Retreats
An Opportunity to Take a Break and Focus on What is Important
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 will also organise project programs which can be seen as balance-in-action retreats in which participants combine volunteer work with group – and private practice.
Organisations looking for special offers for their teams or employees please look at our special offers for you at the organisations page.
Retreats
Mantra Retreat Weekend
- Fri 13 Feb
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- Sun 15 Feb 2026
Mantra practice offers a way to gently guide that mental energy toward something positive and supportive.
Healthy Planet – Caring for Nature
- Fri 20 Feb
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- Sun 22 Feb 2026
This weekend, you and nature take centre stage. You will work on a plan for more biodiversity in your own garden, balcony or neighbourhood.
Finding Silence Weekend
- Fri 27 Feb
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- Sun 01 Mar 2026
Finding Silence in a time of continuous overstimulation is not easy. This weekend you will connect to your inner stillness. With Ineke Smits and Conny Boerlage.
Restoring Balance – Giving and Receiving
- Mon 02 Mar
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- Fri 06 Mar 2026
The Restore Your Balance program offers you practical tools to bring more calm, clarity, and fulfillment into your daily life.
Digital Detox
- Fri 06 Mar
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- Sun 08 Mar 2026
In this weekend of Digital Detox retreat we will explore how to loosen the grip of our digital habits and rediscover a more natural way of being with Elske van de Hulst and Charlotte van Leeuwen.
Healthy Planet – Caring for Ourselves
- Fri 13 Mar
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- Sun 15 Mar 2026
Dit weekend we gaan naar buiten, de natuur in, en doen Kum Nye Dans om een gevoel van positieve energie te stimuleren.
Mind at Ease
- Fri 20 Mar
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- Sun 22 Mar 2026
The retreat includes exercises that explore the senses and perception, supported by Kum Nye movements and mantra chanting, helping participants open the mind beyond the limitations of habitual conditioning.
Entering Openness – Easter Retreat
- Thu 02 Apr
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- Mon 06 Apr 2026
A five day Retreat dedicated to silent meditation, supported by silent nature walks, mantra chant and body awareness practices. With Elske van de Hulst and Sanghasevaka.
Restoring Balance – Thinking and Feeling
- Mon 13 Apr
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- Fri 17 Apr 2026
The Restore Your Balance program offers you practical tools to bring more calm, clarity, and fulfillment into your daily life.
Boeddhistische Retraite – Het Levenswiel
- Fri 17 Apr
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- Sun 19 Apr 2026
In deze retraite leggen we stap voor stap de boeddhistische visie uit aan de hand van de thangka ‘Het Levenswiel’. Met Ans Vos en Ineke Smits.
The Path of the Bodhisattva
- Fri 24 Apr
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- Sun 03 May 2026
10 day retreat based on Shantideva's famous Bodhicharyavatara. With Khenpo Kunga Dakpa.
Digital Detox
- Fri 08 May
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- Sun 10 May 2026
In this weekend of Digital Detox retreat we will explore how to loosen the grip of our digital habits and rediscover a more natural way of being with Elske van de Hulst and Charlotte van Leeuwen.
Hemelvaart retraite – Elixer van vreugde
- Thu 14 May
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- Sun 17 May 2026
Stilteretraite met Hemelvaart. Open je voor de schoonheid van de natuur in een ontluikend voorjaar. Met Monique Verschuuren en Lieneke Akkerman.
Restoring Balance – Being and Doing
- Mon 18 May
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- Fri 22 May 2026
The Restore Your Balance program offers you practical tools to bring more calm, clarity, and fulfillment into your daily life.
The Silent Heart of Being Now
- Fri 29 May
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- Sun 31 May 2026
Through readings, guided reflections, and experiential exercises, participants will connect with alternative ways of experiencing time and cultivate a more immediate, present-centered awareness.
Kum Nye Dancing Retreat
- Fri 12 Jun
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- Sun 14 Jun 2026
Tanz dein Kum Nye verbindet dynamische Bewegungen, meditative Gesten und tiefes inneres Erleben, um Körper, Geist und Energie in Einklang zu bringen.
Embodying Selfcare
- Mon 15 Jun
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- Sun 21 Jun 2026
This 7 day retreat is an opportunity to get hands-on experience in Syntrophy Insight Bodywork. A technique based on the work of Moshe Feldenkrais. With Shari Sunshine.
Sommerliche Fastenauszeit mit Kum Nye
- Fri 03 Jul
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- Sat 11 Jul 2026
Wir laden zu einer Erfahrungsreise von europäischen Heilfasten nach Buchinger in Kombination mit Kum Nye in der wunderschönen Landschaft um das Weltfriedens-Stupa Retreat-Zentrum ein.
Mit offenen Sinnen gegenwärtig sein
- Mon 27 Jul
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- Sun 02 Aug 2026
In diesem Sommerseminar widmen wir uns dem Kultivieren von Präsenz, Offenheit und einem tief empfundenen Dasein – mit allen Sinnen, im Körper, im Geist und im Herzen.
Surrendering to Calmness
- Mon 24 Aug
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- Fri 28 Aug 2026
This in person midweek retreat is based on Surrendering to Calmness. It is the final chapter of Tarthang Tulku’s second Kum Nye book The Joy of Being. We will especially look at what relaxation ultimately means: relaxing also the one doing the meditation so that only Joy of Being remains.
One with the World
- Mon 31 Aug
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- Sun 06 Sep 2026
In this weeklong retreat, we learn to stop “making sense” of our lives and simply inhabit them. No longer forced to be the one in charge of experience, we can let go of negativity, self-judgment, and endless distractions. Through experiment, reflection, and dialogue, we can discover the beauty we are already living. We can be one with the world we are.
Digital Detox
- Fri 23 Oct
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- Sun 25 Oct 2026
In this weekend of Digital Detox retreat we will explore how to loosen the grip of our digital habits and rediscover a more natural way of being with Elske van de Hulst and Charlotte van Leeuwen.