Dark retreat – participants’ experiences
The experiences of dark retreat participants can be summed up in these most common points:
- A deeper understanding of yourself
- A more contented life
- Renewed relationships with those close to you
- Finding your values and goals
- Relief from stress
We don’t know of anyone who has regretted darkness therapy. Regardless of age, gender or profession, participants rate their dark retreat positively and say it was the right thing for them.
Darkness therapy experiences are subjective
Please bear in mind that the feelings and course of a dark retreat are individual, and that other participants’ experiences may create expectations in you.
Luboš – Turning the light on was just as hard as turning it off
Hi Tomáš and Léňa, I'm sending a few lines as feedback for you, for what you do, and also for those who are still deciding or looking for reasons to go into the dark. What was my dark retreat like? It's almost a month since…
Honza – I’m more aware of myself
I get off the train at the station in Kutná Hora, and as my means of transport to Lomec, my destination, I choose my own two feet.
Pavel – stepping out into the light was truly beautiful
I decided on a dark retreat because I wasn't sure which direction to take my life in.
Šárka – Everything is right
At the beginning of September I came to Tomáš and Lenka for a week-long dark retreat.
Pavel – where my life is heading
I decided on a dark retreat because I wasn't sure which direction to take my life in.
Gábi – I can’t see out, I can see in…
I found out about the dark retreat as a form of therapy "by chance" three years ago.
Jirka – should you go on a dark retreat?
I spent a long time deciding what to actually write about the dark retreat.
Jakub – Darkness therapy is…
Everything sort of works, but it's more grey than colourful.
Matěj – how to overcome fear
The dark retreat found me on its own. Years ago I read about darkness therapy in Reflex magazine, and one winter in the mountains a friend told me that a colleague of hers had done it and how he had felt.
Honza – a week outside space and time
Me before darkness therapy I'm a university student, used to being constantly on the go and slowly getting used to the way the world works.
