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A journey to remember
12th - 16th June 2025 // Portugal

Join Betty & Emily at our home in Portugal for five days of
devotion, ceremony, prayer and play.

Sleep on the earth, bathe to the sound of birdsong, move your body to the backdrop of the mountains and breathe as the breeze sings through the eucalyptus tree leaves.

Casa da Mãe

Between the mountains and river beaches of central Portugal, you will discover Casa Da Mãe; A home & community space rooted in rewilding, connection and community as daily medicine. The land at Casa Da Mãe - House of the Mother - has already taught us so much. Time after time it has brought us both home to ourselves, reminding us of the beauty of life. This is our first retreat in sharing all that we receive here daily in an offering to those who feel called to join.

Picture this…

  • Waking up in nature after a deep rest

  • Meditating to bird song

  • Surrendering into space for silence and finding a slow flow

  • Wandering into the woods

  • Jounalling in the beautiful grandmother cork oak tree on this land

  • Working with the local flora & fauna to create tinctures to take home

  • Feasting together to create sensory experiences, using beautiful and nourishing seasonal ingredients, home-cooked by our guest chef.

  • Daily practices of movement, breathwork, dance and song

  • Space for creativity and self expression, inspired by our beautiful surroundings

  • Walking down to the river to swim

  • Sharing you heart in circle with your sisters

    And so much more…

Five days of ceremony and ritual, working with each of the elements

  • Playfulness, communication, breathing into our body’s wisdom

  • Passion and ignition, our burning desires, our sacred rage. What lights us up?

  • Cleansing, welcoming our emotions, tending to our grief

  • Connecting with nature and the land that is holding us, grounding us, supporting us and bringing balance, rest and restoration.

Join us for a celebration of abundance and gratitude for the limitless nourishing that Mother Earth provides, all that she holds and offers us, as we come together as a circle of women, witnessing each other in our authenticity and magic.

Meet your guides

  • Betty Lewis-Griffiths

    CEREMONIALIST, BREATHWORK COACH AND REWILDING GUIDE.

    Betty works with wild-hearted humans, guiding them back to their wisdom within so they can access their life’s full pleasure portal and live a life that welcomes all that they are.

    Living each day coming back to presence, Betty teaches others to rediscover what makes them feel alive, through women’s circles, powerful breathwork ceremonies, rewilding programmes and working with nature and the elements.

    She uses breath, sound, movement, meditation, mantra and self-inquiry to facilitate transformation and enable us to reconnect with our wild essence and live a life that welcomes our fullest expression.

    She sees life as a ceremony, making everyday life sacred, with the smallest touches to bring us into presence, gratitude and joy, here at Casa da Mãe.

  • Emily May Graves

    YOGA, MINDFULNESS & NATURE CONNECTION GUIDE

    Founder of Wild Joy and guardian of Casa da Mãe, Emily’s passion is to create the space & conditions for us to thrive as women in the wild together.

    Remembering and reclaiming our true nature as cyclical, connected, untamed, wild beings.

    Emily’s work is rooted in creating a loving, inclusive & playful space for limitless wild joy to flourish.

    Emily has been guiding wild souls back to themselves for over a decade, through movement, embodiment, breathwork, meditation and our greatest teacher of all, mother nature.

    A lowland leader, Emily is Mountain Leader trained, Outdoor first aid trained and the perfect guide to support your journey home.

Exchange: £750 per person

based on 4 nights shared bell tent accommodation, glamp-site facilities and all meals lovingly prepared.
(Payment plan also available)

What’s included

  • 4 nights accommodation under the stars in our luxury bell tents between the vines

  • 5 day programme of ceremony, ritual and practices

  • All meals cooked fresh using locally sourced and seasonal ingredients. Our guest chef does more than cook, she creates sensory experiences

  • Tea infusions, coffee, water, fruit, and snacks are available all day

  • Exclusive access to the land at Casa da Mae - the forest yoga deck, our LUNA ceremony space, kitchen garden, majestic cork oak tree, hammocks, mountain views and much more

  • Cacao for our ceremonies

  • Daily movement/ yoga/ meditation

  • Daily workshops to open you up to your true essence and guide you home

  • Daily rituals and ceremonies to reconnect with ourselves and open up to our own medicine - from breathwork ceremonies to sound healing, drawing to dance

  • Two experienced facilitators to guide and support your journey

  • Gift to take home

  • Three month payment plan available (March to May)

  • A sisterhood for life

  • Flights

  • Transfers to and from Casa da Mae (but happy to help organise)

  • 1:1 massage with Emily

What’s not included

Casa da Mãe

Meaning ‘The House of the Mother’, a name that dropped in at the very beginning of this journey to honour so much.

A space to nourish our connection to mother nature

A space to remember how to mother ourselves

A space inspired by our own mothers.

Are you ready to join us?

Let’s journey together - Please apply below and we’ll be in touch.

^FULL HOME RETREAT TERMS & CONDITIONS AVAILABLE HERE

What other women have said

  • "I went on the most magical journey deep into my soul"

    I have attended many of Betty’s offerings and I am always blown away at how held and safe I feel. It was a real treat to be able to spend the whole day at the first RYW retreat. Discovering Breathwork was new for me and I went on the most magical journey deep into my soul and I feel privileged to have shared the space with such incredible women. I was able to completely escape from every distraction and felt nourished inside out.

    Betty, you never cease to take me on amazing journeys. I feel so enlightened.

  • "It took me to a place of deep restorative peace"

    I can’t express how much I loved Betty’s retreat nature-day immersion. I felt so loved & cared for. The standout experience for me was the breathwork journey out in nature. With Betty’s guidance, it took me to a place of deep, deep restorative peace. I still can’t find the words to adequately express that part of the day. From the snacks to the sound bath with Betty’s instruments, drum & voice, it was just the most perfect place and safe space to take time just for me.

  • "You have made such a change in the way I approach life and its challenges."

    You gave me the opportunity to grow and harness my self-development when I didn't have the confidence to take those next steps. I am truly grateful for that. You and the wild women in our group have made such a change in the way I approach life and its challenges. I am still working on my confidence and boundaries but having support and also taking the time to really listen, have been immensely reassuring. I didn’t think I would have the confidence to continue a path in my true passions and trust my own abilities. Thank you for giving me this amazing experience to reclaim my wild.