The journal
Notes from the ridge — on practice, on the garden, and on the parts of a retreat nobody puts in a brochure.
The long read · February 2026
The first two days are supposed to be difficult
Almost everybody who arrives here spends forty-eight hours wanting to leave. It is so consistent that we now say it at the gate rather than letting people discover it and conclude they have made a mistake. What is actually happening in those two days, why the phone cabinet makes it worse before it makes it better, and why we have stopped apologising for it.
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The journal
Notes from the ridge
From the garden
What we put in the afternoon tea, and why
Moringa for the iron, hibiscus for the blood pressure and prekese because Ma Adjoa's mother put prekese in everything. A short note on the four plants that carry the blend.
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On practice
Why a sound bath is not a concert
The instruments are not the point and neither is the music. What the bowls are for is giving a restless mind one small thing to hold, which is harder than it sounds.
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At the table
Three meals a day, no menu, no choices
Everybody eats the same thing at the same time, and it is the part of the week guests argue with hardest on arrival and miss most when they leave.
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Everything else
The archive
Jan 2026
Practising through the harmattan
Dec 2025
Two hours of silence, and what people do with them
Nov 2025
Everything we grow, and what it is for
Oct 2025
Sleep is the outcome nobody books for
Sep 2025
The twenty-minute walk down to the stream
Aug 2025
On coming back a second time
Come and be still.
Nine rooms, six dates a year, and a gatehouse ninety minutes out of Accra. Write to us and we will tell you honestly which week is yours.