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KONTEMPLATION

Bringing presence, compassion and body awareness alive in everyday life

KONTEMPLATION is a community-based laboratory and communication platform for the teachings and practice of mindfulness, compassion and presence yoga. We offer contemplative training programs in clear, non-dogmatic and accessible ways.

RETREATS AND EVENTS

In this section you will find an overview of the international events we are involved in. For retreats and workshops in Denmark, please visit our danish website.

GUIDED MEDITATIONS

In our practice library you will find guided meditations and yoga sequences led by our teachers. The main part of these files and videos are free to stream/download as support and inspiration for your home practice.

PRACTICE WITH US

BLOG

Kontemplation's BLOG is created by our regular team and by our guest writers. Our main BLOG is in Danish, but in this section we offer a selection of our blog posts translated into English.

GO TO BLOG

UPCOMING RETREATS AND EVENTS

Our programs and community activities include weeklong silent retreats, introductory meditation and yoga retreats, eight week programs in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), meditation sessions and yoga classes, supervision in groups or individual, in person and online.

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MIND AND LIFE EUROPE RETREAT

Integrating personal, professional and spiritual aspects of our path

The next retreat will take place in spring 2021

Teachers: Hanneli Ågotsdatter and Martijn van Beek

This is a Mind & Life Europe retreat for younger scholars and professionals (by application only, limited number of participants).

CERTIFICATION PROGRAM

for Compassionate Systems Master Practitioners | Cohort 2

Location: MIT, Boston and The Garrison Institute, New York

June 2020 – July 2021

with Peter Senge, Mette Miriam Böll, Julie Diaz, Hanneli Ågotsdatter, Steen Hildebrandt, Mark Greenberg, Dan Siegel, Rhonda Magee, John Milton, Kim Schonert-Reichl, and more.

This is a program for professionals working with children (by application only, limited number of participants).

RETREAT AT THE GARRISON INSTITUTE

Center for Systems Awareness

The Garrison Institute, New York

January 25 – 31, 2020

with Peter Senge, Mette Miriam Böll and Hanneli Ågotsdatter

This is a retreat for professionals working with children (by application only, limited number of participants).

RETREATS AND TRAININGS IN SCANDINAVIA

For retreats and trainings conducted in Scandinavian, please continue to our Danish website.

KONTEMPLATION IN DANISH

TEAM

Kontemplation is shaped by the contribution of people with diverse skills and experience. We share an interest in approaches to contemplative practice and sustainable living that make sense in a contemporary context.

BLOG IN ENGLISH

PRACTICE WITH US

Kontemplation's BLOG is created by our regular team and by our guest writers. Our main BLOG is in Danish, but in this section we offer a selection of our blog posts translated into English.

In our practice library you can find guided meditations and yoga sequences led by our teachers. The practices can be streamed or downloaded to support and inspire your home practice.

PHOTO GALLERY

Kontemplation is based in Denmark. Our retreats are primarily set on the wild shore of the North Sea, in the beautiful retreat center Øster Løkke. Our MBSR-programs are based in the city of Aarhus and our weekend programs take place in the meditation community Vækstcenteret in Nørre Snede. In addition to our domestic activities, our team of teachers travels and teaches internationally. See below for photos from retreats and events.

Morning practice with Hanneli Ågotsdatter at The Garrison Institute, New York.

GARRISON INSTITUTE, New York

Hanneli Ågotsdatter and Martijn van Beek conducts Mind and Life Europe's Retreat for young scientists.

Hanneli Ågotsdatter and Martijn van Beek conducts Mind and Life Europe's Retreat for young scientists in Germany.

Hanneli Ågotsdatter and Martijn van Beek conducts Mind and Life Europe's Retreat for young scientists, Fürstensfeldbruck, Germany.

"There is a silence that is not necessarily characterized by the absence of sound."

An invitation to deepen your practice and your presence in a community of silence.
"There is a silence that is not necessarily characterized by the absence of sound."

