November 8 - 13, 2025 at Chatô Cherie, Aljezur, Portugal
This retreat is designed to reconnect to your body, to the magic of life, to your birthright to belong.
This 5-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 somatic movement, meditation and 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 consists of elemental body activation sessions in the mornings, preparing for the day, and evening group sessions to integrate the day with relaxing and deepening practices, along with supporting rituals to open and ground your personal intention for this retreat.
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!
Focus of the retreat:Allow for energy to expand. Play with limitations and fears. Remember your dreams and your love. Let’s be with it all. Let’s learn how to listen to the body, and being awake and aware. Let’s follow your longing.
Guided by Jana's morning body activation sessions, your days already unfold with a topic, an intention, an inspiration to prepare for a day of connecting with life force. After a homemade breakfast on the terrace (if the sun welcomes us), or in the cozy kitchen (if the wind greets us), you will receive your personal Transformative Bodywork session and individual exercises to expand the work of your session. In the afternoon you have time off to enjoy walks in nature and on the breathtaking beaches. 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 into the earth. We journey deeper into our sense of belonging and we’ll have sound healings and/or voice work, yin yoga or yoga nidra, and other rituals to support us.
The retreat closes with a special ritual, normally a Sweatlodge or a Trance Dance, closing our experience with a powerful prayer, grounding our learnings, and preparing us for the journey ahead.
Saturday, November 8We slowly land and arrive by 16:0017:00 Grounding body relaxation practice & opening circle19:30 Dinner 20:30 Sauna (optional)
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, November 9/10/118:00-9:00 Elemental body activation training9:00 Breakfast10:00 - 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 Evening group session (relaxing practices, music & circles)
Wednesday, November 128:00 Somatic meditation9:00 Breakfast 10:30 Deepening our connection to the elements, somatic workshop13:30 LunchAll afternoon sweatlodge ceremony, closing ritual Late dinner
Thursday, November 13We start expanding into all directions…8:30 Closing body practice & ritual11:00 Celebration brunch Around 13:00 departures
"Look at the body to know how the wind of our mind blows."
This retreat will be held at the sweet retreat house Chatô Cherie, on top of hill, offering a view of the highlands of Aljezur, a hidden gem just 10 minutes from the town centre. The gorgeous living room with fire place and the cute kitchen in the main house is for everyone to hang out, family-style, and everyone will have their own beautiful, cozy single room to chill and rest. Rooms can also be booked as double rooms. There are several bathrooms with showers, some might be shared between 2 people. The group practices and 1:1 Bodywork sessions will take place in the spacious dome with a stunning view over the hills of Aljezur and next to the dome we have a sauna which we can use at any time we wish.
Investment: 1540EUR Includes single room accommodation, 3 meals a day, full program, and 3 individual Holistic Bodywork sessions & loving guidance by Jana. Also includes a personal pre-retreat call with Jana to speak about your intention for the program.
Please enquire for reduced rate in a double room (for couples, friends, or if you wish to share with another participant)
Limited spaces: 4-6 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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