In the magnificent natural setting of the Quinta São José dos Montes, Margot Anand will share the evolution of her current work and exploration of the different levels of Awakening in The Golden Keys of Awakening.
Join this exclusive retreat, co-lead by the visionary Gopal and a team of compassionate facilitators, where you can:
✨ Meet Margot Anand in person and delve into her new discoveries, alongside the SkyDancing Tantra techniques, the oldest school of Tantra in the West.
✨ Embark on a profound exploration of Meditation, surrender, silence, and stillness, paving the way for heightened states of Aliveness through active meditation, dance, breathwork, and movement.
✨ Integrate the teachings at your own pace while relishing quality time in nature, indulging in saltwater swimming, or exploring the nearby river beach.
✨ Experience enchanting evening gatherings, celebrations, live sacred music and much more!
Join this exclusive retreat, co-lead by the visionary Gopal and a team of compassionate facilitators, where you can:
✨ Meet Margot Anand in person and delve into her new discoveries, alongside the SkyDancing Tantra techniques, the oldest school of Tantra in the West.
✨ Embark on a profound exploration of Meditation, surrender, silence, and stillness, paving the way for heightened states of Aliveness through active meditation, dance, breathwork, and movement.
✨ Integrate the teachings at your own pace while relishing quality time in nature, indulging in saltwater swimming, or exploring the nearby river beach.
✨ Experience enchanting evening gatherings, celebrations, live sacred music and much more!
Rediscover your spiritual essence and awaken to the joys of unity with the universe at this intensive Tantric Meditation Retreat with Margot Anand, Gopal, and their wonderful Team.
Many of us seek in the practice of meditation, Tantra or bodywork a way to improve our lives, to be in harmony with our body and mind, and to have better relationships with others. These goals are absolutely valid; however, certain spiritual practices have truly transcendent experiences reserved for us.
Margot Anand, the woman who forever changed the relationship between our sexuality and spirituality in the West, along with Gopal and an inspiring team, proposes in this retreat a series of innovative methods and techniques to facilitate a sublime encounter, a leap into an unusual state that can change our perception of ourselves and the world forever: Becoming One with All That Is.
Margot Anand's innovative approach transcends the physical, focusing on consciousness expansion across multiple levels and embracing joy, laughter, and gratitude for life's perfection, leading to the ecstasy of the spirit.
Margot Anand, the woman who forever changed the relationship between our sexuality and spirituality in the West, along with Gopal and an inspiring team, proposes in this retreat a series of innovative methods and techniques to facilitate a sublime encounter, a leap into an unusual state that can change our perception of ourselves and the world forever: Becoming One with All That Is.
Margot Anand's innovative approach transcends the physical, focusing on consciousness expansion across multiple levels and embracing joy, laughter, and gratitude for life's perfection, leading to the ecstasy of the spirit.
ABOUT MARGOT ANAND
Margot Anand, the world’s leading authority on Tantra in the West, is an internationally- acclaimed author, public speaker, teacher, and seminar leader. Her best-selling books—The Art of Sexual Ecstasy, The Art of Sexual Magic, The Art of Everyday Ecstasy, Sexual Ecstasy: The Art of Orgasm and The Sexual Ecstasy Workbook—have sold more than a million copies worldwide. Her teaching style is a rare synthesis of French erotic humor, American pragmatism, and Indian mysticism.
She is particularly appreciated for her ability to bring healing, lightness, fun, and passion to the workshop atmosphere. Her educational documentary, Margot Anand’s Secret Keys to the Ultimate Love Life, is an in-depth course on her renowned methods (offered online) as a three part series which delivers a Tantra refresher and some fun, novel twists for those familiar with her classic and timeless techniques. Her latest teachings are designed to inspire a whole new generation of lovers.
Throughout the past two decades, Margot Anand has developed and taught the Love and Ecstasy Training (LET)®, a method of healing and enhancing sexuality to its ultimate potential: ecstasy. She is also the founder of nine worldwide SkyDancing® Tantra Institutes—a new approach to Tantra, or “Neo-Tantra.” SkyDancing Tantra is probably the most complete path to sexual bliss for western lovers.
Margot Anand’s ability to bring the teachings of Tantra beyond the bedroom and into everyday life is her signature. In addition, her latest book (and also audiobook) called Love, Sex and Awakening: Finding God in Bed, delights her audience with twelve life adventures that were her initiations into the connection between sexuality and spirituality.
