About this trip
Discover the beauty of the Algarve region in Southern Portugal through a curated experience of movement, food, wine, and adventures. We offer this all-inclusive week as a celebration of our senses and our spirits. This awe-inspiring destination has been seducing travelers for centuries with its rugged coastline, sandy beaches, whitewashed fishing villages, architectural elegance and cobbled streets.
Our team is comprised of ieva, Elia, and Chef Eva and we bring our collective passion to guide, serve, and host. We have curated a unique all-encompassing experience that blends our backgrounds in movement, meditation, food and wine. Each day, Elia and ieva will lead you through playful and restorative practices integrating yoga, qigong, and meditation. Inspired by the terroir, we will share delicious homemade meals created by Chef Eva. In addition, ieva will host educational wine tastings drawing upon her expansive sommelier background.
Our home for the week is a boutique country villa and offers everyone a seamless blend of luxury, comfort, and beauty. Its exquisite grounds and fresh interiors offer the perfect space to ground, expand, and unwind. When we aren’t soaking up the beautiful grounds of Quinta Bonita, we will be exploring the surrounding region and savoring local food.
Each day there will be free time to breathe in the sea, sunbathe poolside, and relax in the botanical gardens. Treat yourself to the gift of travel, self-care, and connection. We take care of the logistics, while you take care of yourself.
Your Hosts
Elia Mrak uses the power of the healing arts - Somatics, Qigong, Dance, Bodywork, and Fitness - to support people and strengthen communities worldwide. He is a trauma-informed educator and approaches his work through a nervous-system and systems-centered lens. This means that he creates safety and containment by attuning to each unique individual while also supporting them to show up with more capacity in the larger systems they are in - friends, family, community, and society. He believes we can also do profound work through laughter, playfulness, and fun. He also performs, choreographs, and produces art. Elia has dedicated his life to working with the body. It is his gift, and he would be honored to share it with you.
ieva Aldins believes that the potency of our connection within facilitates our outward connections. When we learn to truly love and care for ourselves, we are more authentically able to care for others and share ourselves. Through these connections, we blossom.
ieva is a yoga teacher, sommelier and travel enthusiast. She uses the modalities of yoga and somatic movement to help people care for all the layers of their being, to heal, to soften, to strengthen, to open and to go within.
Eva Mrak-Blumberg is the chef and owner of Spoondrift Kitchen, a personal chef service based in Portland, Maine. She uses food as a vessel to create community and ritual in our lives. Her cooking highlights ingredients that are locally sourced and shine in their simplicity.
Eva cooks as a way to tell stories -- inspired by her many travels, ancestors, and the farmers who grow the ingredients she uses. Join Eva at the table for a collective experience that nourishes, inspires, and connects.
