Training for Transformation
- 21 Jan 2024
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- 05 Apr 2025
About the training
The retreat series that will change your life forever
- Who is it for: Everyone, Therapists
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Yahoo! It is happening: The famous Osho Risk Training is back in a renewed and refined version matching the present.
We have gathered a team of world class therapists, the absolute best in their respective fields, all deeply rooted in Osho’s teachings. The uniqueness of Osho Therapy is the way it integrates meditation and therapy. This supports us in moving consciously through the therapeutic process, deepening our presence and creating lasting changes in our lives.
The Osho Risk Training for Transformation is a deep healing journey, designed to take you through essential phases of your life. We all carry trauma in our system from early life experiences. By accessing our story in a safe space we are growing resources to step into a new way of living, with more depth, more authenticity, love and aliveness.
The training teaches about trauma and the unconscious strategies we chose as children to navigate in our surroundings. We learn how our stories are stored in the body and how to move the stuck energy and liberate ourselves, for example through movement and breath work. We will revisit our childhood and teenage years, getting intimate with parts of us that we might have hidden or forgotten.
During the training we learn to listen more to ourselves, follow our natural flow, and live our unique essential qualities. This will naturally be reflected in the way we relate with ourselves and others and expand our capacity for silence. The process will be supported by the three meditations happening daily at Osho Risk.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Benefits of this training
- A safe context to meet yourself deeply and embrace both your shadows and your light
- Tools to change the course of your life and find the right direction for you
- Awareness of your own mechanisms and encouragement to live from an authentic, non-habitual space
- A support system of fellow travellers, highly skilled therapist and the Osho Risk community which has more than 30 years of experience in hosting deep journeys like this
- Solidity to stand and move in the world connected to your own truth
TRAINING MODULES AND DATES
Bring true lasting change by addressing every aspect of your life
Secrets your Body Holds: Reveal the Patterns that Shape your Life
Secrets your Body Holds: Reveal the Patterns that Shape your Life
- 24 Mar 2024
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- 31 Mar 2024
- Moumina
About this module
Our bodies reveal our lives. This is a rare opportunity to learn what yours says about you. Much of our suffering is created by unhealthy patterns of feeling and acting that helped us survive the traumas of childhood, but then got stuck in our bodies.These patterns are not our true self: They cover up our true self and prevent us from shining.
The understanding of how these survival patterns show in our bodies was originally developed from the pioneering work of Wilhelm Reich by Alexander Lowen. Lowen related character types to particular body shapes and structures. He created a map showing five main ‘Body Types’. This map both shows us where we got stuck and how we can eventually free ourselves and return to the present moment.
We will spend a whole day on each body type, learning experientially what each character type feels like from the inside.
This work is illuminated by the understanding of meditation: that there is a place of pure presence inside each one of us, beyond all protective adaptations and character types.
What you will learn
- You will learn to recognise each ‘body type’ and the story it tells.
- You will learn tools for ‘reading’ what the body has to say.
- You will get a deeper connection and understanding of your own history
- You will learn the specific steps on the journey of healing for each body type – the risk and challenges each person needs to take, the issues they need to focus on, the things they are likely to want to avoid.
- You will learn to see the essence of a person, not the armouring. To see the love and aliveness deeper inside, beyond the defences we all use. You will learn the characteristic inner potential of each body type, and how to support that potential to be liberated.
Healing the Inner Child: Re-discover Your True Identity
Healing the Inner Child: Re-discover Your True Identity
- 26 May 2024
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- 01 Jun 2024
- Agni
About this module
Our behaviour and our fears and survival strategies are rooted in our childhood. In order to feel close to ourselves and trust the inner qualities with which we came into this world we need to know what hurt us when we were children. We need to understand how we felt at that time and how we compensated for missing safety, love and trust.
In our early years we were very intelligent in coping with our family situations and surroundings. We developed strategies and structures to make us feel safer. But in doing so we often needed to betray our true nature and on the way we lost trust in ourselves. As adults we carry on acting from these structures that are based in the fear of being abandoned and alone. It does not matter if it is at work, in our relationship, or in our free time: If we are not in connection with our true self, we tend to make choices that are not supportive to our identity. As time passes, this makes us feel weaker and more unsafe.
During this course we will use different techniques to revisit the time of childhood. In this way we can consciously and with the awareness of our adult self get in touch with the feelings and experiences of the child again. Once we recognize the strategies, patterns and behaviours of the past we can recognize when they are in action in our present day life. And only then can we decide to act differently: Now that we can be a parent to ourselves, these strategies are not needed anymore.
The inner child can regain trust and we can find the way back to our own identity, back to who we truly are. As a result we can heal our nervous system and be free to make different choices in our lives. Choices with which we are moving closer to ourselves and which make us feel whole and safe in our own being.
