TEMENOS 2026
A sacred ground.
A field outside of ordinary time and space.
A place where we can meet divinity.
Within.
Without.
And in the space between.
THIS SOUL IMMERSION
is an initatory seven-day journey created for you to land yourself more deeply in the soul realm, and serves your rememberance of our true humanity.
The parts of you that carry the weight of who you are NOT can be met with love, and released, with reverence for how hard they have worked to keep you safe.
The places where mind, heart, and eros have been held in old patterns, contractions and stories that served their time can complete.
What has kept your soul dimmed, defended, and performing is given permission to gracefully let go.
From there we enter the fertile darkness and silence of genuine dissolution, where we attend to the remembering.
INITIATION
as a crossing into soul realm involves dying to what is known followed by a time in the unknown to allow our system to reorganize.
There, emptiness brings its medicine to the modern psyche, opposites are married, power is reconnected to source, and the emerging identity stabilises in readiness for the return.
During the week we will move through a classic arc of initiation: departure from the known self, reconnection with the sacred and return with the gift of your souls essence.
This will happen through lenses of our times such as:
the collapse of inherited stories, collective freeze, ecological grief and despair, the conception and ecstasy of the emerging renewal, and the urgent need for a myth adequate to what we are now living through.
Each of us will be taking our own journey at our own pace, while being held by the wisdom of initiatory lineages carried across cultures and time.
THE HEART IN THE CENTER
It is the place where all the directions of this journey meet.
We go downward into matter, upward into spirit, through death and into life.
The still point at the centre of it all is the Heart.
We meet the heart as the organ of the soul‘s deepest knowing.
The place where the imaginal world becomes visible.
Where the more beautiful life you have always sensed has room to land.
The heart that is capable of wonder, the ground from which the twice-born life becomes possible.
The treasure you can take back from tasting this initatory ground is the recovery of vertical alignment and your direct connection to source, with a rememberance of the particular gift that your soul is here to bring to the world.
Your very unique light grows stronger through being seen in its radiance and dedication.
Your soul, unbounded and already whole begins to move through you more fully.
At the centre of it all
is the heart.
HOW WE WILL JOURNEY
The vehicles and modalities with which we work will include:
Rituals and ceremonies
Mythic embodiment
Somatic reclamation
Sacred temple arts
Meditation
The polarity of sound and silence
and our communion with life itself.
We will dream together, hold council, enact life and awaken images, work with symbology, follow narratives and embody figures that allow us to directly experience the colors, shapes and sounds of our soul life.
Expect the field to be structured but not scripted, the facilitators to hold the arc, but the emergent myth will unfold through all of us who enter TEMENOS, our shared ground of revelation.
Across the seven days you will encounter:
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Somatic practices that discharge old holding patterns and open the body to deeper aliveness.
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Ritual and ceremonial structures that create genuine sacred space.
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Entering archetypal stories through the body as direct contact with the deeper layers of the psyche.
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Structured incubation in which the imaginal intelligence is invited to speak through image, symbol, and felt sense.
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Sacred eros work, archetypal temples and inner marriage of the divided self.
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Group field work in which the collective becomes a living mirror and a source of transmission.
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A tended process of integration, anchoring what has arrived, preparing to carry the gifts of the descent back into the life waiting for you.
This immersion is not only
about your individual evolution.
It is a cell in the larger healing
the world is asking for right now.
BEYOND YOURSELF... YOU FIND LIFE ITSELF
You come into TEMENOS carrying the questions your life gives you.
You return with a full heart carrying medicine for all.
In every tradition that has carried this knowledge - from the ancient healing sanctuaries to the indigenous initiatory lineages to the living mystery schools of our time - the one who descends and returns does so on behalf of something larger than themselves.
This immersion is not only about your individual evolution.
It is a cell in the larger healing the world is asking for right now.
The presence and love that awakens in the initiated Self can inspire relationships, creative work, as well as communities and causes. They all need people who are sourced from their depth.
You have the opportunity to remember yourself as this spark.
Seven days in the Bavarian heartland.
Soulful practices.
Mythic ground.
Sacred community.
YOUR FACILITATORS
The initatory ground for this work is held by Rex Rafiq and Ashisha Arpana who will bring their experience from leading transformational processes including ISTA, and the Temple Initiation Work in Samothraki and Highden.
They will be supported by a team.
ASHISHA ARPANA
Facilitator
Ashisha is a native german speaker, born in Austria and has traveled the globe to find the universal language, turned towards the imagination of the heart, the language of the inner space.
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To support souls to awaken to their eternal core fire has become her primary calling in life.
REX RAFIQ
Facilitator
A native New Zealander with a global heart, Rex Rafiq has been leading transformational programmes for 35 years.
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He has a solid reputation for leading potent rites of passage and known for his wise and playful style and ability to hold people with love while they shed their skin.
Our souls remember
a way of initiation
that speaks
through the earth.
THE LAND - BAVARIA
The forests of Germany have always been mythic territory:
the place beyond the village boundary where the ordinary self dissolves and something wilder, truer, older, takes over.
Know that we are not going to Bavaria for the scenery.
We are here because the land is co-creator in this work.
Because our souls remember a way of initiation that speaks through the land.
YOUR VENUE
The beautiful venue lies literally in the heart of Europe, situated in the bavarian country side,
between soft hills, surrounded by fields and forest.
This gem in the bavarian forest national park is located in beautiful southern Germany, between Nuremberg and Prague and aprox. 200km from Munich in a small village called Schönsee.
Reachable by public transport and shuttle/taxi.
The venue has been a place of community and exploration of love since 2014 and has become one of the heart centers for retreats in the realms of conscious connection, contact impro, tantra and conscious sexuality in southern Germany.
We are hosted by the Nature Community in a traditional Bavarian style hotel/ guesthouse.
The hotel offers double and triple rooms with ensuite bathrooms.
On special request and last minute availability, there are also single rooms for an upgrade fee available.