Off grid retreat space of peace, rehabilitation and tranquility. Looking at the magical Serra da Est There are maps and local information on places to visit.
✩✩✩Enjoy our ever changing mountain view, need some peace and calm? Desire to write your book, take some stunning photographs, cycle or walk in the countryside or across the highest mountain in Portugal? Enjoy watching the moon rise over the Serra da Estrela and the stars in the sky?
✩✩✩Or simply rejuvenate yourself through its healing energy. Quinta da Luz has luxury accommodation where you can enjoy all of these and more to create your own retreat or join one of ours.
✩✩✩Take breakfast on the terrace before setting off to explore the local Nature and history or wander around the garden. Rejuvenate yourself through one of our retreats or create your own. Quinta da Luz has an unique presence where visitors often stay for longer than planned due to its calm, peaceful energy of well being.
✩✩✩Our beautiful home is a renovated granite house with its original forester watch tower. Three bedrooms have en-suite bathrooms with extra large beds, one room with two single beds and one with a single. Three bedrooms and a separate bathroom for the two single bedded rooms are on the ground floor along a private corridor.
✩✩✩Enjoy wandering in the serenity of our garden, sitting by its ponds and taking in the breathtaking scenery. Watch the night sky, you can even see the Milky Way!
✩✩✩Our space is idyllic for creative and artistic people as well as those seeking tranquillity and inspiration. We also operate a retreat centre for those seeking to recharge their batteries, to escape from city life and also for those who are on their spiritual journey. There is a garden room used for yoga, meditation and workshops, or perhaps even your sketching and photography! Our visitors are very welcome to use this space freely.
✩✩✩Various modalities such as energy and soul level shamanic transformation are the focus of our retreats. Our grounds include a medicine wheel, fire pit and stone circle- Used during our retreats and by visitors, There is also a house guitar should you feel the need to strum or drum.
✩✩✩We welcome guests on arrival. We take pleasure in settling them into our home and showing them around the Quinta. If you have any dietary requirements please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate you.
✩✩✩We are vegetarians ourselves eating whenever possible our own fruit, vegetables and nuts. Our retreats are full board.
✩✩✩You will find the Quinta 500 mts down a rural track and is car and tractor accessible. If you wish to swim there are various river beaches nearby and a lake in the mountain about 45 minutes drive away. The nearest beach is Aveiro which is about 1.5 hours drive.
✩✩✩We have a Quinta cat who spends most of her time outside, especially in summer - the bedrooms are off limit to her! If you have cat allergies please mention them to us. We request that no dogs are invited.
✩✩✩Guest Access
You will be able to access the living room where we enjoy breakfast when not taken outside. In the tower we have our library where guests may sit and read books during their stay. There is a seating area leading to three of the guest bedrooms and kitchen, used more in winter when the wood burner is lit! The granite walls keep an equable temperature through the year, so allowing all to just sit and enjoy the ever changing views of Serra da Estrela. Whether you wish to be inside or sit on the terrace listening to the evening noises of the crickets and frogs, watching the twinkling stars, or find one of the 17 benches in the garden where you can just be a peace with Nature.
✩✩✩Interaction with Guests
We will be on site during your stay, to help guide you around the hectare (2.5 acres) of the Quinta and point out local sites and places of interest. We operate a very non intrusive and empathetic home, respecting the privacy of all guests.
01/02/2026
Marc P and Ting – January 2026
It is great to see you guys again, every time we see you it seems like we are on a different journey in this life. It is a peaceful land/world to us here, it´s unique. We wish you to change nothing, looking forward to share more beautiful memories with you in the future.
It is great to see you guys again, every time we see you it seems like we are on a different journey in this life. It is a peaceful land/world to us here, it´s unique. We wish you to change nothing, looking forward to share more beautiful memories with you in the future. Marc P...
01/02/2026
Julia H – January 2026
Gregory and Caroline, thank you so much for the beautiful sanctuary that you have created here at Quinta da Luz. The energy of the place and the welcome you have given me were just what I needed at this time of transition in my life. Not only have I gained a lot of clarity during my stay here about my priorities for 2026, my session with Gregory also enabled a shift in me which (miraculously!) has manifested something for me which will significantly change the course of my life this year!...
Gregory and Caroline, thank you so much for the beautiful sanctuary that you have created here at Quinta da Luz. The energy of the place and the welcome you have given me were just what I needed at this time of transition in my life. Not only have I gained a lot of clarity during...
