This retreat is not a written application. I hold a personal consultation and vetting call with every person before confirming a place — to feel into fit, readiness, and what your nervous system and your blood are actually asking for.
Commission Awaken to join you on a journey you have already planned and transform four days of that trip into a private, personalised retreat experience designed around what you are ready to understand, explore and change.
You do not have to choose between travelling and doing deeper work. If you already have a destination, private residence, villa, lodge or other setting in mind, Awaken can join you there and design a five-day transformational experience around your life, your questions and what you are ready to explore.
Perhaps the trip is already booked.
You know where you are going. You may already have your accommodation, flights and plans in place. What you may not have planned is what the time away could make possible for you.
Instead of simply stepping away from your ordinary environment, you can commission Awaken to join you for four days and create a private retreat experience within the journey you have already chosen.
The destination does not have to change.
The intention of the journey does.
This is not a packaged retreat added onto your holiday.
It is a privately commissioned experience designed around the journey you already have.
Your destination might be a private residence, family estate, luxury villa, boutique hotel, safari lodge, secluded natural setting or another location that has personal significance to you.
Awaken works with the environment available and designs the transformational architecture around you.
The setting becomes part of the work rather than simply somewhere you happen to stay.
There is no predetermined programme that you are expected to fit yourself into.
Before the experience begins, we establish what is bringing you to the work, what you want to understand and what you are currently experiencing.
From there, Awaken designs the five-day architecture around you.
The work may involve periods of conversation, observation, nature, movement, reflection, embodied practices, spiritual inquiry, ancestral exploration, Sacred Plant Intelligence or other experiential approaches where they form part of the agreed architecture.
The method follows the work.
You do not arrive with a checklist of activities.
You arrive with yourself.
Your experience begins before Awaken joins you at your destination.
Preparation creates the foundation for the four days ahead, giving you space to clarify what you are bringing into the experience, begin observing yourself and identify what needs your attention.
This means you do not spend the first day simply trying to understand why you came.
You arrive already engaged with the process.
The four days create a dedicated period in which the ordinary pace of life can be interrupted and deeper attention can become possible.
Rather than following a rigid itinerary, the architecture allows the work to unfold according to what becomes visible.
Some days may involve more conversation and inquiry.
Others may require more space, nature, embodiment, reflection or somatic or experiential work.
The structure provides containment.
Attunement determines how we work within it.
When the four days are complete, the experience does not simply end when Awaken leaves.
Integration creates space to understand what emerged, connect new understanding to your everyday life and begin translating what you discovered into how you live.
The integration architecture is designed as part of the engagement rather than treated as an afterthought.
Extended integration support can also be commissioned where a longer period of support is appropriate to the journey.
Almost anywhere that provides the privacy, safety and practical conditions required for the work.
This may include:
The location is yours.
Awaken brings the transformational architecture.
Awaken is not selling you a travel package or taking over the logistics of your holiday.
You have already chosen the destination and arranged your journey.
You are commissioning Awaken to bring its methodology, expertise and facilitation into that environment for the agreed period.
The distinction matters:
You provide the journey and environment.
Awaken designs and facilitates the transformational experience within it.
Because this is an external commission, the commissioning client is responsible for the infrastructure required to host the experience, including:
The Awaken professional fee is separate from these costs.
Where an Awaken assistant is required, the client also covers the assistant’s travel, visa, accommodation and food costs, together with the assistant’s applicable booking/professional fee.
All requirements are agreed before the engagement is confirmed.
This experience may suit you if:
You do not need to arrive knowing exactly what the four days need to contain.
You need to know that something in your life deserves your attention.
Awaken does not need to become the destination for the work to happen.
Sometimes the most meaningful place to undertake a transformational process is somewhere you have already chosen to go.
The value is not simply in going somewhere different.
It is in using the space you have created to understand yourself differently.
This is a commissioned private experience, so the investment is determined by the agreed architecture rather than presented as the standard Sanctuary retreat price.
The quotation reflects the Awaken professional fee and the scope of the five-day engagement.
Travel, visa, accommodation, food and other agreed external costs are separate and are the responsibility of the commissioning client.
Begin with an enquiry and we will establish what the experience requires.
Tell us about the trip you already have planned, where you are going, when you will be there and what you would like the four days to make possible.
We will determine whether the environment and circumstances are suitable and begin designing the experience from there.
You already have the journey.
Now decide what you want the journey to do.
Retreat Structure
5-day online prep → In-person immersion → 1-day online integration.
Accommodation
Included for the in-person portion. Details confirmed at booking.
Food & Nourishment
All meals included during the in-person immersion, prepared in support of the medicine ceremony and nervous system regulation.
How to Book
Message us on WhatsApp to schedule your consultation and vetting call: wa.me/27677940735. This call determines fit and readiness — there is no written application.
Getting There
Airport transfer included in investment for international clients, details confirmed at booking.
Visa Information
Country-specific — confirmed during your consultation call.
What to Bring
Comfortable clothing for movement and ceremony, journal, any ceremony items requested during prep. Full packing guidance sent after booking confirmation.
Travel Insurance
Recommended for all clients travelling to South Africa.
Cancellation Policy
See Cancellation Policy above.
Readiness Criteria
Assessed personally during your consultation and vetting call — prior healing work, current capacity, and medicine readiness all considered.
Extra Night Before Your Retreat
Arrive a day early and settle into the land before the work begins. An extra night gives your nervous system time to decompress from travel and arrive — not just physically, but fully. Accommodation and meals included.
Extra Night After Your Retreat
Stay one more night before re-entering ordinary life. Use it to rest, reflect, and let the integration begin before the noise of the world comes back in. Accommodation and meals included.
Somatic Massage
A full-body somatic massage — timed to support either your preparation or your integration, depending on where you are in the arc. Not a relaxation massage. A body-based session designed to work with what the medicine and the ceremony have already opened, releasing what remains held in the tissue. Confirm availability and investment during your consultation and vetting call.
Guided Tour of Hartbeespoort
A guided experience of the Hartbeespoort area — the dam, the mountains, the surrounding landscape. A grounded way to close the retreat arc or ease the transition before you leave. Confirm availability during your consultation and vetting call.
Extended Integration
For those who want more than one day of supported integration after the in-person immersion. Additional integration days are facilitated online and designed around what specifically emerged during your ceremony. Investment and scope confirmed during your consultation and vetting call.
