LOGOS Winter Solstice Meditation Retreat

Dec 18 – 21 2026, Germany

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 the holiday season, we gather for a long weekend dedicated to silence, deep meditation and embodied presence.

From Friday until Monday  we will step away from the movement and demands of daily life and enter a quiet space, in which we can listen more deeply, soften what has become contracted and remember what is 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.

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.

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.

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

Inviting stillness

We will begin this weekend together on Friday with an opening circle, creating space to arrive, connect and consciously enter into the container of the retreat. After dinner we will have a short evening program followed by a conscious movement into silence.

In this retreat we approach silence as an actual space, a container in which we are able to connect to the less visible realms. When our attention moves away from the constant exchange with the outside world and returns to our inner experience, more subtle layers can become visible, allowing access to levels of mystical information. The rhythm of the retreat will support this process through periods of sitting meditation, embodied practice, movement, rest, nature and sound.

Who is this retreat for?

This weekend is specifically designed for people with experience in meditation and deeper inner work. It is an invitation to open our inner channels to listen more deeply within and to create more space and holding within ourselves for what arises. This is very different to a retreat that is geared primarily toward processing, but is rather an invitation to build more capacity for deeper coherence,  both within ourselves and in our groupfield.

Our wish for Logos is to slowly built a community. We have chosen to limit the use of marketing channels or social media, spreading our offers mainly 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, deepen and expand. To become available for the divine to move through you.

For this weekend we feel a special invitation for those who find themselves in times of transition or initiation. Astrologically, we feel that we are journeying from ‘old’ to ‘new’ over the course of 2026 and into 2027. This weekend will provide the opportunity to connect to the darkness of the void, the deep not-knowing and surrender that comes before any new creation will bear fruit again. We will hold a field for this transition.

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.

What others say about Gary and Milou

I am so grateful for joining this retreat, moving through resistance, peeling of layers by deeply connecting within myself. Curiosity about what wants to be seen brought me deep in my true essence and to surrender into that. I am immensely grateful for Gary and Milou who put this retreat together with so much love and integrity. They are strongly connected in creating a group field and attune to what that field needs, which created such a healing vessel for me. I wish for more people to join this retreat and bath in such healing community, to eventually bath in their own essence!

This week has allowed many movements from my life to unfold and integrate, thereby opening myself more fully to the essence of my connection with God. All of this thanks to a safe container, mindful preparation and guidance, like-minded travelers and the dedication, experience and inspiration of Gary & Milou.

The way Gary and Milou are facilitating this workshop is unique. Their way of leading and teaching is more a sharing of their profound wisdom in a very equal way. In this they have the ability to provide structure and safety to the group, while opening the space for co-creation. Together with their assistants they create a field where the higher wisdom of the universal principles appears and begins to speak. Bringing this wisdom in embodiment together, is healing and life-changing.

I came to LOGOS with questions. They were answered in the most unexpected ways. Sometimes in exercises. Sometimes in what Gary and Milou said. Sometimes in what the co-LOGOS’ers shared. And sometimes in silence. I take those answers with me into the world. Thank you.

This retreat felt like coming home and empowered me to regain my own authority in connection with the divine. I deeply experienced what it is to be whole, both the stream and the rocks. Making space in my body and energy field to receive myself on a deeper level of grace. Thanks to the refined and pure way Milou and Gary guided us we were able to co-create this week with a group of wonderful people. I felt so invited and welcome to show and express myself. Looking back on this beautiful journey fills me with wander and excitement for what is to come. Thank YOU!

It has been an almost indescribable experience that is still unfolding. The way in which Milou, Gary, Kim and Simon led this process is Masterful. I can’t find any other words for it. And knowing that the waves of this consciousness are touched in everyone, in you, with you and around you. AHO.

PreviousNext
PreviousNext
1234567
PreviousNext
12345