The Embodied Woman Journey
Certified 8-Day Trauma-Informed Somatic Immersion for Women Ready to Heal, Awaken & Reclaim Their Power
Location: Terra Raiz, Portugal
8-15 March 2026 (7 nights- 8 days)
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“In this immersion, we return to the body as home. We learn to listen, to feel, to be. And from that place, healing happens.”
- Beta Gaiana
My love,
My healing began the day I finally turned inward — into my breath, my fascia, my ancestral roots, my inner child, my feminine energy, and the deep intelligence of my nervous system.
I’m Beta. And everything I guide women through today was first lived, survived, and healed inside my own body. I grew up between worlds — the mystical Afro-Brazilian tradition of Candomblé, Catholic rituals, and early meditation teachings — all while navigating a childhood filled with fear, instability, and moments that overwhelmed my young nervous system. I learned to dissociate long before I learned to breathe.
Those early wounds shaped how I entered womanhood: through abortions, life-threatening ectopic pregnancies, infertility, and years of carrying unspoken grief in my fascia, tension in my womb, and silence in my voice.
Everything I now teach — trauma-informed somatic practices, nervous system regulation, Polyvagal Theory, fascia fluidity, self-myofascial release, trauma-release breathwork, ancestral healing, inner child work, embodied sensuality, and nature-based embodiment — are the very practices that helped me come back to life. They restored my presence, softened my body, and returned me to myself.
And I know so many women walk through life holding similar invisible wounds — the exhaustion, the numbness, the feeling of being disconnected from your body or constantly in survival mode. I created this immersion because I want you to know that your body can heal, your nervous system can learn safety again, and your feminine essence is never lost — only waiting to be remembered.
During these 8 days, we will unravel the emotional knots you’ve been carrying for years. You’ll learn how to unwind stored tension from your fascia, soothe your nervous system, meet the younger parts of you with compassion, reconnect to your sensuality, and feel the earth under your feet in a way that makes you trust life again.
This journey is not simply a retreat — it is an initiation back into your softness, your pleasure, your intuition, and your power. It is a sacred space to reconnect with the parts of yourself you had to abandon, soften into safety again, and remember the woman you were always meant to be.
Our wounds are not the end of our story. They are the beginning of our wisdom.
The Experience
This 8-Day Somatic Trauma-Informed Immersion is a fully experiential, sacred journey — created for women who are ready to reconnect with their bodies, heal at the root, and reclaim their feminine wisdom through embodied trauma healing practices.
Through a comprehensive exploration of the myofascial system, somatic trauma release practices, nervous system regulation, and embodied movement, this immersion supports you in awakening your body's natural capacity to heal, feel, and integrate.
You’ll explore, feel, and learn a rich landscape of trauma healing modalities, including:
- Trauma-Informed Somatic Practices
- Nervous System Regulation & Rewiring Tools
- The Polyvagal Theory
- Vagus Nerve Exercises for Self-Regulation
- Trauma-Release Breathwork
- Fascia Fluidity Spiral Movement Practice
- Self-Myofascial Release Techniques
- Ancestral Work & Systemic Healing Pathways
- Inner Child Work
- Embodied Sensuality & Pleasure
- Nature-Based & Elemental Embodiment
We will slow down, listen, feel, and come back home to the body. This is not just an immersion. It is a remembering — of what it means to be fully alive, free, and embodied as a woman.
Our Immersion Pillars
Through mindful engagement with earth, water, fire and air, you'll deepen your ability to self-regulate, restore balance, and attune to the rhythms of nature - the ultimate medicine for the nervous system.
Nature-Based & Elemental Embodiment
A gentle lecture and guided practice introducing Polyvagal Theory helping you understand and directly experience how your vagus nerve supports safety, connection, and relaxation in the body.
The Polyvagal Experience
A supportive process designed to calm the mind, balance stress responses, and restore a sense of safety and ease in the body.
Nervous System Regulation
A gentle, body-based approach to release stored trauma, regulate the nervous system, and restore resilience by guiding your awareness to physical sensations.
Somatic Experiencing ®
A guided breathing practice to safely unlock and release suppressed emotions, dissolve stored trauma, and reconnect with your body’s natural flow.
Trauma Release Breathwork
Somatic embodiment with fascia fluidity and myofascial release is a gentle process of feeling, sensing, awakening, and allowing the body to soften protective patterns. Through direct contact with felt sensations—temperature, pressure, trembling, heaviness, tingling, breath shifts, pulsing, or emotional waves—you come into an authentic relationship with your inner experience. Fascia fluidity practices and myofascial release act as doorways into deeper presence, helping the nervous system settle, tension unwind, and what’s held beneath the surface naturally come forward with safety and awareness.
