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A lighthearted gathering for men serious about leveling up
Warmly welcome to a rich and transformational retreat where your body is your greatest teacher.
What's it really like to be you?
Strengthen your ability to feel at the level of bodily sensation, below the more superficial level of emotional labels and old stories and intimately befriend your nervous system in its constant pendulation;
'Safe, unsafe, safe, unsafe, safe, unsafe, safe, unsafe..'
Learn how to effectively increase awareness, enjoyment and even pleasure in the presence of any feeling.
Gently train your nervous system to handle more intensity and start to transform life's stressors into opportunities for strengthening and remembering a more original and pure expression of yourself by going deeper into the felt sense of your body and permanently turning off reactive mechanisms.
In a non-mystical way, experience firsthand how a safe nervous system unleashes the strength, joy, clarity, leadership and connection that your soul is hungry for!
Level up your relational skills and let your authenticity blossom and inspire yourself and those around you.
Become fully autonomous in a practical, effective and integrative breath meditation that brings bodily intelligence to a whole new level in your daily life and turns challenges into opportunities for growth.
More than just an experience laying on the mat, you will acquire easy-to-learn yet profound skills that deepen your relationships, strengthen your leadership, lighten up daily life and bring forth your unique impact on the world.
6 DAYS
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NO MOBILE PHONES
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4 SESSIONS EACH DAY
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INDIVIDUAL PREPARATION CALL BEFORE RETREAT
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INDIVIDUAL INTEGRATION CALL AFTER RETREAT
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SILENT HOURS IN THE MORNINGS AND EVENINGS
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PENDULATION BETWEEN HIGH ACTIVATION AND DEEP RELAXATION
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SIMPLE & EFFECTIVE TOOLS AND PRACTICES TO BRING BACK HOME
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A SMALL GROUP THAT SOON FEELS LIKE YOUR FAMILY
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AUTONOMY IN A UNIQUELY GENTLE YET POWERFUL BREATHWORK MEDITATION
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BASIC LECTURES ON THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
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SAFE & HEARTFELT SPACE FOR MEN
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RELATIONAL GAMES AND EXERCISES THAT PREPARE YOU FOR THE INTEGRATION INTO DAILY LIFE AND REVEAL WHAT IS POSSIBLE WITH YOUR LOVED ONES
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MUSIC, LIVE SONGS AND SOUNDSCAPES
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BODY AWARENESS & BODY INTELLIGENCE TAKEN TO NEW LEVELS
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AN ENLIGHTENING AND EMPOWERING PERSPECTIVE ON HOW TO NAVIGATE LIFE
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LIGHTHEARTEDNESS AND RIDICULOUSLY SERIOUS PLAY
A serious gathering for lighthearted men
You are a bit of a master at thinking and strategizing. But you feel disconnected from your body and feelings.
You have a nack of getting confused or a little reactive or simply fed up when relating to the closest and most important people in your life.
Life changing a bit too fast sometimes?
Where’s that spontaneous, playful You that you know is in there?
You wish you felt your own precious FIRE burning inside of you - in your relationships, at your workplace, with your colleagues, in the car, in bed.
You wish you could feel your body, articulate your feelings and feel rock solid in yourself.
What if you could use conflicts and life’s challenges as opportunities to awaken to more of your intrinsic joy and vitality?
The fundamental reason you are stuck in this limited version of yourself is because you simply aren’t SAFE enough.
Understandably so! Most of us have grown up in unsafe environments.
This dramatically changes in these 6 days.
And hey, let’s not make this into another heavy trauma darkness deep dive where you have to scream to get some imaginary demons out.
Let’s make this lighthearted. Let’s have fun.
Let’s bring back play into the picture.
Gently change your inner environment and watch the world around you radically transform
DAILY PROGRAMME
07.00-09.00 Morning Practice
(Concentration practice, movement, play + integrated breathwork, relaxation)
09.00-11.00 Breakfast and Rest
[10.00 Noble silence ends]
11.00-14.00 Breathwork
(1 hour lecture + experiential session)
14.00-16.00 Lunch and Rest
16.00-18.00 Afternoon Practice
(Deep relaxation, movement, dance, Transformational Connection Circle, games and more)
18.00-19.00 Dinner
19.00-20.00 Evening Gathering
(Authentic relating, sharing, singing)
[20.00 Noble silence begins]
In a natural, safe, supportive and playful environment - and at your own pace - step up and take responsibility and control of your physical, mental and emotional health
The Essence of Ancient Practices
Breath, sound, movement and relating with increased body awareness applied to the individual and collective challenges of the modern world.