She is particularly appreciated for her ability to bring healing, lightness, fun, and passion to the workshop atmosphere. Her educational documentary, Margot Anand’s Secret Keys to the Ultimate Love Life, is an in-depth course on her renowned methods (offered online) as a three part series which delivers a Tantra refresher and some fun, novel twists for those familiar with her classic and timeless techniques. Her latest teachings are designed to inspire a whole new generation of lovers.
Throughout the past two decades, Margot Anand has developed and taught the Love and Ecstasy Training (LET)®, a method of healing and enhancing sexuality to its ultimate potential: ecstasy. She is also the founder of nine worldwide SkyDancing® Tantra Institutes—a new approach to Tantra, or “Neo-Tantra.” SkyDancing Tantra is probably the most complete path to sexual bliss for western lovers.
Margot Anand’s ability to bring the teachings of Tantra beyond the bedroom and into everyday life is her signature. In addition, her latest book (and also audiobook) called Love, Sex and Awakening: Finding God in Bed, delights her audience with twelve life adventures that were her initiations into the connection between sexuality and spirituality.
Margot Anand has appeared on many national (CNN, CNBC, ABC) and international television and radio programs, and has been featured as a keynote speaker at many prestigious national and international conferences, including the Association of Humanistic Psychology; Association of Transpersonal Psychology, Body & Soul Conferences presented by Omega Institute; the Outside the Box conference presented by the Young Presidents’ Organization; and the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine.
Margot Anand’s speaking engagements are many and varied. She addressed the topic “Sex, Power and Politics” at the 1998 State of the World Forum conference—a meeting of formidable world leaders. A year later, at the 1999 State of the World Forum conference, she convened and chaired a panel of experts consisting of Dr. Jean Houston, Dr. Dean Ornish, Dr. Deepak Chopra and Marianne Williamson on the topic “Meditation, Power and Politics.”
Margot Anand has been interviewed and quoted in prestigious publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Time, Conscious Life, The Washington Post, New Age Journal, Cosmopolitan magazine, and many others.
A native of France, Margot is a graduate of Sorbonne University in Paris. She has extensive training in Gestalt therapy, Hindu and Buddhist Tantra (having studied with several spiritual masters, including the great mystic Osho in India), bioenergetics, massage, meditation, Arica and Integral yoga.
Margot Anand’s speaking engagements are many and varied. She addressed the topic “Sex, Power and Politics” at the 1998 State of the World Forum conference—a meeting of formidable world leaders. A year later, at the 1999 State of the World Forum conference, she convened and chaired a panel of experts consisting of Dr. Jean Houston, Dr. Dean Ornish, Dr. Deepak Chopra and Marianne Williamson on the topic “Meditation, Power and Politics.”
Margot Anand has been interviewed and quoted in prestigious publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Time, Conscious Life, The Washington Post, New Age Journal, Cosmopolitan magazine, and many others.
A native of France, Margot is a graduate of Sorbonne University in Paris. She has extensive training in Gestalt therapy, Hindu and Buddhist Tantra (having studied with several spiritual masters, including the great mystic Osho in India), bioenergetics, massage, meditation, Arica and Integral yoga.
ABOUT GOPAL
Gopal is a certified SkyDancing® Tantra teacher.
His path starts in Italy, where he develops an interest in Indian philosophy, spirituality, ritual magic, and meditation since his early years.
The meeting with the world of Osho in the 90s offers him the opportunity to grow and transform his skills as a facilitator, bodyworker, and a more complete human being.
After graduating in Shiatsu, OSHO Divine Healing Arts and Meditation with Prashantam in Portugal, he starts working on the connection and the interaction between the Mind and the Body in combination with the Magic tradition.
After moving to Berlin, he lands as a facilitator at Osho Studio, leading regular classes and workshops.
The city has inspired him to create Dynamic Tantra, a playful, soulful way to practice Tantra in the urban jungle, successfully welcomed by plenty of participants in many workshops, collaborating with many teachers, including his partner Mallika Paritosh.
He becomes a certified SkyDancing Tantra teacher, after attending a seven-year training at SkyDancing Tantra Institute in Montpellier, France.
The proximity with Margot Anand and the opportunity to work together in several workshops around the world has given him a more complete and integral understanding of SkyDancing Tantra and its practices, but also a closer insight into psychology, bioenergetics, physiology, opening his work to a full spectrum of creative possibilities.
His path starts in Italy, where he develops an interest in Indian philosophy, spirituality, ritual magic, and meditation since his early years.
