Between Heaven and Earth
Light and Darkness
Your soul flows
In all the colors of the rainbow
You, human being, live through the colors. Your psyche breathes in the colors.
Colors connect you with the world outside – and the world within yourself. Just think of the splendor of colors in every season or the ‘exchange of colors’ during an encounter with another person.
In the colors, you can experience your rhythm, richness, and the beauty of life.
Welcome to this unique, healing journey into the language of your heart, your colorful soul.
During this 7-day color retreat, you will immerse yourself in a complete experience. Discover your unique color balance thanks to a powerful triad from anthroposophical healing arts: artistic therapy through wet-on-wet painting, healing movement through eurythmy, and rhythmic massage.
Be further nurtured with delicious organic vegetarian meals, sauna, swimming, … to bring body, soul, and spirit into balance and to unfold your full potential.
Color, your medicine.
For centuries, cultures around the world have known the healing power of color. From India to Egypt, Greece, … everywhere color was recognized as a universal healer and used therapeutically.
The great scientist and poet Goethe discovered this groundbreaking insight: Colors weave between light and darkness, between the invisible spiritual and the visible material world. Between day and night, between heaven and earth, all the colors of the rainbow arise. Your soul constantly moves between these polarities. Through colors, you can walk your path of development.
Discover your healthy rhythm in the seven colors of the rainbow.
Each color has its own effect and carries specific emotional moods and experiences.
Illness arises when your soul no longer resonates fluidly through the whole spectrum of colors.
In summer, the warm day-colors invite you to go outside, to fly out, to interact with the world. But too many warm colors can lead to insomnia, restlessness, and exhaustion.
The blue tones of winter and night then invite you to turn inward again and come close to yourself. In this way, the changes of color through day-night and the seasons carry you in a healthy rhythm.
Each human being grows through their unique color qualities and blind spots.
What is your color quality? Which color does your soul long for?
In red I stand in my strength
In orange I enjoy my creativity
In yellow my light shines
In green I live in harmony
In blue I am at peace
Violet connects me in unity
Each color tells something about the essence and the force working behind matter. It is logical that nature is green. In nature, green tones have a healing and vitalizing influence on its visitors. Imagine if the color of nature were red. Do you feel the difference?
“Colour is the soul of nature and the universe, and through colours we receive messages from the soul.”
Rudolf SteinerDuring this retreat, under professional guidance, you will learn to discover, nurture, and balance your authentic colors. The power of the natural environment, rich in color and healing, supports you in finding calm and reconnecting.
Give yourself a week full of wellbeing, renewal, and self-connection. Color your life, heal yourself!
Do you long for the richness of life in all its colors?
A gift to yourself
- Discover your authentic color spectrum and learn to consciously handle the right color power in every life situation. You learn to fluidly shift between different moods and qualities – this brings flow, joy, autonomy, and freedom into your daily life.
- Create breathing space for your colorful soul and come into contact with your heart center, where your higher potential dwells. In this way, you playfully weave a new connection with yourself, with others, and with the world.
- Live your authentic self, your unique ‘blueprint’. Discover new ways to show and express yourself in your true colors. Your creativity calls you – discover how you can give it form.
- Balance your full energy body through the powerful triad: wet-on-wet painting, healing eurythmy, and rhythmic massage therapy. When all colors are in balance, you experience health and unconditional love.
- Renew yourself completely in the midst of beautiful nature, with organic vegetarian food, sauna, and swimming for the optimal balance of body, soul, and spirit.
- Share this transformative journey with like-minded people and build a unique foundation to bring renewed form into your daily life.
Your healthy soul connects action and rest, day and night, summer and winter, in all the colors of the rainbow.
Program
Over 7 days, we will immerse ourselves each day in one color. First, we will experience the powerful primary colors yellow, red, and blue in their pure form. Then new ‘color encounters’ will arise in orange, green, and violet.The colors work together and are inseparably connected and ordered in the image of the rainbow: in the next retreat of 2027, we will unite all the colors into a whole. Thus we arrive at a ‘color resonance’, in the power of the rainbow.
No prior knowledge required! You don’t need to be able to paint or dance, no ‘artistic talent’ is necessary. It is about your unique process.
Wet-in-Wet Painting
In wet-on-wet painting, you paint with watercolors on wet paper in transparent layers; the colors can breathe and flow as the image of your colorful soul. Placing transparent spheres of color literally creates space to be yourself, breathing space to function in your natural rhythm. Layer by layer you sink deeper into your feelings and come into contact with your heart center – where your higher potential resides.
You get to know each rainbow color and add unexpected colors within yourself while balancing out overly strong tones.
Thus, painting with colors brings you to your source power and into balance – you become ever more whole, with all the colors of the rainbow integrated healthily within you.
Guided by Lore Verhaeghe
Eurythmy
Eurythmy means ‘a healthy flow’. It is an art form that, through movement, fosters and balances the physical, emotional, and mental intelligence of your body.
The seven rainbow colors are connected with the chakras, the energy centers of our body. With eurythmic movements, these colors are brought back into harmony, harmonizing the aura and strengthening vitality.
This ‘meditation in movement’ combines elements of language, music, images, and natural forces. Thus, eurythmy transforms colors and sounds into healing, rhythmic body movements that activate and harmonize feeling, thinking, and willing.
Guided by Griet Missinne, Piano and violin by Jorien van Tuinen
Rhythmic Massage
Colors are the vibrations and rhythms that shape life, essential for your body, emotional life, and energy. Colors are part of the subtle interplay of organs, planetary influences, chakras, and life processes.
