Preparing for wine tasting night...

Counting glasses for the evening... one broken so far lets see what we end on after the event...

Glasses will be filled with organic wines 

BMSE- exploring with the skin as your eyes

The night was devoted for examining bodies and shapes in the space without any visual stimulation, as I entered they already seemed to be filling the space with high energy. Afterwards I was thinking, when do you ever touch a body or parts of bodies without no other intention than the curiosity of how it actually feels?
 An almost non existing sweep by a finger or the presence of someones leg next to you intensified and singled out in a otherwise massive black. It felt like I was floating out in a no-space dark surrounding where my own body become formed only by the touch of others. My attention was captured by the rasping, scraping and other undefinable sounds all around, curiously wondering what was actually happening around me I decided to get involved.

Planning for the overnight workshop tomorrow...

Saija Luukkonens workshop is going to happening again tomorrow the 28.5 starting at 21:00 and this time with an overnight stay. 

(booking by mail required  re-treat@mail.com) 

Since last weeks participants all agreed that it would be much more exciting to do the exercises during a longer period of time, we now are giving a overnight workshop, where you can also sleep. 

Here is a comment from one of the participants from last friday... 

More visitor comments

Some more of the comments from the guestbook...

The texts has been freely interpreted and translated by me.

 "The eyes as well as the hands experience the outside,

now I was able through my inner eyes to sense my own inner world"

-Mau

 "KLAUSTROFOBINEN"

 "Fuck it was dark"

 "I was waiting what was going to happen; what if there would suddenly be a loud sound or something. After a while I realized, what if I would just stop instead of moving:

Listen"

 "It felt like I wanted to stay in the piece and try to find a timeless space beyond of my thoughts, to experience awareness and presence.  

Second time I visited the piece I spent the night there. This time it was not a journey inside instead it was a meeting with another person without any preconceived ideas. It left me a peaceful and joyful feeling. Thank you!"

"Pelkään pimeässä, kun mielikuvitukseni on liian hyvä ja minä näen ja koen kaikki mieleni demonit tuntemattomassa pimeydessä"

"Staggering,

I just touched the can and I saw the milk"

Live from Fafa - Sakari Heikka

Right now Sakari Heikka is performing his sound healing journey, this is a sneak peak from how it sound at this moment..

This event happened last sunday and will go on during this sunday to. It changes the atmosphere quite a lot here during this... yea!.. journey is a good word for the experience :)   

The body mind space exploration workshop.

The body mind space exploration with Saija Luukkonen was a touching experience.

We decided to do it again, but this time overnight.

Welcome to join on the 28.5 starting at 21:00

(Limited participation sign up for more info before 27.5 by email: re-treat[at]mail.com )

17.5 Restaurant Day -Born in space

At the restaurant day the Retreat turned into a taste and texture experience. 

It was an experimented with molecular gastronomy. 

Visitors could try a familiar taste but with a new structure. 

It seemed surprisingly hard to tell which ingredients the taste actually consisted of. 

We had guesses like: mango, durian carrot and ginger... some of them were not far from the truth....