Workshops

Chi Gong has been developed for millennia in China to increase the energetic flow of the body through soft and slow body movements that can be practiced at all ages. Millions of people practice it in China today.

These sets of Chi Gong movements are a distillation of knowledge of how to influence in detail the biomechanical (tendons, bones, organs, circulatory and lymphatic system) and energetic layers of the human body. The different layers become available to the practitioner through their direct practice. The conservation of precise knowledge is protected in China by a lineage, in which all previous knowledge is transmitted.

Since 2004, Adhiraj has been attending workshops and trainings with Bruce Kumar Frantzis, a lineage master of the Taoist Water Tradition , with exceptional experience and a great ability to transmit his knowledge in the Chinese internal energy arts, with Chi Gong being one of his areas of expertise. Adhiraj became an instructor of Chi Gong, which is an integral part of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

Chi Gong is used by many traditions such as the Taoists and Buddhists, with the main objective of healing and strengthening the physical body. At the most subtle levels, it focuses on dissolving energy blocks, to allow a stronger energy flow and a consciousness in the physical and more energetic bodies. By bringing more awareness to these bodies, the opportunity to explore the dimension of meditation becomes available.

An Inner journey to explore deeper layers of your being.
Celebrating and enjoying yourself in a new way.

In this group we will use different techniques and approaches to self-development: Transomatic Dialogue, Somatic Experience, Osho meditation techniques, Inner Dance Alchemy and Art Therapy. This can help you to open up to higher consciousnesses and receive messages for your life.

The Modern rhythm of our life often creates tension, stress, a life occupied with thoughts, worries and judgments that do not allow the space of expression, spontaneously and celebration.

In this group you will learn the keys for Inner Alchemy to open the heart space of acceptance and discover new dimensions of Celebration. Learning the transformational power of the heart can reveal possibilities to celebrate beyond the shadow of the mind.

We will also explore the space of presence, playfulness and creativity that become pathways to Celebration. In the flow of creativity, we reconnect to our self and to a natural trust to life.

Trusting your creative self brings new flavor of joy and relaxation.

In these 3 days through movement, dance, painting and stillness we will reconnect with our natural qualities and open deeper space for Love, Trust, Joy, Silence, Ecstasy and Celebration.

Quote of Osho on Celebration:

“My whole teaching is drop all these stupid efforts to become special, extraordinary. Just enjoy reality as it is - wherever you are, whosever you are. Celebrate it. This I call prayer, this I call being religious: celebrating one's being. It is a gift from God. Just to be is more than you can ask for. Just to be is the greatest miracle.”

- Osho: “The secret of secrets, chapter #8”

Through dancing, painting, role playing and poetry we will expand our creative life energy and open ourselves to go deeper in meditation!

In this seminar you will have the opportunity to reconnect with your natural qualities like creativity, spontaneity, joy, playfulness, presence and relaxation.

Creative Movement and Art Therapy unify the physical, emotional and intellectual abilities, helping to know ourselves better and become aware of our own potential.

We will use guided meditations, specially designed creative movement exercises, art therapy, group dramatization, presentation and breathing techniques to open the door for healing journey towards Celebration.

When we allow celebration in our life we become more alive, radiant, juicy and full of energy!

Through playful creativity we bring light in darker corners and issues that we may have been carrying from our past and find ways to heal them.

That can help us to come closer to ourselves and live a creative life with Joy and Celebration!

This group is also introduction for training "Creative Movement and Art Therapy".

"Life is moment to CELEBRATE, to enjoy. Make it fun, a celebration, and then you will enter the temple." - OSHO I Celebrate Myself, Ch 4

"Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical then it is creative. If you have something growing out of it within you, if it gives you growth, it is spiritual, it is creative, it is divine. You become more divine as you become more CREATIVE." - OSHO A Sudden Clash of Thunder, Ch 4

In this experiential process we have the opportunity to explore what undoubtedly will become our experience sooner or later, the death of the body.

Death is a criticized topic in most western societies. This create hinderances into discussing, acknowledging and accepting this natural fact of life.

Often our perspective about people's death or our own is borrowed by our family or our early experiences. Approaching the phenomenon of death with awareness, in a human and ordinary way through a series of experiential exercises you can release the emotional charge of past experiences and discover a new way to connect with the topic of change and death.

This process can reveal the appreciation and recognition of the gift of life while opening to the celebration of the present moment!

An opportunity to explore the different aspects of relating with others and oneself.

Through an experiencial process you will have the opportunity to bring clarity to the many facets of your relationships in order to bring expansion, deapth and satisfaction.

