Together we heal what we can’t heal alone

The dominant approach to healing in the U.S. (where I live) tends to be individualized, often unfolding in the context of institutional care and isolation. While solitude has its place, I resonate with ancestral, Indigenous, and holistic traditions that understand healing very differently — especially in cases of mental, emotional, and spiritual healing.

In these traditions, healing often includes looking at the context that gave rise to the suffering. It recognizes that the pain we carry—whether inherited, lived, or both—wasn’t created in isolation. It was often shaped by or the result of collective wounds, including disconnection, displacement, and systemic violence. And so too, our healing must be relational. It must be rooted in the collective.

This is one of the core tenets of Rest and Remember, the upcoming Yoga and cultural retreat in Ghana this September.

At the retreat, we’re not going to be approaching Yoga as a tool for self-optimization or a private self-care ritual. We’ll be coming together with intention: to move, to listen, to honor, and to remember in community. We’ll witness each other’s stories, offer presence without fixing, and show up in all our imperfect, embodied humanity.

This togetherness interrupts the illusion that our pain is too much or our joy too loud. It expands our capacity to hold what’s heavy and to celebrate what’s sacred. It reminds us that we belong—not in spite of our stories, but because of them.

We’re invited to see ourselves not just as individuals seeking personal growth, but as part of a larger story, woven across generations.

And Ghana, in particular, is an ideal place to practice weaving the wounded parts of ourselves back into connection—with self, with spirit, with land, with community. The land holds histories that reveal how the past shapes the present in all of us, and how personal and collective healing are intertwined. Ghana invites us to reconnect in ways that feel both grounded and transformative.

We weren’t meant to heal alone. We are meant to heal in connection—with each other, with history, with the land beneath our feet. If you feel that pull, we hope you’ll join us in Ghana. There is space for you.