A Peak Experience that lasts a Lifetime!

F.U.N. is a Fundamental Universal NEED

Research shows that play, joy and F.U.N. are essential for health and well being throughout the life cycle.

These experiences cause positive brain and body changes and helps us meet our goals and challenges with more ease and resiliency!

Dolphin Inspiration & Healing through Play

Dolphins are the Masters of Play Therapy and F.U.N. Facilitators

Truly Meaningful Encounters with Dolphins on their terms

Find joy and peace in the presence of the ocean.

An Exotic, Off the Beaten Path Location in Mozambique, Africa

We stay right on the beach and the dolphins are nearby every morning!

The dolphins often welcome us to connect with the pod.

When was the last time you had enough F.U.N. in your life, when you truly played and felt connected to your essence?

It's time to come home to your best self again.

Listen to their playful clicks, whistles and chirps, inviting connection and play. They get so close you can count their spots!

Thank you to our retreat site host, Courtney Ward of Halo Gaia for this recent clip from Ponto Malongane

With F.U.N., play and new experiences, we can contribute more abundantly to our world, the ones we love, and to our own health.

Experiences in the glories of nature are the fastest route back to our essence—our F.U.N. and to heal what has come before.

Experiential, nature based retreats are a great way to transform or create positive family and relationship dynamics so we welcome couples and families, as well as solo travelers!

Do you need more than just a break?

Jeanne is a part-time mermaid as well as a holistic licensed psychotherapist and wellness coach with 30 years experience swimming with dolphins and whales around the world.

Her playful healing work has led her to combine the powerful metaphors of peak experiences in nature with the healing and personal growth that happens when in conscious connection with dolphins and whales.

She is also a growing animal communicator, an expert in EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), energy healing techniques, and Play Therapy--literally getting certified in it so she could buy toys for a living!

Jeanne has specialized training in trauma, neurodivergence such as ADHD, highly sensitive nervous systems, depression, anxiety, disordered eating, addictions and chronic health or pain conditions. She knows that healing through a mind-body-spirit approach is essential.

She has been in private practice since 2004 and has clients worldwide in her virtual 'office'.

Mother nature gives us all the powerful metaphors we'll ever need for meaningful and long lasting shifts to live our authentic lives.

Every Resilient Being Plays!

Play is Work and Work is Play!

When your mind, body and spirit are brimming with joy and in alignment, your goals, needs, and challenges can be met with more EASE.

We teach you how to access the natural healing abilities of body, mind and spirit at the quantum level and by developing a 'play practice', you can actually heal and change your very cells.

These peak retreat experiences become embedded in our cells (literally) and then can be called upon afterwards to bolster us through the storms of life.

How can Play, Joy and F.U.N. help you?

Your Retreat Leaders

Jeanne Teleia, LMFT

Sybille Lindner

Sybille began her healing work studying as a physiotherapist in 2008 and is now in private practice in Namibia.

She is fascinated by the effect that mindful touch has on people, and helping people heal through touch and self-empowerment has become her life’s purpose.

She incorporates alternative practices into her medical work, and has been using yoga, breathwork, Tai Chi, Qi gong, and practices from the fields of somatics and psychology to inform her work, creating an integrative approach that helps support people on all levels of being, releasing trauma and beliefs that limit their lives on a wider spectrum than just on the physical level.

Sybille dedicates her healing work to helping people find the balance between the Form and the Flow in their lives:

• the balance between the structural and the fluid aspects of their bodies,

• the balance between the analytical and the intuitive aspects of their minds,

• the balance between the strength and the gentleness in their hearts,

• and the balance between their own personal power and the sense spiritual connectedness and belonging to something greater than themselves.

Our holistic approach is personalized for your needs and goals with small groups of no more than 6-10 people. Single rooms are available.

We create playful healing activities, and help you process anything that comes up during our magical encounters with the dolphins (and the humans).

Magical doesn't always mean without challenges but those are the richest moments of personal growth, including being afraid of being in deep water with wild animals. It is a moment of transformation just to get in the water! However, it is not required that you get wet! There are a multitude of ways to connect deeply with the dolphins and other wildlife.

Since our bodies are 50-70% water and the moon affects our very cells like it does the ocean, we will use the beauty and inspiration of the full moon throughout our week.

Jeanne will be offering animal communication skill building before and during the retreat so you can more deeply connect with the dolphins and all the animals we encounter.

We both have personal and professional experience with trauma, chronic health conditions including pain, highly sensitive nervous systems, ADHD and other neurodivergent experiences and welcome retreat participants who want to continue and enhance their healing journey.

Every single human culture and even throughout the animal kingdom, PLAY and FUN are REQUIREMENTS of life.

To develop our brain, to grow, to learn, to survive through the worst moments, we must play.

What's Included:

• 7 nights accommodation in a beautiful 7 bedroom beach front villa in Ponta Malongane, Mozambique

• Five (5) morning boat trips for dolphin interactions and swims

• Catered meals: 7 brunches and 5 dinners, with herbal teas and coffees

• Cultural exploration of nearby village with two dinners at village restaurants (at additional cost)

• Afternoon/evening activities and playshops to enhance your wellness experience by your retreat leaders

• A Special Sacred Medicine Song and Sound Journey by our retreat site host, Courtney Ward of Halo Gaia

• Photographs of your ocean adventures

• Professional snorkeling equipment and guidance

• Plenty of wonderful beach time

• Roundtrip transportation, either from the Kosi Bay South African border or Ponto do Ouro to our site - Ponto Malongane

• Two (2) online meetings before our trip to learn more and to develop new skills in animal communication so you can start communicating with the dolphins before, during and after our retreat!

