SATORI
Retreat
20-25 MAY 2025 PORTUGAL
Ready to strip away the chaos of daily life and confront who you are at your core? SATORI is waiting. But only if you’re ready. We invite you to join a community of like-minded women who are seeking stillness, self-discovery, and renewal in the serene landscapes of Portugal.
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The term Satori signifies a moment of sudden enlightenment, a shift in consciousness where clarity and insight emerge effortlessly. This retreat invites you to experience those moments of profound connection through the practices of yoga, silent meditation, and intentional living. It’s an opportunity to step away from the external demands and focus inward, rediscovering your core values, passions, and life principles.
Woman,
this is for you if you are looking for...
Self-love
Meditation
Feminine energy
Manifestation
Dancing
Connections
Yoga
Movement
Intuition
Rest
Nature
Clarity
VENUE
We gather at Shanti Space, a stunning cottage venue in Portugal, chosen for its serene surroundings. The natural beauty of the land harmonizes with the purpose of our retreat, SATORI, guiding you toward the sudden enlightenment (or some kind of “aha” moment) and deep connection with your authentic self.
At Satori, you’ll be surrounded by women who, just like you, are seeking to reconnect with themselves. You’ll leave feeling empowered, embraced by a sisterhood that celebrates your uniqueness and encourages your growth, no matter where you are in your journey.
ROOMS
Option 1: Dormitory (4 bunk beds) and shared bathroom
Option 2: Shared Twin (two individual beds or double bed)
Option 3: Private individual room with bathroom
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FOOD
After our morning practices, we’ll come together to enjoy a generous brunch, brimming with vibrant, delicious offerings. Think colorful smoothie bowls, creamy chia pudding, homemade bread, shakshuka, and an array of warm dishes—all crafted to delight your senses and energize your day. We will then have a snack too.
As the sun sets, you'll gather with new friends to share a nourishing, delicious meal, each bite filled with love and intention. Every evening, you'll feel a sense of peace and connection as you reflect on the day's experiences. Each dish is thoughtfully prepared using the freshest, most seasonal, and organic ingredients available, sourced locally whenever possible.
Note: All of our meals are plant-based, and we prioritize seasonal, organic, and regional produce. If you have any specific dietary needs or allergies, please let us know when you fill out the online registration form, which you’ll receive after signing up for the retreat. We’re here to ensure that your culinary experience is as satisfying and tailored to your needs as possible.
At SATORI, we believe that food is not just sustenance—it’s a way to nourish your body, mind, and spirit. Our kitchen team pours love and care into every meal, ensuring that each dish is a heartfelt expression of health and vitality.
WORKSHOPS
CONNECTING WITH INTUITION
In this engaging and transformative workshop, we will dive deep into the art of connecting with your intuition—your inner compass that guides you toward truth, clarity, and alignment.
Tuning into our intuition gives us access to a deeper level of awareness that transcends the noise of the mind. It helps us cut through doubt, fear, and overthinking, offering clarity and insight that aligns with our authentic selves. Intuition is an invaluable tool in navigating life’s challenges because it helps us make decisions that resonate with our true desires, values, and purpose. When we trust and act on our intuition, we experience more flow and ease, moving through life with confidence and inner certainty.
Noble Silence
In today’s fast-paced world, our minds are often cluttered with constant thoughts, and our bodies are conditioned to perpetual movement. This state of constant activity makes it difficult to connect with our inner selves or hear the wisdom that lies beneath the surface noise. Quieting the mind and body through noble silence helps us break this cycle of busyness, allowing us to: cultivate presence, find stillness, listen and not just hear...
Noble silence refers to a practice of intentionally refraining from speech, communication, and external distractions in order to cultivate deep inner awareness and mindfulness. It goes beyond the mere absence of words—noble silence is about quieting both the mind and body, creating a space for self-reflection, heightened presence, and a deeper connection with ourselves and the world around us.
Keeping noble silence during the mornings will be an invitation.
Emotional Release
Our bodies are not separate from our emotions—emotions are experienced as sensations within the body, and when they are not fully expressed, they can become "stuck." This trapped energy can manifest as tightness, discomfort, or even physical pain. By working with the body, we tap into these held emotions and begin the process of release.
During an emotional release session, the body becomes the key instrument for unlocking and moving this energy. The goal is not to suppress or avoid emotions but to allow them to rise to the surface, to be fully felt and expressed, creating space for healing and transformation.
An emotional release session is a therapeutic practice that uses the body as a powerful tool for processing, expressing, and releasing stored emotions. Often, emotions like anger, sadness, fear, or frustration can become trapped in the body, creating blocks that lead to physical tension, mental distress, and emotional stagnation. This session is designed to move this stuck energy through the body, allowing it to be felt, expressed, and ultimately transformed.
