The Sacred awakening Pilgrimage
Not just where Jesus walked—but how he lived.
A contemplative pilgrimage exploring the Beatitudes as a living path of compassion, humility, and spiritual awakening.
October 10 - 21, 2026
the journey: FROM FEAR TO LOVE
The world is burning and we can no longer choose silence.
Violence, fear, and domination shape our systems and they also live quietly within us. For thousands of years, humanity has tried to heal this brokenness through power, treaties, laws, control, even religious and spiritual escapism.
None of it has worked.
Sacred Awakening names what is deeper: the need for inner and collective transformation.
This pilgrimage is an invitation to walk the inner journey Jesus walked—not as religion or belief, but as a lived human path. A path that confronts fear, loosens inherited identities, dismantles domination from within, and opens the possibility of embodying Christ’s sacred consciousness in real life. While the teachings of Jesus provide the framework for the journey, this pilgrimage is open to people of all faith traditions—or no faith background at all.
This is not a retreat. It is a pilgrimage. If you feel the pull, you already know why.
SAMI AWAD
YOUR GUIDE AND SPIRITUAL COMPANION
Sami Awad’s journey is profoundly connected to the region he calls home. His work does not emerge from distant theory, but from a lifetime lived within the tensions of occupation, faith, identity, and resistance.
Sami has spent decades engaging both the outer and inner dimensions of conflict. His work weaves nonviolent resistance, trauma resilience, consciousness work, and leadership development into lived practice. He has not simply studied domination and fear; he has faced them and worked to transform them in himself and in the community.

One thing is for sure; Sami is not a motivational speaker offering inspiration from a stage. He is not a spiritual influencer selling certainty, quick healing, or personal branding. He does not ask participants to adopt a belief system or admire a path. He invites them into honest work — work that demands courage, responsibility, and the willingness to be changed.
walking the Beatitudes as a process
These ten days follow the inner path Jesus lived and invited others into. Not as ideals to achieve, but as movements that undo us.
The pilgrimage begins with welcome, orientation, and grounding, then moves into a rhythm of silence, fasting (by invitation), and personal reflection. Participants are invited to step into silence and allow fears, attachments, and inner “temptations” to surface—echoing the preparatory journey that preceded Jesus’ public ministry.
From there, the Beatitudes unfold as a living process:
- Poverty of spirit and mourning invite honesty, grief, and the release of old identities
- Meekness, righteousness, and mercy move the work outward into relationship and repair
- Purity of heart calls participants to notice how they see, judge, and encounter others
- Peacemaking invites engagement with power, domination, fear, and responsibility—particularly as we enter Jerusalem
- The journey culminates in the call to become salt and light: discerning how each person is invited to live this work in their own community
This is not about following a teacher or adopting a belief system. It is about becoming—participating in a way of being human rooted in love, presence, and shared dignity.
PRACTICAL DETAILS
Early Bird Special. book before 5/1/26: $2,900
5/1/26 or later: $3,300
Scholarship discounts available.
AT A GLANCE
What's Included
- All necessary ground transportation throughout the pilgrimage, including airport transfers.
- Carefully selected accommodations that support rest and reflection.
- Breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily (except lunch on arrival and departure days).
- Service charges, portage, and accommodation taxes.
- Entrance fees where required for the journey.
- Facilitation throughout the pilgrimage and honorarium fees for guest contributors
Not Included
- International airfare
- Travel or health insurance
- Personal expenses, laundry, phone use, and items not listed above
- Gratuities for local support staff
WHAT TO EXPECT
This pilgrimage is designed for inner depth, not distance.
You will arrive carrying your life, your roles, your convictions, your fears, your ways of protecting what feels safe. Nothing is left at the door. Our days create space for what is usually avoided.
Silence and Solitude
- Spacious time for listening, journaling, and inner integration — often in nature or sacred landscapes, where Jesus and his disciples may have done the same.
- When everything slows down, what begins to surface?
What are you afraid to lose? - What heals and what emerges in silence?
- What are the temptations in my life, the attachments, the addictions, the subtle distractions that keep me from becoming who I truly am?
Embodied Dialogue and Forum
- Guided group processes that invite honest sharing without fixing, performing, or bypassing.
- What happens when you invite vulnerability and truth?
- What is the way we live and express sacred love?
Ritual and Reflection
- Practices that allow grief, release, and renewal to emerge organically — held with care and grounded presence.
- What are the temptations in my life — the attachments, the addictions, the subtle distractions — that keep me from becoming who I truly am?
- What truth have I been avoiding that might set me free?
- What must I be willing to lose in order to truly find my life?
Being Sent Into the World
- Time spent meeting local communities, not to help or save, but to notice what arises in you through real encounters. Judgment. Guilt. Compassion. Fear. Humility. Clarity.
- How to see with new eyes and hear with new ears? If what you are searching for is already within you, what would it mean to live from it?
- What would it mean for you to be a peacemaker — here, now, in your actual life?
- As we begin breaking down the inner structures of fear and violence, what are the outter ones we are called to also breakdown?
Daily Integration
- Evening reflections and shared debriefs so experience is not rushed past, but carried consciously.
- This is a journey into self-discovery — and from there, into self-liberation.
- As the days unfold, we explore the movement from fear toward love. From inherited paradigms toward a new vision. From unconscious reaction toward conscious responsibility.
Ten days will not complete the lifetime work. But they may clarify the consciousness you are invited to carry — and the kind of peacemaker you are willing to become in a world that is burning.

