The Winter Rose Retreat

There is a kind of aliveness that cannot be forced

The aliveness of our erotic bodies.

It arrives in stillness.

In the quiet rhythm of the forest.

In the moments when the nervous system finally feels safe enough to soften.

At Winter Rose, we gather in the wild beauty of the Grootbos forest and mountains to slow down, listen deeply,
and return to the intelligence of the body.

Through touch and de-armouring practices, tantric teachings, and immersions in nature, we create the
conditions for something essential to emerge.

Not a better version of yourself.

Not another thing to achieve.

Simply a deeper intimacy with what is already here.

In Tantra, Eros is not something we create.

It is what naturally arises when we relax enough to feel life moving through us.

The warmth beneath the armour.

The pulse beneath the noise.

The truth of our own being.

Winter Rose is an invitation for sacred pause, to awaken the senses through the stillness of the land, and
remember the woman who blooms when her erotic body comes back online.

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‘Becoming a relaxed woman is an unshackling, an

uncaging, an untaming. It is a process of setting

ourselves ~ and other women ~ free.’

~ Nicola Jane Hobbs

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An exclusive women’s retreat

• 3 nights in cozy accommodation nestled in the forest
• 3 meals p/day - Outstandingly delicious & nourishing food (vegetarian, locally sourced) + teas + locally roasted coffee
• Vulva Temple
• The Yoga of Touch Temple
• Traditional Tantra Yoga Session
• Star Gazing Ceremony - Weather dependent
• Re-Naturing Woman Session
• Breathwork Session
• Slow movement and teachings through traditional Kaula and Shaiva tantric practice, merging with modern bodywork influence
• Hearty fires burning in the studio + main lounging area for extra warmth all hours of the day
• Space to walk the land in solitude
• Many moments to be with self - Sit at the fire hearth, journal, process, feel, take sacred rest, and pause
• Access to sauna + natural spring dam for wild water plunging

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‘Our erotic bodies turn off, and we become separated from every aspect
of our lives when we continue to carry deep-seated tension.’

~ Suskia

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Meet your Facilitator

Suskia harnesses the power of touch as a pathway for tracking trauma and

lost feeling. She truly ​believes that when touch becomes a practice of

meditation, this profoundly activates the body’s ​ability to nurture itself.

She is no stranger to the underworld of our sexual nature, the somatics of

how trauma moves in ​a body, and the immense initiations that take place

when we truly descend into the body.

Having studied anatomy/physiology, classical tantra, ancestral/womb

cosmology and somatic bodywork; she offers ​herself as the bridge between

science and the unseen.

She shapeshifts between the realms of blood, body tissue and nervous

system; the realms of the ​dark womb, the bones of ancestral stories, our

sexual shadows, the erotic and trauma imprinting ​through a visceral

understanding that these are what bring the body into harmonious ​

connection with who we innately are.

Suskia holds the intention of consciously placing herself as a gateway for

others to return home ​to this essential teaching: That when a body

begins to unclench itself from a lifetime of holding ​tight and descends into

deep relaxation, softness and opening, we rediscover that we hold great ​

medicine, wisdom, love and unbounded pleasure.

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FOR MORE INFO ON THE RETREAT, INCLUDING TESTIMONIALS, ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS, RATES, AND LOCATION DETAILS: VISIT THE WINTER ROSE