Begin your morning watching the sunrise over Mt. Kilimanjaro. An early morning yoga practice will work out any aches and pains from travel, and leave you feeling grounded in the earth and your new environment. After breakfast, you will drive to town and explore the local markets. Take in the tastes and vibrant colors of the market, and then head to the village to be welcomed into the heart and home of the women who will teach you to cook authentic Tanzanian food. Enjoy your meal together when it is all prepared!

Drive back to the retreat site for yoga or meditation as the sun sets.

Begin your morning with a healing yoga practice. After breakfast, take off on a nature walk to learn from a Maasai herbalist about how the Maasai traditionally use plants in their medicinal practices. When you return, you will make some of the medicines, boiled over the fire, and try some...see if you can cure what ails you with these traditional medicines :-)

Depart early in the morning on Day 4 (optional VERY EARLY yoga session). The safari will include game drive in Tarangire National Park (Day 4), and Ngorongoro Crater (Day 5), and Manyara National Park (day 6) with astonishing views and experienced guides. We partner with Caracal Safaris to deliver a one of a kind experience. 

The Ngorongoro Crater is home to Africa's Big Five;  lion, leopard, rhino, buffalo & elephant – as well as large resident populations of giraffe, hyena, several species of antelope.

Each evening at the lodge, there will be evening activities such as a fireside chat, watercolor painting, and expressive journaling options. Take time each evening to internalize your day and begin to explore all of the facets of healing that you would like to achieve. 

Accommodation: Ngorongoro Farmhouse - https://twctanzania.com/ngorongoro-highlands/ngorongoro-farm-house/

After returning from safari we will take the day to truly arrive with our bodies and minds in one of the most breathtaking places in Tanzania, the Original Maasai Lodge. We will also settle physically into our own bodies, and start the journey of making friends, with our own selves and others.  Our yoga practice will physically lead us through poses that help to release tension and trauma in the body so that we can be free from our past. Your transformation may begin. 

~ Morning Sit 

~ Breakfast 

~ Journaling and Yoga Practice 

~ Lunch and Free Time  - Optional Nature walk or trip into town for a market tour or to head to some tailors to get clothes or other gifts made. 

~ Yoga and Tea 

~ Masai Boma (Fireside Dance and Chat) 

~ Dinner

~ Evening Sit and Reflection

Your accommodation: Original Maasai Lodge - https://www.africaaminilife.com/original-maasailodge

Awaken to your full spirit and soul with a day of immersion in Massai culture. Participate in a nature walk, have breakfast in the bush. 

Also included in our day is a sunrise and sunset yoga session and one session of mindfulness meditation during the day.  

Our post sunset yoga will end with a traditional Massai boma with songs and dancing. 

After a morning practice and closing circle, it's time to say bye for now. Catch your flight home, or onwards to Zanzibar