Naked The Retreat
South Africa 7th to 15th February 2026
Simon Paul Sutton
So many people ask me what Naked The Retreat is. And even those who give testimonials after the experience often find it difficult to put into words what Naked really is.
Why is that?
I have been hosting these retreats since 2014. The first one happened on the island of Gozo. Sixteen beings showed up from all over the world to come and be together. Since then, more than twenty retreats later, alongside many gatherings both online and offline, Naked has remained an invitation into truth.
It is an invitation to face ourselves.
To come back to the innocence of being alive.
To play with this divine moment, this miracle.
It is a reminder that we have plastered ourselves with beliefs, concepts, theories, and ideas. Stories about who we are, what we believe in, and how life works. These stories shape us. They dictate to us through our thoughts, feelings, words, and personality traits, and they create our personal realities.
Naked was always an invitation to come together as community. To play together. To show up. To practise together. To grieve together. To laugh together. To cry together. To feel together.
It was a call from living in our separate homes and longing to be with more like-hearted beings. A longing to do life together in truth, transparency, authenticity, and integrity.
Over the years, the essence has remained the same, though as I have changed, some aspects have naturally evolved. In the beginning, I hosted these retreats with my partner. We later separated, and now I host them with myself and co-facilitators.
The upcoming retreat in South Africa, from the 7th to the 15th of February 2026, is also a celebration. A twelve-year celebration of Naked being in the world. It truly feels like a one-off. There are not many spaces that welcome such a deep journey into nakedness.
And nakedness is beyond nudity.
Anyone can get nude.
Not everyone can live naked.
Over the eight days, there is a clear arc. We arrive as we are, and slowly begin to meet what is in the way. Through breath, movement, sound, silence, nature, group work, and play, we face our shadows, reconnect with suppressed emotions, and begin to soften back into ourselves. It is a deep individual journey, held within the group. We open the circle together and we close the circle together. At times it can be intense, depending on where someone is at, and it is also deeply resourcing, playful, and human.
We are held by the land in South Africa, in a wide open sanctuary surrounded by nature, with space to breathe, move, and simply be.
If you feel curious, you can head to the website. You book a call with myself or with the organisers, Simon or Kate. Applying is simply an invitation to meet us, to ask questions, and to feel into whether this is for you. There is no obligation and no hard sell. Even the short application questions can begin something in you. Then we meet on Zoom.
One of the beauties of Naked is that for eight days we invite you to step away from your mobile phone and computer. We detox from technology. We detox from sugar, meat, and dairy, and eat a plant-based diet. We also step back from other distractions and attachments that we often depend on, consciously or unconsciously.
We invite all of this to fall away so we can see who we are beyond it. To notice how these things shape us, and how dependent we may have become.
Some people ask why eight days. Eight days can sound like a long time. For me, it is not. I actually used to run this as ten days, and for now I have shortened it back to eight.
It takes a few days for the nervous system to land into a different rhythm. Then there is time for real inner inquiry, for meeting layers, for seeing what is beneath the surface. And finally, there is space for integration before we part.
This is a little piece about Naked The Retreat.
It is an offering.
It is part of my service to love and to humanity.
It is an invitation, if you hear the call, to come and play. To be part of birthing a new humanity from the inside out. Because as we change ourselves, the world we perceive begins to change. Our behaviours change. Our way of seeing changes.
We see the world as we are, not as it is.