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Totem retreats

Living closer to our biology, alongside Indigenous peoples around the world

The Totem Diet is not only a way of eating. It is about everything you feed your body, your mind, your emotions and your soul. The retreats take this ancestral approach to health all the way.

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Why I organise these retreats

Our bodies were built on life outdoors, unprocessed food and daily movement. The modern plate and city life have cut us off from that biology. Eating like our ancestors is not enough if the rest of your life stays cut off from it, because what you think, what you feel and what connects you to something bigger also feed your body.

That is why I organise retreats, tours and gatherings with Indigenous peoples around the world. They still live connected to nature and to their bodies, and keep their ancestral traditions. The point is not to live like them. For the length of a retreat, you reconnect with nature, you eat and live closer to our biology, and you share their traditions and physical and spiritual practices with them.

How I support you

During the whole retreat, I am with you. I interpret between you and the communities that host you, in French, English, Portuguese and other languages, so you understand what is happening and your questions reach them.

I also translate the culture. I help you understand the traditions, what they give, and the lessons we can take from them. I help you get to know another culture and take it in properly, with respect.

I help you prepare for your trip, and integrate it after you return, so you can take up a different routine and make the most of the retreat's effects.

Who these retreats are for

They are for you if you want to step out of your routine, slow down and spend time close to nature. They ask you to accept a different rhythm and to respect the community that welcomes you.

Your questions

Are all the retreats alike?

No. Each retreat depends on the people who host you, their traditions and the place. The details of each one are given further down.

Which languages are spoken?

I translate for the group in French, English and Portuguese.

How do I get the programme for a retreat?

Write to me on WhatsApp. I send you the programme and the details on how to register.

Upcoming retreats

The forest and the river, in the Amazon

January 2027, with the Huni Kuin people in the Amazon

11 to 21 January 2027 · Acre, Brazil

For ten days, you live in the village of Boa Vista, on the Humaitá river, with the Huni Kuin people, in the heart of the Amazon. This is the first gathering organised and led by the women of the village, in honour of their ancestral knowledge. With them, you share Huni Kuin traditional practices and medicines, forest walks, the river, crafts, songs and dances. You reconnect with nature, and live at a rhythm closer to our biology, for the body, the mind, the emotions and the soul.

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Ceremony in a Yawanawá village in the Amazon

May 2027, with the Yawanawá people in the Amazon

14 to 21 May 2027 · Acre, Brazil · 8 places left

For a week, you live in a village of the Yawanawá people, in the heart of the Amazon, and take part with them in Yawanawá ceremonies and traditional medicines. Village life is simple, and the days follow the rhythm of the ceremonies and of the group. In between, there are forest walks, crafts, chants in the evening and stories told by the elders. You reconnect with nature and with yourself, living closer to our biology, in the body, the mind, the emotions and the soul.

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