Off grid retreat space of peace, rehabilitation and tranquility. Looking at the magical Serra da Est There are maps and local information on places to visit.
✩✩✩Enjoy our ever changing mountain view, need some peace and calm? Desire to write your book, take some stunning photographs, cycle or walk in the countryside or across the highest mountain in Portugal? Enjoy watching the moon rise over the Serra da Estrela and the stars in the sky?
✩✩✩Or simply rejuvenate yourself through its healing energy. Quinta da Luz has luxury accommodation where you can enjoy all of these and more to create your own retreat or join one of ours.
✩✩✩Take breakfast on the terrace before setting off to explore the local Nature and history or wander around the garden. Rejuvenate yourself through one of our retreats or create your own. Quinta da Luz has an unique presence where visitors often stay for longer than planned due to its calm, peaceful energy of well being.
✩✩✩Our beautiful home is a renovated granite house with its original forester watch tower. Three bedrooms have en-suite bathrooms with extra large beds, one room with two single beds and one with a single. Three bedrooms and a separate bathroom for the two single bedded rooms are on the ground floor along a private corridor.
✩✩✩Enjoy wandering in the serenity of our garden, sitting by its ponds and taking in the breathtaking scenery. Watch the night sky, you can even see the Milky Way!
✩✩✩Our space is idyllic for creative and artistic people as well as those seeking tranquillity and inspiration. We also operate a retreat centre for those seeking to recharge their batteries, to escape from city life and also for those who are on their spiritual journey. There is a garden room used for yoga, meditation and workshops, or perhaps even your sketching and photography! Our visitors are very welcome to use this space freely.
✩✩✩Various modalities such as energy and soul level shamanic transformation are the focus of our retreats. Our grounds include a medicine wheel, fire pit and stone circle- Used during our retreats and by visitors, There is also a house guitar should you feel the need to strum or drum.
✩✩✩We welcome guests on arrival. We take pleasure in settling them into our home and showing them around the Quinta. If you have any dietary requirements please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate you.
✩✩✩We are vegetarians ourselves eating whenever possible our own fruit, vegetables and nuts. Our retreats are full board.
✩✩✩You will find the Quinta 500 mts down a rural track and is car and tractor accessible. If you wish to swim there are various river beaches nearby and a lake in the mountain about 45 minutes drive away. The nearest beach is Aveiro which is about 1.5 hours drive.
✩✩✩We have a Quinta cat who spends most of her time outside, especially in summer - the bedrooms are off limit to her! If you have cat allergies please mention them to us. We request that no dogs are invited.
✩✩✩Guest Access
You will be able to access the living room where we enjoy breakfast when not taken outside. In the tower we have our library where guests may sit and read books during their stay. There is a seating area leading to three of the guest bedrooms and kitchen, used more in winter when the wood burner is lit! The granite walls keep an equable temperature through the year, so allowing all to just sit and enjoy the ever changing views of Serra da Estrela. Whether you wish to be inside or sit on the terrace listening to the evening noises of the crickets and frogs, watching the twinkling stars, or find one of the 17 benches in the garden where you can just be a peace with Nature.
✩✩✩Interaction with Guests
We will be on site during your stay, to help guide you around the hectare (2.5 acres) of the Quinta and point out local sites and places of interest. We operate a very non intrusive and empathetic home, respecting the privacy of all guests.
24/10/2025
“More unexpected events will be surfacing for you to enjoy before November completes” - Source Have you ever noticed sometimes you know what to do — yet something invisible seems to always step in the way to stop you? Maybe it shows up as procrastination? Perhaps it is due to people-pleasing, perfectionism or overworking? Or maybe staying in relationships that drain your energy — or distracting yourself with endless scrolling, numbing or overdoing?...
Are you struggling to improve something about yourself? Strong emotions are your re-action to the stories creating beliefs you hold.
16/10/2025
“As always, the choice for each of you is to embrace who you are today rather than retain who you had become. Release the limitations so that each of you can access your true abilities, gifts and skills” - Source Have you ever wondered about the story you keep telling yourself – such as: “No one supports me. I have to do it everything myself.”...
As the outer planets return to their previous signs, they demand your attention to change what you thought had been completed in your life.
09/10/2025
“The coming days are going to seem more calm for each of you. The intent is that this space is used to complete all the letting go that is needed” - Source Look anywhere and you will see things falling apart. The ground trembles. What once felt solid is dissolving into dust. Though this is never the end. To stop there, seduced by despair, is to close your book in the middle of the chapter—right before renewal begins to arrive....
Your Higher Self is your unfiltered connection to Source and all that is! Offering you the broadest of wisdom, experience and awareness.
03/10/2025
“Making the choices based on what you feel, not what you think others are seeking! Some would view this as selfish – it is not!” - Source Whilst the influence of the recent eclipse season lasts until 21st October, the Cosmos is supporting us to bring some peace, balance and stability into our lives. When life does not go the way we pictured, we often tell ourselves something is broken—either in us or in our world....
On 7th October the first of 2025´s supermoons rises. It urges you to find balance between autonomy and dependence.
