Paths

Different ways
of walking the path

The Comunidade Transformação Profunda (Deep Transformation Community) is where this inquiry continues over time. My work also takes other forms and other rhythms: retreats, study paths, journeys, gatherings created in collaboration and, when it makes sense, closer one-to-one guidance.

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Courses and thematic paths

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Paths that unfold in their own time, devoted to consciousness and the body. Each one explores a particular territory of human experience, often starting from the relationships in our lives.

Some I guide myself. Others grow out of meeting and working with people whose work is in deep dialogue with this approach.

Courses are taught in Portuguese.

TRANSFORMATION PATH · COURSE

Emoções

Anger · Fear · Jealousy

A path of three sessions that begins with three intense emotions and goes deeper into different ways of understanding and inhabiting emotional experience. From psychological, somatic and essential perspectives, we look at how these emotions show up in the body, what they are trying to protect and what new ways of relating to them open up when we give them space.

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Retreats and gatherings

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Periods of immersion in which the pace slows down. In that slower time, practice has more room and we can listen more closely to what is asking for attention.

Retreats make it possible to go deeper into certain dimensions of experience through practice, the body, silence, nature and time shared with others. Each retreat takes shape from the context and the inquiry that give rise to it.

Retreats are guided in Portuguese. Dates and venues will be announced in the calendar.

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Journeys and pilgrimages

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Travelling can be more than moving between places.

Some journeys create the conditions to step out of our usual rhythm and come into contact with other cultures and landscapes. The place itself becomes part of the process of transformation.

I guide journeys and pilgrimages in Portugal and in other parts of the world, on my own or in collaboration. One of the possibilities now in preparation is a journey to South India.

Journeys are guided in Portuguese. Dates, programmes and terms will only be announced once they are confirmed.

Daniela Velho and Paulo Borges beside a stone sculpture in Kathmandu

Daniela Velho beside small temples on a street in India

Paths in collaboration

Daniela Velho and Paulo Borges in the Himalayas, with a cedar forest and peaks behind them

With Paulo Borges, I guide courses, retreats, gatherings and journeys within Visão Pura, School of Wisdom, a project we created together. Other offerings grow out of meeting researchers from fields other than my own.

These collaborations do not take the place of what is specific to each person's work. They allow us to look at human experience from different standpoints and to create broader, more integrated paths.

Collaborative paths are offered in Portuguese.

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Individual guidance

Sometimes closer guidance makes it possible to stay with what is happening and to recognise how certain tendencies continue to organise experience. The work starts from what is alive in the present and gradually takes shape along an individual path.

I work with a limited number of people, and whether I can take on someone new depends on availability at the time.

Individual guidance is offered in Portuguese.

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Different ways of walking the path