The Softening Retreat
September 25th - September 28th, 2025 • Brandenburg, Germany
Raw nature, soft heart, grounded soul
4 days and 3 nights of Ritual, Embodiment, and Sisterhood at Haus Erlengrund in Brandenburg
This women’s retreat is an invitation to reconnect with both nature and your being around the powerful time of the Autumn Equinox. We’ll embark on a journey of unbecoming, where we shed what no longer serves us and return to our essence.
Join us for an experience where you’ll have the chance to disconnect completely from external stimulation and step into a calm, soulful retreat. Wake up each morning to the tranquil view of the crystal-clear lake, listen to the birds singing, and feel the autumn air on your skin.
The closer we get to nature, the closer we come to our own, mirrored in her seasons and cyclical ways, speaking to us in silence and stillness.
CACAO RITUALS • INTUITIVE DANCE • BREATHWORK • JIVAMUKTI YOGA • SAUNA • PRIVATE LAKE ACCESS • MAGICAL HUTS • HYPNOTIC JOURNEY • NOURISHING PLANT-BASED FOOD • MEDITATION • GUIDED JOURNALING
Autumn invites us into a pause — a chance to reset, reflect, and soften into the rhythm of the season. This is the time when we transition from the outward energy of summer into the inward flow of autumn and winter.
This retreat is an opportunity to slow down, listen deeply, and allow stillness to settle into your being. Together, we’ll create a nurturing space where you can feel deeply and be present with what wants to be expressed — emotions and sensations that haven’t had room to surface in your everyday life.
It’s a time to honor your feminine, intuitive essence, reconnect with your body, and step into a deeper softness. It’s a moment of clarity and reset — a preparation for what’s ahead.
Example Schedule
8:00 - 8:30 Tea, coffee, fruit
8:00 - 8:30 Morning Practice
Guided Journaling + Meditation
Jivamukti Yoga
10:30 - 11:30 Brunch
11:30 Free time to connect, explore, swim, sauna or do nothing
16:30 - 18:30 Workshops, Rituals (Conscious Connected Breathwork, Cacao & Dance)
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
Arrival Day: Arrival and Check-in as of 15:00, Opening Ritual at 17:00 + dinner afterwards.
Departure Day: Morning Practice + Closing Circle, Breakfast at 10:00, Check-out of rooms until 11:00. Latest departure at 14:00.
Haus Erlengrund is a truly magical place — where crossing the threshold feels like stepping through an invisible border into a fairy-tale realm. There's a subtle enchantment in the air, as if you've entered a quiet world of witches, forest spirits, and ancient calm. It’s one of those rare places that seem to exist slightly outside of time.
Life at Erlengrund moves slowly. There's no rush here—only space to breathe, to unplug, and to come back to yourself. A private lakeside dock invites swims and still moments while the cozy garden sauna and fireplaces in each hut offer warmth and coziness.
It’s a place that grounds you into simplicity, with its beautifully restored wooden huts and the gentle rhythm of nature all around.
1 Main building, incl. the kitchen, WC, and shared bathroom
1 Yoga Shala
4 huts with fireplaces for extra coziness
1 outside eco toilet
1 Wooden Panorama Sauna with a view into the forest
Private lake access
Pricing
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Early Bird - 750€
Regular - 850€
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Early Bird - 790€
Regular - 890€
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Early Bird - 790€
Regular - 890€
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Early Bird - 810€
Regular - 910€
*Early Bird until 31.5.2025
**Payment plans available
Four days and three nights at Haus Erlendgrund
Daily organic, plant-based brunch, snacks, and dinner
All practices and workshops
An intimate group of women and lots of time to relax and enjoy nature
What’s included
Transportation to the location
1:1 sessions (can be booked additionally)
Travel insurance
What’s not included
Frequently Asked Questions
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Haus Erlengrund is located in Brandenburg, Buckow. It’s about an hour from Berlin by car (depending where you leave from) or 45mins by train from Ostkreuz to Müncheberg.
There will be a shuttle that brings you from Müncheberg to Haus Erlengrund in groups.
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No. You are welcome to join, no matter where you are on your journey.
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We will be a group of maximum 12 women (incl. facilitators&teachers).
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Clothes that keep you warm and comfortable
Water bottle
Yoga mat
Journal and pen
Sauna towel and robe
Meet your hosts
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Hypnosis Coach / Breathwork Facilitator / Intuitive Dance / Cacao Rituals / Cyclic Mentoring
Jil is a Hypnosis Coach and Breathwork Facilitator with over four years of experience supporting women on their journey back to themselves. Her work blends breath, movement, and presence — offering spaces for intuitive dance, women’s circles, cacao rituals, and mentorship for cyclical living.
Through the processes of unbecoming and remembering, Jil creates spaces for women to shed old identities, reconnect with their truth, and reclaim their feminine, innate power.
She offers honest, nurturing environments where women can move freely, express, be witnessed, and return to a more natural way of living — empowered to live in rhythm, in trust, in their own time.
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Jivamukti Yoga teacher
Katharina began her yoga journey in 2017 while studying in Amsterdam. Drawn to meditation and the deeper roots of yoga, she found her path in Jivamukti Yoga, completing the Spiritual Warrior Training in 2020 and becoming a 300-hour certified teacher in 2022.
Her practice explores the mind-body connection and aims to move from intellectual understanding to embodied experience. For her, yoga is a path of letting go, embracing vulnerability, and reconnecting with the joy of the human experience.
