SONG QUEST

Medicine Music Initiation

CREATIVE HUNT
MUSICAL ACTIVATION
SONG CRAFTING
CEREMONIES

7 - 12 October 2025
Mafra, Portugal

A week-long intensive journey through self-discovery, activation, and play. Workshops, experiences, and ceremonies designed to awaken and revitalise your most essential artistic expression. Guided by the very energy of creation, we tune in to listen and put forth what she wants to voice through us.

Song Quest

WOKRSHOPS
Voice activation, drums, guitar, creative song writing

EXPERIENCES
Two days of song questing accompanied by nature’s teachers

CEREMONIES
Song harvest all night ceremony, sweatlodge, offering, sharing circle, song circles, sound journey

An initiation into the medicine of music

Activate your true expression through sound, silence, and sacred plants.

In a world full with noise, we seek to listen to the sound of the soul.

A space where nature, music, and sacred plant wisdom lead us to our most authentic expression.

A deep immersion in rhythm, breath, and vibration, backed up by the earth's intelligence.

The Core Elements

  • Guided vocal exploration

  • Drum workshop

  • Workshop on intuitive singing and creative writing

  • Guitar workshop

  • Two song questing exercises involve listening, channelling, and creating your own song; they take roughly six to eight hours of solitary exploration in the outdoors.

    Experienced musicians and master plant space-holders supervise these exercises.

  • Integrative song circles

  • All night prayer ceremony

  • Sweatlodge

  • Integrative yoga

  • Sharing circles

Who is this for?

In this journey to our essence, we go within ourselves to extract what is most natural, what stems from our interactions with all forms of creation, including ourselves, in order to create medicine in the form of music and song.

Seekers for authentic expression

This journey is about art, creation, play, and exploration. However, there is tremendous healing taking place as a result of awakening one's voice and expression, as well as the ability to create and share.

Musicians and non-musicians a-like

Those drawn to master plants and nature’s wisdom

Song Quest is designed as an initiation for both musicians and non-musicians. Here, we strive for authenticity rather than technical skills, and the workshops are broken down into skill levels.

Anyone eager to awaken and discover their voice

In order to relate harmoniously with these great spirits, we honour the ancient ways of ancestors worldwide by sharing extensively this week about the various uses of plant spirits as medicines, master plants, and oracles.

Casa Shanti is a beautiful retreat centre built with stone and wood at the foot of an ancient volcano. It is owned by a couple of artists who have dedicated their lives to building it into the wonderful, soulful place that it is. During Song Quest, we will have three vegetarian meals a day, homemade with products from their garden.

Casa Shanti is located just outside of Mafra, Portugal, 45 minutes away from Lisbon Airport.

Most rooms are doubles; for the normal fee, you will be sharing with one other person. If you prefer to remain alone, there are a few possibilities at an additional cost of €150 (please enquire).

Location and accommodation


Payment: Bank Transfer, PayPal, Cash

Date: 7 - 12 October 2025

Investment: €1200

Only 10 spots available

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