BEGIN AGAIN at D'Alijo Retreat Center

Begin Again is a five-day yoga retreat at D'Alijo Yoga Retreat Center in Casal, Vila Real, in northern Portugal, made for anyone who wants to start the new year with more clarity, energy and intention. It combines yoga, breathwork and meditation with time in nature and away from daily demands, and it is aimed at people who want to pause, reflect and begin 2027 from a more grounded place. The retreat's own motto says it plainly: how you start matters, so begin with intention.

What to Expect

Begin Again runs for five days and is built around the idea of making room. Yoga, breathwork and meditation form the core of the practice, and the surroundings do much of the rest. Time away from the usual pull of work and obligations is part of the design, not an extra.

The aim is to give you space to reflect and reset. Rather than arriving with a long list of resolutions, you spend the days settling, breathing and listening, so that the year ahead can begin from a steadier place. Expect a retreat that values stillness and nature alongside movement.

The Setting

D'Alijo Retreat Center is a yoga retreat centre in Casal, in the Vila Real district of northern Portugal. It opens its space to guest facilitators and yoga studios, who each run their own retreats and trainings there, and Begin Again is one of the programmes held at the centre. Its countryside location is part of what makes it suited to a retreat about slowing down and starting afresh.