Meditative Holiday Retreat Portugal

Personal Retreats

Come and enjoy a meditative holiday retreat in Portugal, designed just for you. 

“Sitting silently, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself”,   Basho

Come and Do Nothing!

Give yourself a meditative holiday retreat in Portugal! Experience our unique off-grid farm, far away from the electronic over-stimulation that is ‘civilisation’. Enjoy the peaceful horses, the vast nature, the star-filled nights. Walk in the woods, swim in the lake, explore the area, or just sit quietly and enjoy the view. We will take care of you with good food and comfortable accommodation, the rest is up to you. Enjoy a total re-set, you deserve it! 

meditative holiday retreat can be lying in a hammock under an oak tree

Or do something

Activities

Activites and self-exploration

Your meditative holiday retreat can go even deeper when you engage with the horses and/or healing plants. Nayana is a lifelong horse student, an aromatherapist, herbalist and IFSCA certified coach, always happy to share her learning about horses, medicinal plants and our inner world. To check out some of the options, click on the plus sign to open the drop down menu for details. If you would like to make one of the options a focus for your visit, we will be happy to work with you to create the perfect program.

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    Face to Face with Horses

    Nayana will facilitate this meditative self-exploration as the horse herd invites you to be present, here and now, heart-connected, bathed in horse wisdom - €65 approx 1.5 hours

  2. 2
    IFS with horses

    With the help of the horses' reflective presence, and Nayana's guidance we will explore your inner world through the IFS system and bring clarity to inner conflicts. This is a profound and gentle self-exploration. €75. 1.5 hours approx

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    Horse Constellation

    Based on Hellinger's Family constellation system, this is an in-depth exploration of questions and issues you are facing. With Ma Moumina, Nayana and the herd - €125 approx 2 hours

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    Exploring horse

    Meet horses as you never have before. Answer questions like, "Who are they? What do they need? How can I best care for them?" For horse lovers, skilled or unskilled, who want to know more about the nature of horses - €65 approx 1.5 hrs

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    Aromatic distillation

    Learn the whole process of distilling aromatics from harvesting plants to collecting the essential oil. €65 per person approx 2 hours, extra person €35, max 4

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    Nature walk and meditation

    A gentle walk introducing you to the medicinal plants that grow here, meeting them consciously from your heart. Finishing with quiet time in the woods (Forest bathing) €25 approx 1 hour €5 per extra person

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    Aromancy

    work with Nayana to create a personal blend of essential oils to support you emotionally and physically. It's a healing journey. €75 per person 1 hour

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    Making Medicine

    Learn how to make simple lotions and potions with herbs and essential oils, how to harvest and preserve herbs, make flower essences and connect with the plant allies. What exactly is included depends on the time of year €175 2.5 hours approx

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    Essential oils for Animals

    Nayana will give you a quick introduction to how to care for animals naturally using essential oils and other aromatics. Approx 2 hours €125

meditative meeting with horses is part of this retreat in Portugal

Autumn 2025 Workshops

Self exploration with horses

27th September-2nd October

IFS Informed Inner Work with Horses

Horses, by their nature, make wonderful mirrors for humans, throwing light on parts of us that we often ignore, encouraging us to be authentic.  They are master communicators, helping us to recognise and regulate emotional states, communicate clearly, know our boundaries and to understand ourselves more deeply. 

Nayana has been helping humans know themselves better through horses for decades. She has a unique way of helping you come into the present, connect with the herd, and clear any unconscious mental or emotional patterns that may be holding you back. She uses body awareness techniques, energetic awareness and Internal Family Systems, a powerful way to increase self-awareness and liberate your self-love and compassion. 

This will be a transformative process as we travel deep into ourselves, held by the herd and the supportive environment of Over the Edge.

The days will flow something like this, but will be responsive to the group

  • Day 1: Arrival and settling in
  • Day 2: Focus on exercises to ground you and bring you fully into your body. Observing the herd to understand their natural communication
  • Day 3: Exploring the emotions and thoughts that arise as you move into presence, by getting to know your parts and direct reflection from the herd
  • Day 4: Learning to trust your intuitive sense and follow your own flow. Who are you in the herd? 
  • Day 5: Going deep with your selected horse teacher by simply being with them, now that it’s easy to be simply present.
  • Day 6: Time to go home with an expanded heart and inner relaxation.

Cost €1495 all inclusive. 

The Nature of Horses

26th-30th October

Caring for horses, body mind and soul

Would you like to know who horses really are and what they really need? Come and join us as we share what we have learned about the nature of horses in the 10 years we have lived together here. Still, it’s not really natural if there are fences is it? But Nayana has spent a life time figuring out how to provide our horses the best of nature AND nurture. This place is the culmination of that search.

Our horses live in an environment that provides their biological and psychological requirements as a self-determined herd. They are very different creatures to those who live in more constricted circumstances, well suited to teaching humans about the true nature of horses and what they really need. You will learn their native language,  the natural medicine we use, and how choice is everything. Knowledge you can use to create a NaturePlus environment  for horses anywhere.

