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Presence & Essence

Retreat with Pema Salem

Dates: 29 December 2024 – 3 January 2025
Venue: Bodhi Khaya, Standford, South Africa

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Welcome to this New Year's retreat at Bodhi Khaya:
a Truly Intimate time in the Deeply Sacred flow of Life

We welcome you to embrace the full experience of Returning Home to an inner foundation of true intimacy with your Core, body and Being, in a beautiful, safely and sacredly Held environment.

You are invited to join Pema into deep relaxation, into Presence and Essence, into intimacy and union with Reality. All the way from your Empty and pre-existential Core, over your recognition as Love and all the way into the Earth, intimacy and realisation as the Power of Creation. It is an invitation to meet yourself in Truth, which allows for a full relaxation into your innermost Being and the recognition of your true nature – as the boundless Joy of Infinity in Intimacy – fully inclusive of fulfilment in every level of our human existence.

"Welcome to the Potentiality and Wonder of your own existence - that lies in each and every moment - waiting to be uncovered through your healing, resolution and realisation - in its call Home and back to Source."

― Pema Salem

What is Presence & Essence?

Our Daily Schedule
Daily satsang session, pure transmission through meditation and a natural flow between enjoyment, rest, movement meditation, dancing, bonfires, forest walks, sauna’s and lily-pond dips…
A Truly Intimate Ceremonial Celebration

For the year-end and a guided journey through the portal of time into 2025

Pema will lead us in ceremony, meditation and movement to gently remove the masks and self-defences we have built up and leave them on the threshold of the new dawn, so we can enter the New Year unmasked and strong in our true vulnerability and nakedness.

After the ceremony we will gather around the bonfire enjoying kirtan, prayer, medicine songs, mantra and silence. Be welcome to bring your drums, shakers and other instruments!

True intimacy with your core, body and being

Catering

We cater three vegetarian meals per day and accommodate reasonable dietary needs. Bodhi Khaya has a reputation for delicious, nurturing & nourishing country food using organic, seasonal produce fresh from the garden and other locally sourced fresh ingredients, combined with the cook’s spontaneous creativity! Vegan diets are easily catered for.

Bodywork / Massage

Bodhi Khaya has a dedicated space and team for bodywork and customised holistic treatments. Be welcome to book a 60 or 90 minute session for your own account.

“Peace, Pleasure and Play - being our natural state and movement in life - is an invitation back to your vulnerability, your True Intelligence, your innocence.”

― Pema Salem

Your Facilitators

Pema Salem

Inspirator & Guide

Pema Salem, 44 years, living on Møn island, Denmark. Inspirator and guide into union with Reality on all levels of life, love and being – as realisation and full application of the Deepest of Intimacy, Wildest of Wonder and actualisation of the True Human Potential.

Pema Salem was born in Denmark by Danish mother and Egyptian father. She grew up in a smaller town, with parents owning bars and cafe’s. She educated from Copenhagen Business School with a bachelor degree and continued unto IT-University around the same time, where she got married and had a boy child. Which was when the radical journey into Truth began.

At age 22, she started dissolving all which was built up and surrendered fully to the road of Life in Love. A road which expanded her consciousness into cosmic consciousness in 1,5 years. After living as cosmic consciousness for 5 years, teaching around the world, she went into solitary retreat. To later emerge back into context after 2,5 years of immersing herself in and realising beyond the beyond; the Primordial Silence.

The journey went on to re-emergence of landing back into the ground. Embodiment, practicality, healing trauma, uprooting conditioning, ancestral work, womb emergence – human wholeness, purification of sexuality, passion and power. Years which brought Pema into Beauty of marriage, creativity, animals and much more. A journey which keeps on revealing more gifts.

Rhianne van der Linde

Organiser

Rhianne van der Linde is an avid alchemist and a dedicated dreamer with a depth of knowledge and experience of transforming the mundane into the magical. Her knowing that embodiment is rooted in relaxation and that every breath is an opportunity for us to wake-up to the bliss that is our birthright, inspires her to co-create intimate spaces for vulnerable exploration and sharing in Truth.

Specialities: Breathwork, Dreamwork, Shadow Exploration & Integration, Sexual Awakening for Women, Embodiment and Somatic practices, Body De-armouring.

To enquire about booking a one-on-one personal session you can email Rhianne: rhianne@shaktishiva.academy

