LAR – Lisbon Art Retreat
LAR is Portuguese for ‘home’.
It is more than the house you live in, the ‘casa’. LAR is a feeling of comfort, warmth and well-being, a place to rest and recharge. By offering a pause from the usual rhythm and routine, LAR creates space for play and creativity, space for the imagination and for new possibilities.
Connecting body and mind through yoga, meditation, creative workshops, visits to local art spaces and wholesome food, LAR allows you to find a fresh flow by moving your body and inspiring your creativity.
LAR is where you come home to yourself and back to your true creative nature to then take on the world afresh.
© Tessy Morelli
© Eglė Duleckytė
Hi there, it’s Jule. Nice to meet you! My favourite word is serendipity – finding valuable things not sought for, making happy discoveries by chance.
Over the last ten years or so, I’ve lived in several places around the world, learning that home is not so much an external place but something I carry inside me. Originally from Germany, I’ve now made Lisbon my home. My studies and a good feeling brought me here. The good feeling got confirmed, so I stayed.
My background is in arts management and culture studies, I work as a cultural project manager and at a contemporary art museum. I am also a certified yoga teacher and have taught for several years and practiced for many more. I love yoga and art for the perspectives, inspiration and energy they give me. When I practice yoga and when I make art, I get into a flow that makes me feel vibrantly alive, and I’m present in the moment.
The year 2020 has shown me more clearly than ever the importance of keeping up practices that help to stay grounded and inspired and the power of creativity as a tool for wellbeing. LAR was born from this.
On Opening up Space for Creativity
Hear more from Jule about opening space for creativity on the Artist Reality Podcast.
Musings and Inspirations
Explore conversations with artists about their creative and wellbeing practices
and other blog posts about what inspires us.
Holistic Retreats for Creative Wellbeing
Yoga and Meditation
Body and mind are each other’s mirror. That’s why we start the day with a vinyasa yoga flow and a little meditation – to relax, refresh and energise body and mind and prepare ourselves for a day of creative activities.
Creative Workshops
Through diverse creative workshops such as drawing, ceramics, paper-making and printmaking and textile art, we explore artistic forms of expression and find that fulfilment of getting out of the head and into the hands.
Wholesome Food
Our delicious and healthy meals are the perfect foundation and fuel for this wholesome journey. The fresh, local and vegetarian ingredients prepared with much love nourish body, mind and soul.