I chose this trip with Saida on gut feeling. I watched the webinars she did in preparation, with Anna and with the previous group. I was not planning on attending actually. I could already feel my being relax and sink into a deeper space just by listening to it. Saida’s phrase: “You belong to life” kept coming back. I was amazed to feel so much longing for that natural connection. I felt called even though I did not see yet how this would come together financially. I am so grateful for this experience! It has reconnected me with a very intuitive and still part of myself. I feel more connected to life in general, woven into the web. The little ups and downs don’t seem to unbalance me so much, because that bigger picture is clear. Definitly the sense of integration that I longed for. Saida did a great job puzzling together the different elements of the journey. Each step contributed to being able to allow nature to facilitate and call forth the most natural part of my being.

The Wild Women In The Wilderness Retreat was life-changing. I headed into the retreat wondering if I would spend the entire time grieving my mom’s death, which was a year ago. What unfolded instead was quite miraculous. Being immersed in the wilderness with trusted guides, kind women and extraordinary animals was exactly the soul medicine I required to come home to myself, remember my connection to all of nature and the cosmos, and feel how welcomed and supported I am. Along the way I experienced a deep sense of peace surrounding my mom’s death. Instead of spending the retreat wrapped in a heavy cocoon of grief, I was filled with a light, spacious contentment and joy that has carried forward, beyond the retreat. This experience was a special blend of travel adventure, spiritual retreat and safari. I thoroughly enjoyed the real and primal nature of every aspect of it. Saida holds a space of support and freedom that allowed each woman to have her own unique journey within the group experience. I walk forward from this retreat even more in touch with my courage, my strength, my inspiration and a deep abiding appreciation for my life. To me, these gifts are priceless. Thank you, Saida, for inviting me to participate in this grand and glorious adventure!

Initially, as this was a trip to celebrate my BIG birthday (turning 50), I thought I'd have this great big epiphany. I mean, it's time, right? Well, in the months building up to the journey, Saida brought a carefully curated group together and prepared us. Not through "do this, do that", but through inquiry that led us to deeper self-inquiry. And this is where my shift began. My big epiphany was that I realized that I'm not in need of a big epiphany! What I needed where some small shifts in my daily life and paradigm, to allow my domesticated self to be shed. If you think it's a safari, it's not. If you think it's about the Jade Egg, it's not. If you think its about anything other than you learning more about yourself and your ability to interact with the world around you, you're wrong. Will you see wild animals? Probably. Will it be an adventure? Absolutely. Saida has curated this experience in such a way that you will accept the responsibility for learning more about yourself and fully realizing what and who you can be. Saida could probably make this happen anywhere in the world, however, the wilderness of Africa, the birthplace of man, this is the ideal raw environment to bring you home to yourself. Are you ready to shed the fluff and get out from behind the screen and really look at yourself and the world around you? Then this will be your journey.