The teachers
Between nine and twenty-two years of practice each, all of them living within a mile of the hall they teach in.
Five teachers and a cook
Who you will meet
Everybody here lives on the ridge or in Aburi village. Nobody is flown in for a week, and nobody teaches a practice they have not been doing for a decade.
Adjoa Frimpong
Founder · 22 years
Trained in Chiang Mai and at the Ramamani institute, and has led the morning sitting here every week she has been on the ridge since 2011.
Nana Kwesi Otoo
Movement · 14 years
Came to yoga through a knee that would not hold up to football. Teaches the six o'clock vinyasa and the two-level class that follows it.
Ama Serwaa Dapaah
Herbal medicine · 18 years
Third-generation herbalist from Nkawkaw. Runs the garden, blends the afternoon tea and sits the second-morning consultation with every guest.
Kwabena Asante
Sound & stillness · 9 years
A percussionist before he was anything else. Plays the Tuesday and Friday sound baths and holds the afternoon silence in the hall.
Esi Amankwah
Bodywork · 11 years
Deep tissue, lomi and Thai. Eight years in a Lagos clinic before this, which is where she learned to work slowly enough that it stops hurting.
Yaw Boadu
Kitchen · 16 years
Not a teacher and on this page anyway, because guests write to us about the food more often than about anything else on the ridge.
How we teach
Three rules in the hall
Ten thousand hours, not a weekend course
The shortest practice on this page is nine years. We have turned down good teachers with two years behind them and will keep doing it.
Never more than nine in a room
A class of nine is a class where somebody notices you have stopped breathing properly. A class of thirty is a video with a person in front of it.
We ask before we touch
Every time, in every session, including the ones where we asked yesterday. Nobody is adjusted into a shape they did not agree to be in.
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.