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Portugal

By Special Invitation
Heaven on Earth - Spring 2019

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​The Heart of It All  
 


A Co-creation and Communion with Earth

​17th -23rd April, 2019


The Northern Lands of Portugal

What does it take to create Heaven on Earth?

Our immediate response is ...You. 

Really. You.
The pulsing heart of You.
The gently waking, wildly gushing all of You. 



This bio-dynamically farmed land near Guarda, is lived with, worked with, played with
and dreamt with.

This land, 
Dominio Vale do Mondego, is the calling card to what may be
a whole new knowing of You.

It has called us and we are calling
​You. 

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Imagine this...

​...a six day long communion with Earth and your body. ..through sound weaving, forging and crafting, through energetic processes, through expanding our gaze and stretching our bodies we will be exploring the wider lands and spaces. Through opening out and inviting a centre from which everything springs forth to nourish us we will travel to and be present with the often not met places of your own golden source pool. 


Through knowing this 'home space' it becomes more possible to find it anywhere. 

What we know is that this green blue red earth is truly golden...
We know this because we can perceive it. If you can perceive something you can have it!

If you'd like to flourish, to nourish, to be nourished and to flow with your body and your choices... have the aliveness and presence with living and dying and everything in between that really allows your awareness to expand and your life to become more like a living dance, a song or prayer of joy for the whole spectrum and more, then we totally and whole heartedly welcome you to play with us in this gorgeous place of restoration, inspiration and wondrous possibilties.




Would you like to​​ 
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- Develop a new relationship with your own body and the Earth?

- Learn and deepen your sensing and tracking of the language of energy?

- Receive from, engage and create with the elements and elementals – creating and inviting
  totally new possibilities for your future and that of the Earth?

- Allow a new paradigm of being on and with this planet to emerge?


- Deepen, shift and open your perception and perspective?

- Know yourself as a co-creator with the elements – crafting and forging a copper sound instrument​ in communion with the metal, the Earth and the elements?

- Experience and learn to use sound and sound weaving as an incredibly powerful tool for transformation and creation?

- Bring fluidity to what has been stagnant?

- Step into being a powerful change agent and a delight full contribution to the planet?
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- Find that living with the Earth as a co-creator asks you to have more fun than you usually allow yourself?


Who would like to play with us? 

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And what will we be co-creating as Sound Alchemists?
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It's copper that has come forward to be the shaper and to be shaped during these days ... copper... soft, warm, communicative and rich with the connection to the deeper parts of ourselves and each other. We find copper opens up immense communication with the mountains and the seas of the wider earth.
We have found copper facilitates the meeting of our own Heart and the Earth. 

Can you sense the gift of crafting a copper vessel in co-creation with the elements and then receiving ... drinking some of the wine made on that very land from the bowl you have forged...does that bring a new energetic to what communion might really be about?
What did those people of these grape growing lands know about the sun, the plants, the roots, the rivers ... their celtic forefathers and mothers? What do we bring towards them and what can be received and gifted through our celebration and being? 


We've been touched and taken into new places within ourselves through the attunement with this workshop and retreat...The invitation we are perceiving is one that asks - would we be willing to have the Earth be the acknowledged co-facilitator? 

We're excited and you're invited to come into a greater communion with all of the forces of Earth and Cosmos. 

What will you take away from these days and nights? Well that's really up to you. We are opening the lid on  vast treasure chest and share it with you! These are the tools from which we craft our living . . . the software and the hardware! 
Living with greater ease and possibiilties. More than a glimpse of magical possibilities and tools that expand awareness and perception as well 
 as open up your own doorways of knowing who you are and where you shine  - like the sun...? like a diamond...? like a crystal brought forward from the depths of the earth? 
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You will have a beautiful hand forged singing bowl or bell that you forged yourself ... an instrument that may ring out into the rest of your days...and beyond... or call you into the spaces of your own knowing of the heart from which it was gifted...

You will have tasted and lived with the kind of wonder and beauty and magic that has always been there for the choosing and will carry onwards to give you sustenance and new ways of being the creator in your of your own life...

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​This adventure into living as and with the earth will open the doors to a feast of riches. Through the six days and nights you will be offered a vast range of life enhancing tools and embodied experiences that you will always have access to following the retreat days. We describe these as our 
software and the hammers as our hardware. Through bringing them all together we offer you a whole kit bag of tools for greater conscious embodiment as you become more and more aware of the acoustical body and being you were born as. Sometimes it only takes reminding of what your body knows by giving it the space where other energies can slough off... this is one of the gifts of creating communion with your body and the Earth. 

What energies are required to allow and invite all elements to contribute and co-create harmony
​with the whole?
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Here is some of what we received when we tuned in with the energies of this workshop...​
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​B
ody as Earth,

​Earth as Body...

restoring
a communion with Earth...
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Copper Speaks... 
Gaia Calls

...of copper rich and iron poor 
through blue green lakes
an open door

to water, fire,
the air,
a view...
​of daughters

Gaia's songs renew...

To Earth has come a deep deep din 
when war was waged by name of sin...​


On Earth
restore a wholly song ​with 
woven chords and
silken throng...

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Copper stepped forward to conduct and to connect ...

a communion ...
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allowing our bodies to vibrate as and with the body of Earth

a land of rugged beauty...

enlivening

an oasis

where the mother can open her eyes and smile​

our trails can create this energy... if we invite it.

ask for it 
be it 
soften 
open 
allow..
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where human reality is congruent with Nature 

​be the 
vibrational reality where the mother can open her eyes and smile



If it resonates with what you are asking for too then this workshop and retreat will undoubtedly be received as a gift! 

