Circling with the Mountains
The vision for this retreat is to create a bridge between the WORKSHOP HALL and the NATURE TEMPLE, as well as between INTENTIONAL PRACTICE TIME and INTEGRATING IT TO LIFE. We will spend time in collective presence and relational explorations, as well as going out for hikes, forest immersions, and being humans.
Birthing Origins
After the last February Circling weekend in Copenhagen, on Sunday afternoon, we were having a closing round. After 2.5 days of various turbulences, heart openings, relational tensions, honest expressions, and simplicity of being, some people during the last moments were saying – WE WANT MORE. Now that we have found more access to collective attunement and landed in the practice paradigm, they said, it would be great to stay in the field longer and play with the tools we learned to continue the discovery. And I felt the same.
These voices left me with a strong imprint and a vision to invite you to a longer circling retreat, where we can move between BEING IN THE PRACTICE of collective presence, embodied listening, and relational explorations, and BEING IN THE WORLD, going out for hikes in nature, forest immersions, saunas, evening activities, movement explorations, and whatever else wishes to emerge. My longing is to create a bridge between the WORKSHOP HALL and the NATURE TEMPLE, as well as between INTENTIONAL PRACTICE TIME and INTEGRATING IT TO LIFE.
Who This Retreat Is For?
Circling by the Mountains is open to everyone who recognizes the urge to invite more presence, attunement, spaciousness, and simplicity into their lives and relationships. It invites those who feel an intimate connection and belonging in nature, and wish to live life closer to plants, animals, soil, and the sky. Finally, it is open to those who wish to weave the essence of Circling practice—surrender, embodiment, attunement, and connection—into daily life, even when we are not formally in a “workshop” context.
The intention for this retreat is to deepen our Circling practice while exploring how to integrate it into activities outside of the workshop room. In addition, you are invited to attune to nature, deepen your sense of being, and bring emerging states into connection with yourself, life, and others. The forest and mountains will be our resources and teachers.
Here are some of the themes that will guide us during the retreat:
– Embodied listening to others and to nature
– Presence and subtlety in movement and action
– A growing awareness of the moments we move in and out of presence and surrender
– Non-doing action
– Trust in life and its intelligence
– Radical acceptance and engaging from that place
– Intelligence beyond the ordinary mind; innate knowing
– The beauty of humanness—its shadows, potential, and limitations
– Timlessness of the natural world
This event is suited for people trying Circling & Surrendered Leadership for the first time and any experienced participant. If it is your first time joining a Circling / Transformational Connection / Surrendered Leadership event, feel very welcome to book an intro call with Mateusz.
Our Days and Nights
The program will be, in large part, emergent, tailored by our excitement, longings, and inspirations, and co-created by the moods of Nature.
Each day, you can expect to have 3-4 h sessions that are focused on Circling practice, and another session in nature, which might have a circling, mindfulness, nature intimacy-deepening, or open context. In the evenings, we will sit around the fire, go to the sauna, explore movement or touch in evening sessions, or simply be together, still tuning to the practice paradigm. Personally, I have an array of tools and ideas to offer, and the team will likely lead some more.
Prices
Price:
425 Euro – low-income ticket
550 Euro – regular income ticket
PLUS:
460 Euro for food & accommodation Tuesday eve-Sunday noon.
If you wish to join, but cannot afford these prices, describe your situation in the intake form and apply for further reduction.
More information
If you want to read more about the location and venue, planned program or logistics related to travelling there visit the retreat page: https://www.embodiedrelease.dk/circling-with-the-mountains
You can also book there 30 minutes circling intro call with Mateusz to get to know each other and spend some time in the practice paradigm if you wish.
Meet the facilitator
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Mateusz JędrzejewskiI am a Copenhagen-based somatic therapist and group facilitator. My work focuses on presence-based inquiry and group process, touch, breathwork, and integration of developmental trauma. I am passionate about dancing, linking spirituality and contemporary psychology, expanded states of consciousness, and community-building.
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Testimonials
(…) there are some big shifts that have happened in my life in the last couple of weeks, and I think that’s mostly thanks to what I released during the Circling weekend. I felt very connected to everything and everyone afterwards, and like I had accessed some higher state of consciousness. (…)
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The rawness of this wave of honesty! And the intensity of it. And the ‘being present’ with all there is. Wow. I am blown away! And deeply humbled! Such an undemanding state of ‘doing’! And yet, it is so lacking in the everyday.
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(…) Waking up after this weekend and a night of so much intense dreaming with so much feels. A lot of feelings flowing through me. I have to say this was one of the best circling events I had so far. I now understand connection a lot more than I ever did. Some layers in me have come alive in such an expansive rich way. Thank you for being there with me, for poking me, for believing in me. (…)
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I am deeply grateful for learning the circling technique at this event. Just two days later, I can already feel it transforming how I interact with others in everyday life.
Testimonials
(…) there are some big shifts that have happened in my life in the last couple of weeks, and I think that’s mostly thanks to what I released during the Circling weekend. I felt very connected to everything and everyone afterwards, and like I had accessed some higher state of consciousness. (…)
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The rawness of this wave of honesty! And the intensity of it. And the ‘being present’ with all there is. Wow. I am blown away! And deeply humbled! Such an undemanding state of ‘doing’! And yet, it is so lacking in the everyday.
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(…) Waking up after this weekend and a night of so much intense dreaming with so much feels. A lot of feelings flowing through me. I have to say this was one of the best circling events I had so far. I now understand connection a lot more than I ever did. Some layers in me have come alive in such an expansive rich way. Thank you for being there with me, for poking me, for believing in me. (…)
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I am deeply grateful for learning the circling technique at this event. Just two days later, I can already feel it transforming how I interact with others in everyday life.
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