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A seven-day immersive retreat to reconnect with your biology and yourself
Travel that transforms you, right down to your biology.
Set within the peaceful countryside of Portugal’s Ribatejo region, just outside Lisbon, Awaken combines the emerging science of biological aging—helping you understand how your body is aging and responding to the way you live—with movement, nourishing food, nature, meaningful cultural experiences, connection, and time to simply be.
Your journey begins months before you arrive with a simple at-home epigenetic test that provides insight into your biological age, pace of aging, and how your body has been responding to your life, habits, stress, nourishment, recovery, and daily rhythm.
Guided by your personalized results from your at-home epigenetic test, you’ll spend the week exploring how everyday choices influence the way you feel, function, and age—and how your biology can respond when given new signals of support.
Awaken isn't about fixing yourself. It's about understanding yourself more deeply, reconnecting with what your body needs, and returning home with greater clarity, vitality, and confidence for the years ahead.
What the Testing Behind Awaken Can Help You Understand
Awaken uses advanced epigenetic testing to explore biological aging—how your body has been responding to your life, environment, and daily rhythms over time.
Your results offer more than a single age. They help us understand both the climate your body has lived in and the weather of your current biological state, creating a meaningful starting point for your Awaken experience.
Is Awaken for You?
Life continually invites us to evolve — through a new decade, a life transition, a season of fatigue, or simply a quiet knowing that it's time to reconnect with yourself more deeply. Awaken meets you exactly where you are.
This experience welcomes individuals, couples, friends, and wellness professionals curious about how lifestyle influences health, aging, and resilience.
Awaken is for you if you want to:
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Understand what your personalized results suggest about how your body is aging and functioning today
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Explore how nutrition, movement, sleep, stress, and recovery influence the way you age
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Create sustainable daily rhythms that support energy, resilience, and longevity
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Experience the restorative power of slowing down in nature
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Immerse yourself in Portugal's rich culture and landscapes
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Discover Your Biological Story
Explore the story within your epigenetic results: what they suggest about how your body has responded over time, and how you can offer it new signals of support moving forward.
Interactive Learning
Through the Awaken Companion App, your personalized testing insights become part of the retreat, guiding workshops, reflections, resources, and practical lifestyle exploration.
Daily Practices for Vitality
Experience yoga, Qi Gong, breathwork, meditation, mindful movement, mobility, and restorative practices that support resilience, balance, and healthy living.
Retreat Highlights
Seasonal Vegetarian Cuisine
Enjoy vibrant chef-prepared farm-to-table vegetarian meals inspired by Portugal’s seasonal ingredients, local traditions, and the principles of nourishing whole foods.
Curated Portuguese Experiences
Discover medieval villages, fairytale palaces, Atlantic coastlines, and authentic Portuguese culture through thoughtfully designed excursions.
Time to Simply Be
Relax by the pool, unwind in the sauna, experience the cold plunge, enjoy an optional massage, stroll the gardens of the quinta, journal beneath the trees, or simply enjoy the spaciousness that comes from slowing down.
Understand your body. Reconnect with your rhythm. Return home with clarity.
The Journey
Every detail of Awaken is designed to create a complete, science-guided journey, from your first consultation to the months following your return home. All logistics, testing, and private sessions are thoughtfully coordinated, so you can simply focus on the experience.
Before Portugal
Your experience begins months before you board your flight with an at-home epigenetic test, offering the first glimpse into your biological story and a meaningful starting point for your journey.
Before arriving, you'll meet individually with Amanda and Shannon to review your results, orient you to the experience, and prepare for the trip ahead.
Your experience includes:
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Advanced epigenetic testing before and after the retreat
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Six private pre- and post-retreat consultations with Amanda and Shannon
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An interactive Awaken Companion App bringing together your personalized insights, guided reflections, and practical tools
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Personalized reports, guided activities, and educational resources
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Pre-and post retreat support as you integrate what you've discovered into daily life
During the Retreat
For six nights and seven days, you'll settle into a gentle rhythm designed for both structure and spaciousness.
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Mornings begin with movement: yoga, breathwork, or quiet reflection before the day unfolds
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Midday brings interactive workshops using the Awaken Companion App, alongside excursions and cultural experiences that bring Portugal itself into the rhythm of your day
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Evenings slow things down again, with restorative movement, shared meals, and space to simply rest
After You Return Home
The retreat may end, but your journey continues.
Following Awaken, you’ll reconnect with Amanda and Shannon through your post-retreat consultations, revisit your personalized reports, and reflect on how your daily choices are influencing your health and vitality.
Approximately six months after your first assessment, you’ll complete your second biological age test, providing an opportunity to observe how your biology has responded over time and continue building on the insights you’ve gained.
Awaken isn’t about creating lasting change in a single week.
It’s about beginning a relationship with your biology that continues to evolve long after you’ve returned home.
after you return
Science provides the map.
Your life gives it meaning.
Experience Portugal
Nestled in the tranquil Ribatejo countryside, your retreat sanctuary, a peaceful quinta surrounded by gardens, olive groves, walking trails, and open landscapes, naturally encourages reflection, restoration, and presence.
