A Sekhem Conscious Journey
flowing With the Nile
A Sekhem initiatory pilgrimage through Egypt's most profound mysteries
October 30 to November 13 2026
This fifteen day pilgrimage is a sacred journey of remembrance, traveling north along the living spine of Egypt, the Nile, from temple to temple, from source to source. As we move gently down river, each sacred site becomes a place of pause, meditation, and deep inner listening. Every temple holds a resonance with a specific chakra, inviting healing, activation, and integration on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels. Through stillness, movement, breath, and presence, participants are guided to release what no longer serves and to embody more fully the truth of who they are.
This journey is guided by Patrick Zeigler, founder of Sekhem All-Love, together with Danielle Hooijmeijer Sekhem All-Love Teacher. At each temple, initiations are gently activated in alignment with the energy of the land and the group, offering support for awakening, healing, and expansion. This is not a tour, but an inner and outer passage, where the ancient temples serve as mirrors for the body and soul, and the Nile itself carries us through a living current of transformation.
Patrick Zeigler – Founder of Sekhem and Seichim
Patrick Zeigler is the visionary founder of Sekhem and Seichim, a pioneering system of energy-based spiritual work. With over four decades of international teaching experience, his journey began with a profound spiritual awakening in Egypt in 1980. This pivotal experience led him to develop and share Sekhem (aka Seichim), which evolved into Sekhem All-Love. His teachings emphasize direct connection to source, heart-centered awareness, and embodied spiritual awakening, blending ancient wisdom with contemporary consciousness practices for deep personal transformation.
Danielle Hooijmeijer – Sekhem All-Love Master Teacher and Holistic Facilitator
Danielle Hooijmeijer is a seasoned Sekhem All-Love teacher and holistic practitioner from the Netherlands. She leads transformative experiences, meditation, and heart-centered workshops, guiding participants towards growth, integration, and inner connection through Sekhem energy. Danielle collaborates with other facilitators on events like Alchemy of the Heart and All-Love Sekhem water Initiations, supporting spiritual awakening and emotional balance. Her expertise also extends to breathwork, meditation, and holistic coaching, bringing years of experience as an All-Love teacher and facilitator to her community.
Flowing Down the Nile
Beyond Tourism, 15 day Spiritual Journey15
This fifteen-day journey transcends the conventional boundaries of travel. It is not a tour through Egypt's ancient monuments, but rather a carefully crafted initiatory experience—a conscious northward passage through sacred landscapes that have witnessed the deepest mysteries of human consciousness for millennia.
Beginning in the tranquil southern waters of Aswan and culminating on the legendary Giza Plateau, this pilgrimage emphasizes depth over breadth, presence over speed, and integration over accumulation. Each temple becomes a portal. Each sunrise, a revelation. Each moment of silence, a transmission.
Rest and reflection are not mere intervals between sites—they are essential elements of transformation, woven intentionally into each day. The journey respects the ancient rhythm of the Nile itself: flowing, patient, eternal.
Depth Over Breadth
Unlike conventional tours, this journey honors the wisdom of slowness. We allow time for the temples to speak, for the Nile to whisper its ancient secrets, and for each participant to metabolize the profound energies encountered. Rest is an essential element of transformation, woven intentionally into each day's rhythm.
Guided Transformation
Under the guidance of Patrick Zeigler and Danielle Hooymeijer, seasoned travelers and facilitators of deep transformational work, you will be supported in navigating the subtle currents of this initiatory path. This is a journey for those who seek not merely to see Egypt but to be seen by it.
The Northward Journey
The northward direction of our travel mirrors ancient initiatory patterns, moving from the womb-like waters of the south toward the cosmic architecture of the north, from feeling into knowing, from dissolution into crystallization. Each temple becomes a gateway, each day a chapter in your own unfolding story.
Southern Waters – Arrival and Initiation
Our transformative pilgrimage begins in the serene southern reaches of Egypt, where the majestic Nile flows with gentle purpose. Aswan, with its unique rhythm and ancient echoes, provides the perfect sanctuary for deep introspection and spiritual preparation. This initial phase is designed for grounding and opening, allowing the sacred energies of the land to envelop and purify.
Arrival in Aswan
Your journey commences in the tranquil embrace of Aswan, a place where time seems to slow. We settle into this ancient city, allowing its serene atmosphere to gently prepare mind and spirit for the profound experiences awaiting us.
