From Shiver
to Stillness
Transforming Fear to Trust
"What if the bravest thing you did this year
was finally stop?"
Somewhere between holding it all together and completely losing yourself — there are women who understand. You have been so busy being needed by everyone else that you have forgotten to listen to the one voice that matters most. Your own.
This weekend is your permission slip. Two nights in a forest lodge in Knysna where the only thing on the agenda is finding your way back to yourself — your body, your wisdom, your knowing.
What This Weekend Is
Not a performance. Not a programme. A returning.
Energy Medicine Yoga
Gentle movement practices rooted in seasonal wisdom, designed to release what you have been carrying in your body. No experience needed — just a willingness to move and feel.
Fear to Trust Workshops
Guided inner work, journaling, open conversation and free movement. A safe space to examine what fear has been running — and choose something different.
Silent Forest Hike
Walking in quiet through the trees. No pressure to talk, perform or produce. Just you, the forest, and the dappled winter light filtering through. Introspection at its most natural.
Gathering & Deep Connection
Warming meals, candlelit evenings, honest conversation with women who get it. The kind of belonging that does not require you to be anything other than exactly where you are.
A Loose Map of Your Time
A guide, not a timetable. Space is held for stillness, wandering and simply being.
Arrival
The Heart
Returning
What is Included in R5 500
2 Nights Accommodation
At Forest Edge Lodge, Knysna — a forest setting built for rest
All Meals
Breakfast, lunch and dinner — warming, nourishing, seasonal. Non-alcoholic drinks included.
Full Retreat Programme
All yoga sessions, workshops, guided hike, meditations and evening circles
Small Gifts Throughout
Thoughtfully chosen gifts given across the weekend
Intimate Group of 14
Small enough to be truly held. Large enough to feel the power of women together.
Access to the Forest
Free time, alone time, swimming (if you choose), wandering the grounds freely
What to Bring
Not included: Travel to and from Knysna · Additional personal snacks
Why We Created This Weekend
I know what brought you to this page. Because I have been there too.
The moment when you realise you have been so busy holding everything together that you have lost the thread back to yourself. When you cannot remember the last time you truly listened — not to anyone else, but to your own body. Your own knowing.
I need this retreat as much as you do. To pause. To breathe. To be in a circle of women who understand without explanation — who carry their own wisdom and are not afraid to share it.
Come and be reminded of who you are.
The body knows winter.
It knows when to slow down, when to turn inward, when to stop performing and simply be. We have just forgotten how to let it.
Yoga, for me, has never been about the pose. It is about learning to listen — to the breath, to the energy moving through you, to the quiet intelligence your body has been speaking all along.
In the forest, with the winter light coming through the trees, something shifts. The noise of your life falls away. And in that stillness, the body finally gets to speak.
I will be there to hold the space. You just need to arrive.
Meet Your Facilitators
I am Teresa Scanes, founder of Kind and Curious Yoga and a certified Energy Medicine Yoga facilitator trained in the Lauren Walker lineage. I believe the body already knows how to heal — my job is simply to create the space for it to remember. In the forest, with the right women around you, something shifts. I am here to guide you gently into that.
I am Dominique Brits — a qualified teacher and certified life coach with over 25 years of experience helping people find their way back to themselves. What I know after all those years is this: the wisdom is already inside you — you have just been too busy and too needed by everyone else to hear it. My work is to help you listen again.
"The work you do on yourself shapes generations after you."
Forest Edge Lodge, Knysna
Nestled in the forest outside Knysna — a place of deep quiet, tall trees and firelight. Built for exactly this kind of returning.
Pricing & Payment
How Payment Works
Things You Are Probably Wondering
Ready to Come Home
to Yourself?
Spaces are limited to 14 women. When it is full, it is full. WhatsApp or email us to ask any questions or to secure your place with a R1 000 deposit.
Any Questions?
We would love to hear from you. Reach out via WhatsApp or email and we will get back to you personally.
We read every message personally and will respond within 24 hours.