Só Alegria - A Return to Joy
Só Alegria - A Return to Joy
Cara Creek Eco Lodge, Coimbra, Portugal
Up to 20 in group
Jun 4 - 8, 2026
A preparation course valued at $109 is included with the retreat at no extra cost
Retreat Highlights
- Two Plant medicine ceremonies held with care and reverence
- One Temazcal (Sacred Sweat Lodge ceremony)
- Live medicine music and voice
- Rapé circles
- Herbal baths
- Movement, gentle dance, and embodied practices
- Time in nature and by the river
- Optional sauna following ceremonies
- Guided integration and sharing circles
- Silence, rest, and unstructured time
About this Retreat
Deise Lucena is a body therapist and ceremonial facilitator devoted to deep, embodied care. Her work weaves Ayurvedic Yoga Massage, somatic listening, and ceremonial practice as pathways for reconnection, integration, and remembrance.
With steadiness, sensitivity, and respect for individual rhythms, Deise creates safe spaces where the body can release long-held tensions and emotional imprints. Her facilitation is grounded, present, and guided by deep listening rather than force or technique.
Deise walks in ethical relationship with Indigenous peoples of Brazil, honouring living traditions with humility, respect, and care.
Luiza Lucena is a musician, singer, and facilitator of sound journeys that support deep states of presence and connection. Raised within ceremonial spaces, her relationship with medicine music grew naturally through lived experience and close connection with Indigenous traditions.
Her voice carries gentleness, strength, and ancestral memory. In ceremony, music is offered as service — supporting silence, emotional release, and integration rather than performance.
Luiza intuitively adapts her music to the collective field, supporting subtle processes of healing and remembrance with care and sensitivity.
Details of this retreat
A five-day ceremonial retreat held in close relationship with nature, where joy is something to gently remember.
Through medicine ceremonies, music and dance, somatic practices, and spacious integration time, we create the conditions for reconnection with the land and it's medicines, our bodies, and with our truest essence. The rhythm of the retreat allows each participant to move at their own pace and honour their own process. It is a space where nothing needs to be fixed or forced. Joy emerges quietly alongside movement, stillness, tenderness, release, and deep listening.
The retreat is carefully woven to support both depth and integration. Ceremonial experiences are balanced with grounding practices and time for rest, reflection, and regulation.
Mother and daughter, Deise and Luiza walk together in service of embodied, authentic healing. Their shared work integrates body, sound, and ceremony to create spaces that are safe, grounded, and deeply human.
Through the union of conscious touch, live medicine music, and carefully held ritual, they support processes of reconnection where the body becomes a place of wisdom, music becomes medicine, and joy is remembered rather than sought.
Through medicine ceremonies, music and dance, somatic practices, and spacious integration time, we create the conditions for reconnection with the land and it's medicines, our bodies, and with our truest essence. The rhythm of the retreat allows each participant to move at their own pace and honour their own process. It is a space where nothing needs to be fixed or forced. Joy emerges quietly alongside movement, stillness, tenderness, release, and deep listening.
The retreat is carefully woven to support both depth and integration. Ceremonial experiences are balanced with grounding practices and time for rest, reflection, and regulation.
Mother and daughter, Deise and Luiza walk together in service of embodied, authentic healing. Their shared work integrates body, sound, and ceremony to create spaces that are safe, grounded, and deeply human.
Through the union of conscious touch, live medicine music, and carefully held ritual, they support processes of reconnection where the body becomes a place of wisdom, music becomes medicine, and joy is remembered rather than sought.
Schedule
Elements of the retreat include:
-Two Plant medicine ceremonies held with care and reverence
-One Temazcal (Sacred Sweat Lodge ceremony)
-Live medicine music and voice
-Rapé circles
-Herbal baths
-Movement, gentle dance, and embodied practices
-Time in nature and by the river
-Optional sauna following ceremonies
-Guided integration and sharing circles
-Silence, rest, and unstructured time
-Two Plant medicine ceremonies held with care and reverence
-One Temazcal (Sacred Sweat Lodge ceremony)
-Live medicine music and voice
-Rapé circles
-Herbal baths
-Movement, gentle dance, and embodied practices
-Time in nature and by the river
-Optional sauna following ceremonies
-Guided integration and sharing circles
-Silence, rest, and unstructured time
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change
Getting Here
Cara Creek Eco Lodge, Cara Creek Eco Lodge, Coimbra, Portugal
Directions
3 hours by car from Lisbon
2 hours by car from Porto
1 hour by car from Coimbra
www.cp.pt train to Carregal do Sal, we provide free pick up from here or assist with arranging a shuttle service from any of the main cities.
2 hours by car from Porto
1 hour by car from Coimbra
www.cp.pt train to Carregal do Sal, we provide free pick up from here or assist with arranging a shuttle service from any of the main cities.
Accommodation
Eco-Pods - comfortable beds in large canvas tents Cabin Room - Rustic wooden room annex Granite Room - Rustic granite room
Pricing
Venue & Amenities
A/C in Rooms
Free Wifi
Spa
Sauna
Pool
Towels
Free Parking
Kitchen
Tour Assistance
Hot Tub
Coffee/Tea
Cafe
Restaurant
Fitness Center
Yoga Studio
Housekeeping
Bicycles For Rent
We're nestled in a magical valley where 2 rivers meet with indoor and outdoor communal spaces & plenty of space in nature for quiet meditative moments.
Enjoy time in nature Stand Up Paddle Boarding, swimming under a canopy of trees of the creek, taking dip in our Natural Swimming Pool, passing an evening in the eco hot tub and hobbit styled sauna, lathering up in local clay on the beach before rinsing off in the river and sipping tea with fellow retreaters by the fire pit in the evening.
Enjoy time in nature Stand Up Paddle Boarding, swimming under a canopy of trees of the creek, taking dip in our Natural Swimming Pool, passing an evening in the eco hot tub and hobbit styled sauna, lathering up in local clay on the beach before rinsing off in the river and sipping tea with fellow retreaters by the fire pit in the evening.
Meals
Menu Types
Vegan
Vegetarian
Pescetarian
Ayurvedic
Includes Meat
Organic
Gluten Free
Dairy Free
Nut Free
Plant based, local (our own garden!), organic
Always Vegetarian, Often Vegan. Animal Produce sourced locally.
What's Included
- Four nights in your own private accommodation
- All meals from dinner on day 1 through brunch on day 5
- Two ceremonial nights held with care and reverence
- Live medicine music throughout ceremonies and integration spaces
- Guided integration and sharing circles
- Rapé circles
- Herbal baths
- Optional sauna following ceremonies
- Time and space in nature, including river access
- A carefully held, trauma-aware container throughout the retreat
What's Not Included
- Airfare
- Shuttle or Private collections from train, bus or airport can be arranged.
- Holistic treatments - we work with a fantastic selection of local wellness practitioners.
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