Charmaine Renée

This morning's gentle reminder to play and meander beyond your To Do list today 💚✨

There's a soothing feeling of "home" on this island. A place the soul somehow remembers....

You're invited to add your name to our early notification list for:

💗 The Rebellious Heart Retreat 💗
A Sacred Journey of Inner Freedom, Healing & Spiritual Adventure

Bali, October 24-31, 2027

🌿🌅 An 8-day sanctuary where you easefully reconnect with yourself, replenish your spirit, and ignite your inner light✨✨✨

PRICE REDUCTION: Great news! Pricing of this retreat has gone down this year 😊

This isn't simply a retreat. It's a reclamation, a coming home in one of the most spiritually potent places in the world.

Through relaxation practices like Breathwork, Yoga Nidra, Balinese healing and rituals, and soulful island adventures, you'll create the space to replenish deeply, explore effortlessly, and honour what your heart truly needs. 🩵💕

A week where no one asks anything of you, and we take exquisite care of you!

Where you get to...
🌅 exhale more deeply than you have in a long time
💗 Feel your joy and aliveness rising
💫 and remember who you are under all the noise

GET ON THE ADVANCE LIST:
🦋 This will be my last Bali retreat for a while...so if there’s a flutter of curiosity stirring, I invite you to get on our advanced list for exclusive pre-public launch access. Message me or click Link in Bio to get on the early notification list.

🌿 I' m collecting emails for the PRIORITY LIST until Sept. 6th.
🌿 Retreat info will be sent out Sat September 12th to Priority List.

👉 By getting on the list, you're not booking into the retreat, but it gives you priority access to retreat details & first dibs on limited on limited spots available🩵 🌅✨

Message me your or go to: www.charmainerenee.ca/retreats to get on the Bali retreat early notification list. ⬆🔗 🪷

I looked at my calendar and I couldn’t breathe…

All week I’ve been feeling tightness in my chest, the familiar buzz of anxiety when I’m reaching the unsustainable edges of my capacity.

Operating at this pace for two many weeks in a row, my body always gives me the signals.

This week it was feeling overwhelmed and short of breath when I’d look at the full calendar, the one with barely any white space.

It was also the edginess, strong reactions at the smallest of things (like the dog peeing in her bed for the second time in a few hours).

I felt ungrounded and incapable of taking in even one more thing.

So I had a good cry 😭- releasing the pent up energy while my hubby just stroked my arm gently and listened.

That cry felt good, but telling the truth about what I was feeling out loud, was even more relief.

I then knew what I needed to do to reclaim some mental and emotional spaciousness: cancel plans.

Create space to breathe again…

I wrestled with my fear of disappointing the people I had plans with….worrying they’d feel certain ways I was trying to avoid for them.

What I’ve learned in this season of life, is that I cannot continue to disappoint myself (and ignore my needs) in that dance.

The result was kind, empathetic and understanding responses 🩵🫶💗

And a sense that I can always reclaim ease, and soften the unrealistic expectations - a part of what I call my path back to Ease and remembering myself in the shuffle.

If you’ve been feeling any of this. I see you. 💚

And I wish you the courage to take even the smallest step to return to your needs as the foundation.

When we honour our body’s signals, we begin to embody trust that we matter too, even when it feels impossible or uncomfortable.

This is the self care we’re really yearning for 🩵

Ps. In case you're wondering, I'm not a Rest Guide bc this path comes easy to me...I'm here because this is the medicine I've always needed.

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We’ve inherited a story that says productivity is THE way.

But the problem is that the satisfaction of a completed to-do list is short-lived and illusive - because something always gets added.

There’s always more…no real end point.

Instead, a sign post that always gets moved by a few inches…

Other things always seem to come first...

🌿 Before our right to rest
🦋Before the things that actually fill us up, nourish our joy well.

Q: What are you unconsciously trading to keep up with that part of you attached to being productive? 🩵

Because when productivity becomes our Master, we sacrifice the Sacred.🪷

Are you the kind of tired that sleep won’t fix?

Rest is way more than getting enough sleep.

We don’t need to overhaul life. We just need one small rested step.

Because we carry layers of fatigue that just sleep doesn’t always address.

😮‍💨 the physical + emotional exhaustion of carrying it all for too long
🤯 the tiredness from expecting so much of ourselves
🔊 the mental noise that doesn’t let us relax
💚 the spiritual tiredness (the “Is there more to life than this?...” feeling)

💗Rest is our capacity to move out of constant doing and rushing
💫Rest is our capacity to slow down and Be enough.
💗Rest is learning to trust that it’s safe to relax, and soften into the here and now.

It’s offering a softer alternative to that part of us that learned she’s only worthy when she’s doing all the things.

Rest is a lens on your life that whispers:
🌿How could I make this more restful and easeful?
🌿How might I weave Ease into this day, difficult conversation, or busy week?
🌿How might I soften my expectations of myself, even for a moment?

Restful = Easeful ✨💗✨

Easeful = space for more Relaxation + Aliveness!

Ask yourself:

🌀How might I infuse my day with more ease and grace?

Notice how your body responds to this Q. 🤔

I'd love to hear how this Q felt in your body? (or what's resonating most for you)?

Yours in remembering it was always meant to be softer, and more nourishing. 💙

When your bakery order comes with a Thank You card, you know there’s real heart behind the goods💗

I love the work that Celine Melanson 🌹 does, her intentionality and vision.

