Step Out of the Routine.
Step Into the Wild.
Immersive journeys into untouched nature built for leaders ready to lay down the weight, reset from within, and return with genuine purpose and direction.
Small Groups • Wild Locations • Expert Facilitation
The Retreats Portfolio
Five curated experiences designed to take you out of the routine and into the wild built for those ready to master their mindset, lead with purpose, and create lasting breakthroughs.
MEN'S RETREAT 19–24 FEBRUARY 2027
Untamed Men
Five nights in treetop suites above the floodplain: sweat lodge, firewalk, Hojo sword training at dusk, breathwork every day, and a fire circle every night where the masks come off.
Nambwa Tented Lodge, Namibia · Held by Brett Shuttleworth, Joe van Niekerk, Cobus Visser & Tinolla Rodgers as your Host
PILGRIMAGE 18 TO 28 MAY 2027
Machu Picchu
The trail is not the point. The point is who you become on it.
Ten days on the ancient Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, through the high Andes and the Sacred Valley, over Dead Woman's Pass, and on foot through the Sun Gate for sunrise over the Lost City.
Cusco, the Sacred Valley & the Inca Trail, Peru · Held by Cobus Visser & Tinolla Rodgers
BUSINESS 12–17 MARCH 2027
Business Mastery
Stop working harder at the wrong things
Five intensive days building a complete twelve-month execution blueprint across strategy, revenue, people, systems, finance and AI, with quarterly priorities, owners, KPIs and deadlines before you leave.
Nambwa Tented Lodge, Namibia · Held by Cobus Visser & Tinolla Rodgers
PILGRIMAGE 24 OCTOBER - 4 NOVEMBER 2027
Camino Primitivo
The destination is Santiago. The real journey is back to yourself.
An eight-day walking pilgrimage along the Camino Primitivo, the oldest route to Santiago de Compostela, for leaders and entrepreneurs ready to step away from the noise and lay down the weight they have been carrying alone.
Oviedo to Santiago de Compostela, Spain · Held by Cobus Visser & Tinolla Rodgers
Firewalk Instructor training 30 October to 3 November 2026
FIT Retreat
This elite program is designed exclusively for high-level coaches, consultants, and speakers who want to scale their mastery, learn deep psychological safety protocols, and safely facilitate firewalks globally.
THE CIRCLE OF FACILITATORS
Guided by Those Who Have Walked The Journey
Real transformation doesn’t happen from theory or textbooks. You are guided by leaders who have faced their own breaking points, rebuilt from the inside out, and walked the very path they now hold space for you to walk.
The Viking · Strategy & Firewalk
Cobus Visser
Born with haemophilia, paralysed in 2013, and the man who climbed Kilimanjaro on crutches, now Africa's only Master Firewalking Instructor and Entrepreneur of the Year 2025. He brings growth strategy and practical AI to the boardroom days, and the drum and the coals to the fire circle.
The Warrior Healer
Joe van Niekerk
A fifty-cap Springbok and Toulon Hall of Famer who walked away from the field into one of the most honest transformation journeys in modern sport. Across fifty-plus ceremonies and deep breathwork training he has built a quiet authority you feel before he speaks, he holds the breath, the body and the somatic ground.
Founder, Retreats in the Wild
Tinolla Rodgers
Owner and Managing Director of African Monarch Journeys and Retreats in the Wild, and a hotelier of more than thirty years who now leads a team of 97 and two lodges inside Bwabwata National Park. Having walked her own seasons of loss and rebuilding, she holds the ceremonial thread and the safety of every journey.
The Consciousness Pioneer
Brett Shuttleworth
rom international rugby to modelling and Hollywood, Brett became one of the world's leading consciousness trainers and the creator of HoJo Consciousness Training. He has guided over 200,000 people and more than fifty retreats, and holds the inner architecture, the 7 Sacred Miracles, the I AM principles, the Hojo sword form.
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Every journey meets you at a different point in your life and leadership. Let’s take 30 minutes to look at what you need right now whether that’s stepping away to reset, sharpening your business strategy, or doing deep inner work so you can choose with clarity.
Confidential 1-on-1 • Direct with Our Team • Zero Obligation