where life can easily flow through us once again.
Her work is rooted in Fluentbody, Transformative Bodywork (Somatic Therapy), Vocal Training, Osho Active Meditations & BodyMind Meditative Therapy, and Trauma-resourcing methods. Currently Masha teaches groups, one-to-one, workshops/retreats in Berlin as well as abroad.
Masha's website www.ma-riya.com/
"Look at the body to know how the wind of our mind blows."
This retreat will be held at the stunning retreat center Serra Vida in the nature reserve Serra de São Mamede.
Investment: 1990EUR Includes spacious accommodation in river houses, 3 meals a day, full program, and 3 individual Holistic Bodywork sessions & loving guidance by Jana and Masha. Also includes a personal pre-retreat call with one of the therapists to speak about your intention for the program - and retreat after care.
Limited spaces: 8-12 participants
"I feel so truly grateful and inspired for our time together. It’s was definitely a threshold for my new life. I could integrate so much of the pearls of wisdom we discovered in the retreat. Guided by Jana’s practices with her gorgeous and loving voice, helped me to establish again my lost daily practice and to connect back to the body as one of my medicines. And the individual sessions are pure magic. It was the best present for my self care and ritual connection and it was key in my attitude towards a massively challenging year. I’ll definitely come back."
“Jana is a body magician and she brings her deep knowledge about somatics and the body into this retreat. Her 1:1 sessions are a revelation about the patterns that we unconsciously hold and it is the greatest pleasure to recognize and release these limiting concepts together with Jana. And her yoga classes! I felt such a deep rest after these sessions and profound connection to myself and body during each class of the retreat. I wholeheartedly recommend to go on this journey!”
“The great thing about Jana's Transformative Bodywork Sessions is that I never know what will happen. She creates a wonderfully confidential atmosphere in which I can completely let myself go and we simply follow what my body wants to tell us. Afterwards I feel wonderfully relaxed and light and happy. I feel my essence again. What a blessing to remember this in the times we live in to be able to walk through life in integrity and peace. Thank you for this space to simply exist and feel, dear Jana!”
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