Crafted Journey Retreat: Tavira, Portugal

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Dates: July 16th - 20th, 2026

Set in Tavira, a peaceful coastal town in Portugal’s Algarve region, the Crafted Journey Retreat is a five-day creative retreat hosted by Craft & Release and Sambapita. At its heart, the retreat is about making space; space to step away from daily demands, spend time with your work, and reconnect with the parts of your creative practice that can get lost in the rush of everyday life.

Location - Tavira, Portugal

The retreat unfolds in a place shaped by light, water, and a slower pace of life. Days are grounded in creative focus, with space to experience the beauty of the surrounding landscape, explore the town and coastline, and step outside of familiar routines. The setting becomes part of the experience, offering moments of perspective, inspiration, and quiet discovery that gently feed the creative work.

Our communal retreat home in Tavira offers comfortable shared and private spaces for writing, gathering, and downtime, with indoor and outdoor areas that encourage a more intentional rhythm.

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Our Approach

The retreat moves between guided creative sessions and open time for independent work. Generative craft workshops offer tools and new ways into your practice. Movement, wellness, and time outdoors are woven throughout to support focus and energy, alongside a curated excursion designed to offer a fresh perspective and creative inspiration.

While the retreat is especially supportive of writers, it is open to anyone seeking to deepen their creative practice and storytelling across mediums, with writing used as a foundational tool for reflection, exploration, and expression.

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Accomodation

Our rooms are intentionally designed to nurture calm, reflection, and clarity. We offer both shared and individual rooms to honor different needs and rhythms. Our shared rooms host two women, inviting you to join with a friend or someone you feel comfortable with, while our individual rooms offer a more private space for rest and introspection.

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Frequently Asked Questions

    • Housing: four nights, five days at our communal retreat home in Tavira.

    • Food: all meals at the retreat home, including daily full breakfast, light lunch, and dinner on evenings spent at the house.

    • Transportation: to and from all included excursions and offsite programming.

    • Creative programming: all workshops, including storytelling sessions and the closing reflective workshop.

    • Activities: beach excursion with guided creative exercise.

    • Flights: to and from Portugal.

    • Transportation to Tavira and the retreat home is not included.

    • One off-site dinner is not included, and is intentionally left open for personal choice.

    • Any additional personal travel, activities, or meals outside the retreat schedule are not included.

Meet Your Hosts

  • Glynn Pogue (co-founder Craft & Release) is an award-winning writer and audio storyteller from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, named to Brooklyn Magazine’s 30 Under 30. Her work appears in Vogue, Travel + Leisure, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and National Geographic Traveler. She holds an MFA from The New School, is a VONA Voices fellow, and currently serves as Associate Director of Development at Audible, developing original audio series.

  • Nneka Julia (co-founder of Craft & Release) is a Brooklyn-based Writer, Filmmaker, and Creator whose work explores culture, travel, and the human experience through the lens of her Cambodian and Nigerian heritage. She has worked with brands including Four Seasons, Adobe, Sony, and Amex, with features in Essence, Marie Claire, Covetuer, and Paper. Her podcast, Passing Through, has ranked in the top 100 in U.S. Society & Culture.

  • Wilma Moisés (founder of Sambapita) is an Angolan-born, Portugal-based marketing and communications director with over a decade of experience across fashion, luxury, and lifestyle. Her international career spans London, Paris, Dubai, and Milan, with collaborations including Marc Jacobs, Tory Burch, DVF, Missoni, Bentley, Jaguar & Land Rover, Nintendo, and Farfetch. She also works in costume design for film and has been featured in Vogue Italia and ELLE Portugal.