Vila Sol · Vilamoura · Algarve
built for people who show up.
Spaces is a small, intentional studio in Vila Sol, a quieter corner of Vilamoura. We didn't choose a high-traffic location. We chose the right one. A place with easy parking where people actually live, pause, and come back.
Two floors. One idea: that movement, beauty, and community belong under the same roof.
How it started
A love affair
with flowers.
A life in movement.
It started in Chicago — a design workshop, a chance encounter with floristry, and a founder who didn't know yet that it would define the next 25 years. What followed was a journey through Hawaii, London, Milan, Montecarlo, Amsterdam, learning the craft, building something, and quietly forming a philosophy about what wellness really means.
Spaces is where that journey lands. Concrete floors. Green tiles. Megaformers upstairs. Flowers and coffee downstairs. Everything Marco has learned about movement, resilience, and beauty - made physical, made local, made yours.
FOUNDER · INSTRUCTOR · FLORIST
Marco.
Marco didn't set out to build a studio. He set out to understand what makes people feel well and followed that question for over two decades, across continents and disciplines.
It began with flowers in Chicago, almost by accident. Then came Hawaii, London, Milan, learning the craft, building a loyal following, discovering that arranging flowers and training a body share the same core: presence, patience, attention to detail.
In parallel, Marco built Awaken Learning, a wellness and corporate training company that has delivered mindfulness, resilience, and postural awareness programs to over one million people in 35 countries. That experience sharpened something: the conviction that wellbeing isn't a product. It's a practice.
At Spaces, Marco teaches Lagree, pilates reformer, and yoga reformer the same way he approaches a flower arrangement: slowly, deliberately, with no shortcuts. He is CIMSPA registered and has spent particular focus on back care, pain management, and the relationship between breath and performance.
"Movement and beauty aren't separate things. They never were."
lagree certified
Megaformer method
pilates instructor
Reformer and mat
Yoga instructor
Registered since 2017
CIMSPA
Chartered Institute for Sport and Physical Activity Member
What we stand for
Three things we don't compromise on.
01
Small by design
Classes are capped intentionally. You are not a number here. Your instructor knows your history, and your goals.
02
Honest movement
We don't sell transformation. We teach method. The results come from showing up, consistently and with intention.
03
Real community
The flowers, the coffee, the morning classes, all part of the same idea. A space you want to be in, not just pass through.
The founders
Marco and Ana's families met because their children attended the same school. What started as a nod of recognition grew into something that felt inevitable, the kind of friendship that doesn't need to be built because it's already there.
When Marco invited Ana to join Spaces, it wasn't a business decision. It was a natural extension of something that had already been forming. Two people with entirely different backgrounds, entirely different skills and a shared instinct for what this place should feel like.
It started at the school gate.
"We didn't plan to build this together. But looking back, it couldn't have happened any other way."
Ana
CO-FOUNDER
Portuguese by nature, global by heart.
Ana was born and raised in Portugal, and shaped by years spent building her career across Australia and Singapore. Living abroad gave her perspective; returning home gave it meaning. Four years ago, she came back to Portugal and chose to live in the Algarve.
With a background in marketing, branding and entrepreneurship, she builds with both strategy and instinct; focused on people, meaning, and the emotional detail that turns ideas into experiences.
At Spaces, Ana brings together global perspective and grounded intention. Alongside Marco, she is creating a place defined by clarity, warmth, and belonging. An international community designed to feel like home.
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