Mindful Meetups

Janine has always been drawn to the esoteric, to mysticism, mediumship, and the spaces where the seen and unseen seem to meet. Tarot is one of the ways she explores that world, not as a traditional tarot reader or fortune teller, but as a tool for reflection and self discovery. Over time, this fascination has found its way into her creative work through the design of her own tarot, numerology and house decks.

Here's what you can expect: It begins with a personal card reading. You pull a card. Janine sits with you and interprets it — not as fortune-telling, but as a mirror. So often, the message underneath is something we already knew and didn't let ourselves hear: rest without guilt, a pause you've been denying yourself, a kind of power you've been sitting on. We rarely give ourselves permission to go looking for that. This is an afternoon built around finally doing it.

Once your card is read, you don't just talk about it — you paint it. Whatever the reading stirred up becomes something on canvas, in your own hands, no art skill required. By the end, you're not walking away with notes or a nice memory — you're walking away with something physical you made for yourself, a reminder sitting on your wall of what you uncovered that afternoon.

It happens in a beautiful little cafe, tea included, on a slow Sunday afternoon. You'll leave having made friends over something real because that's just what happens when a room of women sit with honesty instead of small talk.
It isn't about becoming a different person by 4:30pm. It's time to remember who you already are underneath everything you've been carrying for everyone else.

ALL ART SUPPLIES INCLUDED PLUS THE CANVAS YOU TAKE HOME.

Natalia spends her days fine-tuning other people's voices - she works in branding and strategy, shaping how companies sound to the world. Somewhere in that, she lost track of her own.
She'd found it once, in Lisbon: a group that met month after month, the same faces plus a few new ones, over food and wine, talking about the things that actually matter. Not small talk - real conversation, built slowly, one theme at a time, until it became a kind of home.

She hasn't found that yet in Porto. So she's building it herself, and we at Mindful Meetups are excited to help her bring her ideas to life.

Stories Over Wine is a small, recurring conversation gathering - not a workshop, not a talk, not a lecture.

A friend heard the idea and called it "a book club without the book," and that's about right: no assigned reading, just the same instinct - that we understand ourselves better in the presence of other people's honesty.

12 people, one evening, one theme.
€20 gets you a glass of wine, some bites to share, and a seat at the table. Extra drinks are available at the bar.

No experts, no stage, no hierarchy of who speaks.
The format shifts each time - a dinner, a wine bar, someone's backyard - but the heart of it stays the same: real conversation, real connection, no performance.
This will be our pilot session, so let's open with the most personal theme to set the tone. In October, we discuss IDENTITY & SELF-WORTH.

How to pay: €20 via MB Way (to Melanie). We'll send you the payment details after you RSVP (pls msg us if you don't receive it). Your spot is confirmed once payment is received. Bringing someone? Add them as a +1 and send €20 each.

Do you listen to your podcasts on 1.5x speed? Rush to fill every gap in your day? Leave the yoga room before shavasana even ends?

Slowing down does not mean you're falling behind.

This October, we're taking a full day to actually prove it. The first Mindful Step retreat, at Scrambled Farm just outside Porto, is built around everything autumn is quietly asking of your body: to slow down, to breathe deeper, to lean into the change instead of fighting it.

You'll spend the morning with Sophie, a nutrition coach, learning why this season sits with your lungs and your gut, then we cook a nourishing seasonal meal together. A long, unhurried lunch followed by free time to explore the farm or disappear into its library.

We close the day with Turning Inward, a guided journaling session to help you leave a little lighter than you arrived.
And yes, there will be a few surprises to take home too.