RETREATS
When the question is what comes next.
An off-grid valley in the Cederberg, four and a half hours north of Cape Town, on a stretch of the Doring River that has never been touched by city lights.
It’s here where Daria and Heine built Bliss & Stars on a single, almost ordinary belief: that the things which matter most ask very little of us in the way of complication, and almost everything of us in the way of paying attention. They ask you to stop in the way that lets the rest of you arrive. Because the part of you that has been waiting can’t find you while you are still moving.
PRIVATE CHALETS
GUESTS PER RETREAT MAX.
LONG COMMUNAL TABLE
NO WIFI
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We resist the present by treating it as a way station to somewhere better. Which means most of us are living slightly ahead of our lives. Slightly too fast to actually be in them.
The self you have been outrunning catches up here. Not all at once. In pieces.
Out here, with no signal and nowhere to be, the rushing has nothing to attach to.
2
The logic of clenching is real: hold yourself tightly enough and nothing catches you off guard. You maintain the sense of control. But control is expensive, and it runs on tension you didn’t consciously agree to. What you are bracing against is often what most wants to reach you. What happens when you stop? Most people don’t pause for long enough to find out.
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RETREATS
Six chalets. Ten guests maximum. Each retreat has a different character.
4, 6 or 7-day silent retreat in Cederberg, South Africa. Meditation, mindfulness and somatic practices, nature, and stargazing. Max 8 guests. Off-grid.
Three nights under the darkest skies on Earth: guided stargazing, astrophotography with Heine and a cosmos-inspired tasting menu. Cederberg, South Africa.
Bloom retreat is a 6-day retreat working with medicinal mushrooms in the Cederberg: supported ceremonies, somatic practice, medicine walks, stargazing. Eight guests.
Burnout looks like fatigue but is usually misdirection. Rest will not fix that. Asking what you are actually chasing might.
Shared, undivided attention is the thing that actually bonds two people, and modern life quietly starves you of it. Here you get it back.
A women-only wilderness retreat in the Cederberg. Somatic practices, self-compassion, and medicine walks.
OUR STORY
WHAT GUESTS SAY