AWAKEN
A Wild Woman Remembrance Retreat
A rite of passage for women ready to meet themselves fully
8 - 12 July 2026 ~ PORTUGAL
You are invited to reveal & reclaim your sacred essential nature, your body, her cycles, her flow & her power of creativity on this beautiful 5 day women’s retreat.
To un-peal the layers, shed your skin of old beliefs & the holding patterns that no longer serve the wild lands of your body, your heart & soul as an embodied woman imbued with the powers of life & death, wisdom & transformation.
This experience is for women walking their own path, self-aware, self-responsible & ready to dive deeper into their feminine codes & create new pathways & deepen their communion with Source.
Perhaps you’re tired of the masculine paradigm, you find you’re doing more than being, you need space for clarity, for listening, for feeling, for retreat & rekindling your feminine essence & aligning with your deeper truth.
In this somatic inspired trauma-informed environment this retreat is designed to serve, inspire & uplift with gentle & empowering embodied movement, ritual, breathwork & workshops weaving maps, tools & experiences from Daoism, Tantra, Shamanism & Feminine Embodiment Practices.
We release limiting beliefs & distorted patterns to come into our fullness through the expansion of awareness & awakening of our hearts.
We ground & root into Source, our womb, while unwinding our nervous systems through enquiry, expression, presence & rest.
This is an invitation to come back to life's subtleties, to root & bloom at an idyllic location in Portugal, a space dedicated to your self nurturing with tools to reclaim your body, mind & inner knowing held in community facilitated by Jessica Weaver.
What May Open For You
Each woman’s journey is her own, and yet again and again we witness:
A deeper sense of safety within the body
The capacity to feel and move emotion without overwhelm
A reconnection to sensuality, creativity, and life force
Greater clarity in boundaries, desires, and inner truth
A softening of self-judgement and inner pressure
A felt sense of belonging - within yourself and with others, even possible lifelong friendships
What She Said…
“Powerful, transformational, beautifully connected & flow!”
“The best, I felt so cared for, held, supported, loved and seen”
“The Wild Woman retreat facilitated by Jess and her team was a life changing experience. If you are seeking deeper connections with yourself going inwards, hoping to find space to be held, encouraged and looking for ancient women wisdom, practices and spiritual healing this is the retreat for you.”
“The Shanti Space is beautifully located and a short ride away from Lisbon. Jess is by far one of the best facilitators I have experienced on retreats and you will leave feeling calmer, loved, safe and more in-tuned with your inner self.”
“The retreat was the best thing I could gift myself”
“I feel so grateful to have been here! I can’t express enough how important this work is and how needed in the world.”
“Such a potent and powerful experience. I leave feeling empowered.”
“I feel like we all created a bond with each woman. A connection, almost an invisible line.
It became like an alchemical sacred bond”
“Priceless”
“Deeply grateful for the space held. It‘s been a magic space of softness, empowerment, deep dive and playfulness. The workshop and experiences have been really beyond words. Just pure love for the strength and truth that can unfold when wild sisters come together in a safe space. Would always say yes again!”
“The environment felt safe & peaceful. It is a carnival of naked souls! Love it”
“So grateful for you and this amazing space”
“Wow, magical. Loved the program, the journey and the release that happened through the guidance”
“Blew my mind. So much knowledge passed on, such amazing connections.”
“This retreat was perfect in every way. Jess is so beautiful and created a safe space for us to express ourselves fully. I came away feeling light and truly present.”
“Wild Woman Awakening at The Shanti Space was my very first retreat experience and it’s hard to put into words how incredibly powerful it was. The space alone had a phenomenal healing energy with so much attention to detail. I can’t speak highly enough of the facilitation. Just WOW. The beautiful feminine energy, wisdom and ability to hold space for women going deep into themselves was astounding. The entire program was curated with so much thought and love - it was the perfect balance. My experience was transformational and I will be forever grateful. I encourage anyone that feels the call to book onto the next retreat. I cannot wait to come back!”
“Wow. A dream come true!”
The Work
Across five days, we weave together a rich tapestry of embodied and ritual practice:
✧ Embodied Feminine/Masculine Practice & Communication Tools
✧ Breathwork Ceremony
✧ Cyclical Inspired Yin Yoga
✧ Heart Opening Kundalini Yoga
✧ Rose Initiation Workshop, Cyclical Wisdom, and Mother Earth Offerings
✧ Shadow Integration
✧ Energy Cleansing & Abundance Metaphysics Practices
✧ Dynamic Emotional Release Exercises
✧ Self Explorative Journaling
✧ Sacred Cacao Ritual
✧ Women's Sharing Circles
✧ Womb Blessing Ritual
✧ Portal Opening Voice & Sound Journey
✧ Self-Intimacy & Body Worship Ritual
✧ Seasonal Organic Plant-based Meals
All practices are invitation based. Rooted in nervous system safety. Centred on emotional integration. Free from spiritual or somatic bypassing.
