1 - 6 Sep 2026
~ Awakening Connection ~
A journey into Somatics
and the Heart
Retreat
September 1–6, 2026 ♥ Mores Turisme Rural, Spain
A carefully designed retreat for women who long to slow down, soften, and return to the wisdom of the body and the quiet intelligence of the heart.
Through somatic practice, Hatha Yoga, meditation, pranayama, ritual, cacao, nature, and genuine human connection, this intimate six-day experience invites you into a more regulated, resilient, and deeply alive way of being.
♥ Max. 13 guests
♥ 2 experienced facilitators
♥ Accommodation, meals, transport and 8+ hours daily guidance included
Peaceful Mind
A gently structured rhythm of practice, stillness, and reflection helps your mind unwind from overthinking and soften into clarity, spaciousness, and quiet inner trust — again and again.
JOYFUl Body
Through grounding Hatha Yoga, somatic practices, and deep rest, your body is invited out of survival mode and back into a sense of ease, pleasure, and natural aliveness that feels truly sustainable.
REgulated Nervoussystem
Simple, evidence-informed tools for nervous system regulation and vagus toning help you shift from chronic activation or depletion into a steadier, more responsive baseline you can carry home with you.
Radiating Heart
Ritual, cacao, and heart-centered spaces support you in opening to tenderness, connection, and authenticity, so your heart can feel both protected and deeply available to the sacredness of Life.
When life has asked a lot of your nervous system,
returning to yourself becomes essential.
Many women move through life carrying more activation, pressure, and inner fragmentation than they realize. Even when functioning well on the outside, the body may be holding stress, depletion, or a quiet longing for something slower, softer, and more true.
Awakening Connection is an invitation to step out of the speed and stimulation of modern life and enter a space where coherence can be restored — between body and mind, mind and heart, inner life and outer life, and between who you are and how you live.
About the retreat
A grounded, heart-led retreat for regulation, reconnection, and sustainable transformation
This retreat brings together nervous system regulation, embodied practice, and heart-centered awareness in a way that is both evidence-informed and deeply human. At its core, it is about helping the body rediscover safety, helping the heart reawaken its natural openness, and helping you return to a state of presence, belonging, and inner steadiness.
Through a skillful blend of Hatha Yoga, meditation, pranayama, somatic practices, and accessible micro-techniques for daily nervous system regulation, you will be supported to shift from chronic activation or depletion into a more grounded and responsive baseline. Particular emphasis is placed on practical vagus nerve support, physiological safety, and practices that are simple enough to integrate into everyday life.
Rather than overwhelming you with complexity, we focus on a wisely selected set of essential and highly effective tools — repeated, embodied, and woven throughout the retreat so that they become intuitive, familiar, and genuinely useful long after the retreat has ended.
What you will experience
What this journey includes
- Daily Hatha Yoga to support grounding, embodiment, strength, and inner space.
- Meditation and pranayama to cultivate clarity, steadiness, and a more regulated inner state.
- Somatic practices and nervous system regulation tools that help you reconnect with the body’s natural capacity for ease, connection, and vitality.
- Daily cacao ceremonies and rituals designed to deepen interoception, emotional attunement, and heart-centered presence.
- Wisdom sharings, workshops, and relational spaces that invite insight, tenderness, and authentic connection.
- Spacious time for rest, journaling, nature, and integration.
- A warm, inclusive group field where belonging, intimacy, and meaningful connection can unfold naturally.
You Deserve It
You’ve been holding so much, for so long — this is your invitation to step into a space that is just for you, where your body, heart, and nervous system are finally allowed to exhale.
You deserve to feel rested, nourished, and genuinely supported, not only for a weekend but in the way you meet your life afterwards.
Why this retreat works
Because real transformation happens in the quiet moments when the body feels safe enough to reorganize
In a culture that often seeks peak experiences and intensity, this retreat deliberately orients toward subtlety, depth, and sustainability. The intention is not to push you into breakthrough for its own sake, but to create the conditions in which your system can soften, settle, and re-pattern in a way that feels grounded and real.
