SUMMER RETREAT
NATURE QUEST & SOUL JOURNEY
25-28. JULI 2024
NATURE QUEST & SOUL JOURNEY
Embark into the Swedish wilderness for 5 days retreat & Soul Journey. This journey invites you to explore the pathways and potential of how to listen to the voice of your body, intuition and soul. It’s an opportunity to reunion with nature, healing arts & rituals as a path to realign your inner compass and explore your soul full expression. It’s a circle to honor all of our relations and Earth as a gift. A place to remember, sense and fell that people and land are good medicine for each other.
The practice spring from nature-based cultures, ceremonies and rituals inside and outside – it’s an reintroduction of ancient techniques in a modern world. The retreat is woven from indigenous ways of knowing, scientific knowledge and the art of soul craft. It is an intertwining of body awareness, soul, science and stories – old stories and new stories that can be medicine for our journey in life and our relationship to Nature.
During the five days retreat, we work with practices to help us slip out of our everyday lives and access our own deeper, wilder currents. With nature, body and soul as our primary guide to conscious awareness we’ll embark on a transformational journey. We explore practices that focus attention so that attention becomes intention. It’s a circle to reclaim your inner balance, silence, love and magic – and potentially exploring more of your own gifts and how to bring them to the world. Rather than focusing on self-improvement, we will set intentions from the heart of our being, celebrating the souls we are – beyond limiting beliefs and the illusion of a separate self.
FACILITATORS FOR SUMMER RETREAT
Anne Mette Buch Bertelsen & guest teachers
Program SUMMER RETREAT
25-28 th of JULY 2024
THURSDAY 25 th of AUGUST
14.00-15.00: Arrival at Möllan
15.30-18.00: Intro & Sensing Nature (AM) 18-20: Dinner & Pause (AM)
20.00-21.00: Meditation outside
21.00-22.00: Sauna, Swim Sing & Sunset (AM)
FRIDAY 26 th of JULY
7.45-9.00: Meditation & Movement
9.00-10.00: Breakfast
10.00-11.30: Meditation & Energy work (AM)
11.30-16.00: Lunch at 13 & Break
16.00-18.30: Vision Quest Prep & Meditation
18.30-20.30: Light Dinner or fasting & Pause
20.30-?: Vision Quest in the Forest
SATURDAY 27 th ofJULY
10.00-11.00: Breakfast
11.00-12.30: Yin Yoga & Body Work
12.30-16.00: Lunch & Break
16.00-18.30: Drum Journey & Dance
18.30-20.00: Dinner & Break
21.00-22.30: Sauna Ritual (AM)
SUNDAY 28 th of JULY
7.45-09.00: Meditation & Movement
9.00-11.00: Brunch
11.00-13.00: Circle & Outro (AM)
13.00-14.00: Thank you & See you
* There can be changes in the program
THE RETREAT EXPLORES & INCLUDES
- Ways to reunion with Nature
- Earth Based Rituals
- Healing arts & soul craft practices
- About soul loss & coming home
- Remebering your gifts & treassures
- Meditation & Compassion
- Drum Journey & Rythms
- Movement, Dance & Music
- Yin Yoga & Breathwork
- Art of Touch & Body Work
- Soul Poetry & Storytelling
- Sensory awareness
- 4-12 hour mini-vision quest
- A community to belong
- Sharing in circles
- Delicious vegan eco food
- 4 days in stunning nature
Supported by the wilderness, we will rest, restore, explore deeply, play wildly and catalyze new resources to bring back into our life.
RETREAT MOMENTS MOLLAN RETREaT
PLACE – MOLLAN RETREAT
MÖLLAN RETREAT – A magical retreat center at a water mill deep in the forest of Småland. You’ll come to a charming place with a stunning lake, forest and the natural world to explore all day. There’s 2 big houses, a very beautiful hall overlooking the lake and a lovely sauna placed on the rock beside the lake. You will be accommodated either in a double room, 3-4 persons room. You can create your own “single room” by bringing a tent and live closer to nature..
PRICE
* DOUBLE ROOM – 5500 dk.kr
* 3 – 4 PERSON ROOM – 4900 dk.kr
* TENT – 4700 dk.kr
If you have financial difficulties (e.g. on sick leave/studentst) there’s 2 spots available for those in need – apply by contacting: hello@balanced.dk
Your payment is you sign up for the retreat. The price covers the 4 days stay, all meals and teaching. Transport and your personal insurance is not included. You are welcome to pay in installments if you need it (max 2 installments). In case of cancellation, 1/3 of the amount is refunded or you can find a friend who participates instead of you.
Please write if there is anything we should know about injuries, illness or other (eg stress, sick leave, knee injuries, epilepsy or medication). Participation is at your own risk – both stay and teaching. Balanced disclaims any responsibility in connection with illness, injuries and the like.
SPACE HOLDER
ANNE METTE
As a founder of Balanced Retreat, I’m dedicated to helping people find a more meaningful way to connect to nature, body and soul. My inspiration is nature based traditions and healing arts across cultures and time. I’m passionate about reintroducing ancient techniques in a modern world which offers us practices to realign our inner compass, conscious exploration and unfold our soul full creative expression. My path lead me to Esalen Institute in California, teachers in shamanism as Anette Høst & Sandra Ingermann, 10 years meditation with Jesper Westmark, 20 years of modern dance, body work and yoga in various forms. 15 years of teaching experience, 7 years of facilitating retreats. The thread is also experience and education within HR (Cand. Soc. HRM). A turning point in life in 2012 became a new starting point - therefore HR transformed into Human Retreat.
RETREAT MOMENTS
Referencer
Jeg har været på retreat på Sjövik med Anne Mette flere gange, og hver gang har det været helt specielt. Det er veltilrettelagt, omgivelserne er smukke, og så har Anne Mette en utrolig evne til at skabe et rum, hvor man kan slappe af, koble af fra hverdagen og arbejde med sig selv hvis man vil. Anne Mettes humør og livsklogskab er en stor inspiration, og hver gang jeg har været afsted, er jeg vendt tilbage til hverdagen med fornyet ro og energi i kroppen. Kan klart anbefales uanset om man har brug for en puster fra en travl hverdag, om man vil udforske sig selv eller om man vil forkæle sig selv.
Kristian, 2018