LOGOS Winter Solstice Meditation Retreat:

A long weekend of silence, meditation, embodiment and remembrance

There are moments in the year that naturally invite us to turn inward. The Winter Solstice marks the darkest point of the year, the still point before the light begins to return. Just before Christmas, we gather for a long weekend dedicated to silence, deep meditation and embodied presence.

From Friday afternoon until Monday, we step away from the movement and demands of daily life and enter a quieter space, in the middle of the forest. A space in which we can listen more deeply, soften what has become contracted, and remember something essential beneath the many layers of our lives. At the heart of these days lies a simple inquiry:

How can we live from our deepest, divine nature while being fully human and fully part of this world?

Christ Consciousness

Within LOGOS we work with the field of Christ Consciousness.

We do not approach this as a religious concept or a matter of belief. For us, Christ Consciousness points towards a universal quality of consciousness: a way of being rooted in presence, love, truth, compassion and an intimate connection with the divine nature of life itself.

The word Logos traditionally refers to the divine intelligence or creative principle through which life comes into being. It is closely connected to the life and teachings of Yeshua and Mary Magdalene, while at the same time pointing towards a potential within human consciousness that is available to all of us.

Rather than attempting to transcend our humanity, we are interested in allowing this consciousness to become an embodied experience that shapes our everyday lives.

Entering silence

We begin this weekend together on Friday with an opening circle, creating space to arrive, connect and consciously enter the retreat. We will have dinner together and enter into silence on Firday evening.

Silence, in this retreat, is not simply the absence of speaking. It creates a different kind of space, one in which our attention can gradually move away from the constant exchange with the outside world and return to our inner experience. Without the usual conversations, explanations and social orientation, subtler layers can become visible. The rhythm of the retreat will support this process through periods of sitting meditation, embodied practice, movement, rest, nature and sound.

Working with silence and deep meditation, does not mean you are on your own. These days, the practices and the meditations are guided and facilitated by Gary and Milou to ensure the containment of a coherent field, which offers the potential for each participant to reach deeper layers of inner alignment. Through the underlying energetic grid of this weekend (and sometimes simply through voice or excercise) we provide a precise attunement that allows each in the circle to connect to for their own benefit and that of the collective.

Who is this retreat for?

This weekend is meant for people with some experience in meditation and deep inner work. Our wish for Logos is to slowly built a community. We stay out of marketing channels or social media and spread our offers only through personal connections. If you’ve worked with us before, this retreat offers a deepening into the underlaying field of christ consciousness. If you haven’t worked with us before and found out about our work through someone else, we will have a short call with you to see if this weekend would be the right step on your personal path.

In this weekend there is nothing you need to achieve. Our invitation is for you to come home to yourself, to rest and nourish, to deepen and expand. To become available for the divine to move through you.

You are very welcome to join us!

 

This is what we will work with in the retreat:

  • deep meditation and contemplative silence
  • trauma-informed embodiment practices
  • gentle movement and somatic awareness
  • walks and time in nature
  • energetic work and transmission
  • sound meditation
  • periods of rest and integration
  • the groupfield and collective field
  • An open heart, a sensual connection to our bodies and nature and a lot of joy!

At times the practice may be very still. At other moments we may work through the body, sound or movement. Rather than following a rigid programm, we listen closely to the group field and to what wants to unfold within the larger container of the retreat.

Gary Joplin

As an international expert in somatic training, meditation and embodiment, Gary conducts training courses and workshops all over the world. He is connected to School of Life as a mentor and works as a teacher in the field of Thomas Hubl. Also, he is a senior facilitator at Mobius, conducting conscious leadership trainings in corporate settings.

Gary’s work guides people into deeper states of inner awareness, opening doors to more expanded physical, emotional, and creative perception and expression. With his background in dance and theater, Gary always brings joy, lightness and beauty in his facilitation!

Milou van Dueren den Hollander

Milou is a trained holistic psychotherapist and energyhealer. Besides working in her own practice, she is leading workshops and in-depth trainings as a spiritual teacher and facilitator. She is also head of faculty at School of Life, a school for holistic therapy in the Netherlands. Her passion lies in bringing the mystical closer to daily life and in gently giving words to the subtle realms, so that they can be experienced deeper.

Milou brings a love for nature and a profound trust in the workings of a coherently woven group-field that forms an essential foundation in all her work.

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