The heart is both a metaphorical and physiological center of this journey. Together, we explore what it means to live with an open and responsive heart — a heart that can stay present with complexity, receive beauty without grasping, and remain connected without losing itself.
What makes this retreat different is not only what happens in the formal sessions, but how every element is intentionally woven together: practice, ritual, nourishment, nature, rest, and relationship all become part of one coherent field of integration.
Sacred Rituals
Through cacao, tantric-inspired ceremony, and gentle awakening of the senses, we weave simple yet profound rituals that guide your energy back to the heart. Here, your body, soul, and heart are honored and celebrated as something precious, sacred, and deeply worthy of devotion.
Daily rhythm
A daily rhythm designed for depth, ease, and integration
Each day unfolds through a gently held structure that supports both steadiness and spaciousness:
7:00 – Light breakfast (optional)
8:00 – Cacao ceremony
9:00 – Hatha Yoga
10:30 – Pranayama / meditation
11:00 – Brunch
12:00 – Wisdom share, workshop, or ritual
15:00 – Time to rest, journal, discover nature, or swim
18:00 – Dinner
20:00 – Nervous system regulation, sharings, and evening practice
22:00 – Rest
While the rhythm offers a supportive structure, the space is held with humanity and responsiveness, allowing the retreat to unfold with both intention and gentleness.
What’s included
Everything is designed so you can arrive, exhale, and be fully held
Your retreat experience includes:
♥ 5 nights accommodation at Mores Turisme Rural, Casa Mores, Spain.
♥ Breakfast, two full healthy meals each day, and nourishing snacks.
♥ More than 8 hours of workshops, practices, and guided sessions daily.
♥ An intimate retreat container with a maximum of 13 guests.
♥ Guidance from two experienced practitioners, teachers, and space holders.
♥ Access to beautiful spacious nature and the pool.
♥ Group pick-up from Barcelona Sants Train Station at 12:30 pm on arrival day.
♥ Group drop-off at 16:00 on departure day, arriving at Barcelona Sants around 18:30.
Nourishment
Food as part of the regulation
Nourishment is an essential part of the retreat experience. Meals are designed to be healthy, grounding, and supportive of nervous system regulation and integration, including plenty of vegetables, animal protein, whole grains, legumes, eggs, fermented foods, fruits, and nuts.
The intention is not simply to eat well, but to support the body in feeling stable, nourished, and cared for throughout the process.
Travel
How to get there
Awakening Connection takes place at Mores Turisme Rural, Casa Mores, disseminat, Cambrils, Spain.
By car: approximately 2 hours from Barcelona.
By bus: from Barcelona (Passeig de Gràcia) to Solsona in around 2.5 hours, followed by a taxi.
Group transfer: pick-up from Barcelona Sants is provided at 12:30 pm, and return drop-off is provided on departure day.
Exclusive Retreat Location in Catalonia
Held in the quiet beauty of nature
A peaceful setting in spacious nature that allows the body and mind to unwind and settle. With room to breathe, rest, and reconnect, the land itself becomes part of the retreat experience. Our retreat house is located within the municipality of Odèn, 30 minutes away from Solsona, North of Solsonès region in Catalonia, Spain. The house is geographically isolated, surrounded by dense pines and hom oaks forests. It is common to find wild boars, roar deer, rabbits, foxes, partridges, and other wild animals of the area. Apart from the wild fauna, the area is exploited to grow cattle and honey by the family. Finally, depending on the season, due to the characteristics of the flora it is possible to find a wide variety of wild mushrooms.
Peaceful house & pool
A lovingly restored stone farmhouse opens onto a clear turquoise pool, creating an exclusive, tucked‑away sanctuary where you can arrive, exhale, and feel quietly held by nature.
