A consciousness hub where mission-aligned groups gather, nourished by nature’s purest water system — straight from the garden, straight from the earth.
Book Your GatheringLocated on a cliff above Praia Grande, near Sintra in Portugal, Ocean’s Garden is both a family home and an intimate regenerative retreat center. The space invites you to rest and experience the gift that you are to the planet.
Intentionally designed to honour the water and inspire playfulness, every element supports presence, connection, and the kind of work that emerges when mission-driven people come together.
You are a gift.
Luxury in simplicity of nature.
Built in 1968 and drawn by Victor Palla and Bento d’Almeida, two renowned Portuguese architects, the house has hexagonal rooms. You fall asleep and wake to the ocean from every bedroom. In its natural simplicity, a quiet luxury is felt. The space itself calms you, and inspires you.
In the renovation, concrete is being replaced with clay from the garden. The other natural materials in use are cork and hemp — for insulation that lets the house breathe.
Water is the soul of this place. Our own well feeds the house. We understand water as living intelligence and treat it as such — using nature-inspired technologies, vortexing, purifying and activating its natural state. All water used returns to the land, feeding the soil, the plants, the herb garden. Here nothing is wasted. Even your own shit becomes a gift to the garden.
We honour water as a living being.
Here, you are not a guest who takes. Everything you use returns to the land as life — the water you drink, the water you flush, the food you share at the table all flow back into the garden, feeding the living ecosystem that holds this home.
Every drop you drink and bathe in makes its way back to the earth, cleansed and renewed by the garden’s own living filtration.
Nothing is wasted — even what you flush is welcomed back, cycled by nature into nourishment for the soil.
What is grown and shared at the table returns to the ground in turn, closing the loop between plate and garden.
At Ocean’s Garden, every guest has the experience of being a gift.
Paulina Westerlind’s focused energy and ability to connect mean that she captures unique moments — both through her lens and in the spaces she creates. She builds an engaged and relaxed atmosphere, allowing a group to achieve its best. She sees all the possibilities, is flexible and decisive, and delivers with care.
With committed hosting experience in Berlin and Venice, Paulina has moved to the Portuguese coast. She dropped her other professional endeavours and is fully committed to facilitating an unforgettable experience at Ocean’s Garden.
Sleeping capacity with room-sharing, for a close-knit group
For groups working toward conscious, positive impact
A colourful mosaic pool and a padel court set within the garden, for rest and play
Thoughtfully prepared meals available on request
This summer we open our doors with a one-day festival on the Atlantic cliffs — morning yoga, a water ceremony, a long table of Portuguese food and a dance floor that needs no alcohol. Come and celebrate the beginning.
Discover the launch →Why here? Because here, the ordinary glitters.
Ocean’s Garden opens its doors a few times a year. We’re looking for aligned partners — individuals, teams, and families with a great vision for a better future, who want to see real change in the world.
It’s a place for intimate gatherings: families and teams who come to rest, reconnect, and create. If this is you, we’d love to know you.
Tell us about your group and your mission. We’ll connect with you to explore how Ocean’s Garden can support your gathering.
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