Deeper into darkness therapy
Imagine a place where time stands still, where the everyday chaos falls away and you have the space to meet no one but yourself.
Darkness therapy is not just a rest from the outside world. It is a deep experience that lets you restore your inner calm, get to know yourself better and find gratitude in the little things.
Want to know why more and more people are choosing this transformative experience? Dive into the secrets of the dark retreat and discover how this ancient method can change the way you look at life.
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We have put together the next available dates for a dark retreat.
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Articles about darkness therapy
Improvements to the northern dark retreat sanctuary
Today our spruce tongue-and-groove boards arrived, so we were able to clad the inside walls of the northern sanctuary as well. What we hope from this change is that when you walk along the walls, you won't get a splinter. The boards are lovely and…
A dark retreat powered by green energy
Since we're "eco nutters", as a friend of mine from primary school called us, we keep thinking up ways to run our dark retreats as ecologically as possible.
Replacing the shower enclosures
The time had come, and after 5 years we replaced the shower enclosures.
A dark retreat as an attraction
When we started running dark retreats in 2013, our intention was to give participants the chance to be alone with themselves in a safe space, where no everyday obligations would disturb them and they would have time purely for themselves.
Renovating the Western Sanctuary for dark retreats, April 2019
After 5 years we set about renovating the Western Sanctuary, the very first one we built back in 2014 – in fact even before we built this little timber house of ours near Kutná Hora 🙂 Renovating the dark retreat sanctuary from the outside Altogether the renovation took us 14 days and brought some big improvements.
A dark retreat with a massage as a gift
Friends, a kind supporter of the darkness has donated 20 vouchers for couples' massages for people coming on a dark retreat.
A dark retreat in a cabin for peace of body and mind
There are many different ways and places to do a dark retreat.
A guide to the dark retreat – a conversation
This picture is a fitting image of the hurricane of thoughts some participants have in their heads 🙂 As you can read in the accounts of people's experiences in the dark, there are participants whose thoughts become more intense, and others for whom that doesn't happen at all – they spend the whole week enjoying themselves as if they were on cloud nine.
A safe dark retreat
All our dark retreat sanctuaries are built from wood, because it is a natural material and creates a pleasant atmosphere.
A dark retreat is not just about the dark
Dear friends of dark retreats, we have noticed that you like to spend some time here both before and after your dark retreat.