The meeting with the world of Osho in the 90s offers him the opportunity to grow and transform his skills as a facilitator, bodyworker, and a more complete human being.
After graduating in Shiatsu, OSHO Divine Healing Arts and Meditation with Prashantam in Portugal, he starts working on the connection and the interaction between the Mind and the Body in combination with the Magic tradition.
After moving to Berlin, he lands as a facilitator at Osho Studio, leading regular classes and workshops.
The city has inspired him to create Dynamic Tantra, a playful, soulful way to practice Tantra in the urban jungle, successfully welcomed by plenty of participants in many workshops, collaborating with many teachers, including his partner Mallika Paritosh.
He becomes a certified SkyDancing Tantra teacher, after attending a seven-year training at SkyDancing Tantra Institute in Montpellier, France.
The proximity with Margot Anand and the opportunity to work together in several workshops around the world has given him a more complete and integral understanding of SkyDancing Tantra and its practices, but also a closer insight into psychology, bioenergetics, physiology, opening his work to a full spectrum of creative possibilities.
Working and living in Berlin, Gopal facilitates training and workshops worldwide.
The Golden Keys of Awakening
The Art of Becoming One with All that Is
This seminar will have a new focus that offers practices and methods that introduce spirituality, the qualities of enlightenment, so that we may ground them in our daily life.
The Encounter
By allowing universal forces to permeate our being, we sense the perfection of creation and transcend personal limitations to merge in gratitude with the Whole. This aligns with the Buddha's concept of "things as they are."
This process is a mystery. It is not something that can be actively sought like any other result. Precisely in letting go of all expectations lies the art of being able to foster these states of Grace.
Mastering skills of relaxation, trust, and surrender is an art that is almost forgotten, as it is the antithesis to our current, often stressful, daily lifestyle.
This process is a mystery. It is not something that can be actively sought like any other result. Precisely in letting go of all expectations lies the art of being able to foster these states of Grace.
Mastering skills of relaxation, trust, and surrender is an art that is almost forgotten, as it is the antithesis to our current, often stressful, daily lifestyle.
The Golden Keys
The first portal to open is the body and all its sensations. Laughter, pleasure, gratitude, happiness, the opening of all our senses to discover our orgasmic potential in every part of our being.
Participants will learn to navigate their orgasmic potential, not just on the bodily level but also by transcending to spiritual heights—what Margot describes as "the orgasm of the spirit."
This retreat will give you the keys to recall this encounter not only during the experience but actual tools that you can then practice in your daily life.
Participants will learn to navigate their orgasmic potential, not just on the bodily level but also by transcending to spiritual heights—what Margot describes as "the orgasm of the spirit."
This retreat will give you the keys to recall this encounter not only during the experience but actual tools that you can then practice in your daily life.
The Path
The path will take you through different levels of consciousness:
✨ from Self-witnessing, to
✨ the exploration of No Self, culminating in
✨ the Yoga of Light, leading to
✨ the blissful Awareness of our true nature as One with All that Is.
✨ from Self-witnessing, to
✨ the exploration of No Self, culminating in
✨ the Yoga of Light, leading to
✨ the blissful Awareness of our true nature as One with All that Is.
The Program
DAILY ACTIVITIES
✨ Morning Meditations.
✨ Margot Anand daily workshops, supported by Gopal.
✨ Evening Sessions, lead by Gopal and Team.
✨ Margot Anand daily workshops, supported by Gopal.
✨ Evening Sessions, lead by Gopal and Team.
WE WILL PRACTICE TOGETHER:
✨ Union of Energy and Consciousness: Exploring the dynamic interplay between Shakti and Shiva.
✨ Energy Meditations: Engaging in meditations to harness and direct energy.
✨ Chakra Exploration: Opening the body's energy centers to unlock potential.
✨ Joy and Laughter: Cultivating happiness as a fundamental aspect of the experience.
✨ Appreciation of Life: Encouraging a deep sense of gratitude and celebration.
✨ Dynamic Activities: Including movement, dance, and breathing exercises.
✨ Meditation Practices to deepen the tantric journey.
✨ Healing and Trust: Focusing on emotional and spiritual healing.
✨ Surrender to Bliss: Embracing high energy states and letting go into bliss.
✨ Energy Meditations: Engaging in meditations to harness and direct energy.
✨ Chakra Exploration: Opening the body's energy centers to unlock potential.
✨ Joy and Laughter: Cultivating happiness as a fundamental aspect of the experience.
✨ Appreciation of Life: Encouraging a deep sense of gratitude and celebration.
