Retreats Collective (2024)

19/11/2024

Two years ago, we gathered 30 practitioners in the hills of Portugal. What began as a dream grew into a seed, took root and eventually blossomed into a collective, a community, a movement designed to transcend traditional wellness retreats.

Since then, we have been on a magical journey of transformation, evolution and connection. Together, we have created a space where we could hang and rest our hearts, explore our voices, devote ourselves to practice, and cultivate reverence for the Self, the Source —a place where boundaries, separation and differences dissolved.

This magic continues to evolve, nurtured through time, space and hearts; always connecting us back to that singular moment when we dared to dream.

We want to express our infinite love to the very first teacher who trusted us. She made us become a collective. She shaped our future.

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02/11/2024

Ethos / acts of heart, voices of consciousness, an ancient question, a soulful riddle, all the cycles of loving, all the layers of life, a reverie, a space of repose, a heartfelt kinship one requires.

Retreats Collective is a community that creates unique immersive retreats with a purpose. In every corner of this world, large or small, you will find your kith and kin, a community that follows rituals for self-reflection, connection and healing day in, day out.

Our core philosophy is expressed through three principles, coloring all of our retreats: Kula (community, tribe) — Sādhana (conscious daily spiritual practice, rituals) — Moksha (liberation from all forms of suffering).

Read more on the website retreatscollective.com/about

Come together,
Retreat yourself.

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27/10/2024

Spicy curries and flavourful Kottu Roti,
sweet burning incense and fruity tropical air
bubbling together in a heady mix.
deep ocean blues,
and lush tea greens,
silky bright pink Sari
and rainbow tuk tuk.
waves crashing on the shore,
the clacking of train carriages
a breeze through the dense jungle,
and a Buddhist prayer.

Sri Lanka by Art Director & Photographer
Founder & Visual Artist behind

Discover more on the journal, link in bio.

26/10/2024

Lifting the veil for a more real world, a collective dream.

Letting the body have healing as its purpose.

The invocations and benedictions of the Earth.

Memories and whispers of women exploring, experimenting, dancing, singing, praying, gathering, laughing together.

Being woman and nature.
She is what she is and she is whole.

She walks back, walks forward, circles, pauses, hides, seeks and retreats. /

The Natura Retreat, women & medicine is available for booking. Allow yourself to be taken care of and join us from Sunday the 26th of January to Saturday the 1st of February 2025 in Ahangama, Sri Lanka.

We have extended the Early Bird offer until November 10th, 2024. More info on our website or via the link in bio. Bookings & questions via [email protected]

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23/10/2024

And that’s what a miracle is: a parting of the mists, a shift in perception, a return to love.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the relin-quishment-or unlearning—of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.

_Marianne Williamson.

Retreat with us.
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photography from our Creative Residency last april in collaboration with .solar.club
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22/10/2024

Beauty is a feeling rather than a fact..
It’s a judgement one comes to based upon their current mood at any given time.
That is why beauty can be felt in one moment, yet not in the next regardless of changes in physical appearance.
The only way to capture the elusive ‘feeling’ of beauty is to beautify the mind.

_Shay Maclean, Ayurvedic Practitioner & Founder of for .co captured by

Online on the journal —the health & beauty topics we aim to cover during the Ayupōtheca Retreat this November, from Sunday the 24th to Saturday the 30th in Ahangama, Sri Lanka.

Also, we have one last room available for anyone who wishes to retreat with us.

15/10/2024

This is an invitation to discover the spirit of the island through talented eyes.

Photographs of Sri Lanka by Sima Y., Art Director & Photographer
Founder & Visual Artist behind

Now online on the journal, link in bio.

12/10/2024

The leaf lets go
Surrendering to the air
A blessed time for the fair fairies who take delight
In cushioning the dying leaf’s fragile flight
Can gather themselves
one by one caressing the floating see-through sheet
delivering precious goods
departed leaves to be left alone arriving after a fall
All the woodland celebrates
the arrival of one who has left
who now rests his weariness against the cool forest floor
Allowing time to dissolve all past boundaries of form
Can gather together
In the secret place where universes weave through his body of fertile soil
to be reborn
Like all who die and leave behind discover the new as more

Magic is a Shift in Perception
Poems 1972-2019
A memoir of sorts by Sharon Gannon

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03/10/2024

A return to the Heart,
the Earth,
the Hearth.

A Return to Love,
The Fertile Soil,
The Source in You.

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30/09/2024

We believe in the healing power of nature, as mirror, healer & teacher. As women in the world, we recognise the essential need to reintegrate and nourish our modern lives with ancient wisdom, rituals and roots of healing.

We will immerse ourselves in the mysteries of the feminine, the cycles of the earth, of the sun, the moon, the flow of rivers, the jungle, its trees, plants and flowers, life by the Koggala lake… Welcoming commune with our innate nature, vulnerability and joy.

We hope you will use your heart’s intuition to know when to break away, to act, to dig deeper and to retreat. And there we will be, awaiting for you to meet us in Sri Lanka from Sunday the 26th of January to Saturday the 1st of February, 2025.

The Natura Retreat, women & medicine is now available for booking. The Early Bird offer is only valid until October 15th, 2024. More info on our website or via the link in bio. Bookings & questions via [email protected]

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28/09/2024

update :
The Ayupōtheca Retreat • Nov 24 - 30.
Modern Ayurveda & Yoga, Sri Lanka
Last spots available.

