A private safari. A powerful next chapter.
And the freedom to give it your full attention.
In the Maasai Mara, the matriarchs lead. An elephant herd follows its oldest female, who remembers where the water is in the driest years and carries her family through every season. Lionesses do most of the hunting and raise their cubs side by side, and a hyena clan is led by its females. That is why we named this A Pride of Women™. Out here the power and the softness live in the same animal: the lioness who leads the hunt at dusk is the same one who curls around her cubs at dawn.
At the heart of A Pride of Women™ is one truth: you were never meant to choose between the part of you that leads and the part of you that longs to be held. You can be ambitious and soft, successful and supported, independent and deeply connected. You will never shrink your success to make room for love, or give up your tenderness to protect what is yours.
Kenya is where you return to who you have always been, without becoming anyone else, and carry that home with you, into your relationships, your boundaries, your decisions, your family, your work and your whole life.
For eight days we come together in Kenya as A Pride of Women™, accomplished, generous and curious, each of us with her own last piece, held by one another in one of the most extraordinary places on earth.
“Let us take care of you in the way that you do for everybody else.”
For five nights, one of the Mara's most distinctive safari properties becomes our private home. Ishara is reserved exclusively for our pride, giving us the freedom to gather, reflect and enjoy the wilderness in a setting shaped around our stay.
Your own tented suite, with a private deck overlooking the Talek River, offers somewhere beautiful to withdraw. Beyond it: expert guiding, a heated pool, treetop spa treatments, thoughtful dining and a team attending to the rhythm of our days. Exclusive use means the spaces we share belong to our pride alone.
Before sunrise, we head out into the cool morning air as the balloon is prepared for flight. As daylight reaches the plains, we rise above the landscape, watching the Mara unfold beneath us.
There is a different sense of scale from up here: open grasslands, winding waterways and the possibility of wildlife moving below. Between the sound of the burner, there are moments simply to look, take photographs and enjoy being here together.
After landing, a private champagne breakfast awaits in the bush. The afternoon is entirely your own: a spa treatment, time beside the pool or the privacy of your suite.
The balloon safari and private champagne breakfast are included in your retreat.
Flight operation and route are subject to weather and pilot discretion. Wildlife sightings vary.
Your last piece might be extraordinary love, a professional ambition, an adventure you have postponed for years, or a future you have yet to give yourself permission to want. It might also be a good marriage becoming even more. Whatever yours is, the experience is shaped around you.
You have to clear the story to create the life. Riana brings neuroscience and identity architecture together to address the relationship between what you want and who you have learned to be.
What do you want now, at this point in your life? What have you stopped asking for? Drawing on your private conversation before departure, Riana helps bring your desires into focus and recognize where the identity you have lived from may no longer fit the life you want.
You can know exactly what you want and still carry a story that makes it difficult to receive. That love comes with disappointment. That success requires sacrifice. Here, Riana goes deeper than insight, to where your history has become your expectations, automatic responses and sense of what is possible.
Between now and dead, what do you actually want?
We begin at the end, with the life you want to experience, and work backward to today. This is the heart of identity architecture: creating who you need to be to live that life, how you experience your worth, trust your desires and let yourself receive.
Claim is where that identity becomes how you live, love and lead. Receive care without immediately repaying it. Speak your desires without diminishing them. Bring this into your relationships, your choices, your boundaries and your expectations of what life can be.
By firelight, Riana guides us through alchemical forgiveness, and it can be as private as you like. This forgiveness lets no one off the hook. It is how you take back your power and set down what hurt you, so that it is no longer yours to carry.
One private, 90-minute conversation with Riana, and quarterly online gatherings to get to know one another before we meet in Nairobi.
Two private hours with Riana, approximately two and eight weeks after your return, plus three 90-minute gatherings with the women who traveled with us at approximately 30, 60 and 90 days.
A private community of women, with online reunions at six, nine and twelve months to reconnect, revisit and celebrate what is unfolding.
From your welcome in Nairobi to your private charter into the Mara, Alyza and the Africa Wild Safaris team oversee the arrangements. Your hosts travel alongside you, with trusted local teams attending to the practical details.
Four dedicated afternoons with Riana sit alongside mornings in the reserve, shared meals and quiet time. The afternoon after ballooning is entirely your own. There is space to absorb what emerges, without every moment being scheduled.
We begin with a personal conversation with both hosts. Pre-departure gatherings allow familiarity to grow before Nairobi. In Kenya, privacy is respected and connection develops through the experiences we share.
The time between our afternoons with Riana is part of the retreat. A quiet hour, an unhurried conversation or simply watching the light change gives you space to consider what has surfaced and what it means for you.
