For facilitators · Yoga · Photography · Writing · Breathwork · Corporate
Host your retreat in a unique creative space in Portugal
🧘 Capacity 10–30
🍳 Full chef + housekeeping
🏞️
✦5
For facilitators · Yoga · Photography · Writing · Breathwork · Corporate
🧘 Capacity 10–30
🍳 Full chef + housekeeping
🏞️
✦5
The StartArt model
StartArt Residency is a fully equipped space where facilitators, teachers and organizations can host retreats without the complexity of building everything from scratch. Whether it’s your first retreat or your fortieth, our team is here to help you organize, support, and customize your experience from start to finish.
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Talk to us and schedule a 20-minute video call 🌿We’d love to hear about your retreat vision, your audience, your concept, and your ideal dates — and explore how we can create the experience together ✨
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We help you shape and customize your retreat experience — from spaces and activities to logistics and atmosphere
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We support your retreat promotion through collaborative content, social media visibility, and the StartArt community to help attract the right people
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We support your vision by providing the space, atmosphere, logistics, and on-site support to help your retreat flow smoothly.
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Once you experience the connection, nature, and community here, StartArt becomes more than a venue — it becomes part of your retreat journey
Our space, schedule, and team are tuned to these formats. If your work doesn't fit one cleanly, that's fine — most of our best retreats are hybrids. The verticals just tell you what we already have ready.
TTCs, active resting, breath work, meditation, and other Wellness activities. Indoor studio with sprung floor and beautiful green gardens outdoor. Cushions, blocks, straps for 26 already on site.
Slow down, explore nature, and reconnect with creativity at StartArt Residency. A weekend of photography, art, hiking, river swims, and meaningful moments surrounded by forests, mountains, and inspiring people near Braga, Portugal ✨
Quiet rooms, the library nook, long-table dinners that turn into readings. We block weekday Wi-Fi quotas if your group needs it. Writers tend to extend their stays.
Held with discretion. Soundproofed indoor studio, on-call medic relationship in Braga, integration spaces near the river. Plant medicine retreats considered case-by-case.
Fasting, ayurvedic, silent retreats. Healthy and nutritional vegetarian menus at no surcharge. Local naturopath and bodyworkers we trust on call.
Founder strategy weeks, design sprints, leadership resets — productivity focused. Fast fiber, projector, breakout zones — without the conference-hotel feel. We block the property exclusively for you.
Included with the venue
✓ Accommodation
✓ 3 Meals included option
✓ Basic logistic support
✓ Access to all common, creative and outdoors spaces
✓ Flexible space setup for workshops, projector, printer and scanner.
✓ Optional Meals & kitchen solutions
✓ Local partnerships ( Wellness activities, degustations, meditation, photographers, etc,. )
Why choose startart residency
Our proposition
When you book StartArt, you’ll have our entire top floor exclusively for your group. 🌿 Retreat plans can include accommodation, three meals per day, access to all workshop and activity spaces, plus basic on-site support from our team. We also provide a projector, TV, printer, and scanner for trainings, presentations, workshops, or creative sessions.
Weekend (2–3 nights)
Short, impactful experiences for smaller groups
✓ Top Floor Exclusivity
✓ Up to 14 pax
✓ Chef + 3 meals/day
✓ 2 workshop spaces
✓ Pool + river access
Most facilitators
3–7 Day Retreats
Immersive experiences with accommodation and full program
✓ Top Floor Exclusivity
✓ Up to 30 pax
✓ Chef + 3 meals/day
✓ 2 workshop spaces
✓ Pool + river access
✓ Free Brunch
1 Day Retreat
A new approach to team-building — focused on creativity, wellbeing and human connection
✓ Event Floor Exclusivity
✓ Up to 100 pax
✓ Chef optional
✓ Pool + river access
The space
Can't find yours? marketing@startartresidency.com — we reply.
How it Works
Share your idea with us, we align on dates and format.
You host your retreat — we support the logistics
