ALENTEJOZEN – Creative and healing place

ALENTEJOZEN, is a combination of Zen meditation retreats, personal life coaching, language courses and creative workshops at one place. You not only get to discover a very unique rural region and culture, you can combine the useful with the satisfying for an unforgettable and beneficial stay.

A place that facilitates and enables the experience of transformation and living in the present moment. The Alentejo allows you to live slowly. Authenticity, peace and creativity await you.

Our cosy ” monte ”

Monte da avó Maria is a rustic, cosy renovated farm house in the Alentejo region with a seperated part for longterm rentals and retreats. It has several rooms, a nice bathroom and big dining area. Everybody can use the meditation room (dojo), social area with benches and our small organic vegetable garden.

Here, you can enjoy the calm and slow pace of life for a short period or even several months.

You can go for a nice walk in the surroundings, go cycling, read a book, meditate, contemplate nature, but also rest or even write.

ZAZEN – Sessions and retreats

At Monte da Avó Maria you can participate in a spiritual and very deap experience that helps you to find your inner peace. We organize regular sessions and also retreats.

Mediation will not carry you to another world, but sitting in silence and doing “zazen” (japanese name for seated meditation), reveals the most profound and calming practice to develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight, reduces anxiety and helps you to discover who you are.