Movement
Somatic practices, such as movement and breathwork, are powerful tools that allow us to reconnect with our bodies, release trapped emotions, and access our feminine energy. Feminine energy, often described as flowing, intuitive, receptive, and nurturing, thrives when we are fully present in our bodies and in tune with our emotions. Somatic practices help create the space for this connection, enabling us to embrace our feminine essence more fully.
Sound Bath
Sound has been used as a powerful healing tool for thousands of years across various cultures. The vibrations created by sound healing instruments resonate deeply with our bodies, helping to clear energetic blockages and restore balance.
A sound bath is a meditative experience in which participants are “bathed” in sound waves created by various instruments such as gongs, crystal singing bowls, Tibetan bowls, chimes, and other sound healing tools. The vibrations and frequencies produced by these instruments are designed to bring the mind, body, and spirit into a state of deep relaxation, balance, and harmony.
Unlike a traditional concert, a sound bath is not about listening to music but about experiencing the vibrations in a way that promotes healing and transformation on a cellular and energetic level.
Cyclical Living
Cyclical living refers to aligning one’s life with the natural rhythms and cycles of the body, seasons, and nature. For women, this especially involves honoring the menstrual cycle, recognizing the unique energy, emotional, and physical shifts that occur in each phase—menstruation, follicular, ovulation, and luteal.
By tuning into these phases, a woman can organize her activities, self-care, and even decision-making around her natural rhythms, allowing for greater balance, productivity, and self-compassion.
Living cyclically empowers women to embrace both the periods of rest and renewal, as well as moments of heightened energy and creativity, leading to a more harmonious and fulfilling life.
Ayurveda
Discover the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda, a holistic healing system from India that focuses on balancing the mind, body, and spirit through natural rhythms and cycles. Ayurveda teaches us that our health is deeply connected to nature’s cycles, including the seasons and the phases of a woman's life, especially her menstrual cycle. By understanding your unique constitution (or dosha) and learning how to align with these natural rhythms, you can create greater balance, vitality, and well-being in your daily life.
During the workshop, you’ll explore how to live in harmony with your menstrual cycle and how to adapt your lifestyle, diet, and self-care practices according to the seasons and your dosha.
This approach to cyclical living helps you to better manage your energy, emotions, and overall health. You’ll leave with practical tools and insights that will empower you to create a life that honors your body’s natural wisdom and rhythms.
Power of Mudras
Mudras are symbolic hand gestures used in yoga and meditation to channel energy, balance emotions, and deepen your spiritual practice.
In this workshop, you’ll learn how specific mudras can help enhance focus, calm the mind, and connect you to your inner self. We will explore the meaning behind some of the most powerful mudras and practice them together, discovering how these simple hand positions can activate different energies in the body.
By the end of the session, you will know how to incorporate mudras into your daily life to support emotional balance, inner peace, and greater alignment with your authentic self.
Cacao, Kirtan & Ecstatic Dance
Kirtan is a form of call-and-response chanting rooted in the traditions of yoga and bhakti (devotional) practices. It involves the singing of mantras, often in Sanskrit, accompanied by instruments like the harmonium, drums, or cymbals.
Chanting mantras in community during a kirtan creates a powerful, shared energy that elevates the collective vibration, fostering a deep sense of connection and unity. The repetition of mantras helps quiet the mind, open the heart, and invite a meditative state, allowing participants to experience a profound sense of peace, devotion, and spiritual awakening.
In a communal setting, kirtan amplifies the power of the sound and creates a sacred, healing space for everyone involved.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPERIENCE
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Daily practices designed to quiet the mind and connect you with your body’s wisdom.
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Guided exploration to reconnect with your passions and create a life plan rooted in your values.
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Discover the phases of the menstrual cycle and learn how to track and utilize them to enhance your life.
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Explore the different elements and how to work with them energetically to support your well-being.
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Learn about the balance of these energies and how they manifest in your life, empowering you to live with more flow and intention.
THIS IS FOR YOU...
If you want to slow down and connect with your inner quiet. If you want to give yourself the permission to rest, nourish, learn, connect, recharge, share, and enjoy.
It doesn’t matter where you are in your journey. You don't need a specific reason—just a desire to reconnect with your inner quiet and embrace the fullness of who you are. Alongside deep introspection, we welcome joy, play, and celebration as vital parts of our experience. The SATORI Retreat is designed to meet the diverse needs of every woman who joins, with the opportunity to communicate your personal intentions and interests in a pre-retreat registration form.
Your Facilitators
Sherina Sham
A clinical psychologist, integrative mentor, energetic healer, and international speaker with a background in professional dance. Over the past decade, I've immersed myself in personal development and spiritual practices, from yoga and breathwork to ecstatic dance and mindfulness, to inner child healing and shadow work...all in pursuit of understanding the ongoing inner journey.