You will learn an integrative circular breathing method that, combined with detailed body awareness, gives you access to your self at deeper and more subtle levels. Beautifully and somewhat paradoxically - its power lies in its gentleness.
Increased body awareness and increased capacity to be OK with what you are feeling is a powerful path to lower your baseline level of stress (this is the stress that you have gotten so used to that it has become unconscious; an integrated part of your personality structure). Lowering your stress in this specifically embodied way is also a root cause solution to heal trauma, expand consciousness and increase health and vitality in every cell of your organism.
Viewed like this, the new version of yourself is not something you achieve necessarily by adding and doing more but by coming into a deeper state of relaxation and safety so your body's innate intelligence is allowed to self-organize towards greater health and wholeness.
It may sound banal but to fundamentally feel more at peace in your own body lets every cell in your body go from survival mode to growth mode, shifting your whole experience of being you; boosting your capacity to be open and receptive to the world around you so you can more fully and freely express, connect and enjoy this life.
Awareness, Intensity And Capacity
One could argue that we are waking up and realizing the limitations (and sometimes harm!) of pharmaceuticals and our modern way of living busy, productive lives. We live in a time where plant medicines, substances and certain practices that open us up, show us radically different aspects of reality and increase awareness very fast are becoming more and more common.
An ancient piece of wisdom can easily be overlooked: If you only increase awareness and intensity you risk overloading your nervous system, pushing you in the direction of more and more reactivity and anxiety and effectively making your healing even more elusive.
This retreat is unique and specifically designed to equip you with the skills and perspective that while increasing awareness and insight, you simultaneously increase your capacity to handle more intensity; your capacity to be OK with what you are becoming aware of. Indeed, on all levels: physically, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually.
The main breathwork meditation practice in this retreat can be applied to any other practice, substance-supported work, or daily life interactions to maintain embodied groundedness and equanimity and to work within your 'window of tolerance'. This is ancient wisdom in its timeless value.
Safety In Connection
Everyday in the retreat we explore the relational field, in pairs, small groups or collectively. We bring increased body awareness and increased curiosity and receptivity of what it's like to be in connection, moment to moment.
As opposed to coming with tips, assumptions and intellectual reflections and concepts, we reveal the present moment impact we have on each other; continually being curious of how our experience subtly shifts.
Your experience of your nervous system's perception of safety and unsafety in connection increases dramatically. And as we feel seen and heard at deeper levels, we start accessing our unique wisdom and the life force within us that longs to be felt and spontaneously and authentically expressed. Very early in life, we created behavioral mechanisms to suppress, block and distract ourselves from as we didn't feel safe enough with our caregivers. A naturally adaptive way to protect ourselves from less-than-loving responses form our caregivers. The expressions - the 'force' - that we started blocking is our vitality; our joy; our capacity to lead, love and be in awe of the richness and beauty around us.
Since our core wounds usually happened in connection - it is also in connection that we find high-impact potential for transformation, waiting to be explored, excavated and harnessed.
The retreat is held by Robbin van der Crussen.
Instill in yourself:
• A thorough understanding
• The practical skill
• A deeply felt inspiration..
..for how to use your breath and body awareness to meet life's inevitable challenges as exciting opportunities to wake up to more of your natural capacity for health, love, laughter, leadership, connection and creativity
Every day starts with a morning practice, consisting of concentration, movement, breathing and relaxation to prepare your mind, body and spirit for the main work of the day, which is an in-depth breathwork session.
The main session includes a lesson explaining the underlying concepts, practical techniques, physiological and philosophical aspects of the practice, empowering you to easily implement the practice when you come back home.
In the afternoons we relax, relate, dance, play, to bring the knowledge into connection with each other as a preparation the integration into daily life interactions.
