The Cocoon: A one-day immersive experience
Sun Apr 26, 09:00 - Sun Apr 26, 17:00
Boschendal Retreat Cottages & Conference Venue
ABOUT
The Cocoon
~ A one-day immersive experience for women
Sunday 26 April 2026, 9am-5pm
Retreat Centre, Boschendal Wine Estate, Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa
A delicious soil-to-fork lunch, snacks, and tea/coffee are included.
The Cocoon is an immersive experience weaving together embodied leadership, sensed ecology, and visionary praxis. It is a day designed for those who feel a deep call to move through transformation as part of a wider relationship with how they move and influence life around them.
A cocoon is a site of intelligent re-patterning. It is where form dissolves, where the nervous system reorganises, and where new capacities quietly assemble beneath the surface. This day is built around the qualities, rhythm, and spirit of that threshold space.
Guided by Cathy Coyle, internationally renowned women’s leadership coach, visionary, and PhD candidate in transpersonal and integral psychology, The Cocoon offers a deeply grounded yet imaginal container for change. Cathy’s work bridges the wild, the mythic, and the scientific, integrating somatic intelligence, ecological awareness, and consciousness studies to support women navigating shifts in identity, leadership, and being.
The Spirit of the Cocoon
In nature, the cocoon is a protected field a living architecture that allows transformation without force. Old structures soften. Sensitivity increases. New ways of sensing, orienting, and responding emerge.
This immersion mirrors that process.
Rather than striving for answers or outcomes, we create the conditions for receptivity, coherence, and inner reorganisation. The day invites you into a slower, more attuned state where the body leads, perception widens, and subtle intelligence becomes accessible.
What We Will Explore
Throughout the day, we will work with:
• Breath as a regulator and portal
Using gentle, guided breathwork to support nervous system regulation, expand perceptual range, and allow natural shifts in consciousness without overwhelm.
• Somatic listening and embodied awareness
Attuning to sensation, impulse, and inner movement — learning to trust the body as an orienting system rather than something to manage or override.
• Ecological sensing and ecosomatics
Engaging the living field around us to deepen relational awareness, ground insight, and remember the body as an ecological instrument.
• Subtle shifts in consciousness and states of being
Entering soft, altered, yet highly present states that support insight, integration, and creative re-patterning.
• Visionary praxis
Translating inner shifts into lived orientation — how perception, leadership, and presence change when the system reorganises from the inside out.
An Invitation
The Cocoon is for those who sense that they are between versions of themselves.
For leaders, creatives, and visionaries who know that real change happens beneath the surface — in the body, in relationship, and in the unseen layers of perception.
This is not a day of fixing or becoming.
It is a day of allowing what is already forming to complete its work.
You do not emerge from a cocoon the same way you entered.
You emerge reorganised — with new sensitivities, new capacities, and a deeper trust in your own inner timing.
Spaces are limited for this intimate, high-impact experience.
What to bring:
*To make this day super cosy please bring with you for your comfort a yoga mat, blankets, cushion, sheep skin, eye mask/scarf, bottle of water, journal and pen.
More Information:
Each participant will receive a beautifully curated gift bag upon arrival.
This event is hosted by Manifest Productions, a Cape Town based initiative curating refined transformational gatherings across South Africa. We bring together world-class facilitators, thought leaders, and visionaries working at the forefront of human evolution, exploring the edges of healing, relational intelligence, and conscious leadership.
For any questions about this event please contact Talitha Kotzé +27(0)82 433 8736 or email [email protected]
Accommodation for the Sunday night is available at the beautiful Boschendal Wine Estate. Please contact them directly: https://boschendal.com/
CATHY COYLE
About
Guide, visionary, teacher.
Cathy is devoted to the reclamation of women’s rites of passage, ancestral wisdom, and the deep mysteries of the feminine. As a Ban Draoi (Irish Wise Woman), she walks the path of the seer, healer, and oracle, guiding women through initiatory experiences that reconnect them to their primal wisdom and the living spirit of the land.
With a Master’s in Coaching Psychology and a PhD in progress in Transpersonal Psychology at the California Integral Institute, Cathy merges the mystical with the scientific, grounding her work in both research and lived experience. She has mentored visionary leaders, healers, and entrepreneurs across the globe, helping them cultivate businesses and lives infused with meaning, wealth, and wild wisdom.
Her work is rooted in the timeless traditions of the wise-woman lineage, weaving plant-spirit communication, somatic ritual, and vigil practices to help women reclaim their sovereignty and embodied knowing. At the core of her work lies an enduring curiosity about women’s mysticism and the Esoteric. Cathy's work remains deeply connected to the wisdom of her Irish heritage. As a Ban Draoi she honours and evolves the traditions of the European wise-woman lineage, embodying the roles of Witch, Seiðr, and the many faces of the old shamanic arts.
Through immersive retreats, potent online containers and one-on-one mentorship, Cathy facilitates transformational experiences that bridge the seen and unseen realms, supporting women to navigate personal thresholds, awaken their intuitive gifts, and embody the wisdom carried in their bones.
Cathy is a leadership coach and consultant for women building brands deeply steeped in feminine medicine. Empowering women to build sustainable businesses that honour their calling. She seamlessly integrates transpersonal psychology, strategy, and ecological awareness into her work, ensuring that the leaders she supports are deeply aligned with their purpose and nature's greater cycles.
Her mission is to support & midwife the remembrance of feminine wisdom, guiding women back to the ancient ways of knowing, leading, and thriving in harmony with the wild forces of life itself, and anchoring this for a modern age.
BOSCHENDAL WINE ESTATE
This beautiful land of Boschendal invites you to be a partner in purpose, helping build upon an incredible 340-year legacy. By engaging with the farm, you inspire a deeper connection to the natural rhythms of this 1900-hectare estate.
Regeneration is at the heart of Boschendal's mission, guiding every action to create a thriving ecosystem. They are committed to revitalising the soil for a sustainable future for the land to be a pioneering and ethical village; a place where nature flourishes, communities prosper, and every moment is an invitation to pause, breathe, and reconnect.
This vision blossoms from their commitment to take care of today, making thoughtful choices that ensure a brighter, more abundant tomorrow for all.