Awakeland Portugal

10/08/2026

We live in a world that is almost entirely visual. Screens, notifications, the constant stream of images demanding our attention. And because of this, most of us experience life primarily through our eyes, while the rest of our senses quietly wait to be remembered.

When you remove sight, the body reorganises itself.
Suddenly sound is not background. It is everything. The singing bowl doesn’t just enter through the ears, it moves through the chest, the belly, the skin. Vibration becomes information. The body starts receiving in a way it simply cannot when the eyes are open and the mind is busy processing what it sees.

In Ta**ra, this is called awakening the senses. A remembering that the body has always been capable of receiving more than we allow it to. That pleasure, healing and presence don’t only come through the eyes. That sound, touch, breath and taste are all doorways into a deeper experience of being alive.

The blindfold is not about taking something away.
It is about giving something back.
The capacity to feel fully. To receive completely. To be surprised by your own body’s intelligence when you finally stop managing the experience and just let it arrive.

This is one of the practices that lives inside the Awaken Experience Retreat, a five-day immersion into the senses, the body and the living practice of Ta**ra at Awakeland Portugal. 🔥

🗓 12–16 August 2026
📍 Awakeland Portugal · Monchique · Algarve
Guided by Ashik, Laxmi & Mariana Puja

📩 Reserve your place — link in bio · Spaces are limited 🌿

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09/08/2026

The most powerful thing two people can share is conscious breath. 🌿

Because when two people breathe together, consciously, slowly, fully, something in the nervous system recognises that it is safe. The walls come down. And what is left is something so simple and so rare it almost feels unfamiliar.

Presence. Genuine meeting. The feeling of being with someone rather than beside them.

This is one of the most foundational practices in Ta**ra, not because it is dramatic or intense, but because it is honest. The breath doesn’t lie. It shows you exactly where you are, what you are holding, and what becomes possible when you finally let it go.

Two people breathing together in full presence is an act of profound intimacy.

And it is a doorway into everything the Awaken Experience Retreat explores. 🔥

🗓 12–16 August 2026
📍 Awakeland Portugal · Monchique · Algarve
Guided by Ashik, Laxmi & Mariana Puja

📩 Reserve your place — link in bio · Spaces are limited 🌿

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08/08/2026

We spend so much time trying to improve our relationships and so little time simply being present in them. 🌿

Intimacy is not about knowing more about someone. It is not about more time together, more communication techniques or more effort.

It is actually about presence. The quality of attention you bring. Whether you are actually here in this conversation, this moment, this connection, or somewhere else while going through the motions.
And presence is something most of us have to relearn. We live in a world that rewards constant distraction, half-attention and emotional management over genuine feeling.

The practice of presence begins with yourself. In your own body and your breath. Your own capacity to feel what is actually here rather than what you think should be here.

From there, everything else changes.
Swipe to explore what real intimacy actually asks of us. 👉🌿

🔥 The Awaken Experience Retreat at Awakeland Portugal is a five-day immersion into exactly this: presence, connection, embodiment and sacred intimacy guided by Ashik, Laxmi and Mariana Puja.

🗓 12–16 August · Awakeland Portugal
📩 Link in bio · Spaces are limited 🌿

06/08/2026

In July we had an amazing edition of our Awaken Experience Retreat 🙌🏼 check out what some of our participants and teachers have to share about the retreat.

Next edition of Awaken Experience Retreat is already next week August 12 - 16, join us!

Awaken Experience Retreat 🔥
5 days · Breathwork · Sacred intimacy
Somatic meditation · Ceremony
Guided by Ashik, Laxmi
& Mariana Puja
In the heart of the Monchique Mountains
Awakeland Portugal · August 12–16

06/08/2026

29/07/2026

On the night of 29th July, we gather beneath the most sacred full moon of the year. 🌕

Guru Purnima — celebrated for thousands of years across India and conscious communities worldwide — is the full moon dedicated to honouring the Guru.
Not only the external teacher, but the inner light that has always been guiding you home.

Guru means the one who takes you from darkness to light.
Purnima means full moon.

On this night, the moon is at its fullest — a mirror for the awareness that every spiritual practice is ultimately pointing toward. It is a night for gratitude, for music, for meditation, for ceremony, and for the recognition that the light we seek is already within us.

27/07/2026

Safety is the foundation at Awakeland. 🌿

Before the depth. Before the exploration. Before anything else — there is care.

