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Sexual Awakening for Women

Experience living every day as the Awake Feminine whose sexuality is natural and wild, unfettered by the past, and an expression of deep love and creative abundance.

When: 5 — 12 January 2026
Venue: Klein Cederberg, South Africa

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This immersive retreat invites you to explore the sacred and empowering journey of awakening to your sexuality as a gateway to self-love, vitality, and spiritual connection.

It is for women who are ready to awaken into the bright power and luminous love that is at the core of our sexuality as women.

Join Rhianne and Valentina for a transformative journey into the heart of deep feminine awakening with our Sexual Awakening for Women retreat, inspired by the profound teachings of Shakti Malan – founder of Shakti Shiva Academy.

This retreat invites you to rediscover your sensuality as a sacred and creative force, offering a safe and supportive space to heal, explore, and embrace the fullness of your feminine power.

It’s for open-hearted-and-minded, curious lovers of truth, and lovers of love.  This retreat provides an opportunity to deep dive into what it is to be a fully-realised, multi-dimensional, consciously embodied woman, in intimate, authentic relationship with Self, others and the planet.

It is time to wake up, and live from the core juicy essence of our true feminine!

Our journey begins with gently releasing the layers of conditioning that have dulled or distorted our connection to sexuality — including societal norms, ancestral imprints, and inner splits like the virgin/whore dichotomy.

Through breathwork, movement, dance, creative expression, journaling, and shared ritual, you’ll be guided to soften and re-enter your body from within. This process invites you to reconnect with the fluid, spiraling, and deeply alive nature of your authentic feminine sexual energy.

You’ll be guided through practical, embodied exercises that support you in reconnecting with your yoni as a sacred vessel — a deep source of inner wisdom and intuitive intelligence. As you awaken this connection, you’ll begin to feel more clarity, vitality, and ease in your body. Sexual energy, once unlocked, naturally flows through the whole system, opening pathways to bliss, deeper presence, and more intimate connection with yourself and others.

This retreat invites you to rediscover your sensuality as a sacred and creative force, offering a safe and supportive space to heal, explore, and embrace the fullness of your feminine power.

"Our Beautiful Bodies of Love carry the keys to our Freedom, they are the portals to our Ancient Remembering of the Truth of who we really are."

rhianne van der linde

Join us for this powerful journey where you'll be guided into deep intimacy with your feminine sexual essence

Together, we will explore the unique qualities of your sensual and erotic energy, coming into a vibrant connection with your yoni/vagina and awakening the life force within. Through somatic practices and subtle energetic work, you’ll clear blockages in the upward flow of sexual energy and release the barriers that have dulled your sense of power, pleasure, and clarity. This retreat supports you in meeting and transforming suppressed anger into awakened presence, deepening the dance between your inner masculine and feminine, and softening the layers that keep your heart guarded.

As your heart opens to its more subtle dimensions, your body’s capacity for bliss, sensitivity, and radiance naturally expands.

Your Eros connects you to all that exists. Your Sexuality is what gives you the will to live. And love. It’s the essence of you.

valentina leo

Our venue:

Klein Cederberg Nature Reserve

Klein Cederberg’s inspiration is art, wilderness, and ecological conservation.

The peaceful, private, and rustic back-to-nature atmosphere of Klein Cederberg is the perfect venue for our gathering of women.