Somatic Embodiment practice
a technique—often done with tools like foam rollers, massage balls, or even your own hands—that targets the body’s fascia: the connective tissue that surrounds muscles, organs, and nerves. While it’s widely known for physical benefits, many people also experience emotional shifts, relaxation, and even trauma-related responses during or after the practice.
Self-myofascial release (SMR)
A deep yet gentle technique to release trauma stored in the gut, stimulate the vagus nerve, and help the body move out of a “frozen” state.
Self- abdominal work to release freeze response
A powerful series of movements designed to activate your body´s natural shaking mechanism, releasing deep-seated tension and trauma while restoring a sense of inner calm and resilience.
Trauma Release Exercices
A therapeutic and spiritual approach that focuses on understanding and healing patterns that are passed down through family lines—emotionally, psychologically, and even somatically (in the body).
Systemic ancestral healing work
A transformative process to acknowledge, heal, and integrate emotional wounds carried from childhood - cultivating self-compassion, trust, and a renewed sense of wholeness.
Inner Child Healing
A gentle yet powerful journey of reconnecting with your body as a sacred home — awakening your natural sensuality, softening into presence, and reclaiming the pleasure that life was always meant to offer you.
Embodied Sensuality & Pleasure
"I feel so grateful and blessed to have been able to do my training with Beta. It really was an experiential training that allowed me to dive into the different layers of discovering the body mindfully and authentically. There is a particular depth in this training that takes you on another level.
Beta has the ability to hold space, to really hold space for you to experience the wisdom of the body and pass on her teachings...
Thank you goddess, for sharing your light, wisdom and your deep love that enables us all to grow and heal. You have a gift of being fully present and aware while you are with us all. I look forward to meeting once again face to face, and completing my training with you. Big Love!”
What You'll Learn:
- How to resource yourself through self and co-regulating somatic practices
- Self-myofascial release techniques to unlock tension and emotional imprints
- Deep understanding and embodied application of Polyvagal Theory
- How to treat pelvic scar tissue through fascial care
- Trauma-informed sensuality and pleasure practices
- Somatic experiencing tools
- Felt-sense based spontaneous & Spiral movement
- Trauma release breathwork in a safe, held group setting
- TRE (Trauma Release Exercises)
- Abdominal organ massage to release freeze response
- Trauma-informed meditations
- Tools to identify, process, and release stored emotions and sensations
- How to create meaningful self-care rituals rooted in body awareness
- Practices that are adaptable to your daily life and teaching
It is designed for women — whether you're on a personal healing path or looking to deepen your professional practice through the lens of embodiment, fascia, and trauma awareness.
- On a healing path, seeking trauma-informed tools to feel more regulated, empowered, and connected to your body
- A Yoga teacher ready to expand your practice with fascia-based, somatic, and trauma-sensitive approaches
- A Somatic facilitator who wish to deepen your trauma-informed knowledge and presence
- A Therapist, Bodyworker, Healer or Wellness Practitioner looking to enhance your personal embodiment and toolkit to bring deeper care to your sessions
- Ready to reclaim your body’s wisdom and restore a sense of safety and sovereignty
- Seeking deeper connection to emotions, sensations, and intuitive felt-sense
- Interested in integrating embodiment, fascia, and trauma healing into your personal or professional work
- Called to hold safe, sacred, and trauma-informed space for others in your communities
This journey is for you if you are:
Who This Immersion Is For:
What You’ll Walk Away With:
- A next level of embodiment and body awareness
- A grounded understanding of fascia, trauma, and nervous system healing
- Practical skills and techniques to apply in yoga, coaching, bodywork, or group facilitation
- A renewed sense of aliveness, safety, and wholeness in your own body
- A deep learning how to inhabit yourself fully, becoming a deeply attuned, grounded, and embodied facilitator
- A supportive community of women on the same journey
€980: 1 December to 20 December 2025
Accommodation Options:
Twin room - €650
Triple room - €490
Your Investment
Accomodation:
Terra Raiz, A Sanctuary of Peace
The nature-inspired bungalows, crafted with simplicity and care, open onto lush gardens where stillness and aliveness intertwine. Each space invites you to slow down—through natural textures, open-air flow, and an atmosphere designed to nurture safety and presence.
This immersion is more than a retreat—it is an initiation. It is an experience of welcoming and connecting, inviting the expansion of the senses and reconnection to the Essence.
What’s Included:
8-Day in-person Embodied experience
3x Healthy Plant-Based Meals a day
My Book “Embodied Trauma Healing”: a Hard Copy Book on Somatic Myofascial Yoga (value $36)
The “Embodied Trauma Healing” E-book as you sign up
A Certificate of Attendance
Beta's expertise
I have seen women shift from chronic pain, self-judgment, body dysmorphia, anxiety, and depression into self-love, clarity, presence, embodiment, serenity, and empowerment. To walk alongside them in this journey has been both humbling and deeply rewarding.
