Welcome to Relaxscape Co-living

A short-term co-living sanctuary in nature for women starting over. It’s a peaceful and safe place for women who are looking to switch off from the noise and pressures of their busy day-to-day life, and find more meaning from the simple pleasures and slower pace of spending some time in a small rural village by a lake in the beautiful countryside of central Portugal.

Relaxscape is the perfect setting to connect with nature so you can reconnect with yourself, reset your nervous system and find yourself again under all the layers of conditioning that society piles onto us over the years.

I know, because I started a new life 8 years ago, moving alone to Central Portugal where I restored this old olive farm and set up a mindfulness nature retreat among ancient olive trees. It was my first time doing anything like this, and my first time living in a rural village so close to nature, and tending to land and trees and animals. It’s been a deeply transformative experience and I’ve welcomed many interesting people passing through who have shared a little of themselves with me. It made me see clearly two important things:

~ a week-long “curated” retreat is not long enough to stabilise the nervous system nor what most people need who are healing from trauma or seeking a change of life.

~ the answers come from within, during introspective time alone with nature, not from a retreat programme or its facilitators. It’s about learning to rediscover the truth of who we are and to trust our inner guide again.

So now, instead of organised retreats, I am offering co-living house-sharing stays at Relaxscape, for women who are in a period of transition: a space where you can breathe in peace, and talk to the trees, and enjoy the company of fellow housemates when you feel like some community time. You can stay for minimum one month, maximum three, and will share the house with maximum 6 other women.