EGYPT INITIATION &
Pilgrimage through the Sinai Desert
21st - 31st October
9 DAY VOICE INITIATION FOR MEN & WOMEN
You are here because you heard the call to walk the ancient sands of the Sinai Desert.
You are here because something in you, perhaps all of you, is called to bring forth your voice to this landscape with us.
Welcome.
‘How to put into words this work? It is unforgettable, yet totally inexplicable. When I try, I usually cite Katya’s most simplified explanation - ‘Clearing to Creating’, to which I would add two more ‘C’s:
Connection and Community.’
- Bel Veli
THE PROCESS
Over 9 days you will be guided through The Listening Voice process, a step-by-step journey of descent into the body through sound and deep listening. We begin by shifting the awareness from the mind to the breath and body, moving out of habitual breathing patterns and reconnecting with more presence and sensation. As we drop deeper into ourselves, resistance may rise to the surface. The voice is what helps us to move this resistance, clearing the way until we come into a state of flow and more easeful expression.
Moving away from the concept of “training” the voice, we explore how to express what is truly present in the moment. This expression arises through sensation and, once it is seen and voiced, the body can begin to reorganise itself into its natural state of harmony.
You will reclaim connection to your instincts and come to trust the intuitive expression and inner guidance of your authentic voice.
The authentic voice is the one that quivers from the depths of you. The one whose sound is not striving for perfection.
The authentic voice is born from the unknown, born out of darkness.
The liberation of its expression is a moment of transcendence.
OUR CONTAINER
This initiation is unlike any other. We will be moving through the process in the open air of the desert, our first pilgrimage by foot and by camel, guided by the Bedouins of the Sinai. Walking in this way serves as real time integration and grounding while communing with this special landscape.
Our containers may be different from what you expect. We work with emergence, which means we do not predetermine or over-explain what will unfold. Instead, we trust the wisdom of embodied learning, direct experience, and receptivity to each moment. We work within feminine principles, listening deeply to what is needed by the group and allowing the process to respond accordingly. Each initiation is shaped by the unique constellation of people who gather, allowing a shared culture to emerge organically rather than being imposed.
We encourage true responsibility for your own experience and choice to be here. This work asks us to face anything that arises. Denser energies are all part of the process and including them in your experience is part of what we are here to hold and transform with you. We take great care to create an environment where each participant is seen, heard, and supported. There are 6 highly skilled facilitators on this initiation, 3 men and 3 women, this ensures that we have full containment of the energy throughout.
The practice invites a shift from the over identification of stories that we commonly tell ourselves and towards a deeper awareness with how these stories, beliefs and conditioning may express in our systems. From here there is often greater potential for inner peace, re-connection with your innate gifts and alignment to your path.
We are held by a clear process and experienced space holders. At times, plans and schedules may shift in response to the needs of the group, the landscape, or the weather, allowing us to remain responsive to what is most alive in the moment. This work is profound, and we invite you to arrive with openness and respect for the depth of the journey.
Practical Details & Accommodation
Our first few nights and landing will be at a seaside camp in Nuweibaa where we will sleep in quaint wooden bungalows. Accommodation here is twin shared rooms with bathrooms separated into women’s and men’s.
Once we make our way into the Sinai desert we will sleep out in the open, under the stars. Each evening the Bedouins set up a cooking fire and communal area at a protected place in the desert. From there we can choose where we want to sleep: nestled in sandy areas between boulders, in small caves, alone or in small groups, near the communal area or further away. Each person brings their own sleeping mat or inflatable mattress, and sleeping bag which will be carried by camel. Additional blankets are available.
In the desert we will do our working sessions in the cooler mornings and evenings, and move by foot and camel through the desert during the day.
There is plenty of water for everyone. Each person is given safe drinking water in large bottles and enough to also have a desert shower with. We will be fed delicious and healthy middle eastern and Bedouin food with some extra variety at our seaside camp.
After 5 nights in the desert we will then make our way back to the seaside camp to close our container together and have 2 nights of extra comfort.
