Create a beautiful life with who you are, and what you have

Transformative Retreats

for women in search of self-connection, self-acceptance and authenticity

How do you feel? How do you want to feel?

Maybe these examples sound familiar:

You easily feel anxious and overwhelmed
You often feel like you don’t belong
You often think negatively about yourself
You make high demands on yourself
You feel flat, tense, and low on energy

and you struggle
with feeling what YOU want and need emotionally, spiritually and physically
with making healthy choices for your body and life
with feeling truly okay in your body and with yourself

If that sounds like you, I hear you. And I would love to help you create a vibrant, respectful relationship with yourself, feel happy and at home in your body, and rediscover your inner sparkle and zest for being you in all your colors.

My journey has brought me to where I am today. It has been a path with many twists and turns, highs and lows. And I have found my inner sparkle again. I would love to see yours too. Shall we go on a journey together?

Part of the journey of coming home to yourself is building an attentive, respectful relationship and communication with your body. Feeling better in your body calls for listening to the wisdom of your body. This requires learning the language of your body and understanding its signals from a larger-than-just physical context. It starts with returning to your senses and sensations.

An unbelievable experience that every woman can enrich herself with!

Maria VedeninaData Analyst

This is just an amazing place to stay, enjoy the wonderful conversations with these two and the incredible food they make. Fall into the dance and embrace your own inner body wisdom. This is for sure the right place to do so.

Mimi KolbeFashion photographer

I had a beautiful time at this retreat. I felt totally transported out of my daily life and enveloped in a warm, authentic, loving hug!

Monique WarmelsMidwife

Self-explore, self-discover, self-heal

Treat yourself to a Transformative Retreat at Jardin de Luz

Private coaching and therapeutic retreats
Small group healing retreats for women
‘Deepen your relationship’ retreats for couples

Spend a week with me in the south of Spain, to feel, move, grow and heal. I also offer online retreats.

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I am Pingel Braat

Holistic Body-oriented Life Guide, Psychosomatic-Energetic Therapist, Spirited Sparkle Guide, Passionate Dancer, and Creative Soul. Passionate about helping you feel radiant with who you are, and build a spirited and meaningful relationship with your sensuous wise body. By harnessing the power of movement, dance, stillness, creativity, nature, and energy and by listening from your heart. I am happy to guide you online and in person in my Inner Sparkle Sanctuary Jardin de Luz in southern Spain

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Happy in your body, happy in your life

Free Feldenkrais series

Do you want to move with more ease, grace, and energy and in better attunement to the needs of your sensuous body?
I offer you 5 short Feldenkrais lessons For Free to create your Compass for Inner-vitality, and wellbeing. Get to know the Feldenkrais method as you go along.

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How do you feel? How do you want to feel?

Move, Feel, Grow, Heal

Women retreats

Feel your body again as a safe and joyous place. Embrace your Sensate Body Wisdom, and tap into the infinite wisdom of your body and soul. Uncover your radiating, sparkling self beneath the layers of inhibiting patterns in perception, thinking, and moving. Move from hard to a heart for yourself. Discover new ways to dance through life in connection and confidence as you feel, move, and play with silence, your senses, perception, nature, and with the healing powers of conscious dance, mindful movement, and creativity.

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Private retreats

Do you want to feel happier in your body and feel that you are genuinely radiating from deep within? Are you done with not being able to access your inner fire? Do you want to sustainably transform the negative feelings about yourself, your body, and your life? Break with the patterns, and stories that hold you back from making a different move? Befriend yourself and learn to trust your body Wisdom again. Treat yourself to a private retreat that is fully tailored to your healing and growth. Let me guide you to move into joy.

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Online journeys

Help your body release stress and move fluidly, and vibrantly! Befriend your sensate body-wise and tap into the infinite wisdom of your body and soul. Free your radiant, sparkling self from limiting patterns of perception, feeling, thinking, and behavior. Break free from the stories and expectations that hold you back from feeling better and making a different movement. My programs of Feldenkrais mindful movement, NIA somatic movement arts, and Chakradance empower you to make choices to truly move into joy and health.

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I chose this retreat because of the location, it being woman-focused and the focus on the body as source of wisdom.

I had a beautiful time at this retreat. I felt totally transported out of my daily life and enveloped in a warm, authentic, loving hug! The program consisted of practices I had never encountered before and were life-changing in terms of my body awareness. I look at my body with more compassion and love, working with any limitations rather than trying to fight against them and fail. Pingel’s style is one of ‘show, don’t tell’, by showing us the joy and playfulness she found in what works for her. This was incredibly inspiring for me. Also, she encourages you to find and trust your own truth and wisdom, which is different for everyone. The whole retreat space was held so well by Peter and Pingel that I felt looked after, honored, and loved. Amazing food, excursions, great conversation, perfect accommodation (I stayed in the bell tent so I could hear the crickets and the nightingale at night 😊) and a well-planned program… I am already saving to go back for more!!! Thank you so much, beautiful Pingel and Peter 🙏❤️

Monique warmels

Thanks for this magical experience!

After the birth of my daughter and all the weight of becoming a mother, I wanted to reconnect to my body again.

I was searching for exactly this: Dance, Body Wisdom, Andalusia, it was just the perfect match 🙂

After these miraculous days with Pingel and Peter, I feel happier and more connected to my body. I feel like I have gained a lot of wisdom during this week, exceeding anything they promised in advance. I loved the way Pingel and Peter lovingly took care of us. I felt in very good & warm hands. Thanks so much for this magical experience!

Mimi Kolbe

Unbelievable experience that every women can enrich herself with!

Overall this retreat really helped me to pause, to look inside, to reconnect with myself, to feel alive and to feel joy again, but let me break it down for you.

First, the retreat combines several powerful technics such as NIA, meditation, art therapy, somatic therapy and others. The holistic approach really emerges you in the experience of reconnecting with oneself and can really help you to transform oneself, to become a friend to yourself again.

Second, the food was mind-blowing!!!! If you want a Micheline star cook, Peter is your guy! We couldn’t stop being impressed and spoiled by delicious vegetarian/vegan specialties he cooked for us every day. Every meal was a masterpiece!

Third, the location just leaves you speechless and pictures hardly capture it: it is in the middle of the mountains, with huge private space, gardens of olive, orange, and avocado trees, flowers and swinging chairs, birds singing days and spotless star sky shining at night.

And last but not least, the energy of Pingel and Peter is just captivating, we had such a good laugh and such deep conversations at the same time. Every minute of this retreat was nourishing.

After the retreat I am feeling much more in peace, I pay attention and notice my body, I started enjoying the movements of my body and in general, I feel recharged and reconnected to my senses.

If you are a the place where you’ve lost yourself due to the pandemic and other stressful events, if you neglected your body for some time living in the tempo of the big city like I did – this piece of tranquility and deep internal work is for you!

Maria Vedemina