During a rhythmic massage treatment, the forces of color in and around your body are brought back into balance. With gentle, warm, rhythmic movements and healing oils such as rose, gold, and lavender, stuck energy in muscles and organs is released and set into motion again.
What is out of balance is integrated into the wholeness of your authentic self.
The treatment ends with a resting phase, in which your body can integrate and anchor the regained balance.
Treatment by Sam Deraeve
The combination of these therapies offers not only physical relaxation but also deeper psychosomatic balance. The collaboration between artistic therapy, rhythmic massage therapy, and eurythmy is applied worldwide in health centers and hospitals because of its powerful effect on the self-healing forces of the individual.
When you can again be who you are meant to be, you can expect miracles.
Organic Vegetarian Cuisine
Discover the beauty of nature on your plate – in color and form, tastes and scents that caress your tongue and your heart. With love prepared, you enjoy the richness of nature in a delicious breakfast, lunch, and dinner, drinks, infusions, afternoon teas, and desserts, …
You quench your thirst with the local spring water from Kiental, enriched at the Kientalerhof with the AQwaVit Water Vitaliser.
The meals are 70% organic, 100% vegetarian.
Chef and Kientalerhof team
And even more nurturing…
During the week you have the opportunity to warm yourself in the sauna, to swim in the crystal-clear water of the swimming pond. You can recharge in the sun and enjoy the silence and peace around you. You are invited to regenerate in an untouched area, where the splendor of colors can speak to you in all its glory…
Daily Schedule
You can choose between Formula 1 and Formula 2 (please indicate upon registration):Gruppe 1Group 1
8 – 9 am: Breakfast
9:15 – 12:15 pm: Wet-on-Wet Painting
12:30 – 1:15 pm: Lunch
1:15 – 4:15 pm: Afternoon break
4:15 – 6:15 pm: Eurythmy
6:30 – 7:15 pm: Dinner
7:15 pm: Evening rest
Group 2
8 – 9 am: Breakfast
9:15 – 11:15 am: Eurythmy
12:30 – 1:15 pm: Lunch
1:15 – 4:15 pm: Afternoon break
3:15 – 6:15 pm: Wet-on-Wet Painting
6:30 – 7:15 pm: Dinner
7:15 pm: Evening rest
To ensure the quality of the retreat, the number of places per group is limited. Register quickly if you want to secure your spot!
The program is intentionally structured with breathing space, so you can truly recharge and regenerate. During breaks you can enjoy the surroundings, swim, go boating, use the sauna, …
During the week you will receive one rhythmic massage.
Prerequisites
No prior knowledge required. You don’t need to be able to paint, sculpt, or dance – no artistic talent is necessary.What to bring
Eurythmy: Please wear comfortable clothing in which you can move freely. Shoes such as gym shoes that have good ground contact (some will be available).Indoors: Slippers are recommended.
Art workshops: Wear an apron or clothes that can get dirty.
Nature outings: Dress appropriately for outdoor activities, e.g. hiking shoes, rainwear, and sun protection.
Course Instructor
Sam DERAEVE
Sam works as a holistic therapist. He has studied various holistic medical approaches for many years through training at home and abroad. Sam shares his knowledge and experience through lectures, workshops and courses. Vitality and consciousness are key concepts in his work. He supports man and environment through biographical work, treatment, liver purification, Quantum healing, healthy water and a vital environment as keys to recovery and development. His gentle, nurturing and healing Rhythmic Massage Therapy brings you completely home to yourself, to your body.
Lore VERHAEGHE
is an anthroposophic visual arts therapist based in Belgium, working across borders. She specializes in anthroposophic art therapies and holds a Master’s degree in Visual Arts. She has her own practice 'Creation Space', where she gives all year round therapeutic arts group sessions, individual consults and workshops on request and makes her own art works. Working in Clinic Zeno Lore accompanies oncological patients with art therapy. Through art Lore will guide you to discover your creative power, connect with your dreams and manifest a healthy and free life.
Griet MISSINNE
is an experienced eurythmy teacher. She took numerous courses and specializations abroad: artistic eurythmy, eurythmy pedagogy and eurithmy therapy, vital eurythmy and eurythmy in social work settings. For 16 years she taught eurythmy in Flemish Steiner schools. Since 2012 she has been active in adult education. Thanks to her rich background, Griet brings you into flowing movement in a profound and playful way.
Course costs
CHF 990 (excl. accommodation, meals and tourist tax)
CHF 900 (excl. accommodation, meals and tourist tax). The early bird price is only applicable for a down payment of 20% 14 days after registration and payment of the remaining costs up to 60 days before the seminar begins. Please note sections 8, 20 and 21 of the terms and conditions.
| Prices per person for full board and lodging for 7 nights | CHF |
|---|---|
| ChieneHuus: | |
| Single occupancy of 2-bed-room clay or wood100 with shower/toilet | 1'631.00 |
| 2-bed-room clay or wood100 with shower/toilet | 1'211.00 |
| Kientalerhof: | |
| Single occupancy of 2-bed-room with shower/toilet | 1'281.00 |
| 1-bed-room with shower/toilet | 1'211.00 |
| Single occupancy of 2-bed-room, shower/toilet on floor | 1'141.00 |
| 2-bed-room with shower/toilet | 966.00 |
| 2-bed-room, shower/toilet on floor | 896.00 |
| 3-bed-room with shower/toilet | 896.00 |
| 3-bed-room, shower/toilet on floor | 756.00 |
| 4-bed-room, shower/toilet on floor | 686.00 |
Personal advice
Renata Pfeiler
Main Number: +41 33 676 26 76 | E-Mail: renata.pfeiler@kientalerhof.ch