🌲 VISION QUEST LIGHT RETREAT : Embrace Change with Nature’s Wisdom 🌲
The rite of Vision Quest originates from the Native American tradition and culture. Of course, the practice was different from tribe to tribe, but the basic framework is to achieve a special sensitivity through fasting or by using medicinal plants, to go into nature and get in touch with a spirit, from which the person can seek guidance, protection. Usually Native Americans used vision quests before a transition in their lifes, for example to become an adult, to become a parent or to take a new position in the tribe have all been occasions for the ritual.
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Whether we believe in forest spirits or not, the connection we can build with nature is undeniably powerful and magical. If we can open our hearts, observe and listen, nature will guide us truly, with the purest intention.
If you are facing a transition in your life, if you need inspiration and connection to go through this change, we invite you to join us in our Vision Quest Light camp.
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Why “Light”? We would like to make this experience more gentle. Instead of spending several days and nights in nature with heavy fasting, we would like to focus more on the energy of the group, on the support and guidance we can give to each other, and only spending one day and one night in nature, with mild fasting. Somehow we feel that this period in the world is inviting us to hold each other’s hands and not to be left alone. However, you will be asked to spend your time in nature in silence and mental solitude, to support your process of connecting to your environment.
Other than the time you will spend in nature, we will communicate mostly in a circle, with respect, love, listening and appreciation. We will do an excursion to Monte Lema, a mountain that separates Italy and Switzerland and offers a spectacular view on the world around us. During the camp we will enjoy the spirit of the bonfire and also let music open some doors in and around us.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT 🌌🌸
-To spend 5 days in a big inner and outer space, surrounded by the tranquility of pure nature, with an extensive schedule.
-To sleep either in a dormitory room with others or to have your own room.
-To spend 1 day and 1 night in nature, mostly by yourself, having only little healthy snacks to eat instead of proper meals.
-To go on a hike that takes up to 2 hours going up and similarly going down, we will go up around 600 meters to reach the peak, it is nothing extreme.
-To eat wonderful vegetarian/vegan food for breakfast, lunch and dinner, cooked with love and with some ingredients straight from our garden.
-To be listened to, to be respected, accepted and loved, and inspired to provide the same values for yourself.
WHO IS HOSTING THE RETREAT? 🫂🧘♀️
The Pianello Retreats are hosted by our community. This specific retreat will mainly be guided by Rita and Adam in English and supported by other members. Se necessario ci sarà la traduzione in italiano.
✨Adam is fresh inhabitant of the ecovillage who moved here this year. Adam always wanted to change the world for the better. As a teenager he considered that the right tool for this was politics, but during his studies he learned that true change can only start from the inside. He has been working on this change ever since, and slowly the change can also extend around him. His mission and passion is to inspire people to realize what truly matters in life, to understand our responsibility in our life and in the world, and to experience the power of love, respect and care that we can give to each other. Adam is deeply inspired by the Circle Way, a tool for communication and being together that became fundamental for his projects.
✨Rita is a young curious soul that has been on a journey of self-discovery and healing over the past years. She always loved people and recognizes the value of connections to ones’ life prosperity. Rita’s journey began with management and engineering, however, her true calling soon led her away from the corporate world and onto a path of healing and transformation. Fueled by her love for Ayurveda and Yoga, she chose to explore practices that nurture the body, mind, and spirit as a whole unit of life. Her journey has taken her to various places of the world, but she has found a spiritual home in the Alpe Pianello community, where she has grown in her communication skills and spiritual awareness that now wants to give you in this form of retreat.
DATES AND INFO ℹ️🗣️
🌸 Start: Wednesday, 25. Sept. 15:00
🏁 End: Sunday, 29. Sept. 15:00
In case you would like to stay more nights before or after the retreat, you are welcome. Let us know so we can arrange it.
The number of maximum participants is 10 people.
💌 To contact us with any questions and to send your application, please write a mail to:
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+4552671810
After application, we will send you some details about the schedule, what you could bring with yourself and also some questions that you can reflect on before your arrival.
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