✧ Gastronomic Delights ✧
Nourishing pleasurable meals bring us the opportunity to reclaim & relish in the ritual of eating in a community of women. Honouring the elements & the lands from which they came, while awakening all the senses with lovingly prepared food for body, heart & soul. Let yourself be held, nourished & receive.
This video from a previous retreat features a sweat lodge which is not a part of our Summer program
✧ is this for me? ✧
This journey is centred around the complex and multi-layered experience of womanhood.
In particular reconnecting with the deep wisdom of cycles throughout the whole of a woman's life, from pre-menarche to post-menopause.
It is for all women, with or without wombs, menstruating or not menstruating.
I welcome ALL women and genderqueer folks who wish want to explore this aspect of their being.
If you are a trans-woman, non-binary or a genderfluid being - you are so welcome.
Please reach out if you have any questions regarding inclusivity, I’d love to talk to you about it.
My priority is that everyone in the space feels safe and seen
The Calling: Deep Initiation & Reclamation Work
'A woman cannot make the culture more aware by saying ‘Change.’ But she can change her own attitude toward herself, thereby causing devaluing projections to glance off. She does this by taking back her body. By not forsaking the joy of her natural body, by not purchasing the popular illusion that happiness is only bestowed on those of a certain configuration or age, by not waiting or holding back to do anything, and by taking back her real life, and living it full bore, all stops out. This dynamic self-acceptance and self-esteem are what begins to change attitudes in the culture.
~ Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Example Program
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8am Silence, tea & light bites
9am Consecration & Heart Expansive Kundalini & Breathwork
11am Brunch
2pm Embodied Feminine Workshop
4pm Snacks
5pm Sacred Cacao Self-Intimacy Ritual
7pm Dinner
8.30pm Temple Night
✧ A DEEP CONTAINER FOR TRANSFORMATION
Find yourself held in the arms of nature; amongst native corks and abundant fruit trees, swept up in the enchantment of a forest filled Portuguese valley as you go on a journey of deep healing and transformation meeting the parts of you that have been withheld, silenced, or unseen.
During this retreat you will venture through the sacred lands of the wild feminine. With a collection of practices designed especially for modern women to transform and alchemise the dense into divine.
Raise your vibration, soothe your nervous system, heal, empower and rebirth yourself with deep processes that empower you to connect, awaken & embody your wild, wise & creative spirit.
More than a retreat, this is an invitation to listen to the call of your inner wild woman & step into the power of your divine feminine energy & transmit her love.
✧ Non-linear Feminine Expression Practice
Free flow non-linear movement in a safe space, taking time to connect with your bodily sensations & erotic energy with full permission as you allow yourself to express & unwind through the practice of sensorial awareness.
✧ Sister Circles
Become familiar with the compassion, deep understanding and acceptance of sisterhood in circle to experience reflections. Allow yourself to be held & seen in your honest expression by those familiar with the path of the feminine. Transform & transmute sister wounds & come into mature, respectful sisterhood.
✧Mantra & Song
Devotional song to rediscover our inner voice. Your voice is an amazing resource!
Explore vibration and resonance to connect with your energy body & open your heart.
✧ Kundalini & YinYoga & Breath-work
Life Force Energy, known as Shakti, moves through to nourish all of your being, while creating new patterns in your nervous system, releasing tension from body and mind. Breathing practices support somatic release of stress, trauma & patterns held within the body whilst grounding into the resources available within & without.
✧ Womb Yoga
This journey facilitates the reconnecting with the deep blood wisdom of cycles throughout the whole of a woman's life, from pre-menarche to post-menopause. It is for all women, with or without wombs, menstruating or not menstruating. We explore archetypal feminine energies & nourish our relationship with the divine.
✧ Dynamic Emotional Release Exercises
Deep soul medicine to mobilise unprocessed emotions, to bring awareness & release energy patterns that create shutdown, closure or disconnect. Dynamic meditation practices to express ourselves authentically & let go of charge held in our bodies.
✧Archetype & Shadow Work
The Heroines Journey is an inner descent into the underworld like the Sumerian myth of Innana, the great Goddess finding her true self in the dark depths of the unseen, releasing that which she isn’t. Together we hold a grounded space of non-judgement to tend to the abandoned parts of ourselves cast out into the shadows to come into our true power.