01/02/2026
Marysha H – January 2026
Gregory and Caroline, as always, it is magic to be at your beautiful place. You have created a place of healing and harmony. The ways that you support me with your loving kindness is soul healing. What I enjoy the most is our small talk in the kitchen, in the evening with the fire that helps me to understand myself better. Because I had a very unapproachable father, your supporting kindness is of healing value for me, a heartfelt thanks
Gregory and Caroline, as always, it is magic to be at your beautiful place. You have created a place of healing and harmony. The ways that you support me with your loving kindness is soul healing. What I enjoy the most is our small talk in the kitchen, in the evening with the fire that...
30/01/2026
This Full Moon Urges You To Live Boldly And Break Free😉
“Being present is essential in order to maintain your peace and calm” - Source Sunday´s full moon in Leo rises to remind us breaking free to be ourselves and developing our unique creative voice is not selfish or self-indulgent! Rather, it is a way to nurture collective progress and support the evolution of humanity! Leo underlines the importance of staying connected with your creative essence and with the joy, light-hearted nature and spontaneity of your inner child....
February´s full moon reminds us 2026 will urge us to live boldly and break free from anything that reins you in.
22/01/2026
Transform Your Life: Embrace Change and Let Go of Fear 😉
“The processes you are going through and your own upgrades will continue to use most of your energy until the middle of next month.” – Source For most of recent history, the last 300 years or so, society has come to believe healing is something that comes from outside of us. A pill; procedure; or protocol. However, some of the most profound breakthroughs in science over the last few decades indicate a very different direction:...
Physically as well as energetically change is underway. Now is the moment to reflect and consider your own desires.
15/01/2026
All Parts Of Your Life Are About To Be Challenged! 😆
The old needs to die in order to create space for your rebirth The first new moon of 2026 is only days away, the moment where reflection meets real life. Where the insights that surfaced over the last few days are looking to move with you into your everyday world. Though essential, that transition is not always easy! We are still in the void between what has been and what is coming....
The coming new moon will examine all parts of your life to determine what supports your growth and what needs to be released.
08/01/2026
Your Dreams Are Whispering, Wanting To Shape Your Life 🙃
“Rest and renewal remain the watchwords for the next three weeks.” – Source Recently, there have been days when the energy felt quietly directive… Not urgent. Not overwhelming. Just present. You may have noticed it as a subtle restlessness, a pull to orient yourself more clearly, or a feeling that something inside you wants to be brought back into alignment....
The first week of 2026 has gone; the dreams that have been whispering to you are ready to take form and shape your life.
05/01/2026
Viktoria D – January 2026
Gregory and Caroline, thank you so much for welcoming us into your home and your family! We are deeply grateful for the warmth you shared, the time you gave and the openness with which you treated us. What you shared means more to us than words can fully express and we will always remember this experience, conversations near the fireplace and beauty of the Nature with appreciation and respect. Hope to see you soon this year again!
Gregory and Caroline, thank you so much for welcoming us into your home and your family! We are deeply grateful for the warmth you shared, the time you gave and the openness with which you treated us. What you shared means more to us than words can fully express and we will always remember this...
05/01/2026
Marlenha D – December 2025
Thank you very much Gregory and Caroline, for so much kindness and support during my days I spent with you during Christmas time. So nice to be here. So nice and very much good food and so nice people coming here. Thank you for taking me around this beautiful Nature – I loved it so much I hope to come back again. I did learn a lot more things!
Thank you very much Gregory and Caroline, for so much kindness and support during my days I spent with you during Christmas time. So nice to be here. So nice and very much good food and so nice people coming here. Thank you for taking me around this beautiful Nature – I loved it so...
05/01/2026
Ivan G – December 2025
Sometimes you feel something very important and valuable which you cannot find words to explain but you feel it! And its something which you needed and finally met. Thank you for this. Big, big thank you. Deeply and meaningfully. Special days in my life. And very important. Thank you and see you again.
Sometimes you feel something very important and valuable which you cannot find words to explain but you feel it! And its something which you needed and finally met. Thank you for this. Big, big thank you. Deeply and meaningfully. Special days in my life. And very important. Thank you and see you aga...
01/01/2026
Rest Is Essential Before You Can Create The New ☺️
“The new era will require each of you to choose what you desire in your life” - Source On this first day of the year, there is often a natural pause—a moment suspended between what has been and what is becoming. This pause has meaning as one of the strongest themes of 2026 comes from Neptune’s and Saturn´s movements into Fiery Aries....
