A universe of inquiry and practice

Transformação Profunda

Transformação Profunda (Deep Transformation) grows out of an inquiry into how consciousness and the body take part in the way we live.

Our experience is marked by the story we have lived through and by the responses we have learnt. Becoming aware of these movements lets us know them without rejecting them and without remaining entirely defined by them.

When the known no longer fills the whole field, there is room to listen more lucidly and to recognise possibilities we could not see before. That is where transformation can begin to become life.

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May what we recognise become life.

Agora

October 2026

Soltar a imagem que aprendemos a sustentar

Olhar para as identidades que continuamos a representar mesmo quando já se tornaram demasiado estreitas para a vida que quer nascer.

Each month, Agora shares part of the inquiry that is alive in the Community. It is published in Portuguese.

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Different ways to follow and deepen this work

In the Community, this work unfolds continuously throughout the year. Other gatherings and paths create specific moments to go deeper into different themes and practices.

Open to anyone who comes

Agora

Here I share, in different formats and in Portuguese, part of the inquiry that is alive in the Community each month.

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Workshops · Gatherings · Retreats

Experiences

In-person or online gatherings, held in Portuguese. You can take part without belonging to the Community.

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One year at a time

Community

A guided process, lived in Spirals, with a monthly gathering, study, and practices of meditation, contemplation and reflection in a group that stays together. Held in Portuguese.

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Santuário Vivo

In preparation

A digital space in Portuguese, co-created with Paulo Borges, for practising at your own pace: meditations and contemplations, somatic practices, reflections, conversations and paths. It has its own separate access, distinct from the Community.

A path that moves in Spirals

Transformation rarely happens in a straight line. We return to the same places of experience and find new layers in them.

Each Spiral is an inquiry lived over one year in the Community. When a new Spiral begins, what was explored before remains available in the Community area, so that newcomers can also explore that work at their own pace.

September 2025 to August 2026
First Spiral
Recognising what conditions us
A first year to recognise the patterns, stories and responses that have shaped us, to listen to the body and the emotions, and to discover the space that can open between impulse and response. Over the course of the Spiral, we also moved through the grief that comes with change, through discernment and through the small gestures that help new possibilities take hold in life.
Available in the Community, for those who walked this Spiral and for those arriving now.
September 2026 to August 2027
Second Spiral
A Liberdade de Ser (The Freedom of Being)
The inquiry moves towards what can become possible when our story no longer entirely determines who we are. Throughout the year, we explore identity, the body, relationship, creation and belonging, seeking to recognise a freedom that does not depend on erasing what we have lived.
Begins at the end of September 2026.
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2027–2028
Third Spiral
Listening beyond the known
Here the focus is less on recognising our story or discovering who we are beyond it. The inquiry deepens the capacity for listening and discernment: staying open enough to sense what a situation, a relationship or life itself is really asking before we rush to respond. There is more silence, receptivity, intuition and relationship with what has not yet taken shape.
2028–2029
Fourth Spiral
Consciousness and belonging
A deepening of the experience of belonging beyond a purely individual understanding of ourselves. Body, consciousness, relationship and world gradually stop being thought of as separate territories, opening the inquiry to interdependence and to the wider dimension of the life we are part of.

These are horizons, not fixed programmes. Future Spirals will also grow out of what the inner path reveals.

Independent paths of transformation

There are also paths with their own timeframe, devoted to specific areas of experience. Each one grows out of its own inquiry and can be followed independently, at your own pace. They are offered in Portuguese.

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The Community

Where the work is alive

The Spirals are not closed. There is a direction, themes and a body of practice, but the path is also shaped by what emerges in the gatherings and in the lives of those who walk it.

It is this living dimension that sets the Community apart from a fixed course.

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