✨ Dynamic Activities: Including movement, dance, and breathing exercises.
✨ Meditation Practices to deepen the tantric journey.
✨ Healing and Trust: Focusing on emotional and spiritual healing.
✨ Surrender to Bliss: Embracing high energy states and letting go into bliss.
EXTRA ACTIVITIES
(optional and according to the schedule)
✨ Private Massage, Counseling & Wellness sessions (available upon request, and booked separately from the event).
✨ Outdoor pool and gardens.
✨ Ecological tourism: 5 minutes away from the venue you can swim in one Europe's largest lakes, amidst a landscape of valleys, mountains and pine forests.
The Venue
Quinta São Jose dos Montes, Tomar, Portugal
Extending over 20 hectares, Quinta de São José dos Montes lies at the heart of the largest maritime pine forest in the Iberian Peninsula. There are stunning views from the porch, from where you can observe various animals in their natural habitat, as well as farm animals, and a glimpse of Castelo do Bode Lake.
The main building is arranged around a courtyard with an outdoor saltwater pool, a cozy lounge, a large dining room and a porch with a barbecue for moments of pure leisure and fun in contact with nature. The Gardens are another magical area, well tended and pruned by Edward Scissors Hands.
You can enjoy the farm’s animals, such as horses, donkey, cattle dogs, cats, chickens, sheep and goats, salamanders, and so many birds that fly over the hills and all over the surrounding area.
The Quinta belongs to Tomar, a Templar city, former headquarters of the Order of the Templars, full of artistic and cultural wealth and
mysteries. Currently, there are those who claim that Quinta São José dos Montes may hold the key to the Holy Grail, hence the growing demand for mystics and explorers who pass through this space.
LOCATION
Located 120 km from Lisbon, 190 km from Porto, 350 km from the Algarve, 15 km from Tomar, 7 km from Ferreira do Zêzere and 900 m from Albufeira de Castelo de Bode.
The main building is arranged around a courtyard with an outdoor saltwater pool, a cozy lounge, a large dining room and a porch with a barbecue for moments of pure leisure and fun in contact with nature. The Gardens are another magical area, well tended and pruned by Edward Scissors Hands.
You can enjoy the farm’s animals, such as horses, donkey, cattle dogs, cats, chickens, sheep and goats, salamanders, and so many birds that fly over the hills and all over the surrounding area.
The Quinta belongs to Tomar, a Templar city, former headquarters of the Order of the Templars, full of artistic and cultural wealth and
mysteries. Currently, there are those who claim that Quinta São José dos Montes may hold the key to the Holy Grail, hence the growing demand for mystics and explorers who pass through this space.
LOCATION
Located 120 km from Lisbon, 190 km from Porto, 350 km from the Algarve, 15 km from Tomar, 7 km from Ferreira do Zêzere and 900 m from Albufeira de Castelo de Bode.
The Food
Quinta São José dos Montes serves vegan, vegetarian and some gluten-free dishes, seasoned with care and love. They work with unprocessed, fresh and preferably local food, organically produced in their own gardens, aromatic herbs and eggs from the free and happy hens nurtured by the TerraSana project. Bread and jams are home-made and olive oil and honey are supplied locally. The chef prepares balanced menus, providing all the nutrients required for good health in inspiring and creative dishes.
Practical Info
LANGUAGES
The workshop will be in English.
ADMISSION
This retreat welcomes all genders, couples, and singles. You can participate even with very little experience of Tantra, if you come with an open heart, ready to jump into your blissful nature.
ARRIVAL & DEPARTURE
The retreat will officially start with an Opening Ceremony on Tuesday 30th July at 18:00.
Please arrive between 15:00-17:00 to allow time to check in, explore the venue and settle in before we start.
The retreat will end at 12:00 on Monday 5th August.
Please arrive between 15:00-17:00 to allow time to check in, explore the venue and settle in before we start.
The retreat will end at 12:00 on Monday 5th August.
LOCATION
Quinta São Jose dos Montes
Estrada dos Montes, Nº134
2300-087 Olalhas – Tomar
Portugal
Estrada dos Montes, Nº134
2300-087 Olalhas – Tomar
Portugal
HOW TO ARRIVE
Quinta São José dos Montes is located 150 km north of Lisbon.
BY CAR
1.5 hour drive from Lisbon
TRAIN + TAXI
The cost for each way is approximately €35-40 (€10 train Lisbon-Tomar + €25-30 taxi).
