TEMENOS
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
TEMENOS 2026
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 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, and through death and into life.
And 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.
he 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.
We go
downward into matter
upward into spirit,
through death
and into life.
And the still point
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
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.
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REX RAFIQ
Facilitator
A native New Zealander with a global heart, Rex Rafiq has been leading transformational programmes for 25 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.
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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.
PRICING
Prices include 7 days of training and 6 nights of accommodation
early bird until July 31: 1900,-€
regular until Nov 1: 2050,-€
last minute from Nov 2: 2200,-€
assistants: 1100€
(graduates of the ISTA Level2 training only and only on approval)
All payments include:
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Full days of transformational process and teachings
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All the training experiences and supplies
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All nights of accommodation from start to end in a shared room (longer stay, early arrival and upgrade to a private room are possible with additional costs - please inquire)
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Three full vegan/vegetarian meals per day cooked with organic and mainly regional products
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Unlimited tea, coffee and purified or fresh spring water 24/7
NOTE: Tuition excludes any incurred costs getting to and away from the venue and additional purchases made at the retreat.
Step into
TEMENOS.
Come and be twice born.
WHO THIS IS FOR
This container is for deepening and asks that you have already done significant inner work, opened to your body’s intelligence, and begun the journey from conditioned identity toward the deeper self.
Completion of ISTA Level 1 or equivalent foundational experience is a genuine prerequisite - not a formality but a real foundation this work builds upon.
This work moves through deeper layers such as Shadow and the somatic and emotional layers that carry our oldest patterns. A genuine capacity for self-responsibility is what allows this space to be navigated wisely.
If you are currently in psychological difficulty, substance addiction, or carrying trauma that has not yet been met in supported contexts, we ask you to complete that ground-level work first. If you have questions about this - please reach out before registering.
REGISTRATION PROCESS
STEP 1
Complete the registration form:
If you would like to support the trainings as an assistant (only ISTA LEVEL 2 graduates!), please contact
STEP 2
Reserve your space by sending a 500€ deposit to
revolut bank
Beneficiary: Sylvia Manuela Tröger
IBAN: LT40 3250 0570 8438 1785
BIC/SWIFT code: REVOLT21
Bank name and address: Revolut Bank UAB
Konstitucijos ave. 21B, 08130, Vilnius, Lithuania
Correspondent bank BIC: CHASDEFX
or
Paypal account:
make sure you send as "family and friends" to avoid fees to
Write your full name and TEMENOS in the transfer form.
Please note that you are responsible for any additional transaction fees.
By sending this form and paying the deposit you agree to the terms and conditions written on Terms | ISTA Germany
STEP 3
You will receive a confirmation email with all additional details within 1-7 days of making your deposit and filling the form.
Within this email you will find the bank details of the venue to process the payment for accomodation directly to them.
STEP 4
Pay the remaining balance in cash to the event or pay it by transfer like stated in the welcome letter.
You will only be accepted to the training once the complete fee is paid.
Contact the organizer with any questions: sylvi@ista-germany.com
TERMS
By sending the filled form and paying the deposit you agree to the following terms and conditions:
A commitment to the training is a deep commitment to yourself.
It is assumed that, if you feel drawn to this training, it is no accident.
If for some reason you become unable to attend the training, a €250 admin fee will be withheld and is non-refundable in any case, up until 30 days before the event.
Once the 30 days before the training have passed, the total deposit of €500 is non-refundable. Other paid amounts will be refunded (exclusive any transaction fees)
If you cancel with less than 15 days before the start date of training, NO REFUNDS will be issued.
In case you decide to leave the training, there is no refund applicable.
In the case the training is cancelled by the organizer, any amount you paid will be refunded (excluding the bank charges).
If we cancel an event, there is no entitlement to reimbursement of further costs (loss of earnings, travel and accommodation costs, etc.). Event fees/deposits/registration fees that have already been paid will be refunded.
Below conditions will be accepted as force majeure and also result in a full refund excluding bank charges:
* Death or documented severe disease of first or second degree relatives.
* Documented severe disease of the participant.
* Country of the participant closing the borders so that the participant will not be able to travel.
* Germany closing the borders for the participant. This does not include issues related to entry visa.
Below conditions will NOT be accepted as Force Majeure:
* Country of the participant requiring quarantine when the participant comes back.
* Cancellation of flights or other means of transport.
* Anything other than specified force majeure conditions above.
Participants are responsible for their own insurance coverage (accident, liability, etc.). Staying at the event location is at the participant’s own risk.
During the event, participants are aware that the use of techniques, demonstrations and exercises and the execution on themselves or other people is at their own risk and responsibility.
By purchasing the reservation, participants declare that they understand that our events are based on tantric and other alternative practices. It is neither therapy nor a replacement for therapy. The participants hereby release the organizer, the facilitator and the program team from any responsibility for their physical, mental or emotional condition.
If you are suffering from a physical, mental or emotional illness, please contact an appropriate doctor.
We reserve the right to exclude people from events or refuse their participation at any time. Even before the event, if after reviewing the questionnaire we think that it is not the right event for the needs of the person registered. Also during the event if there are any missteps or disruptions to the group's routine.
In these cases, course fees/deposits already paid will be refunded. People excluded from the course are not entitled to reimbursement of further costs (loss of earnings, travel and accommodation costs, etc.).