THE REBIRTH
SEPTEMBER 6-12 2026COIMBRA, PORTUGALCLEANSING
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EMBODIMENT
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CONNECTION
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WHOLENESS
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INTEGRATION
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CLEANSING ✺ EMBODIMENT ✺ CONNECTION ✺ WHOLENESS ✺ INTEGRATION ✺
HEALING HAS NEVER BEEN, AND WILL NEVER BE ONE SIZE FITS ALL This is The Portal You’ve Been Waiting For….
Sometimes healing asks for more than another hour squeezed between meetings.
Sometimes it asks for space.
Space to breathe differently.
Space to move differently.
Space to notice the stories your body has been carrying long after your mind understood them.
Rebirth is an intimate seven-day experience designed for exactly that. Together, we'll combine somatic therapy, shamanic energy healing, ritual, movement, community, and deep rest to support healing that reaches beyond insight and into lasting integration.
Healing Happens Here.
Tucked into the mountains of Portugal, this retreat offers more than beautiful scenery. It offers distance from the demands of everyday life, making space for your nervous system to soften, your intuition to become clearer, and your healing to unfold at its own pace.
❋ INTENTIONAL STRUCTURE... WITH FREEDOM OF CHOICEWe blend guided workshops, open exploration, community activities, and space to integrate – so the experience feels both focused and fluid.
❋ COLLABORATIVE ENERGYCommunity connection is a core part of the process. You’ll learn just as much from the group as from the hosted healing itself.
❋ EXPERT FACILITATION + GUIDANCELed by three experienced guides who know how to hold space, encourage participation, ease the healing process, and keep things moving with purpose.
❋ A SAFE AND SUPPORTIVE SPACEWith accessible and inclusive options, including equity access pricing, REBIRTH prioritizes comfort, safety, and respect—so you can show up as you are and fully engage in the process.
Join us on a choose-your-own-healing adventure as we venture through the medicine wheel, guided with shamanic healing, somatic therapy, and yoga – learning to love your weeds and plant new seeds in your beautiful inner garden.
Seven Days Dedicated to You
SEPTEMBER 6-12-
Your journey begins the moment you arrive. Today is about slowing down, settling into your new surroundings, and giving your nervous system permission to exhale. Together, we'll begin building the trust, connection, and sense of community that will hold us throughout the week.
Day One experiences include:
Group pickup in Coimbra and transportation to our mountain ecolodge
Time to settle into your accommodations, enjoy a snack, and explore the property
A welcome circle to open our time together
A shared vegan dinner
An outdoor cinema night beneath the stars with your retreat community
Need help getting from Porto or Lisbon to Coimbra? Travel support is available as an optional add-on during checkout.
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The South invites us into the body—the place where healing begins. Today is about grounding into the present moment, awakening your senses, and planting the intentions that will guide your journey throughout the week.
Day Two experiences include:
Morning yoga with Flora
Create a custom flower essence with a local herbalist to support your healing journey
An initiation into shamanic energy healing with D'orjay
Choose your own path through evening integration offerings with Sam, D'orjay, and Flora
Time to swim, journal, rest, or simply soak in the beauty of your surroundings.
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The West invites us into the realm of emotion—the place where old stories, protective patterns, and unprocessed feelings often live. Today is about meeting yourself with compassion as you begin loosening the patterns that no longer serve you, creating space for new ways of being to emerge.
Day Three experiences include:
Morning yoga with Flora
Choose your own healing experience:
Astrological magick with Sam
1:1 energy healing with D'orjay
Small-group meditation with Flora
Solo integration time
A somatic ritual with Sam to gently release old patterns
Evening integration offerings with Sam, D'orjay, and Flora
Plenty of time to swim, rest, reflect, and enjoy nourishing vegan meals
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The North turns our attention toward intuition, ancestry, and the roots that continue to shape us. Together, we'll explore the wisdom we've inherited, the stories we carry, and the possibilities that emerge when we reconnect with where we come from.
Day Four experiences include:
Morning yoga with Flora
A creative pottery workshop
An ancestral energy journey with D'orjay
Evening integration offerings with Sam, D'orjay, and Flora
Time to swim, relax, reflect, and enjoy nourishing vegan meals
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The East represents possibility, purpose, and the future that's waiting to be created. Today is intentionally spacious, giving you the freedom to follow your intuition and choose the practices that feel most supportive for where you are in your journey.
