wander yogi festival in Ericeira, Portugal
10-13 OCTOBER 2025
The 8 Limbs of Yoga – Yoga in Everyday Life.
4th Edition of the Wander Yogi Festival
We’re excited to announce that the Wander Yogi Festival is returning for its 4th Edition, set to take place at our favorite location: Casa Paço d’Ilhas in Ericeira.
Save the Date:
Retreat Pass: 10th – 13th October 2025
Day Pass: 11th-12th October 2025
Join us for this year’s Wander Yogi Festival, where we explore the profound wisdom of “The 8 Limbs of Yoga” and their presence in our daily lives. From the ancient text “Yoga Sutras” of Patanjali, one of the pillars of the yogic tradition, we learn that more than just postures on the mat, yoga is a way of being—guiding us in our thoughts, actions, and interactions with the world.
Through a weekend of immersive experiences, including asana practice, meditation, breathwork, philosophy talks, and mindful living workshops, we will journey through each limb, discovering how yoga extends far beyond physical movement.
Yamas & Niyamas – Ethical principles and self-discipline in relationships and personal growth, exploring the foundations of a conscious lifestyle;
Pranayama – The power of breath in emotional balance and vitality;
Asana – Movement as a tool for connection and inner awareness;
Pratyahara – Moving inward, withdrawing from distractions to cultivate inner peace;
Dharana & Dhyana – Focus concentration and meditation as paths to clarity and presence;
Samadhi – A deep state of harmony and unity.
Yoga is more than just movement—it’s a path toward a balanced and meaningful life, and the ancient wisdom guides us beyond the mat into a life of awareness, purpose, and connection.
Whether you are an experienced yogi or just starting your journey, this festival offers a space to experience, reflect, and integrate yoga into your everyday life.
Let’s walk this path together. Let’s embody yoga in its fullest expression!
CHOOSE YOUR TICKET:
EARLY BIRD UNTIL JULY 31!
RETREAT PASS
3 Nights (Friday-Monday)
3 vegetarian meals per day
Full Access to the Festival
Extra classes on Friday Evening
& Monday Morning
TWO DAYS PASS
Full Access to the 2 days of Festival (Saturday & Sunday)
2 Vegetarian Lunches
ONE DAY PASS
Full Access to 1 day of Festival (Saturday OR Sunday)
1 Vegetarian Lunch
CONFIRMED TEACHERS FOR SATURDAY
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CONFIRMED TEACHERS FOR SATURDAY 〰️
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HATHA YOGA MASTERCLASS & VEDANTA WORKSHOP
Pedro Kupfer has been practising, studying and teaching Yoga for the last 40 years. He was born in Uruguay 56 years ago. Pedro considers Yoga to be not just an exercise but a way of life and a vision on how to live it wisely. Pedro wrote eight books on Yoga, translated two traditional texts on the matter (Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā and Ramagītā), and edits the website yoga.pro.br. He has been traveling yearly to India since 1987 to study and practise with his teachers, Swāmi Dayānanda and Swāmi Tattvavidānanda. Currently lives in a small village in Western Portugal. He loves surfing, singing mantras and planting trees.
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VOICE ACTIVATION WORKSHOP
Anna Grabner is passionate about the transformational potential that every voice in each unique body holds.
As a singer, voice movement therapist and mother, she provides a safe space for profound and creative self-expression. She encourages people to awaken their innate voice wisdom, and to reconnect with their voice in a truthful way.
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YOGA NIDRA WORKSHOP
Cristina Guerra has been since 2014 hosting classes and workshops in yoga and meditation in South-East Asia, Australia, Amsterdan and Portugal. She has deep training in Multidimentional Therapy, Channeling, white tantric Meditation, Krya and Restorative Yoga, and Yoga Nidra.
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AYURVEDA WORKSHOP
Faaria is an Ayurvedic Diet and lifestyle Practitioner and Yoga teacher with over a decade of experience. She is of Indian origin and is the founder of Ojas Wellbeing, where she shares her passion for Vedic practices from her cultural upbringing to empower people to live their best lives in a nurturing and holistic way. Faaria started her journey with Ayurveda after being able to heal herself naturally from chronic illness. Her purpose is to share the knowledge of longevity through the art of self-healing with Ayurveda, working with others to help them overcome a range of health issues using natural and sustainable lifelong practices where the mind, body, and soul thrive together in harmony.
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ACTIVE MEDITATION WORKSHOP
Lara Sophie, founder of The Soulshine Space, is a trauma-informed Tantra Therapist, Yoga Teacher and Embodiment Coach.