Immersed in pristine nature, together we’ll unplug, unravel & unwind…

Read more about our Retreat Venue here

Feedback from past attendees

“Engaging in Shakti’s work with sexual awakening for women has been one of the most profound openings in my life - a portal into a deeper understanding and embodied relationship with the intersection between sexuality and spirituality. I hope that all women have the opportunity to be touched by her offerings..."
~ Zoe Sipe (marriage & family therapist, certified sex therapist)
~ Zoe Sipe (marriage & family therapist, certified sex therapist)Oakland, California, USA
""The Sexual Awakening for Women work has been so opening to my relationship with my daughter and to our sharing together as women. What a rich gift.”
~ Jan Bull (Acupuncturist & Qi-Gong Teacher)
~ Jan Bull (Acupuncturist & Qi-Gong Teacher)Toronto, Canada
“What I found was a new way of being, of relating to myself, to my body and to other women. I found a new way of thriving in this world. What I found was a kind of sexuality I never dreamed of…Empowered, Present, Incarnated, mine, mine, MINE”
~ Paula González Collado (Enneagramist & Ontological Coach)
~ Paula González Collado (Enneagramist & Ontological Coach)Santiago, Chile
"This course changed my life, it is where I truly discovered and learnt to LOVE my yoni."
~ Colette Rose Pontac (IT by day, Burlesque by night, Psychology Masters student)
~ Colette Rose Pontac (IT by day, Burlesque by night, Psychology Masters student)Cape Town, South Africa
"My sexual awakening for women journey started in 2014. I had already started exploring my sexuality, but was in a stranglehold from the guilt and shame of that exploration and recognised that I needed to be guided, that I needed a teacher. As Shakti guided our group of women, from all around the world, there were three most profound shifts that happened for me: I began to feel and see my sexuality as a gateway to my divinity, that I feel moment by moment, in my body. I began cultivating an honourable love relationship with my pussy, and I wanted to belong to a conscious tribe of sexual beings that would allow me to sink deeper into the truth of who I am."
~ Ridwana Jooma (Sexuality and Relationship Coach)
~ Ridwana Jooma (Sexuality and Relationship Coach) Johannesburg, South Africa
"Shakti's tremendous gift was to capture and express the rich, deep and mysterious essence of feminine sexuality. Her anthropological background recognised and refined the conditionings that have historically layered women's natural birthright. And with a unique formless formula she guides to unlock this powerful force for awakening. Her profound transmission lives on - circles of women gathering, sharing, expanding!"
~ Julia Mary Chesselet (Clinical Psychologist)
~ Julia Mary Chesselet (Clinical Psychologist)Kommetjie, Cape Town
"As a full-time mother, I felt I never had time for myself. And I have been realising that my spiritual journey means more to me than I ever thought. Over the last few years, I have felt disconnected, lost my power, lost myself really. For me really the biggest gift of this training was that I made time for myself, to do the practices, to join the calls. It really forced me to do that. And it helped me to realise that actually, it is possible. The ongoing calls and practices every week gave me the opportunity to integrate the experiences and teachings into my daily life.”
~ Eliza Prem Meera (Mother, Tantrika, CEO at Madde Vintage)
~ Eliza Prem Meera (Mother, Tantrika, CEO at Madde Vintage) Riga, Latvia
"This course changed me. And, of course, my life. My relationship with my husband was not only saved, but considerably deepened. I now feel loved, fulfilled, met and connected where before I felt invisible, frustrated and alone. Investigating, and then effortlessly untangling many of the frameworks I had unconsciously imbued from my parents, school, society etc has been absolutely freeing. What was particularly delightful was how gracefully the changes happened. The enormous forcefield manifested by the women on the course created a matrix that enabled change to occur simply by being, and being curious. "
~ Christine Bayley (Artist & Entrepreneur)
~ Christine Bayley (Artist & Entrepreneur) Scarborough, South Africa

Booking Process:

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

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  • Accommodation: Single Bed in Dorm with shared bathroom (6-8 beds), Single Bed in shared room w/shared bathroom (2-3 beds), SINGLE w/ensuite bathroom, Camping – BYO tent
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Facilitation Team

Rhianne van der Linde

SENIOR FACULTY

Rhianne walked alongside Shakti managing all of her in-person workshops and retreats from 2010 until her death in 2017. Being in Shakti’s flight path has been one of the greatest gifts in my life and as principal and senior faculty at the Shakti Shiva Academy, I remain totally in-service to the co-creation of intimate online and retreat spaces for vulnerable & embodied sharing.

An avid alchemist and a dedicated dreamer with a depth of knowledge and experience of transforming the mundane into the magical, my personal explorations have led me into working with dreams, as a companion to those busy with their journey of dying, exploring the breath as a thread connecting us directly to source & processing and ritual with groups in wild nature.

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.

