Presence & Essence

Retreat with Pema Salem

Dates: 28 December 2024 – 2 January 2025
Venue: Bodhi Khaya, Standford, South Africa

Welcome to this New Year's retreat at Bodhi Khaya:
a Truly Intimate and Transformative 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?

“Presencing is something the Masculine does, Essence is what has the possibility of arriving when there is Presence. So we need to learn Presence for Essence to happen….and Essence itself is when She comes into the body as the frequency of the maturity; it is the God given Grace in you.”

― Pema Salem

You’re invited to join Pema Salem deeply in the Natural Flow and Stream of Life in evolution and cultivation of Truth – in waves of Satsang and Essential Un:learning – Playing yourself into union with All-Inclusive Reality and Source.

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!

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…

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 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.

“With knowing comes responsibility. As wisdom, bowing to the All-Inclusion by centering into the Core of Being. Where every single situation, moment alone as well as together, in the city or in nature is called to ripple forth from that same Core. Of course, as human, that reflects into various feelings that need to be met, held with self-love, and passed through the mouth of that Being.”

― Pema Salem

Your Facilitators

Pema Salem

Inspirator & Guide

Pema Salem, 45 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.

Read more about Pema here

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.

Truth as emptiness and Truth as embodiment – as consciousness expressing in form, in beautiful breathing bodies of love…it is this language of the heart, this feminine language of embodiment & feeling that I am most interested in learning and sharing.

Read more about Rhianne here

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

"I cannot think of many more pleasurable and profound ways to enter into a New year. Pema Salem’s unique presence embedded in the heart of Bodhi Khaya allows for an explorative dive into Naturalness. Silence and connection, stillness and movement, saunas, lily-pond dips and food to die for. Come exactly as you are and leave changed."

Julia Mary Chesselet (Psychologist)Kommetjie, South Africa

"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

"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

"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 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

"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

"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

"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

"Being on Pema's New Year retreat with my partner is the greatest gift we could give ourselves as a couple. This year saw us in transition moving into our 'empty-nest' years. What unfolded was a rich exploration and delicious invitation into our next evolution, individually and together. I feel deeply met, seen, understood and celebrated as a woman, both in dedication to her own life and in devotion to my beloved. The venue at Bodhi Khaya offers a beautiful setting that held us in rest, inquiry, gentleness and play. Thank you Pema. I loved being with you again. See you next year!"

Lorienne Oshen (Woman - Lover - Mother - Well-being Weaver)Plettenberg Bay, South Africa

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

1. Complete the Application Form:

2. Choose your Accommodation & Payment Plan method:

Accommodation (Cloister, Courtyard – Sharing, Courtyard – SINGLE, Garden Room – Sharing, Garden Room – SINGLE or Camping BYO Tent & Bedding)
Payment Plan (Single Payment, 2 Monthly Payments or 3 Monthly Payments)
EFT Option – available for South Africans – please email info@shaktishiva.academy for banking details

3. If you have any questions, we invite you to schedule a discovery call

Together we respond to the Deep Call for Joy and Wholeness, in sitting with Pema Salem in a space of Beauty and Grace – with ongoing explorations into the soulfully naked, the deeply explorative and the truly touching and transformative.

F.A.Q

Who is this retreat for?

Pema is a mixture of an embodied, down to Earth and Soul-infused woman & a true, powerful guide in truth and in those stormy times, when life can be so confusing and challenging. She is teaching about how to align our masculine & feminine energies in sacred union, about relationships, sexuality, about the Earth & our bodies, how to feel deeper, how to take responsibility for our life experience & how to open to the valleys of vulnerability – for true healing to occur.

In Pema’s Retreats you have a real chance to change your life.

This retreat is a composition of simply being in conversation with Pema & deep meditation practises & movement – while meditating with Pema feels like reaching the endlessness of the sky and dancing with Pema feels like a prayer for the Earth.

Most likely you will leave this retreat with a deeper understanding of yourself, with clarity and direction for your next steps in your personal life, with a re-integration of some young parts of you, and a huge bag of inspiration and soul remembrance

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.

Is it compulsory to complete the participant application & consent form?

Yes, please take your time to complete the participation 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. Complete the form HERE

What's included in my retreat fees?

Fully facilitated retreat programme with Pema Salem including Satsang, Meditation & Enquiry, Movement Meditation, Vulnerability Practices, Awakened Breath and other transformative rituals, ceremonies and practices
Space for Digestion & self care, rest & reconnect with Nature, sauna & swimming, mountain walks & forest trails
Accommodation of your choice (single or shared)
All meals (vegetarian)

What is your cancellation policy?

Cancellation up to and inc. 31 August 2024: Full refund (less 5% admin/banking fees)
Cancellation up to and inc. 30 September 2024: 75% refund
Cancellation up to and inc. 31 October 2024: 50% refund
Cancellation up to and inc. 30 November 2024: 25% refund
Should you cancel after 1 December 2024: no refund will be due to you and you will forfeit any deposit/ payment made

Presence & Essence

Retreat with Pema Salem

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

"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?

“Presencing is something the Masculine does, Essence is what has the possibility of arriving when there is Presence. So we need to learn Presence for Essence to happen….and Essence itself is when She comes into the body as the frequency of the maturity; it is the God given Grace in you.”

― Pema Salem

You’re invited to join Pema Salem deeply in the Natural Flow and Stream of Life in evolution and cultivation of Truth – in waves of Satsang and Essential Un:learning – Playing yourself into union with All-Inclusive Reality and Source.

A Truly Intimate Ceremonial Celebration

Our Daily Schedule

True intimacy with your core, body and being

Catering

Bodywork / Massage

― Pema Salem

Your Facilitators

Pema Salem

Inspirator & Guide

Rhianne van der Linde

Organiser

Feedback from past attendees

Investment

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

1. Complete the Application Form:

2. Choose your Accommodation & Payment Plan method:

3. If you have any questions, we invite you to schedule a discovery call

Together we respond to the Deep Call for Joy and Wholeness, in sitting with Pema Salem in a space of Beauty and Grace – with ongoing explorations into the soulfully naked, the deeply explorative and the truly touching and transformative.

F.A.Q

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

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