The Art of Reinvention — A painting and life design retreat, Nov 2-8, 2025
Nov 2-8, 2025 in a dreamy villa (with a jacuzzi) near Malaga, Spain
“I’m so excited to be hosting the retreat of my dreams this year in a beautiful Spanish villa near the ocean. Join us for the perfect blend of creativity, connection, laughter, and transformational workshops.
You’ll learn more about yourself in one week than you have in the last 10 years. I promise you it’s going to be the experience of a lifetime and we’d love to have you!”
— Hosted by Miranda Rensch and Helene Farrar
The Setting
Hotel-style private rooms
Each room has it’s own lock code entry and private bathroom, hotel style.
Jacuzzi, pool, and sauna
Morning sauna, afternoon coffee by the pool, and wind down in the jacuzzi. What could be better!
Peaceful vibrant neighborhood
We’ll walk to cafes and restaurants in the neighborhood together and enjoy Spanish life!
What we’ll do
Life Design & Transformational Workshops
You’ll leave the retreat with a ton of clarity about what’s important to you and what the next stage of your life looks like. This is not high level stuff, we’ll be going deep so get ready.
Encaustic Painting & Self Discovery through Art
Explore the mesmerizing ancient technique of encaustic painting. No you do not need to have previous experience with encaustic or painting at all! This is for all levels and you’ll tap into flow state, intuition, and rediscover creativity in a new way.
Group Outings and Connection
We’ll enjoy the surroundings and Spanish culture! Expect an organized wine tasting, tapas and Flamenco, group strolls along the beach, cafe visits, and fun group dinners.
Life Design Workshops
Answer the question — Who am I really?
Have you ever felt like it’s hard to know who you are and what you really want? Like you feel like there’s a more “you” version lurking inside and knocking on the door but you don’t know how to let them out? This workshop will help you meet your essential self — the version of you that’s just you, not conditioning, obligations, and expectations, but the real you. Understand yourself on a deeper level and what the recipe is for you for fulfillment, joy, and inspiration.
Design the Next and Best Stage of Your Life
Now that you have a better sense of who you really are (vs how you’ve had to act to survive and be “good”) we’ll take a fresh look at your life and see which areas of life are draining you, making you feel you have to fake it, or just feel like a struggle. You’ll get a clear picture of a different version of yourself — a future you that’s completely expressed, fulfilled, and living from a place of great inspiration and sustained energy. Sometimes being tired and drained doesn’t stem from not enough sleep, it’s years of pretending, suppressing, and not letting parts of yourself be fully expressed. Well, no more. You’re going to see the path to vibrancy, the path you a life that you can be completely in love with.
Get Unstuck
It’s one thing to see the vision, it’s another to make it a reality. We need to be equipped with the tools to navigate making brave changes if we want to see this next stage of life become a reality. I’ll teach you a series of powerful tools for:
Navigating fear so you can bravely pursue the life you deserve
Developing emotional resilience so you can be calm and centered in the face of the unknown and achieve more than you’ve ever been able to before
Neutralizing subconscious resistance that keeps you stuck and prevents you from taking the actions you know you need to take so that behavior change because easy and natural
Encaustic Painting and Creative Expression Workshops
Explore the Ancient Art of Encaustic Painting
Explore the beautiful and ancient art of encaustic painting. An expressive and dynamic medium, you’ll paint with pigmented melted wax allowing you to create rich textured works of art. You’ll be enchanted as you apply, carve, and melt the wax creating endless opportunities for creativity without any previous experience. You’ll experiment, play, and be in creative flow and presence as you’re mesmerized by the flowing wax and the beauty of creation.
Painting as a Way of Knowing
In this session you’ll be led through free writing exercises to ignite image creation, inspiration, and insight. This session continues to teach technique while you learn to express yourself through art and find your creative voice. Through this experience of deep and curious presence facilitated by art-making, you may get deeper insights about your identity and how you want to express yourself more fully.
The Art of Play
In this session you’ll rediscover your sense of play. As adults we get layers and layers of expectation and perfectionism that limit our creativity. Learn how to release the need for this false ideal of perfection so that you can truly tap into your own ability to be creative, which in an age of AI and automation, will be the core skill that will not only set you apart but set you free to be yourself, be present, and enjoy life rather than need to keep it all together. Let’s play!
Leave with Beautiful Paintings
You will leave with beautiful encaustic paintings full of intention, magic, and the memories of our time together. See some examples of student paintings here on the right.
So, want to join us?
We’d love to have you!
