Journey across Aotearoa New Zealand alongside award-winning musician Emma G and wellness guide Dinah Simpson on a transformational 10-day experience designed to help you reconnect with your voice, your creativity, and yourself.
Through songwriting, vocal coaching, mindfulness, cultural immersion, and breathtaking natural landscapes, you'll create something few people ever do:
Your own professionally recorded original song.
- March 2027
- Only 12 Participants
- Auckland • Raglan • Rotorua • Whitianga
Leave with:
✓ Your own professionally recorded original song
✓ Practical tools for nervous system regulation
✓ Greater confidence in your voice and creativity
✓ A renewed connection to yourself
✓ A community that witnessed your journey
There are few places in the world that create space the way New Zealand does.
- Black sand beaches.
- Ancient forests.
- Geothermal valleys.
- Towering coastal cliffs.
The landscapes themselves invite reflection and creativity.
Experience meaningful Māori cultural encounters that deepen your connection to place, story, and belonging.
- Guided by New Zealand born Emma G
- Traditional Māori welcome ceremony (Pōwhiri)
- Visit a living Māori cultural village
- Experience the hospitality and traditions of a Marae
- Learn how storytelling, song, and identity are woven into Māori culture
From ocean horizons in Raglan to the coastal beauty of Whitianga, every destination was intentionally chosen to support the creative journey.
This isn't sightseeing.
It's transformation set against one of the world's most extraordinary backdrops.
Creativity opens the door. Transformation walks through it.
Together, Emma G and Dinah Simpson have created a one-of-a-kind experience that blends songwriting, mindfulness, wellness, and personal growth.
Emma guides the creative journey, helping participants uncover and express their stories through music.
Dinah provides the grounding practices that support meaningful transformation through breathwork, meditation, and sound healing.
Some experiences change what you do. This one changes how you hear yourself. Emma G and Dinah Simpson come from different backgrounds: one shaped by stages and standing ovations, the other by boardrooms and the courage it takes to leave that success behind. But they share one deep conviction: that every person carries a story worth telling, and a voice worth hearing.
Together, they have designed something rare and extremely personal. Not a workshop. Not a wellness retreat. A living, breathing experience where the creative and the somatic work as one. Emma opens the door to your voice, and Dinah creates the safety for it to walk through.
No experience is required here. Only openness. Only the knowing that something in you has been waiting for exactly this.
Certified Courage Coach | TEDx Speaker | Best-Selling Author
Award-winning singer-songwriter and Certified Courage Coach Emma G knows firsthand the transformative power of finding your voice.
After overcoming 10 brain surgeries, Emma transformed her own story through music. Today she is an internationally recognized musician, keynote speaker, and empowerment coach who helps people discover the courage to share their stories and reclaim their voices.
As the #1 best-selling author of Mental Health Sounds Like This, Emma has inspired readers around the world with practical tools for self-expression, resilience, and emotional well-being—the very principles that inspired this retreat.
Throughout the retreat, Emma will guide participants through the songwriting journey that has transformed countless lives—including her own.
Founder of HIGH KI LIVING | Reiki Master | Embodied Guide
Dinah believes that when the body is at peace, the voice finds its way home.
Her role on this retreat is to prepare you from the inside out: calming the nervous system, clearing what blocks authentic expression, and creating the somatic and energetic conditions where your deepest truth can finally surface.
Through somatic movement, breathwork, sound healing, and Reiki, Dinah works at the level of the body and the energetic field because real creative expression doesn’t come from thinking more. It comes from feeling more deeply.
Founder of HIGH KI LIVING, with an MBA and Fortune 50 background, Dinah brings rare precision and intuitive presence to this work. She and Emma G are also co-hosts of REAL TALK, a podcast that explores creativity, healing, and what it truly means to thrive.
From the moment you arrive, you'll be welcomed into a community built on trust, encouragement, and compassion. This is a space where every story is honored, every voice matters, and every participant is invited to show up exactly as they are.
There is no expectation to be a professional musician, have the perfect words, or perform flawlessly.
This is a judgment-free retreat—and that includes the way we speak to ourselves.
We'll celebrate courage over perfection, curiosity over criticism, and progress over performance. Whether you're writing your very first song or rediscovering a part of yourself that's been quiet for years, you'll be supported every step of the way.
ARRIVE & OPEN
• Welcome dinner and intention-setting ceremony
• Waiheke Island wine experience
• Māori cultural welcome
• First songwriting experiences
CREATE & EXPRESS
• Black sand beaches and dramatic coastline
• Songwriting Session with Empowerment Coach:
Emma G and guest NZ musicians
• Vocal coaching and performance preparation
Perform your original song live for the first time.
RESTORE & INTEGRATE
• Living Māori cultural experiences
• Geothermal mud baths and thermal pools
• Redwood forest walks
• Reflection and renewal
RECORD & COMPLETE
• Professional studio recording sessions
• Cathedral Cove exploration
• Work alongside producer Dave Rhodes
Hear your recorded song for the first time.
This retreat leaves you with proof.
✓ A professionally recorded original song
✓ A creative practice you can continue at home
✓ Tools for nervous system regulation and wellbeing
✓ Greater confidence in your voice and self-expression
✓ Lifelong friendships and community
✓ A deeper understanding of your own story
Years from now, you'll still be able to press play and remember exactly who you became during these ten days.
✔ International flights from the West Coast, USA
✔ 9 nights accommodation
✔ Private ground transportation
✔ Group meals throughout the retreat
✔ Waiheke Island wine experience
✔ Māori cultural experiences
✔ Mud baths and geothermal pools
✔ Daily yoga, meditation, and breathwork
✔ All songwriting workshops
✔ Vocal coaching
✔ Guest musician mentorship
✔ Professional recording sessions
✔ Your professionally recorded song
✔ Travel insurance
Not Included
• Optional adventure activities
• Personal spending
• Additional private coaching
• Optional Wellington and South Island extension
To preserve the intimate nature of the experience, participation is limited to just ten guests.
Investment
$9,997 USD per person
Payment plans available.
Application required.
- Feel called to reconnect with their creativity
- Want a meaningful travel experience rather than a traditional vacation
- Are navigating a life transition or personal growth journey
- Feel they have a story they are ready to tell
- Are open to exploration, vulnerability, and transformation
No songwriting experience required.
No musical background necessary.
Just a willingness to show up.