Dear friends of darkness therapy. The day before yesterday, people from a university in Prague came to film an interview with us about dark retreats. On that occasion we decided to devote even more time to running dark retreats and to build our fourth sanctuary, the northern one. We believe this will ease our overbooked calendar and allow us to welcome more participants who long for a dark retreat.
A dark retreat in the northern sanctuary will be different
The north inspires respect in us; it is the opposite of the warm south, which in turn offers calm and an embrace. To express the opposite energy of the cardinal directions, we decided to build the northern sanctuary genuinely to the north of the southern sanctuary, and as its mirror image. The entrance will stay on the west side, so that you can still wave goodbye to the setting sun before you go in.
The retreat room will be at the northernmost point, so from the entrance onwards you will be heading north.
Building materials of the northern sanctuary
As in the other sanctuaries, wood will dominate. We love the scent of wood, so the northern dark retreat sanctuary will be made of wood too. You will find a timber frame, wooden panelling on the walls, a wooden floor and even a wooden bed and a small dining table.
Facilities of the northern sanctuary
There will be a bed and a mattress made of natural materials, a wall-hung flush toilet, a shower with hydromassage, and of course luxurious water from our hand-dug well, which is over 120 years old.
Nor will there be any shortage of silent heating and a ventilation unit with heat recovery, which returns heat indoors in winter and keeps the heat outside in summer.
Contributions towards a dark retreat in the northern sanctuary
The northern sanctuary will cost an estimated 250,000 CZK, which, with an average contribution of 7,000 CZK per dark retreat, we will be able to finance if all participants pay for their retreat in advance. We are fully aware, however, that not all of you want to or are able to contribute, so the amount of the booking deposit and of the contribution for the retreat remains entirely voluntary.
In the booking form below you can therefore choose the amount of your booking deposit yourself. Every crown helps us fulfil our aim of meeting your needs and building the northern sanctuary.
We expect it to be finished at the end of May, so that dark retreats in the northern sanctuary can begin from 4 June 2016. We will keep you updated on the progress of the building work here on the website and by email.
Booking the northern sanctuary
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