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Awaken Your Inner Artist in Portugal
An 8-Night Sacral Chakra Retreat Through the Algarve & Lisbon
Your creative soul is calling.
Join us for an unforgettable 8-night Yinsa Retreat in Portugal, where we’ll spend five nights in the sun-drenched Algarve and three nights in the vibrant city of Lisbon. This journey is designed to awaken your sacral chakra—your energetic center for creativity, joy, and emotional flow—through yoga, meditation, storytelling, art, and cultural immersion.
If you’ve felt stuck, uninspired, or disconnected from your creative spark, this is your invitation to play, express, and write a new story for yourself.
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Your Journey Begins Before Portugal
When you register, your experience begins with a 12-week guided journey through The Artist’s Way —a renowned program for unlocking creativity and reconnecting with your inner artist.
By the time we meet in Portugal, your imagination will already be alive, ready to explore, create, and flow.
Retreat Flow
Your Teachers
Daniele Gates
With over 15 years of experience leading transformational travel around the world — from Costa Rica to Washington D.C., Bali, the Dominican Republic, and Italy — Daniele has cultivated brave, inclusive spaces for healing and self-discovery.
A Certified Yoga and Energy Medicine Practitioner, she specializes in yoga, Ayurveda, somatic healing, and chakra-based work. Her deep understanding of these practices informs the full retreat journeys she designs, weaving together curriculum creation, budgeting, venue scouting, marketing, and team leadership into seamless, life-changing experiences.
Daniele is deeply committed to hosting retreats that are ethical, intentional, and sustainable — honoring the land, respecting local communities, and serving participants with care and consciousness. Through her Yinsa model, she has also trained dozens of practitioners to become heart-centered, profitable retreat leaders, empowering them to step into aligned leadership.
For Daniele, retreats are never just vacations. They are sacred spaces for true healing, embodied growth, and meaningful community.
Felipe Gonzalez
Felipe is a 500 hour ERYT and Katonah Yoga® teacher based in Brooklyn, NY.
Drawn to the practices of Vinyasa Krama, Bhakti, and Katonah Yoga® his teachings are rooted in an integration of breath, body, and imagination.
He has also spent the last 9 years learning, exploring, and holding conversations at the intersections of yoga and social justice.Â
Felipe is currently pursuing his Master's in Clinical Social Work at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College.Â
He leads classes, workshops, retreats, and trainings both locally and internationally.
He guides his practices with an artist's soul and a healer's heart.
Irene Yannascoli
FeIrene Yannascoli is a Brooklyn-based teacher, writer, peer counselor and mom.
She began her teaching career as a writing and GED teacher working with incarcerated adults, and then shifted to high school as an English teacher in the NYC Public Schools.
Following a late term pregnancy loss in 2018, Irene began working as a peer counselor for individuals experiencing trauma related to pregnancy loss.
She writes about grief, teaching, motherhood and healing. On any given Saturday, she can be found sweating it out on her Peloton, or playing with her daughter at the local playground.
Investment in Your Creativity
(Early Bird Pricing (Book by October 15, 2025))
Double Occupancy: $4,200 (regularly $4,500). + $1,500 to include flights and ground transportation
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Single Occupancy: $5,200 (regularly $5,500). + $1,500 to include flights and ground transportation
*There are only 3 single rooms available*
(Standard Pricing (After October 15, 2025))
Double Occupancy: $5,200 (regularly $5,500). + $1,500 to include flights and ground transportation
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Single Occupancy: $6,200 (regularly $6,500). + $1,500 to include flights and ground transportation
*There are only 3 single rooms available*
*Room images might not be as seen in pictures*
Flexible Payment Options
Example:Â Single Occupancy Payment Plan: $5,549
         Double Occupancy Payment Plan: $4,482
Space is limited to keep this experience intimate and deeply connected.
Double Occupancy
- Retreat Price: $3,500
- Finance Charge (6.7%): +$234.50
- Total: $3,734.50
- Deposit: $500
- Balance: $3,234.50
- 10-Month Plan (Sept 2025–July 2026): ~$323/month
Single Occupancy
- Retreat Price: $4,500
- Finance Charge (6.7%): +$301.50
- Total: $4,801.50
- Deposit: $500
- Balance: $4,301.50
- 10-Month Plan (Sept 2025–July 2026): ~$430/monthÂ
(If booked after October 15, all totals and monthly plans increase by $500 + 6.7% finance charge.)
Testimonials
Step Into Your Creative Flow
If your heart is ready for inspiration, play, and self-expression, join us in Portugal for 8 nights of creativity, connection, and joy.
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