Kenya
Contrast. Richness of spirit. The smile.
Home for thirteen years. Ancient and alive, wild and welcoming, and above all the smile.
“It’s not safari without Michelle.”
Chaela Sumner · repeat client · USA
A personally designed coaching safari across East Africa.
Solo, or a small group of up to twelve.
The raw, untethered soul of East Africa does something to a person that no office, no workshop, no online programme can replicate. It brings you back to yourself.
Every safari I design is entirely bespoke, built around who you are, where you are in your evolution, and what the journey needs to open in you. Together we design the purpose and the destinations to fit.
We do not pass through East Africa. We enter it, with respect, with curiosity, with a willingness to be changed by what we find. The communities we meet are not backdrop. They are teachers.
- Length
- Your desired travel time
- Format
- Solo, or a group of up to twelve
- Where
- East Africa and beyond
- Always
- Cultural immersion, community connection and sustainable travel
- Woven in
- Private coaching, meditation and breathwork, community encounters, wildlife immersion, ceremonial experiences, bespoke retreats in unique locations, and surprises that cannot be planned for
What Africa does
- With intention
It makes it land. Arrive with a true intention, not a goal or a plan but a living sense of what you are here for, and the land responds.
- With intuition
Your senses are ignited in a way that cannot happen anywhere else. Your intuition wakes up completely, and you begin to trust what you know before you can explain it. That does not leave when you go home.
- With integrity
It defies you to stand in anything less than integrity to yourself and to your truth. There is no performance that survives this landscape.
- With coherence
The natural rhythm of the land invites you into coherence with yourself. Something in your nervous system remembers that rhythm, and the gap between who you are and how you are living starts to close, without force.
- With confluence
The awe and wonder ignited when you are in presence with yourself. You feel it as creativity, as clarity, as the sudden knowledge of what is yours to do next.
- With grace
The natural wonder of something greater than you, that allows you to see it in yourself.
Each country has its own rhythm
Its own essence. Its own awakening it is inviting you into. We begin with the landscape that is calling you.
Tanzania
Raw. Wild. Expansive.
The Serengeti as it has always been. When the land is larger than your thoughts, they stop running the show.
Botswana
Mystery. Connection. Sensory. Spellbinding.
The Okavango, water arriving in the middle of desert. It works on you before you have a single conscious thought.
Uganda
Rhythmic. Communal. Generous. Present.
It moves to its own rhythm, and it will teach you that rhythm if you let it.
Before. During. After.
Most people come home from an extraordinary experience and slowly, quietly, the ordinary world takes it back. I won’t let that happen.
Ignition
In the weeks before you arrive
A laser-sharp clarity of intention, a heightened sense of vision, so that when Africa meets you, you are already in motion.
Immersion
In the wild
Meditation at sunrise. Breathwork in landscapes no studio can replicate. Coaching conversations that ignite rather than manage.
Integration
When you come home
To integrate the seeing, to be true to the you that was discovered, and to bring the vision to life. Not as a memory. As a life lived.
The coaching before and after is optional, and we decide it together in the first conversation.
I am not a coach who visits Africa. It’s my home.
I live in the tea fields outside Nairobi. I built Tarangau Retreat on the east coast of Kenya. For thirteen years I have lived and worked across East Africa, and these are my contacts, my places, my people and my relationships, built over a decade of presence rather than curated from a distance.
What I offer is access to an Africa most visitors never reach: the communities, the guides, the landscapes that hold a particular quality of silence, the elders who have something to give that no itinerary could plan for. Every safari is personally designed and personally led by me.
“Kenya was a huge portal to fly through. I realised that magic doesn’t live in getting a specific result. It’s in simply being there, no agenda, no goal, just sharing space and presence.”
Chaela Sumner · Author and first responder · USA
“It was only when I lost my connection to what I thought and felt were important and moved into the White Space, did I discover a deeper connection to my inner self.”
Gavin Howard · Marketing Director · Australia
What’s calling you?
Tell me what is real for you right now. The country, the people and the arc of each day are designed around that.
Write to me