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4-day live seminar with Darrel Combs on animism, crystal consciousness, and earth healing. September 27–30, 2026, Biolandhaus Arche, Carinthia (Austria). Hands-on work with crystals, rituals, and Earth healing, based on over 50 years of experience and traditional Indigenous knowledge. No prior experience necessary.
The seminar spans 4 consecutive in-person days at Biolandhaus Arche, with each day’s content building upon the previous one. We’ll work both in the seminar room and outdoors—since this is a seminar deeply rooted in nature, we’ll spend a significant portion of our time outside in nature.
Day 1 – Arrival & Fundamentals: Introduction to an animistic understanding of crystals, grounding, and nervous system regulation through somatic and breathwork; initial exercises in “listening” rather than interpreting.
Day 2 – Deepening Perception: Meditation, trance, and intuitive perception in contact with crystals; working with obsidian, mica, and quartz mirrors, crystal balls, and crystal skulls.
Day 3 – Ritual & Earth Healing: Creating crystal altars, spirit houses, and ancestor houses; earth healing for places, landscapes, and ley lines; Working with meteorites.
Day 4 – Integration & Ethics: Caring for and making offerings to stones, ethical mining and sustainability, Stone Tracking, a closing circle, and integrating the experiences into daily life.
Darrel Combs has been collecting stones, crystals, and minerals for over fifty years—not as objects, but as counterparts. As a young teenager, his mentor, a Muscogee Creek medicine man, first placed a crystal in his hands. No book, no teaching—just that one moment of listening. From this grew a living relationship with the mineral world, nourished by traditional healers from various cultures who entrusted him with knowledge that is not taught in this form anywhere in Europe.
In *Crystal Medicine – The Wisdom of Stones*, a seminar on animism* and a living relationship with the mineral world, Darrel opens up a part of this treasure to us for the first time. For four days, immersed in the natural surroundings of the Biolandhaus Arche in Carinthia, we return to a very ancient skill: true listening. We let go of lists of meanings and encounter obsidian mirrors, crystal balls, meteorites, and the local stones as beings with their own stories. We ground ourselves, breathe, immerse ourselves in trance and meditation, and create crystal altars and sacred spaces—for ourselves, for our ancestors, and for the Earth.
This seminar is an invitation to anyone who senses that there is more than meets the eye. No prior experience is necessary—just curiosity and a willingness to truly encounter a stone. Afterward, you’ll never look at it the same way again.
Dates: September 27–30, 2026 · Biolandhaus Arche, St. Oswald, Carinthia
*Animism: the belief that not only humans, but all things in nature—animals, plants, stones, rivers, and even seemingly inanimate objects and phenomena—possess a soul, a spirit, or their own life force.
Spirituality, personal development, crystal work, shamanism, earth healing, ritual work, meditation, continuing education for therapists & counselors, indigenous knowledge, animism
The most important facts in a nutshell:
In-person seminar, no online component
Open to anyone who's curious
No prior experience required
Also suitable for therapists and counselors.
One-time payment of €720 or in 2 installments of €365 each
Biolandhaus Arche, St. Oswald, Carinthia, Austria
Darrel Combs (darrelcombs.com)
Spirituality, personal development, crystal healing, shamanism, earth healing, ritual work, meditation, continuing education for therapists and counselors, indigenous knowledge, animism
Information & Registration: earthwindsacademy.com/kristallseminar-crystal-medicine-2026
The hotel accommodates special dietary requests; please let us know when booking if you have any dietary restrictions, such as gluten-free, vegan, or other food intolerances.
Daily Schedule:
- 8:00 a.m. – Breakfast
- 10:00 a.m. – Seminar begins
- 1:00–3:00 p.m. – Lunch break
- 4:30 p.m. – Coffee break
- 7:00 p.m. – Dinner
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