Rooted in the Hathor Heka School body of work, this retreat offers an integral path of healing, transformation, and awakening, bringing the body, psyche, soul, and spirit back into relationship.

The body is where we begin: the ground through which we learn to listen, sense, feel, and meet what is alive. From this embodied foundation, we explore the internalised beliefs, emotional patterns, protective structures, and inherited conditioning that shape our experience.

We also open to the archetypal, energetic, shamanic, and spiritual dimensions of life, deepening our awareness of symbols, dreams, ritual, nature, the unseen, and the greater field of intelligence moving through us.

Through this journey, you will be invited to:

• Return to the body as the ground of awareness and inner listening.
• Recognise the beliefs, conditioning, and protective patterns shaping your experience.
• Deepen your relationship with intuition, instinct, dreams, symbols, and embodied knowing.
• Cultivate wholeness by restoring relationship with parts of yourself that have been silenced or exiled.
• Develop sovereignty while remaining available to relationship and community.
• Explore the energetic, archetypal, shamanic, and spiritual dimensions of experience with discernment.
• Reclaim life force, creativity, sensual intelligence, voice, and personal power.
• Reintroduce ritual, beauty, meaning, and sacredness into daily life.

   

It is an invitation to widen your field of awareness, deepen your capacity to listen, and become more available to the intelligence moving through your body, psyche, soul, relationships, and the living world.

THE RETREAT,
DAY BY DAY

Day 1 — Arrival, Landing & Entering the Container

You will be welcomed into the retreat space and supported to settle into the land, the group, and the rhythm of the days ahead.

Alongside practical orientation, this first day is devoted to arriving fully: softening the pace of ordinary life, meeting the body, and creating the conditions for presence, listening, and participation.

Day 2 — The Light as an eternal and transpersonal essence.

We explore the Light as the eternal essence of who we are, the dimension of the self that is not confined to the personality, our conditioning, or this particular experience of incarnation.

This day is an invitation to remember what exists beneath and beyond the personal story, and to deepen our relationship with the luminous essence that moves through the body without being limited by it.

Day 3 — The Dark as matter, immanent feminine consciousness, and cyclical intelligence.

We explore the Dark as matter, the living feminine consciousness that gives form to existence.

Returning to the body and its somatic intelligence, we meet matter as a sacred, immanent realm of consciousness and enter the feminine cycles of birth, death, and rebirth.

Day 4 — Letting Go & Transformation

We meet the places where old identities, beliefs, attachments, and patterns may be ready to loosen.

Rather than forcing release, we create space to witness what is ending, honour what has shaped us, and allow new possibilities to emerge.

Day 5 — Virgil followed by the evening initiation ceremony.

This day is held in silence, creating space for deep listening, integration, and inner preparation.

In the evening, we gather for the Priestess Initiation Ceremony, a threshold ritual that honours what has been revealed, transformed, and remembered throughout the retreat.

Day 6 — Integration, Grounding & Return

The final day is devoted to integration.

We reflect on what has moved, changed, or become visible, and begin translating the retreat experience into everyday life.

Through grounding, practical preparation, and community connection, we close the container with care and honour the transition from retreat space back into the world.

THE WHENUA

Held within the native forest of the Waitākere Ranges, Aio Wira offers a living landscape for retreat, listening, and transformation.

The river, waterfall, open spaces, sauna, and spa invite the body to soften into a slower rhythm and return to relationship with the natural world. The land is not simply the setting for the journey; it is part of the container, supporting rest, reflection, grounding, and a deeper experience of belonging.

NOURISHMENT

Nourishment is an essential part of the retreat experience.

Throughout the six days, you will be offered abundant vegetarian meals, with vegan and gluten-free options, alongside tea and fresh fruit available during the day. The food is prepared with care to support the body, sustain the depth of the work, and bring pleasure, warmth, and beauty into the shared rhythm of retreat.

FOUNDER & LEAD FACILITATOR

SIA HU HEKA

Sia Hu Heka is a mother, somatic educator, ceremonialist, teacher, and founder of the Hathor Heka School.

For more than two decades, she has explored the meeting place between body, psyche, soul, movement, ritual, spirituality, and the unseen dimensions of life. Her work weaves somatic education, psychological inquiry, archetypal wisdom, sacred movement, shamanic practice, and direct experience of the sacred into an integral path of healing and awakening.

The body is the ground of Sia’s work, but not its limit. From embodied awareness, she supports individuals and groups to explore the beliefs, emotional patterns, protective structures, ancestral influences, and archetypal forces shaping their experience, while deepening their relationship with intuition, mystery, and the transpersonal.

Her facilitation is distinguished by deep listening, psychological sensitivity, embodied presence, spiritual discernment, and an ability to respond to the living intelligence of each person and group. Rather than imposing a predetermined outcome, she creates carefully held conditions in which transformation can emerge from within.

Through the Hathor Heka School, Sia brings this body of work into retreats, ceremonial spaces, and long-term journeys devoted to wholeness, sovereignty, relationship, and the remembrance of the organic self.

SUPPORT TEAM

This retreat is supported by women who are journeying through the Hathor Heka School and are continuing to deepen their relationship with its body of work.

They bring practical care, relational sensitivity, grounded presence, and a lived understanding of the body of work, supporting the integrity and rhythm of the retreat container.

A CONTEMPORARY EMBODIED MYSTERY SCHOOL AND CULTURAL MOVEMENT

Hathor Heka is devoted to healing, awakening, and the remembrance of the organic self.

Transformation cannot be sustained through information alone. It must be lived through the body, integrated through relationship, and given form through the way we participate in life.

Across its three-year journey, the school works with somatic awareness, psychology, archetypal inquiry, ritual, dreamwork, creativity, relational practice, and direct experience of the sacred.

These teachings are living maps, inviting each person to listen, feel, question, discern, and discover what is true within their own experience.