… is a three-day immersive retreat in the tropical Paradise of Serra Grande, Bahia.
A guided inner journey through the body’s energy centers — the chakras — where emotions, perception, and vitality are brought into deeper awareness through direct experience.
This retreat is created for those who seek more than concepts or information —
for those who wish to truly experience themselves.
Across the days, you are gently guided through a structured process that integrates body-based practices, reflection, and conscious group work.
The journey unfolds through lived experience: grounding, emotional flow, clarity, expression, and presence — not as ideas, but as states to be embodied.
Each chakra is approached through carefully designed practices, including:
Everything is designed to bring you out of the mind and into direct experience — through the intelligence of the body.
This retreat unfolds as a guided journey through the seven energy centers of the body — the chakras.
Each center reflects a different dimension of your inner and outer life.
Rather than approaching them as concepts, you are invited to experience them directly — through the body, through sensation, through presence.
Each layer reveals itself in its own time.
Not through effort,
but through presence.
This is not about understanding the chakras.
It is about experiencing them —
and remembering who we really are
This retreat is designed for individuals who feel the call to set free their highest potential.
It is for those who are long for spaces where they can be who they really are.
What participants typically take with them is not conceptual knowledge, but something tangible:
Food is an integral part of the retreat experience.
Throughout the three days, you will be served vegetarian Ayurvedic meals aligned with the Chakra-Journey, prepared to support the process you are going through — light enough to keep the body clear, and nourishing enough to sustain your energy.
Practical information:
The retreat takes place in Serra Grande, Uruçuca, Bahia, about 4 km from the center.
Dates: June 5 to 7 2026
Duration: 3 days
Included:
To keep the work focused and the group dynamic effective, the number of participants is limited.
Artist · Healer · Educator
Initiator of the Akumayê Collective.
Degrees in Philosophy, Human Sciences and Social Work.
Graduated in Dance and Theater.
Musician
Armando is a researcher of body, spirit, and healing. His work weaves together diverse lineages, drawing from African and Eastern wisdom traditions, Western somatic psychology, sound healing, and shamanic practices.
As a mystic, his compass is nature and the collective well-being of all beings. His research explores the integration of ritual, sound, and movement as pathways for healing, expression, and transformation — across performance, education, and therapeutic spaces.
Therapist · art educator · traditional midwife · group facilitator
With over 15 years of experience exploring the wild body and its relationship with space-time in connection with Mother Earth.
Mel has been gathering native and ancestral wisdom through research in communities, educational spaces, and spiritual practices around the world.
She holds degrees in Pedagogy and Visual Arts, is a massage therapist trained at Instituto Modak, and a lifestyle coach.
She coordinates therapeutic and educational activities and continuously develops work focused on community, self-knowledge, connection with nature, and free expression as a path toward harmony and individual and collective well-being.
Here, nature is not just a backdrop. It is an active part of the process.
The retreat takes place in a house immersed in the Atlantic Forest, surrounded by greenery, silence, with direct access to a river and a trail leading to a waterfall.
Just 4 km from the center of Serra Grande.
Every detail has been carefully chosen to slow your body down…
and create space for what truly matters.
A space to reconnect, restore, and return to what truly matters.
We offer a sliding scale to support accessibility …
…choose the amount that feels aligned with your current reality.
Those who are able to contribute more help us create a more accessible experience for everyone.
Sliding Scale:
1500- 3000 Reais (early bird – until 20/05/26)
2000 – 3000 Reais (normal – until 01/06/26)
If you feel called to join but are experiencing financial limitations, please reach out to us.
We’re open to finding a way that supports your presence.