Philae: Island of Isis
A sacred visit to the Temple of Isis on Agilkia Island marks our first initiatory step. Here, amidst stunning architecture and the gentle lapping of the Nile, we engage in initial meditations to open the heart and mind to the divine feminine energies.
Embrace the Nile
The timeless waters of the Nile offer a profound sense of cleansing and renewal. Through reflective practices by its banks, we connect with the river's ancient current, allowing its energy to purify our spirit and align us with the journey's intention.
Southern Waters – Arrival and Initiation
Days 1–4: Aswan - October 30-November 2
The journey opens in Aswan, where the Nile widens into shimmering tranquility and the desert meets water in eternal conversation. Here, in Egypt's southernmost sacred city, Nubian culture offers its gentle hospitality, and the rhythm of life slows to match the eternal flow of the river.
Water initiation ceremonies prepare the body and psyche for what lies ahead. The nervous system begins to soften, and the heart starts to remember what it knew before language. These opening days are not preamble—they are foundation, creating the inner spaciousness necessary for the transmissions that will follow.
Arrival & Grounding
Orient to sacred space and group field, allowing the body and soul to attune to the ancient rhythms.
Water Ceremony
Participate in a Nile blessing and purification rite, an ancient practice to cleanse and prepare for deeper mysteries.
Philae Temple
The Temple of Isis at Philae rises from the waters like a dream made stone, offering direct contact with the divine feminine principle that guides this pilgrimage.
Journey Along the River's Edge
Days 5: The Temples of Balance - November 3
As the journey flows northward along the Nile's ancient course, three temples reveal themselves as living textbooks of Egyptian wisdom. These are not monuments to ego or empire, but precise instruments of consciousness, each encoding specific teachings about the nature of reality, healing, and cosmic harmony.
Kom Ombo: The Temple of Duality
Here, two gods share a single temple—Sobek the crocodile and Horus the falcon, darkness and light, chaos and order. The architecture itself teaches: opposing forces do not war, they dance. The walls display surgical instruments and medical wisdom, revealing Egypt's understanding that true healing addresses both physical form and spiritual essence.
Edfu: The Temple of Divine Kingship
The best-preserved temple in Egypt, Edfu stands as a masterpiece of proportion and power. Dedicated to Horus, it chronicles the eternal battle between order (Ma'at) and chaos (Isfet). To walk through its hypostyle hall is to understand that consciousness itself is a warrior, and that awareness is our sacred weapon against forgetting.
Esna: The Temple of Creation
Buried beneath centuries of silt and modern streets, Esna's hypostyle hall displays some of Egypt's most exquisite ceiling paintings. Here, Khnum the ram-headed god shapes humanity on his potter's wheel, teaching that we are continuously created, moment by moment, from the clay of consciousness itself.
These temples form a living curriculum, guiding pilgrims steadily north toward Luxor while instilling fundamental principles: balance, sovereignty, and the recognition that all creation emerges from divine thought made manifest.
Threshold and Opening
Days 6: Theology in Stone - November 4
Luxor represents the heart of ancient Egyptian spirituality, where two of the most magnificent temple complexes on Earth stand as eternal testaments to a civilization that understood consciousness as humanity's primary work. These are not relics of a dead past—they are living transmissions, waiting for those with eyes to see and hearts prepared to receive.
Karnak: The House of a Million Years
Karnak is not a single temple but an entire sacred city, built and rebuilt over two thousand years. To walk through its massive pylons is to enter a cosmological map rendered in sandstone and granite. The Great Hypostyle Hall, with its 134 columns soaring toward heaven, creates a forest of stone that induces immediate awe—a deliberate architectural technology designed to shift consciousness.
Here, the god Amun-Ra and Goddess Sekhmet reign: the hidden one, the eternal, the unknowable source from which all creation springs. The temple teaches through scale and shadow that divinity cannot be grasped, only experienced. Each sunrise
ceremony held here becomes a remembrance of humanity's covenant with light.
Luxor Temple: The Southern Sanctuary
If Karnak represents cosmic theology, Luxor Temple embodies divine incarnation. Built as the sacred marriage chamber where god and pharaoh merge, its proportions follow golden ratios that resonate with the human body itself. To stand in its courtyard under stars is to feel the alignment of earth and sky, matter and spirit, human and divine.
