ART OF HER RETREAT
WILD. CREATIVE. ALIVE.
Greater Kruger, South Africa · October 1–6, 2026
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Let the wild land of South Africa hold you while creativity leads you back to your aliveness.
Meet your wild.
Free your expression.
Create from soul.
You want space.
This is less an escape than a homecoming.
Not more to do or another place to be. Space.
Space where nobody needs you. Where the responsibilities of home stay home. Where your days are built around wonder, awe, and aliveness.
Space to write and make art in ways you never have. To express, play, move, and breathe like you haven't before. To be in your body. To be in nature. To want things again.
And here's what happens when a woman finally gets that kind of space. The patterns that have been keeping her safe begin to loosen. Unravel. And with each day, more of her comes into the light to be seen and celebrated.
Space for magic.
Space for miracles.
Space for you.
The wild is all around you.
Elephants roam nearby.
Stars stretch across the whole sky.
where we gather
Sashwa sits along the Olifants River, open to the wild of Greater Kruger. The lodge is elegant in the way only wild places are.
A riverfront yoga deck. A circular meditation room built for stillness. An infrared sauna. A pool overlooking the bush. And more beautiful corners than we'll know what to do with.
Plant-based, garden-to-table, and every plate arrives like a small work of art. Come hungry.
And I love that our time here gives something back.
Every retreat at Sashwa supports Koru Camp, bringing local children into the bush, many to see their first elephant.
SPACEHOLDER / Mama / ARTIST
Coach / CREATOR / Writer
LEADER / Healer / TEACHER
Caregiver / THERAPIST / Entrepreneur
You're the...
You're the one people come to for comfort, for advice, for vision.
You've been building, nurturing, supporting, and showing up.
Everyone gets a piece of you. This is where you get yourself back.
A retreat for the woman behind the work.
The art of her.
It's your turn to be held.
I see you.
the work
This is a creative retreat in the wild. Let me be specific.
We’ll move, breathe, explore the wild, make things with our hands, rest, play, and create space for whatever wants our attention. You don’t need to consider yourself creative, and you definitely don’t need to be “good at art.”
Daily Safari Drives & Wilderness Walks
Big Five territory, experienced guides, and a front-row seat to the river where animals come to drink at dawn. The wild as your daily teacher.
Paint, collage, ink, and words in one book, so the things you can't say out loud yet have somewhere true to land. No art experience needed. By day three, the pages start talking back.
Visual journaling
Over our six days, you'll create your own deck. Your images, your words, your knowing. You go home with something you made with your own hands that speaks in your voice, so the guidance you find in the wild keeps finding you at home.
Oracle card making
Woven through it all, so what you make on the page actually lands in your body and follows you home.
Hypnotherapy, somatic breathwork, yoga & circle work
Everything we do is intentional and invites you to get out of your head and come back into contact with what you already carry: your wild, your wisdom, and your creative expression.
—Marissa
"I didn't realize how much I needed the retreat until I got there. I left feeling lighter, stronger, and full of creative energy I hadn't felt in years."
Most retreats promise you'll find yourself. This one works differently. You're not searching for anything. You're coming back into contact with what you already carry: your wild, your wisdom, your creative power. We use art, nature, and subconscious work to bypass the part of you that controls, manages, and edits, so the truth can come through.
How it works
You cannot intellectualize a lion. You cannot manage a sunset. Being near something that answers to no one's schedule reminds your body what it feels like to just be.
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The Wild as
Your Mirror
You spend your life holding space. Here, you put it down. You're held here. By me, by the sisterhood, by the land. And something opens that couldn't open any other way.
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Being Held So
You Can Open
Writing, painting, journaling, card making. Creativity moves faster than the part of you that manages and edits. It lets your deeper knowing speak first.
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Creative Expression
as a Portal
You leave tuned back into your own signal. It changes how you lead, love, create, and decide. This is what coming back to yourself looks like.
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Returning Recalibrated
Every day has its own rhythm. Here's how one might unfold: intentionally spacious, intuitively guided, always open to what the wild offers.
