Black Butterfly
6. -14. August 2026 | Austria
9 day retreat
OWN YOUR SHADOWS,
OPEN YOUR WINGS AND FLY!
To what degree do you dare to live the life of your soul?
In Black Butterfly, you will have the opportunity to meet and own the fullness of who you are, including the parts you worked hard to repress. Through careful shadow work, you will encounter some repressed emotions and aspects of yourself that have been previously avoided. You will learn how what you thought to be your enemy on the path of awakening is actually your secret ally, speaking in a language you were not educated to hear.
“God said ‘Love your enemy’,
and I obeyed, and started to love myself”
(Khalil Gibran).
Living the life of your soul is like the butterfly opening its marvelous wings. But to do so, the caterpillar, which holds a very narrow life view, needs to die first. It did its job and reached a dead end (did you?). Now it needs to go into the chrysalis, let its old systems crumble, become goo, and allow its “imaginal cells” to take over and form the butterfly. What are the deep secrets your imaginal cells whisper to you that your caterpillar doesn’t dare listen to?
Our shadows hold our superpowers as a secret. Our greatest gifts are actually born from our deepest wounds. However, to touch those painful wounds in a way that reveals those gifts and superpowers, we must be rooted in sufficient resources of love and transformative wisdom.
Black Butterfly is a journey from a life of Trauma to a life of Initiation. Once you “get it” in your bones, your vibration shifts, and your whole life experience will feel different; past, present, and future will make sense in a whole different way than before. Living from Soul, you will make love with life and powerfully participate in its constant creation. You will realize how even subtle movements of your wings can have a huge Butterfly Effect on reality. Once you’ll “get it”, your life is not going to ever be the same again.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Exploring our character types (using Reichian and Kabbalistic maps) will help us realize the unique defense mechanisms we use unconsciously since childhood. Black Butterfly is a powerful emotional and energetic de-armoring process, helping us loosen up the armor we wear all our lives without noticing. The armor that blocks us from seeing what’s in front of us and responding from deep freedom, rather than simply reacting.
Eros is one of the most feared and repressed aspects of everybody’s life. Black Butterfly is not a sexuality workshop. However, it does encourage participants to explore how unrepressed emotions can become pure vital creative power of transformation. Participants learn how to harness their own eros as a powerful vehicle of transformation, realization, and manifestation. These are important tools for the integrated life of one who owns their shadows and courageously opens their wings with love, freedom, and empowerment.
Black Butterfly is not a nice theory. The teachings are based on rich real-life experience, lubricated with blood, tears, and fluids of life. You will be exposed to a useful set of maps and knowledge, unique to this process. You will learn tools applicable to your real-life struggles, practices that you can take home with you.
Prerequisites: You need to be able to hold healthy boundaries, sovereignty over your body, and know how to relate to eros as sacred power, without “sticky” personal hooks.
Black Butterfly is not meant for everybody. But if it’s meant for you, you are more than welcome to apply.
APPLICATION AND COST
Once we approve your application, please pay a deposit of €500 to secure your registration.
Super Early Bird € 1.850 (4 spots until 31.12.25.)
Early Bird € 1.950 (5 spots)
Regular € 2.150
SPECIAL PRICES
Middle East Attendees € 1.700 (6 spots)
Repeater € 1.700 (3 spots)
We have picked beautiful venues, both in Cyprus and Austria, nestled in the serene embrace of nature. Cyprus is located close to the sea, Austria is surrounded by mountains. The exact address will be shared with you after registration.
PRICE INCLUDES
● All the training experiences and supplies
● Comfortable accommodation in a shared room at our beautiful SPA venue
● Three delicious meals per day
● Tea, coffee, water, and fruits throughout the day
NOT INCLUDED
● Travel to and from the venue (shared shuttle or private transport available).
● Travel Insurance.
● Single room upgrade upon availability and extra charge. Please contact us.
Cancellations and Refund Policy
Upon your application, you will receive confirmation email that your spot is reserved with the request to submit a short video. after reviewing your video we will return to you with participation confirmation email.
To secure your spot-bound price, please pay the fee not later than 14 days after receiving your participation confirmation.
Please notice to add all bank fees to the total balance.
Closer to the event date, you will receive our welcome email with all details.
If for some reason you become unable to attend, a €250 admin fee will be withheld and are non-refundable in any case.
Once the 30 days before the training have passed, the total deposit of €500 is non-refundable.
Full cost of the training should be transferred 30 days before the beginning of the retreat.
If you cancel within less than 30 days before the start date of event, NO REFUNDS will be issued.
All bank transfer fees are the responsibility of the participant and not included in the tuition rate. These fees are also non-refundable.
In the case that you decide to leave during the training, there is no refund applicable.
FORCE MAJEURE
Below conditions will be accepted as Force Majeure:
* Death or documented severe disease of first degree relatives.
* Documented severe disease of the participant.
Below conditions will NOT be accepted as Force Majeure:
* Cancellation of flights or other means of transport.
* Anything other than specified Force Majeure conditions above.
NOTE
This retreat is NOT suitable for beginners in the field of Tantra or Sexual Shamanism. As well, it is NOT meant for trauma therapy. It is edgy work and meant for people who know themselves able of working with potentially triggering material without losing their center or blaming others. For those, this journey is a rare opportunity for transformation and growth.
The journey into the heart of sexual shamanism and shadow is one of the most powerful ways to access your full aliveness and freedom.
about the facilitators
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OHAD PELE
We are privileged to have the Internationally acclaimed wisdom teachings of Ohad Pele who has been teaching Kabbala, Sacred Sexuality, Love and Conscious Relating for 30 years.
Pele was part of the lead faculty members who helped pioneer ISTA, and served in its global governance for five years. He comes from a background of being a Kabbalist Rabbi and a scholar for many years. He is a musician, an artist and the author of several books, including KEDESHA: a page turner, that reveals the hidden conspiracy that brought an end to the ancient Temple Arts of Love in the 7th century BCE and brought forward the monotheistic religions instead. (English edition 2018).
His work is focused on embracing the wholeness of the human experience, which includes sexuality, dark emotions, clarity of mind and the openness of spirit in an embodied and integrative path of transformation, towards the creation of a new human culture.
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KATARA
Katara is a force of Epic Love.
She vibrates Love, Freedom, and Empowerment — all combined as one evolutionary force for healing, transformation, awakening.
With degrees in engineering and 1.5 decades working in Silicon Valley as an engineer, people manager, and leadership coach at major tech companies, Katara has applied her sharp analytical mind to developing emotional and relational tools and technologies to bring about the most efficient and effective transformations.
Katara guides journeys of self-discovery and reclaiming life force, helping people uncover their hidden potential and embrace their inherent divinity, all while harnessing the epic powers of Love and Eros.
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CHEN
Chen Maimon Ben Ami (MA)
Drama therapist, emotional, couples, and group therapist.
For the past two decades, she has accompanied hundreds of people in processes of deep connection and healing through love and relationships.
She creates healing spaces where one can truly be – to feel, express, dismantle, and reassemble what and who we thought we were.
She works with tools from group therapy, psychology, psychodrama, and shamanism.
She believes in love and in the infinite potential hidden within genuine human encounters.