They don't need more of you. They need you back.
Elevare is a new luxury lifestyle experience. The place, the food, the mornings, the people at the table, and everything taken off you before you arrive.
It runs across travel, gatherings, and coaching, built for women who are already capable and have run out of room. Nothing here is designed to fix you or improve you. It gives back the space you have been giving away, and then it stays useful long after the flight home.
Extraordinary travel and real coaching, built as one thing.
To return is not to arrive somewhere new. It is to come back. To what is true, to what you already know, to the parts of you that did not change while everything else did.
RETURN is built entirely around that, but it does not begin in Portugal... It starts before you fly.
In the weeks beforehand, you and Lauren begin the work, so you arrive ready rather than with questions. Portugal is the five days in the middle. Then you go home, and ninety days of private coaching turn what happened there into how you actually live.
Quinta Filippa sits inland from the Algarve coast. A restored farmhouse held by gardens, olive trees, and a stillness that starts at the gate. Rooms open onto the terrace, the pool below the treeline. Surroundings that settle you before anyone asks why you came.
Mornings begin slowly, in the body before the mind. Movement here is not a workout to get through, it is the way the day is opened. Outdoors when the weather allows, unhurried, suited to any level. By the fifth morning it stops being something you decide and becomes something you do.
Every meal handled, every day. Grown nearby, cooked the same day, eaten slowly under the trees. Food this good keeps people at the table, which is where the rest of it happens. Eight women who carry everything, putting it down at the same time. Conversations with depth. Ideas that turn into partnerships.
Before Portugal, we make room, so you arrive with reflection already underway. In Portugal, the sessions follow the Elevare Method: Be, Name, Choose, Rise. Arriving without performing. Saying the thing you have not said out loud. Choosing what comes next rather than waiting to feel ready for it. Lauren walks you through how she runs her own weeks, what she protects, and what she has stopped doing. Then you go home with ninety days of private coaching. This is where you stop being the woman who handles everything and start being the one they've been missing.
Most trips give you photographs. This one gives you a reset, sleep you didn't have to earn, a table of women, and ninety days of coaching afterwards. The goal isn't to leave Portugal feeling different. It's to return home and live differently.
I left feeling encouraged, motivated and inspired to continue investing in myself and becoming the best version of who God has called me to be.
Full of responsibility. Full of people you love. Full of decisions, expectations, and the constant work of becoming whoever the next season needs you to be. You are good at it. That is part of the problem, because nobody checks on the person handling everything.
I have spent years designing travel for other people. In 2022 I turned another year older in Jamaica and invited friends. On the last morning one of them sat working out whether she could change her flight and stay another day. Not for the beach. For the way the days had been built.
I sat on it for three years. Then God told me it was time, and I had already spent long enough deciding.
To remember. To listen. To reconnect with God, with yourself, and with what the noise has covered.
You will not leave Portugal as a different woman. You will leave as the one your family has been missing.
Nobody here arrives at the wrong level. Destiny teaches at four studios across southeast Louisiana every week, and she builds sessions that work whether you have practiced Pilates for years or never.
Quinta Filippa is a family home, named after Mike and Nikki's daughter rather than built as a venue. The bread oven at its heart once served the whole village, and it still bakes the bread you will eat.
There's something so incredibly powerful about being with women who are intentionally pouring into themselves
No. RETURN begins before you fly, with preparation so you arrive with room already made. Portugal is the middle of it. Then you have ninety days of private coaching with Lauren, six sixty-minute sessions, two a month, plus access to her between them. Five days can move something. Ninety days is what makes it hold.
No. There is no circle, no chanting, and nothing you have to hold hands through. It is five days of movement, real food, real conversation, and work on what you are building next.
Only what you choose to. The sessions are working sessions, not confessionals. Nothing you would rather keep is going to be drawn out of you.
No. Take the call, check on your kids, deal with the thing only you can deal with. Nobody is confiscating anything.
Faith is the foundation of Elevare and it is spoken about plainly rather than run underneath as a theme. You do not have to arrive certain. You should arrive willing.
Eight to ten women who run things and are mostly in the middle of something. Capable, private, and unlikely to need the load explained to them.
Five days, all accommodation, all meals, all movement, all sessions, and transfers, plus ninety days of private coaching with Lauren when you get home. The only thing not included is your flight. You are not paying for a week away, you are paying for the season that follows it. The number is shared when you request an invitation.
Lauren reads every request herself and replies personally. If it is not the right season for you, she will say so.
