𓋹 Rewilding the Sacred 𓋹
A Mythic Journey with Isis & Osiris in Egypt
9-Day Eco-Arts Residency & Immersive Retreat in Aswan & Luxor
6. - 14. April 2026
Step into the living mythos of your ancient soul.
What if the Nile is not only a river, but a living myth of love, loss, and rebirth?
Rooted in the timeless story of Auset (Isis) and Ausar (Osiris)—symbols of cosmic love, loss, and divine re-membering—this residency invites artists, storytellers, movers, and earth-connected visionaries to gather in sacred space and co-create art as ritual, myth as movement, and story as soul medicine.
This is an invitation to think like a river, to compost the old stories of patriarchy, capitalism, and domination, and to root into a mythic cycle of regeneration.
Ausar, the vegetal god of the underworld, is not a distant deity but a seasonal rhythm, a relationship: water and soil mixing into fertile loam. His body is the river itself — thinning and thickening, swelling with floods — teaching us that decay is the ground of renewal. He asks us:
𓋹 How do we plant the dead parts of ourselves into the earth?
𓋹 How do we break down toxicity into new life?
𓋹 How do we plant the seeds for hope and healing?
𓋹 How can we clear the path that leads to our most truthful artistic essence?
Auset, his beloved, shows us that making compost is love-making — that rot, grief, and dissolution can be tender, erotic, and generative. Together they guide us into the alchemy of decay.
Through eco-somatic practices, ritual theatre, sound journeys, movement, and collaborative creation, we will embody this myth as a living art form. Our journey culminates in Luxor, where we will share a co-created ritual performance offering — a weaving of story, sound, and movement born from our time together on the land.
This retreat offers an opportunity to connect deeply with the divine forces of creation and transformation within. The story of Auset and Ausar resonates as a powerful symbol of cosmic love and spiritual reunion. It invites us to gather the scattered parts of ourselves, uniting them into wholeness.
Why Join?
Visit sacred temples in Aswan & Luxor (Philae, Karnak, Dendera, and more)
Engage with Egyptian myths as living archetypes
In depth guide by a local Egyptologist through the temples
Explore eco-somatic practice, sound, movement, writing, and performance ritual in communion with Kemet
Reconnect to your multi-species self through creativity
Immerse in Egypt’s rich cultural and ecological wisdom
Core Questions
What does it mean to resurrect in a more hopeful way in a time of collapse?
How do we retrieve what’s lost?
What parts of ourselves and within humanity are lost, silenced and fragmented? And how can we retrieve and alchemize them into something new?
What would be the collective transmission we want others to receive?
How can we reshape art as a tool of transformation?
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Content of the Residency:
𓋹 Ritual theatre & performance Art
𓋹 Vocal Sound Healing
𓋹 Eco-somatic Embodiment
𓋹 Sound journeys
𓋹 Reviving ancient Mythos
𓋹 Mythopoetic writing & storytelling
𓋹 Land listening & Mycelial Dreaming
RITUAL PERFORMANCE
The aim of this residency is to finish with a Ritual Performance transmission created during our time together through transformational work, using the Mythology Story of Auset and Ausar as a blue print for creation and expression and maybe further performances in the future in another place.
This will be an opportunity for you to be witnessed in your being and become a channel for change.
Please note that the program content can change.
Cost:
early Bird until 15. of January 2026
1.888 EUR
After that:
2.222,- EUR
Includes: accommodation in a double room, meals, temple/site entrances, facilitation, workshops, materials, and ritual performance support.
Payment:
500,- Euro in Payment as a non-refundable Deposit
second Payment of 500,- Euro need to be paid after 4 weeks after Registration
The Rest need to be paid in cash upon arrival.
NOT INCLUDED IN THE PRICE:
International Flight to Cairo - there is a direct flight with easyjet from Berlin to Cairo
Domestic Flight from Cairo to Aswan with Nile Air or Egyptian Air - between 80 - 100 USD
Bus from Aswan to Luxor not included - between 20,- to 40,- Euro per person, depending on the group size
Tipping not included - Egypt is a tipping country!
Please bring cash for tipping - include at least 75,- Euro for tipping
Itinary
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Monday 6. April 2026
Day 1:
Arrival, grounding at the Nile, opening myth of Isis & Osiris, sound attunement - Magic of the Nile
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Tuesday 7. April
Day 2:
Temple of Isis (Philae), Isis Rituals, eco-somatic movement, offerings to the Nile - Philea Temple & Isis Gate
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Wednesday 8. April
Day 3:
Infusing the Body with Neteru, Hypnagogic state of consciousness, sacred Enactment & Rite - Blue Lotus Lodge
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Thursday 9. April
Day 4:
Travel day to Luxor - visiting Edfu Temple on the way
Arrival at the Sekhmet Sanctuary
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Friday 10. April
Day 5:
Nefertari Tomb & Medinet Habu Temple - Retrieval of the lost parts of Osiris - Training in the depths
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Saturday 11. April
Day 6:
Small Isis Temple- The resurrection Rite - Recrowning Isis and being gifted by the Goddess
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Sunday 12. April
Day 7:
Dendera Temple of Hathor— The birth of the new light, sensuality, sound, alchemy, dance - Hieroglyphic Clustering of Genetic Possibilities
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Monday 13. April
Day 8:
Union of body and soul - Creation day — weaving new myths, full-day co-creation, ritual performance
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Tuesday 14. April
Day 9:
Reflection & closing — personal altars, future threads, departures at 2 pm
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Annette Assmy
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Storm Hartley
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Hannah Witlow
Our Venue Spaces
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Aswan
Per Aset - House of Isis
This Venue is a regenerative sustainablity temple community project, honoring ancient and heritage culture close to Philae temple
We will be located very close to the original site of the Philae Temple of Isis before it was relocated to Agilkia Island during the UNESCO Nubia Campaign between 1972 and 1980, to save it from being submerged by the waters caused by the construction of the Aswan High Dam. This setting offers a powerful opportunity to reconnect with the land, the Ancestors of that region, and the timeless energies of the Nile.
