I have just returned from my first Dreams & Tracking retreats in the Kalahari Desert. The experience was incredible. I worked alongside Alwyn Myburgh and his safari company ‘Matsebe Safaris’. We lead 3 retreats over a 6-week period.
The focus of our work was to teach ‘African indigenous technology’. I focused on the ‘Dreaming’ component which entailed teaching people how to connect to their Ancestors, Dreams and working with African medicinal plants. Alwyn taught the ‘tracking’ aspect of the retreat. This involved intuitive tracking, interspecies communication and learning bird language. We split our teachings into 2 or 3 hourly segments depending on the weather and animal sightings. Each morning we would wake at 6am and start following the animal tracks at 6:30am.
We tracked lion for 6 weeks and on the final week we managed to see them, all seven of them, which I felt was very auspicious. Our Bushmen trackers reckoned that they had never seen human beings before. The Kalahari Desert is renowned for large open spaces, hundreds of kilometers of unspoiled wilderness and one of the wildest most desolate places left on earth. We chose the Kalahari Desert to do our retreat because we wanted people to experience the ‘Garden of Eden’, nature untouched by man! A hard task to accomplish, but we did it.
We hosted about 22 people with diverse backgrounds from medicine, dentistry, IT, teaching and the healing arts. It was a life changing experience for all of us. Here are what some of the people said.
Testimonials
I have never felt the tranquility nor peace I experienced with our team of trackers in the Kalahari. Thank you, John and Alwyn.
Nelson De La Cruz
(Dentist from the US).
The most transformative retreat I’ve ever been on.
Krista Nielsen
(Teacher from Hawaii).
We will continue our Kalahari retreats next year 2022 in Feb & March. For bookings/ Enquiries please email Beverley reservations.origins@gmail.com.
Please see my interview (below via you tube link) with Mitchel Clute from Sounds True on their FB community ‘Shamanic Path’ page.