In this seminar you will learn about the different phases of relationships and how to recognise the signs in order to use Inner Alchemy tools to refresh, find ways to express and release tensions that as they accumulate create bigger distance between you and your partner.

You will learn about the bioenergetic potential of a male and female body. Relationships are a great opportunity to go deeper into yourself.

Intimate relationships sooner or later bring us to face our inner needs, fears and insecurities. Relationships can often become a routine and partners loosing interest to each other while feeling stuck or lonely. Often sexual energy deminshes bringing frustration and unfullfilment.

By learning and using techniques of inner Alchemy you can create the possibility to deal in your relationships with a more creative, constructive, and supportive way. In this way you can expand your inner growth and connection to yourself and others.

Relationships can be used as a mirror to become aware of one’s own attitudes, beliefs and behavior patterns.

Relationships are a way to increase your emotional intelligence which has been directly linked with good management skills and successfully leading a team of people or a company.

In the seminar we will use:

• Inner Alchemy tools of transformation
• Active meditation techniques
• Creative movement, Dance exercises and Role playing
• Theatrical presentations
• Art and Poetry
• Biodynamic Breath Exercises
• Partner exercises to explore and support intimacy
• Guided meditation journeys

Benefits from this Seminar:

• Learn practical tools and techniques to improve the quality of your relationships.
• Experience ways to go deeper into yourself and discover new ways of connecting with your partner.
• Become aware of your attitudes, beliefs and behavior patters that are an obstacle to enjoy relaxation and nourishment from your partner.
• Exploring relationships creates the opportunity to allow harmony in your inner world.
• Relationships of many years can be revitalised and expanded in quality and experience.
• Relationships can have mulitple aspects that can reveal ways to bring satisfaction in your physical and emotional needs.
• Enjoy the supportive healing energy of a group of people.

Transformation through movement, dance, art and meditation

• Connection with our body and becoming aware of its potential
• Transformation of emotions through movement and art therapy
• Learning ways to rebalance the nervous system, that can support the healing of traumatic events from the past
• Discovering personal qualities through dance therapy
• Keys to your own inner dance

In this seminar we will use body exercises, creative movement, tension release, dance and art therapy, meditation techniques, alchemy of movement and dance to reconnect with our Creativity, Joy, Playfulness and Relaxation.

We will discover our natural qualities through movement and meditation using creative group exercises (‘Sculptures’, ‘Mirrors’, ‘Dancing with Props’...). Through this process we will explore the elements of Inner Alchemy (resource, acceptance, presence, creativity...) and discover the keys for our inner Dance with Life!

For millenia we have lived a very different life style from our modern civilized, but quite isolated societies. In our old communities we used to meet, connect and exchange more, we used to have more physical, verbal and emotional exchange that helped us encounter our difficulties and supported our individual wellbeing as well as the one of the society.

Today man has lost a big part of his self-identity and connection with his essence, making him feel dissatisfied and in a constant search outside himself for something that will make him feel whole and at home again.

In the men´s gatherings, we start to recover our inner harmony, reconnect with our intuition and inner wisdom by sharing a unique space that is supportive like nothing else. We bring back ancient wisdom that empowers us to meet the challenges of modern life and society. We also learn how to bring back health to our body, mind and heart. This way we are able to feel again gratitude and trust on being a man!

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In our modern time, man often looses the connection with nature and the natural qualities of his male energy. Man faces the challenges of modern society which brings him to stress, tension, endless competition, chronic fatigue, burnout, impotence, violence, depression, lack of energy, isolation becoming confused about his role and function in life.

From the moment of our birth until our maturity, we pass through many different developmental stages that form the way we behave and perceive the environment. This natural journey of growth is exposed to the beliefs and behaviors of our parents, family, culture, teachers and society that create our personality, character or conditioned/limited male self.

The Natural Man Process is meant to give back the ability and the benefits that come from a natural brotherhood of men. A meeting of men bringing awareness to the old patterns, allows the movement from competition to collaboration, from isolation to friendship, from holding back into sharing, from stuckness into flow and creativity, from loneliness into fulfillment and meditation.

In this seminar you have the opportunity to:

• discharge tensions from the past that limit the expression of your male energy.
• reconnect with your natural male vitality.
• receive the healing support from a group of men.
• re-discover your natural qualities of action, authority, creativity, spontaneity, joy, relaxation.
• reconnect to your roots and energy of your sex centre.
• recognize and receive support from the transformational power of active meditations.
• learn bioenergetic exercises to release stress and tension in day to day life.

