A four-day retreat in Portugal

The Becoming

When we outgrow the past and create the future

  • 20 to 23 November 2026
  • Hirundo Village, Serra da Estrela, Central Portugal
  • With Zowie, Skai & Susan

From €1,750. A €575 deposit reserves your place.

Look ahead

What if it is time to look ahead?

The present can be shaped powerfully by what we are moving toward. This retreat invites you to look deeply at what you are becoming.

With a clear vision of where we are going, our relationship with the past begins to change, and the present becomes an exciting space for creation.

The potential of the future is already embedded in the seed. It carries within it a clear direction: to become a tree.

Whatever happens along the way, branches may break and scars may form. But the tree does not look back. It keeps reaching for the light, growing toward what is already within it.

What we share together

Four days of ceremony, energy work and nourishment

Energy work in the circle room at Hirundo Village

ZeroPoint Energy Work

Energy work to access your future and bring it to the here and now.

Zowie with an elder before ceremony

Medicine ceremony

A guided ceremony to envision the life you are creating, and connect with the bigger plan your soul is drawn toward.

A sweat lodge among the trees

Sweat lodge

In the warmth and darkness of the lodge we pray, sing and let go, and step out renewed, grounded and grateful.

Autumn Ayurvedic dishes in wooden bowls

Autumn Ayurvedic meals

Seasonal Ayurvedic food to warm and ground the body through the days.

A single flower in evening light

The beauty of the present

The beauty and potential of the present, held together in circle.

Garden seating facing the mountains at Hirundo Village The pool at Hirundo Village above the valley The circle room at Hirundo Village
An invitation to presence

Pause, and feel what is already here

From that place of fullness, the future becomes something you shape with curiosity and joy rather than effort.

  • The breath in your body
  • The people around you
  • The earth beneath your feet
The four days

From intention to ceremony to return

Day 1Fri 20 Nov

Intentions and arrival

  1. Arrival
  2. ZeroPoint Grounding, intentions and sharing
  3. Dinner
Day 2Sat 21 Nov

Energy work and medicine ceremony

  1. ZeroPoint Energy Work: the Crystal8 vortex, to access the future timeline
  2. Brunch
  3. Ceremony preparation
  4. Soup
  5. Ceremony begins
Day 3Sun 22 Nov

Sweat lodge

  1. Preparing the sweat lodge
  2. Brunch
  3. Sweat lodge
  4. Dinner
Day 4Mon 23 Nov

Energy work and goodbye

  1. ZeroPoint Energy Work: integration, collapsing the dream into reality
  2. Brunch
  3. Hug and goodbye

Accommodation is includedYou stay in one of four apartments at Hirundo Village. Rooms are chosen in the order places are reserved, so the earlier you reserve, the more choice you have.

See the accommodation
Your guides

The people holding the space

Zowie

Zowie

Ceremony and plant medicine

With 15+ years in personal development, ceremony and plant medicine, his path began with an apprenticeship and years of dedicated study. He left his former life behind to follow a deep curiosity about his purpose and how he could be of service to peace.

Over the years, this path has brought him into relationships with teachers from the Amazonian and Andean traditions. He has spent years studying traditional rituals, icaros, chants and plant diets deep in the jungle, living among the tribes (Huni Kuin, Noke Koi), and has undertaken vision quests and is a Sundancer.

Skai

Skai

ZeroPoint Energy Work

Skai spent 3 years in silence: 1 year sitting on a chair, 1 year walking 25 miles a day, and 1 year running 50 miles a day, practicing new forms of energy work and connecting directly with Source.

What emerged was a simple, powerful system for transformation that has helped thousands shed depression and chronic illness, step into their highest calling, and live in full alignment.

Susan

Susan

Ayurveda, Qigong and sound

Susan is an Ayurvedic practitioner, Qigong teacher, sound meditation guide, and doula of the liminal spaces. Her work lives in the in-between: the moments when one chapter of life closes and another has not yet begun.

Whether accompanying someone through birth, loss, transition, or the final threshold of life, her mission is to bring the unseen back into this process so that more trust and compassion can be experienced.

In their words

"It just felt so like coming home."

