RETREATS
When the question is what comes next.
DATES
4 days
Max 8 guests
Cederberg
Plant-based
THE PRACTICE
Years of being the reliable one settle somewhere, and it isn't the mind. This is where you turn back toward them, slowly enough that something can give.
THE turn
Kinder to yourself
You are almost certainly harder on yourself than you would ever be on a friend. If a friend told you she was exhausted, you wouldn’t tell her to try harder. You’d tell her to rest. You’d mean it. Self-compassion is just turning that same voice toward yourself. It sounds soft. It isn’t. It’s the harder thing, and most of us have had very little practice at it. Nobody teaches it here in a workshop. It happens in smaller ways. In how the days are set up so nothing is demanded of you. In the walking with nowhere to get. In the way the other women listen to you and you listen to yourself.
the walk
Medicine walk
THE APPROACH
We get unmade breath by breath, moment by moment.
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For most of history, women did not do it alone. They raised children, tended the sick, prepared the food, marked the births and the deaths in each other’s company, and that company was where the knowledge lived and got passed on. We have mostly stopped living this way. For four days, we don’t.
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Fire warms and it burns, it draws people close and it holds the dark back. Fire represents raw, untamed power, in which we will tap by making the fire together every night.
WHAT A DAY LOOKS LIKE
Awake in the wild
MORNING
AFTERNOON
EVENING
YOUR GUIDE
SOMATIC PRACTITIONER · MEDITATION TEACHER · FOUNDER
“There is a life in you that exists beneath everything you have learned to be. Before the usefulness. Before you learned to manage your softness and explain your strength. That life has not left you. It has been waiting, patient as old stone, faithful as land that knew you long before you knew yourself.”
I used to be the one who could handle everything. The one who didn’t need help and who had it together. I wasn’t in crisis, just quietly eroding. Running out of room for my own experience while I managed everyone else’s. I didn’t know how to stop. I didn’t know where stopping was allowed. What I needed was to put it down without being asked if I was okay and without having to explain myself.
Unmade is what I built from that. I lead this retreat because I have needed it myself, and because years of somatic work and contemplative practice have shown me what becomes possible when women are finally given permission to be who they were always supposed to be.
WHAT GUESTS SAY
WHAT DOES IT COST
All prices include accommodation, all meals, all practices, and guided stargazing. No hidden charges. Never more than eight guests, often fewer.
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.
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