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What if you could find more stillness in your mind?
Less mental noise.
Less stress.
More calm.
African Meditation Adventures with MindWise
Hello, I'm Gerry Rickard and welcome to MindWise. I help you to understand how your busy mind works, reducing your stress and anxiety and rebalancing your life through mindfulness-based teaching, retreats, and coaching.
Originally from Ireland, I am an MA qualified mindfulness teacher. Based in Mozambique, I offer well-being retreats, mindfulness courses, workshops and one-to-one guidance across southern Africa and online for anyone seeking a little more stillness, clarity and balance in the midst of everyday life.
Each retreat or program I offer is thoughtfully designed around a specific theme to help calm your mind, ease stress and anxiety, and support you through life’s daily challenges. Our minds are often busy and restless — but with the help of mindful meditation, you’ll learn to step out of the noise and find a deep, silent presence that is always here and available to you.
Create Your Own Well-being Retreat in Mozambique
Why Mozambique is Africa's hidden wellness destination
Mozambique, with a 2500 kms untouched coastline on the Indian Ocean, offers something increasingly rare: Space. Peace. Simplicity.
Space to slow down, disconnecting, to be present, to reconnect. It’s still pure, untouched, remote, authentic and wild. It offers something that many retreat destinations don’t have and why we decided to set up MindWise here.
Simplicity, a slower pace of life and unspoiled beauty. Mozambique ís the retreat itself.
Personalised Retreats in Mozambique: Mindfulness, Culture and Connection
Our personalised retreats offer an opportunity to escape and reconnect with what matters most.
You’ll experience the rhythms of coastal life here in Mozambique, including local food, connection and our cooperation with community initiatives, local projects and time to slow down, destress and reconnect through mindfulness practice.
Online Meditation Practice
Can’t travel to Mozambique?
I offer personalized online retreats and one-on-one sessions, designed around what matters most to you. Whether you are a total beginner, or are looking for more calm, clarity, or support in your practice, we’ll work together in a way that fits your life needs.
My Approach
I’m a teacher with an MA in Mindfulness Teaching and Buddhist practitioner. My approach is simple, grounded, and clear.
There’s no mystery in meditation — it’s a practice of learning how your mind works, and seeing how the thinking mind often gets in our way. We can learn to still the chaotic thoughts and begin to relate to our mind in a different way.
I often think of stillness like a great river flowing within each of us — always moving, always alive, yet deeply silent. It doesn’t judge. It doesn’t rush. Whether we notice it or not, it’s always there — waiting for us to pause, listen, and gently float with its current.
What I offer is a space to slow down, breathe, and reconnect with the stillness within — a stillness that’s always there, just behind the noise of the busy mind.
Together, we’ll create a personal, meaningful experience — a retreat into presence, peace, and clarity.
Would you like to find that place within yourself?
I see myself not as a teacher with all the answers, but as a guide or facilitator — someone who walks alongside you as you explore your own inner landscape. Whether you’re completely new to meditation or have an established practice, our time together is about your journey.
My role is to help you notice what’s already there: the stillness, the patterns of the mind. I’ll guide the practice, but you’ll have your own insights – you know yourself better than anyone.
You won’t hear me say, “If you do X, then Y will happen.” That’s not how real meditation works. We’re all wired differently. We learn in our own ways. And there are no shortcuts — just honest, steady practice.
That said, it doesn’t have to be overly serious either. We can explore this together in a way that feels open, relaxed and joyful.
Your inward journey will be guided with care and compassion.
At the centre of your being,
You have the answer,
You know who you are,
And you know what you want.
Lao Tzu
Join Me on this Mindfulness Journey
Whether you’re interested in a solo retreat, one-on-one sessions, or simply curious about what mindfulness might offer you, I’d be happy to guide you.
Feel free to reach out — together, we can create something that fits you, wherever you are.
