Chapter 01 Fire & Ice

You've been running for a while.

Four days to hear yourself again.

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The career. The city. The calendar that keeps you moving.

It's a good life. It's also a loud one.

You can't remember the last evening your phone stayed untouched.

Or the last time you sat around a fire with strangers who weren't strangers by midnight.

ഗോത്രം means tribe, in Malayalam.

Every retreat we run is a chapter. You don't buy a holiday. You're inducted into something that keeps going after you've gone home: people you'll call, chapters you'll return for, a fire you'll want to sit at again.

Arrive wound up. Leave reset. Belong to a tribe that meets again.

People in a cold plunge pool, seen from above
Ice
Steam rising off hot stones in a wooden sauna
Fire

Most retreats make you choose: the party or the peace. We didn't.

The body
A guided ritual: breathwork to a drumbeat, the ice plunge, the heat of the sauna. Three rounds, together. Always ending warm.
The night
A sundowner set as the light goes gold. Fire. A barbecue under more stars than the city allows.
The hands and mind
Paint on clay. Singing bowls. Stories told slowly. A circle that closes properly.

Your first plunge is a ritual.

A beat. A shared breath. A count of ten. Then the heat.

Press and hold. Stay in for ten beats.

Twenty-five strangers. Not for long.

You arrive with a bag and your guard up.
By lunch, this.
One long table. No seating plan.
Hands painting a clay cup with a fine brush
Something slow for the hands.
Somebody always brings a guitar.
The fire burns late.
And it's still going at breakfast.
First light turning a snow peak gold above a green valley

Three things we're not telling you yet.

  • Where Not revealed yet
  • When Not revealed yet
  • What it costs Not revealed yet

Dates and details go to the tribe first. Everyone else hears about it later.

Three tribe rules, for four days only.

  1. No work talk.

    “So, what do you do?” is banned until the third night's dinner. Until then you'll have to find out who someone is the old way.

  2. Phones sleep.

    Pouched for the sessions and the night outdoors. Our crew takes the photos, so you can just be in them.

  3. A new name.

    You're given a tribe name in the first circle. Use it for four days. Leave your title at the gate.

The rules last four days. What they open lasts longer.

A room chosen with care is kinder to everyone in it.

Come if you are

  • Tired, capable, somewhere between 28 and 45
  • A founder, manager, consultant or creative who forgot what a weekend feels like
  • Curious and social, someone who adds to a room
  • Coming alone. Most people will.

It's not for you if

  • You only want the party
  • You're looking for treatment or therapy
  • You're planning to bring your whole group and stay in your bubble

25 seats. Chosen, not first-come.

You can't buy a seat. You can ask for one.

Three questions, about a minute. Then you're in the WhatsApp community, where dates and details land first.

What fills your weeks?
Ask for a seat