• Paying It Forward: You will be a Cetacean Protector! Your participation results in a group donation made to a true whale or dolphin sanctuary that retires, rehabilitates and releases formerly captive dolphins and whales. You’ll even get to participate in picking the recipient!

What's Not Included:

• Transportation to Mozambique-Direct flights from Lisbon, Portugal and Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa as well as other cities in Africa

• Round trip airport transfers from Maputo (these can be arranged for you)

• Drinks except teas & coffees

• Two (2) dinners in the local village

• Visa fee, only for non-South African passport holders or if arriving through South Africa, R280

• Optional add-on treatments offered by Sybille Lindner and Jeanne Teleia

• Travel and health insurance highly recommended!

Everything else is taken care of!!

An Investment in your Health!

Holistic Dolphin Retreat total:

R35,888/USD $1916*/Euro €1816* per person for double room sharing**

*approximate conversion rate. Final is determined at time of last payment

BONUSES and SPECIALS:

Early bird discount of $100USD/93€/1850R* AND a monthly payment plan available for the first 3 people who register before 1 October 2024

OR

Bring a friend and you get $100USD/93€/1850R off!

Payment Terms

Deposit of 30% upon booking to reserve your space

2nd installment of 30% due 15 November 2024

Final payments due 15 January 2025

**Single Supplement may be available: 600R/$34USD/32€ per night

But Wait...There's MORE!

We're going where the GIANTS roam!

An affordable luxury Safari leaving right from our Dolphin Retreat!

You can participate in ONE or BOTH parts of this Special TWO part retreat!

Open Hearts Safari May 13-16, 2025

Tembe Elephant Park, South Africa--home to some of the biggest Elephants on Earth!

In over 200km of wild reserve, we will enjoy staying in elegant ensuite tented decked cabins with early morning and late afternoon drives into the bush and be immersed in the flow of life under the African sun.

These are opportunities to be with wildlife in deeply moving, up close encounters with wild herds of elephants, giraffes, lions, wildebeest and maybe even glimpses of the rarely seen leopard and rhino.

Dedicated, experienced local guides, drivers and staff welcome you into the Tembe family and share their love and knowledge of flora and fauna. Enjoy an intimate connection with nature, African culture and wildlife at this unique Safari reserve.

Away from the usual tourist routes and crowds while still having the opportunity to see the Big Five, Tembe is for the discerning visitor who wants a genuine, authentic experience of Africa,

May is the perfect time of year--starting the dry season and not too cold or hot. Even a paradise for birders!

What's Included:

• Six (twice daily) safari game drives (each 3 hours), mornings and afternoons, with dedicated experienced guides providing up-close and personal animal encounters

• Luxury ensuite tent accommodations with all amenities including air conditioning

• Early morning continental breakfast, warm breakfast on return from game drive, late lunch and 3-course dinner

• Bar with complimentary coffee, tea & refreshments

• Opportunities for further animal communication skills practice with me-your retreat host

• Refreshing swimming pool for relaxing afternoons

• Roundtrip transportation to Safari site from the Kosi Bay South African border or Ponto do Ouro (right where the Dolphin Retreat leaves off!)--only about 1.5 hours!

What's Not Included:

• Round trip transport from Maputo airport to Ponto do Ouro or the Kosi Bay border (can be arranged for a fee.)

• Drinks except teas & coffees

• Community, Reserve and South Africa entry fees

• Gratuities both for lodge staff and your game drive guide

• Travel and health insurance highly recommended!

Everything else is taken care of!

WHY is this the most AFFORDABLE SAFARI you can find!

How can Tembe Elephant Lodge offer a comfortable safari-style accommodation along with all meals and 2 daily game drives at a fraction of the price of similar game lodges in southern Africa?

The answer is a combination of generous donor-funding, subsidized accommodation and our participation in what has become the most successful community-based conservation initiative in the country.

This is what sustainable, responsible tourism is all about!

What do Dolphins and Elephants have in common?

They both understand their world through vibration and sound. Take a look at this video to learn about how Elephants hear and feel--through their feet, the same way dolphins 'hear' and 'see' through echolocation and can communicate over vast distances:

The are also both sensitive and compassionate beings who live in family groups, clearly grieve their losses and live, love, play, and protect each other for generations.

They have a lot to teach us and it's an honor just to be present in their presence.

That's part of why we are doing this add-on trip in such a special and unspoiled place in the world!

Join Us for Another Peak Experience to Enhance Your Life!

"I travel because I need to...because my wild, adventurous spirit can't live according to the 'norm'. I travel to regroup, to reinvent myself, to be the best me I can be, to find my JOY in the ordinary and peace in exploring. I travel to be."

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Open Hearts Safari self-care investment

R14,000/USD $750*/Euro €680*

per person for double room sharing**

*approximate conversion rate. Final conversion to be determined at final payment.

**Single Supplement may be available: 600R/$34USD/32€ per night

Bonuses and Specials--Available if you attend ONLY the Open Hearts Safari (and cannot be combined with specials on the Holistic Dolphins Retreat)

Early bird discount of $50USD/47€/R909* AND a monthly payment plan available for the first 3 people who register before 1 October 2024

OR

Bring a friend and you get $50USD/47€/909R off!

Payment Terms:

Deposit of 30% upon booking to reserve your space

2nd installment of 30% due 15 November 2024

Final payments due 15 January 2025

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