We are on the move into the second half of this decade. Inner stillness and feeling will be essential to be in the flow to create the new.
24/12/2025
The Moment To Pause And Create Your Dreams 🤗
“…allow your body to clear away what no longer serves you.” – Source Christmas blessings from Portugal. This point at the end of December often feels different from the remainder of each year. Even without it being a holiday, many people notice a natural pause arriving. The pace slows slightly, attention turns inward and there is more awareness of how much has actually been carried through the previous months....
We have reached the point in the solar cycle ancient cultures marked as a pause: the moment when the sun appears to stand still.
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✩✩✩Enjoy our ever changing mountain view, need some peace and calm? Desire to write your book, take some stunning photographs, cycle or walk in the countryside or across the highest mountain in Portugal? Enjoy watching the moon rise over the Serra da Estrela and the stars in the sky?
✩✩✩Or simply rejuvenate yourself through its healing energy. Quinta da Luz has luxury accommodation where you can enjoy all of these and more.
✩✩✩Take breakfast on the terrace before setting off to explore the local Nature and history or wander around the garden. Rejuvenate yourself through one of our retreats or create your own. Quinta da Luz has an unique presence where visitors often stay for longer than planned due to its calm, peaceful energy of wellbeing.
✩✩✩Our beautiful home is a renovated granite house with its original forester watch tower. Two bedrooms have en-suite bathrooms with extra large beds, one room with two single beds and one with a single. The three bedrooms and separate bathroom on the ground floor are along a private corridor.
✩✩✩Enjoy wandering in the serenity of our garden, sitting by its ponds and taking in the breathtaking scenery. Watch the night sky, you can even see the Milky Way!
✩✩✩Our space is idyllic for creative and artistic people as well as those seeking tranquillity and inspiration. We also operate a retreat centre for those seeking to recharge their batteries, to escape from city life and also for those who are on their spiritual journey. There is a garden room used for yoga, meditation and workshops, or perhaps even your sketching and photography! Our visitors are very welcome to use this space freely.
✩✩✩In this creative space Gregory has written various books. Two have been published - The story of how severe back pain led him to this choice and awakening it brought is in his chapter “CEO to Shaman” in the #1 international best-selling Transforming Your Life II.
It was during his first year in Portugal Gregory reflected on listening to his body´s messages such as the lower back pain, which led him to write the #1 best-selling The Seven Secrets to Living in Harmony.
Some of the everyday Quinta sights can be seen in this short video in which Gregory talks about The Seven Secrets .
✩✩✩Various therapies such as cranialsacral, energy work and massage are available during your stay, there is also a house guitar should you feel the need to strum or drum..
✩✩✩A yoga teacher visits every Friday evening and visitors are welcome to join us and others who enjoy the session. Yoga days are also held here, for more details view events.
✩✩✩We welcome guests on arrival. We take pleasure in settling them into our home and showing them around the Quinta. There are maps and local information on places to visit. If you have any dietary requirements please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate you.
✩✩✩We are vegetarians ourselves eating whenever possible our own fruit, vegetables and nuts. We also offer vegan and allergy free meals. You can join our evening meal at an additional cost.
✩✩✩You will find the Quinta is 500 mts down a rural track and is car and tractor accessible. If you wish to swim there are various river beaches nearby and a lake in the mountain about 45 minutes drive away. The nearest beach is Aveiro which is about 1.5 hours drive.
✩✩✩We have a Quinta cat who spends most of her time outside, especially in summer - the bedrooms are off limit to her! If you have cat allergies please mention them to us. We request that no dogs are invited.
✩✩✩Guest Access
You will be able to access the living room where we enjoy breakfast when not taken outside. In the tower we have our library where guests may sit and read books during their stay. There is a seating area leading to three of the guest bedrooms and kitchen, used more in winter when the wood burner is lit!
The granite walls keep an equable temperature through the year, so allowing all to just sit and enjoy the ever changing Serra da Estrela mountain range.
Whether you wish to be inside or sit on the terrace listening to the evening noises of the crickets and frogs, watching the twinkling stars, or find one of the 17 benches in the garden where you can just be a peace with Nature.
✩✩✩Interaction with Guests
We will be on site during your stay, to help guide you around the hectare (2.5 acres) of the Quinta and point out local sites and places of interest.
We operate a very non intrusive and empathetic home, respecting the privacy of all guests.
