INTERBEING
The Body and The Weave
24 - 26 Oct 2025
This edition is a multi-sensory and somatic retreat taking place at our family home Monte da Orada, a retreat center nestled in the hills of Alentejo, Portugal.
We gather in community to tune into the quiet intelligence of the body and the rich threads of interconnection. Through stillness, movement, breath, writing, chanting, and tactile experiences like contemplative weaving, we will open space for sensing, feeling, and remembering ourselves in relation to everything that surrounds and holds us.
What is Interbeing — Interser?
Reflection on interbeing (pratītyasamutpāda) helps dissolve the illusion of separateness. Interbeing, a word coined by Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, is the truth that “nothing stands alone - everything interweaves with everything else. Everything inter-is'“.
Interbeing can be seen when we slow down enough to observe any part of our human experience. The body demonstrates interbeing with every breath. Relationships with others help us experience interbeing. We are in the constant exchange between our bodies and the natural world.
Meditation and yoga are all about feeling interbeing. Through them, we learn to inter-be gracefully with the self and to realise that there is no place where our consciousness ends and the world begins. In this way, the illusion of separateness gently dissolves, giving way to the truth of intimacy: we are not only connected to one another, but we are interdependent with all of life.
Over three days, we will slow down to restore a more fluid way of being. This retreat is open to all levels of experience and is designed for those who long to inhabit their presence with more authenticity, depth, and joy.
You’ll be invited into somatic explorations, yoga, qigong, community rituals, chanting with harmonium, and moments of shared reflection. A space to tend to your body, recalibrate your inner rhythm, and reweave your relationship to what is essential.
Andre, you were a powerful yet gentle guidance and I truly appreciate your hard work. You gave everything this weekend so that we could receive. You have my admiration for that. I am grateful for spending my birthday with you and the borboletas coloridas you surrounded yourself with.
— Daphne Fruhmann
The Retreat Experience Includes
Our days will unfold through practices of movement, stillness, breath, voice, and communal rituals designed to support reflection, expression and deep rest:
Body & Breath
Somatic explorations as a way to rediscover your own rhythm, breath, and authentic flow state.
Breath awareness & Pranayama to expand your capacity and deepen the familiarity with your inner landscape.
Morning Ayurvedic routines to anchor the body and support gentle rituals of care.
Yoga & Meditation
Vinyasa Flow Yoga (all levels), guided with presence and attention to detail.
Inversions and Restorative Yoga as doorways into vitality and surrender.
Silent and guided meditations to support integration and spaciousness.
GUEST FACILITATORS
Nuno Dâmaso — Qigong & Energetic Awareness
QiGong teacher and TCM practitioner with years of experience in East-Asian movement systems.
Nuno will guide gentle and powerful morning sessions focused on cultivating internal energy, rooted presence, and fluidity of movement through Qigong. These practices awaken vital energy and harmonize the nervous system, preparing the body-mind for deeper connection.
Janis Dellarte — Textile Rituals & Collective Weaving
Textile artist and researcher of traditional TEXTILE techniques on the verge of extinction. JANIS brings to this retreat a large wooden circular loom, a physical and symbolic tool for weaving in community. Her contemplative workshop is a tactile, poetic journey through textures, colors and ancestral gestures. By weaving together, we honour the hands of those who came before, and step into the slow, analog, communal rhythm she calls “textile time”. A space for active meditation, story, and remembrance.
Integration & Community
Sacred sound and chanting with my harmonium, to share the vibrational language of mantra and kirtan, using the voice as tools for heart-centred presence and collective attunement
Shared rituals of silence, rest and reflection
Spacious afternoons for treatments, nature, connection and deep rest
LOCATION
Monte da Orada, Alentejo, Portugal
Nestled in a quiet valley close to beautiful surf beaches, Monte da Orada is a magical ecological haven, dedicated to organic farming and conscious nutrition. It offers the perfect environment for yoga and contemplation in nature, with panoramic views of the stunning Portuguese countryside
ACCOMODATION & FACILITIES
Monte da Orada offers a variety of comfortable accommodations, from private en-suite rooms to unique spaces closer to nature, such as treehouses, teepees, or bungalows. The retreat center also features a bio-pool, yoga and meditation temples, a rooftop terrace, and a sacred amphitheater.
SAMPLE DAILY SCHEDULE
8:00am - Qigong practice, breath-awareness & meditation
9:00am - Breakfast
12:00am - Deep, slow, full-sensory Vinyasa flow (all levels)
1.30pm - Lunch
Free time - Relax, take a walk, receive treatments, enjoy the sauna, or simply rest
5:30pm - Experiential workshops
7:30pm - Dinner
8:30pm - Sunset/Chanting mantras
Andreina, if you feel like going through it all again and organising another retreat :) please do let me know. (And do bring your amazing mother!) - you did a brilliant job. Very best wishes to you all, and happy yoga-ing. —Beverley x
INVESTMENT
€512 - €647
This includes:
Tuition
Accommodation
Three organic vegetarian meals daily
Please note: The price does not include flights, airport transfers, treatments, kayaking, cycling, or transport to the beach.
PAYMENT INFORMATION
To book your space a €200 deposit is required - Please note, deposits are non-refundable unless you find someone to replace you on the retreat to take your spot.
Full payment is required by Sept 1st, 2025. For bookings after this date, full payment is required at the time of reservation.
GETTING THERE AND TIMING
Monte da Orada is located 1.5 hours from Faro Airport and 2.5 hours from Lisbon. Consider sharing taxis or rental cars with fellow participants to make travel more convenient and eco-friendlier.
CHECK IN: 3pm Friday 24th Oct
CHECK OUT: 1.30pm Sunday 26th Oct
I just wanted to say thank you for YOUR lovely words – that is so kind of you to say that. I found it invaluable, and both you and Jana have given me much more confidence to actually start thinking of myself as a potential teacher rather than just a student.
— Love Helen xx
