Belinda Raitt

Sometimes I find it hard to explain who I am and what I do, and more importantly, how I can help you through the changes you are going through that led you to look for someone like me. There are so many websites and social media profiles all claiming the same thing, shouting loudly to get attention, wellness, yoga, self-help gurus, that it’s hard to get your voice heard through all of that. And I don’t want to be part of that - I’m a strong advocate of honesty, celebrating your individuality, being your authentic self - so part of me doesn’t want to join in the marketing game at all. But you wouldn’t have ended up reading this otherwise…

I am Belinda. I'm a firm believer in shaping your own life, ikigai, the healing power of nature, yoga, eating your greens, and being green. In 2018 I upped and left my life in the UK and came to Portugal and created a new one. And I can help you to do that too. If that’s what you’d like. During the process, I spent a lot of time in nature, a lot of time doing (and teaching) yoga, a lot of time meditating, and I (re)discovered who I am and who I was meant to be, what I wasn’t and how I wasn’t meant to be. And I can help you to work that out for yourself too.

My purpose is to help other people find their purpose, to make a difference to others so that collectively we can all make a difference for each other.

I'm a firm believer in shaping your own life, ikigai, the healing power of nature, yoga, eating your greens, and being green.

I have a Masters degree in Psychology and have been practising as a coach helping people through life and career changes for the last 15 years. During that time I began to realise that a common theme among my clients was that they felt a bit lost, or no longer knew who they were or what made them happy. My coaching became about helping them to find balance, to rediscover their ikigai. I've also been through my own difficult patches which led me to make big changes in my life in my early 40s. That's when I discovered the internal healing powers of yoga and nature, and what eventually led me to create Relaxscape, a place where people could retreat to nature and rediscover themselves.

I am also a Yoga Alliance certified Hatha and Vinyasa Flow yoga teacher. As a coach, my aim is to help my clients find a more holistic approach to their change journey. Yoga (and meditation and breathwork) to me is about wellbeing and I've found it to be of huge benefit to my mental and physical health. Combined with coaching, it's a great way to help you to find inner stillness during times of change and stress. And doing all this surrounded by nature, well, that's nirvana itself!


Since I’ve been living here in Portugal, I’ve been gradually rediscovering my creativity, finding my voice, finding myself, my medium, my frequency. I’ve started drawing, writing poetry and music again, even painting for the first time! Being able to spend time in nature, connecting with nature, working the land, breathing in the green, bathing in the forests and swimming in the river that flows expansively between the trees, combined with my newly-acquired passion for teaching yoga and meditation, has allowed me to step out of my head and into my body, allowed me to discover what my heart had been trying to tell me for a long time, and what I was busily advocating to clients – that for us to find what brings us joy in life, our ikigai, requires us to slow down, to retreat from the hectic, distracting, non -stop life we think we must live, and start to enjoy the moment. In 2022, I published my first volume of poems here in Portugal: "A Reconectar - Poemas da Natureza / Reconnecting - Poems from Nature" and have been steadily writing and creating ever since.