As the day draws to a close, we gather for sundowners and dinner, with the Mara stretching beyond us. There is pleasure in the setting, ease in being cared for and time to get to know the women sharing this experience. Later, the stars and the fire invite us to stay a little longer.
A personal welcome in Nairobi and two nights at Kwetu. A day in Tigoni's tea country brings a farm visit, tasting, massage and unhurried lunch together.
A private charter takes us to Ishara. Settle into your suite, begin The Last Piece™ · The Opening and explore the reserve. The following afternoon is dedicated to CLEAR, with an optional alchemical forgiveness by firelight after dinner.
Ballooning before sunrise and champagne breakfast in the bush. The afternoon is entirely free for the spa, pool, quiet or company. A lantern-lit dinner brings us back together.
Morning safari experiences and dedicated afternoons with Riana. Time for photography and rest, a bush celebration and a farewell dinner to mark everything we have shared.
Fly back to Nairobi, with a day room before your onward departure. Two private hours with Riana, three gatherings with the women who traveled with us and a year in our private community keep the connection going at home.
A massage among the treetops. A portrait sitting in Ishara's photo studio. A conversation that continues long after lunch. A quiet moment on your own deck.
We have made room for the experiences you will remember, and the unscheduled moments that can mean just as much.
Alyza brings the destination, the relationships and the care. Riana brings The Last Piece™ and continued support. Together, they have shaped an experience in which each strengthens the other.
Born and raised in Kenya, Alyza brings a lifelong connection to the country, trusted local relationships and a discerning eye for the details that make this experience truly exceptional.
Alyza designs highly personalized experiences where thoughtful planning meets warm, intuitive hospitality. Her expertise lies in understanding how a safari should feel, from the welcome after a long flight to the privacy of your accommodation, the pace of each day and the people entrusted with your care.
For A Pride of Women™, she has shaped the safari around The Last Piece™ with Riana. There is time to settle in before going deeper, privacy when you want to reflect and shared experiences that allow connection to develop naturally. With the arrangements taken care of, you have the freedom to be present and give yourself your full attention.
Traveling alongside you, Alyza will personally oversee the experience, working closely with Riana and the teams to anticipate needs and attend to the details so that you can be fully present and take in all the experience has to offer.
There is a season when the life you have so carefully created no longer quite fits who you are becoming. It may arrive with a divorce, an empty nest, or redesigning your professional life at a time you never anticipated, or because there is a part of you that simply knows there's more meant for you and your life. Riana Malia's work, The Last Piece™, was created for exactly this moment.
Known as the most sought-after identity architect for extraordinary women in midlife, Riana is a Board-Certified Integrative Neurosomatic Practitioner who blends neuroscience, subconscious rewiring and identity architecture in a way that places her in a category of her own. You have understood all of it for years, and still nothing moved. With Riana, the old wiring stops choosing for you, and you never relive a single memory to get there. Over ten years, hundreds of private clients have trusted her with that work.
For A Pride of Women™, Riana brings The Last Piece™ to Kenya. It begins with private work with her before you travel and deepens in the work she leads at Ishara. Once you are home, it carries on in a one-to-one integration session and a year inside an incredible community of women who were there with you.
Two nights in your own private room at Kwetu Nairobi. Five nights in your own suite at Ishara Mara, with the property reserved exclusively for our pride.
Your investment brings together the exclusive property buyout, private accommodation, safari experiences and the full program with Riana, alongside personal hosting throughout. Participation begins with a conversation with both hosts.
A 30% deposit secures your place at the time of booking. The balance is not due until ninety days before departure, so you may reserve your place with ease and settle the remainder when the time is right.
International airfare, travel insurance, entry authorization fees and gratuities are additional.
The first four guests to confirm their place receive Ishara's Starbed experience: an opportunity to spend a night on an elevated open-air deck, beneath the Mara sky, surrounded by the sounds of the wilderness.
Subject to availability and suitable weather. Individual arrangements will be confirmed with Ishara.
Confirm your place by December 31, 2026 and receive an additional private session with Riana, beyond the individual sessions already included in your retreat.
Session timing will be arranged personally with Riana. Guests among the first four confirmed bookings who also meet the December deadline receive both benefits.
Some invitations deserve a conversation. Tell us what draws you to Kenya, what you are curious about and what you might want from this next chapter. Alyza and Riana will personally explore the experience with you.
Complete a short application to request your private conversation. There is no commitment to book.
Your next chapter begins with a conversation.
A private safari. Personal work. Exceptional company. Kenya · October 27–November 3, 2027. Hosted by Alyza Raithatha and Riana Malia. We would love to know a little about you before arranging a private conversation.