Date/Time
Date(s) - Sunday, October 9, 2022 - Sunday, October 16, 2022
12:00 pm
WHY?
To enjoy being in and LOVING your body and your Self more than you ever have.
To explore and expand your sensual and sexual sensations through new information and practices that will bring you closer to your Self and will teach you what loving your Self means and feels like.
To love your sexual experiences by creating a deeper connection and confidence within your Self, in a relaxed loving manner, that will leave you fulfilled more and more of your time, with and without a partner, and learning a new meaning of sexuality.
To begin to truly love and respect your body in all ways, so that you can truly love and respect your Self and know what you desire, and express it with confidence in every interaction.
To give your Self pleasure and learn to experience pleasure in new ways you never imagined and feel so alive and move through life in a constant orgasmic flow.
To retreat from your everyday Life on the gentle, nurturing, green mid-Atlantic island of São Miguel (formerly Atlantis and containing one of the 9 Merkabas or “power points” on the Planet) part of the Azores Island chain, with a group of new Sisters, to rebirth and share a week of memorable experiences that will leave you ready to live and experience your everyday Life to a much greater potential with heightened sensuality and renewed sexuality.
WHO?
Four powerful women with four exciting life journeys who have been continuously growing their own knowledge, practices and experiences since having their own awakenings and learning that they could be so much more alive in every moment, both alone and with partners, and taking their lives continuously to greater heights of awareness and sensation.
Alexandra EVANS was born and raised in southern Germany and is a mother of two young boys Paul and Max. She started learning choreography and dance at the age of 15 and at 19 added African Dance and Yoga training to her skill set. At 21, Alexandra began a career as a Dance therapist, mostly with children and in wilderness environments and called it “Naturtanz” or “Nature Dance”, with and without music. This was also when she found her happy place in the international Tribal Belly Dance community.
In 2011 Alexandra gave birth to Paul, her first son, followed by Max in 2014. Her professional path began changing and being geared towards pre and post-natal yoga and health and dance. This was also the beginning of her awareness of her connection with her reproductive and sexual body in a new light. It was after separating from her childrens’ father that Alexandra deepened her interest in the study of Tantra, Sacred Sexuality and Healing Traumata. She developed a unique program called Yoni Yoga and began teaching 
on and offline and at festivals in Germany. She also designed Pleasure Parties for women, offering practices and tools to help them be more at home with understanding the sources of pleasure in their bodies. In 2021 she participated in the Sacred Union Online Summit focused on Love, Relationship, Intimacy and Sex and her most recent work is called Rewild Somatic Erotic Embodiment. Alexandra is especially interested in healing Trauma and Dearmouring using these techniques in the wilderness. Her love for being outside barefoot and healing in Nature will be highlighted at this retreat as it takes place on a beautiful and private farm/wild land. Alexandra will be taking a 5-week Advanced Cob Workshop in Portugal with CruzinCobGlobal right before this Retreat and intends to bring COB into the activities planned for the week. For more details about Alexandra’s work, visit her website: alexandraavaevans.de
Alexandra will be the Lead Instructor during this week, teaching two daily morning sessions as well as leading Self-Marriage and Cacao Ceremonies. Her offerings for the week include Yoni Yoga, Traumasensitive Yin Yoga, Ecstasy as Life Power, Vulva Love, Self Care & Self Pleasure, Cob Sculpting, The Magic Vagus Nerve, The Dark Side of the Feminine and of course Movement & Dance & Breathwork.
Gena PINHEIRO is a native Californian with roots in the Azores. She recently returned to São Miguel to start an organic dairy and beef farm, along with dairy products like 
dips and cheeses, sourdough bread and kombucha. Gena and João, her partner of 30 years and also an Azorean, run the Farm, while growing their other passions of wellness and holistic sexuality. Dedicating her life to meaningful work is what brought Gena back to her roots in the Azores where she is working hard as an agent of positive change on issues of health, well-being and sustainable food production. Gena invites people to view health through a holistic lens, not only considering the quality of their food and movement, but also of their sex, relationships, mindset and life fulfillment. To learn more about Gena’s holistic work and her business “Amago Health and Wellness” as well as the Farm, visit: amagowellness.com.
Gena will teach her class “Holistic Sexuality as Self-Care” on Tuesday afternoon.
Her topics include: How to Love to Have Sex Again (or for the first time), Anatomy, Dearmouring, Eliminating Pain, Recognizing your Body’s Cues, Increasing Sensation in the Genitals, Exploring our Thoughts about Our Bodies & Sex, and more.