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Luxor
We will be in a private location in Luxor, Egypt’s West Bank village Qurna. A huge dome with a Sekhmet statue will house our Ritual Theater Container. The West Bank is rich in history—it is the land of the Valley of the Kings and the royal necropolises—making it a sacred threshold between the seen and unseen.
Our accommodations are both luxurious and immersive: the nearby home West Bank Home offers views and comforts suited for deep rest and integration, providing the perfect base for our ritual work in this powerful landscape.
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Philea Temple - Aswan
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Karnak
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Edfu Temple
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Dendera Temple
What is Ritual Theater?
Ritual Theater is a form of performance that blends the spiritual and artistic, using theatrical elements to enact symbolic, sacred, or transformative experiences. Rooted in ancient traditions, it often involves storytelling, music, dance, and ceremony to evoke a connection to deeper truths, collective archetypes, or universal myths. Unlike conventional theater, its goal extends beyond entertainment, aiming to inspire reflection, healing, and a sense of communal or cosmic unity.
What is the benefit of your participation?
Participating in or experiencing a Ritual Theater piece offers profound benefits, as it engages both the psyche and the spirit:
Self-Discovery and Healing
Ritual Theater delves into universal archetypes and personal narratives, offering participants a safe space to explore your inner world. It can bring buried emotions to the surface, fostering healing and self-awareness.Connection and Community
It creates a shared sacred space, helping you to feel connected to a larger whole—whether that be our community, or the universal human experience.Transformation and Empowerment
By enacting symbolic acts or embodying roles, you can transform limiting beliefs or traumas, gaining a sense of empowerment and renewed perspective.Creative Expression
Ritual Theater allows you to tap into your creativity in a meaningful way, merging artistic expression with spiritual intention.Sense of Sacredness
Engaging in ritualistic performance imbues everyday life with meaning, encouraging mindfulness and a deeper appreciation of the sacred in the ordinary.Alignment with Archetypal Energies
Through mythic storytelling and symbolic gestures, you align with archetypal energies that can provide insight, inspiration, and guidance for your personal journey.
It is a transformative experience that bridges art, healing, and spirituality.
‚…Ritual theatre quite simply is the enactment of a myth or archetypal story with the intention of bringing about healing– usually to resolve an issue, to deal with a difficult life experience, to restore depleted energies or to ease a transition. This is potent facilitating the healing of psyche and soul and much closer to the kind of ritual healing ceremonies that took place in ancient times and in tribal societies…’Claire Schrader
Myths
In ancient times, Myths were created as explanations for the many mysteries of life. Even our ancestors contemplated the creation of earth, natural disasters, flaws in humanity, death, and love.
The word myth is derived from the Greek word mythos, which means "story."
You'll find that many myths are set in a timeless place and involve a plethora of symbols that have multiple meanings. This is what makes myths such an interesting study: decoding their symbols.
Myth is a human construction. Myth is also a reflection of society and the collective. In Myth we realize that there are other worlds existing. A Myth is a journey to a bigger Story. Myth in former times were danced, sang and painted through Rituals. They were Expression of Nature.
We can rebalance ourselves through Stories and Myth. Maybe we choose consciously or subconsciously part of a Story and bring it into our life. Maybe there is a deeper Level, another treasure which is "behind" or hiding behind the obvious. If we become conscious of what kind of Story is repeating itself in our lives, we can consciously re-write it, re-tell it.
Sacred Embodiment is the state of being, when we embody our most prominent qualities of personality that we possess and express. Most often they simply run through us, unconsciously. We have surrendered to that specific energy within our being. If we become conscious about them, we can even tap into a greater potential stored within our body.
In this Immersion we will dance, sing and express a Myth through Rituals. We will step into the deeper Levels of Consciousness. We will express Nature.
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Testimonial
‘…Eachother bound to meet again and again navigating through the myth of Auset and Ausar.
The one month ritual theatre workshop hold by Annette and Storm provides deep insights.
From the laws of power leading to betrayal from a brother , killing his own blood.
Crafting disruption, fragments, dismantling the body of the beloved.
Embodying what it takes to become harassed. Within our subtle very safe space we created a container to hold visceral blockages to unfold.
We kept rehearsing within these realms our return, regenerating the practice of mourning beyond ourselves, within eachother. As did Auset we raised into the calling of the being which only would return after this quest. Ausar
Hold by the ancient waters, on the boat, our weekly retreat lead us to the forest recovering whom we name into being.
The magic of resurrection. I sensed and perceived that all texts we worked with came from a depth of resonance.
Within ourselves unwinding the calling memories of having met these cycles before.
written these same wor_l_ds, here they expand move into a collective shift.
Annette and Storm are profound and truthful devoted shapeshifters. I learnt so much more about Egypt and just know that I would only return to their projects and proposals, and keep an ongoing research about what opened here, a progressive state of becoming a feathered being…’ Ana, Berlin