The programme
Two sittings, one moving practice, your own treatment hours and two hours of silence, every day, for as long as you stay.
A day on the ridge
What actually happens
The board goes up at breakfast and is the only timetable in the house. Everything on it is optional; almost all of it is taken.
05:45
First sitting
Forty minutes in the hall while it is still dark, ending as the light comes up over the escarpment. Optional, and attended by almost everybody by Wednesday.
07:00
Moving practice
Vinyasa on the north deck. Two levels run side by side and you are welcome to change your mind about which one you are in, daily.
08:30
Breakfast, together
One long table under the mango tree. This is where the day's board goes up and where most of the week's conversations start.
10:00
Bodywork and consultations
Your treatment hours, your herbal consultation and your one-to-one sit here. Whatever is not booked is yours to walk, read or sleep through.
13:00
Lunch, then silence
The house keeps silence from two until four. It is the part of the day people find hardest in week one and protect most fiercely by week two.
17:00
Restorative practice
Bolsters, blankets and very little movement. Forty-five minutes that most guests describe afterwards as the best sleep they were awake for.
19:30
Supper and the fire
Supper at half past seven, and on Tuesdays and Fridays a sound bath in the dark afterwards. Nothing after that is scheduled and nothing has to be.
What a day holds
The programme
Nothing on this list is compulsory and nothing costs extra. The timetable goes up on the board at dinner and you take from it what you need.
Deep tissue & lomi
Ninety minutes, twice a week on the longer programmes. Worked slowly, with warm oil pressed from the shea groves at Damongo.
Sound bath
Bowls, gong and voice, lying down, in the dark. Forty minutes that most guests describe afterwards as sleep they were awake for.
Vinyasa & restorative
A moving practice at six and a still one at five. Both are optional and both are taught in a room of no more than nine people.
Herbal medicine
A consultation on the second morning and a tea blended for you afterwards — moringa, hibiscus, prekese, and whatever else the garden is giving.
Sauna & cold plunge
Cedar sauna at the north end of the ridge, and the stone bath outside your own room. Fifteen minutes hot, ninety seconds cold, three times over.
One-to-one hours
An hour with a teacher, booked on the day, about whatever you arrived carrying. Included on every programme and used by nearly everybody.
What the rate covers
One price, no extras
There is no bar bill, no treatment surcharge and no service charge. What you are quoted before you arrive is what the week costs.
Transfers from Kotoka
A car meets every arriving guest at Terminal 3 and takes you up the hill. The road above Aburi is not one to meet for the first time in the dark.
Every meal and every tea
Three meals, the afternoon tea from the garden and whatever is in the kitchen at midnight. There is no bill at the end of the week for anything.
All group sessions
Sittings, moving practice, restorative practice and the sound baths. No session on the board costs extra and none of them is capped.
Your treatment hours
Two on the three-night week, five on the five-night and eight on the seven. Unused hours can be given to somebody else in the house.
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.