What you will learn
- Simply through consciously looking at our childhood we can access and express unfinished feelings that belong to our past
- Through emotional expression of deep feelings like anger, sadness, and fear as well as shame and guilt, healing can start
- Then we can find acceptance of our roots and our inner child. The body and nervous system fall into a sense of peacefulness
- From that peace and trust we can meet the important areas of life such as work and relationships from a connected place in us - not out of fear and coping strategies
Sexual Deconditioning: Embracing your Inner Teenager
Sexual Deconditioning: Embracing your Inner Teenager
- 28 Jul 2024
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- 03 Aug 2024
- Svarup
About this module
This process guides you through your teenage years, healing the wounds of that time and retrieving the qualities that are the essence of a healthy teenager.
The awakening sexual energy of a teenager is a gift. It is not only a potential source of physical pleasure; it also makes life an adventure and eventually a search.
Healing and embracing your inner teenager now, as an adult, will bring back into your present life a sense of daring to go beyond what is familiar routine. It will create the space for something new in your life.
What you will learn
- The inner relationship between your adult and your teenager
- The original longing of the teenager in you
- The family dynamics and conditioning of that time
- Shame, revenge and forgiveness
- Love for your own body
- The bond with the same gender, and the meeting with the opposite gender
- Meditation and breathing techniques to reconnect with the natural flow of male and female energy in your body
Dance Alchemy: Transform Your Emotional Life
Dance Alchemy: Transform Your Emotional Life
- 22 Sep 2024
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- 28 Sep 2024
- Maneesha
About this module
The transforming power in your own body, when understood and practiced, can change anything life brings from a suffering into a gift of grace. Emotions and body reactions are not your enemies, they are teachers. When you learn the wisdom of the body, the heart and the nervous system, you can grow and change with every situation that appears in life.
You will have a chance to understand the messages you received in childhood about your emotions: how they impacted you at the time and how they come up in your life now. You will learn how to continue healing them in your adult life through accepting and owning them rather than blaming others. This way you can receive the gift that each emotional experience brings.
The body remembers and the body knows. When you can listen, it becomes your healer. When you let the body express feelings through dance, you open to the depth and beauty of life as it is. Something new happens. Life becomes a mystery to be lived, rather than a problem to be solved.
Through this inquiry and the heart’s acceptance we learn to be truthful with ourselves, making space for our needs and for new, more nourishing ways of being with people in all kinds of relationships. We cannot “do” change. But we can create the space within for alchemy to happen.
Elements of this alchemy:
Acceptance: the heart center can embrace what is with compassion – even life’s opposites. The mind cannot do that.
Aliveness: the intensity and fire of being fully alive in everything such as sadness, anger, love, tenderness, relaxation….when expressed through dance it moves energy and brings joy.
Meditation: when we have lived something totally, it is easier to watch. When we can bring witnessing and silence to anything, integration happens.
The power of the heart’s acceptance and presence expands your capacity to receive life. It grows each time you welcome and feel rather than reject and fight with what is. This resilience helps you in today’s unpredictable world, and in your personal life.
We will also look at emotional intelligence and trauma from the perspective of Somatic Experiencing, one of today’s emerging body-based trauma therapies. You will learn some of its science and keys, and how these relate to inner alchemy. If you work with people, it increases your ability to hold someone as they are, with love. This is the backbone of being an effective therapist.
Live the totality of your emotions.
What you will learn
- Learn keys to heal past trauma and present difficulties by listening to the wisdom of the body
- Receive the essential gifts and insights each emotion brings and increase your resilience and inner space to feel pain, love and joy
- Understand and practice the elements of inner alchemy and learn how to transform negative emotions and recurring reactivity
- Learn to work with traumatic emotions/issues
- Learn responsibility/clean communication instead of blame and dumping reactive energy
- Increase your aliveness and enjoyment in all areas of life
- Deepen your meditation and ability to be present to whatever is, in yourself and others
Learning to Love Yourself: Breaking Free from Limitations
Learning to Love Yourself: Breaking Free from Limitations
- 01 Dec 2024
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- 07 Dec 2024
- Tarika
About this module
Life is a mysterious unfolding. With each turn we take there is new information for us to process and digest. Just when we think we have figured it out, life brings us new situations to test our inner connection. Awareness is not about having a fixed idea, but more about being able to love yourself and others no matter what is going on around you.
In this course we will take a look at what is in the way of keeping us flowing. We will experiment with moving the obstacles out of the way and support the understanding that we are connected to a loving existence.
It is important to remember that we can not always control our circumstances. However, we do have the power to decide how we take care of ourselves and make the most loving choices possible.
