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Gay Retreat Oct 5-10, Intimacy Weekend Oct 11-13, 2024 Charneux, Belgium For GBTQ Men Singles/Partners Welcome! |
Live, On Location in 2024
12TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL GAY RETREAT AND INTIMACY WEEKEND IN BEAUTIFUL CHARNEUX, BELGIUM! Co-created by SPIRITJOURNEYS & GAYSPIRITFRIENDS Relax, Play and Go Deep with Spirited GBTQ Men From Around the World ... |
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For over twelve years, GaySpiritFriends (Netherlands) and Spirit Journeys (United States) have created playful, soulful, and heart-opening communities for GBTQ-men in our International Gay Retreats in the beautiful hills of Charneux, Belgium! Due to popular demand, we're offering a special weekend with workshops after the main retreat, focusing specifically on heart-opening exercises, growing our capacity for intimacy, and building skills for healthy, resilient relationships. Whether you're returning to reconnect with old friends and want to extend your retreat experience, or you want a brief introduction to our community through the weekend, you're invited -- you can participate in the week, the weekend, or both!
This retreat offers us the opportunity to get away from the daily hustle of our lives and to break free from everything we think we know. We can experience ourselves, others and the world in a new powerful way. We can reclaim the inner child, see undiscovered potentials, and set new intentions in a powerful way. With loving support, we can nurture these intentions into reality! Our retreat will create a safe space to relax, connect, and make new discoveries as we enjoy the comfort, beauty and charm of a rambling old Belgian Farmhouse built in 1737 and updated with the latest modern conveniences. Our retreat will include meditation, breathwork, body work, mindfulness, trance dance, yoga, mantra, sweat lodge, dance, psychodrama, shamanic ceremonies and hiking through the magical forests of the Ardennes mountains. There will be plenty of free time to socialize and explore all corners of Charneux and its beautiful surroundings. There is also a 6-person sauna where you can relax completely! |
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Participants are encouraged to extend their stay in Europe before or after the retreat to explore destinations such as bustling Brussels (120 km), Amsterdam (230 km), Bruges (220 km), Paris (390 km) or Cologne (109 km). We will be happy to make suggestions for getting around, and making the most of your journey! 
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Hunter Flournoy is the director and visionkeeper for Spirit Journeys. A heart-centered life coach, therapist, and spiritual healer, Hunter helps people of all genders and sexual orientations break free into more powerful, joyful lives through self-love, conscious breathing, and joyfully embodied spiritual practice. He is a certified Somatic Breath Therapist and a pioneer in the use of breathwork in trauma and addiction treatment, and his work integrates two decades as a licensed psychotherapist with twenty-five years of experience in the world's shamanic and mystical traditions, including the Buddhist, Sufi, Eastern Christian, Toltec, and Currandero traditions. Hunter offers individual sessions by phone and in person, retreats, ceremonies, and journeys around the world. To learn more about Hunter and his work, go to www.hunterflournoy.com.
Danny Arnoldussen is an energetic, passionate and playful man. Everything he does, he does with passion! He is skilled at creating a space for depth during workshop experiences, but also likes to get things lightly shaking. Bringing humor into the group is essential to him! "Do or do not, there is no try" is his motto. He is founder of GaySpiritFriends and Centrum voor Beweging & Ontspanning. Danny is an enthusiastic teacher of Ashtanga Yoga, Power Yoga, Mindfulness, Meditation, Pranayama, Zumba Fitness/Gold and consults on practical character analysis (psycho-physiognomy). Danny studied culture & identity psychology and brings this experience into his current entrepreneurship. Next to that, Danny has been practicing all sorts of dance styles since he could stand on his feet. This is what really makes him tick. So he’ll put some music and swinging into the retreat. To learn more about Danny’s work, go to www.bodymindrelax.nl