The RED Retreat: Gathering of Wild Women

𝑫𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒌𝒆 & 𝑫𝒓𝒖𝒎 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒆. 𝑾𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒆 𝑹𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓. 𝑻𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝑪𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑨𝑳𝑰𝑽𝑬 𝒊𝒏 𝑩𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝑩𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑳𝑶𝑽𝑬 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒍𝒖𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒕 𝑬𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑯 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒎 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒔𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒎 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏. 𝑼𝒏𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒔𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒔 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝑷𝑳𝑼𝑮 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝑯𝑬𝑹 - 𝒓𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 & 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒔! ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ ⭕ 𝑮𝑨𝑻𝑯𝑬𝑹𝑰𝑵𝑮: Opening: 26 October 2023 Closing: 1 November 2023 ⭕ 𝑰𝑵𝑽𝑬𝑺𝑻𝑴𝑬𝑵𝑻 𝑰𝑵 𝒀𝑶𝑼𝑹𝑺𝑬𝑳𝑭: Full Price: R8100 Early Bird: R7500 (until 31 March 2023) ⭕ 𝑩𝑶𝑶𝑲𝑰𝑵𝑮𝑺 & 𝑰𝑵𝑸𝑼𝑰𝑹𝑰𝑬𝑺: Email: [email protected] WhatsApp: +27 83 679 1297 ⭕ 𝑹𝑬𝑨𝑫 𝑴𝑶𝑹𝑬 𝑯𝑬𝑹𝑬: https://theredretreat.com/ *Includes camping fees, wholesome vegetarian meals, & all facilitation. (Please inquire about a special rate should you wish to participate and are unable to afford the full price, or a family rate for grandmothers, mothers, daughters, aunts & sisters) * Please ensure you are able to stay FOR THE ENTIRE DURATION of the retreat as we need to begin and end our journey TOGETHER. (No exceptions!) * Should we cancel the RED Retreat for any reason, your payment will be refunded to you in full. * Please take note that if you cancel your participation for any reason, 50% of your payment will be retained as a non-refundable deposit and donated to the Diversity Fund. If you cancel and you have paid in full, then 50% will be refunded to you. * Cancellation is not possible after 30 September. * We understand our children are precious, but please take note we're only able to welcome mothers with small babies (non-crawlers) under 1 year in age. No dogs or other pets are permitted. ⭕ 𝑪𝑨𝑴𝑷𝑰𝑵𝑮: Bring your own tent (arrive any time from 15h00 onwards to set up your tent - please do not arrive any earlier than 15h00) ⭕ 𝑪𝑨𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑰𝑵𝑮: Nurturing, nourishing, wholesome vegetarian food cooked on the fire. (3 abundantly scrumptious meals lovingly prepared each day) ⭕ 𝑫𝑰𝑹𝑬𝑪𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵𝑺: The drive to ‘Up The Creek Farm' takes approximately 3hrs from Cape Town, so please give yourself plenty of traveling time to arrive at the latest by 17h00. (We will be starting promptly at 18h00.) Directions from Cape Town: * Take the N2 towards Swellendam. * Approximately 10 km before Swellendam, turn right onto a dirt road at the sign that says Malgas/Infanta. * After 2-3 km, take the left turn to Napkysmond. Drive for approximately 15km until you see the sign ‘Up the Creek’ on the LHS. * There is a big green tank and an old ox wagon. * Turn left here and drive down the hill and through the Up the Creek camp down to the river. * Follow the track to the left alongside the river for a few 100m until you reach a little stone house. * Park here to offload your tent etc. and you will be directed to park you car at an allocated parking spot up the hill, where your car will remain for the duration of The RED Retreat. ⭕ 𝑪𝑨𝑹𝑷𝑶𝑶𝑳𝑰𝑵𝑮: Please use the Facebook event to arrange lifts and carpooling. A "Lift Club" WhatsApp group will be created closer to the time. We encourage you to connect and share the ride... ⭕ 𝑾𝑬 𝑾𝑰𝑳𝑳 𝑩𝑬 𝑫𝑶𝑰𝑵𝑮: ➺ BREATHWORK - Conscious Connected Continuous Circular Energy Breathing. Yum! Click here to watch Breathwork Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28IlnUtcUWk ➺ SKYDANCING - A mystical Tantric practice embracing the natural Flow in the body as a tool for realization. Co-penetrating Physical and Spiritual, Masculine and Feminine, Form and Formless, in what appears to be the dance of Existence vibrating the body of Woman and expressing as BLISS. Click here to watch Skydancing Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN1hsFCqTs8&t=1s ➺ MOVEMENT - BlissDance & Ecstatic Elemental Shamanic Dances re-connecting us to all that we are. A finely curated ecstatic dance journey to support the rising up of the deep feminine as an embodied reality for our times; a nourishing, multi-nuanced soundscape honouring the 100,000 faces of the goddess for all beings: https://soundcloud.com/.../ecstatic-dance-rise-up-deep... ➺ CONNECTING WITH THE ELEMENTS: Fire, and rain, and air, and live loam are our tools to discover more of ourselves, and from which we create natural art forms ➺ SATSANGS - Together we will inquire into the True Nature of Freedom, Embodiment, Desire, Power, Pleasure and the Bliss that is our Birthright. ➺ SWEAT LODGE: for purification, prayer, gratitude & natural transformation. ➺ Silence, Talking Circles, Story-Telling, Singing, Dancing, Prayer, Ritual are the ways of the Nurturing Feminine. In complete privacy, we will eat, laugh, sleep, dance, cry, sing, howl, dream, shake, roar, celebrate and love together as one tribe of women awakening. ⭕ 𝒀𝑶𝑼𝑹 𝑮𝑼𝑰𝑫𝑬𝑺: ➺ VALENTINA LEO (a.k.a. MrsLove) An artist, a lover, a mother and a fool. A spiritual maverick, teacher of sacredness and an explorer of the Tantric realms for over 15 years. Valentina is a Dakini (embodied teacher/catalyst) and a devoted student of the traditional Tantric lineage of Kashmir Shivaism that recognise the body as vibration & space, and human as cosmic celebration. Valentina is known for her unique talent in creating safe and sacred spaces where seekers of all ages may claim their own spiritual eroticism. With grace, charm and humour, she has guided and supported many men and women on their sacred journey towards themselves. www.valentinaleo.org www.fascinatingwonderment.com www.facebook.com/fascinatingwonderment/ ➺ KALI SATYAGRAHA WIDD (a.k.a Dakini Kali) Kali is a highly skilled, deeply loved & widely respected facilitator & practitioner of Deeper Dancing, BlissDance, Cuddle Parties™, CosmoForm Meditation, & Advait Tantra, whilst also being renowned for the sacred space she holds for the support of women's spiritual awakening through Red Tents (AfrikaBurn, SpiritFest, Learning Man, Retreat Yourself). She's also a popular world-music DJ. Kali counts herself blessed to have been trained & inspired by some of the world's leading-edge teachers in embodied awareness, as well as local traditional healers, & devotes her life to the revolution of love that's needed to reinvent the world anew. More about Kali https://www.facebook.com/embodiedconsciousness/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/DeeperBlissDance/ ➺ RHIANNE VAN DER LINDE An avid alchemist and a dedicated dreamer with a depth of knowledge and experience of transforming the mundane into the magical. Her personal explorations have led her into working with dreams, as a companion to those busy with their journey of dying, exploring the breath as a thread connecting us directly to source & processing and ritual with groups in wild nature. Truth as emptiness and Truth as embodiment – as consciousness expressing in form, in beautiful bodies of love…it is this language of the heart, this feminine language of embodiment & feeling that Rhianne is most interested in learning and sharing. More about Rhianne at www.shaktishiva.academy/faculty www.facebook.com/shaktishivaacademy ➺ LOLLA ODENDAAL Lolla is a Wilderness Guide who is inspired by her witnessing the simplicity with which nature reveals our true selves. She started her journey as a Nature Conservationist, River Guide, and Mountain Guide, and has been steered on a path deeper into the mysteries of the inter-connectedness of our Human-Nature. Lolla guides Vision Quests for women, and leads Sweat Lodges. Her exploration of sacred landscapes focuses on revealing their relevance to modern lives. More about Lolla at www.naturewithin.co.za