Dawn at Karnak
Private ceremony with Sekhmet
Evening at Luxor
Meditation under the ancient stars
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Mother's Heart in Stone
Days 7: Vibration and Joy - November 5
Dendera: The Temple of Heaven
An hour north of Luxor lies Dendera, dedicated to Hathor—goddess of love, music, joy, and the feminine mysteries. Where other temples inspire through power and scale, Dendera opens through beauty and intimacy. Its famous ceiling zodiac represents one of the most complete astronomical maps from the ancient world.
Hathor's face adorns every column capital, her cow-eared countenance gazing down with infinite compassion. The underground crypts reveal secret chambers where mystery school initiations were performed. The rooftop sanctuary, where priests once conducted ceremonies beneath the stars, offers a direct experience of heaven meeting earth.
This is the temple that opens the heart, preparing pilgrims for the profound journey into Abydos that follows. Dendera teaches that the path to the deepest mysteries passes not through force, but through love.
Sacred Portal
Abydos – Portal to the Mysteries
Day 8: The Spiritual Axis - November 6
"There is a place in Egypt where the veil between worlds grows thin, where the ancient ones encoded their deepest knowledge of death and rebirth. That place is Abydos."
Visited at dawn, when the first light touches stones that have absorbed prayers for five thousand years, Abydos stands as the spiritual heart of ancient Egypt. This is not merely another temple on the itinerary—it is the axis mundi, the center point around which the entire pilgrimage revolves. Here, pharaohs came to be reborn. Here, mystery school initiates underwent their most profound transformations. Here, the eternal drama of Osiris—death, dismemberment, and resurrection—was not merely commemorated but directly experienced.
The Temple of Seti I
This temple contains some of the finest relief carvings in all of Egypt. Its seven sanctuaries honor divine principles, and the famous "Flower of Life" symbol suggests ancient knowledge. The King List here serves as a lesson in integrity, reminding us that only those who serve truth are remembered by eternity.
The Osireion
Behind the temple lies the enigmatic Osireion, built from massive red granite blocks. Designed to fill with water, it represents the primordial mound. This was an initiation chamber where candidates underwent ritual death and rebirth, experiencing the dissolution of the ego-self and awakening into eternal consciousness.
The Dawn Experience
We arrive before sunrise, entering Abydos in sacred silence. A ceremony conducted in the temple's inner sanctuaries allows each pilgrim to touch the mystery directly, in their own way, with full respect for the profound nature of this threshold.
This day marks the spiritual center of the journey. Everything before has prepared for this moment. Everything after will integrate what is received here. Abydos does not explain the mysteries—it confers them directly, wordlessly, to those who arrive with open hearts and prepared consciousness.
Middle Egypt to Cairo – Echoes and Integration
Days 9- November 7
After the profound immersion at Abydos, the journey moves northward through Middle Egypt and approaches Cairo. These days serve as integration time, allowing the deep transmissions of the southern temples to settle into the body and psyche. The sites visited during this phase reveal a different dimension of Egyptian wisdom—the lived humanity, the radical vision, and the evolutionary arc of sacred architecture itself.
Tell el-Amarna
The revolutionary capital of Akhenaten, the heretic pharaoh who dared to worship one god—the sun disk Aten. Though his city lies in ruins, the vision remains powerful: a moment when Egypt questioned its own foundations and reached toward monotheism. The art from this period shows humans in intimate, natural poses—revolutionary for its time. Amarna teaches that spiritual evolution sometimes requires breaking with tradition, even sacred tradition.
Beni Hassan
Rock-cut tombs carved into limestone cliffs, containing vivid scenes of daily life from the Middle Kingdom. Unlike the grand temples, these tombs show ordinary activities: wrestling, dancing, farming, crafting. They remind us that the sacred and the mundane were never separate in Egyptian consciousness. Every act, performed with awareness, becomes ceremony. Every gesture can be prayer.
These sites, often overlooked by conventional tours, provide essential context and breathing room. The intensity of Abydos requires time to metabolize. These days of travel through less-visited locations allow integration while continuing to reveal layers of Egyptian genius—the human face behind the divine mask, the evolutionary journey from Step Pyramid to the perfection we will encounter at Giza.
