Invisible Worlds

SWEATLODGE CEREMONIES

Buckow in Brandenburg, 90 mins outside of Berlin

Join us at the very place where the Invisible Worlds Summer Retreat takes place in July: a forest sanctuary beside a turquoise lake, just outside Berlin, yet worlds away. In deep relationship with this land, we built a sweatlodge to hold and support our paths and those of our extended circles.

The Sweatlodge itself is an ancient rite of passage, a ritualistic enactment of unbecoming, so that something new in us may be born again. Inside its darkness and heat, we are asked to surrender what we carry, to return to the womb of the Earth, so that we may emerge changed. A death and rebirth held in one ritual, a communion with the ancestors and the spirits of the natural world.

If you feel called to enter this threshold with us, we would be honored to welcome you.

// The lodges are open to all genders //

NEXT DATES

Saturday, October 31st

Through the Veil: Samhain Sweatlodge - when the veil between worlds grows thin

fully booked

Sunday, December 20th

Winter Solstice Sweatlodge — celebrating the longest night of the year and the return of the light.

Sunday, January 24th

Rooting in Trust: coming into deeper trust in yourself and the cycles of life.

Program

12.30: Arrival

1pm: Start of the Day Retreat

  • Lecture on the Ancestral Design and Medicine of the Sweatlodge

  • Song Circle to learn songs for the ceremony

  • Ceremony start

6.30pm: Soup, Integration and Closing Circle

8.0pm: Departure

Location: Buckow, Märkische Schweiz, Brandenburg, Germany, approximately 90 minutes from Berlin. The exact address will be shared with you upon registration.

Travel: The site is easy to reach by public transport or by car. Information on carpooling with other participants will follow after registration.

Registration: To sign up and receive more information, please use the contact form.

Contribution: Sliding scale from 90-120€ incl. food after the lodge. This contribution is for the full Day Retreat and goes towards fire wood, material costs, location, food, team, and logistics.

Stay over Night: You can book a room at Haus Erlengrund and make this a proper retreat experience for yourself. For this, please contact retreat@hauserlengrund.de directly.

Ethics: We follow the values of deep ecology, decolonial ethics and inclusivity: all genders, bodies, backgrounds and nationalities belong here. This is a space free of dogma and religious obligation, where no particular belief is required. It is a place to return to the animate, living world.

We are here to rediscover Earth-based ways, the ancestral threads of these lands, to commune with the Invisible Worlds and pray to the elements, beyond dogma, religion or belief. Here to remember, and to renew. Here to honor all life and all living forms.

There is something uniquely timeless and grounding about these primordial technologies of ritual that have survived until this day, ways of communicating with the self and the more-than-human world.

The sweatlodge is one of them. It carries many names and forms in different cultures, yet it is universal to the human spirit to sit in communion with the elements, listen in the dark, sweat, cleanse and renew, sing and speak words of truth, words of healing and words of invocation.

This is what we do here.

Read more about Alisa’s approach on her Substack.

Hosts

Alisa and Anne are your main hosts for the Sweatlodge Day, however we have a team of five people including the fire keeper and several helpers and musicians supporthing the lodge.

Invisible Worlds

THE INTUITIVE BODY

Summer Retreat for the Feminine


July 14th- 18th 2027

This retreat is taking place at the same location and if the weather allows, we will have a sweatlodge as well.