Feedback from past attendees

"The Retreat with Pema Salem over New Year was magical . Breathwork, dips in the lilly pond, sauna, nourishing food, wonderful people, meditation, movement, music and amazing Satsang and sittings where I got to learn so much about resting into and being in my body. All of my favourite things. I couldn’t think of a better way to end off and start a New Year."
Megan Coetzee (Numerologist and Business Woman)Somerset West, Western Cape
Pema Salem Retreat - Testimonial- Megan Coetzee
"Sitting with Pema has, above all, offered me a safe space to step deeper into my vulnerability. I am asked to “show-up” and meet LIFE/ FEMININE/ HER honestly, truthfully, and very humble... Being seen naked with all my “flaws” that I have not fully excepted myself, I find, is terrifying and utterly beautiful at the same time. I am allowed to “break -open” to “surrender” to “fall” with the knowing of being in a held space where-, and with whom I feel totally safe. Sitting with Pema, is learning to build my capacity to feel content with who I am today, - and it is inviting me to challenge the idea of who I want to manifest into, as a Man, tomorrow."
Sandro Maag (architecture – design - development)Plettenberg Bay, South Africa
Pema Salem Retreat - Testimonial- Sandro Maag
"We sat either in silence or with music and dropped deeper into ourselves, held in deep compassion and wisdom and community. We were surrounded by nature’s beauty, gorgeous food, amazing people to share with, and beautiful water and lily pond to swim in daily. It was the best thing I could have chosen for myself at the end of a tough year. I will do it again."
Angela Hough-Maxwell (Psychologist)Cape Town, South Africa
Pema Salem Retreat - Testimonial- Angela Hough-Maxwell
"I’ve been on a few yoga retreats over the years but nothing could have prepared me for the New Years experience with Pema Salem at Bodhi Khaya. On day one, it became very clear that this was something wildly out of my comfort zone and would take me to some inner worlds I’ve never had the space or guidance to explore. With every session, I dropped deeper and deeper into my self, into Her and discovered things I had never known, and yet somehow always known. The movement meditation encouraged me to drop my mask and explore what it’s like to move for nobody, but my body. The breathwork session with Rhianne cracked me open and allowed years of suppressed grief to flow. Swimming in the lily ponds each morning reminded me of the soft little animal I am and how nature is the only portal to full and deep homecoming. The retreat shifted things in me that have not and will not settle in the same way ever again and I walk this earth forever changed because of it."
Gabi Mostert (Creative Director)Muizenberg, South Africa
Pema Salem Retreat - Testimonial- Gabi Mostert
"Pema inspired me to relax, and rest in my Being. She encouraged me to listen to my body, and meet the unknown of life with a deeper trust, especially in times of contraction. I feel a new commitment to live from the ground of my connection to Source, while embracing the ever moving human process."
Annika Nicol (Psychologist)Scarborough, South Africa
Pema Salem Retreat - Testimonial- Annika Nicol
"So far, 2024 is gently underpinned by an embodied connection to the divine. This was my New Year’s wish for myself on retreat with Pema Salem at Bodhi Khaya. As I write this, I see and feel Pema before us ~ deeply listening while imparting practical wisdom for living a good life. We were nourished by her teachings, the silence, the music, by one another’s presence, the food and indulged in love by the natural beauty of Bodhi Khaya. I’m delighted that this retreat will be offered again at this year end ~ I will be there."
Karin Ritchie (Trauma Therapist & Business Woman) Sedgefield, South Africa
Pema Salem Retreat - Testimonial- Karin Ritchie
"Time spent in the company of Pema Salem, is intimate and intense. There’s no place to hide, just to surrender, drop into what arises, and feel it until stillness embraces all of it. A true blessing!!!"
Lolla Odendaal (Wilderness Guide, Vision Quest & Sweat Lodge Facilitator)Redhill, South Africa
Pema Salem Retreat - Testimonial- Lolla Odendaal
"My knowing is that there is no greater freedom than becoming more of who I really am and sitting with Pema is an invitation to exactly that - a radical unravelling and undoing - an efficient emptying out of all that is not real. Pema’s capacity for intimacy stretches me to the mysterious edges of reality, her Silence calls me into the bliss of emptiness, her Compassion for the human condition expands my heart wide open, her Being calls me deeper into the body of sensation. Her Presence is Essential in this ongoing awakening to reality…"
Rhianne van der Linde (Principal & Senior Faculty at Shakti Shiva Academy)Redhill, South Africa
Pema Salem Retreat - Testimonial- Rhianne van der Linde
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Investment

Prices include all accommodation, meals & facilitation as detailed above
Prices are per person (sharing or single)

From: R17,932 / month for 2 months

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F.A.Q

Who is this retreat for?

This retreat is for people who wish to enter more deeply into their own healing process. Open to both individuals & couples, this retreat serves as a portal to uncharted realms of self and unparalleled potentialities. While not designed as a practitioner course, many professionals value the unique techniques and perspectives presented. This retreat is open to both male and female bodied beings. Single or partnered. Whatever your relationship status, and however your sexuality expresses, you’re welcome just as you are. 

Yes, you’re welcome to participate on your own.  Whether you’re single or in partnership / relationship, this retreat is designed as a solo experience alongside and together with others.  You will have the opportunity to deepen in intimacy with yourself and with others. There are solo, partner, small group and whole group practices included in the retreat program.

Yes, please take your time to complete the application form as it is of great support in enabling us to co-create a powerful and rich experience for all of us.  We hugely appreciate your care & consideration with this.

  • Travel to and from Bodhi Khaya Nature Retreat, South Africa
  • VISA fees if applicable
  • Additional Treatments
  • Gratuities
  • Gifts, curio’s & items of a personal nature
  • Fully facilitated retreat programme including mastering Tantric Body De-armouring (TBD), guided and spontaneous movement meditations, awakened breath and other transformative rituals, ceremonies and practices
  • Accommodation of your choice (single or shared)
  • All meals (vegan)
  • The closest airport is Cape Town International.
  • The drive from Cape Town to Bodhi Khaya Nature Retreat is approx. 3hrs.
  • We will connect all participants for lift sharing purposes.
  • A shuttle bus from Cape Town to Bodhi Khaya Nature Retreat (return) can be arranged at an additional cost depending on how many participants require this service.
  • Cancellation up to and inc. 31 July 2024: Full refund (less 5% admin/banking fees)
  • Cancellation up to and inc. 31 August 2024: 50% refund
  • Cancellation up to and inc. 15 September 2024: 25% refund
  • Should you cancel after 15 September 2024: no refund will be due to you and you will forfeit any deposit/ payment made

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