6 Day (Flexible) Private Darkness Retreat in Tenerife

Allow yourself to step away from your phone and other distractions, and immerse yourself in the sacred darkness of a cave. There is nothing to achieve here and no one wants anything from you. It's just you with yourself, bathing in the healing atmosphere of darkness that envelops and comforts you like a gentle blanket.

Follow your intuition. Go with the flow of whatever comes up. When memories from the past arise, work with them intuitively. You may want to forgive others or yourself for some things. Are there any feelings holding you back that you can let go of? You may have pushed away other deep feelings during your busy life. Now you have the time and space to let them guide you.

After a few days, you may see your inner light. Seeing your true inner nature, the core of who you are, is a beautiful experience. You may also have visions. Follow your intuition and allow yourself to walk through deep inner processes that will help you come home to yourself.

What Makes This Retreat Special:

This dark retreat includes daily personal guidance and integration sessions. Within each 24 hours of darkness, there is often a lot happening: many inner processes, dreams and feelings. It feels good to be able to share these with another human being during the daily integration sessions. This helps you to let go more easily and make space for new things to come up.

If you feel like it, you can experience energetic balancing: Ask for hand-holding, a long hug or a hugging meditation. Nils has spent many years exploring and writing about these ancient methods of receiving human medicine, and he offers them to you in a safe and trustful setting.

There are many other optional paths to explore in the dark and many practices you can try out. As you raise your frequencies, this can be an excellent place to get to know your spirit guides and begin a personal relationship with them, so you feel more guided in your daily life. You could also work on your cravings and longings to find out what lies behind them. You can break old patterns and discover new possibilities. With a special technique, you can even write notes in the dark!

The Retreat Experience:

It doesn't matter what time you arrive. After picking you up from the nearby bus station, you can take some time to settle in. We can talk, share and get to know each other a bit. If you like, we can draw some oracle cards together to receive a last message for your retreat experience.

When you feel ready, we can walk to the retreat space together. Leave anything you don't want to carry with you behind. The more free and clean you are when you enter the space, the further you can travel during your time here.

After you have seen the spacious main room, the meditation cave and the bathroom cave, you can keep a few candles lit for the first moments to help you adjust to the space and find your way around.

Then, when you are ready, dim the lights and begin your personal ceremony in the sacred darkness.

Depending on when you arrive, I will either do a quick check-in with you after about eight hours or come knocking at the door the next morning to bring you food for the day. We can then sit together in the meditation cave, where you can share your feelings, ask any questions and find direction if you wish.

If you would like a deeper energetic experience, you can ask to connect with our hands or through a hug. This is a sharing of human medicine that many of us have forgotten. See how this feels for you and how it can help you during your processes.

I encourage you to spend five full days and nights (5 x 24 hours) in the darkness. Of course, the doors are always open if you want to leave earlier.

There will come a time when you feel that you have done everything and all processes are complete (for now). Coming out into the light is a beautiful birthing experience; it can be intense for some as it can bring up deep emotions. The outside world may feel strange after you have been in your own personal universe for so long.

Take your time outside, observe the colours, and take in the scents and sounds of the Canarian landscape. Feel your body in this new world. A lot will have changed, and you can use this opportunity to start a new life!

When you are ready, we can have a closing sharing session before I take you back to the bus station. The time you spend on integrating after the retreat is as important as the retreat itself. You may be able to change many old habits and patterns, try new things and experience yourself differently and more fully.

You can also extend your stay by a few nights before and/or after the retreat.