a beautiful life
Abella Vita · A Beautiful Life
Feel as alive
as the life
you've built.
Luxury retreats for women who've built a beautiful life and are ready to be fully present for it.
Maybe your life looks exactly the way you hoped it would.
And maybe you're quietly wondering why it doesn't feel the way you thought it would.
The quiet truth
From the outside, your life looks beautiful.
Successful on paper. Full calendar, good life, everyone taken care of.
And somewhere in there, fine started to feel like a beautiful room with no windows. So much of you goes to holding it all together that simply being present in your own life has become harder to find.
What we believe
Everyone dies.
Almost no one truly lives.
Success was never meant to cost you the life you were building it for.
Why Abella Vita
Kristina has sat with women at the end of their lives. What they taught her about dying became what she teaches women about living.
That is Abella Vita.
Learning to be fully here for your life, while there is still so much of it left to live.
Meet Kristina
From the outside, I had the life every woman is told to want.
And somewhere along the way, I disappeared inside it. I know what it is to build something beautiful and slowly lose touch with yourself in the middle of it.
Then one morning, my body brought me to my knees. I was certain it was my heart. It wasn't my heart. It was my life, asking me to wake up.
But my deepest understanding of living didn't come from that morning. It came from sitting with the dying. Years before, I had become a death doula. Beside women at the end of their lives, I heard the same thing, again and again: not one of them wished they had achieved more. They wished they had been more present.
So I built the retreat I wish every one of them had taken in time.
I came back to living, and I created Abella Vita so other women could too, while there is still so much life left to live.
Founder of Abella Vita · death doula · 25 years in movement, breath & bodywork · her signature retreat, led five times
Kristina
The Beautiful Life Method
Your cracks are not flaws. They are where the gold goes.
There is a Japanese art called Kintsugi. When something treasured breaks, it is not hidden or thrown away. It is mended with gold, and the golden seams make it more beautiful than it was whole.
You don't need a new life. The gold belongs in the life you've already built.
Three cracks, three golds
The pattern, and what makes it beautiful.
For the woman ready to feel more of the life happening around her
Presence
Feeling fully inside your own life instead of watching it through glass.
For the woman everyone else counts on
Belonging
Being held, for once, instead of always doing the holding.
For the woman ready for a life that feels as good as it looks
Beauty
Letting beauty become something you experience, receive, and fully enjoy.
Why a retreat
Your life doesn't need to change. You need enough space from everything you hold together to hear yourself again.
For a few unhurried days, you set the holding down. Movement helps you feel present again. Stillness makes room. Connection lets you receive instead of give. Beauty wakes your senses.
And then Kristina shows you how to carry that presence into your life.
The retreat
The days that change all the ones after.
Breakfasts that turn into conversations you'll still think about a year later.
Morning movement that wakes you up from the inside out.
Long tables where strangers become lifelong friends.
Quiet afternoons with nowhere to prove yourself.
Evenings where you remember what it feels like to simply be.
For once, you are not the one making everything happen. Someone else plans. Someone else holds the space. You arrive, and you are held.
You don't leave with memories.
You leave with yourself.
The women who came alive
In their own words.
I came back feeling like I'd had a year off. I finally remembered who I was underneath everything I was carrying.
My cup is overflowing. I didn't know I was allowed to feel this good in my own life again.
It was life-changing. I came home present, and everyone around me could feel the difference.
How it works
Three simple steps.
Begin with the free 5-Minute Micro-Retreat
Five quiet minutes in Kristina's voice. Your first taste of feeling alive again, today.
Choose your retreat
A local gathering, a signature retreat in Portugal or Costa Rica, or a private intensive, whichever your life is asking for.
Return and live on purpose
Come back present, awake, and fully here, then carry it into every day that follows.
Imagine
Feeling fully alive again.
Waking up without the weight in your chest. Laughing more easily. Present with the people you love. The first sip of coffee, actually tasted. The drive home, and you notice the light. Clear in your work. Softer with yourself. A life you're living, not just managing.
This life. Fully felt.
The years ahead
There is so much life left to live.
Another birthday. Another summer. Another dinner around the table. Another place you have always wanted to see.
Life is asking you to be here for it.
The Beautiful Life Retreat
A retreat that changes the way you experience every day that follows. A handful of women, a few unhurried days in Portugal, Costa Rica, and beyond. Movement, the long table, stillness in the garden, and the practices that help you feel fully present in your life, led by the woman who lives them.
Every offering is a retreat, from five free minutes to a private week, fully looked after.
Apply for a Retreat
Start here · free
Five minutes to feel alive again.
A free guided pause in Kristina's voice. Five minutes to drop in, breathe, and remember what it feels like to be fully awake in your own life. This is where it begins.
Free
The invitation
Come and live a beautiful life.
Abella Vita. A beautiful life, fully lived.