Monte Do Eterno
Is a beautiful new Portuguese retreat centre coming soon. Once I find the right property.
Our mission
Is to reconnect people with themselves via nature, ancient and modern spiritual practices and horses.
Our History
In April 2020 I was given the name Monte Do Eterno (the eternal mountain or mountain of the Eternals) by my spirit guides and I bought this website domain as a promise to make it happen.
My name is Jo most people know me as a lover of things outdoors, a serial entrepreneur, a rare dreamer and doer, and an eternal creative and healer from deep trauma however I am and always have been a Celtic Seer. I come from an ancient Celtic seeing and Horse Whispering family we have lived on the same land for over 600 years and I feel closely aligned with nature, creativity, healing, and horses.
I have been seeing since I was a child, my granny used to say "I see because I want to see", it's taken me a while to understand this, but now I do. I see because I want to see. After all, it's healing and the world needs foresight. I've been working hard on nurturing and channelling this gift to support myself and others on their journey.
I believe in the love of self, love of others and love of the natural world. I have always had spiritual practises that were rooted in the ancient Celtic practises that honour people and the land that have been passed down from generation to generation.
I have a fascination with the power of natural healing. I've had lots of time to practice this on myself. I grew up on a farm and from a young age guided by my grandfather, I experimented with growing and blending a selection of healing plants, herbs and mushrooms.
In 2018 I had a series of seeing dreams over 6 months where I created a beautiful retreat centre high up in the Portuguese Hills. It was a place with views for miles where people came to heal and reconnect with the earth, using the power of the seasons, and elements of earth, wind, water and fire and in doing so found peace in their souls.
Originally I thought the dreams were for someone else, but now I believe that they were my dreams and therefore it is my responsibility to bring this beautiful vision to life. This is my commitment to myself to manifest these dreams into reality because they are beautiful and they have the power to bring healing, love, light and eternal beauty to people and the world.
The name felt like a metaphor for my life, I have lived many lives, I am an eternal, I have travelled many beautiful and inspiring hills and mountains, and I have also wandered in and through the valleys of despair after experiencing and healing from deep trauma. I understand pain and healing and how pain is love growing if you let it. I have trialled all of these practices on myself and now after a 20-year healing journey, I am ready to share this wisdom with others. Maybe this was always my path, I had to experience everything I have been through to understand and empathise with the full spectrum of human emotions.
I have found eternal beauty in all of those spaces. As I sat with myself I let love grow through my pain I learnt to dance in the darkness until I made my light. All these ups and downs I saw as opportunities for growth and learning. I learnt to love and choose myself.
Our Future
Monte Do Eterno will be a place that brings all of my learnings from the last 20 years together in one place. It will become a world-renowned and multi award winning retreat space, focused on transformational healing. We will be bringing the best healers, coaches, creatives and teachers from around the world to run retreats, creative events, workshops, and talks, as well as running individually tailored experiences in a beautiful and peaceful setting that will inspire you.
All people are welcome. However, we will have a special focus on supporting those who want to heal from trauma, PTSD, abuse, depression, burnout, anxiety, grief and loss.
It will be a place that will accept you and love you no matter what part of your journey you are on, we will be your soft feather bed to rest and recover. We will encourage you to find your light from within and support you as you learn to reconnect with your true self, when you ground yourself in nature and listen to it sing over your heart and soul.
Our practices will focus on healing
1. Body, Mind and Spirit
We will design a tailor-made programme for you. Where we will work together on your body, mind and spirit. Each one of us and our journies are unique and need to be treated at such.
We will have personal and spiritual development coaches, mentors and therapists on hand for daily sessions.
We will provide personally crafted seeing sessions for you. During these session, we will use the power of our spirit guides and ancestors and God to look back to your past, sit in your present and see what you need to do to leap forward. We will help you to tap into your own intuition and spiritual gifts and use this as a tool for you to move forward in self trust.
We will use Eastern therapies such as Reiki, Acupuncture, Yoga, KAP, Somatic Body Work, Breathwork, Cold water therapy, Massage and Reflexology. These have all played an essential role in my recovery and energy healing, so we will ensure that we have a plethora of incredible bodywork specialists to assess your needs and work with you to support your healing.
2. Connection with self and nature
Having grown up on a farm I love to be outside. We will work together to learn about growth through nature., we will be creatively connecting with the seasons and the elements of air, earth, fire and wind and the seasons and using these as tools for healing and growth.
We only get one beautiful planet , we will be eco efficient, sustainable and carbon neutral to ensure our footprints on the earth are positive and kind.
I understand the power of delicious home-cooked food. Our bodies thrive when we connect them with nature and natural food. Growing and eating locally produce, chemical free food nourishes your body and is an essential part of the healing journey, so we will get your hands dirty in the earth. I promise to feed you delicious nutritious healing food that we've grown from the land and cooked together.
I love swimming outdoors all year round, once you have swum in icy cold water and realised that the initial shock is nothing short of life jolting, it takes you back into your body where you realise that your body can overcome incredible things. There is power and strength hidden in your depths that maybe you have not realised yet.
I have benefitted greatly from the healing power of horses. I have found that when my healing journey or emotions were stuck or buried deep inside they helped me to reconnect. There are no emotions you can hide from horses, they are so attuned to feelings that they can feel and respond to emotions from 30ft away. They have this incredible emotional power to reflect without judgement how you are feeling, they act as natural emotional mirrors, so we will use this natural power to find and work through any hidden blockages you may have. This will involve mainly ground work with horses but if you want to ride the horses I would love to take you on a hack around the beautiful Portuguese countryside on our incredible hand selected and safe horses.
3. Creativity
Dancing and Music are vibrationally healing, as I leant to dance in the dark until I made my healing light, they helped me to heal, so we will bring in some of the best musicians, DJs and sound healers and use the transformational power of these mediums to support your healing journey, from darkness to your own you shaped light.
Self-expression through learning and creativity is life-giving. We will also have a well-stocked library and creative space for you to write, paint, draw, craft and do whatever makes you feel like and connect with your inner creative child.
Ceremonies are constructed from the visual and performing arts. In a safe setting they are an important vehicle for telling stories, using symbolism, and marking important life-changing events or simple personal achievements that we are proud of. I have always found that the power of ceremony is transformational it helps to bring closure, move stagnant energy, inspire creativity and mark the start of new beginnings . They represent a commitment to self and community so we will create and undertake some wonderful creative healing ancient and modern ceremonies, and we will get creative and have a lot of fun in the process.
I can't wait for you to join me on this journey. So come and join us. I'll be building a team who are ready to meet welcome and journey with you, as you transform yourself.
With love and excitement for the possibilities. Jo x
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