Intimacy Retreat for Couples & Lovers

~ unlock the power of touch ~

Take your intimacy to a next level and join us for a deep journey around intimacy and tantric lovemaking. A 5 days couples retreat for you and your beloved. We will dive under at The Good place in the beautiful Algarve with a small and intimate group of maximum 5 couples. With massage, holistic bodywork, de-armouring, demo’s, hands on practices, rituals, breathwork and a deep dive into the wisdom of your body.

Are you longing to become more sensitive? And do you wish to bring your intimacy and sexuality to a next level? Are you ready to explore new ways to connect? Not only with yourself, but also with your partner? Then this couples retreat is for you!

Our passion is to support you to open up more and to (re)connect you to your body, help to transform patterns, blockages, belief systems and trauma, so you can live your life at its full potential. You’re invited to this sacred journey into your body and its story together with your beloved. To deeply connect with yourself and from there with each other in a sacred and safe space where you can throw out emotional ballast, (re)discover who you are and how you can experience intimacy in another way. We would love to support you in opening these doors, to re awaken your senses and to remind you who you truly are.

What to expect?
This is a retreat with holistic bodywork, exercises and partner work, like mediation, breathwork, de-armouring, tantric rituals, embodiment practices and massages. During these 5 days you and your partner will work with each other and will give and receive sessions and bodywork from each other. We wish to create a space where you can experience and explore new things, but everything during these days is an invitation.

The retreat consists of a variety of tools, with the purpose of integrating body, mind and soul. Merging techniques from psychology, science and the so-called alternative and spiritual world. All complimenting each other, together with ideas and methods from old traditions, such as Shamanism, Tantra and Yoga. Creating a holistic way of working.
We’ll work with the whole body and will build this up gradually during the retreat. There will be live demonstrations and a lot of hands on practices to explore and integrate the teachings of this retreat. Morning practice, like yoga and movement practices to enhance the work. After this retreat you’ll go home with new tools and ways to relate and connect with each other and to explore and boost your intimacy and lovemaking.

Both Ilona and Maries are team members of an international team called the Gaia Method. The Gaia Method is a body-oriented modality developed by Susanne Roursgaard. The method came slowly together over a period of 30 years. Evolving from a purely therapy and de-armouring, touch focused technique into a modality that includes soft de-armouring, energy work, breath, sound and therapy.

What you’ll learn:

• Learn the art of loving, effortless touch
• Practice and take home a full body sequence for sensual or erotic touch and massage techniques
• Massage & holistic bodywork, body part sequences
• De-armouring techniques
• Self exploration & body awareness
• How to open the body
• Tantric Rituals & explorations
• Wheel of Consent
• Energy work
• Activating the senses
• Different ways to touch
• Self healing capacity of the body
• Awakening of the sexual energy, exploring erogenous zones
• Breathwork exercises, using breath during intimacy
• Meditation
• Points & areas of deep relaxation
• How to hold a safe space
• Bonding & holding
• Sound as a tool
• How to move around the body
• Yoni massage
• Lingam massage

Whether you are curious to explore other ways around intimacy or lovemaking, or looking to enhance your intimacy or sexuality, this retreat offers a heart-centered experience. Besides being a deep professional retreat, you will be taken on a deep inner journey.

There will be nudity in the retreat, so it’s important that you feel comfortable being naked in the workshop space.

Included
• 4 nights at The Good Place
• 5 days of workshops, exercises, demo’s, hands on practices, sessions and teachings
• Healthy vegetarian food from a healthy food lover and chef
• Fruit, snacks & tea
• Morning practices like yoga, movement and dancing
• Temple night
• Swimming pool
• Hikes

Euro 1950,= per couple Pure & Moon Room (3 available)
Euro 2050,= per couple Earth & Green Room (1 available)
Euro 2150,= per couple The Good Room (1 available)

Early Bird
Book your place with a special price till the 7th of January “25 and receive Euro 100,= discount.

Reserve your spot here ilona@manamana.nu

Location: The Good Place, Vale De Telha, Aljezur Portugal
Dates: 2-6 April 2025

Facilitators:

About Ilona
People who work with Ilona are touched by the way she connects. She touches with unconditional love.

Ilona is a certified holistic bodyworker. She is devoted in guiding de-armouring where her clients are empowered and supported in their growth and healing of (sexual) trauma. She fuses love, joy and depth with an open heart and loving presence.

She started out as a yoga teacher and later she developed through Holistic Therapy, Reiki, De-armouring, shifting and expanding consciousness and Wataflow. Her intuition became her guide through het Tantric and Shamanic path.

She now lives in Portugal in nature after enjoying a nomadic lifestyle and travelling in a van with her family for about 5 years. As a family they lived at a Shamanic Healing Centre where she was guiding bodywork and assisted in sweat lodges an sacred plant medicine ceremonies. Ilona has a deep connection with the power of life an death through her astral travelling.

By consciously and deeply connecting the body, mind and soul her clients experience more love for themselves and their life, fulfilling intimacy and life force energy. Shel loves to support you in opening these doors, to awaken your senses. To transform patterns, blockages and belief systems. And to remind you who you truly are, so you can live the life you desire.

More info about Ilona: www.manamana.nu

About Maries
Maries is a certified sexological body-worker with lots of experience in the field of holistic massage, de-armouring, breath-work, yoga & emotional release. With his strong presence, trustworthy energy and sensitive touch, he brings a grounded and loving attention from heart to heart in all his sessions. By learning to listen to the wisdom of the body his clients are able to live authentically, feel passionately alive, and enjoy their bodies.

Maries has a unique way to unite the body & soul and to create body awareness through conscious touch, using his own energy flow and intuition.

More info about Maries: www.bodyknows.nl

If you have questions, or when you like to sign up: ilona@manamana.nu or +31 6 22056844