Day 11 - November 9
Saqqara – The Necropolis of Eternity
We dedicate this day to Saqqara, the vast necropolis that served Memphis, Egypt's ancient capital, for over 3,000 years. This sprawling archaeological site contains pyramids, mastabas, temples, and tombs spanning nearly the entire span of Egyptian civilization. It is here that the journey from mud brick mastaba to towering pyramid began—a leap in human consciousness made manifest in stone.
Dahshur's Bent & Red Pyramids
We begin at Dahshur, where Sneferu's Bent Pyramid displays the transition in pyramid construction. Its distinctive profile—rising at one angle then changing to another—tells the story of ancient engineers learning, adapting, problem-solving in real time. Nearby stands the Red Pyramid, considered the first successful true pyramid, where we can enter and descend into its corbelled chambers.
Djoser's Revolutionary Step Pyramid
At Saqqara proper, we encounter the Step Pyramid of Djoser, designed by the legendary architect Imhotep around 2650 BCE. This is the world's oldest large-scale stone building, the prototype that would inspire all pyramid construction to follow. We explore its complex of courtyards, shrines, and the restored colonnade entrance, walking in the footsteps of pilgrims who came here for millennia.
The Serapeum's Underground Mystery
Our final stop is the Serapeum, a series of underground galleries containing massive granite and basalt sarcophagi, each weighing up to 70 tons. These housed the mummified remains of the sacred Apis bulls. Walking through these torch-lit tunnels, we encounter mystery upon mystery: how were they carved? How were they moved? What rites took place here in the darkness? The Serapeum invites questions more than answers, leaving us in awe.
The Architecture of Eternity
Day 12 - November 10
The Great Pyramid
Khufu's masterwork stands as the most precisely constructed building on Earth. Its base is level to within fractions of an inch across thirteen acres. Its sides align to true cardinal points with astonishing accuracy. The King's Chamber incorporates harmonic ratios that create specific acoustic frequencies—frequencies that can induce altered states of consciousness.
This is not just a tomb. Every serious researcher who spends time here eventually reaches this conclusion. It is an initiation chamber, a consciousness technology, a three-dimensional diagram of cosmic principles. The air shafts point to specific stars—Orion and Sirius, which held profound significance in Egyptian cosmology. The mathematics embedded in its proportions encode π, φ (the golden ratio), and relationships between Earth, Moon, and Sun.
The Sphinx
Gazing eternally eastward, the Sphinx represents the marriage of human consciousness (the head) with animal power (the lion body). Geological evidence suggests it may be far older than Egyptology officially acknowledges, possibly carved when this region was wet savannah, not desert—thousands of years before dynastic Egypt.
To sit before the Sphinx in meditation, as initiates have done for millennia, is to participate in the great question it poses: "Know thyself." The Sphinx does not guard the pyramids—it guards the threshold of self-knowledge, allowing passage only to those willing to face their own shadows and integrate them into wholeness.
Khafre's Pyramid
Still retaining its limestone casing at the apex, showing the pyramids' original brilliant appearance—structures of light visible for miles across the desert, beacon-temples marking the interface between earth and sky.
Menkaure's Pyramid
The smallest of the three, yet proportioned in perfect mathematical relationship to its larger companions, demonstrating that the entire Giza complex functions as a unified system—a three-dimensional cosmological map.
The Solar Boat
Discovered sealed in a pit beside the Great Pyramid, this full-sized vessel was intended to carry the pharaoh's consciousness through the afterlife. Its presence reveals the Egyptian understanding that death is not ending, but voyage.
The Private Pyramid Experience
Day 13 November 11
The public visits during daylight. We enter differently—through special arrangement that honors the sacred nature of these structures and allows for genuine contact with their purpose.
Master Class Sekhem All-Love
The morning is dedicated to a master class led by Patrick Zeigler and Danielle Hooymeijer, synthesizing the experiences of the past twelve days. This is a time for teaching, sharing, questions, and integration. We explore the themes that have emerged, the patterns noticed, the personal and collective insights gained. The master class contextualizes our journey within the larger framework of Egyptian mystery traditions, consciousness studies, and initiatory wisdom.
