Release and Ignite 2021
A Full Moon Yoga and Breathwork Retreat
With Diane Ghogomu
Retreat description
If you’ve been looking for a transformative way to start off 2021, you’ve landed at the perfect experience. Join us for four nights of exquisite breath and beauty at the beachside Watamu Treehouse whose award-winning sparkling waters, emerald forests and panoramic views never fail to astound.
Take the weekend to manifest your deepest intentions with a Peruvian cacao ceremony under the full moon, rediscover your voice with sacred harp and guitar song circles, float down the magical mangroves, savor picturesque vegan meals on the private beach, while still allowing ample time to meditate, journal, and bask in the utterly gorgeous surroundings of Watamu Treehouse.
You’ll rediscover both balance and flow with our daily yoga and breathwork practices, taught by experienced and innovative teachers.
Joanne and Diane collectively have decades of international experience in holding space for life-changing metamorphoses of the mind, body, and soul while Watamu Treehouse has been repeatedly recognized as one of the most unique experiences that you can find in Kenya. This retreat is for anyone who wants to rest, rejuvenate, release, and reignite their passions and dreams under the light of the full moon. Don’t miss out!
24th February
28th February
English
$790 shared accommodation, $875 single occupancy
Watamu Treehouse
Meet your teacher…
Diane has spent the last decade inflow around the globe, making sacred sounds and experiences alongside her plant and spirit allies. After following her academic research of Afro-diasporic traditions to Buenos Aires for the first time in 2007, she has since shared and led community explorations in places as diverse as the coasts of Brazil, the mountains of Argentina, the streets of New Orleans, and the equatorial rainforest of Gabon. Ghogomu has been a yoga instructor for a decade, focusing her practice on an uplifting Kundalini and Vinyasa Flow. Most recently she has found integration in her paths as a somatic sexuality educator, yoga teacher, breath work facilitator, and musician, which inspire her to hold pleasure-centered ritual spaces that encourage the ever-giving gift of knowledge of self.
Daily schedule (example)
Early morning tea available at 6:45am
7:00am Engage with nature
7:15-8:30am Morning Stretch and Flow yoga set to live harp playing and collective altar or mandala building
9:00am-10:00am Breakfast
10:00am-12:00pm rest (suggested journal prompt)
12:00pm-1:00pm moving meditation /dance
1:00pm-2:00pm lunch
2:00pm-5:00pm: (booking massages/ card readings/ journal prompts)
5:00pm-6:30pm evening yoga
7:00pm-8:00pm dinner
8:30pm-8:45pm short mediation
What is included in this retreat
Morning Yoga - Vinyasa Flow or Kundalini Fusion
Evening Yoga - Yin or Deep Flow
Meals - Breakfast, light lunch and dinner. Vegan menu
Yoga Mats and blocks. Mats available or bring your own
Activities- Mangrove Float, Paddlebard Yoga
Cacao Ceremony - Drink cacao under the full moon
Meditation
Rest and quiet times
Swimming
African dance
Lodging at Treehouse
Journaling Prompts
Mandala Making
What is not included in this retreat
Travel Insurance
Flights
Massage - Can be booked at additional cost
Transport to and from Treehouse - Can be arranged
Alcohol - Can be purchased
Bad vibes
Air conditioning
Retreat food
Abundant in flavour, colour, nutrients and freshness
We source our ingredients with care, supporting local producers, and we prepare it with love.
Our lunches and dinners are abundant “set-meals” and always include a soup or starter, a vegetarian main course, a variety of sides and salads, and a dessert. We serve fresh juice or coconut water and a variety of hot drinks after the meal. Great for vegans, and gluten and dairy-free.
Retreat venue
Watamu Treehouse on the beach in Kenya:
the perfect spacious open air house to be in touch with the elements
unique architecture-rooms have views of sunrises or sunsets (or both!)
set in a coastal forest on one of the best white-sand beaches in Kenya
swimming in the warm healing waters
Getting to this yoga retreat
The closest airport is Malindi on the East Coast of Kenya, which is approximately 25 minutes taxi ride from Treehouse. We can arrange transfers. The following airlines fly to Malinda: Jambojet; Fly540; Air Kenya; Fly SAX; Silverstone; Kenya Airways. You can also fly to Mombasa International Airport on the airlines listed above plus Kenya Airways. Mombasa is approximately 2 hours drive from Treehouse. Or take the SGR Train to Mombasa and we can send a taxi to collect you.
