Strength, sisterhood, and the wisdom of Moroccan women.
Women's Retreat
A retreat designed for solo female travellers and women seeking deeper immersion in Moroccan culture. Five to eight days of movement, exploration, and connection, guided by and alongside the women who have shaped this country for generations.
The experience
Women's Retreat
This is not just a retreat. It is an introduction to a world often invisible to the standard traveller. We visit women's argan cooperatives in the Atlas foothills, dine in restaurants run entirely by local women, and share practices with Moroccan artisans, weavers and guides. Morning movement, evening gathering, and the kind of connection that only comes from travelling with intention. Open to solo travellers and small groups of women. All levels and backgrounds welcome.
Duration
8 days, 7 nights
Group size
8–14 guests
Format
Co-branded with partner studio
What to expect
Women's Retreat · 8 days
Morning movement practice. Visits to women's argan and weaving cooperatives. Meals at women-run restaurants and households in the Medina. Cultural immersion sessions with local female artisans and guides. Evening storytelling and shared gathering. Optional hammam and traditional Moroccan beauty rituals.
How the week is built
Movement in the morning, the country's women in the afternoon, and a table that fills up by day three.
01
A practice to start the day
Yoga, pilates or a walk, depending on the terrain and the group. It is the anchor that makes a week of strangers feel like a week with a shape.
02
Cooperatives, not demonstrations
Argan in the Atlas foothills, saffron in Taliouine, roses in Kelâa M'Gouna in May. These are working businesses run by women, visited while they work. Nobody performs a craft for us.
03
Meals in women-run kitchens
Restaurants and households in the medina where the cooking, the buying and the business are all in women's hands. This is the part guests write about afterwards.
04
Evenings with nothing scheduled
A long table, no programme, no obligation to be sociable. Solo travellers come back for this more than for any activity on the list.
Where the week makes most sense
Three regions where women's cooperatives and the landscape overlap.
Marrakech and the Atlas foothills
The argan and weaving cooperatives sit within two hours of the city, and the medina holds the restaurants. It is the easiest first week for someone travelling alone for the first time.
Dadès and Kelâa M'Gouna
The rose valley, where the Centifolia blooms in May and the cooperatives distil the water that supplies hammams across the country. The festival is the first week of May, and the valley is quiet either side of it.
Sahara, Erg Chigaga
Our own camp, which matters for a solo traveller: no shared lodge, no unknown host, and a team that is with the group from the first transfer to the last.
Travelling solo as a woman in Morocco, answered
- Is Morocco safe for a woman travelling alone?
- In a group with a ground team, yes, and that is the honest framing: you are never alone on the ground. An Umnya lead is with the group from the airport to the departure gate, the drivers are ours, and the places are ones we use repeatedly.
- Will I have my own room?
- A single room is available on every departure. Shared rooms are also offered for people who prefer them, and nobody is placed with a stranger without being asked first.
- Who else will be on the retreat?
- Eight to fourteen women on a published departure, usually travelling alone or in twos, across a wide age range. A private group, for example a studio or a group of friends, can take the whole week to twenty.
- What should I wear?
- What you would wear in any Mediterranean country, with shoulders and knees covered when visiting cooperatives, villages and religious sites. We send a packing note that is specific rather than vague about this.
From the journal
4 min
Women's Wellness Retreats in Morocco: Safe, Private, and Transformative
Morocco is one of the most compelling destinations for a women's wellness retreat, and also one of the most misunderstood. A private retreat changes the entire equation. What safety actually looks like, what the hammam tradition offers women's wellness, and why the Sahara is increasingly the destination of choice for the most discerning travellers.
4 min
The Science of Disconnection: Why 8 Days Changes Your Biology
Cortisol drops by day three. Melatonin production increases by day five. By day seven, your nervous system has fundamentally recalibrated.
4 min
Longevity Is Not a Supplement. It's a Place.
The longevity industry sells pills. Umnya sells context. Why environment, not intervention, is the missing variable in the longevity equation.
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Women's Retreat
Strength, sisterhood, and the wisdom of Moroccan women.