A master class led by Patrick Zeigler and Danielle Hooymeijer synthesizes the twelve-day journey through teaching, sharing, and integration. We explore Egyptian mystery traditions, consciousness studies, and initiatory wisdom—from the symbolism of our northward journey to the death-and-rebirth mysteries central to Egyptian spirituality. This sacred circle helps us carry these teachings forward into daily life.
Private time in the Kings Chamber
In the afternoon or evening, we return to the Giza Plateau for a private time inside one of the pyramids—an extraordinary privilege rarely granted. Away from crowds, in silence or with sacred sound, we sit in ceremony within these ancient chambers. Whether in the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid, with its granite coffer and perfect acoustics, or in another pyramid's inner sanctuary, this is a culmination of the entire journey.
Here, in darkness and silence, in the geometric heart of one of humanity's greatest achievements, we offer our prayers, our gratitude, our intentions. This is a space between worlds, a zero point where inner and outer meet. What happens here is deeply personal and mysteriously collective—a shared initiation that each person experiences in their own unique way.
Sunrise Ceremony at the Sphinx
The final morning, we gather before the Sphinx as the sun rises exactly where this guardian has gazed for millennia. A closing ceremony integrates the entire fifteen-day journey, honoring what has been received and consciously choosing what will be carried forward. The journey transforms into daily practice, into embodied wisdom.
"The pyramid does not merely stand in the desert. It stands at the exact center of Earth's land mass. It marks the prime meridian more accurately than Greenwich. It encodes Earth's dimensions in its proportions. To encounter this structure with awareness is to realize: they knew. The ancients possessed knowledge we are only beginning to recover."
The Grand Egyptian Museum: A New Dawn
Day 14 November 12
On our final day, we visit the magnificent Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), a modern marvel housing humanity's greatest collection of ancient Egyptian treasures. Here, the entire Tutankhamun collection, unveiled in its entirety for the first time, offers a breathtaking culmination of our journey. It’s a space where ancient wisdom is preserved and presented with innovative vision, bridging millennia.
This visit allows for a reflective integration, seeing the artifacts of the pharaohs not just as historical relics, but as powerful symbols connecting to the spiritual insights gained throughout our sacred pilgrimage. The GEM provides a profound context for understanding Egypt's enduring legacy and its relevance to our own unfolding consciousness.
What Continues - Home
Day 15 - November 13
This pilgrimage does not end upon departure. Egypt is not left behind. It is embodied and carried forward into every subsequent moment of life. The temples continue their transmission. The Nile flows through consciousness. The wisdom teachings, encoded in stone and transmitted through presence, become activated within daily existence.
Pilgrims return home transformed in ways both obvious and subtle. Some report heightened intuition, vivid dreams, synchronicities that guide them toward truer alignment. Others describe a settling, a deep peace, an end to seeking because something essential has been found. Still others feel called to return, recognizing that Egypt offers initiations across multiple journeys, each revealing deeper layers of the mystery.
The mark of authentic pilgrimage is not the number of sites visited or photos taken, but the quality of silence that follows. In that silence, the teachings ripen. In that silence, consciousness continues the journey Egypt began, spiraling deeper into the only mystery that ultimately matters: the remembrance of who and what we truly are.
The journey northward along the Nile mirrors the soul's journey toward remembering. From the gentle initiation of Aswan's waters to the cosmic geometry of Giza's pyramids, each temple serves as both destination and doorway. We walk where initiates have walked for five thousand years, not to repeat their journey, but to discover our own.
Egypt asks only one thing of those who come seeking: readiness. Readiness to release fixed knowing in favor of direct experience. Readiness to let ancient stones speak their wordless wisdom. Readiness to die, in some small way, so that something truer can be born.
"Those who are ready, come. Those who come, are changed. Those who are changed, return home to change the world."
Reserve Your Journey
Deadline for Entries
JUNE 20th, 2026
Ensure your place on this transformative pilgrimage by securing your entry before the deadline. Spaces are limited to maintain the intimate and profound nature of the experience.
Payment Plan
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Initial Inscription
A deposit of US$ 888 via PayPal or WISE secures your registration. Please await confirmation from the organizers before booking your flight tickets.
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Second Payment
A payment of US$ 1,500 (plus a 3% international bank transfer fee) is due by July 22nd.
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Final Balance
The remaining balance will be paid in US dollars upon your arrival on the first day in Egypt.