What I Do & Why It's Different
Three-night breathwork and cacao retreats on a four-generation family olive farm in Alentejo. Eight participants per retreat. Two daily breath sessions. Closing cacao ceremony. Slow medicine, intentional pace.
Three-Night Format, Eight Maximum
Farm-to-Table, Vegetarian
Two Breath Sessions Daily
Closing Cacao Ceremony
Thirty-Day Integration Support
Family Olive Farm in Alentejo
Multiple Tradition Lineage
Family Setting, Not Hired Venue
Long-Tail Integration
Strict Screening
What Actually Happens
The family olive grove at sunset, before closing ceremony
Old olive trees, second-generation grove
View from the farmhouse porch
Pre-session circle, morning of day two
Holotropic session, mats and cushions
"I had done breathwork before. Tomás does something different. The integration support afterward is what makes it work. Three weeks later I was still finding new ground."
"Inês cooks like a fourth practitioner. The food is part of the medicine. The whole farm is."
"The screening call was the first sign this was different. Tomás does not take everyone. The container is real because of who is in it."
"Three nights, eight people, deeper than ten days at most retreat centres I have been to. The cacao ceremony Saturday night is something I still think about months later."
"I am a doctor. I came skeptical. The breath sessions did things I cannot fully explain in clinical terms. I have referred patients since."
"I am a software founder who has done years of meditation. Tomás's breath sessions did things meditation has not done in ten years. The integration support afterwards was as valuable as the retreat itself."
"I went through grief I had been postponing for two years. Tomás held it without making it about him. Inês's food was the kind of nourishment that goes beyond the body. Both halves of the experience matter."
"I am a clinical psychologist and I went skeptical. The breath sessions did things I cannot explain in clinical language. I have referred three of my own clients to Tomás since."
What It's Like to Be Here
You arrive on a Friday afternoon. Phones go in a basket. Dinner is on a long wooden table outside. Saturday begins with movement and a long breath session before lunch. Afternoon is rest, walking, integration. Saturday night is the cacao ceremony — three hours, candlelit, no speaking. Sunday morning is one final breath session and then a slow farewell. The retreat itself is short. The thirty-day integration is long.
Who Comes to My Retreats
People who have already done some inner work and want to go deeper. Therapists. Coaches. A surprising number of doctors and lawyers. People who do not call themselves spiritual but suspect there is something the science has not yet measured.
Not for people in active mental health crisis, on certain psychiatric medications, or expecting plant medicine of the psychedelic kind — there is no ayahuasca, no psilocybin, no mushrooms. The work is breath and cacao only. Anyone arriving expecting otherwise will be politely sent home.
Upcoming Retreats
I run a few retreats a year. Leave your email and I'll let you know when the next one opens.
Three-Night Breathwork & Cacao Retreat — Summer
Three-Night Breathwork & Cacao Retreat — Winter
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