BENIN 2024
Join us for a transformational spiritual journey into the birthplace of Vodun and discover its people, rich histories and spiritual heritage.
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Join us for a summer solstice of rest and joyful reclamation by the serene and peaceful Watamu, along the Kenyan Coast!
It is our birthright to live life in a way that is joyful and pleasurable !
Meet the team & cocreators
Adéolá Naomi Adérèmí
Adéolá Naomi Adérèmí MPH is the founder of Ayo Retreats, a Yorùbá-Greek raised in Niger, Nigeria, and Greece and currently living between West Africa and Western Europe.
Her work stands at the intersection of public health science and
the healing power of yoga, dedicating over a decade to collaborating with displaced
communities worldwide.
Her approach extends beyond traditional boundaries, weaving together policy guidance,
impactful communication strategies, and nurturing yoga retreats to craft spaces
fostering collective well-being.
Aderemi’s passion lies in preventing crises by constructing sustainable healing
environments.
Her mission? Empowering organizations to create resilient spaces that prioritize
well-being long before crises unfold.
She believes in cultivating resilience and support systems, proactively ensuring
individuals and communities thrive before reaching a breaking point.
Drawing from a rich blend of expertise in public health, yoga therapy, and community
engagement, Aderemi drives a compassionate yet strategic approach.
She forges paths that seamlessly intertwine well-being strategies with crisis readiness,
empowering communities to flourish in nurturing environments.
Her journey embodies a commitment to creating a world where well-being isn't just
reactive but deeply embedded in every aspect of life, a testament to her unwavering
dedication to humanity's holistic wellness.
Adéolá is a 500 HR-certified yoga therapist and meditation facilitator. In addition to her advocacy, she founded Warrior Woman, a rehabilitation program for displaced trauma survivors.
As a coach, her area of expertise is spirituality coaching rooted in Yorùbá Cosmology for activists, healers, and disruptors. Her work centres on creating healing justice frameworks and infrastructures for activists and change-makers on the frontlines, who require spiritual guidance and protection, with tools such as Reiki, Divination, Herbalism and Tarot consultation.
Yema Ferreira
Yema Ferreira is Angolan and is a healer, psychotherapist, and life coach. Her mission is to spiritually liberate Black and African people all over the world and to be part of the movement to heal the collective trauma of Black people and people of African descent resulting from slavery, colonization, and neo-colonialism. Part of this process is to retrieve and restore Black and African Histories to their people—individual and personal histories, family and community histories, national histories and, importantly, pre-colonial histories.
Yema studied Psychology at the undergraduate level at Temple University in Philadelphia (USA) and later began training in Existential Psychotherapy at Denmark’s Psykoterapeutisk Institut. She has since obtained a Certificate in Psychotherapy and Counselling from Regents University London, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling from the same university. She has subsequently done training in coaching, and study to explore spirituality, build her psychotherapeutic approach and further develop her natural gifts. As a result, she uses a blend of all these skills in her work with women.
Yema’s professional roots are in the women’s movement. She has worked as a counsellor for women survivors of sexual abuse, provided domestic violence counselling on individual and group bases, supported migrant women recovering from trafficking, and helped diverse clients through trauma, depression, anxiety, self-esteem issues, and coping with chronic illness among other difficulties.
Muthoni Njogu
Muthoni Njogu is a psychotherapist who supports individuals and couples within the realm of relationships, addiction, trauma and sexuality. She has a B.A in Psychology and Gender Studies from the United States International University-Africa, and is currently pursuing M.A in Marriage and Family Therapy from PAC University in Nairobi.
Muthoni holds additional certifications in Addiction Treatment, Conflict Resolution and Mediation and Sex Therapy.
Muthoni is the Founder and Lead Psychotherapist at the Sakinah Wellness Centre, where she and her team support clients in disrupting limiting self talk and behavior, and co-create with them full explorations of self, in order to enhance authenticity, acceptance and contentment.
Kuku Dabulamafu
Kuku Dabulamafu is a spiritual and indigenous healer initiated and trained through Southern African healing modalities. He has been a Sangoma (African Spiritual Diviner) for over seven years and runs transformative Seminars through his Spirit Politics platform throughout Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. He offers mystical and esoteric counsel and ritual healing rooted in ancient African practices.