Faial, Horta, Azores, Portugal
Up to 1 in group
5 Days Package (4 nights)
About this Retreat
Your Hoast and Coach will be Angélique Verdel.
English | Dutch | German | Portuguese spoken
The motto of Angélique is: „Everyone has all the knowledge within them, I just help people to remember it again.”
Angelique has been working with people for over 30 years as a therapist, teacher, and creative guide. With a background in psychotherapy (licensed as a Holistic Practitioner), bioenergetic therapy, and creative body-based work, she bridges both worlds: conventional therapeutic knowledge and intuitive, holistic, and spiritual approaches.
Alongside her therapeutic work, Angelique is a trained actress and singer. Through decades of working with breath, voice, emotion, movement, and the psyche, she has supported people in understanding and gently releasing inner blocks — not by force, but through awareness, expression, and embodied experience.
As a drama and singing teacher, Angelique observed how deeply creativity can reveal where energy is blocked and where true potential lies. This led her to deepen her therapeutic training, integrating approaches that address both the analytical and intuitive sides of the human being — mind and body, structure and intuition, left and right brain.
Her passion lies in accompanying people back to their unique gifts, talents, and life direction. Angelique believes that every person is fundamentally unique, and that the world becomes richer, more colorful, and more connected when individuals live and express their true nature.
This retreat is the place where all her paths come together. Held on a powerful volcanic island in the Atlantic Ocean — surrounded by nature, sea, and silence — Angelique has created a space where creativity, mindfulness, therapy, and nature merge into one holistic experience.
Here, she brings together everything she loves: creativity, movement, voice, stillness, nature, and deep human connection — supporting participants in reconnecting with themselves in an authentic and grounded way.
Angelique was born in the Netherlands, lived and worked in Germany and Portugal for many years, and now offers her retreats in English, German, and Dutch.
Details of this retreat
THE ART OF BEING - THE INWARD JOURNEY -
5-Day Solo-Retreat
In a world that moves fast, this retreat offers a pause.
A place to ground, breathe, and reconnect - with yourself and with the living world around you.
OUR APPROACH
Through forest bathing, mindful walking, meditation, and creative exploration, you are invited to slow down and come back to what feels real and essential. Creativity is not used to perform or produce, but as a language of inner listening.
This five-day solo retreat is a space for reflection, presence, and renewal.
A time to reconnect with your own rhythm, supported by nature’s steady intelligence.
PURPOSE & INTENTION
This retreat is designed for people who feel called to pause, reflect, and reconnect with themselves — especially at moments of transition, uncertainty, decision-making, or inner questioning.
Over time, personal wishes, talents, and creative impulses can become quieter or get lost along the way. This retreat offers a gentle space to rediscover them. Through creativity, mindfulness, and deep immersion in nature, participants are invited to reconnect with their inner compass — the part within that knows what feels true, meaningful, and alive.
Creative practices and time in nature serve as gateways to self-exploration. They help awaken curiosity, activate the inner child, and open creative “ventils” through which emotions, insights, and longings can be expressed safely and freely. Rather than providing answers, the retreat supports a process of listening — to what asks for attention, to what wants to be lived, and to what can bring more color, joy, and authenticity into everyday life.
The retreat follows a gentle structure, while remaining highly individual. Each participant arrives with their own intentions, experiences, talents, and need.
This retreat does not promise healing and is not a substitute for medical, psychological, or therapeutic treatment. It is a space for self-reflection, creative exploration, and reconnection — offering inspiration, clarity, and new perspectives that may support personal decisions and life direction.
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