Catarina Amaral
Imagine waking up to the first rays of summer sun on your face. You can hear the birds singing outside, and the Atlantic Ocean in the background.
You serve yourself with a cup of coffee or tea, take a walk through the venue gardens, and step into the wooden shala for a morning yoga flow to arrive fully in your body.
Breakfast is served in the garden, unrushed.
Everything is taken care of for you, and the only decision you have to make is if you will go for a swim in the pool or just rest in the gardens before our workshops and adventures around the island.
Afternoons are for strolling along the beach, surfing, coasteering, or exploring the island.
Evenings bring yoga, relaxed dinners with fresh local food, laughter, and deep conversations with women who, like you, are standing at a turning point.
And somewhere in the middle of all this… you realise you finally have the space to think clearly, understand the changes you’ve been going through, and get honest about what you truly want for your life.
This is Breakthrough Retreat.
What to expect from this retreat?
A 6-day experience for women who are in a phase of change in their life and need distance from their routine to gain clarity, reconnect with themselves, and understand what this next chapter is asking from them.
You’re are an adventurous, intuitive, and hard-working woman who is committed to her personal growth. You care deeply about your well-being, love nature, and you’re not afraid to step out of your comfort zone.
But lately, even with a “good” life, something inside feels off…The things that used to feel right no longer feel the same.
👉🏻 Maybe you are at that season of your life where you open your laptop on Monday morning and think: “I can’t keep doing this…". You don’t hate your job, but it doesn’t light you up like it used to. You lay in bed at night imagining a different scenario, you have a few tabs of job listings opened on your laptop but you have been doing this for so long, that you don't even know what else you could do. In the mean time, you keep waking up everyday wishing for the weekend to arrive and you go through your days craving for the moment you can finally close your laptop and have time for yourself.
👉🏻Your days are full, from morning to evening, with work, responsibilities, errands to take care of, and there’s barely a moment where you’re just with yourself, with nothing to do. You've started noticing you’ve been saying ‘yes’ to plans, work projects, and favors you don't even want to… and then you regret it the moment you get home, wondering why you agreed in the first place and you even get frustrated with yourself for overriding what you actually needed.
👉🏻You are constantly tired, your muscles tense all the time, and sometimes you are invaded by this sense of feeling overwhelmed with all you have to do that you just want to cry! So you go for a walk, a yoga class, or even sit down to journal, but it feels like another item on your endless to-do list of “things to be balanced.”
You feel the pull for a slower pace of live, where you have more time for yourself, to do the things that you love and bring you joy, but you don't know how you can create more time in your days.
👉🏻 Or maybe you’re in a relationship where you feel more like roommates than partners — where the conversations and the plans you once made together no longer excite you, yet you keep saying yes out of comfort rather than love. Deep down, you know something needs to change, but you haven’t given yourself the time to truly process it yet...
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Why this is happening & What you need
You’re changing on the inside, and your outer world hasn’t caught up yet. And that gap, between who you’re becoming and how you’re living, is what feels uncomfortable.
But right now, you are trying to “figure things out” in your head. Journaling, meditation, long conversations with friends, maybe even therapy.
But change doesn’t happen when you’re thinking about your life.
It happens when you pause and notice how you feel instead of automatically saying yes.
When choosing yourself doesn’t feel uncomfortable or selfish anymore.
That's why the Breakthrough Retreat is what you need right now. To get you out of your head, and into your body.
A different environment where you'll have time to pause and hear yourself clearly again. A space where you step out of your routine, the constant noise, the to-do lists…and finally get honest with yourself about:
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What you actually want (not what looks good, makes sense, or keeps everyone else comfortable)
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The patterns that keep you overthinking, overcommitting, and disconnecting from yourself
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And how to bring joy back into your life!
You'll move, breathe, spend time in nature.
You'll surf, hike and explore.
You'll share stories, laught, relax and feel joyful again.
And in those moments, when you’re fully there, and not overthinking or analysing, clarity comes naturally.
The most aligned decisions aren’t made in stress or pressure. They come when you feel joyful, open, and fully connected to yourself. And from that place, the decisions that once felt confusing start to feel obvious.
This isn’t about forcing change. It’s about becoming the version of you who naturally chooses what’s right for her.
It's about stop living on autopilot and start creating a life that feels deeply aligned with who you are now.
✓You go back home after the retreat, and for the first time in months, your mind feels quiet when you go to bed. No more replaying conversations or decisions over and over. You actually fall asleep within minutes.
✓It’s Monday morning, you walk up to your boss and say: “Can we talk for a moment?” and you finally have the conversation you’ve been rehearsing in your head for weeks.
✓You stop saying yes to things you don’t have capacity for — another work task, a last-minute plan, a favor you don’t really want to do — and for the first time, you don’t spiral in guilt after. You know how to express your needs and limits with confidence.
✓You stop looking outside yourself for reassurance. As you learn to trust your direction, you become magnetic and naturally attract people and opportunities that support this new version of you.
✓Instead of ending your days wondering “if there’s more to life”, you go to bed knowing you’re moving in the direction that actually matters to you, and you feel at peace.
✓ When it’s time to make a decision, you no longer go into “It’s not the right moment” or “What if it doesn’t work?”. You listen to your body, trust your intuition, and know whether that choice aligns with the life you actually want.
That’s the intention behind the Breakthrough Retreat.
A space to understand what you have outgrown in your life, and to choose differently, so you can start making choices that truly reflect who you are now, not who you used to be.
