Welcome to your Holistic Healing Sanctuary and Community Hub
Beachfront Oasis
En-Suite Eco Yurts
Wellness Retreats & Services
Remote Off-Grid Wonderland
Regenerative Farming & Gardening
Farm-to-Table & Nature-Based Farmacy
Organic Café & Cold-Pressed Juicery
Conscious Eco-Market with Refills
Local Makerspace for Craftsmanship, Entrepreneurship, and Local Workshops
Marine Adventures & Watersports
Safaris to Saadani National Park
Adventures to Unguja, Zanzibar
Soul Family in Tanzania, East Africa
Umoja Ushongo is dedicated to prosperity, regeneration, healing, wellness, community, adventure, and reciprocity. We value passion, inclusion, and purpose in all that we do to foster optimal wellness & local vitality for our local village, wellness hub, and eco-market.
We steward synergistic socio-economic and eco-conscious missions, visions, and goals. As dedicated as we are to personal development, by nature, we are community builders at heart. Dream-weaving, self-realization, and environmental integrity rooted in regenerative practices, principles & lifestyles are integral pillars of our larger why (collective wellbeing).
Umoja means 'Together' in Swahili and Ushongo is the name of our remote fishing village. Across all community business platforms, our motto is ‘Pamoja Tunaweza' (Together, We Can). We believe in collaborative, community-centered lifestyles and frameworks to thrive.
After all, it takes a village. In times of change, together we can rise to the occasion.
Eco-Retreats & Getaways
Regeneration is at the heart of all the we do, prioritizing reciprocal relationships between our community, environment, and guests. Our beachfront eco-yurts will embody our intention to immerse and ally with the healing power of nature to restore, rejuvenate, and relax.
Healing & Wellness
Given our unique location in a relatively undiscovered corner of the world in front of Tanzania’s Indian Ocean, intentional detoxing, multi-faceted healing, and prioritizing our most authentic selves is our top priority. We believe a better world is rooted within each of us.
Watersports & Activities
Our local sailboat (known as a ‘dhow’ in Swahili) is run by our local co-director, Ushongo’s best sailor. We are fortunate to have him as a part of our family to offer a variety of services, including snorkeling, diving, cruising, fishing, and transportation to/from Zanzibar
Farm-to-Table Juicery Café
We believe in the power of juicing to flood our bodies with detoxifying, healing, and restorative high-impact nutrition for optimal wellness and vitality. Likewise, local gardening and farming efforts contributes to organic farm-to-table options for nourishing meals.
Eco-Market & Makerspace
A cornerstone to our healing and community building efforts is our organic, regenerative, toxin-free eco-market that we will ongoingly build up one product at a time while supporting local craftmanship and product production to replace market toxins & spread prosperity.
Eco-Village Community
At the heart of our ‘WHY’ is our local community initiative, Umoja Ushongo Village, where our vision to collectively blossom as a prosperous, regenerative, nurtured eco-village comes together. A corresponding impact fund will serve key infrastructure needs.
Prioritize your Optimal Wellbeing
Far off the beaten path on the shores of the Indian Ocean, our focus is to offer our guests and community a refuge for healing, vitality, and possibility. We believe in the power of the ocean and nature to encourage and empower our optimal wellbeing alongside a variety of revitalizing, alternative, state of the art, conscious, quantum healing, and spa services for the mind, body, and soul. We plan to (1) develop our offerings over time and (2) embrace contributing healers, facilitators & educators. We look forward to operating as a retreat space as well for focused, intentional healing.
With customized eco-yurts of various sizes, a few of our offerings include (1) a healing room where rejuvenating massages and other healing modalities can take place (incorporating sound healing, quantum work, frequency-based technologies), (2) a community gathering space for intentional connections and offerings, (3) an outdoor yoga chalet for body movement and meditation, (4) an organic community garden, (5) a center for watersports and various marine activities, (6) an organic juicery + café featuring an outdoor fire space with an available projector, and (7) a regenerative eco-marketplace that offers refills to serve both visiting and local customers.
We will build up our local-to-global regenerative eco-marketplace with organic, compostable, and reusable non-toxic products to support our community’s overall wellbeing and support your holistic health journey. The local economy will grow alongside the development of local production. Accordingly, we plan to build an in-house ‘makerspace’ for aligned product production that may also serve as a workshop space for guests and/or locals to teach and share their craft in a reciprocal fashion.
Sail, Snorkel, Dive the Ocean Blues
Built into who we are, we are grateful to offer your the best local sailboat and sailor from Ushongo Beach to take you to our local Maziwe Marine Reserve, one of two nearby sand islands that offer unique snorkeling and diving opportunities. Our sailboat and fiber boat are also able to offer sunset cruises, taxi services to/from Zanzibar, fishing excursions, and more.
Working together, our traditional sailboat supports local efforts to collect plastic washed ashore and unconsciously discarded on our beaches and in our waters. If you would like to join and support the cause, we will coordinate with Plastic Free Ushongo Tanzania (PFUT).
Likewise, we plan to partner with local coral gardening efforts to offer you a unique diving experience that gives back to ocean and village by supporting regenerative fishing practices (we put 10% of all profits back into Umoja Ushongo Village via its impact fund).
Reset with a Non-Toxic Lifestyle
While we plan to acquire more land for continued regenerative gardening efforts, we ally with local farming efforts to present and support farm-to-table nutrition. Focused on health and wellbeing, enjoy a cold-pressed juicery and organic café that will serve nutritional bites and light meals, healing elixirs, high-quality treats, smoothie bowls, sorbets, a variety of cold & hot drinks, and baked good, like our own sourdough.
Our aim is to nourish the body & soul with every bite. Our organic kitchen seeks to serve ingredients as fresh and local as possible. With ongoing efforts, we champion our village to value, protect, and improve traditional farming practices that, in turn, support our guests’ wellbeing (the power of reciprocity). Valuing the power of food to nourish the body and bring people together, this space will double as a co-working area (when appropriate) as a home of connection where remote work, vocational exchanges, and intercultural connections are made possible, enhanced & expanded.
