Aruna - A Rite of Passage
August 1st - August 3rd, 2025 • September 12th - 15th, 2025 • Falkenberg, Germany
A ceremonial gathering to celebrate our existence
As part of our individual inner quest for more peace, joy and love in our life, we will journey through this rite of passage together and find ourselves initiated into a new version of ourselves.
Rites of passage mark a ceremonial event, existing in all historically known societies and indigenous cultures, guiding an individual through an important step in their life.
During our time together at Aruna, we want to provide the space for you to reconnect to your most intimate truth and shed the layers of your identity holding you back to walk through this threshold. This sacred space is created as a space of remembrance for the love of our Mother Nature and all living beings.
Tucked away in the beautiful green countryside just about 1,5hr from Berlin, we will ground ourselves firmly rooted to the earth, unplug from our daily lives and rekindle our connection to the natural and unseen worlds.
This is a space to feel in fullness, to let go of old versions of yourself, to make new meaningful connections and celebrate life amongst family.
We take you on a journey of weaving ceremony, ritual and somatics and creative exploration to grow, heal, transform and empower ourselves and one another.
A space to feel in fullness
Share your journey with like-minded humans and feel the healing power of community
This retreat is an honoring of our collective human memory for ceremony & ritual, the interconnectedness of life, the 7 sacred directions and elements that make the tapestry of our existence. We will gather in a circle to remember that we are all part of this human experience, interconnected and equal.
It is a sacred space to explore the depths of your inner landscape and move out of our inner limitations and back into wholeness.
Somatic exploration & integration
We believe in the power of movement and how somatics is a huge indicator to what is going on within our bodies on a physical and mental level. Reconnecting to the language of our body, we expand our capacity for self-healing and expansion. Allowing ourselves to meet with the wisdom of our bodies can be a hugely releasing process where we can begin to let go of stuck energies and old stories and come into the arrival of inner truth and aliveness.
This journey is anchored in an embodied approach to decondition you from being led by the mind to gently bring you back to your heart center and how to truly live from this place in your everyday life.
Temazcal Ritual
The Temazcal (or Inipi) is an archaic rite of passage, part of an old tradition of trance, prayer, health and community of the Native American and Mesoamerican cultures. It consists of a circular covered structure where people sit around a crevice in which hot stones are deposited. As in a sauna, the stones are bathed in herbal-infused water, generating a sweating effect and opening the skin to the healing powers of the medicinal herbs.
The temazcal ritual takes place in the dark and is accompanied by powerful songs, facilitating an intense journey towards ourselves, our resistance and our ability to heal through our own strength. The company of all those present also produces a deep process of community and belonging, which is why it is an excellent ritual to start the retreat, where sweating together with others creates a beautiful synergy that helps us get out of the hustle and bustle of daily life.
The way to facilitate temazcales in our retreat is through love and compassion. It will not be a ritual that is too hard or heavy, but we will guide it in a way that everyone feels the power of this beautiful ritual from a tolerable and kind place, to purify the spirit and take us to a space of ceremony and joint sacredness.
“A quest of any kind is a heroic journey. It is a rite of passage that carries you to an inner place of silence and majesty and encourages you to live life more courageously and genuinely.”
— Denise Linn
UHU Lodge Kraftort
We will gather at UHU Lodge a wonderful place of silence & serenity to recharge in the healing embrace of nature. The beautiful space of UHU Lodge provides us with everything we need for this weekend of ceremony & celebration of life.
Our sacred ceremony with the medicine of the children will be held in the nighttime in the tipi around a sacred fire and during the daytime we will come together in a circle in the yurt or the dome.
Real food is the ultimate medicine. When prepared with the proper intention, it possesses a potent formula to create a delightful sensation in the belly and bring about radiance. Our carefully created menu of deeply nourishing soul food is an integral part of your journey at Aruna.
Food is medicine
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Gathering in ritual and ceremony has been an integral part of human existence since the beginning of humanity. Ceremony is our way to remember that we are part of a larger circle, interconnected and whole together.
Rituals guide us through life, providing meaning as we make sense of the world around us, as well as the world within.
For us, this is an intuitive practice that brings us closer to a magical, healing sense of ‘otherness’ or spirit.
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Prayer is our way to connect inward and establish a connection to the divine. Stepping into our power as creator beings and creating magnetism and communion with the great mystery.
Rituals guide us through life, providing meaning as we make sense of the world around us, as well as the world within.
We will create sacred space together as a family, remembering what it is to be human upon this earth, connected to the vastness within and without.
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It is in community that we are seen and heard fully, where we learn from those around us and exchange stories that connect us to people and places. Our gatherings are curated to nourish this innate need for belonging and honest acceptance so that we can remember what it is to be supported and empowered by those around us. We want to revive the power that is held in these deeply ancestral, indigenous relationships with life, creating containers that inspire real connection and lifelong friendships.
