VIVID | Surrender & Death
December 12 @ 10:00 - December 14 @ 17:00
€1650
VIVID | Surrender & Death
Tired of life feeling unsatisfied?
Up to explore death, as a pathway to life?
Want to change your relationship with your life’s ending, and engage deeper with the time that you have left?
Ready to replace boredom, anxiety, and depression with vitality, excitement, courage and gratitude for yourself?
VIVID marks a turning point: to continue living a life dictated by the needs of others, lost in time passing by ‘too quickly,’ heartache, and sorrow—or to choose something different. VIVID offers you a choice.
As we surrender to death, we create life trough the lens of death—one that is real, fulfilling, and complete. We cover topics such as termination of the body, grief circle, final moments, rituals and consciously inhabiting your life. You will come home in the darkness of reality.
Ready to embrace the reality of death approaching?
▽ YOU WILL
– Face death as a teacher—transforming fear into clarity, acceptance, and power.
– Gain a deepened sense of aliveness by exploring death as a lived experience.
– Break free from anxiety, boredom, and stagnation through profound surrender.
– Engage in powerful rituals to process grief, loss, and unspoken fears.
– Learn to navigate endings with courage—in relationships, identity, and life itself.
– Expand your ability to be present in every moment, embracing life fully.
– Discover what truly matters so you can live with purpose and intention.
– Melt into gratitude, vitality, and liberation by meeting death head-on.
▽ CORE PROGRAMME
This retreat is one module of the CORE programme.
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 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
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
▽ 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.”
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
A thoroughly old farmhouse in the forest with large community space, swimming pool and soft retreat temple. Home of heart IQ.
New Eden Retreat Centre
Sparjeburd 2 | 8409 CK Hemrik | Friesland
The Netherlands
https://www.neweden.org/getting-here
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
“The death meditation was mindblowing. Never experienced all aspects of life (and death) so intens. Felt the urgency of death around the corner for the first time in my life.” – Bram
” The lovely guidance of Kabira with her beautiful trustworthy voice made this experience of life, birth and death, life changing. A deep loss was brought up, showing that life and death were the same and I didn’t want to be reborn again.”
“This is a serious workshop that is humbling, confronting, and can be very transformational. It made me see how I act in society at large, assured me of the past and left me looking forward to my future.” – O.
“My experience was very powerful and very confrontational. This has been one of the most impressive workshops I have been able to participate in.
“…What Karlijn does is interspersed with humour, with self-reflection…. with possibilities, to make it as intense as you want/or can… without getting off track. Just as deep as you can take. Simple and super complicated. Airy and intense. Playful and fucking serious. Guided by who she is and what she stands for. (Life is a strange thing, beautiful isn’t it)” – Hedy
“…a very strong workshop in which I was confronted with my fear of living out of the fear of dying (unconsciously). To realize that every day can, and should be lived, allowing playing in life again.”