Return | عودة

A Women's Journey in Siwa Oasis

By Eldayra Community

February 6 – 11, 2026

Begin Your Return

✧ The Call

There comes a moment in every woman's path when she hears the whisper

return.

Return to her body, to her womb, to the rhythm of the moon.
Return to softness. To Truth. To her power.
To the wild pulse of her feminine essence.

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This retreat is that return.

An intimate gathering of women in the heart of the Western Egyptian desert, where time slows down and the body remembers.

A sacred container to awaken the wisdom of the womb, live in harmony with the cycles, and embody the inner priestess within.

✧ The Facilitators

Sahar and Sumaya together

Two women walking the path of remembrance, guiding you home.

Sahar - Organizer and Facilitator

Sahar

Organizer and Facilitator

Sahar is an Egyptian medicine woman whose work is rooted in embodiment. Awakening the body through sound, movement, and medicine. Guided by the wisdom of integration, she believes that true healing lies in knowing how to close what opens, how to bring heaven down to earth, and how to live that union fully in the body.

To Sahar, the body is a sacred temple, a vessel of infinite potential and divine intelligence. Through her deep work with Chinese medicine, martial arts, psychology, plant medicines, and music, she invites others to unlock their inner power and remember the vastness that lives within them.

Drawing from her Egyptian and Arabic lineage, Sahar is devoted to reawakening ancient knowledge and reconnecting with the inner source that binds us all. She gathers women on her ancestral lands to taste this beauty, to remember, to feel, and to embody. A pioneer of her generation in the region. Sahar walks the path of integration and embodiment, bridging and harmonizing worlds through presence, movement, and sacred medicine.

Sumaya - Facilitator

Sumaya

Facilitator

Sumaya is a life long devoted researcher of the primal essence "fitra" within creation. A storyteller, somatic breathwork and movement artist.

Deeply immersed in the mysteries of wild nature, body's innate intelligence and a lover of tales and legends, she weaves movement, breath, and imagination into pathways of remembrance.

Her work bridges the poetic and the embodied she uses somatic breathwork, movement, and imagination as tools to help individuals reconnect with their unique truth and authentic expression.

✧ Siwa — The Oasis of Silence

Hidden deep in the Western Desert, Siwa Oasis is a land of salt lakes, palm groves, and ancient temples, an untouched sanctuary of stillness.

Here, the earth holds memory. The air carries prayer.

The salt waters reflect the sky, and every sunrise feels like a beginning.

It is a place where the sacred feminine breathes easily… where the body, the desert, and the moon speak the same language.

✧ Accommodation

The Houses Built by Two Visionary Women

For this retreat, we will be staying in two traditional Siwan houses unlike any others in the oasis.

These homes were built six to seven decades ago by two women who arrived in Siwa when the desert was still untouched, empty, and silent.

No houses.
No farms.
No palm trees.
No roads.
Just the vastness of the desert and two women with a vision.

They chose this land long before Siwa became known, before the oasis blossomed, before anyone imagined that life could grow here.

They came alone, following an inner calling, the same calling we follow now.

It took them years to build the two houses, side by side.
Woman by woman.
Stone by stone.
Salt by salt.
Palm by palm.

They built with their time,their patience,their persistence, their intuition, their courage, and their feminine knowing.

In the middle of nowhere…
they created life.

Today, the land around the houses is alive.
Palm trees, farms, flowers, desert winds, and stillness.
But once, there was nothing.
The houses themselves hold the memory.
The creativity.
The feminine fire.
The courage of two women who dared to dream in the desert.
This is where you will stay.
In homes born from feminine vision.
In structures shaped by the womb energy of creation.
In a place built by women, for women, long before they knew you would one day arrive.

View of the traditional Siwan houses
Traditional entrance to the house
Cozy living room interior
Private bedroom sanctuary
Another view of the bedroom
Window corner with natural light
Water fountain in the garden
Rooftop setting area
Traditional bathroom

The houses themselves hold the memory. The creativity. The feminine fire. The courage of two women who dared to dream in the desert.

This is where you will stay.

In homes born from feminine vision.
In structures shaped by the womb energy of creation.
In a place built by women, for women, long before they knew you would one day arrive.

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✧ Your Room

Each woman receives her own private room, a sanctuary to rest, integrate, and soften into the journey.

A place to breathe, journal, cry, release, and remember.

✧ The Energy of the Houses

The spirit of the two visionary women lives in the walls
In the palm beams. In the salt bricks. In the gentle shade of the garden.

Their story is a living reminder that:

Feminine energy builds.
Feminine energy creates.
Feminine energy brings life out of the desert.
Feminine energy is powerful, wild, and unstoppable.

As we return to our wombs, our essence, and our cycles… we do so inside the legacy of two women who built without fear.

Two women who trusted their vision.
Two women who carried priestess energy without calling it that.

This is the home of Return.

✧ The Essence of Return

Return is a remembrance.

A journey back to balance, harmony, and inner knowing.

Through movement, breath, sound, ritual, ceremony and desert silence, we awaken the wisdom that lives inside every woman, the womb as compass, the body as temple, and the feminine as guide.

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Together, we will explore:

Womb and cyclical wisdom

Feminine embodiment and movement rituals

Somatic release breathwork

Qi gong

Movements & Sequences inspired by Tai Ji and Shaolin gong fu

Sound and Voice Activation

Sisterhood and sacred sharing circles

Silence, stillness, and the remembrance of our inner priestess

Sacred ceremonies

Henna rituals

Water rituals

✧ The Journey

Day 1 – February 6

  • Meeting point in Cairo at 10 AM → road journey to Siwa Oasis
  • Arrival & settling into our homes
  • Evening: Opening & welcoming circle followed by dinner under the desert stars

Day 2 – February 7

  • Sunrise gathering
  • Breakfast
  • Introduction & intention circle
  • Morning session
  • Afternoon: Salt lake immersion & Water Ritual
  • Light lunch
  • Evening: First women ceremony at 7 PM

Day 3 – February 8

  • Free-flow morning
  • Breakfast
  • Sharing circle
  • Session
  • Lunch
  • Silent time & rest
  • Evening: Second women ceremony

Day 4 – February 9

  • Breakfast
  • Free-flow morning practice
  • Sharing circle
  • Session
  • Lunch
  • Evening: Sunset Hot Spring Sound Healing followed by dinner

Day 5 – February 10

  • Sunrise gathering
  • Breakfast
  • Visit to the Oracle Temple of Amun
  • Lunch
  • Journey into the dunes
  • Evening: Sunset dinner & Henna Closing ceremony

Day 6 – February 11

  • Breakfast
  • Optional morning shopping in the local Siwan market
  • Check-outs and departure

✧ The Details

Dates

February 6 – 11, 2026

(Before Ramadan)

6 days / 5 nights

Location

Siwa Oasis

Egypt

Western Desert

Exchange

€1,500 EURO

€1,400 EURO

Early Bird until Dec 31

Limited capacity

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What's Included

  • Accommodation in two traditional Siwan houses (each woman in her own room)
  • All meals and nourishing drinks
  • All sessions, circles, and ceremonies
  • Transportation from Cairo to Siwa and back
  • Entry to all sacred sites and springs

✧ The Call to Return

This is a journey for the woman who feels the pull of her womb
who is ready to soften, to listen, to remember, to receive.

A woman longing to reconnect with her body, her cycles, her intuition, and the wild mystery of being alive.

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If you feel the call to return
to yourself, to sisterhood, to the sacred feminine

We invite you to apply below.

Apply Now