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Marrakech Morocco
October 14 - 18, 2026
Oct. 14: Arrival, Intentions & Dinner to Remember
Welcome to Marrakech. Airport transfers will bring you to your home for the next four days: two private riads in the heart of the medina, side by side, yours entirely. No hotel lobbies, no strangers in the hallway. Just us.
The afternoon is yours to settle in, breathe the air, and let the city find you.
As evening falls, we gather for the first time as a group. We will open our circle, share our stories, and set our intentions for the days ahead. And then we eat. Tonight's dinner is something we have been quietly planning for months, and we have a very special guest joining our table. We are not going to say more than that.
Oct. 15: The City, a Woman Worth Knowing & an Evening of Words
Marrakech does not reveal itself from a distance. You have to go into it. This morning, choose your entry point: an e-bike tour through the living, breathing interior of the medina with an expert local guide, not for the faint of heart, or a walking tour that begins with one of the Seven Saints of Marrakech, the patron mystics whose presence still shapes this city.
At midday, we sit down with Nora Fitzgerald. She will tell you her story in her own words, what she saw, what she built, and what it cost her.
Tonight we stay in. Pizza, pajamas, and poetry. Bring a poem that has lived in you. You will read it. You may act it out. No judgment, only warmth and laughter and the particular magic that happens when women let their guard down completely.
Oct. 16: Slowness, Depth & Dinner in a Home
There is no agenda this morning. Sleep in. Sit on the rooftop. Let the call to prayer wash over you. This is the day the retreat breathes.
When we reconvene, we go deeper. There will be a conversation worth having, the kind that does not happen in ordinary life, led by someone with something real to say. Details to be announced.
Tonight, we are guests in a Moroccan family home for dinner. This is not a restaurant experience dressed up to look like one. This is a table set for us by people who know what hospitality actually means.
Oct. 17: Make Something, Wear Something, Remember Everything
This morning we use our hands. A private workshop in a traditional Moroccan craft, the kind passed down through generations and increasingly rare to access. You will leave with something you made yourself and the knowledge of how it was made.
Tonight is our farewell dinner, and we are doing it properly. You will have the option to rent a caftan for the evening. Do not skip this. There is something that happens when a group of women dress for each other, in a city like this, on a night like this. We cannot explain it. You will understand when you are in it.
We close our circle. We say what needs to be said. We go home changed.
Oct. 18: Departure
Head out to Marrakech Airport for your flight home, with a full heart.
Marrakech Madness
The Marrakech Airport can be quite hectic upon arrival and the passport/customs line can take up to 1 or even 2 hours to get through. If you’d like to avoid these lines and fast track through security, I recommend booking your Pearl VIP Pass in advance. Click below to learn more and purchase your fast track pass. You need to purchase this over 48 hours in advance.
––––– EUNOIA CHAPTER III HOMES
Riad 42
For the double rooms.
Tzarra Riad
For the single rooms.
Beautiful Thinking
Eunoia is Greek for "beautiful thinking”, capturing the essence of harmony and synergy while invoking a sense of empowerment and unity among women.
Equal Engagement
Eunoia fosters synergy and osmosis where each participant engages, discusses, and contributes to a nexus of ideas within femininity and female empowerment. With a loose framework promoting equal participation and a central focus, we cultivate a community of mutual support among strong, independent women, valuing everyone's contribution. Through shared trust and honesty, we harness strengths and offer support amid challenges. Every attendee is invited to lead a 30-minute session of a topic, activity or experience of their choice. Contact Sarah to pencil in your slot and topic.
Dress & Alcohol
To foster elevated thought, we synchronize our minds, bodies, and spirits. On Eunoia retreats, We abstain from alcohol, dress elegantly, and ensure our appearance reflects our internal grace, complementing our serene setting.
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Sarah Casewit
Marrakech is where I began. I was born here, and no matter how many cities I have lived in or traveled through in the decades since, this one has never loosened its hold on me. There is something in the light here, in the smell of the souks in the early morning, in the sound of the city waking up, that I have never been able to find anywhere else. It is not nostalgia exactly. It is more like recognition. Like the city knows me and I know it back. We’ve cried together in unexpected places.
Hosting you here is something I have thought about for a long time. This is not a city I will show you from the outside. I will bring you into it the way I know it, through the streets I walked as a girl, through the doors that were opened to me by people I love, through the stories that shaped who I am. Some of what I share with you will be things I rarely talk about. That feels right for this particular group, in this particular place.
This retreat is also about joy. What it means to reclaim it. What gets in the way of it. How we are taught, as women, to treat it as something we earn rather than something we are owed. I have been thinking about this question for years, and Marrakech is where I keep coming back to it, because this city is not subtle about pleasure. It insists on it. The food, the color, the warmth of the people, the way a good conversation can stretch across an entire afternoon without anyone checking their phone. I find something here every time that I had quietly forgotten I was allowed to want.
I cannot wait to share it with you.
