You are ready for that next step. You know it’s bigger and more powerful than personal growth. You feel a deeper call for purpose in your life, and understand that responding to that call will quite literally take you to places you’ve never been. You know your next steps will help heal not only yourself, but also other people and the world. And those other people — the ones you know you are meant to connect with — well, you can almost see them taking shape in your peripheral vision. These people are part of your village.
In this enchanted place, you’ll find that Nature herself has been conspiring all along to lead you to peace, purpose, and deep connection. I love leading the STARs, and Londolozi is one of the most remarkable places on Earth. Its healing and transformative powers help me follow my true path year after year, and I delight in the astounding transformations of our STAR participants.
Dr Martha Beck
During the STARs, we create a special type of community together, one that Boyd and Martha have been referring to as a village. Village-building is all about establishing a deeper sense of belonging through shared experiences, particularly adventures.
To build a village, we learn to connect more authentically with ourselves, with one another, and with the energy that we’re made of. It’s this magnificent sense of commonality that is especially magical in a place like Londolozi. When you travel into the heart of the bushveld with an intimate group of like-hearted people and see yourself in that place and in its creatures, you feel connected on an entirely new and exciting level.
Come join us in building a village like no other!
** Please note this is a partnered retreat with Dr Martha Beck whose original thinking and teaching formed the touch stone for retreats at Londolozi. All rates are subject to change based on the fluctuation in the exchange rate
Your Adventure Begins...
Day 1 Arrival Day
Welcome to the STAR Retreat
MiddayArrival
Arrive at Londolozi, Check in [Actual arrival times will vary.]
Once Settled inTea and Introductions
“Tea” does not accurately describe the afternoon meals at Londolozi. You’ll be treated to a delicious and filling meal of a blend of traditional teatime treats, South African dishes and light noshes. The iced coffee is not to be missed!
15:00Game Drive
We’ll waste no time getting you out into the bush. You’ll observe the gorgeous landscape and enchanting animals from an open Land Rover, accompanied by Martha, her backup team, guides, and trackers. Assisted by the coaching process, you’ll find that the close encounters with nature at its wildest draw you further away from life stress and deeper into peace.
19:00Dinner
We’ll return from the game drive and go directly to dinner and the evening coaching session. You’ll be served a gourmet meal in the cozy outdoor setting of the “boma.” We’ll process what you saw and experienced during the silent game drive and begin diving into tracking your purpose. Be forewarned: one local hyena, affectionately nicknamed “Gorgy,” has developed a habit of dashing through the boma and stealing from the cheese platter.
Day 2 Entering Inner Peace
Sink into your first full day on retreat
06:00Game Drive
On the game drive that begins this day, you’ll implement strategies for quieting your thoughts and enhancing your sense perceptions. In the past, we’ve found that animals respond to us very differently — with no fear or tension — as the group becomes more deeply calm. This experience will help you “hold” the energy of peace back in your ordinary life.
10:00Breakfast and Morning Coaching Session
Martha will join the group and coach each person to release specific anxiety-producing patterns, habits, and thoughts. As these dissolve, you’ll sense the core of peace that can continue to direct your life long after your STAR experience is complete.
12:00 - 15:00 Midday Integration/Rest Break
We’ve found that between jet lag, early mornings, and profound insights, time for rest, reflection, and integration is an essential part of the STAR experience. You can nap, journal, take a yoga class, get a massage, or relax on your private deck and take in the view.
15:00Afternoon Tea/Game Drive
On this game drive, you will enter into an active “conversation” with the wilderness, realizing that you are not separate from nature but part of it — and as such, you are part of its communication system. We have found that our STAR participants often receive dramatic guidance from the land and animals at this stage in the coaching process.
18:00Dinner/Fire Circle
We’ll continue the coaching process and debrief the game drive over dinn
Day 3 Tracking Your Purpose
Experience the ancient art of tracking and how it relates to finding your life's purpose
06:00On Foot Tracking Exercise/Game Drive
“How did I lose track of my right life?” Almost everyone in civilized society asks this question at some point. When you experience this tracking exercise — learning ancient methods of tracking large animals such as rhinos or elephants — you’ll realize that the very skills you need to live your right life are being awakened within you. Half of the group will track during the morning game drive, and the other half in the afternoon. The non-tracking group will go on a game drive as usual.
10:00Breakfast and Morning Coaching Session
Martha will join the group and debrief with the morning’s trackers. You will begin to understand viscerally how tracking is the ideal metaphor for finding your right life.
12:00 - 15:00Midday Integration/Rest Break
We’ve found that between jet lag, early mornings, and profound insights, time for rest, reflection, and integration is an essential part of the STAR experience. You can nap, journal, take a yoga class, get a massage, or relax on your private deck and take in the view.
15:00Afternoon Tea/Game Drive/Tracking
Continuation of morning Tracking Exercise.
18:00Dinner/Evening Coaching Session
Continuation of the tracking exercise debrief.
Day 4 Embracing your power
Open up to more lessons from the wild
06:00Game Drive
This morning begins with a very simple experience: watching nature wake up. From an unusual perspective, you will see the savannah’s “night shift” end and the “day shift” begin. This truly is the greatest show on Earth — and you are an integral part of it.
10:00Breakfast and Morning Coaching Session
Martha will help you shape the ideas and inspiration that are rising to the surface of your consciousness into form. With this guidance, you will learn the skills necessary to connect into your deeper wisdom so that you may guide your life more confidently and joyfully beyond the bushveld.
11:30 Londolozi Learning Centre/Midday Break
Tour Londolozi’s learning center and learn about the Good Work Foundation and its mission to revolutionize learning in Africa and the world.
