Ayọ̀ Retreats stemmed from a need to create a safe space for people to heal, grow and experience joy and pleasure without guilt and shame. It was inspired by our founder Adéolá Naomi Adérèmí’s trip to Benin in 2020, exploring art, spirituality and collective resilience. As a certified yoga therapist, Olorisa Ifa devotee, and healer, our founder has always wanted to share her joy and the beauty of our ancestral lands and the planet with other beings of light who are working with their ancestors and ready to align with our collective ancestral wisdom of liberation.

She wants us all to be come home to ourselves and our lands. While in Benin, every place Adéolá went, whispered a deep calling and every land she set her feet on kept claiming her. This experience culminated when she visited the Dahomey palace in Abomey. She felt aligned and filled with love, joy, and assurance that the Earth and her ancestors are continuously supporting and protecting her from this society that is constantly against the elevation of people like her.

It is through Ayọ̀ Retreats that Adéolá would like to share this precious gift with beings from the everywhere in the world who are eager to reconnect with themselves and the land as their ancestors through sacred healing circles, joy, pleasure, art, and divination.