This is a one-week process created by Osho to rediscover the beauty of childhood without verbalizing or analyzing our past psychological experiences.

The course includes one hour of allowing yourself to just be a child again, and a second hour of silent sitting together as a group. It also includes OSHO Dynamic Meditation at sunrise, OSHO Kundalini Meditation at sunset, followed by the OSHO Evening Meeting.

For the first hour of this course, you behave like a child. Just enter your childhood. Whatever you wanted to do, do it – dancing, singing, jumping, crying, weeping – anything at all, in any posture. Nothing is prohibited except touching other people. Don’t touch or harm anyone else in the group.

BECOMING A CHILD AGAIN

Once upon a time we were all real! Just naturally ourselves. When we wanted to laugh, we laughed. When we wanted to cry, we cried. When we were angry, we were angry. We danced and jumped and shrieked with delight. Playfulness was our essence. We lived in innocence, knowing nothing, except what we needed in that moment.

We were very small and needed the love of others, it was our only security. The price for that love was that we started “growing old,” rather than just naturally maturing and “growing up.” The day we became good boys and girls was a catastrophe. We stopped growing – we became artificial, unnatural, serious….

Also, the world around us was so exciting and we wanted to go “out” and discover everything, and so we became so knowledgeable about everything except ourselves. In the process we forgot who we really are, and lost the innate ability of relaxing into not-knowing.

Now is our chance to take ourselves back to that same fork in the road. This time we can consciously choose to take the path of playfulness, innocence, naturalness, laughter… rediscovering our originality, individuality and freedom. And once we are on the road of authenticity, then finding ourselves, finding our center, finding our own inner joy will happen by itself.

Then follows the hour of just sitting silently. You will be fresher, more innocent, and meditation will become easier.

SITTING IN SILENCE

“You are using awareness without being aware of it, but only about outside things. It is the same awareness that has to be used for the inside traffic. When you close your eyes there is a traffic of thoughts, emotions, dreams, imaginations; all kinds of things start flashing by."

“What you have been doing in the outside world, do exactly the same with the inside world and you will become a witness. And once tasted, the joy of being a witness is so great, so otherworldly that you would like to go more and more in…. From unawareness to awareness is the greatest quantum leap.” - Osho

The Mystic Rose is one of the most beautiful Meditative Therapies that Osho created.

It is a 21 day non-verbal deep energy process which can free old, stuck energies, renew our vitality and create space for meditation, relaxation and silence. It is meditative because the process is individual, leading us into a no-mind space of awareness and relaxation. It is therapy because of the cleansing effects and although it is an individual journey the group energy helps each person to trust and move deeper in.

Mystic Rose is a clear, pure process where we can connect directly with our own energy without interference or intervention from the facilitator and get in a moment-to-moment encounter with ourselves.

We have squashed our vitality by lifetimes of repressed laughter, repressed pain and sadness that hang around us layer upon layer.

With laughter and tears we can go through those layers and regain our life energy and innocence. Scientists are discovering that crying, weeping and laughter, are immensely healthful, not only physically but also psychologically.

"All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart of all the inhibition of the past. Laughter and tears can do both.

Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you and the laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy. Once you have learned the art you will be immensely surprised: Why has this not been told up to now? There is a reason: nobody has wanted humanity to have the freshness, the fragrance and the beauty of a rose.” Osho

21 consecutive days (3 hours per day)

• 1st week – laughter
• 2nd week – tears
• 3rd week – silence

Mystic Rose is for anyone wants to:

• Recover the ability to laugh totally as we used to do when we were children.
• Allowing our tears to flow naturally again and feeling the freshness and peacefullness of an open heart.
• Strengthen the capacity to be a watcher in whatever situation we experience in life.
• Release and dissolve tensions in order to reconnect with innocence and vitality.
• Live again with totality and sincerity.
• Experiencing the essence of meditation.
• Receive all the scientifically proven healing benefits from laughter, tears and silence for the body, heart and mind.
• Jump in an adventure!

No previous meditation experience is needed.

“Your heart is the soil, your trust is the climate, and your being is the mystic rose. It’s opening, blossoming, and releasing its fragrance” - Osho

“I have invented many meditations, but perhaps this will be the most essential and fundamental one.” - Osho

This is a seven-day course, which includes one hour of Gibberish and one hour of silent sitting together as a group. It also includes Osho Dynamic Meditation at sunrise, Osho Kundalini Meditation at sunset, followed by the Osho Evening Meeting.

