Infinite Roots

Seasoned Wisdom | A Nature-Led Immersion in the Azores

Seasoned Wisdom

A Nature-Led Immersion in the Azores

São Miguel Island | June 19th - 24th, 2026 | 5 Days, 4 Nights

You've Spent Decades Living for Everyone Else.
What If This Season Is Finally Yours?

Post-menopause, something shifts. The performance ends. The expectations quiet. And suddenly, you're face to face with a question you've been avoiding:

Who am I now that I'm done being who everyone needed me to be?

You thought this chapter would bring clarity. Instead, you're exhausted from decades of showing up, pushing through, and dimming yourself to fit. You've earned your rest, your truth, your power—but somewhere along the way, you lost connection to what actually matters to you.

The noise of obligation is finally fading. But in its place? An unsettling quiet. A restlessness. A hunger for something real—something that doesn't require you to explain, perform, or prove anything.

You're done with boot camps. Done with "fixing" yourself. Done with programs that promise transformation but leave you more depleted than when you started.

What you need isn't another course or framework. You need space. Time to breathe without agenda. Permission to listen to the one voice that's been drowned out for decades: your own.

There's a Different Way to Find Your Way Back

Throughout the past 40 years, I’ve guided people through nature-led experiences that don’t force, fix, or demand performance. I’m Maria Verdicchio—a certified Forest Therapy Guide and founder of Infinite Roots—and my work lives at the intersection of nature, life transitions, and grounded redesign.

Post-menopause is the season you realize you can’t keep living on adrenaline, obligation, and other people’s urgency. This nature immersion is built for this exact season. I bring decades of facilitation, guiding, a calm, clear structure, and my ROOTS System to help you step out of “holding it all together” and back into what’s true—so you leave grounded, refreshed, and clear about what comes next.

I've learned this truth: nature doesn't ask you to be anything other than what you are.

I've designed Seasoned Wisdom as a pilgrimage to your earned wisdom. Not to reinvent you. To return you to yourself - steady, clear, and quietly powerful.

Here's Your Path Back to Yourself

The Plan Is Simple:

Step 1: Leave the Performance Behind

You'll arrive in the volcanic heart of São Miguel and immediately cross the threshold from "everyday life" into something different. No pressure to be "on."

Step 2: Let Nature Do the Heavy Lifting

Through Forest Bathing, Nature Journaling, and the elemental power of volcanic earth and mineral waters, you'll move at the pace of your body, not the clock.

Step 3: Remember Who You Actually Are

Leave with practical nature-led strategies, a calmer nervous system, and the quiet confidence that comes from finally listening to yourself.

Your Guided Five-Day Journey

We frame the week as the path every wise woman walks: Listening, Rooting, Releasing, Remembering, and Returning.

Day 1

The Call to Enter the Wild

Arrive and step across the threshold. Tea ceremony. Opening circle. The quiet thread that holds us: "I carry the wisdom of my seasons."

The Initiate

Day 2

Rooting into the Wild Heart

Nature Journaling, Hot Springs soaking and Forest Bathing in botanic gardens. The question: What am I rooted in?

The Seeker

Day 3

Following Nature's Guidance

We go where water flows to waterfalls, lagoons or the sea. Release old stories. Surrender to the current. Mineral springs soak under stars.

The Pilgrim

Day 4

Rewilding & Renewal

Your "Queen's Council" moment. Forest Bathing and Thermal bath soaks. Celebration dinner.

The Sovereign Woman

Day 5

Integration & the Way Forward

Morning farewell ritual. Harvest the seeds of the week.

The Wise One

Your Sanctuary: Where the Island Breathes Beneath Your Feet

Terra Nostra Garden Hotel isn't just accommodation—it's part of the medicine.

Nestled in Furnas Valley, you're surrounded by centuries-old botanical gardens, volcanic earth, and mineral-rich hot springs. As my guest, you have 24-hour private access to the famous iron-rich thermal pool. You'll float in healing volcanic waters under the moon, soaking in silence.

Nature does half the work here. The land holds you. The geothermal energy reminds you that you, too, are powerful beneath the surface.

What Happens When You Say Yes

Space to think without interruption

And time to feel what's true again

A calmer nervous system and clearer inner compass

Reconnect with your body's wisdom and inner guidance

A way of living that fits the woman you are now

Not the version built for everyone else

Practical nature-led strategies

Tools you can keep using when you get home

A small group where you don't have to explain yourself

Just 10 women navigating their "second spring"

You'll return home grounded, refreshed, and clear on what matters. Your "earned wisdom" doesn't evaporate the moment you step back into regular life.

What Happens If You Don't

Here's what doesn't change if you keep waiting:

The restlessness. The sense that you're living someone else's blueprint. The exhaustion from pretending you have it all figured out. The feeling that this chapter- your chapter - is slipping by while you're still playing roles that no longer fit.

You'll look back in five years and wonder why you didn't give yourself permission when you had the chance.

This isn't about urgency. It's about honoring the woman you've become.