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Ponta Erva · São Jorge, Azores · 12 mats a week

Arrange your slow week

Grab the practices and set them in whatever order your body asks for. Nothing here is fixed — not even the sunset.

SUNRISE · 06:40

Salt
water
vinyasa

STILLNESS

Yin until
the tide
turns

Inhale
Hold
Exhale

SOUND
BATH IN
THE LAVA
CAVE

BREATH LEAD

Mara

LULL RETREAT · No. 14

Seven daysof unhurriedbreath

Drag any card · it floats where you leave it

Every class opens the same way

Four in, four held, six out.

Before a single pose, Mara counts the room into one rhythm. Twelve people, one breath, sixteen seconds long. Follow the circle — it is the same clock we use on the mat.

  1. Inhale4 s
  2. Hold4 s
  3. Exhale6 s
  4. Rest2 s
Inhale4

The week, day by day

Seven days, one direction:
slower.

01ARRIVE

Salt on the skin

  • 17:00 · Welcome circle on the terrace
  • 19:30 · Island supper, no menus
02GROUND

Feet before thoughts

  • 06:40 · Sunrise vinyasa
  • 18:00 · Sound bath in the lava cave
03OPEN

Hips, then horizon

  • 07:30 · Long-hold yin
  • 15:00 · Cliff path to Fajã do Ouvidor
04QUIET

A day without words

  • All day · Noble silence
  • 16:00 · Walking meditation, slow tea
05WATER

Breath under the swell

  • 07:00 · Sea swim + 4·4·6 holds
  • 18:30 · Restorative flow
06FIRE

The strong one

  • 06:40 · Ninety-minute flow
  • 21:00 · Bonfire on the black beach
07RETURN

Carry it home

  • 08:00 · Closing circle
  • 10:00 · A letter we post you in May
12mats a week, never thirteen
7nights above the Atlantic
3teachers, all living on the island
0phones at the supper table

Three teachers. All of them live here.

Mara Quental, portrait
BREATH & PRANAYAMA

Mara Quental

Free-diver turned teacher. Twelve years of counting breaths under the swell off Velas.

Inês Valadão, portrait
YIN & STILLNESS

Inês Valadão

Leads the silent day. Holds a pose longer than you think you can, and then a little longer.

Gruta do Fogo · 18:00
SOUND & REST

Tomé Ávila

Plays bowls and a hand-built drum inside a lava tube where the echo lasts nine seconds.

2027 weeks

Hold one of
twelve mats.

€1 840 in a shared stone room, €2 260 on your own. Meals, ferries from Pico and every class included. We reply by hand within two days.

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