Quiet sanctuary for rest
Thoughtfully curated details, warm textures, and soft light make each room feel like a private cocoon — simple yet luxurious, with space for deep rest and effortless comfort.
Love for beautiful details
Handpicked materials, a sculpted basin, and an ornate golden mirror turn even the bathroom into a small sanctuary, reflecting the care, intimacy, and beauty woven into every corner of the house.
Meet Noe & Melanie
Two experienced practitioners, teachers, and space holders
We are creating gentle yet powerful spaces where you can trustfully return to the wisdom of your body and the heart. In a world that often moves fast and asks a great deal of our nervous systems, we offer permission to slow down, soften, and remember what it feels like to truly come home — to the body, to oneself, and to the quiet intelligence that radiates from the heart.
Beyond the noise, the challenge, and the constant stimulation of modern life, there is a more natural state of clarity, openness, connection, and inner peace. Our intention is to support you in arriving there — and in leaving with more peace, confidence, trust in yourself, and a felt sense of how to integrate these qualities sustainably into your life.
Noe Amaris
♡ Eternal Student of Body, Nervous System, Consciousness & Life
♡ Grounded, Deep, Intuitive, Devotional, Fierce & Soft
♡ Somatic Therapy, Nervous System Regulation, Embodiment, Tantra, Non-Duality
♡ Physiotherapist & Somatic Trauma Therapist
♡ Nervous System & Trauma Healing Guide
♡ Yoga Teacher & Meditation Practitioner
♡ Founder of Cor de Cacao
I help people come back home to their body, where true safety, power, and connection begin.
I guide people into the understanding that healing is not about fixing yourself, but about learning how to feel, regulate, and trust your inner system.
I help people release stored tension, trauma, and emotional patterns through the body — so they can experience clarity, grounded confidence, and a deep sense of inner stability.
I guide people into reconnecting with their life force energy, not as something abstract, but as something physical, tangible, and trainable through the nervous system and the body.
I help people move from survival mode into a state where expansion, pleasure, intimacy, and aligned action become possible — sustainably, not temporarily.
I guide people into taking real responsibility for their healing, not from pressure, but from embodied awareness and self-leadership.
My work is rooted in the integration of science and spirituality.
With over 17 years of experience in Physiotherapy and advanced manual therapy, I developed a deep understanding of the body from a structural and clinical perspective. But it was through my own healing journey that I realized that physical treatment alone is not enough.
The missing piece was the nervous system.
Through Somatic Trauma Therapy and Manual Therapy of the Vagus Nerve, I found a way to work directly with how the body stores stress, trauma, and emotional patterns — and more importantly, how it releases them.
My approach combines evidence-based physical therapy with somatic work, nervous system regulation, and spiritual practices such as meditation, Tantra, and Non-Duality.
This integration allows for deep, lasting transformation — not just symptom relief.
Dr. Melanie Wenzel
♡ Eternal Student of Body, Mind, Soul & Universe
♡ Deep, Emphatic, Sensual, Bold, Spiritual
♡ Tantra, Embodiment, Self-Inquiry, Spiritual Heart, Vipassana
♡ Yoga/Meditation Teacher & Yoga Therapist
♡ Traumasensitive Empowerment Coach
♡ Somatic Experiencing & Inner Parts/Internal Family System
♡ Scientist (PhD in Sociology)
♡ Founder of Kamala.rocks
I help people to experience mind-blowing freedom and heart-melting connection. I guide people into the realization that both can only thrive together.
I help people to feel profoundly safe while stepping into their true power, and taking lead of their needs and desires. I guide people into the realization that taking on full responsibility is the only way into growth and expansion.
I help people to exceed their full potential in sexuality, love, relating with themselves and with others. I guide people into the realization that once you are (re)connected with yourself, a door opens into a potential that beats their wildest dreams.
