Ripple Experiences
Artists and wellbeing practitioners sharing their crafts and their skills. Imagine connecting with your inner artist, new connections, new highs, new skills, and a few hours out of your head and inside creating. In a hotel, a guest house, a restaurant, a gallery or on the farm, across Alentejo and Algarve.
New · End of January to early February 2027
A creative retreat with Qi Gong, art and extraordinary performances near Aljezur, on the Algarve coast. Seven days to slow down, reconnect and bring your creativity back to life, with artists from The Ripple Foundation.
Discover the retreatWhy come
Not just a copy of the artist's work, but a creation that comes as an expression of your soul, your mind and your body, out of a state of pure presence. Leave it in the space to become part of the living gallery, or bring it home with you.
With every session you are invited to fully arrive in the present moment, in the space, and to consciously choose to put the thinking down. Breath, movement, cacao, a walk to gather: we go back to the body so we can make space for deep, expansive experiences.
Leave with new connections, new ideas, new friendships. Creating side by side does in two hours what conversation does in a month, and nobody has to work at it. This is how it organically unfolds, and it is how this network itself came to be.
Most people say they are not creative. It is not a talent only some people have. It is a muscle, and it comes back faster than anybody expects. No judgement, no pressure and no expectations: that is what makes these a free expression and a liberation of your own creative abilities.
Where to find us
We are active across Alentejo and Algarve, in the spaces that open their doors for us.
On the farm
The farm in Lameiros, Alentejo, surrounded by old oak trees, horses and dogs. Here you are really invited to slow down, connect with nature, and do the crafts. It is also where Natural Healing Hearts holds its custom stays, so a workshop can be a day inside a longer stay.
Custom stays at the farm →In a restaurant or café
Usually the same afternoon every week, a different artist and a different practice each time. Whoever came for lunch can stay for the workshop, and whoever came for the workshop can stay for dinner, so it easily becomes a whole day.
In a guest house
Small groups, often folded into a stay. A morning or an afternoon, sometimes a whole weekend built so the sessions lead into one another.
In a hotel
For the guests staying, and whoever is in the surroundings is welcome to join in too. What the session becomes depends on the hotel itself.
Two ways to hold them
Most spaces end up with some of each.
A weekly or monthly activity
The same afternoon every week or every month, a different artist and a different craft each time. The space always has something coming, and whoever came once has a reason to come back.
A workshop on request
A short list of workshops alongside everything else your guests can book, so choosing one is as simple as booking a table. Ask for one whenever it suits you, or let a guest ask, and the artist comes and shares their craft with whoever signs up.
The workshops
Most of these were days of the Art Space Residency, held by the artists who held them then. Any of them can be booked again, anywhere in the two regions.
A cacao ceremony to arrive in your heart, in the group, and to peel off a layer, so that we can transition into the collective painting and close it with sound healing.
You go home in another state than the one you arrived in. A powerful experience: your heart really opens, and you are freely and creatively part of one painting the whole room creates.
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Learn to transfer an image onto stone, choose an image that means something to you, and build a collective altar with everything the group has made.
You go home with an object you will actually keep, and with a way of thinking about altars and daily ritual that you can use long after the day is over.
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Grounding and centering first, then intuitive collage: cut, choose and place from a wide spread of materials until a map of where you are appears.
This collage is not a usual collage. It is an invitation to connect to your soul's expression, and to create a vision board for how you would love to tune your overall energetic being. You bring your energy map home and hang it where it will remind you of the day, so that slowly your energetic being can embody what you wish for yourself.
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2 to 4 hours
Starting with a powerful Qi Gong practice, which wakes up the body and opens you for a new creative process. Then we transition into building with natural elements: shells, feathers, driftwood, stones and rope, or anything you bring that wants to be part of the totem.
Through the process you are guided emotionally to move through blockages, and a specific intention goes into the totem, so that it becomes an item of empowerment, of confidence, of protection, or of whatever you need at that moment.
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1.5 to 2 hours
Clearing the energetic body. Qi Gong to move what is stuck, and a practice that works through blockages, old patterns and energy that has stopped flowing. We clean the energetic body, restore the connection with the heart, strengthen intuition and inner power, and switch the natural life energy back on.
A powerful reset, for anyone carrying stress, restlessness or tiredness, or ready to break an old pattern and live consciously from balance and the strength of the heart. You leave lighter, in deeper contact with yourself, and standing in your full potential.
