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Re-created by Sound

Refining the art of listening in Morocco. 

Dates: Jun 18, 2025
-Jun 30, 2025
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Journey details

Duration
13 days
Group Size
No Max
locations
Skoura, Merzouga, Marrakesh, Essaouira, and other culturally significant sites.
Terrain & Ecosystem
We will explore diverse ecosystems, from the vast desert dunes of Merzouga to lush oases and coastal landscapes.
Physical Readiness
While the journey does not include extended walks or physically straining activities, participants should be comfortable with walking and spending time outdoors in varying climates, including the heat of the desert. The journey is designed to be accessible, and a willingness to engage with the environment is key.
Languages used

The invitation

Step into a transformative journey through Morocco—where the desert’s silence, the ocean’s rhythm, and the pulse of ancient communities call us into a practice of presence, reverence, and deep listening.

Together, we will wander landscapes of sound and soul, attuning ourselves to the wisdom held in the sands, the stars, and the people who keep ancestral knowledge alive. This journey is a pilgrimage into the sanctuary of listening—a deepening of how we are present to the voices of those who fight for the dignity of life, and an opening to the colors and constellations of sounds carried by rivers, clouds, mountains, and seas.

This un/learning experience weaves together cultural co-creation, ecological harmony, and the beauty of slowing down to truly listen. Over two weeks, we will meet local communities and engage in somatic practices that invite deep listening—to the self, to each other, and to the more-than-human world.

Highlights

Explore timeless traditions.
Attune to the solstice under the Sahara skies
Immerse in the liberating notes of Gnaoua music, a soundscape of freedom and connection.
Awaken your senses through somatic practices that invite deep listening to the self and the other—human and more-than-human.

Wednesday, June 18: Echoes of arrival

In Skoura, we arrive from different paths, converging as strangers and companions. This is a day to settle, to meet one another, and to begin weaving the threads of connection that will guide our journey ahead.

Thursday, June 19: The Caravan’s Murmur

Under the Skoura sun we gather for the first time as a circle – hearts opening, ears attuned—to hear the collective voice of our journey. Here, the desert begins to hum its ancient tune and we pause to settle into the rhythm of the journey, listening to the whispers of arrival.

Friday, June 20: The Solstice’s Embrace

Morning brings a gentle walk through Skoura’s verdant palmeraie or the winding paths of the Dadès Gorge, where the land murmurs its timeless stories. By afternoon, we journey to Merzouga, tracing the routes of the Amazigh caravans under the Solstice sun. In the evening we will take a moment to honor the sun’s peak and the play  between light and shadow, guiding us into deeper attunement with cosmic cycles. 

Saturday, June 21: The Song of the Dunes

The day unfolds in Merzouga, where we engage in the timeless crafts of the Amazigh people – pottery, and weaving – practices that echo their deep bond with the land.
At sunset, we venture into the dunes on camelback, setting camp in the desert. Beneath the sky, stories and silence intertwine and will let stars and stories sing us to sleep.

Sunday, June 22: Sunrise Reverie

We rise with the desert sun, its warmth mirroring the Amazigh spirit of resilience. Returning to Merzouga, we travel onward to Tamnougalt, where history is etched in every Kasbah wall. Visiting the Berber Museum, we listen to the echoes of a culture that has lived in harmony with this land for centuries, their music a vibrant thread in the fabric of time.

Monday, June 23: Pathways of Resonance

Morning in Tamnougalt invites us to savor its serenity before the road leads us to Setti Fatma.
Crossing the landscapes of the Atlas, we are guided by the enduring presence of the Amazigh people, whose intimate knowledge of these mountains teaches us to walk gently and listen deeply.

Tuesday, June 24: Restful Harmonics

A day of stillness in Setti Fatma, where hammams cleanse, treks beckon, and the land reminds us of the balance between movement and pause—a rest note in the song of travel.

Wednesday, June 25: Threads of Connection

Arriving in Marrakech, the city’s vibrant energy stirs us – a pluriverse of colors, sounds, and scents weaving tradition with modernity. Wandering through the medina, we encounter artisans and conversations that reveal stories of resilience, art, and activism, offering a glimpse of the wisdom to come.

Thursday, June 26: The Weave of Voices

Still in Marrakech, we are invited to witness creativity as a powerful catalyst for change through the work of local artists and cultural spaces. A nearby initiative amplifies the call for empowerment, reminding us of the enduring strength of the human voice.

Friday, June 27: Rhythms of the Ocean

The journey flows to Essaouira, where the Gnaoua & World Music Festival greets us with its powerful harmonies—ancient beats blending with modern crescendos.

Saturday, June 28: Resonant Frequencies

Immersed in the festival’s second day, we feel music’s ability to connect and heal, a universal language weaving through time and place.

Sunday, June 29: The Closing Note

A day for reflection and integration in Essaouira. As the waves whisper their song, we honor the land and the journey with a closing ceremony, letting gratitude rise along with the tide.

Monday, June 30: Farewell Cadence

Departures carry the echoes of all we’ve heard, felt, and seen. As we part, the land’s wisdom lingers – a melody we now carry within.

Costs & financial reciprocity

We are exploring new approaches to make the journeys accessible for as many people as possible while covering the logistical costs involved and honouring the contributions of our faculty, the projects hosting us and the team.
 To support this, we have adopted a sliding scale model – inviting you to choose a fee that reflects your life possibilities. 

