The poet Wendell Berry wrote: The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life...
 

The underlying root of the Safari of Intrinsic Learning (S.O.I.L.) is a simple one:  We each have all we need to live our fullest expressions of ourselves.  This is made up of part biology, part metaphysical, and part magic.  It is, literally by nature, INTRINSIC to our being human.  It seems to be our experience that when people are immersed in natural settings, relaxed and  creatively sharing with others, defenceless, that they are in the best state to start to understand the complexities and yet ecstatically subtle coherence of the human experience. 

 

Immersed in various distinct landscapes with an emphasis on the healing embrace of Mother Nature, these safaris allow the LEARNING that is innate to rise to the surface, without force or expectation. From the fertile orchards of a working farm outside of Cape Town, to the ancient tribespeople of the Rift Valley; from the starkly soulful Kalahari desert, to the watery wildlife wanderland that is the Okavango Delta in Botswana; from the tropical coastal islands of the Indian Ocean, to the great ape-filled rainforests of central Africa  - the canvases for these journeys are about as enriching and welcoming as you can find.