New facilitator price
€1499 → €333
Includes accommodation, meals, the shuttle from Viseu, and the full Aya experience.
17 May - 23 May 2026 • Central Portugal • 11 places
Facilitator Retreat
For facilitators, guides, teachers, healers, and other space holders.
A week to grow, share, reconnect, and come home to yourself.
Your own bell tent
Meals included
€1499 → €333
Optional conscious donation
At a glance
- ✨For: facilitators, guides, teachers, healers, musicians, space holders
- 🌿Place: Aya, a magical valley in nature near Viseu, Portugal
- 💶Price: €1499 → €333 for the full week, offered from the heart
- 🫶Exchange: share your presence, your gift, and receive from others too
Is this for you?
You know what this kind of work holds. You know what it asks of people. Now come and be held by it yourself.
If you are a retreat facilitator, a ceremony guide, a yoga teacher, a somatic therapist, a healer, a musician, a movement teacher, or any other kind of human who holds space for deep transformation, this week was made with you in mind.
You might feel at home here if
- You hold space for others in real, embodied ways
- You are open to receive
- You value depth, consent, warmth, and authenticity
- You want to meet fellow professionals in a beautiful natural setting
This week is built around
- Community without performance
- Shared offerings instead of proving yourself
- Rest, play, river time, movement, and honest presence
What you get
A full 7-day week at Aya from 17 May to 23 May 2026, in a magical valley in central Portugal.
Optional conscious donation
At the end of the week there is an invitation to give something back, only if you feel you received more than expected. This can be financial or another form of exchange.
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If you wish to be promoted, we can feature you multiple times on our social media channels before, during, or after the retreat.
We heard you
After sharing this facilitator retreat, we received honest feedback that the original price did not feel fully in balance, especially because this week also invites you to bring your own experience, presence, and expertise.
Why we changed the price
Although we truly believe the original price of €1499 was already below the value of what is offered, we would much rather welcome a full circle of facilitators, rich in experience, connection, and exchange, than only a small handful of people.
For that reason, this retreat is now offered at an even more reduced price of €333.
How we will share
This week is a living exchange. You are invited to share from your own gifts, receive from other facilitators, and let the program grow organically with the people who are present.
You will receive much more than we ask you to give. Your contribution is welcome, but the foundation of the week is still that you are held, nourished, inspired, and given space to receive too.
- Room to offer a group session, workshop, ritual, practice, or creative contribution
- Room to offer and receive 1-on-1 sessions, paid or as an exchange
- Room to share a favourite meal or cooking inspiration with the group
Everything happens on a consent basis. Nothing is forced, and no one is asked to do anything they do not feel comfortable with.
What to expect
This is the current facilitator selection and the kind of field we expect to create together. The exact program will stay alive and will follow the energy, consent, and needs of the group.
Sanshine’s magic toolbox
Energy, connection, ceremony, dance, sound, and guided inner work.
- Tantric sessions such as eye gazing, wheel of consent, sacred touch, conscious connection, and other consent-based practices
- Reiki shower of love and energetic support
- Ecstatic dance, chakra dance, somatic dance, closed-eye dance, and tantric dance
- 9D breathwork, rebirth ceremony, sound bath, and chakra activation
- Family constellations or dance constellations
- Plant medicine guidance, held with care and intention where appropriate
Katharina’s toolbox
Elemental healing, breath, embodiment, inner connection, and gentle release.
- Releasing hikes in nature, coming home to the body and breathing in freedom
- Guided breathwork sessions, optionally with cacao ceremony
- Family constellations and ancestor or timeline healing
- Energy work for specific topics, clearing, balancing, and realigning
- Guided meditations for relaxation, insight, and inner connection
- EFT, butterfly hugs, cards, and embodiment sessions
Alai’s contributions
Grounding, simple practice, food wisdom, and practical support.
- Introductory meditation lecture from Rudolf Steiner: developing the six petals around Anahata, the heart chakra
- Morning Upa Yoga introduction
- Cooking knowledge exchange, available as an anytime exchange rather than a fixed session
Anonymous mystery guest
A private, social-media-free facilitator with rich life experience.
- Yoga and embodied movement
- Dance and natural expression
- Natural bouldering and playful contact with the land
- Simple wisdom from a life lived close to experience, rather than performance
Eva’s inner child magic
A reminder of play, wonder, bravery, mirroring, and belonging.
- Inviting the inner child through play, nature, and imagination
- Remembering softness, courage, and the freedom to take up space
- A sweet reminder that healing does not always have to be heavy
Your own medicine
You are invited to bring what is alive in you too. This can be a session, a ritual, a creative offering, a movement practice, a meal, a song, a listening space, or something we have not imagined yet.
This is not about performing. It is about honest sharing from the heart.
The space
A few glimpses of the land that will hold this week.
A week to grow, share, experience and become whole
For facilitators, guides, teachers, healers, and other space holders.
This week is for the ones who usually hold others. A place to receive inspiration, rest, connection, and community in return.
17 May - 23 May
€1499 €333 + optional donation
Includes accommodation, meals, shuttle from Viseu, and the full Aya experience.
Location and transport
Aya is located in the valleys of Villa Longa, close to Viseu.
Public transport is available to Viseu. From here we offer a shared transfer.
Connected to the main Aya season
This is a special one-off week inside the wider Aya retreat season. Curious about the main retreat weeks too?
Apply to join the 11
Do not send a CV or portfolio. Just tell us who you are, what you do, what you may love to share, and why you feel called to this week. The first applications that feel like a true fit receive their place.
Contact
Questions before applying? Reach out and we will be happy to help.