My mission is to empower women to build a healthy, loving relationship with themselves—the foundation for living authentically, making confident decisions, and creating a life aligned with their values. I know transformation is possible because I’ve experienced it myself, moving from insecurity and identity struggles to living a life rooted in self-expression and purpose. Now, I’m passionate about guiding others on their journey back to their true selves.
@sherina_sham
Maria Lupotto
Maria has a big passion for astrology and the mystics of life. In 2017, she moved to the beautiful Spanish island of Ibiza unsure of what she would encounter. Here is where her self exploration, discovery and growth journey began. With the practice of mindfulness, meditation, and astrology...she has now understood what she is here for; to give and share the highest frequency that exists: love.
She is a master of ceremonies, wedding celebrant, and has a strong ability to create a safe space for those around her.
She will be the Retreat Angel, making sure everyone feels safe and comfortable at all times.
@mysticlove_ibiza
Pamela Athwani
“Where love is deep, much can be accomplished." – Dr. Suzuki
Pamela is a vibrant and dynamic soul with a deep love for love, chocolate, and wine. Born in Barcelona and raised with Indian roots, she brings a rich fusion of cultures and wisdom to her work. As a certified practitioner in Reiki, Tarot, Akashic Records, and Chakra Balancing, Pamela guides others on their journey to self-healing and personal growth.
Her passion lies in creating spaces where people can reconnect with the magic of life, as she truly believes that we are all magic. In her sessions, participants will experience warmth, laughter, and a touch of the mystical, as she helps them realize that the spirit and the unseen world are intertwined with everyday reality.
@pamster
Faaria Baig
Faaria is an Ayurvedic diet and lifestyle practitioner and yoga teacher with over 10 years of experience. Rooted in her Indian heritage, she is passionate about sharing Vedic practices to help others achieve holistic well-being.
After healing herself from a chronic illness, she now guides others to overcome health challenges through natural, sustainable methods.
@ojaswellbeing
Sofia Magalhães
A food blogger and a natural chef. She loves cooking whole, fresh, local, seasonal and organic ingredients. Her plates are full of flavor, color and are plant-based.
She completed the Macrobiotic Cooking course at Instituto Macrobiótico Português in 2018 but has been working in the food area since 2015. She cooks for retreats, cater for events, promotes workshops and showcookings and works as a consultant for restaurants and brands.
Sofia also has a cookbook, “From root to branch”, which is a manual against food waste that promotes full use of food, towards a more sustainable future.
@blogdaspice
What's Included
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6 days and 5 nights stay at the Shanti Space Venue with access to the entire property, huge garden and relax areas
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Private chef
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5 x Morning flow yoga sessions (all level)
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Workshops with Sherina and other facilitators
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Cacao ceremony, Kirtan (live singing) and ecstatic dance
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Sharing & Group Coaching
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Journaling & Guided Meditation
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Individual feedback during our sessions
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All material including handouts, art material, and use of yoga mats & blocks
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Welcome pack goodies (all products are selected thoughtfully!)
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Organization for shared taxis and potential travel buddies in our whatsApp group
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5 Delicious Brunch and 5 nourishing dinners
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Healthy snacks
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Non-alcoholic drinks during the meals
What's not Included
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Travel costs (Your flight, transport to the retreat venue and back)
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Travel insurance
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Private 1:1 sessions with facilitators
REGISTRATION
Ready to step into your power? Book your spot at SATORI now—before someone else does!!
Sign up here by filling out the form and checking out leaving your 500€ deposit.
Room options:
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT OF 200€ on all the room options if you sign up BEFORE THE YEAR ENDS!!
Dormitory (4 bunk beds) and shared bathroom: 1450€ pP 1250€
Shared Twin (two individual beds or double bed): 1650€ pP 1450€ (Perfect, if you are coming with a friend/family member or are open to share your room with someone and eventually make a new friend)
Private individual room with bathroom: 1800€ pP 1600€
The remaining balance (after the deposit) will be paid 60 days before the Retreat.
ANY QUESTIONS LEFT?
I would love to connect with you personally! If you have any questions or even if you just want to chat about whether this retreat feels like the right fit for you, book a free call with me. Email me: sherinasham@gmail.com
TIMINGS
THE START OF THE RETREAT IS TUESDAY 20TH OF MAY 2025 AT 16H
THE END OF THE RETREAT IS SUNDAY 25TH OF MAY 2025 AT 11H
*THERE WILL BE DINNER ON THE FIRST DAY AND BREAKFAST ON THE LAST DAY!
DAILY SCHEDULE
7:30: Morning yoga practice (all levels)
9:00: Silence meditation practice or invitation to stillness
10:00: Brunch
11:30: Workshop I
13:00: Snack and free time to relax, journal, connect
15:30: Workshop II
18:00: Dinner
20:00: evening session
*The program can be modified based on need of the group.