⭐ The required contribution for this yatra is based on a sliding scale from EUR1600 to EUR3000.  ⭐

We require a non-refundable deposit of 500 EUR to book your spot.

Consider contributing MORE on the scale if you:

  • Can comfortably meet all your basic needs
  • Work full-time or belong to a sponsoring organisation
  • Have investments, retirement accounts, or inherited money
  • Travel recreationally
  • Have access to family money and resources
  • Work part-time by choice
  • Own your home
  • Have high earning potential due to education, privilege, etc.
 Consider contributing LESS on the scale if you:

  • Struggle to meet basic expenses
  • Support children or other dependents
  • Have significant debt or medical expenses
  • Are an elder with limited financial support
  • Are an unpaid community organizer
  • Have unstable housing or unreliable transportation
  • Have not taken time off due to financial constraints
If you select an amount at the higher end of the scale, you will make possible future offerings and support the good work of the speakers, facilitators, and organizers who are generously contributing their gifts to this event. You will also be contributing to the partial grants fund for those needing financial support.

 

FAQ's

Once your application is accepted, you will receive payment details via e-mail. A deposit of 500EUR is required to secure your spot, with the remaining amount due before the journey begins. Payment can be made via bank transfer or other available methods.

To join, fill out the application form and share a bit about your interest in this journey. Once reviewed, we’ll reach out to align expectations. If it’s a good fit, you’ll receive the next steps for confirming your spot.

An un/learning journey invites you to step beyond conventional ways of knowing and into a deeper, more embodied experience of learning. It weaves together personal reflection, cultural immersion, and relational practices that challenge assumptions and open new ways of being.

The journey will include a 4 days mountain hike at high altitudes ranging from 3000 to 4700 meters above sea level, requiring good physical conditioning and stamina. Participants should expect to walk across diverse and sometimes challenging terrain and spend long hours in natural environment with varying temperatures (as low as 23°F during the night).

No prior experience is needed—only a willingness to engage with the journey’s practices and an openness to exploration.

Once confirmed, you’ll receive a preparation guide with packing tips, recommended readings, and reflective prompts to help you arrive with intention.

Faculty & the Team:

Hajar Tazi

Storyteller and ecosystem weaver in the field of regenerative development and education from Morocco. Drawing inspiration from the way natural ecosystems flourish, Hajar cross-pollinates amongst regenerative projects and organizations and spreads the mycelium of radical collaboration in service to the full round of Life. Inspired by indigenous cosmovisions and spiritual ecology, Hajar is on a journey of reclaiming and uncovering ancient and new ways of belonging to the Earth. She nurtures the soil of reverence and deep relationality with self, others, and nature to support the blossoming of life-sustaining ways of being, thinking, and relating, paving the way for the Symbiocene. He has participated and co-organized events related to Ancash Andean culture in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Belgium, Brazil, Spain, Mexico and Panama. In February 2020 he published a book on the Medicinal Plants of the Cordillera Blanca. In addition to her work in Vasos Comunicantes, she is co-leader of the WikiAcción Peru project that seeks to close encyclopedic content gaps and diversify epistemological approaches to knowledge related to ecology, gender and culture on Wikimedia platforms.

Wangũi wa Kamonji

Regeneration practitioner researching and translating indigenous Afrikan knowledges into experiential processes, art and honey to provide rooted embodied tools for us to decolonise and reindigenise. Wangũi weaves research using academic and indigenous methods; storytelling in written and oral forms; traditional Afrikan dance and movement practice; ancestral connection, processwork, and nervous system relation in her work with the organism fromtheroots, which supports individuals’ and communities’ transitions from coloniality to the pluriverse through transformational un/learning, coaching and practice accompaniment. Her work is motivated by the twin challenge of healing the colonial traumas of past and present, and (re)creating ways for us to live regeneratively with ourselves, Earth and ancestors again, and responds to an ancestral invitation to rethink and reimagine everything from indigenous Afrikan ontologies. Since 2011 she maintains workshops and groups of deepening in conscious breathing and body movement, some of them in alliance with sound and visual artists, sharing them in Brazil, Peru and Chile.

Ana Marica

Community weaver, facilitator and learning designer exploring the ways knowledge is woven across communities, cultures, ecologies, and ways of being. Currently she is navigating learning at the intersections of geographies and worlds, designing unlearning journeys that invite individuals and communities to question, reimagine, and transform. Based in Bucharest, Romania, Ana moves between territories - both on land and underwater - seeking the wisdom held in diverse ecosystems and communities.

Gerardo López-Amaro

co-founder of the Enlivened Cooperative, is currently walking the path of autonomous education with the task of imagining spaces of encounter for thinking-feeling together about ways to strengthen the defense of life, memory and territory. He sees this as part of a planetary struggle for cognitive, relational and ontological justice. He is purposefully becoming entangled in a great “we” of people enacting the pluriverse, that “world where many worlds fit.” Born and raised in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, he’s a pilgrim of viable spaces informed by politics of love and consciousness regarding the healing of land and territory, love and intimacy, and labor and livelihood.

How to Apply?

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Upon application, we will get back to you via e-mail with additional questions and/or information.

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