"Fluid & exploratory, allowing space for everyone to find their rhythm - helped us all dive deeper.
Having done 4 or 5 other breathwork retreats in the past year, I HIGHLY recommend."
- Brad
"Concrete practices that give more freedom in how I react and respond to my feelings and emotions."
- Håkon
"Everything I learned I've implemented in my everyday life and it has raised my quality of life my a mile."
- Kim
"Combining shamanic wisdom and scientific knowledge in a delightful manner."
- Adrian
Questions for contemplation
⦾ What is my purpose?
⦿ What is self-responsibility?
⦿ What am I resisting in myself, others, and in my life, and why?
⦾ How do I create my own reality (consciously and unconsciously)?
⦿ How do I become aware of and let go of limiting beliefs and patterns?
⦾ What is healing and how do I and everyone around me benefit from it?
⦿ How come I recreate unpleasant situations over and over?
⦾ What limits my capacity to enjoy the present moment?
⦿ In which areas of my life am I asked to grow up?
⦾ What is worry, anxiety, and stress making me do, or keeping me from doing in life?
⦿ What is the correlation between suppressed emotions and stress and disease?
⦾ What is spirituality in the modern age society?
⦾ How can I mobilise force, courage, and perseverance to live in truth, authenticity and freedom?
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
A week full of exploration, transformational work, emotional healing and lightheartedness
A safe and sacred space, held by an experienced facilitator
A supportive group in which you can let go of your social roles and experience a truer version of yourself
Challenges, surprises, play, and beauty
Sessions and workshops infused with music and soundscapes supporting the process
Peaceful, natural surroundings with possibilities for bathing, hiking and sauna
11 men who quickly feels like longtime brothers
Soothing and delicious food that balances the nervous system
WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
Increased skill and understanding of how to use your breath as a master lever on your nervous system's response to stressors
Increased ability to handle stress and to heal the root cause of stress-related diseases
Effective yet simple tools and protocols to implement in your daily life
Increased ability to live, create and serve with clarity and stability
Increased understanding and resiliency of your nervous system
Increased emotional intelligence
Increased connection with the inherent joy of being alive
"The environment was safe, welcoming, well-organized and challenging enough for me to experience what my body was ready to reveal.
I hope to participate again in the future, and despite being back in the real world, I'm determined to continue on the path the retreat set me on.
If you're considering this retreat, just jump in and meet the version of yourself you need to see."
- Sebastian
A WORD OF NOTICE
This is an intense and in-depth retreat. It is open to all and does not require any previous experience with breathwork.
Nevertheless it requires your willingness and openness to face new and unknown aspects of yourself.
You are expected to join the whole program, as it is built up with a natural progression from session to session, and as the dynamics and feeling of safety within the group depends on the full commitment of all participants.
While extensive time is dedicated to relating and sharing, this retreat is not a forum for lengthy intellectual discussions. This retreat instead focuses on experiential and embodied nervous system resiliency work.
You are expected to strictly adhere to silent hours (20.00-10.00) as this is an important aspect of the individual and collective process.
If you have experienced severe trauma, or are suffering from any serious psychiatric condition, please schedule a call and let's together explore whether this retreat is suitable and beneficial for you at this time in your life.
If you for any other reason are unsure or just want to know more - schedule a free exploration call. Bring any questions or curiosities that you may have.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
TIME
Start: Tuesday September 22 at 3pm (Program starts at 4pm)
End: Sunday September 27 at 3pm (Return flight same day should be earliest 7pm)
A Telegram group for connecting beforehand, carpooling etc will be set up.
Bus 550 Enebakk Kirke leaves every hour and takes one hour from Oslo S to stop Bekkevold in Ytre Enebakk.
NB! Do NOT take bus 505 Drøbak via TusenFryd which also has a stop called Bekkevold.
Email with packing list and preparation protocols will be sent out 2 weeks before retreat start.
PLACE
Spiker'n
Sulerudveien 253
1914 Ytre Enebakk
Norway
PRICE
Course fee: 9000 NOK
Food & accommodation (shared bedrooms, 3-4 people): 3000 NOK
Total: 12000 NOK
Application Form
Apply now to secure your spot for OYNS For Men September