Beta Gaiana
My own healing path has guided me to study and become accredited in a wide range of modalities, including Somatic Trauma Release Breathwork, Yoga, Myofascial Release Therapy, Somatic Experiencing®️, Developmental Trauma healing (DARe–Dynamic Attachment Repatterning experience), Pos - graduation in Psychotraumatology, Somatic Sexual Trauma healing, Chi Nei Tsang abdominal organ massage, Mindfulness for Stress Reduction, Systemic Family Constellation, and Women’s Sacred Sexuality. These practices have not only transformed my life, but continue to shape the way I support others in reclaiming wholeness.
Joanne Post Youssef
"I feel so grateful and blessed to have been able to do my training with Beta. It really was an experiential training that allowed me to dive into the different layers of discovering the body mindfully and authentically. There is a particular depth in this training that takes you on another level.
Beta has the ability to hold space, to really hold space for you to experience the wisdom of the body and pass on her teachings...
Thank you goddess, for sharing your light, wisdom and your deep love that enables us all to grow and heal. You have a gift of being fully present and aware while you are with us all. I look forward to meeting once again face to face, and completing my training with you. Big Love!”
Expressive Art Therapist, Counsellor, Yoga Teacher and Reiki Practitioner
Ingibjörg Stefánsdóttir
"My experience training with Beta Lisboa was absolutely wonderful and inspiring. It gave my so much to work with and I immediately created a new yoga class related to what I was learning. Her class has been full ever since with long waitlist.
The Training worked out really well online. Beta has such strong presence and support. The material is deep and clear. It work out amazingly well.
I am so grateful and eager to learn more from her."
Yoga teacher - actress - singer -Yoga studio owner
Sound Practitioner, Yoga Teacher, Legacy Cacao Ceremonialist
Beta's passion for teaching is evident. She believes in the work and has the ability to explain the content clearly and with integrity, staying true to the ancient wisdom of Yoga. She understands how to hold space for those she's teaching, recognizing that trauma is being released and processed for the trainees while training is occurring. She's able to both deliver content, and hold space for the participants in a loving and gentle way. I appreciated the training so much that I decided to sign on for the full 200 hour certification program.
I already see the benefits of this yoga in my own life, as well as how to support the Community with trauma release through this yoga practice.
I highly recommend studying with Beta.
Sarah Punzo
Yoga Teacher, Ayurveda Therapist
Filipa Veiga
Beta is and has what I can call not just an amazing teacher but MY teacher.
Her trainings were always very inspiring as Beta has so much information to share with her students. I learn not only about traditional yoga as well as other contemporary knowledge that is being researched.
Beta is always updated and I really resemble with this approach as it brings to life and to the nowadays concerns this ancient tools!
Anupriya Grover
I travelled from India to Bali for somatic healing with Beta after speaking to her on a call. The kindness in her voice gave me the confidence to go ahead, and it truly turned out to be one of the best decisions I’ve made.
We did six sessions together, and during the last breathwork session I felt a big release of something I had been carrying for a long time. It was a physical experience, and since then I’ve felt lighter and free from the grip of that old pain.
Beta has a very gentle yet powerful way of holding space. With her trauma-informed approach I felt safe, seen and guided through the process. The effects of our work have stayed with me well beyond the sessions. I’m deeply grateful and would wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone seeking deep healing and release.
Cody Olafson
Beta is truly gifted. After spending five full days at the healing center, I can honestly say she helped me and taught me more in that one week than I learned in years of therapy. She is incredibly knowledgeable, deeply understanding, grounded, and simply wonderful. My life was truly transformed after this week in Bali.
Vicki India
I feel very lucky to have found Beta at just the right time on my healing journey. Beta holds space with both strength and compassion, something which is needed with this type of work. I feel she has the expertise and experience to know what my nervous system needed when struggling to process a traumatic life event.
Since working with Beta I have made good progress and I am feeling a lot safer in my body, in what has been an intense period in my life. I have decided to continue to work with beta as after only 4 sessions I have noticed positive changes in my nervous system; feeling more grounded and positive about my life.
I have tried many healing modalities and this has been the most impactful to integrate the previous work I have done.
Abigail Sanders
Beta is incredible. I did two days of intensive retreat with her at her beautiful house in Bali. I can’t really express in words how much I needed Betas knowledge and safe nurturing presence to help me begin to recover. I would recommend her to anyone, if you have tried healing before or you have not this has the potential to change how you feel in your body and understand how your body serves you and your trauma. Thank you Beta thank you so much x
Jill P
This is the best trauma healing center in Bali!