We regard it as a gift - for us! - from the Earth and through to You.
We'd like to share these days and this invitation with You.

​Will you unveil You and be all you be with us? 

Booking for this Workshop is open now

 €1585 or £1395   
or
$1800


To book for this retreat non refundable deposit of 
€350 reserves your place

​To secure your place 
​
Pay deposit Here: 

For payment in £s, $s or full payment in Euros please get in touch via email to Gabriella

For any and all enquiries about this Heaven on Earth Co-Creation contact us here 


​Our venue Dominio Vale do Mondego, is a beautifully restored bio-dynamic farm and quinta nestled into a valley within the wooded hills of Portugal’s largest National Wilderness Reserve. With beautiful gardens and orchards, river pools, tastefully appointed studios for accommodation and group spaces, swimming pool with views of the mountains and so much more we are given a vast range of choices from which to enjoy the days here. 

What wonders, gifts and possibilities will these days and this land bring to you? 

Acommodations are twin shared and the food will be provided from the farm's own bio-dynamically grown resources as well as local suppliers. If you have any specific food needs or allergies the farm may ask for an additional contribution.

LOCATION Dominio Vale do Mondego is located in the Beira Alta district in the interior of Portugal,
about 45 km from the border with Spain, at the height of Salamanca.


Who are we?

Gabriella Kapfer

Heather Cowen

​Margaretta McIlvaine

Getting To The Venue:

The lands that we go to are a huge part of the invitation. The whole journey begins from the moment you choose to come and choosing your routes to travel is one of the many ways that magic shows up along the way. It former times these passages were pilgrimages and grail journeys... 

Here are some of the ways that have been recommended from within Portugal. 

To fly: 
To Porto
 - with TAP, Transavia, Vueling & Ryanair with the rental car it is a 2 hour drive on good toll highways by bus to Guarda takes 3 hours / train takes Guarda 3.5 hours

To Lisbon - with KLM, TAP, Transavia, Vueling & Easyjet with the rental car it is 3 hours away on good toll highways by bus to Guarda is 4 hours / by train to Guarda it is 4.5 hours


There are also ferries direct from the UK for those wishing to travel by sea.

Public Transport from Lisbon and Porto:
for the bus, visit: www.rede-expressos.pt
for the train, visit: www.cp.pt 
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What are we asking for?

In our preparations for bringing these days  into a shape we asked ourselves to dare to ask for what we'd like to have in your days of being there! This may have been the first time ever that we really asked rather than sensed what might be possible! We'd love to share those asks with you. They are the energies we are co-creating with and opening out to You! This is the language of energy that we live our lives from and we encourage you to go there - to the energy - as you read it! That way you'll know whether your body likes it too!

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The earth is a gift and thrives through our communion and our Joy!! 

Here's what Heather asked for...

"I'd like to be with people who are choosing to ask for and have more than they've ever allowed themselves to have.

I'd like days that are literally full through our drinking from the rich well of a sustaining and generative living that uplifts and inspires and encourages more of that! These are energies that top up the well and allow it to spill over, continually regenerating our lives as we move forward and create our futures. 
I'm asking for warm cool evenings under a vast starlit sky, soft sounds of the river rising up through he banks and the valley nearby as gentle laughter bubbles up from some of the beauty filled stories and inspirations being gathered and shared around the open fire. . . I find myself moving to sound from our voices and others, some gongs reach into the inner parts of my body and with a little more acknowledgment I open to allow my body to talk as she shows me what it is that is ready to leave...a wee small ceremony for death occurs as I reach open and wide and find more space for me inside. It is fluid and it is free and together we become the players and the instruments for creating change and lightness of body and being. I'm asking for a conscious hand to come towards me and know where my body asks for a kindness that she has rarely met... opening and allowing so much more to what my body knows and would willingly contribute ... if asked!
 
These are the days for calling forth the nourishment that sustains the choices that follow on from here...these days are the days where our gratitude and love of the earth and our own embodiment can be truly celebrated and shared, brought into the singing bowls and bells that are being crafted and resounding out into the wider cosmos.
These are the days that have me know how incredibly grateful to be alive and that I am overjoyed to co-create with the planet with every choice I make!

The people I would like to share these days and nights with are some of the most precious people on the planet ... they are creators and movers and connectors and wielders of swords and chalices or words or brush...they know they have gifts untold and delight in the exploration of those gifts coming towards them... happy to have them brought out of hiding and to be shared and celebrated by others!
They are people who know that we are each being asked to continually go to the source of their greatest magic and sharpen and hone their energetic wands, their tools of conscious creating and they are willing to know who they can be in any moment if required.

They know that every moment is a miracle and every star a reminder of an earlier home and that here on this earth there is only awe and wonder for what miracles are continually available and that they are the miraculous beings they perceive others to be!"


It's quite an invitation! It's an energy that so many of us actually are and are asking for more of. It's a frequency that if lived with and from continually builds and raises itself not from effort but from having created a wider expanse of willingness to Be that. It's an invitation that is open to all if they're willing to know that it's a choice to Know, Perceive, Receive and Be.

What are you asking for?​ We found this to be a powerful moment in totally changing the direction of our choices to travel to Portugal. Give it a try. Let go of everything and dare to Ask. What would you like? What are you willing to receive? What would you like to co-create?  
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