15:00 Afternoon Tea/Game Drive
This game drive is about empowering you to follow through on the plans you’ve created during coaching sessions. You’ll find information in nature — sometimes from the most unexpected sources — that you can help solve the problems of your everyday life and embrace a more powerful version of yourself.
18:00Dinner/Fire Circle
A celebratory dinner! Expect the unexpected!
Day 5 Receiving your Practice
Closing out your retreat experience
06:00 - 10:00 Final Game Drive, Breakfast and Closing Session
Whatever your personal insights from the STAR experience, Martha and the group will help you design a continuing practice to sustain your connection to your true nature. This practice will be both intrinsically rewarding and profoundly life- enhancing. We’ll send you off with hugs, group photos, and a lifetime of memories.
11:00Departure
Plane departs from Londolozi's airstrip
You've reached the end of your adventure
FAQ
Through our wilderness retreats we have partnered with the world’s leading wellness experts, life coaches, wisdom keepers and shamans to craft experiential learning spaces that accelerate awakening and allow people to radically shift towards a mission orientated life. Dr Martha Beck is one of our signature partners (in fact, taught us everything we know).
Your experience at Londolozi will change lives in the most direct way. Martha does not make any money from the STARs; instead she leaves the money in South Africa, where it can do the most good. All STAR profits go to the Good Work Foundation,
a world-changing nonprofit bringing digital education to rural communities, which of course means bringing genuine opportunities to thousands of people who otherwise would not have them.
It’s always wonderful to experience the African wilderness. However, the STAR takes that experience and turns it into an all-out embrace of your own inner nature. Every waking moment of the STAR has
been carefully designed to help you connect with your essential self and rediscover the joy you were born to experience. This is much, much more than a safari. Some of the most highly trained experts in the world will be focusing intense attention on you, helping make the experience luxurious, exciting, deeply rewarding, and intensely life-transforming.
Aside from a coaching intensive like no other, the centerpiece of the STAR experience is Londolozi itself. The managers of Londolozi set out to “restore Eden” (the very word Londolozi means “protector
of all living things”). The spirit and feeling of this location are completely indescribable – that’s why we’re inviting you half way around the world to experience it for yourself. The animals seem to be affected by this ambience; they respond to humans in ways that are almost nurturing, always enlightening, and different from similar encounters even in other African locations. This is simply like no other place on earth.
You will not only receive personal attention from me during the coaching sessions, we will also share many adventures, meals and general festivities that are included on the itinerary. I see this as
my chance to do the kind of deep, client-focused coaching I most enjoy.
We can accommodate any level of physical fitness. You’ll have an opportunity to do activities (such as yoga) at whatever level of intensity feels comfortable to you. You may choose to do some
light walking but no more than an hour a day, at the most. If you love exercise, you can enjoy Londolozi’s workout facilities and world-class instructors.
A practice will be custom-designed specifically for you during the coaching sessions. This will help you sustain the positive experience of the STAR through a simple, pleasurable sustained activity.
Participants often form lasting friendships that continue to benefit them after the STAR.
You’ll be asked to have a staff member accompany you if you want to leave the camp (for example, to jog) or walk around when it is dark. Though animals regularly pass through the camp, no one has ever
been seriously harmed at Londolozi because every precaution is taken to maintain your safety.
We recommend that you arrive in Johannesburg one to two days ahead of time to recuperate from jet lag. Your flight from Johannesburg to Londolozi and back will be booked by the Londolozi staff and is covered as part of your cost for the STAR. You’ll arrive
at Londolozi the first day of your STAR and depart mid-day at the conclusion of the program. If you wish to extend your stay at Londolozi beyond the end of the STAR, you may contact Emma Goodman at emma@londolozi.co.za.
Yes, if space is available. You will be responsible for any charges outside of the STAR dates. If you wish to extend your stay at Londolozi beyond the end of the STAR, you may contact Emma Goodman at emma@londolozi.co.za to check availability and rates.
If you registered for double occupancy, you will be assigned a roommate. The suites you’ll occupy are very spacious, and many people come on their own.
With the exception of airfare from your hometown, hotel in Johannesburg, gratuities for the staff at Londolozi, and any incidental purchases, all expenses (including accommodations, flight to and
from Johannesburg to Londolozi, meals, activities, and game drives) are included.
Please note that only STAR participants are allowed on the African STAR, and to stay in the rooms, even in the single rooms. This is because all of the game drives, meals and resources of Tree
Camp are part of the STAR while it’s in session, so it’s not possible to offer your non-participating companion the services they require. You’re welcome to arrange to come early or stay on at Londolozi before or after the STAR. You can make those arrangements separately on a space-available basis. We give you the information on how to do that once your application is accepted and you’ve registered.
Since June is late autumn/early winter in South Africa, it will be warm when the sun is out and may be quite cold (and we aren’t kidding!) when the sun sets. The atmosphere at Londolozi is very casual
and dinner is outside so dressing for dinner means layering up. Here are some things to include when you pack: long and short sleeve tees, sweaters or sweatshirts, comfortable pants and shorts/skirts, walking shoes and/or hiking boots or suitable trainers, sun hat and sun glasses, sunscreen, wind breaker, warm fleece, down or bush jacket, gloves and hat. Please note that Federal Air has a luggage limit of one bag weighing 20kgs (44 lbs) per person, in a soft sided bag if possible. You may store additional bags securely and at no charge at the Federal Air terminal and pick them up after the STAR.
Londolozi is technically located in a malaria area, though the disease is not at all common there. You should talk to your doctor or travel health clinic about ways to prevent malaria (e.g. taking
anti-malaria pills). For more information, go to the Centers for Disease Control website.
There have been no cases of Ebola in South Africa.
Unfortunately, we are not able to offer scholarships or discounts for the STAR. All costs related to the STAR are fixed, and of course,
all profits go to the Good Work Foundation which is helping to bring digital literacy to rural Africa.
