EARTH RETREAT
Do you ever feel that call from your subconscious? That call to be your pure self in body and mind? To feel powerful, energetic, connected, grand and insignificant at the same time? To feel that you live fully, freed from conditioning, blockages or expectations? With the self-healing ability as nature intended? Wonderful when you feel that call, the door that is open to come home to yourself…
AVANI welcomes you to the EARTH RETREAT to embark on a healing, transformative journey together. Where you connect deeply with your core and experience that you yourself are the medicine of your life and future.
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We take you on a 3 day trip in nature and in old traditions. Without a clock, telephone, camera and without work, partner or children. For a weekend you live to the rhythm of nature. We offer a combination of plant medicines (legal truffles), the sweat lodge, shamanic energy work, sound healing and connected breathing. This can help you connect with your inner wisdom to get to the core and accelerate a process of deep healing, psychological well-being and meaningful change.
A safe bed for your inner journey
AVANI offers us a space of openness, where you feel safe to go in and reconnect with your own nature. Where you can find new perspectives. Because do you sometimes ask yourself 'who am I?' and 'what do I really want?'. In a world that is constantly and rapidly changing, it is difficult to really know yourself. Let alone stand for it and live it fully. Do you long for more direction and clarity to let go of the old and to create a new, deepening and larger vision?
Then join us on this transformative journey. A weekend after which you will better take your place in your life, you will get more focus and energy. Where nature gives you insights into what's going on in you, where it hurts, what can be released, who you are and what you actually want.
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Gaining insight into your old story.
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Honoring the old, giving it a place, and letting go of what no longer serves.
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Exploring and experiencing a broader perspective. What more is possible!
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Translating insights into concrete applications in your life and work.
LET'S GO IN A LOOK....
We connect with the forces of nature to awaken our own primal forces and become who we really are.
We rediscover a deep connection with ourselves and nature.
We experience deep cleansing of everything we no longer need. We sweat it out, breathe it out, and rinse it off.
Together we will enjoy, deepen, breathe, sweat, laugh, cry, shiver, scream, wonder, but above all live life to the full.
We connect with our capacity for self-healing
We experience that we are the creator of our inner world and our life
We stand still and discover what really lives in us.
We work with ancient rituals and nature. The sweat lodge, our breathing, the plant medicines (legal truffles) and music.
We eat good food. Healthy food. So that we not only go home emotionally healthier, but also physically.
And all that in a beautiful, healing place. AVANIA
FOR WHOM?
We invite men and women who feel the call to go on a journey and want to understand themselves better. For people who want to get more out of life, who want to grow and develop. Who take matters into their own hands and lead themselves to an improved version of themselves. People who are ready to clean up old clutter and want to take a giant leap forward. People who feel the call to deepen, to challenge themselves physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Who trust their inner knowing and feel that the answers can be found in their nature. Maybe you've been doing inner work for a long time, maybe you haven't. What is important is the willingness and desire to open, give and deepen yourself. And the courage to go beyond your comfort zone.
What can you expect?
Delicious, nutritious, vegetarian meals, tea, and healthy snacks.
Spend the night in one of the comfortable dormitories or the yurt.
Experience and enjoy at a beautiful location in the middle of nature.
Guided by an experienced and loving team.
THE TEAM
The AVANI Team has expertise in energy healing, sound healing, behavioral change, transformation, systemic work, breath work, plant medicines and sweat lodge ceremonies.
CHIEL
Chiel guides people in nature back to their own nature. The connection with nature is the key in his life and his center Avani. In the sweat lodge and the fire he takes people on a journey to their origin. To remember who they really are and see what lives inside them.
ROBERT
Pleuni Apollonia and Robert Tolenaars are musicians. When their paths crossed years ago, they recognized each other as like-minded people with a similar passion and love for music. Each deeply committed to their own inner path and mission, they complement each other in a special way.
EXPERIENCES
Read below the experiences of participants of
previous editions and get inspired.
(In resistance, judgmental, and like a wanderer who had lost himself!)
Avani is a wonderful place. Where you can find the peace to return to your own body, in a process of days that you slowly peel away.
And where I was allowed to feel and experience the suppressed feelings of pain, in a trusted and safe setting.
There, where loving energetic connections with others are welcome, to learn and heal. And so, thanks to Chiel and his fantastic team, I stand in my power with full intuitive guidance!
- TAMARA
CONSCIOUSLY BEING, open to every sensation and emotion, everything is welcome and I can see and embrace it.
In 4 days, it became crystal clear which pieces of grief wanted to be felt, what I wanted to forgive myself for, and which unhelpful belief I could transform into a belief that does help.
I love traveling through all layers; every method was helpful in this process: drawing, connected breathing, the sweat lodge, movement, and the inner quest.
I find experiencing my true essence to be a gift, and it is so helpful in being able to live more from genuine connection in daily life afterwards. Even if that connection slips away for a moment later on, I know I can return to it, with or without help. Thank you, dear, wonderful, and safe team; you are magnificent people. The love, expertise, and connection were palpable.
- KARIEN
Avani is such a beautiful and wonderful place to look yourself in the eye regarding the themes that are important to you at that moment. Out of curiosity, I signed up for the Rite of Passage. I was pleasantly surprised. What a fun and diverse group of participants and a great team that managed to create a safe setting. The method invited you to go inward in search of what change you would like to see. That can be daunting, but it is certainly highly recommended. It brought much beauty to many, including me.
- STIJN
EARTH RETREAT
WHEN
Nov 4th 4:00 p.m. to Nov 6th 2:30 p.m.
TRUE
AVANI 't Hoog 3 in Helvoirt, Brabant
PRICE
Early birds until October 18 (incl. bed in dormitory) € 550,-
small wallet (incl. bed in dormitory) € 495,-
Regular price (incl. bed in dormitory): € 595,-
Business ticket (incl. 21% VAT) (incl. bed in dormitory) € 720,-
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SIGN UP
info@avani.nl (mention your name and telephone number)
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INTAKE
It is important to be clear whether this retreat suits you.
If necessary, we will contact you by telephone or zoom. Also
you will receive a short questionnaire with which we ask a number of things about your health and intentions.
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PAYMENT
IF WE ALWAYS CHOOSE COMFORT WE
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CAPABILITY OF OUR MIND OR BODY