“I am dealing with the contemporary man, who is the most restless being that has ever evolved on the earth. But people do become silent; you just have to allow them to throw out their madness, insanity, then they themselves become silent.” - Osho

What Is Gibberish?

As Osho describes it:

“Put the conscious off and allow the unconscious to speak....”

Just say everything that you ever wanted to say and have not been able to say because of civilization, education, culture, and society. Be very passionate, as if you are talking, as if your whole life is at stake. You are talking nonsense and there is nobody except you, but be passionate, be in a passionate dialogue. Saying anything that is moving in your mind, all kinds of rubbish – throw it out.

And say it in any language you don’t know! Use Chinese, if you don't know Chinese. Use Japanese if you don't know Japanese. Don't use German if you know German. Shouting, laughing, crying, making noises … making gestures …. Sounds will come – utter them – and one sound will lead into another. Soon you will be speaking Chinese and Italian and French, languages that you don’t know. Simply allow whatever comes to your mind without bothering about its rationality, reasonability, meaning, or significance. For the first time enjoy that freedom - the same as all the birds have.

Do it totally, with great enthusiasm …. Be authentic, honest …. You have to be total. Don’t act or do it automatically like a robot. Be sincere … make it a reality …. So don't be partial, don't be middle-class. Be a first-rate crazy man! Just go crazy without any fear. Don't spare anything. Don't sit there like a Buddha; that stage comes later. Remember, the first step in meditation is to forget the whole world and just bring out all your craziness in rubbish, gibberish sounds, gestures …. As you throw it out you will find yourself becoming light, becoming more alive. But be total because once you are freed of it, then there is a possibility of going deeper into silence than you have ever gone.

“It is one of the most ecstatic meditations ever. As you go into it, get more and more ecstatic with it. If your body starts moving, your hands start moving, gestures happen and you feel like standing up or jumping or dancing, allow it. Let your whole body and being say it. And get deeper and deeper into it - be possessed by it.”

“Out of this will arise the second part, a great silence in which you have to close your eyes and freeze your body, all its movements, gather your energy within yourself.”

Sitting in silence:

Just be absolutely silent, gather your whole energy inwards, just like you are coming home.

“Now you are ready to go inwards with all your consciousness, with all your life energy. Move towards the center of your being. That is from where you have come and that is where everybody goes back."

“Deeper and deeper … the deeper you go, the more fragrant becomes the air. The deeper you go, suddenly flowers start showering on you. At the deepest point you are the buddha. The buddha means simply witnessing, pure witnessing. Just witness: the body is there, the mind is there, but you are neither."

“You are a separate force which comes from the center, and the center is joined with eternity. It knows no birth, no death. This buddha is your ultimate potential, the very Everest of consciousness. Great is the splendor of this moment.” - Osho

In this process we will explore contact with our self and others through movement, dance and meditation to create opening for Joy, Trust and Love in our Life.

This is an opportunity to feel your body in a new way and discover its full potential and power to live your life with totality. When we connect with our power we can bring more vitality in our life. Grounding our self in our natural roots will reveal and make available our inner qualities.

In the group we will discover different rhythms in ourselves and how they correspond to our behaviour patterns. This can give us a wider perspective and understanding of our limitations of expression in day to day life.

Through experiential body movement exercises we will expand our inner horizon of trusting into life.

Exploring Trust into yourself and space of the Heart will naturally create new possibilities to live your life with totality and passion!

Primal is the best gift you can give yourself to reconnect with your inner child and experience once again all its vitality, joy and creativity in your adult life!

Primal helps you to make peace with your past and meet life with new eyes and a new heart.

To be able to make peace, it is first necessary to recognize the wounds of the past that makes us reactive and often unconscious in our behavior even now, as adults. It’s the child in us that still feels unheard, not respected and not loved.

As the adults we are, we need to meet that child, embrace its wounds and allow full expression of the emotions that the child could not express.

When the child is feeling seen and loved by us, the abundance of its essence, naturalness and energy will return in our lives, bringing a total transformation in the way we feel and live our life.

Once the feeling of our own integrity is regained, a real shift can happen: we can look at ourselves and the people of our past in a new way, with compassion and a deep sense of humanity. We become truly free.

