Welcome to Liminal Retreat
Change Is a Threshold
The Liminal Retreat invites you to rest in a subtle field, the in-between space,
a connective space linking what was and what is emerging.
Here, uncertainty softens. Stillness and breath coexist.
Through embodied awareness, transition becomes not something to endure, but something to inhabit.
This is a journey into awareness and presence - where insight is lived, not only understood and movement is regenerated.
Algarve, Portugal · Summer 2026
The Liminal Space - The In-Between
What Is The Liminal Retreat?
The Liminal Retreat is a five-night immersive journey designed for those who encounter change and transition, personally or professionally, and are seeking grounded, embodied tools to flow through it.
Rooted in somatic practice, the retreat offers a space where body, mind, and awareness meet. With guided experiences and reflective inquiry, participants learn to inhabit change rather than resist it, transforming uncertainty into clarity and resilience.
What You Will Experience
Embodied Practices
Within the liminal space, the threshold between who you have been and who you are becoming - the body becomes the gateway.
Drawing from both Eastern philosophy and Western integration, the retreat bridges insight with lived practice, offering tools that extend far beyond the retreat itself. Each practice is intentionally curated to guide you through release, renewal, and refined inner alignment.
1.
Transformational Breathwork:
A conscious connected breathwork technique that dissolves inner resistance and opens a spacious field for emotional release, clarity and quiet transformation.
2.
Tibetan Rites:
A rhythmic, energising ritual rooted in ancient wisdom, awakening life force and restoring a graceful current of vitality through the body.
3.
Dynamic Mat Pilates:
An intelligent practice that balances and brings elegance into movement. Cultivating stability and sculpting strength from within, creating embodied confidence.
4.
Float Therapy Experience:
A somatic experience - weightless flotation in warm water, where body-mind and soul can expand naturally, effortlessly into a gentle relaxation and meditation.
The nervous system unwinds and surrenders to quality integration between the external and internal dimensions.
5.
Guided Ice Bath Experience
A consciously supported encounter with the cold, sharpening presence,mental-mindset, refining resilience, and anchoring calm within an intensive environment.
6.
Sauna Rituals:
Intentional invitation to detox supported by heat. A deep cleansing and cellular sense of renewal.
7.
Sound Healing Bath:
A moment of cocoon frequencies carrying you into a profound peacefulness resonating through body, mind, and soul into a subtle inner harmony and integration.
Integrative Talks & Workshops
Complementing the embodied practices, these refined presentations and open conversations invite expanded perspective and a positive point of view.
Each session explores the inner landscape, offers clarity, Illuminates inner wisdom and generates movement towards growth.
The Liminal Space:
An intimate exploration of the threshold between endings and beginnings, where uncertainty, tension and discomfort become fertile ground for transformation and alignment.
Mentoring Mindset for Personal Growth:
A reflective and empowering framework that renames challenges as pathways, cultivating a point of view by redirecting passions and strengths into a clear vision, direction and conscious evolution.
Hormonal Balance through Nutrition:
An integral and practical approach to nourishment, aligning food with physiological rhythms and needs in support of vitality and harmonised body-mind and spirit.
Intuitive Writing & Art Workshop:
Creative spontaneity and joyful activity allow deep insights to rise above the surface, unlocking authentic emotions and making space for expression.
Together, these elements create a hybrid spacious container for beneficial rest alongside somatic activities, bringing up reflections that mobilise personal transformation into decision-making.
Together, these elements form a spacious, hybrid container, where rest and reflection intertwine, and personal transformation unfolds with depth and natural ease.
Our Program
A Five-Night Immersion
Five thoughtfully structured days designed to balance depth and spaciousness, combining embodied practices, restorative therapies, reflective sessions, and time for integration.
Retreat Flow
Day 1: Arrival & Opening
Soft landing, welcoming and first shared art workshop experience.
Days 2–4: deepening & Integration
Morning practice, opening circle, exploration of therapeutic workshops with space for rest.
Mini tour in the Algarve surroundings.
Day 5: Closing & Embodiment
Creative integration, final circle, and celebratory dinner.
Day 6: Departure
Breakfast, saying goodbye and a grounded return home.
The Setting
The retreat is hosted in a privately curated villa in the Algarve, southern Portugal, just moments away from the Atlantic coastline.
The property balances refined comfort with local atmosphere, designed with natural warmth and simplicity, and serves as a meeting point of old and new. Generous indoor–outdoor living areas, a pool, a jacuzzi, and warm communal spaces allow for both connection and privacy.
Set within a quiet natural landscape, the villa offers a gentle separation from the daily pace, creating the conditions for restoration, a meaningful pause, and a foundation for clarity, focus, and a new mindset.
Nourishment
Our chef prepares fresh, vegetarian-based meals using locally sourced, high-quality ingredients.
The menu is thoughtfully designed to support hormonal balance, sustained vitality, and mental clarity, combining simplicity, nourishment, and quiet pleasure.
