Temple WithinEgypt Edition
The mud-brick old town of Shali in Siwa

November 5–15, 2026 · Giza → Siwa Oasis

What your days feel like

The route at a glance

Giza

2 nights · Arrival, Cairo and the plateau

Siwa Oasis

7 nights · Retreat, desert and integration

Giza

Return for airport departures

Giza and Siwa are connected by an approximately eight-hour minivan journey, with breaks along the way.

The days

Mornings share the same rhythm. Everything after that changes day to day.

The itinerary may change with weather, logistics and group energy.

The flow

  1. 12–2 PM suggested arrival in Cairo
  2. Check-in at 2 PM
  3. Welcome dinner at 7 PM
  4. Grounding meditation, welcome kit & introduction to the journey at 8 PM

Someone is waiting with your name at the airport. You check in, settle, and slowly arrive. This first evening is kept soft on purpose. You've traveled, and the only goal tonight is to land.

The flow

  1. Exploring the Giza market: spice, colour, sound and bargaining
  2. Cultural lunch, then a siesta
  3. Connection games: strangers begin to feel like friends
  4. Nile River dinner cruise with live music and performances

Before we turn inward, we let Egypt wake up your curiosity. A light, playful day of markets, food and new friends, ending with dinner on the Nile as Cairo lights up around us.

The flow

  1. Walking the Giza plateau and exploring the pyramids
  2. Meditation at the pyramids: stillness beside something ancient
  3. Lunch overlooking the pyramids
  4. 8-hour journey west into the desert, toward Siwa

An early morning on the Giza plateau, walking among the pyramids while they're still quiet. We sit in meditation in front of monuments 4,500 years old, then leave the city behind for the oasis. The road itself is part of the ritual.

Leaving Cairo for Siwa is the crossing: from the familiar into the unknown.

Interested in joining us?

Start with a short application.

It takes about 10–15 minutes. No payment is required. We’ll read it personally, then arrange an alignment call to see if the journey feels right for both of us.

Date palms in Siwa Oasis

Eight hours west of Cairo

Into the Oasis

A remote Berber oasis ringed by the Great Sand Sea: date palms, glassy salt lakes, hot springs and a sky full of stars. Seven days here — long enough for it to become part of you.

  • Palm groves
  • Salt lakes
  • Great Sand Sea
  • Ancient ruins
  • Oasis pools
  • Hot springs
  • Golden sand
  • Stars
A woman in an orange dress holding a woven shaker beside a sound bowl and ceremonial drum before the opening ceremony

The opening ceremony · November 8

The flow

  1. Long rest, late breakfast, pool & free time
  2. Gentle somatic grounding · arrive fully in your body
  3. Opening Ceremony + New Moon Ritual · plant your intention for the journey
  4. Cacao + Medicine Songs · open the heart and connect as a group
  5. Hot Springs & Stargazing · soak beneath the desert sky

You wake up in the oasis. The day is deliberately slow: sleep, the pool, palms and quiet. Then at sunset we open the circle under a new moon.

The flow

  1. Grounding Hatha yoga to root you back into your body
  2. Salt lakes: floating, mineral water and total ease
  3. Smoothies and sunset on Fatnas Island
  4. Yin, sound healing and Reiki: rest so deep it feels like being put back together

The day your nervous system finally exhales. You float in the salt lakes, where the water is so dense it holds you up, then watch the sunset from Fatnas Island. We end with an evening of deep rest.

The flow

  1. Embodied movement to wake up your energy
  2. Hydroresonance, ice bath and Wim Hof breathing: courage and a natural high
  3. Bonfire release ceremony and integration circle
  4. Bedouin music night: a local Siwan band plays and teaches us to dance

Alive, playful and freeing. You move, you laugh, you meet the cold water and find out how strong you are. By firelight, you let something go. Then the music starts.

The flow

  1. Morning breathwork: a deep release that opens space inside
  2. Pool, rest and optional one-to-one sessions
  3. Desert safari and sunset over the dunes
  4. Dinner in the desert and stargazing in the Great Sand Sea

The deepest day of the journey. Breathwork in the morning, a slow middle of the day, then out into the dunes. The desert, the silence and the sky do most of the work.

The flow

  1. Optional gentle somatic or kundalini practice
  2. Massage circle: learning to give care and to receive it
  3. Free time for the pool, a nap or a massage
  4. Salt cave meditation in small groups: quiet, warm and cocooning
  5. A slow, reflective evening and the hot springs by night

After the desert, nothing more is asked of you. Today you're simply held: warm hands, slow hours, the hush of a salt cave and warm water under the stars. There's nothing to achieve, only care you get to receive.

The flow

  1. Optional sunrise hike up Gebel al-Mawta
  2. Free morning: pool, one-to-one sessions or a massage
  3. Latin and expressive dance: joy and confidence in the body
  4. Hydroresonance and ice bath, then an integration circle

Everything you've felt becomes self-trust. Start with an optional sunrise hike up the Mountain of the Dead, move through a free morning and an afternoon of dance, then close the day in circle.

The flow

  1. Somatic flow and meditation
  2. Closing journey: Secret Angel reveal, Medicine Song Circle and closing ceremony
  3. A last sunset to yourself: journal, rest or just be
  4. Final celebration dinner, then overnight travel to Cairo

We gather everything we've lived and close the circle with care. There are a few surprises, a lot of song, and a final sunset left entirely for you. Then we celebrate.

The flow

  1. Estimated arrival at CAI airport: 6:30 AM
  2. Airport transfers and departures

An early arrival into Cairo, long hugs and airport transfers. Egypt ends here, but the journey keeps going.

Interested in joining us?

Start with a short application.

It takes about 10–15 minutes. No payment is required. We’ll read it personally, then arrange an alignment call to see if the journey feels right for both of us.

Stars over the desert in Siwa

The invitation

Your temple is within.

Egypt is simply the place where we gather to remember it.

November 5–15, 2026 · Giza → Siwa Oasis · 15 guests

November 5–15, 2026

Giza → Siwa Oasis

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