✧Cacao Ritual
Ritual supports us in shifting deeply embedded subconscious programming, while grounding your energy to bring healing and transformation facilitated with heart opening indigenous medicine cacao.
✧Womb Rite & Sacred Bath
The 13th Rite of the Munay Ki is a transmission to intentional clear away energies held in the womb space to bring about more power, creative energy and grounding followed by a beautifully soothing sacred bath.
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LOCATION: The Shanti Space
Shanti, Sanskrit for Peace or to T. S. Eliot “The Peace which passeth understanding.”
The Shanti Space is a sanctuary for personal development & empowerment; a space to rest and restore well-being whilst bathed in abundant nature.
The venue, an old Quinta set in a national park endowed with beautiful fruit trees, giant oak corks, grape vines, vistas and a stream at the end of the garden where we often encounter our neighbours; deer and wild boar.
✧ TRANSPORT
The nearest airport is Lisbon only 25 minutes away.
✧ The easiest way is to come in Uber / transfer. It will cost you about 30€ and 25-30 minutes of travel.
We can put you in touch with other participants to share the ride.
“Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.”
✧ SPONSORSHIP
I am offering one sponsored space for this retreat at a discount rate for those unemployed / financial difficulties.
APPLICATIONS OPENING SOON
Included:-
Four nights accommodation, organic plant-based meals, snacks & teas, full program
Not included:-
Flights, transfers, treatments & insurance
✧ DATE
8 - 12 July 2026
5 Days / 4 nights
Arrival: 4pm
Checkout: 1pm
✧ WILDRATES
Earlybird by 1 May
Single Shared Twin - €999
Spacious Dormitory - €899
Private room with ensuite - €1222
After 1 May
Single Shared Twin - €1111
Dormitory - €999
Private room with ensuite - €1333
RESERVATION
Contact: booking@theshantispace.com
An Intimate Container
Spaces are limited to honour the depth, safety, and intimacy of this work.
✧ YOUR FACILITATOR ✧
Remembrance Guide: Jessica Maria Weaver
Founder of The Shanti Space, Jessica began exploring non-dual Tantra, Yoga & Meditation 20 years ago & has touched the lives of thousands with her work & spaces dedicated to healing & transformation.
She’s taken groups on immersive awakening journeys through the Himalayas of Nepal, hosted retreats & workshops all over the world, she featured at Om Yoga Show London & shared her practices at one of the world's leading restorative wellness programmes which welcomed celebrities & royalty, while featuring in publications such as The Telegraph, Elephant Journal & The Yoga Mag.
Now with over 750 hours' yoga teacher training specialising in disciplines such as Yin, Kundalini & Tantra, she is a certified Meditation & a student of Biodynamic Breathwork facilitating with a trauma-informed approach. Somatic embodiment, her lived experience & initiation into Motherhood along with her love for Nature are integral to her grounded approach to spirituality.
In 2011 she bowed out of a successful career in creative advertising, burnt out & seeking inspiration she travelled the world to deepen her practice, explore cultures & ways to bring depth & expansion to her creativity & life view.
Passionate about rekindling women’s connection with their cyclical nature, the seasons & tending to the unmothered parts within, she brings a trauma-informed & grounded approach, compassionate, fluid & intuitively inviting greater awareness to the teachings of the breath, resourcing & resilience to retrain the nervous system & rekindle trapped energy to support people in reaching the highest potential of their hearts.
Her practices are carefully selected to gently unravel & release the blockages women face in a culture that has oppressed us for generations, to empower women to live beautiful abundant & fulfilling lives.
She holds a container for emotional release while offering tools to cultivate more expansive awareness, connection & integration.
More: www.embodiedremembrance.com/about
“Jessica held the space with such grace. Boundaried but soft and loving. felt safe and secure.”
“Jessica has such a wild, uplifting, explore out of your comfort zone side, it’s so authentic and attractive that we all open up as well.”
“Jessica has an incredible presence and calm. She resonated a confidence in herself and the program which truly permeated through all of us.”
“Available, supportive, friendly, such a goddess!”
“What a blessing to experience these days with Jess - she really knows how to hold space and guide everyone into their heart and release deep emotions. To feel alive!”
“Jessica is a master facilitator who holds the most beautiful, loving, feminine, & transformative space. As soon as you arrive you can feel the warm hug from the sacred lands of the Shanti Space, from everything & everyone. Your nervous system can relax knowing you will be well cared for the entire week. The best retreat I’ve been to. A truly magical experience.”
