Your date with yourself from 7th-14th of February 2026
The Intuition Boost Retreat
Yoga, Mindfulness, Intuitive Cooking, Self-Care
Come and join us!
Start the year with Sita, Valentina & Steff
in Monchique, the mountains of south west Portugal
Align your body, mind, and spirit through guided sessions, nourishing meals, movement, yoga, and workshops designed to enhance self-awareness. You do not have to be experienced in yoga to join us.
Be one of 12 lucky persons to come into our home Bodhi Bhavan, beautifully situated on the second highest mountain in the Algarve. The location offers breathtaking views, a natural garden with many fruit trees and secret spots, and walks in nature right in front of our door step.
It is a unique place, with a yoga shala that overlooks the mountains all the way down to the sea. We offer you a range of beautiful, cozy rooms and communal spaces.
You can enjoy a fresh, natural pool and drink from a healing mountain spring. With 7 hectares of nature, it provides privacy and space for groups to rejuvenate and connect.
Enjoy freshly cooked meals and healthy snacks. All food is locally sourced and prepared with love, intuition and creativity. We cater adjusted to your needs, even if they're special.
connect
rise & shine
bloom
This is not a classic yoga retreat, it is a playful research of yourself, to reconnect and unlock your intuition.
To let go of unwanted patterns.
This is time for YOU.
The Schedule
On our retreat we offer you a schedule where you find inspiration, movement & time to rest.
Start the day daily with yoga & movement classes with Sita. Afterwards we enjoy sitting together at brunch, we eat good food and explore inspirational talks. After a break and some time for yourself, the day brings either a mini workshop, massage treatment, Emotion Code Session or free time to walk in nature, rest or whatever need you are following. We gather again for dinner, prepared with love and care.
After dinner we finish the day with a relaxing practice, like Meditation, Progressive Muscle Relaxation or Yoga Nidra to prepare you for a good sleep, guided by Sita or Valentina.
Intuitive, Mindful Cooking and Eating
Welcome to a journey of reconnecting with your instincts through food.
Not only will you enjoy tasty creations being served on our daily brunch & dinner, our Chef Steff will also guide you while you re-learn listening to your needs and nourishing both body and soul, by integrating mindfulness and intuitive cooking into your daily life.
The food we serve you is sugar reduced, anti-inflammatory and balancing, but does not lack taste or creativity.
We welcome special dietary needs, such as histamine and gluten intolerance or the keto diet. The plant based meals we serve you are created to inspire your cooking and learn new kitchen skills.
Self- Love goes through your stomach.
Get into practice
Learn to integrate gentle nutrition and your own needs into your kitchen. We include wisdom based on Ayurveda, Science and Traditional Herbal Medicine to cultivate a healthier relationship with food.
Let's talk about food choices, the way we eat and eating
-habits while we brunch. Get inspired in our mini workshops and practice mindful eating with your meals.
We will look at combining spices in a way that your taste buds jump in excitement and the combination of food and spices aid your digestion.
We cook with well chosen, fresh, wholesome and healthy organic ingredients.
Food can be medicine.
Self-Care & Treatments
Self-care is super important for your health and happiness. Taking time for yourself helps you unwind, lower stress, and feel better overall. When you look after your body and needs, you're setting yourself up for a healthier and happier life. Caring for yourself isn’t something to feel guilty about, it is important for keeping yourself balanced!
In the workshop with Valentina, she uses her background as a relaxation trainer and massage therapist to combine technique and intuition to help you practice self-care tools. Be surprised!
Valentina and Sita both offer a variety of massage treatments, for you to book within your free time.
Learning to care for yourself by choosing the right foods for your body & feeling into your natural movement, is the basis for your balanced being.
Awareness & Movement
Sita will invite you to explore intuitive movement, relaxation techniques to soothe the nervous system, and ways to better understand the signals your body and emotions send you.
• Release stress and tension through yoga & movement
Experience the calming effects of yoga and mindful movement, helping you release built-up stress and tension while bringing ease to your body and mind.
• Connect to your body, feelings & intuition
Explore free movement and mindfulness practices that help you tune into your body’s signals, connect with your emotions, and awaken your intuition.
• Personalized sessions for deeper self-awareness
Uncover old patterns that no longer serve you with one-on-one sessions designed to help you release emotional blocks, and open up to a deeper understanding of yourself and your path forward.
