Winter Solstice
In this unique retreat you spend most of the time in complete darkness. Even a short period of darkness, as during a meditation, or in a (blindfolded) Trance Movement™, can be very beneficial.
When you spend more time in darkness, the chatter in your head will settle down. The mind clears up, and room for profound contact with your essence, and the source of life and creativity, is created.
Once you allow yourself to really slow down, and drop from doing or trying into being, you open yourself up for a new vision: a new perspective on you, and your life… not forged by the pain of the past, but born from your authentic essence, and purpose.
ENVISION a new life!
5 Day Journey
Our fixation on the light often blinds us. Yet everything is born from the cradle of darkness. Darkness has always played an important role in meditation and healing work.
When the mind can safely release the security of the visible world, invisible landscapes of creative inspiration become visible.
This Darkness Retreat starts on Wednesday, and runs until Sunday.
We provide a secure space, in which you can slowly surrender to your inner journey. Moments of silence, and time and space for yourself, are interspersed with group activities.
We move, meditate, make musical journeys, stimulate the senses, and are creative in different ways. You will discover new ways of perception, and make deep contact with your life force, your essence, to be reborn out of the womb of darkness, into the light at the end of the retreat.
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Practical Information
Location
Wellspring Retreat Center
located in the South Eifel Nature Park
Upcoming Dates:
December 17-21, 2025
arrival Wednesday 16-18 h, departure Sunday 13 h
Lodging and Meals
2p and 3p rooms (single room surplus), vegetarian meals, coffee, tea and refreshments at breaks.
Facilitators
Aernoudt Knecht, Roger Vossen & Sigi Daman
Pricing
retreat program: €490
meals and shared room: €400 (Sum: €890)
meals and single room: €600 (Sum: €1090)
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Max. 12 participants
If you want to participate in this retreat, please choose your accommodation package below, click on “sign up now”, and follow the steps.
Shared Room: $890
Includes all workshop hours, materials, and personal coaching.
Includes a single bed in a shared room with 1 or 2 others and all meals during the 5 day retreat.
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Single Room: $1090
For a 200 euro surplus we can offer you all pricacy and comfort.
Includes all workshop hours, materials, and personal coaching.
Includes a single bed in a single room, and all meals during the 5 day retreat.
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& sign up now!
More About Darkness
In Darkness we become Visionaries
Our fixation on the light often blinds us. Like a moth to a flame, we can’t help ourselves. We forget that everything is born from the cradle of darkness. As the great creation myths of the world tell us, the true place of impregnation and fertilization is darkness. Although we manifest ourselves, and our ego’s, in the light, we heal and transform in darkness.
Ceremonial darkness has always played an important role in meditation and shamanic work. When the mind can safely release the security of the visible world, invisible landscapes of creative inspiration become visible.
Read more?
Article by Aernoudt Knecht:
Sacred Darkness – about blindfold, surrender and transformation