"The retreat was just, it just felt so like coming home. It was such an intimate, heartwarming experience for me. Also the land energy around here, it made meditation so easy. In the past sometimes I have struggled so hard, you know, I was trying to meditate, and here I had a few experiences where I just felt that I was being meditated, supported by the land."
Gabrielle Ritter
"Powerful. That is the word that best describes this weekend. Zowie guides with great knowledge, wisdom, love, and humor, making you feel immediately safe to delve deep. The music he creates is truly beautiful, and singing together as a group works wonders for the soul. I went home enriched on an intellectual, spiritual, and emotional level. A special experience that will resonate for a long time."
Hero
"Nothing was fake. Everything was deep, felt, lovingly held, and you knew you were safe to reveal whatever you had to reveal to heal. Susan and Skai are very gifted with that. You can trust them. They will keep you safe."
Deborah Blakeslee
"I was surprised that it was really so deep. Much deeper than what I thought it'd be. This is real soul work. I was surprised every day about more and more healing that could happen every day. I didn't even think it was possible."
Hestelle Bonthuys
"Zowie is one of the most thorough, reliable, and well-regarded medicine practitioners I know. I have been coming here for years and I keep coming back."
Sjors
"It's been a really wonderful grounding, calming time and also really powerful. The connection when you're doing this type of work that you build with the other people at the retreat is actually very powerful."
Gowri Satyanarayana
"This was my first time with Zowie and family. And stepping the family practice made it so much easier for me to let go and expand in all directions. The authenticity of this family touched me deeply. It left my heart is open, and creativity is streaming through my veins. Thank you for sharing your music, songs, medicine, stories, traditions, life and land with me. It feels like home."
Lody
"Skai and Susan are amazing, and the environment, the views, the people, the stories. It's been a blessing."
Fred
Where you stay

Four apartments at Hirundo Village

Each apartment has its own kitchen, bathroom and living space, with fresh spring water in every tap.

Private apartment
€2,500
Private apartment for two
€3,000
Shared apartment
€1,750per person

Rooms go first come, first served. The four days, the meals and the ceremonies are included.

Reserved Mountain View Retreat
Room 1+€250

Mountain View Retreat

  • Panoramic views of the Serra da Estrela
  • Private covered balcony
  • Fresh spring water in all taps
  • Fully equipped kitchen
  • Private bathroom with shower and bidet
  • Separate living room and kitchen area
  • Bright, spacious bedroom with king size bed
  • Air conditioning
  • Heating
Reserved Botanical Balcony Nest
Room 2

Botanical Balcony Nest

  • Private balcony
  • Fresh spring water in all taps
  • Fully equipped kitchen
  • Private bathroom with shower and bidet
  • Separate living room and kitchen area
  • Bedroom with a view of the Serra da Estrela and queen size bed
  • Heating
Reserved Serenity Suite
Room 3

Serenity Suite

  • Private terrace
  • Fresh spring water in all taps
  • Fully equipped kitchen
  • Private bathroom with shower and bidet
  • Separate living room and kitchen area
  • Bedroom with a garden view and king size bed
  • Heating
Reserved Terrace Tranquility
Room 4€150 off

Terrace Tranquility

  • Direct access to the communal garden
  • Fresh spring water in all taps
  • Fully equipped kitchen
  • Private bathroom with shower, bath tub and bidet
  • Separate living room and kitchen area
  • Comfortable sleeping sofa
  • Heating
Details

Join us in November

Dates
20 to 23 November 2026Arrival 14.00 on Friday, goodbye 13.00 on Monday
Location
Hirundo Village, Serra da EstrelaCentral Portugal · 1 hour from Coimbra, 2.5 hours from Lisbon
Guides
Zowie, Skai & Susan
Price
€2,500 private apartment€3,000 for two · €1,750 per person in a shared apartment
Stay
Four apartments at Hirundo VillageSee the rooms

How to join

  1. Choose your roomRooms go first come, first served.
  2. Reserve your spotPay the €575 deposit, or the full amount, by card, Wise, PayPal or Venmo.
  3. Receive your confirmationWe email you to confirm your room, with the link for the balance.
Reserve my spot
Hirundo Village and a shared meal on the terrace
The Becoming · 20 to 23 November 2026

Grow toward what is already within you

Four days in Portugal to see clearly where you are going, and let the present become a space for creation.

Reserve my spot

A €575 deposit reserves your place. Rooms go first come, first served.