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1.5 to 2 hours
The first day of the two-day Reiki 1 course. You receive the attunement that opens the channel, learn the self-healing hand positions and the chakra system, and begin practising on yourself. The full Reiki 1 workbook comes with the course, and part two follows online once you have been practising.
You go home attuned, able to give Reiki to yourself and to the people around you, with a practice that stays with you for the rest of your life.
Day one is held in the space. Day two follows online, once you have been practising.
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An installation built collectively over one day, from cork for roots, tiles for identity, branches for bones, string for veins and eucalyptus for skin. Art therapy running alongside the making, in the same materials.
You leave as co-creator of a piece that stays where it was built and becomes the anchor of the space, and with a way of looking at the elements of your own inner nature.
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A photographic experience at sunrise or at sunset. We walk through the space we are in, and we go slow, looking for beauty.
You go home with a set of great pictures, whether you took them on a camera or on your phone. And you see life through a new lens: the invitation is to look deeper, and to look with your heart instead of your mind.
Request this workshopA live model, an easel, blank paper and charcoal pencils, inviting you to let go of any expectation of yourself and into creating a series of live drawings.
Whether you are a beginner or advanced does not matter. It is about observation, about liberation, and about improving a skill: the drawing itself, the eye and hand coordination, and the acceptance.
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Drawing as meditation, led by an artist who spent years as a Buddhist monk. Short partner exercises to slow the hand, then two long sessions to create a piece charged with an intention.
An invitation to be fully present alongside the others: observing your thoughts, observing your actions, and arriving back at your breath. Together you co-create a beautiful piece of art, and you go home lighter and more grounded than you came.
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Calligraphy as gesture rather than handwriting. Brush and ink moving between scripts and traditions, from Devanagari and Arabic to letters nobody has written before.
Making a mark without meaning anything by it. It frees up the arm, and it frees up the expectations with it. You go home with a piece of art that came from the heart.
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The ancestral singing of the Brazilian Amazon, sung together rather than listened to. Often paired with NOAH guiding the creation of a collective scroll.
A joyful, expressive gathering where we sing together and co-create, and where a gentle transformation takes place without anyone forcing it. Days later the songs are still going round in your head, and so is the beauty created that afternoon. That is the ripple, still moving.
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Free movement through different rhythms, then moving while another person simply watches, in presence, in love and without judgment.
This is the expression of the spirit: going out of the mind entirely, letting spirit take over and move the body. A very uplifting and expansive experience.
Request this workshopNew practices join as artists do. If you are looking for something that is not here, ask: the network is bigger than this page.
Ripple Performances
Performances that uplift your soul, peel off insecurity and shyness, guiding you into liberation.
Not workshops. Nothing to create, nothing to bring.
Willpower
A wearable instrument he built himself, played through movement so that sound and light come out of the same gesture. An immersive performance rather than a concert.
Igor Świeczak
We all dress up to level up. Expand your presence, step into the spotlight, step out of your comfort zone. Music playing, the photographer lifting you until you are comfortable in front of the camera. It feels like being in a movie.
Ana Pomar
Music held through a whole evening rather than staged at one end of it. At the residency it ran quietly under everything, which is exactly the point.
Luciana Santana
The songs of the Brazilian Amazon, carried rather than performed. Voice and guitar, and a room that ends up singing whether or not it meant to.
Shankari
Ceremony, gong and voice for a room that wants to arrive somewhere together before anything else begins.
All of us
The work of a residency or a week of workshops, hung and opened for one evening, with music and the doors open to whoever you want in the room.
What is coming
We will be active across Alentejo and Algarve, in guest houses, hotels, restaurants and cafés, and on the farm.
Leave your contact details and we keep you updated about the next Ripple.
If you want to experience The Ripple Foundation
The workshops are hosted in different spaces, in different time frames, and in different structures. Let us know if you are interested in staying updated on what is next.
Ask what is coming upIf you are an artist
A workshop, a practice, a performance. Tell us about your work and the experiences you would love to share through our Artist & Practitioner Application.
Apply as an artistSay hello
Tell us which part of this you are drawn to, and why. Share your questions, and let us connect to co-create an expansive experience together.
We get back to you as soon as possible to answer your questions and requests.
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