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

Valentina Leo

SENIOR FACULTY

Based in Cape Town, Valentina Leo (a.k.a. Mrslove) is an Artist, a Lover, a Mother and a Fool. A Tantric Practitioner, teacher of Enlightened Sexuality and an Explorer of the Tantric Realms for over 15 years. Initiated into the embodied wisdom of Human Sexuality by Shakti Malan, Valentina is a Dakini and devoted student of the Traditional Kaula-Tanra lineage of Kashmir Shivaism that recognises the body as Vibration, Space and a Celebration of Cosmic Divinity

Valentina is known for her unique talent in creating safe and sacred spaces where seekers of all ages can claim their own Spiritual Eroticism. With grace, charm and humour, she has guided and supported many men and women on their sacred journey towards themselves. From this place, ultimate Freedom can be experienced as the True Essence of Love – which is the heart of all Tantric teachings.

Her deepest desire is to birth a generation of TRUE LOVERS to populate our Beautiful Planet. Italian by birth she has been living in Cape Town for over two decades, offering classes, retreats and private sessions.

Specialities: Tantra Yoga, Kashmiri massage, Tandava, Advait Tantra (non-duality), BlissDance
 
Learn more about Valentina here.

F.A.Q

Who is this retreat for?

The Sexual Awakening for Women Retreat is designed for female bodied beings who’s deepest desire is to experience living every day as the Awake Feminine whose sexuality is natural and wild, unfettered by the past, and an expression of deep love and creative abundance.

It’s for open-hearted-and-minded, curious lovers of truth, and lovers of love.  This retreat provides an opportunity to deep dive into what it is to be a fully-realised, multi-dimensional, consciously embodied woman, in intimate, authentic relationship with Self, others and the planet.

We explore our true essence, devoid of trauma, social conditioning and unconscious habits of focus, and we become the compassionate space within which every aspect of self is welcomed back home.  We learn to work with the nervous system and egoic mind, and we gently de-armour our physical, emotional and spiritual barriers to following our true desire and purpose.

This retreat is particularly valuable for somatic practitioners, body workers, sexual intimacy coaches, psychologists, family constellatators, red tent + other women’s circles facilitators, yoga instructors, conscious dancers, midwives, breath workers, and so on.  It provides a rich array of embodied practices, tools and exercises to support students to harness their erotic consciousness to heal, grow, transform and expand.

All of you is welcome. 

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 from home country to South Africa
  • Gratuities
  • Gifts, curio’s & personal items
  • Travel to and from Klein Cederberg Nature Reserve
  • Fully facilitated Sexual Awakening for Women Retreat programme with Valentina, & Rhianne including guided and spontaneous movement meditations and practices, awakened breath work, rites of passage and ceremony
  • Accommodation of your choice
  • All meals (vegetarian)
  • The closest airport to fly into is Cape Town International.  
  • We advise arriving a minimum of 1 day early and overnighting in Cape Town, fresh and ready for transfer to Klein Cederberg on Monday 5 January 2026.
  • Cape Town is a modern, cosmopolitan city surrounded by nature. Lying between Table Mountain and the Atlantic Ocean, it is one of the most sought-after holiday destinations around the globe. 
  • Cape Town is a wonderful city to spend at the very least a few days in as a tourist. Please connect with Rhianne should you require any assistance with planning your itinerary. 
  • Klein Cederberg is approximately 195 mins by car from Cape Town. We will connect participants together for lift sharing purposes. We encourage our locally based participants to offer a ride to our international participants & travelers.
  • Shakti Shiva Academy can arrange transport (if required) with a shuttle bus from Cape Town to Klein Cederberg (5 January) as well as from Klein Cederberg back to Cape Town (12 January). Please note this cost will be additional to the retreat cost and is entirely dependent on how many participants require this service.
  • Cancellation up to and inc. 31 August 2025: All payments (less an admin fee of R500) will be refunded to you
  • Cancellation up to and inc. 30 September 2025: 50% of your payments will be refunded to you
  • Cancellation up to and inc. 31 October 2025: 25% of your payments will be refunded to you
  • Should you cancel after 31 October 2025: no refund will be due to you and you will forfeit any and all payments made.

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