Upcoming Retreats
Casa Portal hosts a small number of seasonal retreats shaped by nature and slower rhythms. Each retreat invites people to step out of everyday momentum and reconnect — whether it’s their first retreat or one of many. The container is intentionally gentle, accessible, and unhurried.
retreats open for booking
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Letting Go Into Love - Silent Retreat
Date : july 1–5, 2026
Length : 4 nights / 5 days
Retreat type : Silent, Yoga, Breathwork
Led by Surya-Chandra Das of Rolling Meadows Retreats, is a four-day silent, phone-free retreat supported by gentle, accessible contemplative practices. Surya is a meditation teacher and founder of Rolling Meadows Retreats, with over 30 years of experience guiding silent retreats and contemplative practice.
Silence is shared collectively, creating a quiet and supportive environment where attention can settle and awareness can deepen without pressure to speak or perform. This retreat invites a softer relationship with love through simplicity, stillness, and shared rhythm.
The experience includes guided meditation, yoga nidra, breathwork, and unstructured time in the natural landscape.
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In the making - a creative arts retreat
Date : July 29-Aug 2, 2026
Length : 4 nights / 5 days
Retreat type : Fiber Arts, Sound Bath, Forest Bathing
A creative fiber arts retreat rooted in land and craft
A four-day retreat in Maine guided by Natalie Davis and Maura Ambrose, centered on fiber arts, wool work, herbal crafting, sound healing, and time in nature exploring our senses in the natural world.
Through hands-on making, forest bathing, sound, and shared daily rhythm, guests are invited into a slower, embodied relationship with creativity shaped by land and season.
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Women's Personal Retreat - Summer farmstay
Date: August 28-30, 2026
Length : 2 nights / 3 days
Retreat type : Personal Women’s Only Retreat
Women’s Personal Retreat Weekend is a gentle, self-directed farmstay for those wanting time to themselves—without being completely on their own. Held by the daily rhythm of the farm, the weekend offers shared meals, open time in nature, and optional invitations to engage with the land, creating space to slow down and settle into a more human pace.
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Among the Trees - Forest Bathing
Date : september 3-7, 2025
Length : 4 nights / 5 days
Retreat type : Forest Bathing, Storytelling
An immersive forest bathing retreat
A four-day forest bathing retreat in Maine guided by certified forest therapy guide Tam Willey of Toadstool Walks, centered on sensory-based walks, solo forest time, and evenings of fireside storytelling.
Through guided forest bathing experiences, quiet wandering with prompts, and shared daily rhythm, guests are invited into a slower, more attentive relationship with nature.
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The Ease of Being – Silent Retreat
Date : september 9-13, 2026
Length : 4 nights / 5 days
Retreat type : Meditation, Yoga, Breathwork
Led by Surya-Chandra Das of Rolling Meadows Retreats, is a four-day silent, phone-free retreat supported by gentle, accessible contemplative practices. Surya is a meditation teacher and founder of Rolling Meadows Retreats, with over 30 years of experience guiding silent retreats and contemplative practice.
Silence is shared collectively, creating a quiet and supportive environment where attention can settle and awareness can deepen without pressure to speak or perform. This retreat invites a softer relationship with love through simplicity, stillness, and shared rhythm.
The experience includes guided meditation, yoga nidra, breathwork, and unstructured time in the natural landscape.
Guides this Season
Meet the experienced teachers and facilitators guiding retreats this year.
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Surya-Chandra Das
Surya-Chandra Das is a meditation teacher with over 30 years of experience guiding silent retreats and contemplative practice. Founder of Rolling Meadows Retreats, his work draws from decades of training and long-term retreat practice across multiple traditions, offering silence as a relational, accessible, and deeply held experience.
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Tam Willey
Tam Willey is an ANFT-certified forest therapy guide and the founder of Toadstool Walks. Her work blends guided forest bathing, sensory awareness, and storytelling to help people slow down, listen deeply, and build meaningful relationships with the natural world. Tam leads walks rooted in presence, curiosity, and care for the land.
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Natalie Davis
Natalie Davis is an intuitive coach and creative facilitator with a background in design and embodied creative practice. Her work invites people to reconnect with their creative instincts, inner rhythm, and sense of meaning through curiosity, presence, and hands-on exploration.
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Maura Ambrose
Maura Ambrose is a fiber artist and natural dyer whose work centers on hand-stitched quilts and textiles made with materials grown from the land. Through her studio, Folk Fibers, she teaches traditional craft practices as a way to explore creativity, color, and connection through making.
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Melissa Schneider
Melissa Schneider is the owner and steward of Casa Portal, She is a small-scale shepherdess tending a flock of heritage Navajo-Churro sheep and runs a wool and fiber line. She is a certified ANFT forest therapy guide and leads walks and retreats on the Casa Portal land.
