Muse, sing in me!
Let us tell the story of complicated men.
Of women who twist and turn in wise delight.
How they sailed across the wine dark sea in search of themselves.
Were lost and found, old selves drowned.
Let the bright ones above take note.
Time to throw you at the sea, let us see if you float.
Five days at sea. Two to land.
A voyage like no other.
A chance to be known, and if you are lucky,
find home.
The crew, hand picked for the voyage, are workers of tender unbecoming and bright wisdom. Architects of awe, specialists in suffering, erotic emissaries. Bound to craft brilliance and dedicated to delight.
You will be asked of.
There are no passengers on this ship.
Your journey is yours alone to sail, but we all tend the hearth fire of transformation together.
The Odyssey is one of humanity’s most enduring and significant myths. You will travel its narrative arc through our unique ambrosia of eros, ritual and theatre. Intimately woven into this is the story of your own becoming. The arc of the experience is designed as a personal transformational container in which we will call up your past, present and future. Bear witness to the shadows. Make space to be undone in ways that matter but won’t wreck your life.
You will traverse the Ioanian on a luxury traditional wooden gulet, our glorious vessel, living inside Homer’s epic myth, feasting and fucking like the ancestors while letting suffering, love and magic shape you.
Sail the same sea as Odysseus. Ground into the story and the living land around us. On the voyage you will hear the myth of the Odyssey told by a master storyteller while encountering vistas, scenes and tableaus from the story played out with you as sacred witness and participant.
Challenges and ordeals woven from the stories source written bespoke for you to confront and negotiate with the complex of your own story and the life that surrounds you.
The boat will tour us around the beauty of the Ionian Islands. A team of practitioners have written and devised encounters designed to evoke the story of Odysseus but also to create a crucible for your own becoming.
Who will you be when you finally step back into your own home? Can you find the change you need to turn towards the future that you really want?
The rose-red dawn is just drawing herself above the horizon. Down at the dock stands the ship. The goddess smiles at you. Time to board and make sail towards the wild unknown.