Wellness Weekend Facebook Event! 

 5 to 7 November 2021

 Balancing YIN AND YANG, WILDFARM AND WELLNESS

This weekend retreat is the perfect getaway for everyone to enjoy the serene surroundings of Wilderness in the Garden Route, rejuvenate and reset after the incubation of winter, so we may bloom into the warmth of spring and summer.  Here we can sink into nature in the abundant Lush landscape of WildFarm in Wilderness. Dig deep into the rich soils of our life, and slip into the peacefully meditative relaxation as we intimately connect with our Whole Self.

What can you Expect?….

Well, let’s start at the beginning… The Wildfarm is a family-run farm and backpackers… yes farm… where blissfully cows roam over the green hills (giving us a feeling of the Transkei), horses run and sheep baaaa… and where growth in Self Sustainability is a priority!

The green hills dip into the natural valleys, the nooks and cranny’s, where the reforestation has begun!

Amongst the veggies, there are the Wildfarm Backpackers with the community at its core and a beautiful sunset deck overlooking the serene surroundings, the perfect place to enjoy the amazing wood-fired oven pizzas while soaking in the serenity of nature. 

What’s Growing you may ask…?

Bananas, Peach & Lemon trees, Yellowwoods, Cape Chestnut, Keurboom, Aloes, Proteas, a continuous variety of different Veggies and Herbs…to name but a few favs….. 

What else is growing?

Did I mention pizzas (with a homemade basil pesto option), self-sustainability with solar, rainwater, permaculture-based food production, reforestation as well as black and grey reed-bed water filtration systems? 

What’s happening at the backpackers?

As economies and travel have been restricted the last 2 years, the backpackers have been quite peaceful with all staff and long term residents enjoying the simple life of getting into nature, planting, watering, building and growing the space around and the spaces within.

The Wildfarm Backpackers offers a variety of accommodation options! Beautiful levelled camping sites on the soft blankets of green grass, dorms, single/double rooms and en-suite rooms and family rooms.

There’s a communal kitchen with the basic pots and pans for self-catering, hot showers indoors and outdoors! There are fire pits, ja mos nou gan ons braai!

Ok so what about the Wildfarm Wellness Retreat?

We would like to offer you a weekend to re-treat yourself, to give your whole self some healing with some good-natured medicine. Bring your camping gear and set up (or book a room) and leave the rest to us.

Friday we will hold an opening ceremony to welcome each other, listen to a meditation and or video and share a delicious wholesome veggie dinner. Fall asleep to the lullaby of the waves crashing down the hill or linger longer by the fireside. As we connect to others we can find ourselves.

Saturday morning tea and coffee wake-ups will be available followed by Tai Chi, awaken the Chi as we step into ourselves!

We will Nourish with breakfast followed by tree planting… Our living, breathing Selfs are intimately connected to Trees. As the trees exhale, we inhale, as we exhale, the trees inhale. Breathe, Prana, Vata is life – Trees and plants are life. The Earth is alive, as is the soil full of life, the soil heals and nourishes all plants, as the roots dig deep gathering nutrients and information through the roots systemic web, we may also heal as we dig our hands into the soil and give energy for the trees to continue to grow. We breathe in their good medicine.

After lunch we will digest with meditation and move into an Ayurvedic walking massage workshop, where we will learn how to give and receive, balancing Yin and Yang. This practice offers you an opportunity to deepen your sense of touch, to add knowledge of the body and muscular systems, to give healing to our bodies and subtle body energy systems. 

We will then flow into Traditional Tantra Yoga, this practice rooted in the Veda’s is subtle yet strong and available to all body types at all levels. This practice is for your Self, it is to meet your Whole Self in the present moment, there is no competing with others or competing with your Self or the Self you think you should be, or the Self you were yesterday. We meet ourselves intimately as we are, we rest, we relax and we meditate. Through this art of relaxation, we are able to sink deeper into each asana and deeper within ourselves.

After dinner, DJ PsyTronik takes us to the next vibration of life with the sound and movement journey.

Let your body move, let your mind go with all those insecurities and concerns, release, shake, smile and celebrate your movement. We are Alive, we are vibration, we are creation, the sound is sacred, our sound is sacred. Our sound is the pathway to return to the divine, Nature is Divine. We are Nature.

And there’s still more…..

Sunday continues to flow as Saturday morning, repetition brings the practice more deeply into our unconscious, allowing us to intuitively move from our muscle memory. We are about 90% water, water holds memory, by repeating this good medicine, our body systems are able to hold this and allow us to remain in a relaxed meditative space in our daily lives.

There will be Tai Chi followed by breakfast, flowing into the Ayurvedic walking massage and Traditional Tantra Yoga. Our bellies will be grumbling by this time and we will gratefully enjoy a wholesome lunch. We will close this magical weekend with a closing circle and meditation.

So what is the Yang to the Yin?

Yes, WildFarm is known for their parties, as a space to release, a space to be in freedom and sometimes as we know freedom is not always gentle. This weekend we are holding gentle space for all to sink into bliss!

We look forward to holding space with you.

The above is our vision, visions develop and change as we engage. The above, as are all in the universe, is subjective to change in accordance with the needs of the moment.