A Reflection on Who This Retreat Is For

One question I regularly receive about Rest and Remember, the yoga and cultural retreat I’m co-hosting in Ghana this September, is:

“Can I come if I’m not Black?”

The short answer: Yes.

The longer answer: Anyone who’s willing to show up with humility, respect, and a sincere desire to engage with integrity is warmly welcome to this retreat.

I’ve shared before how this retreat is different from wellness tourism. In other words, we won’t be approaching Ghana as a backdrop for our personal growth. Rather, we’ll be engaging with it as a living presence, including its history of displacement, resistance, and return. Engaging with the land with integrity calls for centering of Black diasporic stories and healing. 

We’ll also be doing ancestor work during the retreat. For some participants, the land will hold direct ancestral ties. But that’s not a requirement to join us. Whether your people come from Ghana, elsewhere in Africa, or from entirely different lineages, I’ll invite you to be in conversation with the ancestral stories you carry—with care, curiosity, and accountability.

We’ll each arrive carrying something. Some of us carry the weight of what was lost. Others, the complexity of what was inherited. All of us come with lineages marked by both harm and resilience, wounds and reckonings, beauty and pain. This retreat won’t flatten that complexity. And we’ll hold space for one another’s healing with compassion and care.

If you feel called to this journey, and you’re ready to show up with openness and presence—you are welcome.

We hope you join us.

You can learn more at https://www.attunedliving.com/events/yoga-in-ghana.