Nearest Airport :: Sharm El Sheikh
// Arrivals: 21st October There will be options for group transport from the airport.
//Opening: 22nd (at our seaside camp)
//Desert Pilgrimage: 24th - 29th
//Closing: 30th by 11am
// Fly Out 30th / 31st October There will be group transport to the airport.
Price :: £ 4,800
There are 12 spaces available for this Initiation
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Price Includes :: all ground transfers from Sharm El Sheikh Airport (if you need to arrive or depart earlier or later, you will need to make and pay for your own transfer arrangements or extra accommodation); accommodation, all meals at the seaside camp in Nuweibaa e.g. breakfast, lunch, and dinner with non-alcoholic drinks included during meal times, transport to the Sinai Desert, camels, Bedouin guides, and all meals and drinks in the desert; The Listening Voice process, facilitation, work book and post integration call.
Not included :: Visas (most countries passports don’t need a visa, or can get a visa on arrival), flights to and from Egypt; any extra snacks or drinks at the seaside camp in Nuweibaa; ; tips for the Bedouins; souvenirs and personal expenses; massages/treatments at the seaside camp (booked separately).
*Please get in touch here if you have any questions or if you need to organise a payment plan.
"This work is important, vital, sacred. Men need this work, desperately and urgently. The Listening Voice Initiation invites us to be courageous enough to embrace a way of being that is at once new yet ancient, powerfully yet gently guiding us back to becoming again the beings that our women and children, our tribes and communities, yearn for, need, and deserve. The journey is both challenging and rewarding. It beckons us in our entirety - body, heart, mind, and soul - towards the possibility of reawakening and embracing our divine masculinity, of rediscovering the wisdom and authenticity of our truest voices. Katya and India Rose hold space for this journey with complete presence and absolute commitment. Their guidance is deeply intuitive, innately attuned, and highly sensitive, with wonderful doses of playfulness, childlike joy, and humour. The journey is intense, surprising, beautiful, necessary. If I sound like an advocate for this work, it is because I am. We need this more than we know. Brothers, take the leap."
- Ben Mcguire
Listening is not a passive act. Listening is vibrant. Alive.
// learn how to ‘clean up the noise’ and discharge excess tension in your body
// find your authentic voice and connect to the collective voice
// deep tissue and fascia release, structural body work and natural voice realignment
// somatic body mapping and re-patterning of the energy body
// release stagnant emotions to create space for your natural expression
// understand the difference between survival mechanisms and your true expression
// collective clearing, witnessing, movement, sounding
// learn to be in a state of active listening: a state of pure presence and receptivity
// learn traditional songs, polyphonic singing, listen to the soundscape of the land
// pilgrimage to sacred sites in the area
// experience complete surrender in improvisational choir
The Listening Voice process takes you through the sections of the body, clearing tension and creating space around your freedom of expression.
In-between sessions we introduce days of silence. Not speaking outside of our workshop time serves to deeply integrate the work while it is happening and invites us to step beyond our usual forms of communication.
At the end of our descent we will hold a ceremony of completion. We will celebrate one another, celebrate our journey and celebrate the communion with the land.
In ancient cultures singing and making sound was a way to commune with nature and be in community. It was an essential part of being human.
Now at the peak of our separate and disjointed culture, more than ever we need our voices to come together.
Are you ready to reclaim your authentic voice and experience the power of the collective voice?
“Before arriving my mother said, I think this next week is going to change your life. And she was completely right.”
— Isabella, Artist, London
“I not only came back to myself as a human, artist and teacher, I was also reminded that we cannot teach form until there is freedom of individual expression.”
— Annemette Verspeak, Head of Voice at Guildhall School of Music and Drama
“Katya’s belief of the voice as a tool for self and collective healing is inspiring and contageous.”
— Molly Astley, Artist, London
“I know why its called an initiation, because with this work there is a before, and an after. And you will not be the same after”
— India Rose, Producer/Artist/Musician
“Katya is a magician. She guides the group through the unknown with mastery and that is where real transformation happens.”
— Ronan Harrington, Transformational Coach