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This time in nature offers a loose structure with an invitation to recalibrate, reconnect and recharge through movement alone and in community. Each retreat has its own focus.
🌿 A collective space for grief, for joy, and for imagination
Rooted in nature, Somatics, and Ritual 🌿
At a time when crises touch so many threads of our lives, we believe we need spaces to listen — to each other, to the land, and to the more-than-human world. We need to remember that we are an ecosystem.
This gathering welcomes 15–20 community weavers, artists, facilitators, and changemakers to explore:
🔸 How can we create embodied spaces for collective grief and communal joy?
🔸 What does it mean to listen to a river in mourning, to parched soil, to migrating birds?
🔸 How do we imagine — not alone, but together?
This is not a retreat.
It is a field of practice — of presence, listening, and collective care. Through somatic movement, creative expression, grief rituals, and joyful celebration, we’ll tend the well of our shared humanity.
🌿 What’s included:
4 days and 3 nights of guided ritual, nature-based practices, movement & reflection
Hosting by Christa Cocciole, Julia Hoffmann, Maegan Gorbett/ Alma ∞ Omega, and Philipp Grosche
Shared lodging (mostly double rooms) & vegan/vegetarian meals
A small packing list & travel info will be sent in advance
The ritual will be held in English
🌿 Contribution & Reciprocity:
We are working with a sliding scale from 150–930€, depending on your financial situation. If this range doesn’t fit your current situation, please reach out — we want this space to be accessible.
More info: https://www.arlina.eu/kurse/preise
You are invited to bring your whole self — and your gifts. That might mean co-leading a morning practice (e.g. yoga, meditation) or helping in the kitchen.
🌿 Location:
Gut Stolzenhagen (near Lunow), Unteres Odertal Nature Reserve
(about 1-1,5 hours from Berlin)
🌿 Click here to submit your application.
👉 Apply by October 5, 2025
(Or use the “Ticket buchen” button on the website: www.arlina.eu)
If you have questions, feel free to reach out directly to:
cj@socius.de (Christa & Julia)
🌿 This gathering is part of a wider alliance between
ARLINA Institute for Applied Future, WABE Odertal e.V., and SOCIUS —
all working toward regenerative culture, civil society, and reimagined education.
Let’s remember what it means to belong — to each other, to the Earth, to the web of life. Let’s tend the well.
With warmth and anticipation,
The ARLINA Ritual Team
Christa, Julia, Maegan & Philipp
We will be in Stolzenhagen, which is a little village in the Lower Oder valley national park very close to the border to Poland. For almost 3 decades I have been part of a community that’s been turning the “Gut” (a former East German agricultural cooperative) into a creative hub for movement and embodiment work; international dance festivals have been hosted there as well as transformative encounters. Stolzenhagen is a place that holds so much spirit. It is situated in beautiful nature (it is also a “hub” for wild geese, wolves(!), cranes and many other animals), it holds creativity and magic – a place that can give birth to new and unconventional things.
Together with a team, my continuous dreaming is to create and host a space in nature that allows us to join our power and practices, weave together different disciples and approaches to explore what’s needed in the world, to be in dialogue about what’s happening and what isn’t; and to inquire into where our practices make a difference in the world. And, to explore what is needed to shift something together on a larger scale. With a sense of “let’s see what happens” we’re imagining an open structure designed for lots of cross-pollination.
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