HEARTCORE | Love & relationships

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HEARTCORE | Love & relationships

Ready for deeper and more fulfilling intimacy?

Want to improve your skills in setting healthy boundaries, clear communication, and self-forgiveness, as well as forgiveness of your loved ones?

Are you brave enough to be soft, to sense, feel, and rest in a body that simply is love?

HEARTCORE is a Tantric module in which we gently open the mind, body, and soul through meditation, touch, Tantra, connection, and intimate nourishment. We anchor ourselves in the heart. From this open-heart space, we surrender beyond the limitations of the mind to the realm of conscious relating, radical honesty, and embodied intimacy.

 

▽ CORE PROGRAMME

This retreat is one module of the CORE programme, and open to CORE Retreat Graduates Only.

The CORE programme guides you in creating a fulfilling, embodied, and vibrant life. You will be free from old beliefs, centred in the heart, fuelled by the life force in your hips, and guided by the ancient wisdom of your soul and rituals.

The full programme includes five retreats, an online community, and graduate events. In the mandatory CORE retreat, we break free from limiting beliefs, gain emotional maturity, and understand what we truly want. In HEARTCORE, we anchor ourselves in the heart, cultivating loving connections through forgiveness and radical relating. In UNLEASHED, we explore polarity, sensuality, and power in our hips and sexuality. In VIVID, we surrender our souls to life. In ALCHEMY, we master our mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual states, creating for the benefit of ourselves and others.

This is an immersive, hands-on experience that challenges you to confront discomfort, push past resistance, and reclaim your authentic self. This journey is about getting real and making the commitment to create the life you want—one aligned with your true values and desires.

This programme includes DIY tools, nourishing bodywork, facing demons, mystical rituals, penetrating practices, and a Dutch cup of grounded devotion and humour.

CORE | Release & Reset | 22-26 April 2025 (required)
HEARTCORE | Love & Relationships |11-13 July 2025
UNLEASHED | Eros & Sexuality | 12-14 September 2025
VIVID | Death & Surrender | 12-14 December 2025
ALCHEMY | Mysticism & Magic | 6-8 February 2026

CORE Retreat has been running for 10 years, across 5 countries with over 200 graduates

“Yes, I was very impressed by this retreat, it was a high level and I enjoyed it. It was like the bootcamp of retreats.” | Anonymous CORE Graduate

 

▽ YOU WILL

– Gain a deeper understanding of your protection mechanisms and how to move beyond them.
– Mature emotionally and sexually.
– Improve your relationship skills, forgive past events, and create connections that truly nourish you.
– Experience greater openness, presence, and ease.
– Develop a calmer, more grounded sense of self, with increased confidence and clarity.
– Let go of fears, doubts, and old conditioning.
– Feel free in your sexuality and access this vital energy to create nourishing experiences.
– Learn to shift life force through different centers of your body and guide others along.
– Dare to surrender to what your soul truly wants you to do.
– Gain more energy.

Acquire practical tools for staying aligned with yourself in day-to-day life.

Build a solid support structure to lean on during your transformational process.

 

▽ WHAT’S INCLUDED

– Discovery Call (optional)
– 3-Day Full Time Workshop Days
– 2 Nights Accommodation
– Organic, Home-Cooked Meals by our private chef
– Personal Workbook (incl journaling prompts and homework)
– 2 Follow-up Sharing Calls
– Online Graduate Community Network
– Graduate Events and Accountability Partner
– Ongoing Private Mentorship (optiona)

 

▽ PROGRAMME MODULES

Friday | 10:00h – 22:30h | 9:30h doors open
Saturday | 8:30h – 22:30h
Sunday | 8:30h – 17:00h | exact closing time depends on group process

We recommend to make yourself available and without any outside contact (no phone or physical contact) for the entire duration of the retreat.

There is an opportunity to arrive on Thursday night from 19h onwards and book an extra night.

