SPRING RETREAT
25-28 APRIL 2024
SPRING RETREAT
SOURCE OF CREATIVITY, & SOUL GIFTS
Embark into the Swedish wilderness for 4 days spring retreat. Reunion with nature and healing arts as a path to realign your inner compass and nurture your soul gifts. Nature and healing arts has throughout time offered us an intuitive connection and ways to expand our embodied liberation, creative potential and soul full expression. Together we investigate the relation between nature, human creativity, soul care and soul gifts. We are exploring and playing in a creative magical realm – from the source of who we are as unique souls in the world – in heart warm community. The retreat community is a state of being, belonging, and reciprocity. It is the practice of living in friendship within ourselves, with one another, with the more-than-human world, and with the world at large.
We’ll explore shamanic methods and embodied practice for further developing and strengthening one’s senses, creativity, imagination and soul gifts. This retreat is a discovery of what truly matters in you through listening to the body, listening to the heart and tending to your soul. Encountering our bodies creatively, we discover artful ways to re-story ourselves, bringing new vision to life. It’s an opportunity to free yourself from baggage that gets in the way of acting according to your true nature. It’s a way of touching the intuitive moments and let it guide you. It’s a way of learning to tune out – to tune in. We gather in an environment where you’re free to express what you’re afraid to express. We will explore deeply and catalyze new courage, passion and gratitude to bring back into our lives. It’s a circle to reclaim your inner balance, silence, love and magic – and potentially exploring more of your own gifts, passion and how to bring them to the world. With nature, body and soul as our primary guide to conscious awareness we’ll embark on a transformational journey in a heart warm community
THE RETREAT EXPLORES
- 4 days retreat at Möllan Retreat
- Nature based spring ritual
- Healing arts & embodied liberatio
- Exploring your inner wholeness
- Source of Cretivity & Passion
- Exploring your Soul Gifts
- Dance with ego, soul & imagination
- Sauna Ritual & Singing
- Drum Journey & Music
- Dance & Movement
- Yin Yoga & Breathwork
- Art of Touch & Body Work
- Soul Poetry & Storytelling
- Connections with the Elements
- Nature as our portal home
- Restore, Re-story & Reciprocity
- Sharing in circles
- Delicious vegan eco food
- Long breaks; nap, walk and just be
- A community to belong
- Magical wilderness in Sweden
ABOUT THE RETREAT
The practice spring from nature-based cultures, ceremonies and rituals inside and outside – it’s an reintroduction of ancient techniques in a modern world. Nature and shamanism offers humans an ancient approach to nurture our soul, creative potential, intuition and imagination – it’s healing medicine in modern times. From head to feet we’ll investigate the unexplored wilderness of our bodies and unfold limbs, mind and soul with movement, meditation, dance, yoga, breathwork, music, singing and silence. We’ll feel the heat with sauna rituals and let our cells vibrate to the rhythms of the drums – and learn about the altered state of mind. You’ll learn more about the dance with voice of the soul, the ego as creative force and how to use your imagination on your path. We’ll listen to our inner calling when we embark in wilderness and let nature be our greatest teacher. Being still in nature, alone, is our portal home.
This retreat is an invitation to celebrate our human heritage as creative creatures who can generate our own inner magic and be of service with our gifts to the world. It’s an invitation to remember that humans in community with heart language is vital to restore and re-story ourself and our connection to the Earth. It’s a circle to honor your soul journey, all of our relations and Earth as a gift.
Program
SPRING RETREAT
Facitator Anne Mette & guest teacher
THURSDAY 25th of APRIL
14.00-15.00: Arrival at Möllan
15.00-16.30: Intro to Retreat (AM). 17.00-18.30: Sauna Ritual & Reunion with Nature (AM)
18.30-20.00: Dinner at 19 & Pause
20.00-21.30: Meditation & Body Work
FRIDAY 26th of APRIL
8.00-9.30: Movement & Yin Yoga (AM)
9.30-10.30: Breakfast
10.30-12.00: Meditation & about Soul Retrieval (AM)
12.00-16.00: Lunch at 13.30 & Break
16.00-18.00: Sauna Ritual & Soul Care (AM)
18.30-20.00: Dinner & Pause
20.00-21.30: Source of Creativity & Passion
SATURDAY 27 th of April
8.00-9.30: Nature as a portal home Meditation 9.30-10.30: Breakfast
10.30-12.30: Drum Journey & dance with ego/imagination
12.30-16.00: Lunch & Break
16.00-18.00: Soul Gifts Writing Process & Dance (AM)
18.00-20.00: Pause & Dinner at 19
20.00-22.00: Sauna Ritual & Soul Gift (AM)
SUNDAY 28th of APRIL
8.00-09.00: Meditation
9.00-11.00: Break & Brunch at 10
11.00-13.00: Circle & Outro (AM)
13.00-14.00: Thank you & See you
* There can be changes in the program
RETREAT MOMENTS
PLACE – 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. Möllan Retreat is located 4 hours drive from Copenhagen & 4,5 h from Stockholm. You can travel by car or with public transport to Åseda station. Find tickets: sj.se
PRICE
* EARLYBIRD 3-4 person room (till 15th feb) 4300 dk.kr (4 spots)
* 3-4 PERSON – normal price 4900 dk.kr
*DOUBLE ROOM S– normal price 5500 dk.kr
Your payment is you sign up for the retreat. The price covers the 4 days stay at Möllan Retreat, 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.
FACILITATORS
Anne Mette & co-facilitator, Raasmus Morten
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