Sandra
Alferes Dias
Sandra Alferes Dias is co-founder and the driving force behind Serena Vista. From her deep involvement in personal growth, emotional healing and inner calm, she supports guests who feel stuck due to stress, loss or life questions.
Within Serena Vista, Sandra works as a therapist and coach. Her guidance is holistic, personal and intuitive, and carefully attuned to each individual. She creates a safe environment in which space arises for insight, processing and recovery, and works with a combination of methods such as family constellations, regression therapy, creative therapy, numerology and various forms of coaching.
In her sessions, personal attention is central. Attention to what is present and to what is emerging in that moment.
Her approach is careful, respectful and attuned to the pace of the individual.
She creates a safe space in which people can explore what their body is communicating and how this can contribute to greater calm, clarity and connection in everyday life.
Sandra Alferes Dias provides therapy and coaching in the following languages:
Sandra’s areas of expertise include:
- Regression and reincarnation therapy
- EMDR
- Grief counselling
- Coaching
- Systemic constellations
- Family constell
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Carla
Buytendijk
Carla Buytendijk works within Serena Vista as a yoga teacher and body-oriented guide. Her approach is gentle, deepening and strongly connected to the body as a gateway to relaxation and awareness.
Carla combines yoga, somatic practices and intuitive massage with energetic modalities such as reiki and sound healing. In her sessions, she invites people to slow down, to feel, and to reconnect with their own rhythm.
Her strength lies in creating a safe and calm space where tension can be released and the body can find its way back to balance. Carla’s guidance is suitable for both beginners and those with experience in yoga and meditation.
Carla Buytendijk teaches sessions in the following languages:
Carla’s areas of expertise include:
- Yoga
- Meditation
- Sound bowls
- Sound healing
- Massage
- Holistic treatments
Brigitte
Canepa
Brigitte Canepa works at Serena Vista as a somatic therapist and guide in body-oriented healing. Her work focuses on the connection between body, emotion and memory, viewing the body as an essential gateway to insight, processing and integration.
Brigitte has a background in the visual arts. During her artistic training, she discovered how deeply emotions, experiences and patterns can be anchored in the body. This experience formed the foundation for her further exploration of body-oriented and somatic work. From this basis, she specialised in somatic therapy, including Bodynamic®, and other body-based approaches.
Within Serena Vista, Brigitte supports people who wish to work on themes such as tension, stress, emotional blockages and recurring patterns. She works with therapeutic massage, body reading, somatic sessions and family constellations, among other methods. Her guidance focuses on recognising bodily signals and gradually developing greater body awareness and inner stability.
Brigitte works from a holistic vision, in which body and psyche are inseparably connected.
Brigitte Caneppa offers therapy and therapeutic massage in the following languages:
Brigitte’s areas of expertise include:
- Somatic therapy
- Bodynamic® (body-oriented psychotherapy)
- Therapeutic massage
- Body reading
- Fascia-oriented massage
- Shiatsu
- Joint release
- Breath and body awareness
- Family constellations
- Support with emotional blockages
Itai
Sevarin
Itai Sevarin is active within Serena Vista as a facilitator of meditation, breathwork and body-oriented sessions. His work focuses on awareness through direct experience, with attention to energy, breath, the body and inner stillness.
Itai works with various forms of meditation and breathing techniques. In addition, he applies principles from body-oriented methods such as the Grinberg Method, in which awareness and physical perception are central and the body is seen as a gateway to insight and change.
Alongside meditation and breathwork, Itai also facilitates Energy Boost sessions. These sessions focus on relaxation and supporting energetic balance, with attention to grounding, body awareness and releasing tension.
His guidance helps guests step out of the mind and reconnect with the signals of the body. With calmness and clarity, Itai supports processes of letting go, grounding and inner focus.
Itai facilitates sessions in the following languages:
Itai’s areas of expertise include
- Active and silent meditations
- Breathwork
- Energy Boost
- Guided meditations
- Grinberg Method (body-oriented awareness work)
- Support with relaxation and grounding
Claire
Sourjous
Claire Sourjous is of French origin and has been living in the Lourinhã region for over twenty years.
After a diverse professional career, she followed her inner calling to focus on body-oriented therapies and energetic well-being.
From a personal need for balance and health, Claire deepened her practice in Shiatsu and foot reflexology. Methods that help release tension and restore vital energy.
Within Serena Vista, Claire offers Shiatsu and foot reflexology as supportive therapies focused on relaxation, energetic balance and the promotion of physical and emotional well-being. Her approach is careful, calm and attuned to the body and the pace of the client.
Claire Sourjous offers sessions in the following languages:
Claire’s areas of expertise include
- Shiatsu
- Foot reflexology
- Body-oriented relaxation and stress reduction
- Support for energetic balance and vitality
- Intake (anamnesis) as a standard part of the session
Karen
van der Velde
Karen van der Velde is an experienced holistic therapist and guest teacher who facilitates special retreats at Serena Vista, including the 7-day retreat Insight into Yourself.
Karen works from a holistic approach in which body and mind are seen as one whole. She believes that complaints are not merely symptoms, but signals of underlying patterns in the body and psyche that require attention.
In her practice, Karen supports people with a wide range of complaints and themes. She uses a combination of methods such as kinesiology, family constellations, foot reflex therapy, ear acupuncture, massage and coaching to promote balance, insight and recovery.
Within the retreats at Serena Vista, Karen combines her expertise in bodywork, systemic work and reflective processes with practices such as bodywork, meditation, breathing techniques and family constellations. This experience forms the core of her guidance during the retreats, where participants are invited to connect deeply with themselves and integrate new insights.
Karen is known for her warm and empathetic approach. She guides participants with care and respect, allowing personal growth and healing to take place in a safe and supportive way.
Karen van der Velde facilitates sessions and retreats in the following languages:
Karen’s areas of expertise include
- Holistic therapy
- Kinesiology
- Family constellations and systemic work
- Foot reflex therapy
- Ear acupuncture
- Body-oriented massage
- Coaching and personal guidance
- Facilitation of retreats and in-depth programmes
- Guest teacher at Serena Vista (1–2 retreats per year)