Dietary needs and sensitivities are accommodated with care.
Meet The Founders
Omer Shenar
Director & Co-Founder
Omer has shaped his Hydroptherapy path across both rehabilitation and wellness fields. By intertwining Eastern and Western philosophies, integrating skills with personal growth into a practical mentoring-based approach.
As co-creator of the Float Therapy method, he is internationally recognised for his professional therapeutic values and didactic teaching.
Moran Gabay
Facilitator, Host & Co-Founder
Moran is the relational heart of the retreat. With grounded presence and refined sensitivity, she creates spaces where participants feel both most comfortable and safe, holds exceptional standards without losing warmth - authentic, precise.
Her professional background lies in the field of education, accompanying the educational developmental journeys of both children and adults.
Specialist Facilitators
A carefully selected team of experienced practitioners supports the retreat, each bringing depth in their field and alignment with the retreat’s philosophy.
Dominique Krauch
Fascial Maneuvers Coach • Pilates Instructor • Lifestyle Artist
Dominique is a Fascial Maneuvers Coach and lifestyle artist with a deeply intuitive approach to healing. Her work is guided by a strong ability to read energy, often sensing what lies beneath tension or physical sensation - emotional patterns, holding, or unmet needs in the body
With a background in Pilates, somatic work, and fashion design, Dominique sees healing as an art of living - where movement, breath, and daily choices support long-term wellbeing
She guides people to release stored tension, reconnect with their inner rhythm, and return to the intelligence of their own body
Einat Goren
Pilates nstructor • Hormonal Balance • Ice Bath Facilitation
Einat is a certified Pilates and rehabilitation specialist with over a decade of experience. With a deep desire to train and develop a more holistic approach. Rediscovering balance through physical mindful movement and hormonal balance through nutrition, offering a grounded approach to vitality with emotional and mental well-being.
Founder of Ericeira Pilates Studio in Portugal, she is dedicated to her vision to cultivate awareness, vitality and community.
Beccy Humphrey
Transformational Breathwork Facilitator
Beccy’s anchor and life work is rooted in the transformative power of breath. Trained exclusively in transformational breath, she holds spaces that are both intuitive and structured for energy-based healing modalities and transformation. Living and establishing a clinic in the Mediterranean desert fused the raw wisdom of the land with ceremonial experiences that formed a grounded yet expansive approach to inner work.
Her path spans studies in the UK and immersive years of professional studies in Asia and Australia.
Where
The Algarve, Southern Portugal
Located along Portugal’s southern coastline, the Algarve is known for its dramatic cliffs, beautiful beaches, and luminous Atlantic light.
Just a short distance from the historic town of Lagos, the region offers a rare blend of wild natural beauty and quietness. Fresh ocean air and open horizons create an atmosphere that feels both grounding and expansive.
Easily accessible from Faro Airport, the location allows for smooth travel while feeling distinctly removed from everyday pace.
When
Summer 2026
A two-night retreat will be offered in summer, at the height of the Algarve’s warm, golden season.
Retreat
Friday-Sunday | 3-5 July 2026
Expect a calm seasonal rhythm: warm days, soft evening light, ocean breeze, ideal for movement practices and restorative evenings.
Accommodation & Investment
Comfortable rooms with showers and toilets
Fee per person
Suite Room
Weekend Retreat
700 € - 2 nights
Double bed + Shower & toilet
Fee per person
Dormitory Room
525€ - 2 nights
3 single beds + Shower & toilet
Fee per couple
Suite Room
Weekend Retreat
600 € - 2 nights
Double bed + Shower & toilet
Fee per person
Participating only
No accommodation
450 - 2 days
Your investment includes:
• 2-night plan
• Welcome Gifts and Kit
• Daily Vegetarian-based Meals (Short tour in Lagos, excluding one dinner)
• Full participation in all embodied practices and workshops
• Growth Mindset / Professionalism / Educative / Safety & Trust
• Genuine authenticity and open-hearted hospitality and care
• Housekeeping services
A Thoughtful Joining Process
We begin with a short introduction form and questionnaire, a simple way for us to get to know you and what draws you to this retreat. The purpose of the questionnaire is to ensure full enjoyment of all the activities we offer, along with safety and personal attention for each participant. From there, if you feel the need for additional information or have any doubts regarding participation, we’ll personally reach out to arrange a private conversation. This call is a space to connect, share the full details, answer your questions, and gently explore whether this experience feels right for you. Once participation is confirmed, a €420 deposit secures your place within the group. The deposit is deducted from your total retreat fee, with the remaining balance due 60 days before arrival. To preserve the intimacy and depth of the retreat, places are intentionally limited.
Submitting the form does not commit you - it simply begins the conversation.
* Cancellation terms are detailed in our Terms & Conditions
Contact Us
For specific inquiries not addressed on the website, you’re welcome to reach out below.
For application-related matters, please use the Application Form.
We respond personally within a few business days.
Direct Contact
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+351 96 988 1446