About TrustGaia
TrustGaia is a nature-led wellness sanctuary on Costa Tropical, Southern Spain. It began as one person's return home and grew, slowly, into a place that others come home to.
The story
In 2017, Patrick travelled through Peru. What began as a journey became a deep personal transformation — the kind that quietly rearranges a life.
The experience inspired a new path. He returned with a new perspective and a clear vision: to create a place where others could experience the same kind of transformation that had changed his own.
He deepened his understanding of retreat facilitation while continuing to study traditional Amazonian plant medicine and indigenous healing traditions. In 2018, he founded TrustGaia, initially as a natural healthcare webshop.
By 2020, TrustGaia had grown beyond products, and Patrick began facilitating retreats at partner venues across the Málaga province.
In 2022, he travelled back to the Peruvian Amazon to continue his studies, this time living and learning with the Shipibo Tribe in the rainforest. Returning to Spain, he carried those experiences with him as life unfolded. It then led him, somewhat unexpectedly, to Costa Tropical, where he discovered a place that immediately felt like home — subtropical, peaceful and deeply connected to nature.
It became the foundation for Finca TrustGaia, which opened its doors in 2025 as the home of TrustGaia Retreats. Set on a hillside overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, it is home to an authentic Mongolian yurt, a yoga platform, eco toilets, a nature shower and peaceful chillout areas, with tipis and geodesic domes soon to follow.
Today, TrustGaia Retreats is Patrick, Soledad and a small circle of hands who care. Together, they continue to create a space where people can slow down, reconnect and remember what truly matters.
The land keeps teaching us how to be here.
Milestones
2017
Patrick's transformative journey through Peru.
2018
TrustGaia is founded, after years of study and personal reconnection.
2020
First retreats in Spain, at partner venues mostly in the Málaga province.
2022
Patrick returns to the Peruvian Amazon to study with the Shipibo Tribe.
2025
Finca TrustGaia opens as the home of TrustGaia Retreats on Costa Tropical.
What we care about
Honest reconnection
Not a spectacle. The real thing, at your pace.
Nature first
The land, the seasons, the sea — they lead. We follow.
Small and held
We keep groups small so no one gets lost.
Real food, real hands
Everything you eat and touch here was chosen or made by someone who cared.
The place
Costa Tropical sits in the province of Granada, between Sierra Nevada and the Mediterranean, in Southern Spain — subtropical, warm, quiet, where mangos, avocados and cherimoyas grow. Only a few kilometres from the sea, the yurt sits on a tropical hillside, with a view.
What's next
We're building slowly. Tipis and geodesic domes are joining the yurt. More voices — facilitators, cooks, healers — are joining the circle. Our vision is a living sanctuary where people from every corner can come, breathe, remember who they are, and carry that home. Let's reconnect… with each other.