Sensing Place
Becoming a bridge between Earth & cosmos.
The Invitation
Remember how to sense the world through your body, rather than your mind.
You’ll learn to hear the subtle intelligence of plants, landforms, water and sky. And you’ll experience what it feels like to be held, guided and supported by the living world around you.
A reawakening of the instincts, capacities and ways of knowing that have always been yours.
Nine ways
of listening
Across seven days, you’ll move through nine core practices, each designed to awaken a different layer of connection.
Somatic Dowsing
Become a Human Pendulum
Use your body as a clear receiver, transmitter and translator of subtle energies communicated to us by our higher consciousness and the natural world.
Plant Spirit Communication
Dialoguing with the Natural World
Learn how to use felt sense, song, breathwork, meditative journeying, plant essences and mantra/invocation to establish a dialogue with the natural world.
Practical Daily Rituals for Everyday Life
Practices That Travel with You
Learn repeatable practices to stay connected to your inner guidance, and continue integrating insights into your everyday life.
Moving with the Land
Two Movement-Based Ceremonies
Move with the Earth in a sacred ceremonial container.
Breathing with the Earth
Earth & Nature Based Breathwork
Become familiar with a practice that supports restoration and emotional clarity while strengthening a felt, embodied connection to the Earth.
Nature-Based Meditation
Explorations in Earth & Plant Consciousness
Connect to the natural world and the sentient field to glean wisdom and guidance on how to be a better ally to the Earth and to ourselves on our own evolving personal journeys.
Deep Listening Practices
Sitting with the Land
Cultivate essential heart-based deep listening skills to strengthen your ability to communicate with the natural world.
Journaling to Re-Member
Earth-Based Prompts to Receive and Integrate
Learn a set of simple daily tools to expand, gather and ground your personal expansion, awareness and discoveries to support the deepening of your channel.
Nature Based Art Making
Drawn from the Wild
Come away with a deepened and physicalized connection to the land, our shared ancient heritage, and a personal natural art kit having learned essential skills needed to create your own art materials from the natural world around you.
About us
Raquel Griffin
Her work emerged from a deep relationship with the natural world and a devotion to ways of knowing that are felt and lived. Her approach is somatic, intuitive, and relational, shaped by years of guiding movement, meditation, and embodied inquiry. Rather than teaching techniques to master, she guides participants into receptivity, trust, and attunement through practices rooted in slowness, silence, and presence.
Hannah Wardle
Rooted in respect for land and ancient ways of knowing, she has studied permaculture and regenerative systems and is the architect and designer of the Luxor retreat space. Blending traditional Egyptian forms with modern minimalism, she shapes environments of light, stillness, and care that support the deeper work unfolding within the container.
Where we stay
This setting is intentional. It’s a field where deep listening happens naturally.
The overall atmosphere is simple, elegant, and contemplative, a place designed to support rest, presence, and attunement to place.
The details
Modern life pulls us off rhythm.
Into speed.
Into overstimulation.
Into disconnection from ourselves and the land that holds us.
Many of us are longing for:
Sensing Place is a doorway back into all of that. It’s a chance to step away from the noise and let the land recalibrate you. To reconnect with the world as a living, intelligent presence. To restore the relationship that supported your ancestors for thousands of years.
Seven days,
one unfolding
Each day follows a similar arc, but no two days are the same. We move with light, heat, breath and land energy rather than the clock.
Guests will stay in a thoughtfully designed retreat space inspired by traditional Nubian dome architecture, native to Egypt, reimagined through a modern, minimalist lens. The spaces are light-filled, airy, and intentionally quiet. We have four separate spaces, some solo, some shared.
Nourishment as ceremony — meals are part of the practice.
Throughout the retreat, you’ll enjoy a wholefood, plant-based menu, prepared with local, organic ingredients whenever possible. Meals are shared slowly, as moments of communion rather than consumption.
Sensing Place is for you if…
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