Ashik says it simply and he means it completely: we don’t push. We respect boundaries. We create an environment so safe that the body can finally exhale — and from that exhale, real transformation becomes possible.
Because the goal was never intensity for its own sake. It was never about chasing peak experiences that disappear the moment you get home.

It is about integration. About meeting what is already inside you — gently, softly, with full permission to breathe and feel at whatever pace your body needs.

The Awaken Experience Retreat is held by guides trained in somatic practice and trauma-informed facilitation — prepared to meet whatever arises with skill, care and presence. There is no pressure to go anywhere you are not ready to go. There is only an invitation to feel what is already there.

That is the environment we hold at Awakeland. 🌿
And it is exactly what makes the work so powerful.
When you feel truly safe — something in you that has been waiting a very long time finally arrives.

🔥 Awaken Experience Retreat
12–16 August 2026 · Awakeland Portugal · Monchique · Algarve
🌟 Early Bird €888 — book before 31st July · Save €111
💑 Couples & Friends — €1,599 for 2 · Save €399
📩 Reserve your place — link in bio · Spaces are limited 🌿

25/07/2026

Ta**ra doesn’t live on a retreat. It lives in your life. 🌿

In the breath before you react. In the quality of attention you bring to a conversation. In the willingness to feel what your body is actually holding instead of pushing through it one more time.

The ancient path of Ta**ra was never about peak experiences. It was about bringing a different quality of presence to all of it — the extraordinary and the completely ordinary.

Swipe for four ways to start bringing that into your daily life right now.

And if you feel the call to go deeper — to experience what these practices feel like when they’re held properly, in a safe space with expert guidance and 21 hectares of mountain nature around you — the Awaken Experience Retreat arrives at Awakeland Portugal this August.

🌟 Early Bird €888 — book before 31st July
🗓 12–16 August 2026
📩 Link in bio · Spaces are limited 🌿

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23/07/2026

Your senses have been waiting for this. 🌿

When did you last truly taste something — not while scrolling, not while thinking about the next thing, but fully, completely present to the experience in your mouth?

When did you last feel touch that you actually received — that landed somewhere, that you let matter?

When did you last let yourself be surprised by your own body?

We spend so much of our lives in our heads — planning, processing, performing — that the senses become background noise. Something to manage rather than something to inhabit.

Ta**ra starts here. In the body. In the breath. In the radical act of actually feeling what is happening right now.

The Awaken Experience Retreat is a five-day immersion into exactly this — guided by Ashik, Laxmi and Mariana Puja at Awakeland Portugal in the heart of the Monchique Mountains.

Through breathwork, somatic meditation, sacred intimacy and evening ceremonies, you will find your way back to yourself — not as a concept, but as a lived, felt, embodied reality.

Your senses have been waiting.
August is the invitation. 🔥

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🌟 **Early Bird — €888**
Book before 31st July and save €111
Regular price €999 · Includes accommodation, 3 daily plant-based meals, private integration sessions and online group follow-up call

💑 **Couples & Friends Offer — €1,599 for 2**
Save €399 when you book together

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🗓 12–16 August 2026
📍 Awakeland Portugal · Monchique · Algarve
📩 Reserve your place — link in bio · Spaces are limited 🌿

22/07/2026

Some experiences change the direction of everything. 🌿

The Awaken Experience Retreat returns to Awakeland Portugal this August — a five-day immersion into the living practice of Ta**ra, guided by Ashik, Laxmi and Mariana Puja in the heart of the Monchique Mountains.

This is not a lecture. It is not a workshop. It is a direct, embodied journey, through breathwork, somatic meditation, sacred sexuality as a path of awakening and evening ceremonies that weave it all together.

Mornings root you in the body.
Afternoons open the field of connection and erotic life force.
Evenings become ceremony and integration.

And the journey doesn’t stop when you leave — the retreat includes two private integration sessions and one online group follow-up call to support what has opened in you as it lands in your daily life.

Open to all. Singles and couples. All orientations, all bodies, all backgrounds. No prerequisites — only an open heart and a willingness to explore.

🌟 Early Bird: €888 — book before 31st July and save €111
Regular price: €999

Accommodation options from shared to private available — details via link in bio.

🗓 12–16 August 2026
📍 Awakeland Portugal · Monchique · Algarve
📩 Reserve your place — link in bio · Spaces are limited 🌿

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