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.
Awaken Residency is a self-catering nature-based stay in a mountain-surrounded valley, offering space for slow living, remote work, reflection, exploration and self-directed restoration.
Come and live differently for a while.
There are times when you do not need another programme, another itinerary or another place designed to keep you occupied.
You simply need somewhere different to live for a while.
Awaken Residency offers access to a natural environment where you can slow down, create your own rhythm and spend time differently. You may come to rest, work, read, reflect, explore, create, reconnect with nature or simply have space to yourself.
There is no requirement to turn your stay into a healing experience.
Awaken Residency sits within a valley surrounded by mountains.
The property includes mature trees, open land, gardens, vegetable growing areas, medicinal plants, walking and riding trails, spaces for yoga and meditation, outdoor areas, natural quiet and a living landscape populated by birdlife, butterflies, vervet monkeys and nile monitor lizards associated with the river environment.
There are also opportunities to garden, gather firewood, sit around a fire and spend time outdoors. The environment is not simply the backdrop to your stay. It is part of what you are coming here to experience.
Residency is deliberately self-directed.
You may work remotely, rest, read, cook, garden, walk, meditate, practise yoga, explore the land, observe wildlife, gather around a fire, create, do very little or simply do nothing at all .
You decide what your stay becomes.
The Residency does not prescribe a programme or require participation in Awaken activities.
The accommodation is modest and functional.
The Residency is fully self-catering and includes access to a complete kitchen, allowing you to determine your own rhythm rather than following a managed hospitality programme. The emphasis is not luxury accommodation. It is the opportunity to inhabit a particular environment with greater independence, simplicity and space.
Living somewhere temporarily can change what you notice.
You may find yourself walking more. Spending more time outdoors. Cooking for yourself. Sitting quietly. Working without the usual interruptions. Paying attention to the landscape around you.
Nothing needs to be forced.
The value of the Residency lies partly in what becomes possible when your environment changes and you are given enough space to decide how you want to use it.
Your relationship with Awaken can remain simply residential. You can stay, live independently and leave.
Or, if you choose, you can commission an Awaken Experience during your stay. You may also explore other Awaken pathways separately.
These are distinct from the Residency itself. Participation in Awaken programming is optional.
Awaken Residency may be suited to people looking for:
A nature-based stay.
A slower way of living.
A temporary change of environment.
A place to work remotely.
Space for reflection.
A place for personal exploration.
Time to reconnect with nature.
A quiet environment for creative work.
Or simply somewhere to step outside the pace and structure of ordinary life.
You do not need to arrive with a problem to solve.
You simply need to value the possibility of living differently for a while.
Awaken Residency is an independent residential experience. It is not a shortened retreat, retreat overflow accommodation or a compulsory healing programme. You are not required to participate in an Awaken retreat, Experience or other programme during your stay. The place is available for you to inhabit in your own way.
Residency begins with an enquiry rather than an automatic accommodation booking. We want to understand who is coming, what you are looking for from the stay and whether the environment is a good fit for you. After your enquiry, you complete a Residency Questionnaire. Your responses allow us to consider alignment with the Sanctuary environment, the expectations of independent living and the nature of the property.
Once alignment is confirmed, your booking can be finalised and your stay arranged.
If you are looking for somewhere to step outside your usual environment and live differently for a while, this is where your stay begins.
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No. Residency is an independent nature-based residential experience. You are not required to participate in a retreat or healing programme.
No. Awaken Experiences can be commissioned separately, but participation is entirely optional.
Yes. The Residency includes access to a complete kitchen for independent living.
The accommodation is intentionally modest and functional. The environment and way of living are central to the experience rather than luxury hospitality.
You can work, rest, read, cook, garden, walk, ride, meditate, practise yoga, explore, spend time around a fire, connect with nature or simply enjoy the space.
Begin with an enquiry. You will then complete a Residency Questionnaire, followed by an alignment review before your booking is confirmed.
