Silence. No distractions. Just me, my breath and endless darkness. That is exactly how one of our guests describes her experience – she decided to step away for a while from a world full of noise and chaos. She arrived with a head full of thoughts, overloaded with work and worries about her family. “I was all over the place,” she says honestly. That is precisely why she chose a dark retreat.
Right after arriving she felt something changing. The outer noise went quiet – and the inner noise began to play out its own tune. She admits that at first it was hard to calm down. But after the first few hours she began to sink deeper into herself. “I felt I was inside. Calmer. Grounded,” she recalls. Her body and mind were suddenly given space.
Three nights in total darkness and silence transformed her sense of time. Every minute flowed differently. Long. Slow. And yet intense. “I felt that everything took an awfully long time – but it was beautiful,” she says with a smile. And she adds that she would love to repeat the experience, perhaps for longer next time.
She sees her experiences in the dark as deeply healing. For her, darkness therapy was not an escape but a return – to herself, to calm, to simplicity. “Now I notice my surroundings more. There’s more silence in me. And that’s really lovely.”
Every dark retreat brings something different. Sometimes answers. Other times just silence, in which a new way of perceiving life is born. And that is exactly where its power lies.
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