Her purpose is to walk the path of the heart, while learning, sharing and growing together. In her sessions, she integrates the three key elements of Tantra - breath, sound and movement - supporting individuals to tap "out of the mind and into the body". Creating a powerful experience of releasing what no longer serves in order to reconnect with our inherent vibrancy. Remembering oneself that we are life, we are love, we are creation itself.
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GAYA YOGA MASTERCLASS
Sara has spent most of her life traveling and studying the human condition and mind liberation. She began studying meditation, astrology, and the Mayan Calendar in 2006, completed her first Vipassana meditation course in 2008, and received her Yoga Teacher certification the same year in Auroville (India) where she studied Supramental Yoga of Aurobindo and Ashtanga Yoga. Sara has worked with plant medicine for 12 years and practiced Reiki for 18 years. Now based in Portugal, she is dedicated to spreading yoga teachings globally, combining nature-inspired intuition with a science-based, practical, and inclusive approach to living. She is the founder of Gaya Immersions and the Yoga Sciences Institute.
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ECSTATIC DANCE
Henrique Saias explores Rhythm, Vibration and Breath challenging pre-established canons. The result is Gingaí, a soulful force that celebrates the identity and diversity of folklores, ethnicities and cultures: music rooted in our shared ancestry. He transforms electronics, world beats, soundscapes and voice into an immersive journey to the primal heritage alive in our collective unconscious. His soundweb is filled with tribal elements, orgasmic synths and complex percussions, a deep fusion of the organic and digital worlds. In the stories he weaves, he’s as fluent in the meditative and transcendental as he is in the expansive ritual of dance, flooding the dancefloor with earthy basslines, rattles and positive energy. A journey around the world and beyond it.
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PRANAYAMA WORKSHOP
Practicing Yoga since 2004 and teaching since 2008, Rodrigo is an experienced and friendly teacher, teaching in a relaxed way. If in his Vinyasa Yoga classes he is more concerned about using the body and the breath to achieve a meditative state of mind, in his Yoga Therapy practices, his focus is maintaining or recovering health. Besides yoga, he loves to surf and travel.
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VINYASA MASTERCLASS
Paula's joyful approach to yoga integrates somatic flowing movement explorations with embodied philosophy, awareness practices and sacred sound. Inspired by natural movement patterns, classes focus on process over destination; slowly unfurling into powerful, creative sequences designed to cultivate curiosity, adaptability and resilience whilst honing our capacity to feel, and honouring the exquisite intelligence of our bodies. Paula has been practicing yoga for over 20 years and spent the last decade teaching in London’s leading studios before moving to Portugal with her family last year. You can find her teaching retreats internationally, via her online studio, The Community, or train with her through her bespoke programme for yoga teachers, Tiny & Vast.
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BREATHWORK & SOUND JOURNEY
Marie Alma is a certified breathwork and sound facilitator, ceremonialist, yoga teacher, and devoted musician and singer. With nearly a decade of nomadic living and learning across cultures in Latin America, India and Europe, she weaves modern somatic science with ancient healing technologies to guide transformative experiences around the world.
Her work is deeply rooted in nervous system regulation, trauma-informed care, and the sacred power of the breath. As a breathwork teacher trainer and space holder in plant medicine and ceremonial settings, Marie creates containers of deep safety and expansion. Her offerings integrate pranayama, meditation, yoga, and voice work - including song circles and devotional kirtan - designed to reconnect participants with their innate wisdom and power.
CONFIRMED TEACHERS FOR SUNDAY
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CONFIRMED TEACHERS FOR SUNDAY 〰️
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HATHA YOGA MASTERCLASS & VEDANTA WORKSHOP
Joana Cadete sees Yoga as a lifestyle that comprehends various self-development tools, like asana, prānāyāma, meditation, the study of the ancient yoga scriptures and our attitudes in daily life. For more than a decade, she went annually to India, for long stays, to deepen her practice and study. She started to practice Hatha Yoga in 1995 and has dedicated her life to teach yoga for already more than 20 years: Ashtanga Yoga, her long-term daily practice, Vinyasa, Yoga for Children and Teenagers, and Yoga Philosophy (Vedānta). Her passions are enjoying time with family, Yoga, Surfing and Nature.