Rimi CHAKRABORTY is an Indian-American who relocated from the US to the Azores with her
partner João, a native of São Miguel, where they co-founded MINUVIDA AZORES in 2015, an immersive travel and learning experiences business in São Miguel. Rimi holds a B.S.E. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from MIT Sloan School of Management as well as various certifications in Forrest Yoga, Yin Yoga, Energy Healing, Energy Medicine, and Yoga for Trauma.
Rimi finds joy in guiding high performing individuals and companies to true health and real success, living in harmony with our planet, community and ourselves. Rimi blends her former business world and acumen as an SVP in a management consultant firm, with authentic leadership, presence and mind-body integration to foster a new paradigm of leadership.
You can find out more about Rimi’s tourism project here: www.minuvida.com. Rimi is also the co-founder of a revolutionary women’s leadership framework, going beyond resilience to ROOTsilience and you can find out more at www.rootsilience.com.
Jacqueline ONANDA is a modern witch and an ancient angel. She started her adventure on this Earth in East Germany nearly 50 solar returns ago and learnt from early age, that life could change from one moment to another. After studying INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS in five different countries and a 12 years’ success story in Top Management in Mexico, Jac
queline switched from workaholic to warmhearted mother and holistic family therapist. She did a Master’s in SYSTEMIC SOCIAL SOLUTIONS and stepped into a completely spirit-guided life including initiations in indigenous traditions and collective trauma healing processes. After more than 20 years of Nutrition & Health coaching and workshops, divine leadership and outstanding day-to-day experiences in all fields of the new paradigm HOLIVERSAL®, Jacqueline lives today in the middle of Europe guiding her unschooled son and different projects / people outside „the old system“. During the SENSUAL AWAKENING retreat, we will step with her into the field of mystic healing enjoying various insights and preparations during the week for a powerful TEMAZCAL ceremony (sweat lodge) for individual and group REBIRTHING on Friday. The TEMAZCAL will be built by Claudine from New Moon to New Moon before the Retreat out of the clay soil from the island and as a ceremonial symbolic meditation stepping out of one phase/portal of her life and into the next.
Claudine DESIREE is a native New Yorker turned Californian who chose to plant some seeds on
São Miguel, Azores after 6 years on a global bike tour teaching 40 cob workshops on 4 continents and in 15 countries. Here in Lagoa she birthed the “Quinta da Vida Beleza” (Beautiful Life Farm) , a mostly Cob Ecovillage on 2 acres of fertile fruit-tree abundant land built by student workshops and her home base for now. A short walk to the beautiful Azorean ocean and surrounded by peaceful indigenous forest and agricultural land, the village will initiate hosting its first non-Cob workshop with this Sensual Awakening Retreat as Claudine transitions from leading earthen/cob building workshops around the world for the last 20 years to specifically supporting humans in discovering their bodies anew with love and respect, and in doing so feeling empowered and peaceful in their relations with others. Claudine is interested in the use of cob building & sculpting as one of the mediums for transformation, which she has observed continuously taking place in in all her workshops.
Claudine recently awoke to a renewed understanding and connection with her own sexual nature and care of her body after taking a workshop with Gena and Rimi on São Miguel and is eager to continue this powerful personal work and eventually facilitate it, especially for young women and men in their teens and early 20’s, to help them enter the world of sensual and sexual interactions in a healthy, wholesome, peaceful and empowered manner.
In the evenings Claudine will lead Salsa Dancing and Thai Yoga therapy sessions throughout the week to move the energy and support students in their healing and heart expanding work.
WHERE?
The cob sauna and guest cottage built by students
The Retreat will be held at the Quinta da Vida Beleza Ecovillage in Lagoa, São Miguel Island, Açores. The site has 5 cob buildings all completed in the last 2 years, and an outdoor kitchen/dining area, an 800ft2 yoga deck with mountain and ocean views, a treehouse, an indoor community space, a rocket heater-warmed cob couch, endless bananas for your picking, fresh chicken eggs and possibly guavas and loquats in October.
The ocean is a 7- minute walk down the road to natural ocean swimming pools, snorkeling, 2 café/restaurants, a bike/walking trail along the coast, 3 beautiful black sand beaches a few miles away, a small food
store close by and a large supermarket only a 15 minute-walk away.
The airport is a 20-minute car ride from the land. Directions will be sent in the Welcome Letter.
Students may want to come a few days early and stay a few days later to enjoy the island and settle in, as there wont be much time for that during the workshop days. If so, please let Claudine know if you want to stay on the land or extend your house stay.
Rainbows every day blessing the land….
