ROOT & RISE - 5-Day Herbal & Mind-Body Healing: Restore your inner balance, Learn how to sustain it

Retreat Highlights

• Soothe & Empower your Inner Balance with Traditional Herbalism and Mind-Body Practices
• A retreat to restore your well-being by supporting your nervous system — and learn how to sustain it.
• • Nervous System Reset – realign with yourself
• Begin your journey with practices that gently release physical and emotional tension, restore your inner rhythm, and bring clarity to both body and mind. Through therapeutic shiatsu, immersion in nature, and moments of rest, you’ll reconnect with your nervous system’s natural ability to self-regulate and find calm.
• • Hands-on Herbal Wisdom
• This retreat offers a rare blend of learning and doing: you’ll dive into the essentials of traditional herbalism, craft your own natural remedies, and understand how to safely integrate herbs into daily life to support emotional balance and mental clarity.
• • Find Your Unique Plant Allies
• Every plant has a personality. Through guided tastings, intuitive exploration, and reflective group sessions, you'll be gently supported in discovering the specific plants that speak to you. Whether antidepressant, anxiolytic, nervine tonic, adaptogenic or sedative, these herbs become personal allies you can continue to work with long after the retreat.
• • Lifestyle & Mind-Body Tools for Long-Term Balance
• Go beyond symptom relief with a holistic approach that includes nutrition, natural supplements, hormonal and immune balance, and daily rituals. You’ll also learn simple yet powerful self-hypnosis tools to manage stress and calm your mind—anytime, anywhere.
• • Supportive Healing Community
• Throughout the retreat, you’ll be held in a caring, non-judgmental group space where you can share your story, receive insight, and design your own personalized wellness path. The power of collective healing turns individual growth into something deeper and lasting.
• • Immersion in Nature’s Medicine
• Set in an authentic eco-village in the lush Portuguese mountains—with quietness, wild gardens, waterfalls, forest trails, pools and a sauna—you’ll be surrounded by living nature at every step. This environment supports not only your relaxation, but also your deep reconnection with the rhythms of life.
• ❗ Important Note
• This retreat does not involve any psychoactive or hallucinogenic substances.
• We work exclusively with traditional medicinal herbs — including calming nervines, adaptogens, and tonic plants — to support the nervous system through natural and gentle means.
• All herbs used are non-psychoactive, safe, and rooted in herbalist and naturopathic traditions.

About this Retreat

Your Guides

Laetitia

Yannick

Laetitia Luzi

Laetitia is a certified herbalist, naturopath, and hypnotherapist with over a decade of experience supporting individuals on their path to health and emotional balance. With dual French and Canadian nationality. now based in Portugal, she brings together scientific knowledge and traditional healing wisdom to offer a deeply rooted, holistic approach to health. With a background in anthropology and years of humanitarian work around the world, she discovered through lived experience the power of herbal medicine and ancestral healing practices across different cultures. These encounters shaped her vision of care as something both personal and connected — to the land, to the body, and to our emotional ecosystems. She now offers integrative, interdisciplinary consultations, weaving together herbalism, naturopathy, and hypnotherapy into a cohesive path of support. Over the past decade, she has accompanied hundreds of people — individually and in group settings — through personalized and comprehensive approaches to well-being. toward greater vitality, balance, and self-awareness. In addition to her clinical work, Laetitia teaches herbal medicine both in a Canadian school and through her own online offerings. She is also the author of L'autre pharmacie (Ecosociété, 2020), a practical French-language guidebook published in Canada on using common medicinal herbs to support everyday health within the family. Deeply committed to the plants she works with, she grows her own herbs and has created a line of therapeutic products, handcrafted and sold locally in Portugal.

Yannick Idmond

Yannick is a certified Shiatsu therapist and Reiki master, offering a deeply intuitive and holistic approach to bodywork. Trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine, he welcomes clients from across Portugal in his clinic, Hortus Vitae, where he integrates both ancestral and contemporary healing modalities to restore balance and vitality. Drawing on a broad range of tools — including Shiatsu on futon or chair, Thai massage (Nuad Bo-Rarn), Reiki, and Access Bars — Yannick adapts each session to the individual’s needs. Whether to relieve chronic pain, release emotional tension, ease stress, or reconnect with the body’s natural energy flow, his work offers a space for profound realignment and inner calm. His touch is precise and attentive, allowing the nervous system to shift from a state of tension to one of deep restoration. Sessions with Yannick are both grounding and energizing, helping to support the body's self-healing capacities on physical, emotional, and energetic levels.

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