Connection Walk on the Camino de Santiago
Reflect. Connect. Rejuvenate.
A guided pilgrimage to deeply connect with yourself, nature, and others.
Walk into feeling inspired, joyful, vibrant and your full aliveness.
A special journey with Firestart Connections' Lisa Kalfus and Red Monkey
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Travel through the Basque Country of Southern France & Northern Spain Saturday, June 15 - Sunday, June 23, 2024 Group size is limited to 12 pilgrims. |
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Connection walks on the Camino are an opportunity to deepen or radically enhance your relationship with yourself and others. Based on the three facets of connection that help enable our most grounded and fulfilling lives - connecting with yourself, nature and others - we will be deep diving into what authentic connection means for you and how to achieve it.
Basque France and Northern Spain Route for Pilgrims
Upon your arrival in Spain, you will be invited into Connection Hour®, an experience to explore your inner world and quickly feel comfortable and excited, sparking meaningful connections with new "friends".
In the first part of the journey, we will focus on walking meditation, listening to the quiet and vital parts of ourselves by radically slowing down in your mind and life’s pace.
In the second part of the journey, in connection with nature, we’ll experience cultivating deep presence and awakening to the wonders and awe that nature provides in each step. From trees, mountains, chocolate and wines we will focus on waking up our senses.
In the third leg, you’ll focus on how to spark real conversations to cultivate joy and aliveness with others. We’ll explore how to go deeper, faster, to create emotional connection and intimacy and ways to make someone feel seen and understood. Many say that this type of connection is the most enriching conversation skill you will take home.
In the first part of the journey, we will focus on walking meditation, listening to the quiet and vital parts of ourselves by radically slowing down in your mind and life’s pace.
In the second part of the journey, in connection with nature, we’ll experience cultivating deep presence and awakening to the wonders and awe that nature provides in each step. From trees, mountains, chocolate and wines we will focus on waking up our senses.
In the third leg, you’ll focus on how to spark real conversations to cultivate joy and aliveness with others. We’ll explore how to go deeper, faster, to create emotional connection and intimacy and ways to make someone feel seen and understood. Many say that this type of connection is the most enriching conversation skill you will take home.
What makes Connection Walks different from other pilgrimages?
Your guides have spent years on the Camino and are experts in guiding deeply connected experiences,
Learning how to cultivate deeper connection from this immersive experience will catapult how you ignite this in your daily life. Your relationship with yourself, friends, family and others will forever be transformed.
While each person is walking for their own reasons, everyone’s journey is important and benefits the whole group. Your group will be carefully curated to ensure a collective effervescence where each person will be honored and learn from each other’s unique story.
Learning how to cultivate deeper connection from this immersive experience will catapult how you ignite this in your daily life. Your relationship with yourself, friends, family and others will forever be transformed.
While each person is walking for their own reasons, everyone’s journey is important and benefits the whole group. Your group will be carefully curated to ensure a collective effervescence where each person will be honored and learn from each other’s unique story.
Who’s Walking?
The group is perfect for solo travelers, friends & partners looking to have a transformational journey together to deepen their connection.
Tools you will walk away with:
- Communication skills to spark powerful and deeply satisfying connections.
- Mindfulness practices to cultivate presence.
- Prompts and resources to live fully authentically.
Experience Outcomes:
Walk into feeling inspired, joyful, and your full aliveness. You'll:
Walk into feeling inspired, joyful, and your full aliveness. You'll:
- Gain confidence to quickly form authentic relationships in any social interaction and deepen connection with loved ones.
- Radically slow down to reset your mind and body from stress, burn out and overwhelm.
- Reconnect with yourself and your purpose so you know what you are walking towards.
- Evolve the relationship with yourself and others to feel nourished, not drained.
- Appreciate and enjoy spending time with yourself and the transformative impact of practices that cultivate presence.
- Form new friendships with other conscious, adventurous travelers.
Your Journey Includes:
- 9 days of Walking Meditation Pilgrimage along a less traveled section of the Camino.
- All accommodations from luxurious, boutique hotels to restored farmhouses, you'll stay in extraordinary lodgings picked for their beauty and the generosity of their caretakers, as well as 3 nights in 4-star hotels in Pamplona and Bilbao.
- 3 Gorgeous Meals daily of home cooked French and Spanich Food (except 2 dinners and 1 lunch to explore these little towns).
- All Ground transportation from Bilbao, Spain
- Pre-Experience Preparation and community building 1 pre-trip group call and preparation support.
-90 Day Integration Support 3 Post-Pilgrimage Community Calls following your journey to facilitate your integration. Be supported in your powerful learnings that came from the experience.
- Porter Services so you need only carry a daypack.
- Carbon offset credit donated to sustainable tree planting to mitigate the impact of your flight.
- Toolkits and Resources to live more connected.