My areas of expertise are expansive liberation through unconditional self-love and fierce empowerment, creating nourishing abundance and grounded confidence through connecting to, heightening and navigating your natural life force energy, experiencing magical deep connection and transformative intimacy on a soul level through embracing presence, revolutionary embodiment, and magnetic authenticity.
Who this is for
This retreat may be for you if…
- You long to feel more at home in your body.
- You are seeking practical tools for nervous system regulation and emotional grounding.
- You feel drawn to yoga, meditation, somatics, ritual, heart-centered awareness, and authentic connection.
- You want a retreat that is intimate, nourishing, and gently transformational rather than overwhelming.
- You are longing for a space where depth, softness, beauty, and belonging can coexist.
- You want to leave not only inspired, but resourced with practices you can continue in daily life.
This retreat may not be the right fit if…
- You are looking mainly for a touristic holiday or a highly social party atmosphere.
- You want a fast-paced or confrontational transformation format.
- You are looking for endless techniques rather than a few deeply embodied and repeatable practices.
What you may leave with
What participants often carry home
Participants often leave with a renewed sense of inner calm, greater access to joy and life force, and a more direct connection to the wisdom of the body and heart.
You may leave with:
♥ A more regulated and resilient inner baseline ♥
♥ Greater clarity, softness, and self-trust ♥
♥ Practical somatic and nervous system tools for everyday life ♥
♥ A deeper sense of belonging, connection, and emotional attunement ♥
♥ More confidence in your capacity to move through life from steadiness rather than survival ♥
Testimonials
★★★★★
If something in you is longing for more ease, listen.
Treat yourself to an intimate retreat where your whole being can finally exhale.
Answers to Your Most Common Questions
Do I need prior experience with yoga, somatics, or meditation?
No extensive prior experience is required. The retreat is designed to be accessible while still offering depth, and practices are guided in a way that supports both newcomers and those with previous experience.
Is this retreat physically demanding?
The retreat includes daily embodied practices, but the overall approach is supportive rather than performance-oriented. The emphasis is on regulation, presence, and listening to your body rather than pushing beyond your limits.
What is included in the retreat?
Accommodation, breakfast, two full healthy meals daily, snacks, more than 8 hours of daily workshops and guidance, use of the pool and natural surroundings, and group transfer support from Barcelona Sants are included.
How many women will attend?
The retreat is intentionally intimate, with a maximum of 13 guests.
Will there be free time?
Yes. Spacious time for rest, journaling, swimming, and enjoying nature is built into each day.
How do I get there?
You can arrive by car, by bus plus taxi, or via the provided group pick-up from Barcelona Sants Train Station.
What kind of food will be served?
Meals are healthy, grounding, and designed to support nervous system regulation, including vegetables, animal protein, whole grains, legumes, eggs, fermented foods, fruits, and nuts.
What happens after I apply?
After you apply, you can add your exact next-step process here, for example: we will review your application and be in touch personally with the next steps and practical details.
Do you feel the quiet calling of your heart?
If something in you feels quietly called, you are warmly invited.
This retreat is intentionally small, with space for only 13 women, so that the experience can remain personal, spacious, and deeply held. If you feel drawn to a retreat that is grounding, heart-opening, and genuinely nourishing, we would love to welcome you.
Awakening Connection
September 1–6, 2026
Mores Turisme Rural, Spain
Max. 13 guests
Awakening Connection Signature Retreat
Location
Casa Mores, 25283 Cambrils, Lleida, Spain
How to get there
- By car: approximately 2 hours from Barcelona.
- By bus: from Barcelona (Passeig de Gràcia) to Solsona in around 2.5 hours, followed by a taxi.
- Group transfer: pick-up from Barcelona Sants is provided at 12:30 pm, and return drop-off is provided on departure day.
Contact
Noe Amaris
Email: somatixswithnoe@hotmail.com
WhatsApp: +1 415 450 7430
Melanie Wenzel
Email: melanie@energetic-efficient-empowered.com
WhatsApp: +49 170 9865 990
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