Gaiana is extremely wise, loving, authentic and compassionate. She is so full of knowledge and has an intuitive ability to tailor techniques and guidance for each step of the jorueny while always moving at a pace that feels safe and supportive. Her techniques have really created lasting, positive changes in my nervous system. I am endlessly grateful for her guidance and wholeheartedly recommend booking a personal retreat with her to experience this life-changing journey for yourself!
Testimonials
Ready to join us for a life-changing experience?
Whether it is for your own healing and personal transformation, or you’re on the path to becoming a trauma-informed facilitator, this immersion offers the foundation for deep, embodied change, in a sacred feminine space.
This immersion is a return — to your body, to your power, to your capacity to feel, heal, and hold space. By awakening your inner landscape, you become a lighthouse for others. Come home to the wisdom of the body. Come home to yourself.
FAQ's
Q: How do I book my spot?
You can book directly through this page. Once you register and pay the first installment, your place is secured. After that, you’ll receive detailed instructions for choosing and paying your accommodation.
Q: What payment plans are available?
A 50% payment is required at booking (which includes a 30% non-refundable deposit). The remaining 50% is due at least 45 days before the retreat.
Q: Can I pay for accommodation at the same time as the training fee?
No, accommodation is paid separately. You’ll receive details after booking, and payment is made directly to the venue.
Q: Are discounts or scholarships available?
We occasionally offer special rates for those who may need financial support to attend. If this applies to you, please get in touch directly.
Q: What happens if I need to cancel?
More than 45 days before: deposit (30%) is non-refundable, but the rest of your first payment is refunded.
45–30 days before: 50% of the training fee is retained.
Less than 30 days before: no refund of the training fee.
Q: What if the retreat is cancelled by the organizers?
You’ll receive a full refund of the training fee. For accommodation, the venue’s refund policy applies.
Q: Can I transfer my spot to someone else?
Yes — if you can’t attend, you may transfer your booking to another participant, as long as we are informed in advance.
Q: How do I choose my accommodation type?
After booking your training spot, you’ll receive options (single, twin, etc.). Availability is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Q: Are meals included?
Yes — three healthy meals a day are included in the accommodation fee. The food is vegetarian, locally sourced, and mostly organic. Vegan and gluten-free options are available on request.
Q: Can I stay somewhere else?
We recommend staying at the venue that we carefully handpicked for you as it supports the immersion and group process.
Q: Is this retreat only for professionals?
It’s open to both women on a personal healing journey and practitioners who want to integrate trauma-informed embodiment into their work.
Q: Will I receive a certificate?
Yes — you’ll receive a Certification of Attendance.
Q: How big is the group?
We keep the group intimate to allow for personal guidance and a safe, supportive container.
Q: What if I’ve never done trauma-informed or somatic work before?
No prior training is required, but a sincere interest in self-healing and embodiment is essential.
Q: What is a typical day like?
Mornings usually include movement, breathwork, or practice; afternoons are for workshops and rituals; evenings may include sharing circles, integration, or rest. A more detailed schedule will be shared closer to the start.
Q: Is this retreat connected to a larger training?
Yes! The Embodied Woman Immersion is actually part of a greater journey. It's a foundational part of the upcoming 8-month Trauma-Informed Somatic Embodiment Facilitator Certification. By joining this in-person immersion now, you'll already complete an important piece of the full certification and get a head start on the program when it launches.
Terms & Conditions
- If you cancel more than 45 days before the retreat, the deposit (30%) is non-refundable, but the rest of your first payment will be refunded.
- If you cancel between 45 and 30 days before the retreat, 50% of the training fee will be retained.
- If you cancel within 30 days of the retreat start date, no refund will be issued for the training fee.
- Accommodation refunds are subject to the venue’s policies, which will be communicated once you receive booking details.
- If the retreat is cancelled by the organizer, you will receive a full refund of the training fee. Accommodation refunds will follow the venue’s terms.
Cancellation Policy
- The full training fee is €1,080.
- Upon registration, you will be charged 50% of the total fee.
- This includes the non-refundable 30% deposit.
- The remaining portion of this first payment is refundable according to the cancellation policy below.
- The final 50% balance is due no later than 45 days before the retreat start date.
Training Fee
By registering, you acknowledge that you have read and agreed to these terms. You are responsible for securing your own travel arrangements and insurance.
Responsibility
- Accommodation costs are in addition to the training fee.
- After registration, you will receive full details on accommodation options and instructions for making the accommodation payment.
- Your spot is only fully confirmed once both training and accommodation payments have been received.