Casa de Cura
The Hidden Healing Village
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What We Do
RETREATS
Casa de Cura is a healing village hidden in the Monchique mountains. This is a retreat space deeply rooted in the earth and authenticity. Within this space you will be gently guided to embrace the slow, soft, and simple rhythm of mountain life - bringing you back to nature to return home to yourself. This nurturing, intimate, and healing environment is a space for people to gather together for retreats (including day retreats), ceremonies, circles, workshops, and teacher trainings. We welcome all people, modalities, and lineage of practice.
COMMUNITY
Casa de Cura is quite literally the home of healing - where movement unites with ritual - and has been lovingly built with only one intention: to build community and connection. Our healing village is the embodiment of yin, the antidote to the modern fast paced life. Here time doesn’t exist - you wake up to the sound of mother nature, move in a way that feels good for your body, eat deliciously fresh and locally sourced food, and spend your days revelling in the highly underrated pleasure of slowing down. When you return to this forgotten pace, connect to your body, the earth, and one another you return to your true nature.
off grid
Here at Casa de Cura we live on the land, we live with the land, and we are nourished by the land. We are gifted giant tomatoes for salads, fresh lemons for our morning tea, zesty oranges for juices, aloe vera for healing remedies, olives for our oil (over 40 litres), and so much more! We source all of our water from rain catchment and the river that runs from the mountains and along our border (3 acres). This means when you stay at Casa de Cura you not only wash in but drink the most healing water in the world (Monchique is famous for it). The 300 days of magical Monchique sunshine we have here fuels all of our electricity meaning we are fully off grid.
About Casa de Cura
It was a cold and rainy (classic UK) Friday morning yoga class when Christian put down his yoga mat next to Katie. Little did these two know that this moment would change our lives forever...
We used to sit and talk for hours after yoga classes over decaf oat flat whites and avo eggs (how original) about owning our own healing space. We used to share about our collective dream of living off grid - waking up every day in the sunshine, moving our bodies in our own Shala, and eating fresh food from our own land. We used to crave authentic community and connection away from spiritual fads and the latest wellness ‘trend’. We wanted real people. Real experiences. Real healing. Real life.
Five years later, here we are. We have packed up our family, moved to the Portuguese mountains, and created our own healing village. Together we have over a decade’s worth of experience of personal learning, healing, and training with the most wonderful teachers and elders. We have facilitated, taught, and created healing spaces for thousands of people across the world. We each bring the essence of our own unique journey to Casa de Cura from traditional Zen Practice to Womb Healing Rituals, Hatha Yoga to Embodied Yin, and Silent Retreats to Rebirthing Breathwork Ceremonies.
Our knowledge, wisdom, and practice may look very different from one another’s but we both share the collective vision of creating a space built upon love and devotion to bring people together; to move, breathe, be still, dance, laugh, cry, feel, heal, and to simply experience the fullness of their humanness together.
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