What does it mean to ‘come home to your Self’?
Simply, it means to know that as a man or a woman, your true nature is a person who is an integral and necessary part of a larger, interdependent, collective whole. When you know this – both conceptually and experientially -- you feel One with all that is. You feel at home in your own skin, and comfortable wherever you live, work, or travel. You also feel at home in any relationship, no matter how challenging or difficult the interpersonal dynamics may be. The reason for this is because you fully realize who you are, and who you are, is just the way you should be. Living in this stage of consciousness gives you a sense of purpose, meaning and destiny and results in permanent changes in your personality.

No matter what the spiritual tradition, this connection that you experience between yourself and everything else is not so much a loss of your individuality, as it is an interplay of Self with the Absolute… with the God force. It is an exchange process, rather than a loss of distinction. It is an emotion, attitude, or sense of semi-permeability that does not obliterate your personality, but transcends it. Therefore, it allows you to live with more, not fewer options. Additionally, coming home to your self, means that you have faced your shadow many times, you have lost big parts of your ego, relationships, and attachments repeatedly. Such a stage of spiritual consciousness is called "Union" or "Ein Sof" in the Judeo-Christian mystical tradition; in Buddhism, it is considered exalted and is termed "luminosity-emptiness;" in transpersonal psychology, it is referred to as "Oneness."

This week-long retreat in the beautiful Black Forest is offered for those spiritual seekers who feel resonance to this part of their nature, and who may have even experienced some aspects of it at certain times in their lives. It is also offered for those who have felt "the dark night of the soul" at one time or another and understand that a true spiritual homecoming is not necessarily easy, or for everyone.

If you would like the opportunity to integrate and live out of this part of your nature in your every day life, you are invited to this retreat. It is facilitated by Dr. Ingo Jahrsetz and Dr. Judith Miller and has its roots in the tradition of the German-Jewish history. As a German and an American Jew, they have been engaging in consciousness work as a team for many years – in spite of their differences. They demonstrate energetically how the splits and dualities that we see in our everyday world between: males/females; good/evil; young/old; present/past/future; feeling/thinking; co-dependency/setting of personal boundaries; secular/religious; sick/well; life/death; – and many other such polarizations -- can be transcended psycho-spiritually and through the consciousness work that is offered at this retreat. The retreat incorporates extended Holotropic breathwork two times, daily meditation, guided group sharing, the presentation of relevant spiritual teachings, and if helpful, systemic family constellation work in the tradition of Bert Hellinger.