Deveza Retreat
GerJan van de Kamp & Karin Seelen
September 06 - 12 | 2025
Looking for a peaceful place to tune-in to your wellbeing, unwind in nature and connect to yourself and others?
Relax your shoulders, take a deep inhale through the nose…and exhale.
You’ve found what you’re looking for!
Join our 7 day Yoga Retreat in
the beautiful mountains of Central Portugal.
Scroll down to read about what to expect from a Deveza retreat, or...
Yoga
The daily yoga classes will be guided by longtime yoga teacher GerJan van de Kamp of KernYoga. With his 10 years of experience in fulltime teaching yoga and background in Psychology, he is a master in offering a safe and grounded space for his no-nonsense type of yoga.
Classes will be guided in our beautiful yoga shala, with a view over the valley
and mountains, and are designed to help you reconnect to your body and inner voice.
- Pema Chödrön
- Ram Dass
Retreat Program
We create our program with enough time to relax and be with yourself.
All activities and workshops are included but never mandatory.
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Daily yoga classes, one in the morning and one in the afternoon or evening
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Meditation
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Breathwork excersises and group sessions
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Ice bath guided by Giel
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Sharing circles
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Day trip to waterfalls
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Silent Hike
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Ecstatic dance
not included but optional: massages
For whom?
Our retreats are suitable for all genders and for both beginner and experienced yogi's. Minimum age is 18 years. If you have any questions about the space or access requirements, please contact us at
info@landofdeveza.com and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Cuisine - don’t lift a finger!
Giel and our kitchen team will spoil you to the max this week! Healthy, fresh and super yummy dishes will be served to you every day.
Prepared with local, organic products and as sustainable as possible.
On the last night of the retreat, we heat up the wood oven to bake delicious, home-made pizzas.
There is always fruit, coffee, tea and water available throughout the day.
When you register for the event we will ask you about any dietary requirements.
We serve no alcohol during our retreat and ask you to please respect this.
Investment
Shared room 1125 Euros
Private room adds 225 Euros to the price.
We have 6 private rooms available:
2 private glamping tents, 2 double bed rooms (in guest house), 2 single bed rooms (in guest house). All tiny houses are shared accommodations.
(First bookings have first choices, prices are the same for all private rooms)
Price includes: full program with all workshops and daytrips, accommodation, use of all yoga props, catering and transfer to and from airport Porto on set times.
Not included: flights (read more at Travel to and from Land of Deveza)
Your reservation will be confirmed after your downpayment of 50% of the total amount.
By booking you will agree with our Terms and conditions "retreats"'.
Please read before booking!
Travel to and from Land of Deveza
Flying
There are daily flights to Aeroporto Oporto, which is a 1.5 hours drive from where we are based in São Pedro do Sul.
Land of Deveza will take care of the transfer from and to the airport of Oporto on set times at the days of arrival and departure:
Free pick up at 11:15 from Oporto airport on arrival day / based on KLM flights from Amsterdam (KL1571) that arrives 10:40.
Free drop off, leaving Deveza at 8:00, at Oporto airport on departure day / based on KLM flight to Amsterdam 11:25 (KL1572)
If you arrive or depart on other days, we can advise you about the options. We are also very happy to give you tips about traveling around Portugal,
if you wish to stay longer in this beautiful country.
Driving
You can find us on Google Maps here. Please let us know if you plan on driving as we have limited parking spaces.
Accommodation
Deveza offers 3 types of accommodation:
a guest house, our tiny houses, and 2 glamping tents. We will host a maximum of 15 participants during the retreat. The price is based on a shared bedroom in one of these accommodations. There are 6 private rooms available, which increases the price by 225 euros. The maximum capacity of a shared 'room' is 3, which will be in the tiny houses.
You can send us your preference for type of accommodation.
Check all of our accommodations here.
And these are your hosts:
This is us; Giel Jansen and Karin Seelen.
Creating Deveza since 2019, together with friends, family and volunteers.
And ofcourse our doggos
Máka (r) and Sjakie
Our happy Saarloos makes sure he gets all the cuddles.He loves running and playing with dogs of all kinds and sizes. Sjakie is our newest family member, we found him Summer of 2021, as a puppy.
GerJan van de Kamp is one of your hosts this week; yoga teacher and spaceholder.
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With his 10 years of experience as a yoga teacher and his background as a psychologist, he knows how to create a safe and grounded space for his inclusive, no-nonsense yoga.
Instagram: @kernyoga
Besides host and ice bath guide,
Giel is also our chef at Deveza.
Together with his kitchen team he makes sure we will not be hungry during the retreats.
Prepared with lots of love and local products, fresh, yummy and beautifully
put together cuisine.
Karin is your other host; breathwork faciltator and spaceholder. She will guide you in the breathwork sessions and the inner child workshop.
She finds breathwork truly
transformational and
can't wait to share it's magic with you!
Instagram: @karin_breathwork
