Step into the heart of Egypt’s timeless power, where sound, ritual, and sacred sites converge to alchemize your truest expression.
The ancient Egyptians knew the winter solstice as a passageway of resurrection, marking the deep mid-winter rebirth of light when the sun god, Amun-Ra, overcame forces of darkness.
Conclude your adventure with a ceremony to honor and integrate your experience. Kat will lead us in building etheric alters to our personal medicines, taking all we’ve experienced and integrating our transformation into how we walk our paths forward into the rest of our lives.
Our alchemical agenda…our shamanic schedule, if you will…
Because we’re not just sight-seeing. Oh, no no; we’re entering a sacred container of titrated transformation designed to gently guide you through metamorphic, metaphoric death and rebirth.
Day 1 » Wednesday, Dec. 17
Everyone arrives in Cairo and checks into the Jaz Pyramids Hotel. We will gather as a group to demarcate and honor the crossing of a threshold into the sacred pilgrimage through intention-setting and invocation, we’ll symbolically shed ‘old’ identities to welcome new forms of being.
Day 2 » Thursday, Dec. 18
We will visit the Pyramids and the Sphinx in the morning, followed by a group lunch at the 9 Pyramids Lounge. In the afternoon, we will open the body’s sonic channels through vagal toning, harmonizing the voice, mudras, and seed sounds to locate and activate our sacred sounds. We’ll also discuss the physics of sound and how vibration impacts the physical and subtle bodies.
After dinner at the hotel, we will continue our sound journey on an excursion to a Sound Healing Chamber.
Day 3 » Friday, Dec. 19
We'll venture to the Egyptian village of Sakkara to explore several pyramids, followed by lunch at Blue Lotus House. You'll have a free afternoon to explore solo until after dinner, where we’ll call in and begin working with underworld energy to access and alchemize the shadow, meet spirit guides, and connect to your unfolding archetypal journey.
Day 4 » Saturday, Dec. 20
We will check out of our Cairo hotel and fly to Luxor together. Upon arrival, we will check in at our next accommodation, the Steigenberger Resort Achti. You'll have another free afternoon to explore solo before we head to the Luxor temple in the evening.
Day 5 » Sunday, Dec. 21
We'll witness the temple at Karnak align with the Solstice light as it has for thousands of years, celebrating renewal and illumination before heading to the Valley of the Kings. You'll have a free evening to explore or relax.
Day 6 » Monday, Dec. 22
On our last day in Luxor, we'll start the day at Dendera Temple of Hathor. In the afternoon, you'll create a prayer for your life that considers all dimensions of growth and development. Investigate where you are balanced and where you need to put more attention. We’ll draw Seed of Life mandalas and consecrate them with our prayers.
Day 7 » Tuesday, Dec. 23
We check into our boat and set sail on the Nile. In the afternoon, we make a stop at the Esna Temple. After dinner on the boat, you'll meet your personal dragon in this guided activation and meditation. This profound visionary experience will be supported by hapé, a powerful cleansing snuff that opens the channels and third eye.
Day 8 » Wednesday, Dec. 24
In the morning, we'll stop at El Kab Tombs. In the afternoon, we'll explore shamanic writing and cast off the stories of the dead self, the old self, to step into expanded states of development and growth at the level of consciousness. We’ll exorcise haunting stories and limiting beliefs. In the evening, we’ll strengthen our physical and etheric bodies through a kundalini activation of the spine and pineal gland.
Day 9 » Thursday, Dec. 25
We will stop at Gebel el Silsila on Christmas Day and have the rest of the day open for Christmas celebrations.
Day 10 » Friday, Dec. 26
On our last full day, we'll visit the Kom Ombo Temple. In the afternoon, we will each write out reflections for our fellow adventurers, magnifying one another's light with our words and prayers so that each traveler can see clearly their impact and medicine before participating in a closing circle. We’ll honor and integrate our pilgrimage by building etheric alters to our personal medicines, letting all we’ve experienced pave our paths forward into lives of truth, wonder, beauty, and authenticity.
Day 11 » Saturday, Dec. 27
In the morning of our last day together, we will have private access to Isis temple before checking out and flying back to Cairo and then departing for home.
*Itinerary subject to change
The price of your retreat depends on the type of room you book. To guarantee your reservation, pay your non-refundable deposit to secure your spot.
Early bird prices are available through the end of March we recommend securing your booking before then for the best available pricing.
Upon signing up, you'll be set up with additional payment installments depending on the option you choose, dividing the remaining balance of your cost. The first is due on booking, and the final payment, bringing your total balance paid up to 100% of the total cost, is due by October 15, 2025.
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3 nights in Cairo and 3 nights in Luxor at 5-star hotels
5 days, 4 nights aboard a private Dahabiya Nile cruise gourmet meals and personalized service.
Within Egypt, including flights, private guides, and tour buses.
Exclusive tours to iconic sites like the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid and the Temple of Isis.
Sound healing, shamanic writing workshops, and vocal activations led by master teachers.
All gourmet meals.
entrance to all temples is included.
To and from Egypt. We can assist with booking flights.
$25
Separate from the group
Tips, taxis and shopping
Personal medical and travel insurance
Weight above the 30 KGs allowed on the internal flights in Egypt.
Tipping is the cultural norm in Egypt, we reccomend having small bills for tipping at temples, tipping the guides and the amazing crew of our Nile Cruise.