Sample daily flow
A Day at Wild. Creative. Alive.
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The group's energy and the wild are part of the schedule too. We'll follow what's alive, leave room for the unexpected, and create space for a little magic.
Day 1 · Arrival
Arrival & check-in after 1pm
▷ Settle in & explore the lodge
▷ 4:00pm welcome orientation
▷ Afternoon game drive
▷ Dinner around the fire
Days 2–5 · Immersion
A mix of these, not all in one day
▷ Opening circle & intention setting
▷ Sunrise safari drive or guided bush walk
▷ Nourishing breakfast on the terrace
▷ Morning embodiment: yoga, breathwork, or movement
▷ Creative workshop in the studio: visual journaling, oracle card making
▷ Lunch & spacious free time (pool, sauna, nap, wildlife hide, book on your deck)
▷ Golden-hour game drive & sundowners
▷ Dinner around the fire
▷ Evening session: circle, hypnotherapy, sound healing, or stargazing
Day 6 · Departure
▷ Breakfast
▷ Closing circle & integration
▷ Farewells & departures
Each day carries its own theme
the invitation
Over six days, you are invited to:
Hear your own voice again. On the page, in the circle, under more stars than you've ever seen
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Let the wild bring your whole nervous system back online
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Be completely poured into. Fed, guided, held, celebrated. Nothing to plan, no one to manage
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Come home with a visual journal and an oracle deck that hold your own wisdom
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Leave more alive than when you arrived
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+ Accommodation // 6 Days & 5 Nights
Your suite at Sashwa River of Stars, October 1–6, 2026. Garden, Luxury Garden, or Luxury Riverfront, depending on your selection.
+ Nourishment // All Meals Included
3 wholesome plant-based meals daily on full days, plus welcome dinner and farewell breakfast. All-day snacks and beverages including Painted Wolf conservation wines.
+ The Wild // Daily Safari Experiences
Guided safari drives and wilderness walks each day in the Greater Kruger Biosphere. This is your daily medicine.
+ Creative Alchemy // Daily Workshops & Practices
Daily creative workshops, hypnotherapy, somatic breathwork, sacred circles, intuitive activations, and real-time coaching.
+ Movement & Stillness // Daily Yoga & Embodiment
Sunrise yoga on the river deck, guided meditation, movement and nervous system practices woven through each day.
+ The Integration // Post-Retreat Integration Call
A group call with Claudia after you return home. So what moved through you in the wild gets to land fully in your real life.
+ The extras // Full access to all on-site amenities
Including pool, sauna, gym, movement spaces, creative studio, and lounge areas, plus daily housekeeping and laundry service
+ Your ride from Hoedspruit Airport (HDS) to Sashwa
On arrival day is covered. Send us your flight details and we'll have you on a shuttle with the other women landing around the same time.
Not included:
International flights · Travel insurance (required) · Massage & spa treatments (available to book on-site) · Personal expenses and gratuities
This retreat is fully all-inclusive so you arrive and simply receive. No planning, no decisions, no tending to anything but yourself.
what's included
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
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This is an intentionally intimate retreat, limited to a small group of women. Spaces are genuinely limited, and this is the lowest public rate this retreat will offer.
Shared/per person
Shared: Thoughtfully matched with one other woman. You each will have your own bed.
You can request to room with someone you know on your application.
$4,495
Rooms & Investment
garden suite
Tier 1
Tucked into the garden, surrounded by birdsong and bush. Beautifully appointed, deeply restful.
Private
$5,995
SHARED / PER PERSON
Shared: Thoughtfully matched with one other woman. You each will have your own bed.
You can request to room with someone you know on your application.
$5195
Luxury Garden Suite
Tier 2
Also in the garden, with two bathrooms: one shower, one freestanding bath. If you're sharing, you each get your own bathroom.
Private
$6,495
SHARED / PER PERSON
Shared: Thoughtfully matched with one other woman. You each will have your own bed.