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PRANAYAMA WORKSHOP
Carolina Pizarro, passionate about nature, philosophy and freedom, was born in Lisbon in 1991. From an early age she dedicated herself to Art, Music and Yoga — she considers this to be the trinity that makes her express everything she is. Carolina started to practice Yoga at 17 years old (2009), since then never stopped. Yoga saved her life! In Yoga she found the tools for constant self healing and growth. She did a 6 year course of Traditional Hatha Yoga (6500h) and has been teaching Yoga regularly for 12 years (since 2013). She considers herself an eternal student of life, realizing Nature as the biggest teacher of all. Living for 7 years in Ericeira, Carol teaches regular yoga classes to the community, guides Sound Journeys and Workshops on Yoga, Intuitive Painting, Pranayama, Mantra and more. In her Yoga classes you will be guided to awaken your true nature and freedom, purifying the mind, bringing the unconscious to the surface, opening the way to the heart and strengthening intuition. With the vast traditional yogic techniques, blended in a creative and unique way, each class is special, a profound journey. All levels are welcome.
Carolina is also the founder of MERU music project, The Sarasvati Experience , INDIOS IN DIOS , and The Hearthist. Through her work, she feels the mission to awaken in others awareness, sensitivity, compassion, healing, simplicity and creativity.
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AYURVEDA WORKSHOP
Faaria is an Ayurvedic Diet and lifestyle Practitioner and Yoga teacher with over a decade of experience. She is of Indian origin and is the founder of Ojas Wellbeing, where she shares her passion for Vedic practices from her cultural upbringing to empower people to live their best lives in a nurturing and holistic way. Faaria started her journey with Ayurveda after being able to heal herself naturally from chronic illness. Her purpose is to share the knowledge of longevity through the art of self-healing with Ayurveda, working with others to help them overcome a range of health issues using natural and sustainable lifelong practices where the mind, body, and soul thrive together in harmony.
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YIN & SOUND JOURNEY
Catarina is a yoga teacher and sound practitioner with over a decade of experience creating spaces for rest, reconnection, and inner listening. Her sound journeys blend crystal bowls, gongs, chimes and voice to guide participants into deep stillness and presence. With roots in Vinyasa and Yin Yoga, and a background in Shamanism, her approach is intuitive and embodied—an invitation to return to balance through breath, vibration, and awareness. After years teaching in London’s studios, Catarina is now based in Ericeira, Portugal, sharing her practice online and through private in-person sessions.
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PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP
Sara has spent most of her life traveling and studying the human condition and mind liberation. She began studying meditation, astrology, and the Mayan Calendar in 2006, completed her first Vipassana meditation course in 2008, and received her Yoga Teacher certification the same year in Auroville (India) where she studied Supramental Yoga of Aurobindo and Ashtanga Yoga. Sara has worked with plant medicine for 12 years and practiced Reiki for 18 years. Now based in Portugal, she is dedicated to spreading yoga teachings globally, combining nature-inspired intuition with a science-based, practical, and inclusive approach to living. She is the founder of Gaya Immersions and the Yoga Sciences Institute.
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MEDITATION WORKSHOPS
Practicing Yoga since 2004 and teaching since 2008, Rodrigo is an experienced and friendly teacher, teaching in a relaxed way. If in his Vinyasa Yoga classes he is more concerned about using the body and the breath to achieve a meditative state of mind, in his Yoga Therapy practices, his focus is maintaining or recovering health. Besides yoga, he loves to surf and travel.
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KIRTAN
THERAPISTS FOR SATURDAY & SUNDAY
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THERAPISTS FOR SATURDAY & SUNDAY 〰️
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SHIATSU MASSAGE
Almost ten years ago, Barbara began a personal journey of transformation that led her to the Macrobiotic Institute of Portugal and her first encounter with Shiatsu. This experience marked the beginning of a deeper path in holistic therapies, culminating in the completion of a two-year Therapeutic Shiatsu course with Nuno Fernandes.
Over the years, she has continued to deepen her knowledge, training with various teachers in Oriental Diagnosis, Therapeutic Plants, Zhineng Qi Gong, and Myofascial Release. Barbara is also a Reiki therapist as well as a dedicated yoga teacher and practitioner.
In her massage practice, Barbara draws upon this diverse range of tools and techniques to support each client’s journey toward homeostasis. Her primary intention is to promote physical well-being and energetic balance, encouraging the body to restore its natural flow of energy and emotion.
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REBOZO MASSAGE
As a 500-hour certified Hatha yoga teacher, Costanza has always dedicated her work to guiding women along the path of the sacred feminine. She shares her own journey with honesty and devotion, creating a personal way of moving and expressing herself through the body—infused with harmony, grace, love, and authenticity.
The Rebozo, massage with scarves, is a technique rooted in an ancient Mexican tradition. This practice helps individuals reconnect with their bodies in an intimate and respectful way, as the person remains fully clothed and receives the massage through scarves, which act as an extension of the practitioner’s arms.