  • Day 1: Arrival and settling in
  • Day 2: Meet the herd, includes “Being Horse” meditation. Observing the herd to understand their natural communication and bust a few myths
  • Day 3: Introduction to zoopharmacognosy, essential oils and herbs. How we use them in our daily care and how you can too.
  • Day 4: What horses want from humans, learning their language and how to speak it (Spoiler: its mostly about micro-movements, not being chased around.)
  • Day 5:  That’s it, time to go home feeling inspired and nourished

Cost €1295 all inclusive

When you click the button you will be taken to a form, fill out your details  choose your workshop and pay your deposit to reserve your place (it is all secure)

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More Info

All workshops include food, drinks and accommodation for the duration (more about accommodation here).  Food is delicious (so we’ve been told) vegetarian, multi-cultural. 

The price also includes pick up from Funcheira train station, or from Faro airport at 5 pm on the evening of start. 

The days are organised in a way to give you plenty of chill out time between active sessions. You can go for walks, or swim if it’s still warm enough, or just sit on the deck and enjoy the view. 

You don’t need to have any previous horse experience to join these workshops, just an honest desire to get to know them and yourself.

Numbers very limited so don’t hesitate to reserve your spot. If you are local and would like to join The Nature of Horses on a non-residential basis, contact us for prices and possibilities

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Basic Stay

Basic Stay

Basic stay includes all food and accommodation,  any optional activities are charged separately, so you can create the meditative holiday retreat to suit your budget and interests.

  1. 1
    4 nights basic stay- €525

    Price per person (25% discount for 2nd person in shared room)

    Includes: Accommodation, all food and drink, pick up and drop off from Funcheira train station

  2. 2
    7 nights basic stay - €775

    Price per person (25% discount for 2nd person in shared room)

    Includes: Accommodation, all food and drinks. Pick up and drop off from Funcheira station

    Extras:

    • Extra nights €115 pp all inclusive
    • Pick up from Faro airport, €100 each way
    • Pick up from Lisbon €250 each way
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    Silent Retreat​ - From €825

    For more experienced meditators, if you would like to spend some time in quiet contemplation in your own room with no other distractions, we can facilitate that.  We will support your body with simple vegetarian food served to your room at regular times, and keep an eye on your comfort unobtrusively. If you need anything from us we are right there, but otherwise, you are on your own. Here are guidelines for a 21 day meditation from Osho, but you can choose how many days you want to do.

    Package includes, Accommodation, all food and drink, pick up and drop off from Funcheira train station

    7 nights - €825

    21 days - €1800

    • Extra nights €115 pp all inclusive
    • Pick up from Faro airport, €100 each way
    • Pick up from Lisbon €250 each way

    More info and application here

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    More options
    • Extra nights €115 pp all inclusive
    • Pick up from Faro airport, €100 each way
    • Pick up from Lisbon €250 each way

 See more about the accommodation here

The perfect little cabin for the meditative yoga practitioner on holiday in Portugal

What our guests say....

FACILITIES

Simple, Comfortable, Natural

Our home here in Portugal is a beautiful off-grid eco-camp. Our facilities are designed to blend in to the landscape unobtrusively. The spaces are simple and clean, giving you the feeling of camping with the comfort of a room (I refuse to use the word glamping!). Accommodation is in simple wooden cabins or caravans, with all bedding supplied. We have warm showers and flush toilets in a small bathroom block. Our ethos is very much one of celebrating our embodied experience on this planet, with good food, good wine and good conversation with meditative awareness. For details on the accommodation click here

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We want to make sure that everyone who visits enjoys their stay, and understands the special nature of our home. Over the Edge is primarily a working farm. Our days are organised around taking care of the animals, caring for the land and distilling. We live with horses, dogs and cats who move freely around the place, so a love of animals is a prerequisite for an enjoyable visit. You need to take into consideration that we are far from ‘civilization’ and there is no public transport. Also you need to have a reasonable level of mobility to negotiate the slopes in and around the camp. If I haven’t put you off yet, contact us to book through the form below or on +351 968774022

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How to Get Here

By Car

By Train

Take a train to Funcheira from Faro airport (1.5 hours) or  Lisbon (2 hours). We can pick you up from there. More info on trains in Portugal here.

Airport Transfer

We can arrange pick up from Lisbon  for €250 per vehicle (cost per person depends on the number of passengers) or Faro for €125.

By Bus

You can also travel by bus from either Lisbon or Faro to Ourique, more info here. We can pick you up from Ourique 

    Over The Edge Farm is near Sao Martinho das Amoreiras, in Southern Alentejo, Portugal

    ADDRESS

    Monte de Nossa Senhora, CP7373
    São Martinho das Amoreiras
    7630-536 Odemira
    Portugal

    PHONE

    +351 968 774 022‬

    EMAIL

    info@otefarm.eu

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