Primal allows you to:

• Recover your vitality in your day to day life.
• Experience more creativity in your relationships and work.
• Recognize and allow the natural flow of emotions in different moments of your life.
• Live again with lightness once you let go of the weight of the past.
• Look at your family and your past with love and compassion.
• Find your original voice, express it and go for what you really want in life.
• Have a more authentic and conscious relationship with your partner.
• Be able to educate and relate with your children in a more loving and natural way, allowing your mother of father instinct to guide you.
• Let go of old fears, sadness and resentment that are not needed anymore in your present life.
• Enjoy your life like never before!

More about the process:

The division that we carry between what we feel inside and what we thing we should be on the outside needs healing. Inside of us still lives a boy or girl that was born full of natural gifts, overflowing with sensitivity and vitality, fully connected with existence and others. In the past this child has not felt supported or understood in its true nature and at some point decided to resign to his/her dreams and longing. This child still lives inside of us and is constantly asking us to be real with our self and others.

Primal allows you to travel through time, to explore the difficult situations of the past that are still affecting the way you live and love today. It also takes you to those inspiring and beautiful moments that you lived by yourself and with others in which you might have felt loved, seen, heard and supported. When you reconnect with these imprints, they become immensely powerful resources for your adult life that start healing and transforming the situations that need it the most in the present. It is an alchemical process that relaxes your system and opens up a new future.

When we welcome again this child in our adult life, a transformation happens, anger becomes compassion, fear becomes trust and tension becomes vitality. We have a new opportunity to live life to our full potential, with joy, love and sincerity!

Gift yourself this unique transformation.

An amazing 8-day journey to cleanse and rejuvenate your life physically, spiritually and emotionally, going through a totally scientific and safe cleansing process to release all the accumulated toxins from the Liver, Gallbladder, Colon and Kidneys. Supported by a delicious and nutritious vegetarian diet, Meditation, emotional support, Chi Gong, Breath, Dance, Conscious Nutrition and Conscious Medicine classes.

We will share a journey in search of more joy, lightness and love. In addition to reducing the occurrence of any disease, alleviating pain and improving digestion, energy and vitality, ‘Refreshing Life’ will allow you to experience unforgettable moments in one of the most beautiful meditation centers in Greece or Brazil, get into the habit of meditation and share experiences with people from all over the world and world-renowned therapists.

In our program the Liver Cleanse protocol is personalized for each participant by the doctor on the team according to their special needs, and is also supervised throughout the 8 days. This makes it more effective and totally safe. We choose to offer this retreat in places where we enjoy a friendly, loving and meditative environment that allow us to relax, let go of the old and rejuvenate our life in every level.

Why do a Liver Cleanse?

The liver is a vital organ of the body, as important and as complex as the brain and heart. During our lives, due to unhealthy habits and accumulated emotions the Liver and Gallbladder accumulate cholesterol stones in 80% of the adult population. These stones restrict the flow of bile towards the intestine, thus affecting digestion, metabolism, absorption of nutrients, vital energy in the body, elimination of toxins and the proper functioning of the body as a whole.

In the relatively toxic world we live in today, even people who have a balanced diet and exercise daily can absorb, ingest, inhale, or produce a fair amount of disruptive substances that harm the body. The main organ that processes and eliminates all these toxins is the Liver and if it cannot do its job properly, we continue accumulating toxins in different organs of the body that eventually disrupt our wellbeing and health.

In the Refreshing Life and Liver Cleanse retreat you have a unique opportunity to release these stones from the Liver and Gallbladder, purify your body, learn to have a lighter life, improve your digestion, blood circulation and overall health, as well as awaken your creativity and regain mental clarity.

Some benefits of Liver cleansing:

• Whole body rejuvenation.
• Greatly improved digestion, metabolism and liver function.
• Greater mental and emotional clarity.
• Increase energy and vitality throughout the whole day.
• Prevention of disease and health maintenance.
• Reduction of blood sugar and cholesterol.
• Support to return to ideal weight.
• Alleviating pain in different areas of the body.
• Alleviating skin disorders.
• Balancing hormonal cycles and reducing menstrual symptoms.
• Elimination of bad breath and other body odors.
• Reduction of hair loss.
• Reduction of allergic reactions overall.
• And other…

If you are looking for a proper cleanse for your body, mind and emotions, this is the most complete program you will find with the most holistic and professional support you can get.

Check our calendar for our next Refreshing Life and Liver Cleanse retreats.

A series of intensive workshops to explore the powerful dynamics of male and female polarities using the powerful key of your Breath and the guidance of Tantra.

Often we experience intense moments in our lives that unless resolved and completed, will limit our vibrant energy and cast a shadow in our life and especially in our relationships.

