The Surrender Experience is a 7-day immersive balancing journey, facilitated for sincere sojourners who are ready to release resistance, soften stress, and embrace a life lived from deep trust and inner alignment.  Surrender, in this sense, isn’t about “giving up.”  It is an invitation to abide in the magic of grace while surrendering our attachment to fear.

Through guided practices, reflective moments, plant medicines, community connections, and sacred rituals, The Surrender Experience nurtures profound inner shifts—not through forced effort, but through deep connection.

Facilitated In: English | Moderate Translation Available: Portuguese & Spanish

During the experience, you will be compassionately guided to:

• ⚡ Release burdensome energy blockages.

• 🌀 Reconnect with your organic divine rhythm.

• 🌈 Restore a felt sense of trust within healing community.

• 🚀 Rediscover a faith that births pure, childlike enthusiasm.

• 💌 Receive life-clarifying insights that deepen your capacity for love.

The Surrender Experience offers safe structure, transformative depth, and space for integration. Each facilitator nurtures various opportunities to activate wholehearted trust, limitless clarity, and embodied presence. Attendee support and well-being is at the core of this experience's design.

You can expect:

• 🛡️A thorough screening and preparation process.

• 🥇Certified professionals with over 30+ years of combined experience.

• 🔥Warm, intimate group-sizes to improve connectivity and attentiveness.

• ❣️Trauma-informed care that encourages groundedness and safety.

• 🥕Nourishing cuisine prepared by a private chef/nutritionist.

• 📅A balanced schedule that harmonizes our need for activity and relaxation.

• 🌳Accommodations in a countryside ecosystem surrounded by natural beauty.

The Surrender Experience will be hosted at the Historic Preserve of Aldeia da Mata Pequena, in the northwest region of Lisbon, Portugal. This rural village has been rigorously restored to preserve the unique culture of the Portugues countryside. It instantly transports you to an age and time when connection to land and close-knit community fueled human progress. Boasting some of the best views in the 'Saloia' region, Mata Pequena invites all residents to unplug, unwind, and unburden in a picturesque secret village.

The Surrender Experience is for brave seekers who have practiced working with sacred ritual and contemplative practice.  It is a gathering of maturing feelers, seers, sensers, dreamers, healers, changemakers, and awakeners who embrace authenticity while inviting healthy vulnerability.

Participants should be comfortable engaging activities such as:

• ☀️ Healing Circles

• 🥾 Hiking (with elevation)

• ☯️ Meditation

• 🌬️ Somatic exercise

• 🎁 Group Sharing

• 🎵 Ecstatic Dance

• 🐴 Equine Connection

• 🌱 Plant Medicine Ceremonies

• 📍 Nature Excursions

🧿 Freedom Maitreya — Spiritual Counselor & Clairvoyant

Freedom is an international teacher and ordained counselor with over 15 years of facilitation experience. Currently, he is a Bartlett Scholar at Drew University, where his research in Contemplative Practice Across Traditions has inspired his teaching and learning across six continents. With degrees and certifications in energy medicine, spiritual formation, and human development, Freedom has also nurtured empathic clairvoyant gifts which he compassionately offers to those seeking relief, direction, or encouragement.

💞 Cláudia "Priya" Polido — Intuitive Healer & Therapist

Cláudia is an international facilitator with 20 years of experience, dedicated to personal and organizational development, healing and spirituality. She holds two postgraduate degrees and several international certifications such as systemic constellations, neuro-linguistic programming (trainer), coaching, equine-assisted interventions, trauma and biopsychology.  Cláudia’s work integrates intuition, mediumship and a holistic perspective, supporting individuals and groups in their inner processes.

🥑 Leslie Dopper — Health Coach & Chef

Leslie is a holistic health coach and chef who believes that food is one of the most powerful ways to reconnect with your body. She creates plant-based, gluten-free meals that are deeply nourishing—each dish built with intention, using plants, herbs and spices to gently support digestion, energy, and overall balance. Her approach goes beyond what’s on the plate. Leslie works with the body as a whole, guiding people back to their own body wisdom, where nourishment also includes rest, rhythm, and the nervous system.

💎 CLARITY—at all times, there is an infinite potential for growth, maturation, and wholeness beyond confusion.

💎 BALANCE—through present awareness, we find a calm center between the realms of the seen and the unseen.

💎 ILLUMINATION—the act of awakening invites an expansion beyond old limitations into dawning breakthroughs.

💎 SYMMETRY—harmonizing the duality (the opposites in us and around us) is the highest work of love.

💎 ATTUNMENT—the essence of the Divine Source is in all that lives, and we align our thoughts, feelings, and actions with this source.

💎 KINSHIP—our human family is interconnected and interdependent; therefore, we honor each person’s sovereignty and safety.

💎 MYSTERY—walking in confident uncertainty (faith) opens the door for magic and miracles to manifest.

🧡 “I felt the ONENESS again and again! There was lots of love and peace—lots of tears as well. I deeply believe that this program is going to benefit lots of people and will be a life-changing experience for every single participant.”

- Sandy, Taiwan

💜 “My journey felt guided by something ancient and deeply intelligent; it was truly life-changing! Worth every penny!!! I was able to soften, listen, and reconnect with parts of myself that had been quiet for a long time.”

- Jeleise, USA

💚 "This experience has the power to turn us inside out with a unique gentleness. It is a process full of love and support, a place where we feel safe even when facing the darkest areas of our being. It is deeply healing work from the inside out."

 - Soraia, Portugal

🩵 "The experience brings together a synthesis of psychological competence and intuitive and spiritual depth. It puts the ego aside and reaches the depth of a person’s soul.”        

- Giulio, Italy

🩷 "Do you know that feeling when you are about to be held exceptionally by an experienced practitioner/healer? Your body is relaxed, breathing is deep, you're even invited to co-create the space. It was a profound experience that had lasting effects."

- Corina, Romania