Retreats
Relaxation-Balance-Nature-Insight-Selfcare
Stupa retreat center
The new Stupa Center Winterswijk will offer a rich variety of weekend retreats, midweek and longer retreats featuring themes as Selfcare, Balance at Work, Kum Nye Tibetan Yoga, Inner Peace, Buddhist Studies, Meditation, Mindfulness, Caring and Healthy Living. You are also welcome for a private stay which can become your own private retreat. We regularly organise project programs which can be seen as balance-in-action retreats in which participants volunteer work with group and private practice.
Organisations looking for special offers for their teams or employees please look at our speial offers for you at the organisations page.
Retreats
Weekend
On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish.
In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.
Midweek
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.
Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?

Being in balance with Kum Nye
- Fri 05 Sep
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- Sun 07 Sep 2025

Full Presence Mindfulness
- Fri 12 Sep
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- Sun 14 Sep 2025

Healthy Planet weekend
- Fri 19 Sep
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- Sun 21 Sep 2025

Appreciation – The Foundation of a Caring Life
- Fri 03 Oct
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- Sun 05 Oct 2025

Inner Peace – Inviting Ease
- Mon 20 Oct
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- Fri 24 Oct 2025

Caring from the Heart
- Fri 24 Oct
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- Sun 26 Oct 2025

Treasures of Tibet
- Fri 07 Nov
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- Sun 09 Nov 2025

Four Foundations of Mindfulness
- Fri 14 Nov
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- Sun 16 Nov 2025

Transforming Stress into Wellbeing
- Fri 21 Nov
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- Sun 23 Nov 2025

Lebendige Stille
- Fri 28 Nov
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- Sun 30 Nov 2025

Treasures for Peace
- Fri 05 Dec
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- Sun 07 Dec 2025

Restoring Balance-Minding Work
- Mon 08 Dec
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- Fri 12 Dec 2025

The Joy of Dancing
- Fri 12 Dec
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- Sun 14 Dec 2025

Frieden sein, das Herz öffnen
- Fri 26 Dec
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- Tue 30 Dec 2025