Medicine Within Retreat
There’s a moment in every journey when the body whispers, slow down, come home.
As we reach the end of 2025, we have a chance to yield, harvest and reflect on our journeys.
Medicine Within is an invitation to pause and integrate the year.
Over Three Nourishing Days, We Will:
– celebrate, reflect, and integrate with a facilitated microdosing ceremony with earth medicines
– honour the Earth, how we were held, and release whatever you don’t want to take with into the new year through ritual
– delightfully play and remember in movement and art practices
– soften and recalibrate with the support of a sound healing journey and mountain meanders
– replenish through sauna, cold plunge, and solo time with Nature.
Where You Will Be:
Nestled in the foothills of the Hout Bay mountains, Phakalane Retreat is a wabi-sabi styled sanctuary created for rest and renewal. Surrounded by forest, the retreat offers sweeping views and direct access to hiking trails that lead to pristine waterfalls. Designed as an oasis of calm, Phakalane combines natural beauty with intentional simplicity, allowing guests to restore body, mind, and heart in a setting where every detail supports tranquility and recalibration.
Through heart-opening ceremonies and embodiment connection practices, we will reawaken what inspires us, step into a more harmonious flow with life, and rediscover the medicine we have been seeking all along: the medicine within.
You have the option of staying over with us or joining us each day as a non-residential retreat.
5–7 December 2025
Phakalane Retreat , Hout Bay, Cape Town
Prices start from R7 278 (if you wish to join but not stay over, the cost is R2 000 for the full weekend)
If you’ve been craving time to reconnect with yourself, community, and the natural world, this is your invitation.
Email hello@francescaeatsroses.com to learn more and to receive the full retreat brochure.
Spaces are limited to maintain an intimate group setting.