Detailed List of Retreats
Izwi Lika Nomkhubulwane: The Voice Of The Mother Within - A Weekend Of Rest, Sacred Sound And Ancestral Remembrance
There comes a time when the silence begins to speak.
It sounds like your grandmother's voice. The wind through the trees. The waters you have cried. The child within, asking to be held.
This retreat is a listening.
Izwi lika Nomkhubulwane — the voice of the Great Mother — is an invitation to return. To your body. To your breath. To the memory your blood has been carrying long before you had words for it.
Over one weekend in the sacred hills of Ixopo, we will slow down enough to hear what has always been trying to reach us. The ancestral wisdom. The inner child. The dream life. The feeling we were never taught to feel. This is not a workshop. It is a remembering.
What we will move through together:
- Ubuntu Ishta Yoga — the body as the first doorway
- Guided ancestral meditations
- Dream journaling and storytelling
- Inner child healing
- Sacred sound healing rituals
- Sacred walks in nature
- Restorative silence
- Moments of stillness, song and community
Anyone who is ready to feel. Anyone who has been running and is ready to rest. Anyone who senses that their healing is connected to something older than themselves. No experience needed. All are welcome.
Siyabonga Nsizwane is a sacred percussionist and sound healer who channels ancestral rhythm through drums, breath and vibration. His presence in ceremony is felt before it is heard — rhythm as medicine, as memory, as the heartbeat underneath everything.
HloniphaniArt Mthethwa — known as HloniphaniArt — is a guitarist, vocalist and multidisciplinary artist born in Catoridge, Durban. Trained at Ekhaya Multi Arts Centre and internationally recognised through productions including Bayede Shaka and Azania, Hloniphani's string work opens what words alone cannot reach. He brings the melodic thread that runs between the living and the remembered.