24/09/2025
“This will in turn, accelerate the changes to the essence of what is emerging as their newness and openness influence the changes of your society and its beliefs” - Source All around us events are intensifying — some unsettling, others liberating — all serving as catalysts of transition. This turbulence is not random; it is initiation, calling us toward unity consciousness....
Have you ever wondered why we misbehave? That is going against expectation as to how you should act in any given situation.
18/09/2025
“The eclipse is encouraging you to learn to master the 'little' details of your day-to-day life, thereby freeing your mind of clutter!" The last few days, my body has seemed to be experiencing both being drawn down whilst simultaneously stepping into something new. As though watching one chapter of my life coming to a close as a new era begins to emerge....
The coming solar eclipse on the 21st forms a closing and an opening. An ending and a beginning. Opening to the next chapter in your life.
11/09/2025
“Just as your physical body is being adapted, so will many of the associated memories come to remind you of the stories which have helped bring you to that point” - Source Change is underway, whether we like it or not. Each of us is experiencing this transition in our own way. Sometimes the choice is forced upon us and on other occasions we are presented with an either/or scenario:...
Every day, we are surrounded by a wide choice of possibilities. Within any phase of life, there are other choices about how and why.
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✩✩✩Enjoy our ever changing mountain view, need some peace and calm? Desire to write your book, take some stunning photographs, cycle or walk in the countryside or across the highest mountain in Portugal? Enjoy watching the moon rise over the Serra da Estrela and the stars in the sky?
✩✩✩Or simply rejuvenate yourself through its healing energy. Quinta da Luz has luxury accommodation where you can enjoy all of these and more.
✩✩✩Take breakfast on the terrace before setting off to explore the local Nature and history or wander around the garden. Rejuvenate yourself through one of our retreats or create your own. Quinta da Luz has an unique presence where visitors often stay for longer than planned due to its calm, peaceful energy of wellbeing.
✩✩✩Our beautiful home is a renovated granite house with its original forester watch tower. Two bedrooms have en-suite bathrooms with extra large beds, one room with two single beds and one with a single. The three bedrooms and separate bathroom on the ground floor are along a private corridor.
✩✩✩Enjoy wandering in the serenity of our garden, sitting by its ponds and taking in the breathtaking scenery. Watch the night sky, you can even see the Milky Way!
✩✩✩Our space is idyllic for creative and artistic people as well as those seeking tranquillity and inspiration. We also operate a retreat centre for those seeking to recharge their batteries, to escape from city life and also for those who are on their spiritual journey. There is a garden room used for yoga, meditation and workshops, or perhaps even your sketching and photography! Our visitors are very welcome to use this space freely.
✩✩✩In this creative space Gregory has written various books. Two have been published - The story of how severe back pain led him to this choice and awakening it brought is in his chapter “CEO to Shaman” in the #1 international best-selling Transforming Your Life II.
It was during his first year in Portugal Gregory reflected on listening to his body´s messages such as the lower back pain, which led him to write the #1 best-selling The Seven Secrets to Living in Harmony.
Some of the everyday Quinta sights can be seen in this short video in which Gregory talks about The Seven Secrets .
✩✩✩Various therapies such as cranialsacral, energy work and massage are available during your stay, there is also a house guitar should you feel the need to strum or drum..
✩✩✩A yoga teacher visits every Friday evening and visitors are welcome to join us and others who enjoy the session. Yoga days are also held here, for more details view events.
✩✩✩We welcome guests on arrival. We take pleasure in settling them into our home and showing them around the Quinta. There are maps and local information on places to visit. If you have any dietary requirements please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate you.
✩✩✩We are vegetarians ourselves eating whenever possible our own fruit, vegetables and nuts. We also offer vegan and allergy free meals. You can join our evening meal at an additional cost.
✩✩✩You will find the Quinta is 500 mts down a rural track and is car and tractor accessible. If you wish to swim there are various river beaches nearby and a lake in the mountain about 45 minutes drive away. The nearest beach is Aveiro which is about 1.5 hours drive.
✩✩✩We have a Quinta cat who spends most of her time outside, especially in summer - the bedrooms are off limit to her! If you have cat allergies please mention them to us. We request that no dogs are invited.
✩✩✩Guest Access
You will be able to access the living room where we enjoy breakfast when not taken outside. In the tower we have our library where guests may sit and read books during their stay. There is a seating area leading to three of the guest bedrooms and kitchen, used more in winter when the wood burner is lit!
The granite walls keep an equable temperature through the year, so allowing all to just sit and enjoy the ever changing Serra da Estrela mountain range.
Whether you wish to be inside or sit on the terrace listening to the evening noises of the crickets and frogs, watching the twinkling stars, or find one of the 17 benches in the garden where you can just be a peace with Nature.
✩✩✩Interaction with Guests
We will be on site during your stay, to help guide you around the hectare (2.5 acres) of the Quinta and point out local sites and places of interest.
We operate a very non intrusive and empathetic home, respecting the privacy of all guests.