BY CAR
1.5 hour drive from Lisbon
TRAIN + TAXI
The cost for each way is approximately €35-40 (€10 train Lisbon-Tomar + €25-30 taxi).
TICKET
Super Early Bird: EUR 550 until 31st of May
Early Bird: EUR 650 until 15th of June
Regular Price: EUR 800
Early Bird: EUR 650 until 15th of June
Regular Price: EUR 800
Portuguese citizens benefit of a special discount.
Please contact us for more details.
Please contact us for more details.
ACCOMODATION・FOOD PACKAGES
Apart from your Ticket, you should choose one of the Accommodation and Food Package below. All packages include three vegetarian meals, prepared with vegetables and fruit from the Quinta and local products.
VIP Apartment T0
40 m2 / Studio / 1 double bed / Only for 1 couple
Entire studio apartment with private entrance located on the ground floor, Pool & Mountain View, 1 double bed, private kitchenette, en suite bathroom with bath or shower, fireplace and sitting area.
For 1 couple:
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 700 per person
Single Use
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 1000 per person
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 700 per person
Single Use
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 1000 per person
ONLY ONE AVAILABLE
VIP Apartment T1
80 m2 / T1 / 2 pax / 2 twin beds
Entire 1-bedroom apartment with private entrance located on the ground floor, Garden & Mountain View, 2 twin beds, 1 sofa bed, fireplace, sitting area, dining area, patio, private kitchenette, private bathroom with bath or shower and extra long beds (> 6.5 ft.). It is possible to add an extra bed.
For 2 people:
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 700 per person
Single Use:
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 1000 per person
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 700 per person
Single Use:
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 1000 per person
ONLY TWO AVAILABLE
VIP Apartment T2
100 m2 / T2 / 4 pax / 4 twin beds
Entire 2-bedroom apartment with private entrance located on ground floor, Garden, Pool & Mountain View. Bedroom 1: 2 twin beds / Bedroom 2: 2 twin beds / Living room: 1 sofa bed, private kitchenette, patio, fireplace, private bathroom with bath or shower, dining area, sitting area and extra long beds (> 6.5 ft.). It is possible to add an extra bed.
Shared:
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 700 per person
Single Use of one room (there are two rooms):
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 900 per person
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 700 per person
Single Use of one room (there are two rooms):
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 900 per person
ONLY TWO AVAILABLE
Private Suites
20 m2 / 1 couple / 1 double bed
Suites located in the main building with Mountain View, 1 double bed, en suite bathroom, free use of large kitchen and dining room area.
For 1 couple:
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 700 per person
Single Use:
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 900 per person
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 700 per person
Single Use:
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 900 per person
ONLY TWO LEFT
Yurts
20m2 / 2 pax / 1 double bed or 2 twin beds
The glamping area of the Quinta is ideal for people with a special taste and awareness of Nature, with romantic Mongolian Yurts, a wooden house, eco-friendly dry toilets and beautiful views over the lake. You can enjoy a Yurt with Mountain View, 1 double bed or 2 twin beds, private kitchen, sitting area, fireplace, shared ecologica and shared bathroom. It is possible to add an extra bed.
For 2 people:
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 600 per person
Single Use:
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 700 per person
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 600 per person
Single Use:
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 700 per person
AVAILABLE
Domes
Beautiful Geodesic domes with private bathroom and wooden floor.
For 2 people:
6 nights + Full Board: 650 euro per person
Single Use:
6 nights + Full Board: 800 euro
6 nights + Full Board: 650 euro per person
Single Use:
6 nights + Full Board: 800 euro
AVAILABLE
Bell tents
For 2 people:
6 nights + Full Board: 500 euro per person.
Single Use:
6 nights + Full Board: 600 euro
6 nights + Full Board: 500 euro per person.
Single Use:
6 nights + Full Board: 600 euro
AVAILABLE
Sleep Inn
Shared Bedroom 50-60m2
The Quinta offers hostel-style accommodation within the Main House, where you can enjoy the magnificent garden with its centuries-old trees. Each room has wardrobes, shared toilet and bathroom. There is a women's dorm, a men's dorm and a gender-neutral dorm.
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 450 per person
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 450 per person
AVAILABLE
Camping
The Camping area of the Quinta is located just beyond the Dome with stunning views over the lake. It has capacity for 100 people, with several ecological dry toilets and hot water showers.
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 350 per person
6 nights + Full Board: EUR 350 per person
AVAILABLE
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Looking forward to seeing you in person!
Alternatively, you can reach us at:
+491794605705
[email protected]
Looking forward to seeing you in person!