SAMPLE — Silence in the Alentejo

SAMPLE TEXT. Nine days that begin before you arrive. The preparation is part of it: what you stop doing in the fortnight beforehand shapes what the the plain can actually reach. We travel in a group small enough that nobody is anonymous, and slowly enough that the days stop counting themselves.

SAMPLE TEXT. the plain is not remote for its own sake. It is remote because what happens there needs distance from everything else, and because the people who hold it have chosen not to make it easy to reach.

SAMPLE TEXT. You will meet three or four people whose work does not appear online, and who agreed to this only because of a long relationship. Their names are not on this page for that reason.

SAMPLE TEXT. Mornings are structured. Afternoons are not. There is breathwork most days, sometimes at dawn, always optional and always guided.

SAMPLE TEXT. Weather moves the schedule. So does the group. We have never run this the same way twice, and the parts that stay with people are rarely the parts we planned.

SAMPLE TEXT. Small group. Travel to the meeting point is yours to arrange; everything after it is handled. Full details after a conversation.