DAILY & WEEK SCHEDULE
7am-8am Personal Practice/Silent Morning and/or Yoni Yoga with Alexandra
8am-8:45am Light Breakfast (fruit/nuts/fruit smoothie)
9am-10:30am 1st Morning Session with Alexandra – Lectures & Practices (see Bio for topics)
10:30am-11:30am Brunch
11:30am-1:00pm 2nd Morning Session with Alexandra – Movement & Breathwork
1:00pm – 2:30pm Rest Time / Ocean Swimming
2:30pm – 3:00pm Snack/Herbal Tea
3:00pm – 6:00pm Afternoon Sessions with Jacqueline (Monday, Wednesday, Friday),
Gena (Tuesday), and Rimi (Thursday)
(See their Bios for topics)
6:00pm – 7:00pm Dinner
8:00pm – 9:00pm Evening Activity with Claudine (Thai Yoga Massage & Salsa)
Friday Afternoon/Evening we will have a Temazcal ceremony for which we will have prepared all week with Jacqueline.
Saturday afternoon will be in preparation for our Ecstatic Dance Party in the evening!
Sunday morning Alexandra will take us through a Self-Marriage and Cacao Ceremony to close our week with intention and new direction.
The Retreat will end with Brunch on Sunday.
MEALS & ACCOMMODATIONS
Eating dinner under the Azorean Full Moon
All meals will be offered on the land, unless someone wants to opt out. However, there will be no option to prepare meals on the land. Only if someone is staying offsite can they choose to feed themselves. Food will be vegetarian and vegan.
Camping is included in fee with your own tent and bedding. There is one large 4-person tent available to rent for 10€/day and a 2-person tent for 5€/day. These tents come with air mattress and bedding/pillow. Camping includes compost toilets, hot showers, sink and wood-fired bathtubs.
There is one cozy 15m2 cob cottage available to rent for 20€/night with a Queen-sized bed. It has electricity , heating, a desk and a sink outside.
For those who don’t want to camp, please let Claudine know. I can rent 1 or 2 Airbnb houses nearby and oceanfront that sleep 4 people each. One has a double (two beds) room and one has a queen bed for 1 or 2 people. The other can also sleep 4. I would need to know asap. I will need to confirm the rates for that week.
TRAVEL & DATES
Retreat participants should arrive on the land on Sunday afternoon, October 9th (Full Moon!), between 2 and 4 pm, to set up their tents if camping. If you would like to arrive on Saturday that is also possible. Otherwise you can stay in Ponta Delgada to explore ad adjust to time difference. Otherwise we will meet at 5pm for our Opening Circle and a Site Orientation to the land, followed by dinner at 6pm. At 7pm we will have an Introduction to the Workshop.
The workshop will continue through Sunday morning, October 16th, and end by noon, after Brunch.
SATA, TAP, Delta and United all fly to São Miguel from the US. Direct flights are from Boston, JFK/EWR, and Toronto. However all the airlines connect from anywhere in the US.
In Europe, RyanAir, SATA and TAP get you here.
Covid tests and vaccinations are no longer required.
Please take a taxi to the Quinta, or the airport bus into Ponta Delgada and another bus to Lagoa.
A detailed Welcome Letter will be sent two weeks out with more information.
REGISTRATION & PAYMENT
To register and receive forms please contact claudinedesiree@gmail.com
Tuition, Camping & Meals: 700€ by October 1, 2022
Payment can be made by Venmo, Paypal or Wise from the US to claudinedesiree@gmail.com (please add 3% if using a credit card with Venmo or Paypal and check the “Send to Family & Friends” box on Paypal. If paying using Venmo or Paypal, pls check with Claudine for conversion rates and fees into Euros or just use Wise. Here is the link: https://wise.com/invite/u/claudined. For Europeans and other nationals you can make a Bank Transfer or use Wise. The maximum class size is 15.
***LOCAL STUDENTS/RESIDENT OPTION***
If you are living on São Miguel you will receive the local resident rate of 490€ with brunch and dinner or 350€ if you want to bring your own food. You can also attend individual days for 55€/day plus 10€ per meal or bring your own food. Please contact Host Claudine Desiree at claudinedesiree@gmail.com to see which days can be attended individually. and to register. Each meal (brunch and dinner) cost 10€/day and will be vegetarian with an emphasis on raw and vegan. Please contact claudinedesiree@gmail.com or call +351 964746071 or Whatsapp +1831 212-7225.
Para as mulheres que moram na ilha de São Miguel que querem participar, o custo para a semana com 2 refeições por dia è 490€. Residentes podem trazer a sua propia comida também e só pagar 350€ para os 7 dias. Também tem oportunidade de participar em certos dias para 55€ por dia (mais 10€ por refeição. Favor de contactar Claudine para registar e pedir que dias são disponiveis ao claudinedesiree@gmail.com, +351 964746071 ou com Whatsapp +1 831 212-7225.
È uma bela oportunidade que temos aqui na ilha….aproveitem!
ATÉ JÁ!!!
Location: Quinta da Vida Beleza