Day Five experiences include:
Morning yoga with Flora
A full day of choose-your-own healing:
Private and small-group sessions with Sam
Private and small-group sessions with D'orjay
Small-group yoga with Flora
Solo integration time
Evening integration offerings with Sam, D'orjay, and Flora
Time to swim, rest, reflect, and enjoy nourishing vegan meals
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Today we weave together everything you've explored throughout the week. This isn't about becoming someone new—it's about honoring the healing you've already done, integrating what you've discovered, and carrying it home with you.
Today's experiences include:
Morning yoga with Flora
A group walk to the waterfall for a cleansing ritual and swim
A somatic integration ritual with Sam
A closing Despacho ceremony
One final day to rest, reflect, connect, and enjoy nourishing vegan meals together
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Our final morning is an opportunity to move slowly, savor a last meal together, and prepare for the journey home. While the retreat comes to a close, the practices, connections, and relationship you've built with yourself continue long after you leave Portugal.
Before you head home:
A shared farewell breakfast
Time to pack, reflect, and say your goodbyes
Group transportation back to Coimbra
Need help planning your return trip to Porto or Lisbon? Travel support is available as an optional add-on during checkout.
Meet Your Guides
YOUR EXPERIENCED PRACTITIONERS WHO BELIEVE HEALING HAPPENS THROUGH RELATIONSHIP, CURIOSITY, AND COMMUNITY
Sam X- Somatic Healer
Somatic therapist, Holy Fire Reiki practitioner, astrologer, death doula, and trauma alchemist – Sam weaves together the scientific and spiritual to walk with you through the darkness and light a new spark inside of you.
As a survivor of childhood trauma, divorce, family estrangement, and complex grief xe knows first hand how challenging it is to embody the change that you’ve spent years dreaming of… and how powerful it is when you can finally breathe that sigh of relief, and respond instead of react. (take it from someone who took the leap to live abroad after being widowed!)
After more than half a decade of working with private clients, learning from Indigenous and diasporic elders, and founding community initiatives such as the Grief Carnival, Sam is grateful to be welcoming D’orjay and Flora to host you in the sacred Portuguese mountains for seven full days of transformation.
XE/THEY
D'orjay is a gender non-conforming human, dedicated healer, and full mesa carrying shaman who creates through several mediums of art and facilitates energy medicine in amiskwaciwâskahikan (so-called Edmonton) on treaty 6 land.
From their own personal journey of overcoming childhood trauma through holistic practices, they found transformative healing in energy medicine, shamanic healing, and Buddhism, they developed a unique shamanic practice that integrates both scientific and spiritual modalities.
They have been on pilgrimage to Tibet (Tsar Tsar Monastery, Ashuk Village) and trained with masters within the Q’ero tradition of shamanism in South America. With over 15 years of experience, D’orjay has lead hundreds of healing circles, dozens of workshops, and thousands of individual sessions, fostering a safe space for self-discovery and artistic expression.
THEY/THEMD’orjay- Full Mesa Carrying Shaman
Flora Nwakobi is an audacious multi-hyphenate who shapeshifts between being a filmmaker, yoga teacher, death doula, painter, & abolitionist. Experiencing the absurd reality of existence through a Queer Nigerian-Indian lens, they seek to subvert the dominant gaze and prioritize Queer/Ancestral pathways towards personal and collective liberation.
Grounded in Indigenous knowledge, Flora views yoga and creation as tools for connection, consciousness-shifting, and action, committed to continuous learning of how to put more of the world into their work.
THEY/THEMFlora – Yoga Teacher
CARA CREEK ECO-LODGEThe Setting Matters…
We do things a little differently…
Here’s how it works!
check “Reserve Your Spot” for info about our
payment plans and equity access / sliding scale pricing
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Trust your body - that little spark of hope? that little glow of yes?
You deserve a chance to see it grow.
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Sign up, and select the right options for you.
private or shared rooms
6-month payment plans, or discounts if you pay in full
optional add-on packages for deeper integration, one-on-one time with your hosts, and more!
Plus, apply for one of our reduced-fee equity access seats, down to 50% off of the full retreat price!
(equity access will prioritize racialized community members, but all are welcome to apply)click here to register and pay in full by March 5 for a 20% discount
(automatically applied at checkout)click here to request a payment plan or to apply for sliding scale pricing
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After booking, we'll send you a Welcome Packet with everything you need to know – from detailed schedules, packing list recommendations, train info, and more.
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We'd recommend booking your transportation to and from Portugal as soon as possible, to ensure you can arrive without any complications or delays.
If you want a little help with booking trains from Porto or Lisbon to Coimbra, we’ve got you!
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Now all that's left to do is pack your bags and step into your new future!