The retreat companion
The companion app for guests of the foundation's retreat, in a private villa above Camps Bay, Cape Town. It carries the forty day preparation, every hour of the six days, the teachings as they are taught in the room, the house itself, and Navid, who is there at three in the morning.
Today · The day as an arc
The retreat is six days. The work is longer than that. The app opens the day a guest is booked and stays open long after they fly home, so nothing has to be remembered, chased, or asked twice.
The preparation guide, stage by stage. The medication gate, the cleanse in two lists, a two week menu plan, a packing list of seventeen things, and one sentence of intention you keep reworking.
Every hour your facilitators have planned, the six teachings exactly as they are taught in the room, and the house guide for the fourteen things people actually ask about.
Twelve guided practices filed by the moment you are in, your notes, your journal, and a record you can take out of the app whenever you want it.
It is a progressive web app: Next.js on Vercel, Supabase behind it, and a service worker and manifest, so it installs to the home screen like anything else.
One tab bar along the bottom, drawn in a single hand. Every glyph is a continuous two pixel line, and every one of them is alive: it draws itself on, as they do here, and in the app it keeps breathing while you are standing in the room.
The whole day, drawn as one arc.
A ritual dial runs from dawn to night with the day's numeral lit at its centre and a marker where you actually are. Underneath it, the session happening now, and one short line from Navid about it.
Everything you use every day, in one place.
The preparation companion, your journal, your notes, the packing list, your intention, your path, and the export. Laid out so the thing you need today is the largest thing on the screen.
Every hour of the retreat, and everything your facilitators plan for you.
Day, month and list views over the same hour blocks. Sessions, meals, workshops, ceremonies and open time, each in its own weight, so a full day never reads as noise.
Six days of teachings, exactly as they are taught at the villa.
Six teachings across fifty nine slides, presented full screen the way the facilitator presents them, with the PDFs to keep. Nothing paraphrased, nothing summarised down.
The house, in fourteen topics.
Arrival and keys, the alarm, the Wi-Fi, the safes, power, water and gas, the kitchen, the pools, departure. A map of the house, and a Cape Town guide of twenty one places across eating, wellness, walks and activities, each one measured as a straight line from the front door.
Guided breathwork, meditation and rest, filed by the moment you are in.
Twelve practices, each with its own artwork. They are sorted by where you are rather than by category: the night before ceremony, the morning after, between ceremonies, when it gets heavy, back at your desk, first Monday back.
Here with you.
The companion. He gets his own chapter, below, because he is the part of this we are proudest of and the part that needs the most honesty about what it will not do.
Navid · The room
The preparation opens the moment a guest is booked. It counts the days to Cape Town on the front of the screen and asks for one thing at a time, in the order the body can actually take it.
If you take any medication or supplement, anything at all, the medical team needs to know now. Some need weeks of lead time, and the team will walk you through it personally, in confidence.
This gate stays lit until you have spoken to them.
Four weeks out, and starting early is fine. Lifestyle changes begin here. Nothing drastic yet.
Days fourteen to eight. The dieta starts: simpler food, no alcohol, quieter evenings.
Days seven to three. The strictest window: no caffeine, no red meat, lighter meals.
Three days to arrival. Light meals, packing, and as much sleep as you can get.
Two lists, what to avoid and what to eat, with the reason next to each one rather than a rule on its own.
Two weeks of meals, photographed, swap freely. Downloadable as a PDF for whoever does the cooking.
One sentence you keep reworking until it is yours. It follows you into every ceremony.
Everything a guest writes belongs to the guest. The export gathers the whole record on the device itself and hands it back, in one piece, whenever it is asked for.
There is no app store listing, and there is no download to hunt for. The app is a progressive web app: open it in a browser, sign in, and add it to your home screen. After that it opens like any other app, full screen, with its own icon.
Built for booked guests and the facilitator team.
A foundation using fashion, education, spirituality and sustainability to protect human rights, the environment and conservation. Cape Town and Maputo. The retreat and this app are one part of that work, and the part where the foundation's own people are in the room with you.
Reconnection to self, to others, and to the natural world. The starting point of every other pillar.
Sustainable wellbeing rooted in presence, not performance. Built through practice, not pursued as an outcome.
Liberation from the patterns, fears and conditioning that keep people stuck. The work, and the result of the work.
The digits of 322 sum to seven. Seven is the number of growth, of completion, of arrival, and the mission is to carry this message within seven years. The rainbow stands for diversity, inclusivity, and the shared sky we all live under. Those seven colours run through everything the foundation makes, including this app, where they are used sparingly and on purpose.
