Return | عودة

A Women's Journey in Siwa Oasis

March 26 – 31, 2026

Begin Your Return

✧ The Call

There comes a moment in every woman's path when she hears the whisper—

return.

Return to her body, to her womb, to the rhythm of the moon.
Return to softness. To Truth. To her power.
To the wild pulse of her feminine essence.

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This retreat is that return.

An intimate gathering of women in the heart of the Western Egyptian desert, where time slows down and the body remembers.

A sacred container to awaken the wisdom of the womb, live in harmony with the cycles, and embody the inner priestess within.

✧ Siwa — The Oasis of Silence

Hidden deep in the Western Desert, Siwa Oasis is a land of salt lakes, palm groves, and ancient temples—an untouched sanctuary of stillness.

Here, the earth holds memory. The air carries prayer.

The salt waters reflect the sky, and every sunrise feels like a beginning.

It is a place where the sacred feminine breathes easily… where the body, the desert, and the moon speak the same language.

✧ The Essence of Return

Return is a remembrance.

A journey back to balance, harmony, and inner knowing.

Through movement, breath, sound, ritual, ceremony and desert silence, we awaken the wisdom that lives inside every woman—the womb as compass, the body as temple, and the feminine as guide.

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Together, we will explore:

Womb and cyclical wisdom

Feminine embodiment and movement rituals

Somatic release breathwork

Qi gong

Movements & Sequences inspired by Tai Ji and Shaolin gong fu

Sound and Voice Activation

Sisterhood and sacred sharing circles

Silence, stillness, and the remembrance of our inner priestess

Sacred ceremonies

Henna rituals

Water rituals

✧ The Journey

Day 1 – March 26

  • Meeting point in Cairo at 10 AM → road journey to Siwa Oasis
  • Arrival & settling into our homes
  • Evening: Opening & welcoming circle followed by dinner under the desert stars

Day 2 – March 27

  • Sunrise gathering
  • Breakfast
  • Introduction & intention circle
  • Morning session
  • Afternoon: Salt lake immersion & Water Ritual
  • Light lunch
  • Evening: First sacred ceremony at 7 PM

Day 3 – March 28

  • Free-flow morning
  • Breakfast
  • Sharing circle
  • Session
  • Lunch
  • Silent time & rest
  • Evening: Second night ceremony

Day 4 – March 29

  • Breakfast
  • Free-flow morning practice
  • Sharing circle
  • Session
  • Lunch
  • Evening: Sunset Hot Spring Sound Healing followed by dinner

Day 5 – March 30

  • Sunrise gathering
  • Breakfast
  • Visit to the Oracle Temple of Amun
  • Lunch
  • Journey into the dunes
  • Evening: Sunset dinner & Henna Closing ceremony

Day 6 – March 31

  • Breakfast
  • Optional morning shopping in the local Siwan market
  • Check-outs and departure

✧ The Facilitators

Sahar

Organizer and Facilitator

Sahar is an Egyptian medicine woman whose work is rooted in embodiment. Awakening the body through sound, movement, and medicine. Guided by the wisdom of integration, she believes that true healing lies in knowing how to close what opens, how to bring heaven down to earth, and how to live that union fully in the body.

To Sahar, the body is a sacred temple, a vessel of infinite potential and divine intelligence. Through her deep work with Chinese medicine, martial arts, psychology, plant medicines, and music, she invites others to unlock their inner power and remember the vastness that lives within them.

Drawing from her Egyptian and Arabic lineage, Sahar is devoted to reawakening ancient knowledge and reconnecting with the inner source that binds us all. She gathers women on her ancestral lands to taste this beauty, to remember, to feel, and to embody. A pioneer of her generation in the region. Sahar walks the path of integration and embodiment, bridging and harmonizing worlds through presence, movement, and sacred medicine.

Sumaya

Facilitator

Sumaya is a multi-passionate nomadic artist: a dancer, storyteller, somatic breathwork and movement artist.

Deeply immersed in the mysteries of wild nature, body's innate intelligence and a lover of tales and legends, she weaves movement, breath, and imagination into pathways of remembrance.

Her work bridges the poetic and the embodied—she uses somatic breathwork, movement, and imagination as tools to help individuals reconnect with their unique truth and authentic expression.

✧ The Details

Dates

March 26 – 31, 2026

(After Eid)

6 days / 5 nights

Location

Siwa Oasis

Egypt

Western Desert

Exchange

$1,500 USD

Limited to 8 women only

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What's Included

  • Accommodation in two traditional Siwan houses (each woman in her own room)
  • All meals and nourishing drinks
  • All sessions, circles, and ceremonies
  • Transportation from Cairo to Siwa and back
  • Entry to all sacred sites and springs

✧ The Call to Return

This is a journey for the woman who feels the pull of her womb—
who is ready to soften, to listen, to remember, to receive.

A woman longing to reconnect with her body, her cycles, her intuition, and the wild mystery of being alive.

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If you feel the call to return—
to yourself, to sisterhood, to the sacred feminine—

We invite you to apply below.

Apply Now