Personal Mentorship Program
Connecting with your true Nature
Personal Mentorship Program
Connecting with your true Nature
You know when something isn't right.
When something's out of alignment.
There's a way through this.
The first thing is to take a deep breath.
We'll go from there.
Every problem has a solution.
We approach it in two ways.
First, we understand your immediate concerns -
what brought you here - and we address them directly.
Second, if you're ready for deeper work, you walk the SACRED PATH to discover yourself as a full entity and find the tools to navigate your life going forward.
What changes is empowerment.
You see your situation clearly and who you wish to be within it. You receive a new framework - one that places you and nature at the center, orienting you within natural rhythms and cycles.
You get new tools to work with your patterns.
Where you once spiraled downward,
you now have a foundation that holds.
If you fall, you know how to bring yourself back.
And from there, you rise.
Make it right- Mentorships at the Sacred Grove
The SACRED PATH
a 1:1 structured Mentorship with Das Lyon
The full journey. Structured work through
AIR, WATER, EARTH, and FIRE -
each element a three-month rite of passage.
You discover who you actually are,
where you've come from,
and the strength within you.
You find the wisdom of your ancestry and nature.
You develop the courage to act from truth.
By the end, you have clarity on who you are,
why you are, and how to
navigate your life consciously.
You become your own master.
US$720 per quarter.
Online, one-on-one, ongoing access.
Open to all 18+, application required.
Creative Awakening
a small group monthly immersion
Held in my studio surrounded by art, nature, and beauty.
Four hours, once a month. We use color, texture, sound, and movement to map your body, mind, and spirit along the SACRED PATH.
You experience profound shifts through art - creating works that hold meaning and carry the experience forward.
This is artistic, deeply felt work.
People walk away transformed, with art in hand and new eyes on their lives. No experience necessary.
R1,500 per session | In-person, local
8 pax only.
The Sacred Grove
Sacred Grove is one place.
The environment changes
but the work stays the same.
You meet what’s real.
And your life moves from there,
wherever in the world you may be.
How the mentorships work
The first thing is to listen- to hear where you're at now and the main issues you are aware of.
Then we deal with those in order of priority.
We will follow a holistic system to make sure we address the whole you - a medicine wheel if you like.
You begin with Air - clarity, concious breathwork
and focus.
We will work with the archetype of the Father,
addressing what needs to be healed and honoured.
Through journeys, tasks, rites, guided meditation, breathwork, somatic work and our Health & Soul Audit,
you prepare yourself for real change.
Your first threshold marks the entry into deeper work.
From there, you move through Water - emotion, depth. You work with the archetype of the Grandmother, navigate grief and the emotional body
with tools that last.
Then Earth - the Mother, grounding, foundation, strength. You build the solid ground beneath you, understanding your place in the world and what sustains you.
Then through Grandfather Fire - courage and action.
You kindle the will to move forward, to speak your truth,
to do what needs to be done.
Each element takes three months.
You learn to work with each in turn.
Each has its own framework, archetypes, myth,
function, somatic work, tools and threshold rite.
You spiral upward through the medicine wheel, each return bringing deeper understanding, until you navigate yourself consciously from your own center.
And you can repeat the process as an Apprentice
This is not theory.
This is ancient, lived, embodied work.
The Sacred Grove is the real thing.
Your guide
This work is led by Das Lyon,
MA, BAHons, BTech, FREC3, CPO
Das teaches people to empower themselves.
His background is unconventional - a licensed hostile-environment close protection bodyguard and first response medic, wilderness firefighter and
close-quarter combat instructor, holding black belt degrees in multiple martial arts.
A scholar of mythology, anthropology and psychology, he works directly with individuals through one-to-one mentorship, embodied, progressive development and nature-based initiation.
A bronze sculptor with a Master’s degree in Strategic & Industrial Design, Das led award-winning international design projects across the UK, Middle East and Africa as a Design Director and architect specialising in passive technologies. For example, after designing the largest retail store in Europe at the time, he designed and built one of the first luxury, fully off-grid homesteads in rural South Africa, regenerating the forested site to pristine condition in the process.
This period saw him become a consultant to the Dubai Ministry of Arts and Culture, directly influencing top-level discussions around fostering those industries within the UAE.
With over a decade guiding men and women through rites-of-passage work, Lyon has walked the Sacred Path for many years, training under numerous renowned teachers in Africa, Japan, the Middle East and Europe.
A qualified iQihar - a traditional herbalist and healer - he has worked extensively with nature-based practices and traditional knowledge systems, including writing a popular book on ‘50 South African medicinal plants’.
Other initiatory experiences - such as with the indigenous Jawoyn tribe in Australia and Bedouin of the Arabian Peninsula - inform his integration of ancient and modern somatic methods of healing into applied practice.
Holding vision quests, deep wilderness immersions and initiations, Lyon (pronounced ‘Lion’) operates in spaces where clarity and decision-making really matter.
2026 Offerings
ONGOING 1:1 MENTORSHIP
'THE SACRED PATH'
Apply when you're ready & begin with AIR.
CREATIVE AWAKENING
Next session: Saturday 20th June, 10am-2pm
Recurring: monthly
Limited to 8 people
WILD MAN PAFURI
Next initiation: 7–13th July 2026
Only 2 spots remaining!
CREATIVE AWAKENING
Format • Half-day, in person • All welcome over 18
Next workshop: Saturday 20th June 2026, 10am-2pm
Recurring: monthly
Limited to 8 people
Single session: R1,500
→ Focus: Self-expression through creative practice
→ Methods: Working with materials, movement, sensory awareness
→ For: People wanting to access self-knowledge through creative process.
A monthly creative journey rooted in land, body, and perception. Creativity is approached as a living process rather than a product.
Focus• working with natural materials • movement and sensory awareness • elemental exploration • creativity as a path of self-knowing
This offering complements the initiatory work by opening different ways of seeing and expressing.
Creativity as experience — working with natural materials, movement and perception through
Air, Water, Earth, and Fire.
WILD MAN PAFURI
Only 2 spots remaining!
A six-day wilderness initiation
A six-day journey through wilderness, silence, fire, and brotherhood.
This trail is the deepest initiatory work of the year and is intentionally limited in size.
Dates
• 7–13 July 2026
Investment
R22,500 (SA Residents)
$ 1,750 (Non-SA Resident Rate)
Format
• Men only
• Maximum 7 participants
• Application required
Focus
• wilderness immersion
• elemental rites
• personal reckoning and return
• brotherhood forged through shared ordeal
This is for men ready to step fully into responsibility and truth.
A deep, elemental journey through wilderness, animals, silence, and true brotherhood.
Held in the African wilderness area in Pafuri, Kruger, on the border with Zimbabwe, this primitive MEN’S REWILDING TRAIL is your best chance at real adventure left in the world today.
A journey through the outer and inner wilderness by a unique combination of world class guides.