Só Alegria - A Return to Joy

With Deise Lucena and Luiza Lucena

June 4 - 8, 2026

Address: Cara Creek Eco Lodge, Coimbra, Portugal

Contact: Ashley O'Connor
caracreekecolodge@gmail.com
+351 965 162 534

  • €990.00 – Pricing

A five-day ceremonial retreat held in close relationship with nature, where joy is something to gently remember.

Through medicine ceremonies, music and dance, somatic practices, and spacious integration time, we create the conditions for reconnection with the land and it’s medicines, our bodies, and with our truest essence. The rhythm of the retreat allows each participant to move at their own pace and honour their own process. It is a space where nothing needs to be fixed or forced. Joy emerges quietly alongside movement, stillness, tenderness, release, and deep listening.

The retreat is carefully woven to support both depth and integration. Ceremonial experiences are balanced with grounding practices and time for rest, reflection, and regulation.

Mother and daughter, Deise and Luiza walk together in service of embodied, authentic healing. Their shared work integrates body, sound, and ceremony to create spaces that are safe, grounded, and deeply human.

Through the union of conscious touch, live medicine music, and carefully held ritual, they support processes of reconnection where the body becomes a place of wisdom, music becomes medicine, and joy is remembered rather than sought.

About the Leaders

Deise Lucena

Deise Lucena is a body therapist and ceremonial facilitator devoted to deep, embodied care. Her work weaves Ayurvedic Yoga Massage, somatic listening, and ceremonial practice as pathways for reconnection, integration, and remembrance. With steadiness, sensitivity, and respect for individual rhythms, Deise creates safe spaces where the body can release long-held tensions and emotional imprints. Her […]

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Luiza Lucena

Luiza Lucena is a musician, singer, and facilitator of sound journeys that support deep states of presence and connection. Raised within ceremonial spaces, her relationship with medicine music grew naturally through lived experience and close connection with Indigenous traditions. Her voice carries gentleness, strength, and ancestral memory. In ceremony, music is offered as service — […]

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