Our modern life is characterized by intense rhythms, stressful situations that often lead to the accumulation of tensions in the body . The mind becomes restless and the connection to our body, to sensations, and deep relaxation become a far away remembrance. The tension in our bodies unavoidably affects in multiple layers the quality of our life and our connection to people. Especially in our intimate relationships where often frustration and compromise leads to the feeling of isolation and dissatisfaction.

Tantric Breath invites you to reconnect with the spontaneity and wisdom of your body!

It takes you into a step by step process of rediscovering the vitality and energetic potential of your body that refreshes all aspects of your life!

As life energy in the body starts pulsating in deeper layers through the Breath, sensitivity in the body is regained that can become sensuality, creativity, playfulness and meditation.

Facing our fears and moving beyond their limits is the beginning of a new way of living!

As human beings we have a natural pull to relate and become intimate with each other. Intimacy naturally creates friction! and that becomes an opportunity to burn away beliefs and old patterns of behaviour from the past.

Our connection to ourselves opens the pathway for finding satisfaction with others.

From Fear to Intimacy

In this module of Tantric Breath we will be focusing into moving beyond the limits of fear and creating the space for the natural flow towards intimacy to happen.

Tao translated 'the way' offers a simple and direct tool to expand into the mystery of Breath.

Breath is a powerful tool that can reveal the multiple dimensions of our being.

The Tao also refers to the wholeness that exists, and breath can become the goldern thread to open, explore and rediscover.

It includes various different approaches and perspectives of breath.

A series of modules create the possibility to unfold the active and inactive sides of breath into our life offering a timeless tool of energetic wholeness and awareness.

Who is in? Awareness Intensive is a 3-day Zen meditation retreat based on the practice of Life Koans.

The Awareness Intensive is one of the most powerful journeys of awakening and centering in the present moment and in one´s own truth, allowing us to have a direct experience of the inner Being as part of the great Whole. It is an individual exploration and a direct meeting with your-self moment to moment, guiding you to a moment of Awakening or No-Mind.

The Koans Who am I? or Who is in? are core questions for every human being. A Koan has no right or wrong answer and the process of looking for an answer allows us to have a direct experience of the Koan itself (of who we really are beyond the mind, body and emotions). It is a realization or so-called awakening experience. No intellectual answer or explanation can solve a Koan. A Koan is a path that can take you from the confusion of the personality to the peak of clarity where all problems disappear.

During these 3 days, we will enter in a specific structure that allows us to discover what is holding us back from being ourselves and living in harmony with what simply is.

To help the process there will be active meditations, personal feedback, helpful insights from Osho and other teachers, and moments for rest and integration. The process is done in silence and isolation from the outside world in order to dive with totality into the inquiry of the koan, speaking is used only working with the Koans during the group sessions.

Nirdosh meets with each participant throughout the retreat to give individual support in the course of their personal journey.

Why participate in an Awareness Intensive?

In our modern lifestyle we rarely take enough time and space for ourselves, we are almost totally absorbed in our day to day matters, focused mostly on what could have been different in the past and all we need to achieve in the future. Even when we meditate we mostly achieve a space of relaxation. The fact that in this retreat we retire for a few days away from our daily environment, living in silence, disconnected from the world, gives a perfect opportunity to come out of our normal life habits and go deeper into our personal exploration, relax and realign with our truth in this moment in life.

We all have a fundamental need to come closer to our truth, to own it and to finally relax into it by simply being who we really are – a unique individual without any pretention and without any guilt.

The structure and container that is created in this retreat are designed specifically to help you go beyond all projections, justifications, ideals, fears and unconscious pretentions and have the opportunity to experience yourself in essence, to know who you really are!

More about Koans:

The Koan practice comes from the Zen Soto tradition. A Koan is a dynamic quest leading to your existential truth. It is a strategy to practice attention and presence to gain access to reality.

The realization of a Koan is a moment of initiation, a moment of total presence, a moment of grace, which is called ‘Satori’ in the Zen tradition.

Sustained practice invites such a moment of inner union but cannot force it – it can only be invited and cultivated.

The active Koan practice implies communication and listening, alone/and with others: although there is no dialogue nor relation with the other participants - in turns, during the active Koan practice, each person becomes a silent witness for the other - a powerful support to sustain you through the whole process.

This experiencial workshop aims to introduce the participants to the power of bioenergetic exercises and the effect on the body/mind personality structure.

Modern and ancient bioenergetic exercises open the way for a new sense of vitality and energetic flow that can bypass patterns of behavior from the past and reveal new possibilities in the day to day life for centreness and relaxation.