SILENT RETREATS WITH OUR TEAM

TRAINING EMPATHY

VÆKSTCENTERET

For more information: https://www.vaekstcenteret.dk/english.asp

Vaekstcenteret (Centre for Growth) is an open non-dogmatic modern lay monastery and a meditation training centre. Hanneli Ågotsdatter and Peter Høeg are part of the center's staff of teachers.
For more information: https://www.vaekstcenteret.dk/english.asp

Vaekstcenteret (Centre for Growth) is an open non-dogmatic modern lay monastery and a meditation training centre. Hanneli Ågotsdatter and Peter Høeg are part of the center's staff of teachers. For more information: https://www.vaekstcenteret.dk/english.asp

For more information, see our program calendar.

Currently Hanneli and Peter are offering a two-year program in Stavanger, Norway. For more information, see our program calendar.

Currently Hanneli and Peter are offering a two-year program in Stavanger, Norway.
For more information, see our program calendar.

TEACHINGS IN NORWAY

EXPLORING CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE

Welcome to our yoga and meditation retreats in the spectacular nature around the retreat center of Øster Løkke.

YOGA RETREATS BY THE NORTH SEA

MIND & LIFE EUROPE

Integrating contemplative practices and wisdom with modern research capabilities.

FAMILY RETREAT WITH OUR TEAM

This eight-week program offers support for people with stress, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is a formal eight-week program with a daylong intensive that was created by Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979. This program offers support for people with stress, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain.

MINDFULNESS-BASED STRESSREDUCTION
(MBSR)

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PRAKSISGRUPPE Et Vækstcenterkursus med Hanneli Å

Peter Høeg skriver Kontemplations sommerbrev:☀️
«Det er en særlig følelse at skrive et nyhedsbrev for Kontemplation. Som at skrive til bekendte.

Det betyder også at man måske kan tillade sig at være lidt mere personlig end ellers. At det er muligt at dele oplevelser som kun egner til en mindre og nærmere gruppe.
Jeg vil gerne dele to sådanne: Begge er begivenheder der har udspillet sig i sommers, under de retreats Kontemplation har afholdt på den magiske strandgård Øster Løkke, i et landskab der på én gang er storslået øde, forblæst, presset ned af vinden og havet, og samtidigt fortroligt intimt og spontant fredfyldt:

I det landskab mødte Hanneli en morgen en puma.
Det var en på mange måder særlig morgen, helt tidlig, ved femtiden, lå en tåge over Øster Løkke, frem af disen voksede den hvide regnbue I kan se på fotoet herover.
Og lidt senere, ved vejen der fører indad fra Trans Kirke, stod pumaen i vejkanten, tre til fire gange så stor som den største huskat, med den for de vilde katte karakteristiske lange hale, og var ved at fortære et bytte. Da den sansede Hanneli, vendte den sig mod hende, med vilddyrets agtpågivenhed, og så var den forsvundet i kornmarken.
Havde det været enhver anden der havde fortalt om oplevelsen, havde jeg tvivlet. Men Hanneli er på sin egen måde ekspert i dyr. Vi googlede ’Stort kattedyr ved Vesterhavet’. Og så at der er blevet observeret puma i Vestjylland en række gange i løbet af det sidste år.

Dagen efter havde vores retreatmedhjælper, Lasse, og jeg den skrækblandede glæde at befri en sule, en stor fugl, en specialiseret dykker med et næb som en dolk, fra et nylon-fiskenet den var blevet viklet ind i.

Pumaen og sulen er på den ene side usædvanlige. Og så alligevel ikke. Vesterhavet er et vildt hav. Og Øster Løkke på én gang beskyttet og vildt.
Som retreatformen på en måde er det. Hvad vi leder efter på retreat, er en dybere kontakt med vores egen natur. Den naturlige vågenhed, den naturlige hjertelighed, den naturlige livsintensitet. Når vi leder på den måde, vil vi ofte opleve at den ydre verden svarer igen, undertiden på ekstraordinære måder.»

Læs brevet på #kontemplationsblog. Link i bio. 💕

Søndagshilsen med smil, vink og latter fra retrea

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