What you will learn
- Stronger understanding of who you really are
- More clarity regarding the conditioning that is distorting your vision
- Experiencing how much easier it is to relate when you are not burdened by old thoughts
- Enjoying the fun that comes from a more loving connection to yourself and others
Healing Relationships: The Path to Deeper Intimacy
Healing Relationships: The Path to Deeper Intimacy
- 16 Feb 2025
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- 22 Feb 2025
- Anjori & Dhairya
About this module
This section is about discovering that wholeness within which is already there. It is about getting more in contact with ones life energy, with the inner lover, bringing back projections. This is how we can start having more enriched and nourishing relationships on all levels: with ourselves, with partners, friends, people at work.
Polarity is always in play in all aspects of our lives. Osho reminds us that Tantra has known this for 5000 years. Polarity charges us. In the polarity we become alive. Polarity is juice. First we meet in the outer and later the outer meeting can become an inner meeting. This play is Tantra.
We will dance through the currents in the outer and inner play of polarity: In Eros, in the pull of attraction, in the male and female qualities and whatever might surface during these six days. We will honour and value each other. Celebrate the same journey we all are on from meetings on the outside towards wholeness within.
The teachings are based on Osho’s vision and the Tibetan Buddhist Tantra taught to us by Neel Fasting at Vaekstcentret. It is an energetic and meditative approach (not problem oriented), that brings understanding, awareness, space, and deeper acceptance. From here, transformation and growth can happen.
The connection with the body is an immense resource. With meditation and movement we will be opening up to the sensitivity to the flow of life, to the life energy in the body. From here we will naturally connect with the resources within, with possibilities of becoming more authentic.
Meditation practise is a fundamental part of this group. We will be using Osho’s active meditations, heart meditations, guided meditations and meditations from Tantra to balance the inner flow, within ourselves and also how to use these in our intimate relationships.
Key areas of exploration in this part include:
Energy – becoming sensitive to the flow in our energy system
Emotions and their role in our relationships
Eros – Strengthening our connection with the inner source
Joy – Connecting with the source and becoming available to joy
Sexuality as an expression of our life energy
Male / female polarity – getting to know our inner opposite sex
Understanding the difference between rising and falling in love
Heart – deepening our connection with the heart
Meditation – understanding its importance on a deeper level
There is no nudity and no exercises are done in couples
What you will learn
- Have a deeper understanding of Tantra
- Have deeper acceptance of yourself
- Become more relaxed, at ease and playful in your relating
- Foster a deeper connection within you and with your inner opposite sex
- Increase your sensitive to your body
- Gain greater access to the source of joy within yourself
- Have new grounds for creativity and relaxation in your lovemaking experiences
The Art of Dying and Let Go: Facing What Really Matters
The Art of Dying and Let Go: Facing What Really Matters
- 30 Mar 2025
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- 05 Apr 2025
- Ramateertha
About this module
This course is the last part of the Osho Risk Training and it seems only natural to take a closer look at the issues that arise around the death and dying.
In our daily routine, death seems to be far away. Only when a person close to us dies or when we get confronted with an illness that could be life-threatening we suddenly become aware of the fact that we do not last forever.
There is a shock, fear and panic. It seems that everything we took for granted suddenly could disappear into thin air and all the security we relied on is gone:
‘What is it that really matters for me in this life?’. ‘Why am I here and what is it that I really want?’ The ego with its ambitions, expectations, worries and anxieties starts freaking out.
In this course we take a closer look: ‘Do I live authentically what is there in me that wants to be lived? What am I avoiding – what keeps me busy and distracts from my real longing?
Am I willing to let go – to let go of security and comfort? If this is the end now, what do I regret to have done or not done? Do I really trust the river of life so that it can take me to the ocean? With all these questions we will go through an intense process of meditation. It will create an opportunity to reconsider and listen to our deepest inner truths.
What you will learn
- Come in contact with your un-lived energy and bring it forward into your live
- Deepen your meditation through getting a taste of death while still alive
- Being comfortable with the small let gos in relating and moving through life
- Getting an opportunity to face how we have lived up until now, considering our own choices and priorities
- Coming home to your own silence, resting in an inner peace where nothing needs to happen
Breathing into Life: A Journey Beyond Trauma
Breathing into Life: A Journey Beyond Trauma
- 31 Aug 2025
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- 06 Sep 2025
- Dwari
About this module
Take a deep breath: Open your heart, your body, your being, let go of restricting fears and tensions. Allow yourself to explore the intensity and flow of life energy that makes being alive such a precious gift. In shock or trauma we hold our breathing. We stop the natural movement impulse of the body to fight or to escape. Instead, this vital movement energy is frozen into fear and helplessness or, in order to avoid the feeling of panic and pain, we may even disconnect from our body.
If we do not have support in our natural growing process as children it will affect our lives. Any kind of abuse in childhood or just the rejection of our basic need for love and emotional safety has traumatic effects.