- Enjoy the community and support of a group while walking at your own pace in the rejuvenating company of Mother Nature
-Option to Extend your trip in beautiful San Sebastian with Lisa.
- 9 days of Walking Meditation Pilgrimage along a less traveled section of the Camino.
- All accommodations from luxurious, boutique hotels to restored farmhouses, you'll stay in extraordinary lodgings picked for their beauty and the generosity of their caretakers, as well as 3 nights in 4-star hotels in Pamplona and Bilbao.
- 3 Gorgeous Meals daily of home cooked French and Spanich Food (except 2 dinners and 1 lunch to explore these little towns).
- All Ground transportation from Bilbao, Spain
- Pre-Experience Preparation and community building 1 pre-trip group call and preparation support.
-90 Day Integration Support 3 Post-Pilgrimage Community Calls following your journey to facilitate your integration. Be supported in your powerful learnings that came from the experience.
- Porter Services so you need only carry a daypack.
- Carbon offset credit donated to sustainable tree planting to mitigate the impact of your flight.
- Toolkits and Resources to live more connected.
- Enjoy the community and support of a group while walking at your own pace in the rejuvenating company of Mother Nature
-Option to Extend your trip in beautiful San Sebastian with Lisa.
Cost: $5888
“How I think about connecting with friends--new and old--will forever be changed. I was never super intentional about how I engaged with others, and unless the conversation was flowing, I didn't go out of my way to create more depth. I'm realizing now how many missed opportunities I had in the past, because it is all about the 'how', and therefore, it's up to me. I've tried to integrate at least one question I learned from Lisa in every conversation, and have immediately seen how the depth of the conversation has changed!”
- Katie, Firestart Connections Connection Hour® program participant
- Katie, Firestart Connections Connection Hour® program participant
"Walking the Camino with Red Monkey changed my life. I've done a lot of spiritual work, but this pilgrimage changed how I live at home as well. I now have more space in my life and move with more ease and can't believe how grateful I feel for my life and my body."
- Pascale, Red Monkey Pilgrim
"I knew by the second day that coming was one of the best decisions I had made in my life. I would recommend it to everyone." - Kate, Red Monkey Pilgrim
“Thanks everyone for sharing openly and listening to me. I left the hike with a sense of peace I hadn’t felt in a long time”
- Joe, Firestart Connections Hike participant
“Lisa is a powerful facilitator and connector of people. I always thought I was a decent connector, but I left her Connection Workshops with immediate tools I could put into practice. She provides you with specific questions to begin deeper conversations. The very next day I implemented my learnings and had a conversation with clients using the same questions, and I was amazed at the richness of the conversation and how my relationships strengthened immediately. I highly recommend working with her!” - Craig, Firestart Connections Workshop participant
"My favorite part of the walk? Oh my-where to start? My encounters with ME! The release from years of built up emotions I’ve held in my body for so long. The forgiveness, of self and others. And the fun of being on the journey-the feeling of accomplishing the hills and celebrating at the top with my new close friends. The new feeling of being ageless- a nice feeling for a senior lady. The timelessness of walking without concerns for much of anything (thanks to Rachel’s planning), with just the sounds of nature and the rhythm of my boots taking one step after another." - Susan, Red Monkey Pilgrim
"My favorite part of the walk? Oh my-where to start? My encounters with ME! The release from years of built up emotions I’ve held in my body for so long. The forgiveness, of self and others. And the fun of being on the journey-the feeling of accomplishing the hills and celebrating at the top with my new close friends. The new feeling of being ageless- a nice feeling for a senior lady. The timelessness of walking without concerns for much of anything (thanks to Rachel’s planning), with just the sounds of nature and the rhythm of my boots taking one step after another." - Susan, Red Monkey Pilgrim
Meet your guides:
Who is Lisa?
I have been a lifelong connector and founded Firestart Connections™ when I decided to fully step into my purpose - to empower people to connect better, by having more real conversations."
Lisa is an expert in human connection. She works with thousands of entrepreneurs, heart-led leaders and individuals around the globe each year to build social confidence and create authentic relationships.. Click here to read her bio
Who is Rachael?
Rachael has been deeply engaged in hiking and pilgrimage as a spiritual practice for over 20 years. She has been cultivating a meditation practice for the same duration. Her passion for cultures has led her to live all over the world, but she regards Spain as a second home. Click here to read her bio
I have been a lifelong connector and founded Firestart Connections™ when I decided to fully step into my purpose - to empower people to connect better, by having more real conversations."
Lisa is an expert in human connection. She works with thousands of entrepreneurs, heart-led leaders and individuals around the globe each year to build social confidence and create authentic relationships.. Click here to read her bio
Who is Rachael?
Rachael has been deeply engaged in hiking and pilgrimage as a spiritual practice for over 20 years. She has been cultivating a meditation practice for the same duration. Her passion for cultures has led her to live all over the world, but she regards Spain as a second home. Click here to read her bio