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Reconnecting to the language of the body helps us expand our capacity for self-healing and flow in our lives. We believe in the power of movement and stillness. Following our body wisdom, we will guide you through a journey of expansivity, oneness, and acceptance. Our approach is intuitive, weaving different styles of yoga and intuitive movement including tantra, vinyasa, yin, restorative and kundalini. We embrace a deeply embodied practice, which is not about forcing the body into any shape but tapping into our innate needs and sensations.
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Integration has been shown to be one of the most important processes of a ritual and ceremonial journey.
In Aruna, integration is carried out through circles of word and expression of our vulnerability under the protection of the tribal sphere, using tools of compassionate inquiry and active sharing. At the end of our retreat, we want you to be able to bring your well-integrated and well-carved experience to your own life, to put what you have learned into practice.
Our integration dynamics will also include a process of relaxation and enjoyment at the end of our retreat, where we have a sauna and jacuzzi to calm down and share your experiences and thoughts in an environment of fellowship and friendship.
The Approach
Exchange
Dormitory - €450
A single bed in the cozy dormitory of the main farmhouse. We require 100€ non-refundable deposit to secure your spot.
Semi Private - €550
A single or queen bed in one of the 3 available caravan tiny houses. We require a 100€ non-refundable deposit to secure your spot.
Private Tiny House - €650
For a single person or couple to share one of the two available tiny house caravan options both with a double bed.
Community Price - €400
We offer two spots per retreat at a community rate of 400€. Bring your own tent and stay in the lush gardens of the land at a reduced rate.
Payment plans available
What’s included
Temazcal Ceremony
Sacred Medicine Ceremony
Shared or private accommodation
Local, seasonal, plant-based soul food
Intention Setting & Sigil Workshop
Somatic Integration Workshop
Sharing Circle
Woodfired Sauna
1-on-1 session before the ceremony
Meet the space holders
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Pia is a facilitator for ceremonial & embodied awakening experiences.
She is a yoga & somatic movement teacher, and a student of non - dual Saiva Tantra and ancient shamanic healing rituals. Pia transmutes ancient practices and traditions into a modern-day language, bridging the gap for deeply transformative and nurturing transcultural experiences.
She is the founder of Our Future Is Ancient - an organization that is weaving a cross-cultural network, preserving ancient wisdom, to fuel individual & collective awakening through transformational experiences, ceremonial gatherings, and workshops. Those creations are here to break with the old linear paradigm and to allow us to expand our minds and explore alternative ways to healing & growth.
Pia will be guiding embodied, somatic-based practices to allow for a deep reconnection to our body-mind, that will remind us of the depth of intuitive wisdom we carry within. She will be sharing ancient and new practices of rituals, song and prayer to activate and integrate Soul awareness and connection.
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Gabriel is an anthropologist, musician and therapist who for more than fifteen years has specialized in the study of the indigenous cultures of the Americas. He has worked with the ancestral medicines of multiple ethnic groups from the Amazon and the North American deserts, and has built his path in social activism in favor of the regulation of entheogenic substances and the protection of indigenous knowledge.
He is also the founder of the Psychedelic Society of Berlin, and one of the initiators of the Occulture conference, one of the largest occult and magic conferences in the world. His commitment to the path of medicines has led him to facilitate ceremonies and rituals around the world for over ten years.
Along the way he has learned to use the power of temazcal and ancestral medicines to accompany healing ceremonies with the right intention and reach the highest potential for transformation.
Therefore, Gabriel will work especially with the medicines of care and guidance, such as the sacred fire, the mapacho, the rhapé and the symbols of protection.
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Katinka is a Transformational Life Coach, Wellbeing Practitioner, Reiki & Sound Healer.
Being committed to spiritual growth from a young age, Katinka has immersed herself in many traditions, rituals, eastern, indigenous and shamanic practices to expand her consciousness. From this place of constant growth and change, she implements her learnings and trainings in Transformational Life Coaching, Shamanism and wellbeing work in the service of others. This is what lies at the core of her work — discovering the richness of life and then paying it forward, hence honouring her feminine essence and encouraging other women to do the same.
Katinka's passion is to guide women in finding the resources and tools they need to effectively swap out the unwanted patterns, habits and stories in their life with what they've always wished for, through working deeply with the body and unconscious.
Her joy comes in empowering others to step into the path of love, consciousness and wisdom while she offers her listening ear and intuition
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Jane is facilitator of trauma-informed Yoga, movement, breath, voice and sound journeys. She is also a trained as an active listener, a certified birth doula, Akashic Reader and Coach, with a background in Childhood Psychology and Education.
Having been brought up alongside alternative medicines such as TCM and acupuncture from a very young age, it is natural that Jane's path on Earth continues to evolve in this direction. As a student of meditation, herbalism and Buddhism, her intention is to embody the core values of
compassion, gratitude and kindness to her day-to-day living to all Beings, as a lifestyle.
Her holistic practice is rooted in the belief that it is through the synergetic movement of physical, emotional and energetic bodies that one can find liberation from the heart, not only for themselves but also the collective consciousness.
Jane is here to support you in your journey - holding space for you, as you find safety and joy in exploring your way back into your heart's inner knowing, as you express yourself in the most authentic ways known to you.