You can request to room with someone you know on your application.
$5,395
Luxury RIVERfront Suite
Tier 3
Your private deck overlooks the Olifants River and the floodplain beyond. As close to the water as it gets. And only one shared room is available at this tier.
Private
$6,995
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A note on rooms:
Not every suite can be shared. Some are private-only because of their bed and bathroom layout. Reach out to Claudia, and she will walk you through what’s available and help you choose.
UPDATE: One suite open (private for one, or shared for two)
UPDATE: Two suites LEFT (private for one or shared for two)
UPDATE: Two suites LEFT (private for one or shared for two)
— Melissa
"The biggest shift I walked away with was a deep sense of permission. I no longer feel blocked or tangled in self-doubt. Instead of pushing, I feel a grounded spaciousness to bring my ideas to life. This energy feels like home — like I finally returned to the woman I was always meant to be."
A recalibration. An opening. A deeper receiving.
You know how much writing, movement, nature, and creating make you feel like yourself. Or maybe you're just beginning to discover it. Either way, life keeps filling up, and it keeps getting pushed to the back.
You’re the one people come to. The coach, the healer, the entrepreneur, the mama, the leader, the one holding space. You know how to pour into others, and you know this is how you pour back into yourself.
You've done the inner work. You're not starting from scratch. You're standing at a threshold, sensing something bigger wanting to come through, and you need space for it to land.
You can feel her in there. The ignited, fully expressed version of you. Your knowing, your desires, your full expression. You're ready to give her more room.
You feel the pull to go deeper, into your intuition, your creativity, your feminine energy, your connection to something larger than your to-do list. And you know that pull is worth following.
This retreat is for the woman who feels the pull toward something more alive.
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— Rachel
"The more resistance you feel, the more you need to lean in. You'll be amazed at what's waiting for you on the other side."
+ Most guests will first fly into Johannesburg and then take a short connecting flight to Hoedspruit.
+ We'll arrange airport transfers on arrival...From Hoedspruit, it’s about a 1–1.5-hour drive to the lodge.
+ U.S. citizens do not need a visa for stays under 90 days.
+ Please wait to book flights until we send final travel details.
+ The drive from Hoedspruit through the Kruger gate is part of the experience. You’ll start seeing wildlife on the way in.
TRAVEL NOTES
Getting There
Come to South Africa with me and let's make magic.
hey love,
I've been leading retreats for over two decades. Bali, Thailand, the Maldives, Spain, Hong Kong, California, Mexico. Hundreds of women. And South Africa has been calling me back for sixteen years.
The last time I was there was 2010, volunteering with children who had lost their parents to AIDS. When I left, I cried the whole way home. And I knew, the way you know things in your body before your mind catches up, that one day I'd return to that land to lead a retreat. It took longer than I expected. I've learned to trust divine timing.
Here's what I know after 24 years of this work. The woman who comes to my retreats is soulful. She's built things. She holds everyone. And what she needs is six days where she is the one being held, with wild land as her backdrop and a paintbrush in her hand, so the woman underneath all that capability can finally slow down and open to her own wild wisdom.
This is soul-led work in a wild place. Every creative evolution moves through a cycle I've watched hundreds of times: something opens, something clears, something new gets tended until it's ready to be lived. Six days in the wild is one full turn of that cycle. You'll feel it happen.
xo Claudia
Six days in the African wilderness where anything feels possible, beauty stops you in your tracks, evenings end under a sky so full of stars it puts things into perspective, and you remember what it feels like to be fully WILD. CREATIVE. ALIVE.
You've made it this far...
Maybe your heart is doing that little pitter-patter. Maybe you’re just leaning in a little closer. Maybe it’s a full-body knowing that you’re meant to be here. Either way, that’s worth listening to.
Spaces are limited. A $950 deposit is all it takes to hold your space. From there, we’ll set up a payment plan, or you can pay in full. Either way, I’ll reach out personally once I receive your deposit. Send a WhatsApp message with any questions you have.
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