Winter Retreat 2027
January 20-24, 2027
Practice & Play
4 days of cultivating heart centered presence, conscious practice and restorative inquiry,
where everything belongs.
an invitation to drop in, deepen, and get into contact with our own precious suchness of human experience - through conscious practice and embodied play.
Classical Tantra & Vedic Philosophy
a philosophical approach paired with tecniques and strategies of revalation, recognition, rememberance - of the nature of reality and life itself as ever connected, evolving, expressive awareness.
Restorative Inquiry
an invitation to meet ourselves as whole, with loving curiosity and abundant welcome to unfold, inviting change and transformation to evolve from that whole rather than define it.
Play
a state of mind and a form of practice - of cultivating curiosity and detaching from outcome.
Play here does not (only) serve as a euphemism for sexuality.
Sex & Intimacy
While this retreat does not center sexuality, it is offered to folks with some experience or at least awareness of sex positive culture & consent culture.
Expressions of pleasure, intimacy, sensuality and eros are seen as integrated into our motivations, desires, choices and overall human-ness.
We’ll meet at the beautiful Seminarhaus Spitzmühle for our retreat, with its newly constructed main hall with view of the (likely frozen) lake, sauna, hot tub, and luxuries of nature around.
Costs & Contribution
base costs of venue rental, 4 nights accommodation & meals, and production costs:
Container Dorm: €514
Shared Room: €578
Private Room: €678
❤️ This does not include a hosting contribution to Gili, which is fully up to you.
Also not included bedding (sheets & towels) or last-mile transportation from the nearby train station to the venue (local taxi is about €15 - €20 per trip)
additional night (Sun-Mon) from €76 - €109 (depending on the room)
Schedule
Each day will start from meditation and move through morning, afternoon and evening sessions. Arrival day will focus more on landing and orientation, departure day - integration; Arrival and departure day will be shorter. Full days general program below:
07:00 - 08:30 Morning Practice
09:00 Breakfast
10:00 Morning Session
13:00 Lunch
15:00 Afternoon Session
18:00 Dinner
20:00 Evening Session
Expression of Interest
This retreat will only happen if there’s a critical mass of interested participants.
Please fill out the form to show your interest, and I’ll get back to you with more information.
Thank you!
I will respond to your registration within a few days.
Much Love,
Gili
additional infos
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Here’s the raw cost breakdown:
Seminarhaus Rental ~ €450 / day (total of €2,250 - calculated at €112.5 per person)
Ayurvedic Menu - €42 per person per day
Accommodations - €34 dorm, €50 shared room, €75 single roomLogistics & Incidentals - €1110 was factured into the costs (€55.5 per person) to cover equipment, travel, decorations, and incidental expenses.
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yes. sexuality, eroticism and pleasure are welcome here as part of the abundant expression of being human. it will be up to the group and the emergent topic how much space it will occupy on the program, while focusing on the intention of shared conscious practice.
this retreat is not a Temple Weekend
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please join us if you’re interested in cultivating states of awareness and capacity for presence, sovereignty, self knowing, intimacy with yourself and others, play and permission, belonging, creaturehood and a yesness to life. come if you feel called. everything belongs here.
Desire, Devotion, and Discipline
Sundays at 19:00 - from Autum Equinox to Winter Solstice - a 13 week online journey with the element of fire: Desire, Devotion, & Discipline
A 13-week online journey through conscious practice, and the element of 🔥 Fire: From Autumn Equinox to Winter Solstice
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Desire, Devotion, and Discipline is a 13-week journey exploring the cultivation of transformational fire through conscious practice.
We will meet online once a week to explore what happens when we choose something meaningful and create a committed relationship with it.
The Invitation:
🔥 Arrive at your own practice
🔥 Commit to it
🔥 Notice what unfolds
Using guided practices and self inquiry, you’ll be invited to attune to desires that move you as a gateway to discipline, held space for by loving, compassionate, permission-full devotion.
This journey is rooted in the practice of tapas: the cultivation of transformational fire through committed practice.
Rooted in Classical Tantra, tapas is the practice of creating heat through conscious action: acting with dedicated intention, and meeting whatever friction arises as transformative fire.
As summer begins to turn toward autumn, the days, shorten, the outside warmth begins to fade… Leaning into the seasonal change to build momentum and consciously tend our own inner fire.
every Sunday
at 19:00[CET]
for one hour
During these 13 weeks we’ll move through 3 cycles of 21-day practice:
Opening & Introduction
September 27 - October 3
Cycle 1
4 October – 25 October
Integration & preparation
26 October – 1 November
Cycle 2
2 November – 22 November
Integration & preparation
23 November – 29 November
Cycle 3
30 November – 20 December
Our final call will be on 20 December, just before the Winter Solstice, as a moment to reflect, harvest, and close the journey together.
my role in this journey
I will offer teachings, guidance, reflections, and a space for us to learn together.
I’ve been learning and practicing Classical Tantra (primarily nondual Shaiva Tantra) since 2017.
Tapas played a great transformative role in this current life chapter, and I’m honored to share it.
Your role is to show up and trust yourself, or be ready to cultivate this trust.
No need to know your practice, or have a practice.
No need previous experience with Tantra or any particular tradition.
If you’re still reading, feeling curious, feeling called, you can choose to cultivate this curiousity, follow the impulse, act on it by making a choice and joining.
I look forward to practicing together.
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