Life unfolds a little more slowly here, creating the perfect backdrop for meaningful conversation, quiet reflection, and reconnecting with what matters most.
Beyond the retreat, you'll experience some of Portugal's most treasured destinations.
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Óbidos: Step inside one of Portugal's best-preserved medieval villages, where cobblestone streets, whitewashed homes, artisan shops, and ancient castle walls invite you to wander and explore centuries of history
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Sintra, Cascais & the Atlantic Coast: Spend a day discovering the storybook beauty of Sintra, the seaside elegance of Cascais, and Portugal's spectacular Atlantic coastline during a private sailing experience
What is Included
Your Awaken experience includes:
Testing & Consultations
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Pre-retreat advanced epigenetic testing testing
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Repeat biological age testing approximately six months after the retreat
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Six private consultations with Amanda and Shannon before and after the retreat
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Interactive Awaken Companion App
Accommodations & Meals
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Six nights boutique accommodations
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Daily breakfast
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Chef-prepared vegetarian lunches and dinners as scheduled
Movement & Wellness
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Educational workshops
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Morning and evening movement sessions
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Yoga, Qi Gong, meditation, breathwork, and mindful movement
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Access to the retreat pool, sauna, cold plunge, gardens, and walking trails
Excursions & Transportation
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Group airport transportation to/from Lisbon
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Curated excursions to Óbidos, Sintra, Cascais, and a private Atlantic sailing experience
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Group transportation throughout the retreat
What's Not Included
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Airfare to and from Portugal
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Travel and medical insurance (strongly recommended)
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One off-site lunch during our independent cultural excursion, allowing you the freedom to explore local cafés and restaurants at your own pace
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Optional wellness services, including massage and additional therapies
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Additional snacks or beverages purchased off-site
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Alcohol at the retreat sanctuary (meals and gatherings on-site are alcohol-free to support the restorative intention of Awaken); local wines and other offerings are available at your own cost during independent meals and time off property
Meet Your Guides
Amanda Archibald & Shannon Le Mintier
Awaken was born from a shared question: what if health wasn't about fixing what's broken, but understanding what's true?
For years, we'd each worked with clients who wanted more than another nutrition plan or wellness vacation, they wanted to understand how they were built, how they were aging, and how everyday choices shape vitality and purpose. That vision became Awaken, bringing together Amanda's pioneering work in nutrigenomics and Shannon's expertise in integrative nutrition and whole-person wellness.
Together, they bring decades of combined experience in nutrition, genomics, movement, and integrative health, guiding you through your personalized reports, workshops, and one-on-one consultations to help you discover sustainable ways to support lifelong vitality.
We hope you return home feeling renewed, inspired, and equipped with practical tools to support your health for years to come.
Amanda Archibald
RDN, Founder of The Genomic Kitchen
European-born. Colorado Based
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Pioneering leader in nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics with more than 30 years of experience as a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
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Utilizes genomics, epigenetics, applied nutrition, and culinary biochemistry to guide individuals through health transitions and complex health challenges
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Educator, mentor, and coach to health professionals and physicians advancing their knowledge in genomics
International speaker and thought leader whose work spans North America, Europe, Australasia, and South Africa -
Author and education expert in genomic nutrition, nutrigenetics, nutrigenomics, and culinary genomics
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Spearheaded the world’s first nutrigenomically inspired hospital menu for Sodexo at Sharp HealthCare in California
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Co-founder of My Mobility Code
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Genetic test developer, DNA-informed software tools and product innovation expert working at the forefront of personalized health
Shannon Le Mintier
RDN, IFNCP, YACEP. E-RYT 500
Founder of Whole Living Nutritionist
USA born. Portugal-Based
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Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with more than two decades of experience helping clients create lasting, sustainable lifestyle change
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Integrative Functional Nutrition Certified Practitioner (IFNCP), combining functional nutrition with a whole-person, East-meets-West approach to well-being
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E-RYT 500 and YACEP Registered Yoga Teacher with more than twenty-five years of dedicated practice, teaching private and group classes, trainings, and international retreats
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Functional movement specialist integrating yoga, mobility, breathwork practices, and mindful movement to help people move with greater ease and resilience
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Guides individuals in reconnecting with their biology through whole-food nutrition, movement, mindfulness, breathwork, and everyday lifestyle practices that support healthy aging and vibrant living
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Passionate about helping individuals reconnect with their bodies, cultivate everyday rituals, and create meaningful, sustainable habits that support long-term vitality
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Works with private clients, organizations, and retreat participants in North America, Europe and Australia
Postcards from Past Retreats
Investment
Your investment includes all accommodations, testing, consultations, and curated experiences detailed above. Space is limited to 18 guests to preserve intimacy and personalized attention.
Early Bird (through November 30, 2026)
Shared $5,689 · Single (limited) $6,599
Full Price (after November 30, 2026)
Shared $6,859 · Single (limited) $7,899
Companion $4,269 (shared accommodation; not eligible for Early Bird pricing)
For those joining alongside a participating guest without taking part in testing or consultations. Includes shared accommodations, meals, excursions, group transportation, and movement sessions.
A $750 non-refundable deposit secures your spot.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions?
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