ROAR Portugal 2027

The cliffs of the Costa Vicentina above a turquoise bay, one figure standing on the headland

MuEvents · ROAR × MuLabs

ROAR Portugal.
February 2027.

Five days above the Costa Vicentina for fourteen people, run by the ROAR team at Herdade d’Amoreira in Aljezur. MuLabs builds the measurement and the room it happens in.

The retreat, and the application →Come to a Master Class first
3–7
February 2027 · five days, four nights
14
people, and no more than that
5
free Master Classes leading up to it
5
guardians running the week

What it is

A week about the story
you tell about yourself.

ROAR is the ROAR team’s work — Rigo, Harold, Guillem and Jamie — brought to Portugal with Francisco. Fourteen people, five days in the hills above the Costa Vicentina, and a week built around where your story came from, which parts of it you actually chose, and what it would take to write a different one.

Herdade d’Amoreira

A property above Aljezur becoming one of the first centres in the south for wellness and older practices together. Everything happens there; nobody commutes.

Fourteen, deliberately

Small enough that the group stays one group for five days, and that the facilitators know what is happening to each person in it.

Come and meet them first

Five free online Master Classes run from November to January. The ROAR team would rather you sat in one before you decide anything.

Herdade d’Amoreira seen from the air: low white buildings, a pool and planted terraces
Herdade d’Amoreira, above Aljezur.
The open kitchen and living space of the house, with rattan lamps over a long counter
Everything happens in the house. Nobody commutes.

Master Classes · free, online

Five evenings,
before anyone decides anything.

Art, neuroscience, movement and ancestral knowledge — one guardian each. There is no registration and no fee: an open link, and you walk in.

Next · Thursday 19 November · 18:00 Spain / 17:00 Lisbon

The Neuroscience of Trauma
and How to Be Polyphasic

With Francisco Marques-Teixeira. How trauma shapes the brain, and how to move between states with more freedom.

Join the room →

  • Thu 5 Nov 2026

    Rigo Bellott-Machi — how experience reshapes the brain, and what art opens up in perception and learning. Already held; the recording sits with the ROAR team.

  • Thu 19 Nov 2026

    Francisco Marques-Teixeira — the mind, consciousness and behaviour, and what understanding them changes day to day. This is the next one.

  • Thu 3 Dec 2026

    Osomaltli Jampiri — plant medicines and the ancestral knowledge of Indigenous peoples, with cinema as the bridge.

  • Thu 10 Dec 2026

    Guillem — The Power of Beliefs. Which stories limit us, and which ones open things up.

  • Fri 15 Jan 2027

    Jamie Beron — movement and bodily experience: releasing patterns and finding other ways to inhabit the body.

The series is the ROAR team’s, and the dates above are theirs as published on weroar.me. Each one opens on the same Google Meet link.

What MuLabs brings

The part that
can be checked.

Two things, and they are the same discipline rather than two.

Measurement

Signal, not impression

We record the nervous system and read it honestly. What a recording shows is what moved between two points in time — not why, and not whether it lasts. It is a narrow claim, and it is one of the few a retreat can make at all.

Experience design

A room built from the signal

Projection, spatial sound, generative imagery and light, built so that physiological signal becomes something a person can perceive. The measurement informs the design, and the design is built so the measurement means something to the person inside it.

One evening

The ceremony

A collective evening designed by both teams. The group stays together throughout, carried by sound and image rather than by instruction. Nothing is improvised: every element is prepared and rehearsed, with a clinician present and a clear route for anyone who needs to step back.

Francisco Marques-Teixeira fitting an EEG headset to a seated participant
Clinical-grade electrophysiology, read against the person’s own baseline.
A group lying on mats on a wooden floor in daylight, candles along the wall
The unit of this work is the group, not the individual.
A person facing a screen on which a generative figure moves with them
Signal made into something a person can perceive.

Dates and price

What it costs,
and how to come.

  • When3 to 7 February 2027 — five days, four nights
  • WhereHerdade d’Amoreira, Aljezur, on the Costa Vicentina
  • How manyFourteen people
  • Price3 800 €, everything included from the moment you arrive — accommodation, food and the whole programme
  • Until 15 December3 420 €
  • To comeA short application on weroar.me. The ROAR team read it and answer.

The retreat is run, sold and invoiced by ROAR, not by MuLabs — the price above is theirs, and questions about payment, instalments and invoicing go to the ROAR team through the application. If the amount is the obstacle, say so when you write: there is more room than the number suggests. Everything is included from the moment you arrive at the property — getting to the Algarve and home again is your own.

Fourteen places.
Start with a Thursday evening.

The Master Classes are free and open. Come to one, meet the people running the week, and decide afterwards.

19 November, 17:00 Lisbon →