Reclaim Your Power.
Reclaim Your Roots.
Reclaim Yourself.
Step into your power and reconnect with your roots at this 10-day retreat in Kenya - join the waitlist and be the first to know when registration opens.
IS THIS YOU RIGHT NOW?
❌ Feel like no matter how much effort you put in, you feel disconnected from yourself, your culture, and your Ancestry?
☹️ Feel isolated and distanced from other Black people and find yourself longing for community?
👀 Feel trapped in the Western way of life, maybe even physically trapped in the West living a life that doesn't feel like yours?
🤷🏾♀️ Feel powerless in the face of capitalism and its oppressive systems, unable to change or escape it?
👩🏾💼 In a career that looks good on paper and rewards you financially but leaves you feeling empty inside?
🥴 Find yourself overwhelmed with exhaustion, at the hyper-masculine, toxic approach to work and life we're all forced into?
👀 Keep turning to the latest spiritual fad, hoping this time it’ll work, but it never quite does?
💭 You're tired of chasing a seat at tables where you're not wanted and dream of building your own?
What if things could be different?
✴ Imagine unapologetically embracing all parts of yourself- the good, the bad, and the ugly.
✴ Imagine feeling connected to your culture and Ancestry, to your Divine power, Your Feminine Power, and your Black power all at once.
✴ Imagine healing in a way that is aligned with who you are, a way that can restore you fully, wholly, as the being God intended you to be when you were created.
✴ Imagine having the courage to express everything that is inside of you and everything that you are with no apology.
✴ And - get this - imagine your days of chasing a seat at the table are behind you and you are joyfully building your own table with a group of other Black women doing the same. You are taking steps to bring your long-delayed projects to serve your people to life.
They can be! Which is why I’m soooo excited to introduce:
RECLAIMING THE AFRICAN GODDESS RETREAT
A 10-Day Liberation Retreat for Black Women in Kenya
Join me for this transformative retreat in the cradle of humanity, where the first human - a Black woman - spawned and gave birth to the whole of humanity.
The Serene Lake Elementaita Manor will be our home for the 10 days of the retreat, offering us both comfort and immersion in nature. The perfect setting for the deep work we're going to be doing.
Join the waitlist to be the first to hear when the retreat dates are released.
✴ THE EXPERIENCE ✴
For ten days, we will slow down enough to truly arrive home to ourselves. Surrounded by the beauty of Kenya’s Rift Valley, we will gather in nature, share meals, sit in circle, and make space for reflection, expression, and deep listening. Through guided workshops, ritual, rest, and community, we will explore identity and belonging, reconnect with our ancestors, honour rage and grief as sacred teachers, and rediscover our purpose, gifts, and embodied power. Together, we will reclaim the parts of ourselves that have been silenced, shamed, or forgotten - gently uncovering the gems within and giving them a place of honour in our lives moving forward.
01. Reclaim Yourself!
In this session we will reconnect with the parts of ourselves that we have hidden or abandoned to stay safe, be accepted, fit into systems or gain access to opportunities. we will reintegrate them to become whole again and regain the vitality they hold for us.
02. Reclaim Your Mind
Your mind is a sacred space. It's a temple of creation directly connected to the Creator. You must keep it clean and protected. But today our minds are saturated with information (most of it useless, some of it harmful) and captive to colonial and oppressive ways of thinking fed to us through all the systems that govern our lives. In this session we will learn mental hygiene, how to protect our mind space and (re)connect to our original mind.
03. Reclaim Your Roots
Whether raised on the continent or in the diaspora, many of us feel disconnected from our cultures and ancestry to varying degrees. This can cause confusion about who we are, an enduring feeling of emptiness inside, of something undefined missing; and a sense of not belonging anywhere. In this session we will reconnect with cultural heritage and ancestry.
04. Reclaim your History
If you don’t know your history, you don’t know who you are. If you don’t know where you came from, you don’t know where you’re going. In this session we will uncover and map our personal and familial stories as well as the wider histories we are connected to for the purpose of locating ourselves in history and charting our futures.
05. Reclaim Your Rage
So many of us carry rage. Personal rage. Ancestral rage. And so many people are afraid of this feeling. But there’s tremendous energy in rage that can be channelled to building the worlds we dream of. In this session we get up close and personal with it - we get to know it, listen to it, and harness the immense energy it carries to transform our worlds.
