A retreat tailored to suit your needs, when you need it
Group retreats are great, but sometimes you benefit more from some one to one time. Time for you to reflect at your own pace, in peace, without distractions. Time for you to work through what you need to, with individual guidance and coaching when you need it. Time to rest, time to recharge, without feeling you need to follow a specific agenda.
Personal retreats with me, Belinda, at Relaxscape offer you a space to work things through at your own pace.
You might just need some quiet time to yourself, to rest and recharge in a peaceful location in nature.
Or you might be going through some personal challenges in your relationships, or facing career or life changes that you would like to talk through with a coach to support you while you work out how to adjust and what’s best for you.
Perhaps you’re running a business or leading a team and need some time out and guidance to work out a new strategy or to revitalise the team.
Maybe you’re experiencing some stumbling blocks and would like to focus on some specific areas of self-development working with a holistic therapist to help you understand how the mind and the body are connected and how you can make them work for or against you.
Perhaps you are on a transformation journey and would like to reconnect with nature as a way to develop further your spiritual self.
Or maybe you’re an artist, musician, writer, designer, photographer, who is seeking the peace and inspiration of nature to boost your creativity.
Personal retreats usually have the most benefit if they are a minimum of 3 days and a maximum of 7 days. There is a self-catering option or (usually vegetarian) meals can be provided.
Programmes are tailored to your individual needs, and can include some or all of these elements:
Coaching
Meditation
Yoga
Nature Therapy
Guided Mindful Forest Bathing (Shinrin Yoku)
Massage and Alternative Therapies (choose from Intuitive, Shiatsu, Relaxation, Reflexology, Access Bars)
Journaling and Writing Therapy
Inspired by Nature Creative Workshops
Self-reflection
Rest
Relaxscape does what it says on the tin: a place to relax and to escape in nature. Spending time in nature helps you to reconnect with yourself and to get your creative, problem-solving brain working, so that you can start to make sense of all the thoughts and doubts and worries swirling around your head and start to listen to and understand what your heart is helping you to find, your ikigai, your sense of purpose.
Previous clients who have come for individual coaching retreats have all left feeling inspired and with a renewed focus and purpose and I love following their progress as they face the world with a stronger sense of who they are, what they need, and what they can offer.
Here's what one guest wrote after her personal retreat with me (thank you Angela, it always gives me such pleasure to know how time here has helped people to make the changes they would like!):
Belinda, her space and all the plants and animals there contributed to providing a beautiful, quiet, nurturing, and challenging space in which to nourish my body and dig deeper into what it is I am searching for in life. On the physical level the place is lovely, the rooms are very comfortable and homey, the bathtub is divine, the full-size heating pad on the bed and the construction of the rooms and kitchen made the otherwise “cuff” cool season in Portugal very cozy and warm. Indeed, I loved being there at that time of year as it was warm but not too hot during the day and there were less people.
The kitchen and living area are also very homey with the well-equipped cooking facilities and dining table to the fireplace and big couch it’s a place where you feel you are at home and can hang out with a cup of tea and quietly read or have a deep conversation with its owner, all with a snuggle and purr from a cat or two. I had booked a week stay and after one day there I extended my stay to 10 days. The property and the countryside location away from city life provided many beautiful spaces and views of sun and moon, olive groves, fruit trees, forests and an abundance of plants and flowers. The overall energy here instills this deep sense of peace while still being very vibrant and alive. And the proximity to the stunning and very mystical Knight’s Templar town of Tomar provided the opportunity to take in some history, dining, and “city” life adventures.
Belinda was helpful from the very start of connecting with her through email organizing a Portuguese cooking class, a wonderful tour to the nearby town of Fatima, massages and other body treatments, personally guiding me on a forest therapy walk and answering any questions I had helping me navigate the area and how to organize food. The in-house kitchen there was really a plus to saving some money as I was able to cook many meals there. And her skills as a psychologist and Change Coach would pop in at the most appropriate times asking you questions on which to reflect, providing insight on places that were sometimes in my blind spot, and sometimes challenging me to look at places in my life I wasn’t being true, authentic or responsible to my own happiness in life. I had some resistance to writing this because I knew I would have to dig deep to be truthful to what my experience was there and what I learned and took away from it.
What I learned or was brought back to remembering was the importance of taking responsibility for ourselves and our lives, that happiness is a choice, that our mood, our day, our life and how it is going to look, or feel is a choice. Shit might happen that is unpleasant but what I choose to make of it and whether I choose to let it ruin my mood or day is entirely on me. Belinda emulates this in her life, she is a single woman running a multi-faceted business and taking care of a fair size piece of land, doing the physical work right down to all the nitty gritty small details of this by herself. The ease in which she switched gears from picking olives or doing something very physical on the land to teaching a yoga class (maybe in person maybe online) to caring and feeding her cats, preparing herbs for customers, or having an engaging conversation with her guest (me), was part of the teaching/learning I received in my time there. She didn’t need to take all this time to prepare switching from one type of job to another but trusted in herself to deliver what was uniquely her and that that is the best we can do. She did this all with a smile and literally humming some tune, never complaining about any job even if it may not be the favorite part of her life in this place, but “just getting on with it”, truly each thing as important and fulfilling as the last.
I believe she recognized that she chose that space to care for, it was her responsibility, and she was choosing to do it all with a smile and a tune. It was quite inspiring to see and watch. It was living example to me that we have the potential to do this or anything we desire if we put our mind and heart (and some hard work) to it! Since my time there and returning home, I continually come back to remembering this practice of taking responsibility for my life and how I feel, that happiness is a choice. Slowly and steadily I am seeing a shift in catching myself more often in negative thoughts where I am not choosing happiness or love or peace and I am choosing something different. Sometimes that means simply changing the thought other times it means physically doing something like yoga or time in nature or just moving the body to change the state I am in that is contributing to those thoughts. It’s a practice and practice takes dedication and consistency, a responsibility to your own life experience, and this was the biggest take home learning from Relaxscape that has translated into my daily life. Not to mention I just really enjoyed my time there, it was extremely special in a way I can’t even put into words. The END!!
Get in touch if you'd like to plan your own individual retreat at Relaxscape with me.
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