Vipassana Meditation

Weekend Silent Retreat

Quinta Ten Chi,
Sintra near Lisbon, Portugal

January 23 - 25, 2026

This spontaneous weekend silent retreat is an invitation to step out of daily momentum and return to steady, embodied practice.

Held at my home and community meditation & movement centre near Sintra, the retreat takes place in a quiet, natural setting that supports stillness, continuity, and simplicity. We also hosted our first Vipassana & Embodiment retreat here just over a year ago.

The retreat begins on Friday afternoon (Jan 23) and ends on Sunday afternoon (Jan 25). It will be held mostly in silence. Each day includes periods of sitting and walking meditation from early morning until evening, with time for rest and time in nature.

Teachings will focus on my approach to Vipassana meditation:

calming and settling the body–mind
investigating body–mind phenomena
resting into embodied awareness

The emphasis is on steady practice rather than intensity — creating conditions to practice continuously, clearly, and with care.

This weekend is suited for practitioners who feel called to silence, simplicity, and deepening their relationship to practice, supported by nature and a small group setting.

Photos from our first retreats in Portugal (2024) and Germany (2025)

Retreat Schedule

Friday

2-4pm | Arrival

430PM | Opening Circle

6PM | Dinner

8PM | Introduction to Technique and Group Meditation

10PM | Rest

Saturday

6AM | Group Meditation in Walking & Sitting

8AM | Breakfast

930AM | Group Practice

11AM | Dhamma Lesson

1PM | Lunch

3PM | Group Meditation

430PM | Group Walking Practice

6PM | Dinner

8PM | Q&A and Group Meditation

10PM | Rest

Sunday

6AM | Group Meditation in Walking & Sitting

8AM | Breakfast

930AM | Group Practice

11AM | Dhamma Lesson

1PM | Lunch

3PM | Group Meditation & Closing by 430PM

Photos of Quinta Ten Chi Venue in Sintra, Portugal

Accommodation & Venue

Quinta Ten Chi, Sintra about ~1h from Lissabon, Portugal.

A large community center with a big practice space, nestled in the lush microclimate of Sintra amongst a quiet, natural neighbourhood.

Accommodation is your choice of

Shared dorm with a shared bathroom

Sleeping in your own Tent or Van.

Accommodation nearby from Airbnb for single rooms.

The shared accommodation is part of the practice of simplicity and being together in silence.

Food

There will be three daily meals and a tea station.

A healthy breakfast including oats, fruits and sourdough bread.

A wholesome warm lunch with a daily salad.

A light dinner consisting of a soup and extras.

How to get to the venue
50 min by Car from Lissabon.

2h, with Public Transport from Lissabon.

There will be a Whatsapp group to self-organise sharing transport.

For further questions please email Reimar.

Pricing

2 Nights of Accommodation

1 Full retreat day, 2 Half days for arrival & departure

includes 3 vegetarian meals per day

(you may also stay an additional night for extra 12 Eur)

We believe in transparent pricing that keeps the practice accessible while being sustainable for the space and the facilitators. We make a price based on the costs to cover the space rental, food and cook and let your contribution to support us, the facilitators be a donation. The price includes accommodation.

140 EUR // Price

We can also help you arrange a single room nearby via Airbnb, please email us.

In this case the price is 30 Euro less.

A contribution towards the teachers and his helpers may be given at the end of the retreat as gratitude. This is not a payment but an act of generosity to support the continued work.

Deposit & Cancellation Policy

Price paid is non-refundable.

Participants & Accessibility

You do not need to have any specific experience in meditation, just a curiosity to learn what this practice is about. The practices we explore are very gentle and do not require any physical fitness or ability.

However, the space is not wheelchair accessible due to stairs and nature paths.

January 23 - 25

2026

Your Facilitator

Reimar is a meditation teacher, dancer and new father based in Sintra, Portugal.

His journey with meditation began during his studies at Melbourne University, Australia, where he discovered Vipassana to transform his relationship to stress, anxiety, and a lifelong struggle with eczema.

Experiencing profound benefits early on, he committed to a daily practice and intensive silent retreats in the tradition of S.N. Goenka—while working full-time at Vanguard Investments.

During COVID, Reimar moved to Thailand to deepen his meditation practice and discovered the Ajahn Tong-style Mahasi method. At the same time, he immersed himself in embodied arts such as Contact Improvisation, OceanDance, Butoh and Aikido.

He trained for four months under teacher, Ajahn Puttar, at Wat Sopharam monastery in Northern Thailand and has cumulatively spent over 30 weeks in intensive silent retreat.

His approach to Meditation is characterised by his Embodiment practice, living in Community, and closeness with Nature. Integrating the spiritual with the human, the primal, and grounded in daily work.

Believing in sharing a balanced and fully integrated approach to meditation and life, he founded vipassanathome.org in 2021.

Sofia, Portugal

The retreat Vipassana & Embodiment was such a rich nourishment for my soul.

The teachers were kind, open, vulnerable, truly present with us and that created a space of trust to dive deep in a soft way.

Everything became meditation, every moment a practice of loving awareness and curiosity and my sense is that energy field emerged from the integrity and devotion to the work of the facilitators.

In the end it was like many windows were open to refresh my inner world, calming loving light entering in the chambers of my being.

Thank you so so much Reimar, Francisco and Sandra.