Breathing is a wonderful tool for moving through and beyond trauma. In this first part of the training we will use resourcing, moving with the felt sense as well as different ways of breathing, to enter the self-regulation healing system of the body.
This way we release old trauma and integrate the natural life force with all frozen emotions – back into pleasure.
What you will learn
- Experiencing conscious natural breathing as the connection to life
- Explore how each life situation and each emotion has a different breathing pattern
- Gain a deeper understanding of what stopped our life flow in shock and trauma
- Understanding the difference of developmental trauma and shock trauma
- Discover how to trust and track your felt sense and explore to natural pendulation during a breathing session
- Begin to distinguish trauma energy, survival energy and healthy energy behaviour
What participants say
More than 500 people have already changed their lives through this process
Take this opportunity as I did
Right now, you are looking at an invitation that can transform your mind and your life. Take this opportunity, as I did. I have never given myself a greater gift than the Osho Risk Training. It was a gift for which I am still grateful, 27 years later. The Osho Risk Training is created by courageous souls that dedicate their lives to create a laboratory designed for you to dare to open up and participate in life in ways you never imagined, but always longed for.
Caspar Seip
Guro & Guru Podcast, Norway
I think the training is like, the coolest thing ever
Daso
Bodyworker, Denmark
FACILITATORS
Meet your team of world-class facilitators
The place
Join a heart-centered community with 35 years of retreat experience
Since 1986, we have been devoted to personal transformation by creating a nourishing space where you feel safe and loved for who you are.
Osho Risk is a not for profit retreat centre, maintained by a community of people living onsite and nearby. We value our own growth and inner maturity and enjoy sharing this with our guests. Our focus is on awareness, inner silence and joy.
Single rooms
We have single rooms available in the newest building at Risk called Rumi House. You will have your own private space and share bathroom with others.
Shared rooms
We also have shared rooms for 2 up to 10 people. Each shared room have personal spaces for each guest. We always try to take care of the quality of your sleep, accommodating guests with similar needs in the same room.
Organic cuisine with gluten and dairy free options
Attuned with the cycles of nature, our meals are prepared with ingredients of each season. We aim to use mainly organic food grown by local farmers. All the eggs we use are provided by the neighbour’s free range chickens.
Our cooks care and understand the dietary needs of our guests and it is important that you communicate if you have any requirement, such as allergies or restrictions. Please let us know in advance so that the kitchen can be prepared.
TRAINING DETAILS
Find out all you need to know
Date
- Start: 21/Jan/2024 @ 06:00 pm
- End: 05/Apr/2025 @ 06:00 pm
You are very welcome to arrive before the start date and stay with us as a guest. Many of our participants come before the retreat starts or stay after it finishes.
Price
Language
English
Accommodation
Food
Organic vegetarian cuisine. Gluten free and dairy free options available.
Location
We are located in Brædstrup, the heart of the Danish countryside.
See map and location
FAQ
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Is this training suitable for me?
You are very welcome to ask for more information if you have questions about this training or just would like to have some support in finding a natural next step on your personal journey. Especially if you are new to Osho or to meditation and/or therapy, it might be nice to have a small chat before deciding to join a process.
Please click on the “Register / Info” button on this page to ask for more information.
Some trainings are labelled “everyone” or “advanced”, which can give you an idea if it is suitable for you.
What do I need to bring?
We suggest you bring:
- Comfortable clothes for the active meditations, for women a sports bra is recommended for Dynamic Meditation
- Clothes according to the seasons (even in summer the Scandinavian evenings get chilly)
- Inhouse shoes or slippers
- Outdoor walking boots or shoes if you want to explore the surrounding nature
- Swimsuit (we have lakes and swimming pool nearby)
- Notepad and pen
- Your own water bottle to use and refill
- Earplugs if you are a light sleeper
We encourage that you don’t bring too many “distractions” for yourself.
How do I book and pay for this training?
You can book by clicking the “Register / Info” button on the page.
Then, once we get in touch with you, a deposit must be paid to secure your place. You can pay this by card (Visa, Master, Amex), or bank transfer.
The remaining balance can be paid before the event (card or bank transfer) or upon arrival by card or cash (DKK).
What happens if I need to cancel?
- In case of cancellation up until one month before the start of the Training, a cancellation fee of 1.200 DDK is charged.
- In case of cancellation within one month before the start of the Training, the deposit is non-refundable.
- In case of cancellation once the Training has started, both the deposit and the payment for the next part of the Training to come, is non-refundable.
Can you pick me up from the airport / train station?
Yes! We offer pickups from the nearest airport Billund for 340 DKK, the train station in Horsens for 140 DKK and from the local bus stop in Brædstrup, free of charge. Please let us know in advance, so we can coordinate with our drivers.
For more information click here.
I have more questions, where can I find more information?
If you have other questions please visit our FAQ page by clicking here.
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