The Natura Retreat • Jan 26 - Feb 1.
Women & Medicine, Sri Lanka
Early bird ending on 15/10

The Ādaraya Retreat • March 3 - 9.
Heart of the Jungle, Sri Lanka
Early bird ending on 20/10

We will be back in Europe in April for a new season welcoming fresh retreat concepts (online soon).
Visit our website to discover all retreats & reserve retreatscollective.com/retreats

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25/09/2024

The Ādaraya Retreat
Heart of the Jungle

3rd - 9th March 2025
Ahangama, Sri Lanka

When we wake up to the beauty of our nature it allows us to see that we are one with all of life. This oneness is experienced at the center, the heart. Unlike the brain with its two hemispheres, the heart is one singular organ. And the spiritually heart is the place of non duality or oneness.

When we recognise our oneness with all of life, naturally we allow ourselves the same love and reverence that we offer, the beauty of this existence. In loving ourselves, we learn to take care of ourselves, naturally relieving ourselves of a feeling of separation, shame and self-condemnation.

Healing and choosing the actions that allow for our spirit to flourish. And taking care of ourselves means that we learn to take care of nature, of one another. When there is no more separation, love is the natural outpouring in all directions, what we call inner and outer.

In the Heart of the Jungle retreat, we will have the chance to recognise this pulse of Life and Love (ādaraya meaning love in singhalese), which surrounds and is found at the depth of our hearts. Journey with & to explore liberation practices for the heart, in all forms (and formlessnesses).

The Early Bird offer is only valid until October 20th, 2024.
More info on our website or via the link in bio. Bookings & questions via [email protected]

22/09/2024

Camille {Camí} is a healing arts practitioner, vitalist herbalist, yoga & movement medicine teacher.  Cora Camino is her heart offering to the world, inspired by the many routes to healing and roots of wisdom, medicine, movement and spiritual practice we may find on our paths, to true embodied health and belonging.  Her love for nature and healing began from a very early age, learning about the plants, art and yoga from her parents. Innately drawn to natural medicine, she travelled for many years exploring roots of movement & healing practices from different lineages and cultures. She shares these medicinal arts with a humble and honest heart and with deep respect and gratitude for her teachers present and beyond — Andrea Lopez, Rosita Arvigo, Don Elijio Panti, Rachelle Garcia, Mars, Lance and Susan Schuler, Sajah Popam, Paola IxTzunun y Gustavo Ik, to name a few, who’s shoulders she stands upon.

Join the Natura Retreat from Sunday the 26th of January to Saturday the 1st of February 2025 in Ahangama, Sri Lanka to explore the mysteries of the feminine with her.

camino

21/09/2024

The Natura Retreat
Women & Medicine

26th January - 1st February 2025
Ahangama, Sri Lanka

We believe in the healing power of nature, as mirror, healer & teacher. As women in the world, we recognise the essential need to reintegrate and nourish our modern lives with ancient wisdom, rituals and roots of healing.

We will immerse ourselves in the mysteries of the feminine, the cycles of the earth, of the sun, the moon, the flow of rivers, the jungle, its trees, plants and flowers, life by the Koggala lake.. Welcoming commune with our innate nature, vulnerability and joy.

Camille, the founder of .camino and Eva, the creator of .collective come together to explore the natural wisdom of women; weaving Jivamukti yoga with Earth based healing arts, movement medicine & ceremonies. You are invited to return to the psychic (and somatic) mother tree, to water its roots and seeds, watch it wander and grow, welcoming forbidden, hidden, unknown fruits, unearthing the midpoint of transformation and blooming, rising strong and soft, together.

We hope you will use your heart’s intuition to know when to break away, to act, to dig deeper and to retreat. And there we will be, awaiting for you to meet us at in Sri Lanka.

The Early Bird offer is only valid until October 15th, 2024.
More info on our website or via the link in bio. Bookings & questions via [email protected]

20/09/2024

Rejuvenate with reverence.
―This is Ayupōtheca

The synergy of our practices and rituals enhance the demystification of nature’s algorithms ―Ayurveda and the exploration of our relationship to all of life ―Jivamukti Yoga, for liberation in all forms (and formlessnesses).

Journey with us, as we gently guide you back home to yourself; a safe space will be created for you to unfurl as you wish and the necessary tools will be provided to empower you along your journey of self realisation and healing.. With our non-judgemental, non-dogmatic approach to Ayurveda & Yoga, we aim to illuminate your path, whatever that may be for you.

Last places available.
Join us this November, from Sunday the 24th to Saturday the 30th in Ahangama, Sri Lanka.
Discover the retreat via the link in bio & DM with any questions.

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19/09/2024

Elsewhere between ―questing and resting, togetherness and solitude, being of the world and returning to the soul place.

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17/09/2024

Once upon a time, there were two birds perched on the branches of a tree. The bird atop the upper branch remained peaceful and serene. Meanwhile, the bird on the lower branch moved constantly from one perch to another, indulging in the tree’s fruits, experiencing moments of happiness and unhappiness.

Envious of the tranquility displayed by the upper bird, the lower bird attempted to emulate its stillness. However, the temptation to feast on the tree’s fruits quickly shattered any hope of tranquility.

Occasionally, sunlight would dance upon the feathers of the upper bird, casting a radiant glow. One such moment, the light’s reflection embraced the lower bird, inducing a wondrous transformation. The urge to indulge in the fruits, along with the oscillation between joy and sorrow, dissolved like a fleeting dream. In that moment, the lower bird felt akin to its peaceful counterpart perched above, embodying serenity and calmness, being one with the whole.

_Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad

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16/09/2024

Our goal as yoga practitioners is to free ourselves from selfishness and strengthen our connection to this Self. Yoga is the joining of the separate self with the universal Self; it is a process of synthesis.

_Sharon Gannon.

Retreats Collective