Imagine this...
Schedule
Day 1
4:30pm: Arrival
5:30pm: Opening Cerimony & Intention setting
7:30pm: Dinner
Day 2
8am: Grounding Yoga Flow
9:30am: Breakfast
11am: Workshop "Rooted in your Why"
1:30 pm: Visit a hidden waterfall & local beach
6pm: Meditation & Somatic Yoga
7:30pm: Dinner
Day 3
8am: Vinyasa Yoga
9:30am: Breakfast
11am: Visit to a natural landscape
12:30pm: Surf lesson
(the surf schedule can change due to ocean tides)
3pm: Free time to go to the beach, rest or do a massage
6pm: Restorative Yoga
7:30pm: Dinner
Day 4
8am: Vinyasa Yoga
9:30am: Breakfast
11am: Workshop "Patterns in motion"
1pm: Free time to visit the island, hike or rest
7:30pm: Dinner
Day 5
7:30am: Somatic Yoga Flow
8:30am: Breakfast
10 am: Coasteering experience
1 pm: Free time to go to the beach, rest or do a massage
6pm: Somatic movement
7:30pm Dinner & gathering around the fire pit
Day 6
8:00 am: Ending Cerimony
9:30 am: Breakfast
11:30 am: Check out
Nothing in this schedule is mandatory, everything is an invitation. This is your week, your time, your body. Come with an open heart and open mind, but also know that this is a space that you can step in fully only if it's feels good for you.
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Where?
I didn’t choose the Azores by chance.
I was born and raised here, in the heart of the Atlantic, where nature and a slower pace of life invite you to just be.
This retreat takes place in a peaceful venue surrounded by green valleys, volcanos and ocean view. It’s the perfect setting to slow down, turn inward, and create space for your own breakthroughs.
We will surf in the Atlantic, hike along the cliffs, and visit some of the most breathtaking spots on the island. Every activity becomes a living expression of your inner work.
You’ll also taste delicious local food, feel the Azorean hospitality, and experience this island as a welcomed guest.
So come with me. Let the beauty of the Azores shake things up, and remind you who you are becoming.
After all, this isn’t just a vacation, it's a breakthrough.
Your home for 6 days and 5 nights is Quinta Morazes, an antique vineyard property, located in Rabo de Peixe, on São Miguel Island.
Surrounded by several hectares of lush green space, the property invites you to slow down and reconnect. You can walk through the gardens, pick fresh fruit straight from the trees, or visit the greenhouse. Around the property, you’ll also find plenty of quiet corners to soak up the sun around the pool, read, or journal.
The stunning wooden yoga shala provides an inspiring space for our daily practices.
Quinta Morazes offer us three spacious apartments, each fully equipped with a kitchen, living room, bathroom, and private terrace for your comfort. Rooms can be shared between two people (single beds) or reserved as a private room (double bed).
Facilities include:
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Free Wi-Fi
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Towels
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Hair dryer
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Safe
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Shampoo & Soap
Where will you stay?
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Meet your host
Hi!
My name is Catarina, I’m 36 years old, and I’m from the Azores, Portugal.
For about 10 years, I worked in Nutrition and build a successful career as a Team Manager. I had a stable job, a long-term relantionship, and a life that, from the outside, looked perfect. But inside, I felt like I was living someone else’s idea of what my life should be.
When I discovered surf at the age of 26, it changed everything for me. It reconnected me with a sense of freedom, presence, and joy that I hadn’t felt in a long time. That’s also what led me to yoga. And at first, yoga was something I did for flexibility and to support my surfing, but over time, it became the practice that helped me reconnect with myself on a deeper level.
Through yoga, I started asking myself harder questions:
"What do I actually want for my life? What am I afraid of? What am I holding onto that’s keeping me stuck?" - I started to go through a process of inner change, and my outer world wasn't yet reflecting that.
And so, through that process I found the clarity and courage to leave a long-term relationship, quit my corporate job in 2021, and fully commit to building a life that felt true to me, working as a yoga teacher and surf instructor.
This past year, my personal journey went even deeper. Although I was practicing yoga, meditation, journal and even working out 3 times a week, I realized how much I was neglecting the constant tension and pain in my body, the sleepless nights, the anxiety that kicked in for "no reason" and I almost felt my heart coming out of my chest...
I became aware of how much I was trying to juggle between work, relantionship and taking care of everyone around me, and how that was impacting my health and wellbeing. And that's when I leaned into somatics and re-learned how to truly listen to my body, to reconnect with my inner compass and to respect my own rhythm and needs.
I knew it was time to make changes in my life again, and so I did. I said no to every work project that didn't light my soul on fire, I've learned to set boundaries without feeling guilty about it, I've learned that rest can be the most productive thing you can do, and most important, I've learned to listen to myself.
And that’s why I created this retreat. Because I know what it’s like to feel stuck in routines that don’t inspire you anymore, to stay in situations out of fear or comfort, and to question whether you’re meant for something more. And I also know how powerful it is to get clear on what you want, face what’s been holding you back, and take action from a place of self-trust.
This retreat brings together the tools that changed my life — yoga, somatics, mindset work, and adventure — so you can reconnect with yourself, find clarity, and create the kind of shifts that actually last.
How to book?
Reserve your spot with just a 30% deposit, and settle the remaining balance 30 days before arrival.
Want to make it even easier?
We offer a flexible payment plan too!
Your deposit is non-refundable.