Nov 2-8, 2025 in a villa near Malaga, Spain
If you’re ready to have a beautiful time connecting with like-minded people through art and expression, accessing deep new insights about yourself, and recalibrating your life towards joy, inspiration, and fulfillment, we would love for you to join us!
$3,200 $2,700 Early Bird
Rooms with private terrace are for the first sign ups so sign up quick! :)
Included
Private room with lock code and private bathroom
Breakfast and lunch
3x Life Design Workshops
3x Encaustic Painting Workshops
Mini Spanish Lesson (to prep for our dinners out!)
Fun jacuzzi chats and group outings
Blind wine tasting night at the villa
Tapas and Flamenco Evening
Group outing to art museum and beach walk (note — the weather will not be swimmable but lovely for a sunny scenic walk by the beach)
Group connection, conversation, laughter, and life long friendships!
Supplies for all art and transformational workshops
Not Included
Flights to and from Malaga, Spain
Transport from the airport to the villa (but we can help you arrange)
About Helene, your Art Instructor
Hélène Farrar is a Maine-based American artist who works primarily in encaustic. Her colorful paintings draw themes from the natural world and her observations of it, and they have a depth and luminousness achieved through careful attention to texture and surface quality. She considers her work part of a conversation about humanity, beauty, and nature.
Hélène is a masterful teacher with over 25 years of working with individuals from a formal setting to workshops across the USA in prestigious institutions such as the Haystack School, the Farnsworth Museum, and the International Encaustics Conference.
Hélène has a kind and warm personality, with lots of “chutzpah” to lead these dynamic workshops. When Hélène isn’t painting, she is happiest biking, reading, listening to live music and noticing the flowers. She recently located to Rockland, Maine with her husband, college-heading daughter, and a sassy cat. She has a studio in Tenants Harbor, Maine with an ever evolving ocean view.
About Miranda, your Life Design Guide
Miranda Rensch is an artist, Mindset Coach, and Life Design specialist with a passion for helping people identify and rewire limiting beliefs that keep them feeling drained and unsure of the best direction forward.
Her coaching methodologies are informed by neuroscience and best practices in the fields of coaching and psychology — She uses EFT Tapping, guided introspection, positive psychology, IFS and somatic informed tools, guided meditations, and other tools to help people connect with their essential selves — the versions of them that are true, fully expressed, and uncoupled from expectations and patterns that don’t align to their authenticity.
She is a full time nomad and travels the world studying art, conducting workshops and trainings, and working with her coaching clients. In her previous life she was a designer and consultant for startups and large tech companies like Amazon, Disney, Microsoft, and Salesforce. She continues to use her skills in facilitation and design to help people design lifestyles and mindsets that feel joyful, fulfilling, and inspired.
Sample Itinerary
Sunday, Nov 2 — Arrival Day
Monday, Nov 3
Morning — Welcome brunch and getting to know each other!
Afternoon — True Self Workshop — Understanding yourself, your patterns, and your desires at a deeper level.
Evening — Wine tasting and tapas dinner at the house, jacuzzi time or free time and sleep!
Tuesday, Nov 4
Morning — Breakfast then Encaustic Art workshop — Intro to techniques and playing with the medium
Afternoon — We take a break for lunch then go into the second half of the workshop — Art as a Path to Knowing
Dinner — Time to rest then group dinner out to a local Spanish restaurant
Wednesday, Nov 5
Morning — Life Design Workshop Pt 1: The Vision— In depth workshop where we reimagine life based around a more fully expressed fully authentic version of self.
Afternoon — Life Design Workshop Pt 2: Getting Unstuck — After a lunch break, we dive into what keeps us stuck and learn powerful tools to navigate fear, freeze state, external factors, and mindset blocks that keep us stuck.
Evening — Time for rest / free time, then group Tapas and Flamanco show in the evening.
Thursday, Nov 6
Morning — Today we have a slow morning with free time and brunch at the house or option to have brunch in town. Time to integrate yesterday’s workshops and continue to reflect and talk with the group.
Afternoon — We do a group excursion to an art museum and to walk along the beach at sunset.
Evening — We continue with a nice dinner at a beautiful restaurant with a view. Jacuzzi relax time afterwards.
Friday, Nov 7
Morning — Breakfast at the house then a full day of Encaustic Painting — The Art of Play — How to release perfectionism and rediscover the energy of play.
Afternoon — Your Creative Voice — After lunch we continue with art and discovering our creative voice finalizing our pieces from the week.
Evening — Final group dinner and goodbye sharing circle!
Saturday, Nov 8 — Departure day
