Nurture Your Nature Immersion with Sēfari at Nesting Moon Ranch, Ojai August 23rd

This immersive experience invites you to explore the depths of desire and the horizons of courage. Together, Sēfari and PALMA Colectiva have woven a day long retreat designed to nurture, cultivate, and awaken a profound connection to your essential nature — the place where power meets purpose, and creativity comes alive. Through elemental immersion, shared inquiry, and intentional ritual, we will return to the inner wellspring where truth begins and transformation unfolds. Drop in to a day of nurture through the elements including swimming, sauna, ceremony, creation and community. Sunbath gifting by Creature Soliel. 

“To be courageous is to stay close to the way we are made.” — David Whyte

Purpose meets passion when we remember what it is we came here to say.
And perhaps — to stay close is also to return, again and again,
to the truth of our longing,
the clarity of our joy,
the heat of our desire,
and the stillness of our presence.

To be courageous means daring to trust what calls you forward.
To hear the call is the beginning of all mythic movement.
It is the moment before radiance — the threshold before courage —
when something whispers:

There is something more.

This retreat is a ceremonial day of return — to the truth of your inner nature, to the rhythm of the body, and to the imagination that lives just beneath the surface. Rooted in Sēfari’s philosophy of elemental immersion, we explore what it means to live with presence, coherence, and creative expression. The arc of the day follows a three-part journey: Connection, Contemplation, and Creativity.

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THE FLOW OF THE DAY

I. Connection | Embodied Presence & Intention Setting

We begin in sacred circle, grounding ourselves with stone as we anchor intention. Here, we invoke our desires — not as abstract goals, but as living threads of attention and purpose. Together we weave a shared constellation of connection, orienting ourselves toward the day with presence, openness, and clarity.

We then enter the Floating Sēfari Immersion — a guided journey floating with water. Floating becomes a practice of surrender, of softening the boundary between self and source. Here, in the liminal space between breath and buoyancy, we attune to subtle sensation, harmonize the heart and mind, and listen deeply to the messages that rise from within. This experience cultivates inner coherence — the physiological and imaginal alignment that opens the door to intuition, clarity, and receptivity.

II. Contemplation | Integration, Nourishment & Shared Reflection

After water ritual, we surface into quiet stillness. A gentle series of reflective prompts supporting the translation of felt experience into language — a tracing of sensation into story. We will gather for supportive conversation over a long, nourishing lunch designed to linger — exploring what it means to move with the moment, to digest revelation, and to allow the body to metabolize its own knowing. This is not only a time of nourishment, but of integration: where ideas, insights, and intuitions begin to take root.

III. Creativity | Expression, Collaboration & Light Transmission

In the final activation of the day, we turn to nature for co-creation. We forage materials — leaves, stones, seeds, textures — and engage in a meditative art practice using cyanotype, a photographic process that harnesses the power of sunlight. This becomes a channeling ritual: a way to imprint the unseen impressions of the day onto form, working directly with the light of the cosmos to explore perception, memory, and perspective.

Here, we close the circle — returning again to the body, but now having passed through the layers of immersion, reflection, and expression. This is the essence of Sēfari’s work: to guide participants through the art of remembering — not through force or performance, but through attunement, curiosity, and courage.