Engaging Intimacy Retreats

Overview:

Do you want to connect more consciously with yourself – body, mind & spirit?
Do you want to deepen your significant relationships with self and others?

• We invite you to journey with us in this unique three-day, four-night retreat at Kishindo Private Game Reserve, where people of diverse orientations explore their own intimacy & gender journeys and share what it means to be human together. Your journey will be guided by seasoned facilitators Laurie Gaum & Marchané Janeke

What to expect:

• Explore different activities finely crafted over decades to foster connection and deepened relationship.
• Experience safe space.
• Encounter human intimacy with all its nuances, joys and pitfalls.
• Express by celebrating your embodied self in your engagement with the breathtaking wild of Kishindo Private Game Reserve.
  

This journey will inspire you to:

• A more integrated self – physically, psychologically and spiritually.
• A reconnection with yourself, others and nature itself.
• Calmness through mindfulness and a better understanding of intimacy.
• A healing experience from past hurt.
• Wholeness by the claiming and telling of your story.
• Coming to a new self-knowledge and -understanding.
• Deepened relationship with yourself and others through truth-telling & – sharing.

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Laurie Gaum is senior trainer, facilitator and project manager for the nonprofit organisation Genderworks. He previously worked for a centre for spirituality established by Desmond Tutu, focusing on contemplation and action for social change. His focus areas are sexualities, gender and spirituality.

Marchané Janeke, a qualified and registered clinical social worker, therapist and mental health coach with appropriately 15 years of experience.
Flawed. Messy. Beautiful. This is what it means to be human!
Using a holistic approach to self-care and mental health, they aim to create a safe space to explore and unpack thoughts, emotions, traumas and triggers while providing guidance through the healing process.