Expect challenge. Expect tenderness. Expect to leave with questions you can no longer ignore.
is this Retreat for you?
This pilgrimage is for those who sense that the old ways—personal and collective—are no longer sufficient, and who do not want false solutions. It is for seekers drawn to the intersection of contemplation and action, mysticism and justice, inner healing and outer responsibility.
this pilgrimage is for you if
- You feel real change requires more than critique or spiritual comfort
- You are willing to look honestly at fear, ego, identity, belief, and power as they live in you
- You feel drawn to walk the path of Jesus as a lived human journey, not a religion
- You are ready to be changed, not reassured
THIS PILGRIMAGE IS NOT FOR YOU IF
- You are seeking a spiritual high, quick healing, or a curated “experience”
- You want confirmation that you are already awake, right, or morally superior
- You believe peace can come without inner disruption and outer engagement
- You are coming to the Holy Land to fix anything but yourself
This pilgrimage does not promise comfort. It offers something rarer: honesty, depth, and the possibility of real change.
Open to people of all faith traditions—or no faith background at all.
Pilgrimage Itinerary
Itinerary subject to change as needed.
Unrest & Security Concerns
This pilgrimage is contingent upon the state of security and political climate within Israel and the Palestinian Territories and may be postponed based on conditions on the ground.
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Cancelation Policy
In the event of cancellation of travel services due to any reason, Holy Land 360 must be notified in writing. Cancellation refunds are determined based on the date of notification in writing. Refunds are as follows:
- 45 days prior to arrival: 100% of the Tour/service cost
- 30 days prior to arrival: 80% of the Tour/service cost
- 15 days prior to arrival: 70% of the Tour/service cost
- 07 days prior to arrival: 50% of the Tour/service cost
- Less than 72 hours or No Show: No Refund
In case Group/Individual cancels the trip after commencement, the refund will be limited to the amount that we would recover from the hoteliers/contractors we patronize. For unused hotel accommodation, chartered transportation & missed meals etc. we do not bear any responsibility to refund.
Some cancellation and refund policies are out of our control, including:

- Refund for hotel payment will follow the hotel's cancellation policy
- Transportation cancellations will follow the transportation company's policy
- Flight tickets cancellations will follow the airline's company policy
Are YOU Looking for Something?
All our trips provide spiritual direction explicitly customized for your life experience and faith. Our guides challenge you with open-ended questions and transformational exploration into the sacred and profound. They will not tell you what to think or feel but encourage you how to think... how to feel, to be sensitive to your inner voice, our universal conscience... the voice of God. Are you looking for a deeper understanding of scripture or your relationship to the divine? Our guides will help open up these potentially unexplored areas of the heart. Our tours invite you to slow down, open your heart to the "second gaze," and expand your capacity to see all things and places as sacred.