RETREATS
- MEANING
When the question is what comes next.
DATES
THE INVITATION
Most people arrive still producing. The work still gets done, the emails still get answered, the worry still holds from the outside. What has quietly disappeared is the felt sense of why any of it matters. That is a different problem from overwork, and it does not respond to a longer sleep. It is the problem of a relationship that has become one-directional, where you keep giving and the work has stopped giving anything back.
And the question here isn’t how to do more when you go back. It’s whether the architecture of your days still reflects the life you meant to be living.
THE WORK
Stop attending to the fruits of your actions. Start attending to the quality of your presence in them.
meaning
Marriage to Work
ATTENTION
Marriage to Self
You were going to get to it. After the next deadline, after the raise came through, after the house move settled and the youngest started school. It kept waiting, and it kept losing.
Work comes looking for you if you drop it. So does your family. Nobody comes looking on your behalf. So that is what gets dropped.
Most of the four days here is for that relationship. Breath, the body, long unstructured hours, real conversation. None of it is aimed at fixing you, because you are not broken, only unheard. It is aimed at making things quiet enough, and safe enough, that you can hear yourself again. Most of what you hear will be overdue.
THE APPROACH
Physiology first. Strategy is the easy part.
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WHAT A DAY LOOKS LIKE
Doing more of what matters
We could give you the timetable. The wake time, the sessions, the meals, every hour accounted for. But the need to know the shape of the day before you arrive is the very thing you came here to put down. There is a rhythm, and it holds you.
MORNING
AFTERNOON
EVENING
AT A GLANCE
We serve vegetarian / vegan food. Most of our produce comes from our gardens or from local farmers. The meals are served at the communal table. We do not serve coffee or alcohol, which is mostly about sleep. Mornings are cacao, rooibos infusions.
Dietary requirements are accommodated. Tell us when you book.
4 days
Thursday to Sunday
Cederberg
Western Cape
Plant-based
No Coffee · No alcohol
YOUR GUIDE
SOMATIC PRACTITIONER · MINDFULNESS TEACHER · FOUNDER
“Things to do are endless, like ripples on a stream. They end only when you drop them.”
Daria is a Somatic Experiencing® practitioner, trained at Somatic Experiencing International. She trained in breathwork with Dan Brule. Her contemplative practice runs underneath the sessions.
She holds a master’s degree in sociology. She spent twenty years in a marriage to corporate work: present, productive, and increasingly aware that she was giving herself away without anything coming back. That experience is not background. It is the curriculum.
Daria’s approach is structured around BARE: Breathwork, Awareness, Regulation, Embodiment. The sequence matters: you cannot think your way to embodiment. You have to arrive there through the body.
WHAT GUESTS SAY
WHAT DOES IT COST
All prices include accommodation, all meals, all practices, and guided stargazing. No hidden charges.
CANVAS AND TIMBER
Built from canvas and timber, which means the valley comes through the walls. Wind, water, first light. The simplest of the three, and the closest you can sleep to the land.
3 NIGHTS
Solo
R19,500
Double
R29,400
WOOD AND GLASS
Built from wood and glass, set between the rocks. Floor-to-ceiling windows put the valley in the room with you. The one most people picture when they imagine the place.
3 NIGHTS
Solo
R26,100
Double
R35,400
CEDERBERG ROCK
Built from Cederberg rock, set closest to the river. A separate bedroom, its own lounge, and a large outdoor space that is yours alone. The most private of the three.
3 NIGHTS
Solo
Double
A 50% deposit confirms your place. You can pay upfront or in instalments.
If you are not committed to making a reservation yet and have some questions, contact us here.