Silent Retreat: Finding Your Center, Strengths, and Balance [5 Days Near Berlin]

Rediscovering Your Inner Center in Silence: A Silent Retreat to Find Yourself Again
When we decide to take refuge from the hustle and bustle of life in intentional silence, we have the opportunity to encounter ourselves in silence, far away from the world. We can find our way back to our own center and strengthen it. In this way, we create a firm center from which we can conquer the world.

What to Expect
On the day of arrival, we’ll begin at 4:30 p.m. After dinner together, we’ll go over all the important details in the evening so that you can safely sink into the silence and fully into yourself.
 
Until the morning of your departure, we’ll envelop ourselves in noble silence, focusing entirely on introspection. Looking inward. Listening. After lunch, there will still be time for sharing and fellowship.
 
Generally, you can expect a moderately intensive meditation practice that is well-suited even for those with little experience: we sit for a maximum of about 25 minutes at a time, approximately 4–5 times a day, together in silence, and sometimes as guided meditation.
 
The meditation practice is inspired by Buddhist paths of practice and combines mindful awareness, qualities of the heart, and mental focus.

To complement the meditation practice, we’ll practice yoga—as a gentle physical balance and to prepare for sitting. The focus is on passive Yin Yoga, supplemented by calm, mindfully performed Hatha Yoga exercises. The practice is intentionally slow and inwardly focused; dynamic or performance-oriented forms of yoga are not part of the guided program. Independent practice is welcome outside of group sessions.
 
The program is supplemented by various contemplative elements (e.g., short talks, stories and food for thought, contemplative exercises, journaling, group walks); the specific format varies from retreat to retreat and draws on the themes I am currently exploring in my own philosophical practice and studies. At the end of each retreat, there is a practice session to integrate the experiences.

On this retreat, we’ll also have a campfire, if the risk of forest fires allows it.

What past participants say:
“The weekend of silence was a highlight for me this year, and I hope the aftereffects will last a long time. Despite the usual Christmas stress, I’m already approaching many things a little differently—I meditate every day and write a bit in my journal in the evenings. It was such a wonderful weekend that I’d love to experience it again in the future—and we were so lucky with the group! Thank you again so, so much for your fantastic introduction to silence, Yin Yoga, and so much more.” — Marisca M.

About Regina—Your Instructor:
Ever since my first philosophical wonder at the strange phenomenon of consciousness took hold of me about 30 years ago, I’ve been exploring philosophy, psychology, meditation, yoga, and all such things. It is the search for truth and for answers to the ultimate questions of human existence that has always driven me: I want to explore and understand consciousness, life, and what it means to be human in all their depth.

With great joy and dedication, I have been creating experiential spaces since 2020 that are rooted in this search—spaces where people can move from doing to being and find peace, encounter and question themselves, and thus sharpen, enrich, shape, and expand their consciousness—ultimately leading to a more joyful and peaceful life. In this way, I hope to contribute to a more peaceful, conciliatory, and humane world.