If you’re looking for delicious, love infused treats, you can find a link to her family’s micro bakery business in her Link in Bio 😊☀️

❤️

I created this retreat for the woman I once was...

💗The one who always prioritized others and her To Do list before her own needs.

🌿For the woman who's tired of rushing through her life. Who craves relaxation but somehow it never feels like enough...

💫 For the woman who feels stretched between everything life asks of her and everything she longs for herself.

This is your chance to let go of ALL the responsibilities, and finally receive and replenish your own well, surrounded by an amazing group of women 🩵🪷

This is your 6 night / 7-day carefully curated journey into the lap of luxury in the sunny and charming coastal town of Tavira, Portugal.

🌿 May 10-16, 2027 ✨

💗🌀1 ROOM Left🌀💗

Imagine a week where no one asks anything of you, and we take exquisite care of you!

💙Time to fully rest your body & restore your spirit
🌟Reconnect with your own heart and inner wisdom
💙Reawaken to your feminine power

Including:
☀️ 6 night stay at luxurious Altanure property (Casa Terra) surrounded by nature
🌿 3 delicious buffet-style meals per day from our private chef
☀️ Daily rest practices: including restorative yoga, breathwork, meditation, yoga nidra and women's circles
🌿Charmaine’s Rest & Reawaken workshops and guidance to rejuvenate and replenish your soul.
☀️ Full- day excursion to iconic beaches and coast around the world famous Benagil caves. Includes sea kayaking against towering limestone cliffs & beach time in the area’s sparkling azure waters.
🌿 Sound healing sessions and a Transformational Breathwork Journey (CCB)
☀️ Space to breathe, rest deeply, and reconnect in warm sunshine, calm nature and the intimacy of a genuinely supportive small group.

There’s also time to explore charming coastal towns and beaches, or carving out the solo time you need.

All to remember your JOY, your WISDOM and your right to a more EASEFUL LIFE!

If there’s a flutter of a yes or curiosity stirring, check out the link in Bio or DM me and I'll send you the details.

I'd love to have you join me in Portugal💗💫 Is this last room yours? ☺️

Early bird discount until July 1st.

When we wait to live...

In times of stress we tend to unconsciously lock ourselves out of joy and ease.

Stress narrows our focus, and lies to us: it tells us to delay our pleasure, relaxation & rest, for when everything is “done”.

But we don't have to "gatekeep" our joy... delay it for this imaginary time in the future.

When we notice our focus narrowing, and our bodies tensing, we can gently remind ourself, every day, that today I get to infuse, even ALLOW, the ease and fun, in the middle of it all.

Here are a few prompts to get you started:
🌀 How do I unknowingly “gatekeep” my joy in times of stress?
🌀 How might today look different if I allowed Ease to come along for the ride?
(notice how this possibility feels in your body)
🌀 Where can I micro-dose simple pleasures today/this week?

Because joy doesn't have to wait for "after". 🩵🌿🪷🌊☀️

What does this bring up for you?
Share below or send me a DM. I'd love to hear from you ☀️

Yours in reclaiming the easeful (and joyful) path!🦋🌿💕

1 Room left, ladies! (Can be a Single or Shared room)

After filling our initial spots within the first week, I decided to open up a few rooms in another villa on the same gorgeous property.

If your heart's been calling you for something like this, or you've been on the fence about this retreat, I'd love to have you join us in Portugal next May 💗💫

Maybe you've been holding it together for everyone but yourself...And your heart yearns for a space just for you…

This is your chance to let go of ALL the responsibilities, and finally receive and replenish your own well at this Sacred Rest Retreat in the stunning Algarve coast of Portugal in May 2027 🌊☀️

This is a 6 night / 7-day carefully curated journey into the lap of luxury in the sunny and charming coastal town of Tavira, Portugal.

🌿 May 10-16, 2027 ✨

Imagine a week where no one asks anything of you, and we take exquisite care of you!

💙Time to fully rest your body & restore your spirit
🌟Reconnect with your own heart and inner wisdom
💙Reawaken to your feminine power

Including:
☀️ 6 night stay at luxurious Altanure property (Casa Terra) surrounded by nature
🌿 3 delicious buffet-style meals per day from our private chef
☀️ Daily rest practices: including restorative yoga, breathwork, meditation, yoga nidra and women's circles
🌿Charmaine’s Rest & Reawaken workshops and guidance to rejuvenate and replenish your soul.
☀️ Full- day excursion to iconic beaches and coast around the world famous Benagil caves. Includes sea kayaking against towering limestone cliffs & beach time in the area’s sparkling azure waters.
🌿 Sound healing sessions and a Transformational Breathwork Journey (CCB)
☀️ Space to breathe, rest deeply, and reconnect in warm sunshine, calm nature and the intimacy of a genuinely supportive small group.

There’s also time to explore charming coastal towns and beaches, or carving out the solo time you need.

All to remember your JOY, your WISDOM and your right to a more EASEFUL LIFE!

If there’s a flutter of a yes or curiosity stirring, visit: www.charmainerenee.ca/portugal-2027 or comment RETREAT below and I'll send you the details.

Early bird discount until July 1st.

Share with someone you feel deserves this gift of deep self care🩵