 

▽ TEAM

MSc. KARLIJN KOUWENHOVEN | Lead Facilitator

With years of experience in psychology, meditation, and self-development, Karlijn is known for creating powerful, clear, and transformative experiences. For details check www.withkabira.com/about.

“I have not experienced anything else that pierces straight through the CORE as rapidly and profoundly as these practices. This is what I wish upon my dearest friends and family.”

ANNA SAMA SATI  | Assistant & Mentor
Anna Sama Sati is Tantrika, grandmother, mother, wife and CORE ’24 Graduate. She works as a Psychologist (27 years), as a Tantra facilitator at Growing Loving Relations, and is the founder of the Tantric Joy Festival (5 years). She has always explored tools that support a healthy relationship between body, mind and soul. Focusing on love relations as the source of healing. She considers her partner Mark, their 3 grown up daughters and grandchild, her best teachers in life.

“My intention with CORE was to connect more deeply with myself in a period of change. Honestly, I also had the thought that I did not have much to learn…What a big contrast with the deep emotional healing process I found myself in!
I am so thankful that CORE has shaken me with so much love, brought me compassion, truth and radical acceptance of every aspect of my life.”

BLANCA DURGA WENNEKES | Assistant & Mentor
Blanca Durga is a 2024 CORE graduate and has a background in yoga, Tantra and emotional bodywork for over 15 years. After a corporate career of over two decades, she started her company B-conscious to guide people towards more body awareness and aliveness. One of her own practices is kirtan, which she loves to share with her friends of The Bhakti Groove. Blanca’s global travels on her bicycle gave her life-changing insights. She loves working with groups, sharing her playfulness, care and inspiration

.”CORE gave me a tough loving kick under the butt. Clarity arose from underneath the layers of stories I used to hold on to. The imprints and tools I took from CORE support me in my life-after-CORE. Grateful.”

LARISSA QUAAK | Retreat Chef
“The more I cook, the more I realize how important it is to do so in a holistic, healthy and sustainable way. It is possible to enjoy fantastic food that nourishes both people and the earth, and I love proving this on a plate!”

 

▽ INVESTMENT

FIRST BIRD | €1650,- (First 2 tickets)
EARLY BIRD | €1750,- (Until March 31st)
REGULAR BIRD | €1950,- (until -2 weeks before the start)
LATE BIRD | €2150,- (until 2 weeks before the start)

Training includes max 18 participants.

Tickets include 21% VAT and tourist taxes. Prices include training, accommodation, and meals. Business invoices available upon request. Payment plans are available for students & low-income participants. First payment of €250,- required).

 

▽ VENUE

Finca Vrij
Kapelleweg 29 | Scharendijke | Zeeland
The Netherlands

An inspiring, home built retreat centre by pranaists Erik & Estrella surrounded by spacious fields and their magical garden.

Sleeping arrangements include shared rooms (max 2-3 people) and possibly private rooms. It is possible to bring your own campervan

▽ APPLICATION

Get your ticket via the ticket shop.
For questions, send an email to info@withkabira.com or book a free Discovery Call via www.calendly.com/karlijnkouwenhoven.

Let’s talk!

▽ TESTIMONIALS

“I was stuck in my life and oh so ready to move on. I needed a big nudge and CORE gave me exactly that, and so much more. I feel now that I am me, I am strong and that I am ready for this world!” | Theleya Britta Hall, Marketeer & Yoga teacher

“There are so many retreat offers, and I can imagine very well that for people who need help don’t know where they should be. When they come out of this retreat it is truly a gigantic gift because bullshit is no longer possible.”| Anonymous

“I recommend it because of the variety of exercices, the combination of tantra with NLP and innerchild work. The rituals embedded in the process. The presence of Karlijn and the assistance during the hole retreat taking care that every personal process was getting enough attention. Also the huge amount of aftercare moments, wich has been helping my proces in the weeks after the retreat.” | Anonymous