My gratitude for having the opportunity to travel with Krista and Karim is boundless. They are so committed to what they do and it shows in the quality of the events they provide. I have now done five tours, three to Egypt, one to Turkey and the latest to Egypt and Tanzania. Let me tell you about the latest, “The Origin Codes – Spiritual Retreat in Egypt, Tanzania and Zanzibar January 2025.”
Following the opening circle, the journey starts with a walk amongst the secret places of the Giza plateau. The plateau has hidden treasures which are not known to many and Karim and Krista have a knack of showing me something new each time I visit. This visit culminated in private time between the paws of the great Sphinx. Here we meditated and I found myself soaring high out of my body, watching myself slumped against the right paw of the Sphinx, connecting back to the origin within myself.
The words from Krista’s mouth seem simple and the ceremony could be thought of as not that important, however, anyone who thinks this is very wrong. Krista’s words weave a web, a web which links each of us into the very matrix of life, back to the origin. The oneness which connects each of us and includes every rock, leaf, twig and speck of dirt or droplet of water. As I come out of the deep trance, into which I had been flung, the view of the Sphinx with the setting sun and the spectacular cloud formations is simply stunning. The sacred journey has begun bringing us all back to the origin of life.
New adventures continue the next day with a boat ride down the Nile to where the river splits into the delta. Another sacred activation on the Nile is followed by a scrumptious lunch.
In the evening we leave Cairo and fly to Dar es Salam in Tanzania. How can I describe my experience of Tanzania?
I shall not go into all the details as I am sure you can find that elsewhere, but what I want to describe is the feelings evoked by this adventure of a lifetime.
Is it possible to describe meditating beside Lake Victoria in the middle of Tanzania? Sitting on a granite boulder 10 times bigger and more solid than myself and then feeling the solid granite begin to melt and move. It moves in a way that I find myself sailing on a lake of swirling granite. Can one put this feeling into words?
The absolute joy of being inside the Serengeti National Park at dawn, greeting the day with the roar of a water buffalo, the singing of birds and the freshness of the air after the evenings rain, is enchanting. 
The feeling of being connected to everything after a meditation which, once again, takes me out of the small world of little Beverley, and into the realms of the marvellous ‘all that is’. As my heart is thumping and I can almost feel the grass growing under my feet, I am ecstatic. Today we begin again the journey to the animals leading us back to the origin of nature.
This journey is sacred, and what is most special about it is the belief and understanding that wilderness is not separate from ourselves, but we are one and the same. If I feel this connection, and the energy moving through the earth, air, and ourselves, then the wild animals feel it as well, and will respond.
They respond by coming to us in many shapes and sizes, including impala, zebras, giraffes, gazelles, water buffalo, wart hogs, wildebeests, and lions feeding. The peak for me was sixteen elephants, including two mothers with babies. This was fantastic and magical beyond anything I could have imagined. My tears are flowing after the male elephant comes within five meters of the Toyota Cruiser and looks me right in the eyes. I was so excited I forgot to press the record button on the video.
How do I even begin to speak of having a BBQ lunch inside the Ngorongoro National Park with wild animals roaming and birds flying overhead? We sit once again in this remarkably beautiful place and meditate. This time, the birds come and fly around our circle and twitter and chirp endlessly until a waterfowl of some kind comes right up to my shoulder, while I am deep in meditation, and calls to me. Over and over the cry is loud and right in my ear, I cannot ignore this call, this plea for help. “Help me, help us! The swamp, the marshland, is drying up! Help me, help us! We need rain. Please help us.”
This is the peak, my heart is overflowing with love and connection, even the corrugated dirt track and the constant bumping up and down does not distract from the delight of being alive. Perhaps I could wish for more rain to fall in this precious place, perhaps I could wish that more people are as fortunate as I to be able to see and feel what I have felt. Perhaps I could wish for many things to be different. For now, I can only feel love and have trust in the belief we can create a better world. We just need to be prepared to look within and get back to the origin. Our internal vista is the only vista which we can change. We just need to remember the words of the song: “She changes everything she touches and everything she touches, changes.”
Another meditation at the Olduvai Gorge has me remembering a different time and place, long ago — before what? Before, when there was a place called Atlantis and a crystal circle so spectacular and powerful that when it was perfectly in balance it created enough energy to move mountains. Until someone thought that they could make it better and, in their hubris, pushed it out of balance and it exploded and destroyed almost all the then known world. This flashback has me filled with sadness and a yearning to make things right. Is it even possible to make things right? Then the question is who’s right? Everyone comes to the table with pre-set filters as the things which have formed them. But, can we even agree on how things need changing and even where to begin?
Then we traveled to Zanzibar and the Spice and Wellness Resort for three nights. Swimming with dolphins at dawn on my birthday. I did not actually swim, I have to say, but others did.
It is here in Zanzibar I understood something very important. It doesn’t matter if we agree on what needs to be done. The thing we must do is trust the process of sitting together and meditating together. It is in this process that we set the intention for change, and start to understand the connection of everything to every single atom and cell. We start to the understanding that time does not exist. That time and space are one and the same thing, and if we leave space… “all will be well”, as nothing is ever truly lost.
When the journey finally comes to an end, I am tired but feel blessed. My spirit has been lifted and inspired. My heart and soul have opened and felt connection to all of life.
Thank you, Krista, and Karim, I shall journey with you again. I would recommend this and other journeys with them as they always go the extra mile in providing excellence.
They provided excellence in food, accommodation, travel, and spiritual expertise and guidance.
Beverley Wyburn, Melbourne, Australia