Photograph by Matilda Angus The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. John 1:14 (The Message) On the Living School website, they start off with a few questions: Do you seek contemplative grounding and purpose? Do you long for wisdom elders and companions to share your spiritual journey? “Yes” was our immediate, unspoken, deep-seated answer to both of those questions and in this first year of the program Matilda and I can honestly say that it is indeed what we are experiencing. It is true gift. There is also a third question: Are you willing to be shaken and changed at your very foundation? Phew, they don’t pull any punches, do they! But it’s a yes to that as well. After all, it cannot be that challenging. Alas, it is. We are being shaken and changed at our very foundation. It is not as if we are being roughed
The Restory is a Retreat Centre nestled against Tafelkop, a singular mountain head near Wakkerstroom, South Africa. Here we live a simple life as contemplatives. It is a place of re-connection: with ourselves, people, Nature, Silence and Creativity. Our retreats are aimed at this. Our conversations, writing and art centre around the univocity of life. We need a place that reminds us that we are all one. The Restory hopes to be such a place and space.