Overview

This is a thoughtfully guided experience where cultural immersion and personal insight are woven together, held within a rhythm that supports reflection, creativity, and integration.

• Phenom Phen Night Market
• Tuol Sleng (S-21) Genocide Museum and Killing Fields 
• Silk island day trip 
• Angkor Wat & Bayan temple 
• Engage APOPO’s Landmine Rats non-profit  
• Waterfall hike in Phnom Kulen National Park
• Bantey Srey Temple
• Siem Riep Circus
• Butterfly Sanctuary 

Phnom Penh: Historical Orientation & Witnessing  

Our journey begins in Phnom Penh, with a guided city tour and grounded orientation to Cambodia’s modern history and the impact of the Khmer Rouge. This includes visits to Tuol Sleng (S-21) Genocide Museum and the Killing Fields which are approached with great care.

Next we will spend a gentle day on Silk Island, just outside Phnom Penh, wandering quiet village paths, watching silk woven by hand, and feeling the pace of life slow. One night is devoted to the richness of the Mekong River night market, while the remainder of our evenings unfold at The Bale—our Phnom Penh sanctuary—where shared dinners and depth workshops support the kind of integration that allows insight to become embodied change.

Siem Reap & Angkor: Sacred Architecture & Living Systems 

In the second chapter, we arrive at Navutu—our retreat accommodations in Siem Reap. Nearby, the Angkor temples reveal themselves not as monuments, but as living spaces of reflection and imagination. At sunrise, Angkor Wat’s stone corridors and carved faces hold a quiet field.

The experience extends beyond Angkor into the surrounding life and landscape: an evening at the Cambodian Circus, a waterfall hike through Phnom Kulen National Park, and a visit to a butterfly sanctuary—restoring movement, play, and connection to the land.

Time spent with APOPO’s Landmine Rats, a locally led Cambodian nonprofit, deepens this relational approach, offering lived insight into trauma recovery, education, and community resilience at a systems level.

Cambodia is a land of remarkable beauty, resilience, and spiritual depth.

Home to Angkor Wat, one of the world’s most extraordinary sacred sites, it invites visitors into a living landscape where ancient wisdom, breathtaking artistry, and centuries of history continue to inspire awe and reflection.

Daily life weaves together extended cultural excursions and creative integration.

Meet the Facilitators:

Ankea Phem, Catherine Smith

Pricing includes: lodging, daily depth integration workshops, guided tours and entrance fees, – dinners, – lunches, transportation Jan 4-10, Mysore ashtanga yoga practice, daily somatic movement, intuitive paint and pour, bilateral depth integration and dream Process, family constellations workshop, Jungian Dream workshop. 

Pricing does not include: airfare, visa, transport to and from airports, travel insurance (required), private sessions with facilitators

A limited number of Private solo room upgrades are available on a first come first serve basis for an additional $995