Rebozo massage works on multiple levels, guided by the intention set for the session. It can serve as a ritual of passage—an opportunity to release what no longer serves and open space for something new. Gentle, soothing, and deeply relaxing, the practice invites the body to soften as it is moved and cradled with care.
YOUR JOURNEY BEGINS HERE
Ericeira Yoga Festival Venue
The Ericeira Wander Yogi Festival will take place in the two stunning neighbouring locations,
Casa Paço D’Ilhas & Alma do Paço.
Located on a hilltop surrounded by green and overlooking the world class surf break "Ribeira D'ilhas". It mixes an incredible combination of traditional heritage style with the modern amenities that make every guest feel welcome.
The location is perfect if you want to escape the hustle and bustle of modern-day living.
Casa Paço D’Ilhas and Alma do Paço give you the space you need to immerse yourself in the yogic and holistic leisure experience. Next to your yoga practice you can enjoy the pristine garden, take a dip in one of the pools, or meet and chat with new people you will meet at the yoga festival.
You will be free to wander around the property and explore the magic that Casa Paço D’Ilhas and Alma do Paço are.
Are you travelling through Portugal and want to join the festival but don't want to commit for three days or stay over night? Then you can just get a day pass and join for the day!
ACCOMMODATION
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DOUBLE PRIVATE ROOM
The ultimate in privacy and comfort
Enjoy a comfy and cozy double room with a private bathroom. Three room types available, each with its own unique charm and character.
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TWIN / DOUBLE ROOM IN SHARED HOUSE
Cozy comfort for smaller budgets
Enjoy the comfort of a private twin or double room, with a shared bathroom, in a beautifully restored house.
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SINGLE / DOUBLE BED IN SHARED HOUSE
Comfort at the best value
Enjoy our most affordable option, with a double, twin, or bunk bed in a beautifully renovated barn house.
ABOUT ERICEIRA
Located only 50 km from Lisbon, Ericeira is a picturesque traditional fishing village situated on some of Portugal’s most stunning coastline.
The village became a popular summer getaway beginning in the 19th century and has maintained its unique atmosphere and appeal over the years. Its many beaches have something to offer every type of traveller, and its ideal surfing conditions earned it the distinction of being named a World Surf Reserve in 2011.
In recent years, Ericeira has developed a thriving yoga scene, with many teachers and students flocking to the area for its combination of sun, sand, surf, and spirituality.
Ericeira is a short, 30-minute drive from the Lisbon International Airport.
Best things to do in Ericeira
Bem vindo a Ericeira! Ericeira and its surroundings are definitely a place worth visiting for more than just three days. If you have some extra time besides joining the yoga festival there’s plenty of exciting activities to do in Ericeira.
Take a surf class
Ericeira gained more popularity after being named a World Surf Reserve in 2011. For that reason a lot of surfers are travelling to Ericeira to surf the cold atlantic ocean waves.
But also beginners can get to know the famous World Surf Reserve and take surf classes with a trained instructor. It is absolutely worth attempting and promises to be an unforgettable experience.
Stroll around the charming old town
Ericeira is not only home to good waves and a picturesque coastline but also the town center has a lot to offer. Its white blue houses and little streets make Ericeira a very charming place.
At one of the café's around Jogo da Bola you can try the famous Pastel de Nata and drink a Cafe Galao while you watch surfers carrying their boards, children playing in the square and locals chatting on the street. After you can visit the surf shops or wander in the plentiful streets in town.
Beach Hopping
Beach Hopping is always a good idea in Ericeira. In town you can choose between Praia do Sul, the south beach (where you have also a natural pool) or Praia do Norte, the north beach and praia de São Sebastião. If you are looking for a calmer sea where you can have a dip without big waves, choose praia pescadores, fisherman’s beach.
Heading north you will find one of the most beautiful and famous beaches of Ericeira, Ribeira d'ilhas that has also a cool café; instead on the south end of the town you will find the beach called Foz do Lizandro with several cafes and restaurants where you can have lunch or drinks.
How to get to Ericeira
Uber: The easiest and fastest way to get to Ericeira is taking an Uber from the airport. This takes approximately 40 to 50 minutes. Usually it costs between 30 to 40 € - depending on the time of the day.
Metro and Bus: You can also take the metro and the bus to Ericeira. From the airport there is a metro to Campo Grande and from there buses are driving to Ericeira several times a day. Some of them only take around 50 minutes. To make sure you are taking the right bus, ask the driver if this is the fast bus.