SAMHAIN RETREAT ON THE CAMINO DE SANTIAGO

A pilgrimage into the Celtic turning of the year

10 days | August 4 - 13, 2026

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What to expect

• Encounters with the ancestral imagination of the land

— immersive visits: megalithic earth chambers, sacred oak groves and other special places

• Journeys into myths, symbols, cosmology

• Experiential and creative practices rooted in earth, place and sacred imagination

• Sharing circles and depth work

• Spacious quiet time in contemplative attention with the landscape

• Rituals in community and an embodied pilgrimage

Location

Six days on site.
Castrillo de los Polvazares is an ancient stone village whose patron saint is Mary Magdalene, set beside the ruins of a medieval church and a Celtic mound named after her.
Enjoy a beautiful retreat centre dedicated to pilgrims, pilgrimage & soul work.

Location

Six days on site.
Castrillo de los Polvazares is an ancient stone village whose patron saint is Mary Magdalene, set beside the ruins of a medieval church and a Celtic mound named after her.
Enjoy a beautiful retreat centre dedicated to pilgrims, pilgrimage & soul work.

Pilgrimage

Three days on the Camino.
Walk as much or as little as you wish. Or continue your soul work spending the day in the stunning villages of Rabanal & El Acebo.
However the journey unfolds, the Camino, ancestors and land form a sacred temenos supporting your unique pilgrimage.

The Valley of Silence

Our final two nights are in the breathtaking Valley of Silence — an alluring landscape of ancient monasteries and caves, that has drawn mystics, hermits and seekers for millennia.

Open for 12 years l We have run over sixty retreats and Caminos

What participants are saying

“Amazing vistas, company & nurturing space for soulwork”.

Gemma S. Brighton Uk

Basia and Bertrand, I’m grateful for the structure you shaped and the space you held — it opened the way for true exploration and a spirit of play. Thank you for a deeply meaningful experience.

Gemma S. Brighton Uk

“Organized, thoughtful. Exquisite holding from facilitators and place. It has been life changing.”

Nick B. Ashville, USA

Your Facilitators

Basia Goodwin (MA) and Bertrand Gamrowski (PhD) are sacred art practitioners, educators, retreat leaders and pilgrim guides. Together they run a retreat centre dedicated to pilgrimage, sacred landscape and the work of the soul. Over the past decade they have guided more than sixty retreats and pilgrimages, leading groups in experiential encounters with sacred places, symbolic architecture and the deeper imagination of the land. Their work explores the Beauty Path through sacred space and living landscape, where outer pilgrimage becomes a mirror for the inner journey.

Susan Thompson (MA, AMI) is a Jungian-based Spiritual Director in private practice, a Spiritual DirectionMentor at the Haden Institute, and a Founder of the Guild for Transformational Studies (Jungian-based home study groups, classes, and retreats for spiritual and psychological growth). She engages individuals and groups in examining the trajectory of their sacred life journeys. At the core of her work is a deep curiosity of what it means to be a human living in the presence of Mystery: that life holds questions meant for each of us to explore and greater wholeness can develop when we unearth undiscovered material in the unconscious and bring it into consciousness through pilgrimage, expressive writing and art, and somatic experiences.

What’s included

Private transport from & to Madrid airport
See times & pick up point details.
If you prefer to arrive independently to the retreat centre, see how to get here.
Food & Accommodation
All accommodation consists of individual ensuite bedrooms. On the Camino, you may have to share a room if there are no availabilities.
Dietary requirements
We cater for the following dietary requirements: vegetarian, gluten-free, carb-free, vegan.