The Wild Heart Retreat
With Nicolene Burger and Thabo Krouwkam
April 14 - 19, 2026
For five years, we have returned to this magical coastline to retreat, create, and renew ourselves. These journeys have nourished our partnership and inspired the community and life we have built in Cape Town. Now we are ready to share this practice with others.
The Wild Heart Retreat is designed for anyone feeling stuck, overworked, burnt out, or simply longing for more creativity and aliveness. You do not need to be an artist, only willing to play, explore, and open to the possibility of life as art. Through guided improvisation, movement, sound, storytelling, intuitive painting, and deep encounters with the land and sea, you will be invited into presence and creative flow.
At its heart, this retreat is about relationality: listening deeply, co-creating moments of magic, and remembering what it feels like to be truly connected, to yourself, to others, and to the living world. Come as you are. Leave renewed, expanded, and alive with your Wild Heart.
Mission & Vision
In a world that often feels rushed and disconnected, The Wild Heart Retreat offers a return to what truly matters. Guided by an artist and musician couple, this 6-day immersive retreat is rooted in the vital life force that fuels love, creativity, and connection: expression. Set against the untouched beauty of the Wild Coast, our vision is to create a sanctuary where people can remember that creativity is not a skill, but a natural way of being. Our mission is simple: to invite you into play, presence, and flow, where art, nature, and relationship become pathways back to wholeness.
Retreat Highlights
– Situated in a pristine nature reserve on the Wild Coast, one of South Africa’s most breathtaking regions.
– Step out of the critical mind and into creative flow through movement, meditation, and art.
– Reconnect with your vitality, joy, and curiosity in a supportive, nurturing environment.
– Express yourself with confidence and freedom through guided creative sessions.
– Cultivate presence and inspiration to carry into everyday life.
– Deepen your relationship with nature, yourself, and others through shared experiences and ceremony.
– Enjoy wholesome, home-cooked South African meals made with love.
– Leave feeling grounded, inspired, and creatively reawakened.
About the Leaders
Nicolene Burger
I am Nicolene Burger, a multimedia artist and Creativity Doula. Since my first visit to the Eastern Cape with Thabo in 2013, I have dreamed of creating a retreat space that brings people back to themselves through creativity, authenticity, and connection. My work spans painting, installation, and performance, but for me art is more than […]
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I am Thabo Krouwkam, a singer-songwriter based in Cape Town with deep roots in Worcester and the Eastern Cape, where my family has lived for many years. Music has always been at the core of who I am, and my songs draw on the rich diversity of South Africa's languages and sounds. Singing in English, […]
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