Why Ghana?

I was sharing with a group about Rest and Remember, the upcoming Yoga and cultural retreat I’m hosting with Eunice in Ghana, when someone asked me: Why Ghana?

Ghana offers what so many retreats promise—beauty, rest, and renewal. But that’s not why we picked it. We picked it because it also offers something much deeper: it’s a place where history, culture, and ancestral memory live in the land itself.

For those of us in the diaspora, being there can awaken a sense of recognition, of resonance, of belonging. But this isn't necessarily about tracing a lineage or claiming a tie. It’s not about belonging to anything, but belonging with. With the land. With the people. With the possibility of healing that becomes available when we meet the past with honesty and tenderness.

Eunice and I created Rest and Remember because we saw the need for spaces like this. We weren’t interested in hosting another retreat that feels like an escape from everyday life—one that overlooks the lived realities of the country itself, that arrives with the impulse to give fix rather than listen with humility, that treats the land and its people as backdrops for personal transformation, or that ignores the deeper roots of our collective need for healing and connection. We wanted something different.

Ghana invites us to slow down, remember who we are, and reconnect—not just with ourselves, but with history, with community, and with the land. It invites us to bring our full humanity. To honor grief and joy. To tend to the healing and the rest so many of us are aching for.

That’s the spirit of Rest and Remember. And for those who want to know more about what makes this retreat so special—including what it offers for folks with or without ancestral ties to West Africa—I’ve written more here: Why Ghana?

We hope you’ll join us.

Because there are some things we can only remember—together.