Pleasure Palace in Portugal
October 25-November 1 2027
About the Retreat
Join us over the Samhain portal as we tap into elements of dark Lilith, sensuality, and exploring our deeper desires.
This autumn we’re gathering on the cusp of the changing seasons, letting our hair down under the moonlight, dancing with our tiddies out in the darkness, and embracing our inner feral side. Biiiitches and witches—get ready. This retreat we’re going deeper than we’ve gone before, meeting our shadowside and running wild with them. It’s time for your shadow to show you what your power is.
A week of howling at the moon
All inclusive accommodation
Our venue comes with an incredible team of caterers to prepare you delicious Portugese meals. So you don’t have to worry about cooking, or cleaning. Just you, in the Portugese hillside, surrounded by like-minded women, in our historic manor that’s exclusive just for us.
Community
We have a consultation with each participant before being accepted into the retreat, so that we can ensure this container will be full of like-minded and badass babes ready for some healing, laughter, and exploration together. You are sure to walk away with friends for a life time.
SOULFUL Group Activities
Your stay with us includes a carefully curated itinerary of self-love and activities centered around growth, healing, rest, pleasure, and play. Each day is carefully planned and thought out to guide you through an incredible transformative and connecting experience!
Enter the Palace
The Venue
Located 30 minutes out of Lisbon, our pleasure palace for the week is a historic manor house built in 1715. Situated on a secluded hill top surrounded by an estate of over 50 hectares of rural idyll, ancient cork oak forests, olive groves and fields guaranteeing beautiful views, privacy, tranquillity, nature and the space to breathe deep and surrender to a week of exploration + play.
“I can't overstate what a blessing the retreat was for me. It helped me connect with my body in a way that I never have before. I came home with joy, confidence, and peace beyond what I could have imagined and a sisterhood with the participants that I continue to lean on”.
– ANNAH
Our ethos
Our retreats are a merging of decades of experience on sensuality, being seen, and living in your body with deep intention. Here we live in our joy and ectasy, release our f*cks back to the wild, and learn how to take up alllll the f*cking space we deserve.
At Bare Soul retreats we aim to do just that: bare our souls, collectively. We are two wild people, living our lives loudly in unconventional and f*ck the patriarchy ways, and we bring that energy with us into our spaces. These aren’t your basic yoga retreats where you’ll find an itinerary of generic “self-care” practices rooted in spiritual bypassing (you won’t be taught by a white girl with locs how to cleanse your womb). Here, we believe in intersectionality, we respect lineage, and honour the differences of our lived experiences under the colonial capitalist system.
Together, we have a combined 30+ years experience guiding people back home to their selves, bodies, desires, and joy. Through our respective fields of tantra, burlesque, photography, and sexology we have created a container that centers safety, autonomy, and unadulterated PLAY.
We believe that the healing is in the pleasure—we care deeply about trauma informed practices that allow you heal in a way that is conducive to long term impact. Our biggest goal is to help you find your way back to yourself, in your own way, in your own time.
Come as you are, there is no need to perform here. We are happy to hold you exactly as you are in this moment, in your uniqueness.
With love, your two retreat goblins in a sexy trenchcoat,
Misty & Rosie xx
Meet Your Facilitators
Misty Moss
Boudoir Photographer, Burlesque Artist, podcast host
Misty is a boudoir photographer located in Vancouver, Canada. After discovering the transformative and empowering power of boudoir photography 10 years ago, Misty has honed in on cultivating a craft of self-love photography. Her work helps her clients explore themselves and the stories they’ve inherited about bodies + worth while in front of her lens. Over the past decade she’s worked with over 1,000+ clients across the world, and now transmutes her experience on the front lines of body image into conversational episodes exploring topics of visivility, worth, and self-hood in her podcast Girl Moss.
Rosie Bitts
Burlesque Matriarch, and Tantrica
My highest joy is to create sacred space for you to access your Passion, Creativity, and Sensuality.
Whether you are struggling with loving your body, wanting to feel more sensually connected with yourself or your partner, or you’re feeling creatively blocked in your life, I am here and look forward to supporting you to live a more inspired and passionate life.
You are my inspiration and It is my honour and great privilege to be a small, intimate part of your journey.
Your Portugal Experience Includes
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Our accommodation is a beautiful freaking CASTLE from 1715, located 30 minutes outside of Lisbon. Equipped with 16 rooms, each attendee will get their own private room to luxuriate in. There’s a heated pool, sauna, ballroom, historic gardens to frolic (and take nudes) in!
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All meals are included, so sit back and relax while dining on the best Portugese cuisine!
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Rosie is a well practiced Tantrica of the Shanpa Kagyu lineage & Certified Sexologist – she will be guiding us through tantric meditations, yoni/sensuality workshops and offerings to help bring you closer to your pleasure through deep connection with your spiritual and sensual self.
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We have carefully curated each day to help guide you through a sensory and pleasure-filled itinerary. We thoughtfully balance play and excursions with workshops and activities to help connect you back to your pleasure & your bod, while leaving space for a shit ton of fun and rest!
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On photoshoot day we gather and put our work into PRACTICE! Using the embodiment + sensuality tools in realtime to drop into your bod, and be seen as the delicious work of art you are!
You will get a 20 minute mini session with two images, with the option to purchase more.
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Every retreat we do a group boudoir shoot, for this years experience we’re getting a little freaky. Combining candle wax with sensuality and a group experience, this will create fiery images + memories like no other.
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Rosie has been a burlesque performer for well over 20+ years, and birthed Misty as a burlesque showpony about 10 years ago. Using burlesque as a tool, we will teach you how to make your dirtiest and sluttiest self feel like a prayer + act of worship.
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We will be planning multiple exciting excursions to visit local sites and see the surrounding areas.
Sweet words from past attendees
Sample Itinerary
This is just an example itinerary based on previous retreats and extrapolating based on our next destination: Portugal! Subject to change and variability.
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Arrive to the venue at 2PM, we will get settled and get to know one another through guided journaling and ice breaker activities. We will have our first candle light dinner together.
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Starting with two mini workshops by both facilitators, todays intention is to connect to self and ground into the body. To quiet your inner negative critic, and to find peace in being present.
Our afternoon workshop will be a guided breathwork session, followed with sensual movement after dinner.
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After breakfast we start with a tantric meditation led by Rosie leading us through the five elemental meditations, followed by an exploration into releasing your inner Dominatrix.
In the afternoon you’re encouraged to explore the grounds, the sauna, and your senses before we have our Candle Light Boudoir Group Shoot.
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After our guided tantric meditation, we have a mini workshop on reclaiming your relationship to being seen— how we’ve been taught to hide + dim our power, and how that shows up in relation to our bodies.
The afternoon will be a day of making art with our bodies through mini boudoir sessions + spicy selfie homeplay.
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Day trip, followed by a quiet candle light dinner in.
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Today we explore what is taboo, underground, and what we have repressed that has led us to limiting who we are in this world.
Todays activities will be led intuitively, but may include erotic sensory play homework, yoni yoga, squirting workshop, or other sexology tools as Rosie feels called to share.
The evening closes with a floor f*ckery workshop with Misty.
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A culmination of the work we have done, we will end our final night with a dark and sensual BALL! Think gowns, lingerie, exploring your body, and moving sensually together.
Dress up your goddess by choosing what Dominatrix power you want to evoke, and embody your true shadow side. A group mini shoot prancing around in your gown will lead us into our ball that evening! Where we will strip and dance for one another!
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We pack up and depart the venue by 11AM.
Past retreat memories