Emotion Code for emotional release from the subconscious
The Emotion Code is a technique for identifying and releasing trapped emotions. Sita uses muscle testing to help see what is hidden under the surface, to recognize, understand and release.
The Intuition Boost Team
Sita
Sita is a co-founder of the Bodhi Bhavan retreat center. After years of deep self-inquiry, yoga practice, and training, she felt a natural calling to create , together with husband , a peaceful space for groups to retreat and reconnect. While she has taught countless yoga classes, Sita discovered a deeper passion for one-on-one work, offering sessions in Emotion Code, Thai yoga massage, foot reflexology, and relaxation massage. Her true inspiration is to help people gently uncover and release old patterns, opening them to a greater sense of awareness and inner freedom.
Unconscious emotions sitting in the system will be looked at in one on one sessions in the form of emotion code . There we can individually look at what exactly is playing and influencing your life / eating patterns and other patterns in a negative way .
Like this we free you to your true voice of intuition .
Steff
Steff has been part of Bodhi Bhavan since 2018. She wants to inspire how to prepare food in an intuitive and creative way by using spices and mindfully chosen ingredients. Her approach as a cook is to help you deepen your relationship with the foods you eat everyday and how to include it into your daily life.
Steff and Valentina will cook delicious and mindfully chosen meals for you, prepared in a creative and intuitive cooking style. Fresh vegetables, loving preparation and well chosen spices will let you experience eating in a new way.
Valentina
Valentina is not only part of the kitchen but also our big support for self-care, relaxation and wellness.
After several years of intensive yoga practice and her training as a relaxation therapist she finally found her passion for Ayurveda Wellness, Massage and how the physical body works and can become more balanced.
While she traveled in India, her curiosity about Ayurveda sparked. Shortly after completing her training in Ayurveda Beauty, Wellness & Cosmetics, she joined the Bodhi Bhavan team in the summer of 2024.
She is particularly passionate about the topics of self-care and preventive health, and vegan and vegetarian food. When Steff and Valentina come together it is always about food, taste and creating new dishes.
She will support you on your journey with self-care tips in one of our workshops, Progressive Muscle Relaxation and her warm presence in the kitchen.
Testimonials
Katrin
“The Retreat really was the best thing to do! The best experience for a long time. And it came just at the right time. It was the best thing for the relationship with my daughter. We are so much closer since. We will definitely be part of it again in the coming year. Thank you so much for this experience!
I didn't know you could book happiness and love!"
Silvia
"The three of you are awesome, the identity of the retreat is so special, authentic and real. There is a perfect balance in this retreat between spirituality and learning.
I left with plenty of valuable takeaways, and I feel this strong will and empowerment for living better and care for myself.
I am reconnected to myself again and am capable of dealing with the difficulties of daily life in a more resourceful way."
Victoria
"The yoga classes were different to anything I‘d experienced before, encouraging you to look inward and move mindfully.
The food was amazing and Steff was so kind in preparing delicious, creative alternatives for me with great variety due to my diet (keto) and food allergies.
Valentina and Sita’s massages were wonderful and the Emotion Code session with Sita really helped me a lot."
Our Rooms & Pricing
Our Standard Rooms:
Freedom, Wisdom, Humility, Respect
Room price includes the retreat program, 2 meals a day plus snacks, coffee, tea and spring water.
1200 € shared room p.P.
1450 € single room (limited)
Our Premium Rooms:
Love, Truth, Honesty & Courage
Room price includes the retreat program, 2 meals a day plus snacks, coffee, tea and spring water.
1350 € shared room p.P.
1590 € single room (limited)
Every room has an ensuite bathroom with a shower. The interior design is kept uncluttered with elegant simplicity. All rooms are individual in character and shape, but all share the same features.
Each bed is fitted with memory foam mattresses for your sleeping comfort. Each room has a special view or private terrace. The rooms are located so that they provide privacy for all participants.
All rooms are heated with a high-end heating system.
Premium rooms are a little more spacious than the Standard rooms.
Not included:
Flights need to be booked by the attending person itself. A transport to the venue and back to the airport are not included, but can be arranged with additional cost. A 20% deposit will secure your spot, the remaining amount will be due 14 days before the start of the retreat. All detailed booking information will be provided after your application.
This is your chance, NOW!