06. Reclaim Your Gifts
Our gifts are the code for what we’re here for. While earning a living is important and our professions don’t always align with our gifts, it’s important to our collective evolution for us to tap into our gifts and make room in our lives to express ourselves through them. In this session we will create room to honor our gifts.
07. Emerge into Your Purpose
Purpose is the seed that gave birth to us, the essence of who we came to be in the world. In our final session, we will create space for the cumulative effect of our dedicated labour throughout the previous days to bubble to the surface and we will harvest the fruits of that labor.
MEET YOUR RETREAT LEADER
Hi, I'm Yema!
I help Black women liberate themselves from past trauma, colonial mindsets, and internalized oppression so they can fully step into their power and embrace their gifts to transform the world.
I am a psychotherapist, facilitator, and writer taking an ancestral approach to healing. I work at the intersection of African spirituality and mental health, from a womanist and pan-African perspective. For 10 years I’ve worked as a therapist for Black women offering individual therapy and healing workshops, as well as collaborating with other actors on retreats and community building initiatives.
My work focuses on understanding the psychospiritual impact of oppressive systems on us and breaking out of them.
I love African literature and traveling on the continent.
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PARTICIPANT LOVE NOTES
"The workshops and reflection sessions allowed for vulnerability in a contained way. There was no trauma bonding. I can feel my spirit is stronger!"
"I didn't have to get out of my body, integration was facilitated for me. I didn't struggle with that. There was integration of mind, body, and heart - no separation."
"The retreat helped me be grounded and make space for so many things that I feel but could ignore because of how busy my life can be!"
FAQs
Is this retreat for me?
This retreat is for Black women and women of African descent who feel disconnected from themselves, their roots, or their sense of purpose and are longing for something deeper than rest alone.
You may be feeling burnt out, spiritually dry, isolated, or misaligned with the life you're living. You don't need to have language for it yet, just a quiet (or loud) knowing that something needs to shift.
Do I need prior therapy, spiritual practice, or retreat experience?
No. All you need is openness, curiosity, and a willingness to be in relationship - with yourself and with others. Everything we do will be guided, held, contained, and accessible whether this is your first retreat or one of many.
Is this a therapy retreat?
This is not group therapy, but it is therapeutically informed. The work is grounded in trauma-aware, culturally rooted, and spiritually anchored facilitation. We work with the mind, body, emotions, ancestry, and spirit - not just thoughts or symptoms.
What kind of healing work will we be doing?
The retreat weaves together:
* Guided workshops and reflective practices
* Ritual, ceremony, and ancestral remembrance
* Journaling, storytelling, and voice
* Rest, immersion in nature, and embodied practices
* Collective dialogue and witnessing
How many women will attend?
This is a small, intimate retreat. We keep the numbers low (6-10 attendees) to protect depth, safety, and connection.
Will this be emotionally intense?
At times, yes - but always held with care. We make space for grief, rage, tenderness, joy, and any other feelings that might come up without forcing catharsis. You always have a choice. Rest, silence, and stepping back are honored just as much as participation.
I'm worried about being vulnerable with strangers.
This is very common and very welcome. We move slowly, build trust intentionally, and create clear agreements around confidentiality, consent, and care. you are never required to share more than what feels right for you.
Why Kenya?
Because this is about returning to roots and being on African soil, in nature and away from the demands of the west. It allows for a different kind of remembering to happen in the body. The land itself is part of the work.
And because within Kenya is the cradle of humanity, the place where the first human, indeed the first Black woman spawned and gave birth to the whole of humanity.
What is a typical day like?
Our days will include a balance of:
* Gentle yoga
* structured group sessions
* Trips into nature
* Spacious time for rest and integration
* Shared meals
* Social time
* Optional reflection or solo time
This is not a packed schedule, but intentionally slow and spacious.
I'm interested but not ready to commit yet. What should I do?
Join the waitlist. You'll receive deeper insight into the retreat, invitations to informations sessions when dates are announced (with no obligation to join), and early access - before the retreat dates are released to the wider public.
What will I leave with?
Not a checklist. But clarity, grounding, a deep connection to yourself and your ancestors. A felt sense of who you are becoming, what you have to offer the world, and a more intimate relationship with your power.