"This retreat was life changing. A pinnacle of my life. It is beyond words. I am changed." - AVATARA retreat participant

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As we enter 2025, humanity has truly entered the fires of a global initiation.

Wars are raging. Our hearts are breaking. Each of the last 12 months has been the hottest since records began. Political polarisation has brought our societies to a tipping point. Authoritarian regimes are spreading. Our economies are reeling from the pandemic and wars. Multiple streams of major existential risk are cascading. The foundations of our civilisation are shaking, with cracks widening.

And simultaneously, through those cracks glimmers of a new light are starting to shine.

Hundreds of millions of beings around the world are in a process of transformation, awakening, and embodiment. Many are learning to stand as pillars of a new civilisation. Some are starting to build new systems sourced in the radical unity of all life rather than in schism and separation.

Finding our place in this shift is more than just a new yoga practice, buying those spiritual books, or an alternative career choice.

It is a path of giving our consent to the process of soul initiation.
To the death of the old structures that no longer serve life.

Of consenting to truly face ourselves in all the vulnerability and fear of that process.

Of finding our tribe and coming home to the remembrance of our heart as wise, our body vibrant and intelligent, our er0s as sacred, our vulnerability as a gift, our soul as ancient, our purpose as needed, and our spirit the fire of the One that lives in the core of all cores.

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AVATARA retreats are for those called to plug their spiritual path into the big picture – of humanity’s awakening, Earth’s awakening, and cosmic awakening – so they can find their right place to show up in the process in this extraordinary time.

AVATARA grew out of Shamballa School, which was founded by Bruce Lyon in 2001, then passed on to Jon Eden Khan in 2011, who expanded it into AVATARA in 2021.

We have our roots in the Trans-Himalayan teachings that have come through Helena Blavatsky and the Theosophical movement, Alice A. Bailey, Helena Roerich, Lucille Cedercrans, and more recently Bruce Lyon. And we integrate teachings and practices from multiple other spiritual pathways and traditions, East and West, ancient and modern.

Our retreats offer rapid acceleration containers dedicated to full spectrum awakening, evolution, and embodiment.

We include land journeys, bodywork, neo-tantra, trauma healing, soul work, purpose work, ceremony and ritual, group soul intimacy, incredible esoteric teachings and cosmology, the esoteric psychology of the seven rays, as well as practices that invite our surrender to the divine darkness at the core of our being, and radical awakening as the one reality at the heart of all creation.

If you sense in your heart and cells that your spiritual path is no longer just about you, but that it is one node of a collective awakening rising out of the ashes of a crumbling civilisation, consider joining one of our retreats. And let’s plant the seeds of that new civilisation together.

WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE IN THIS EVENT

• Teachings and guidance on embodiment practices to activate your animal body

• Dance and movement

• The chance to participate in evening temples dedicated to themes related to matter, soul, spirit and divine Life

• A welcoming of er0s that honours its medicine for the group field while differentiating that from actual engagement

• Teachings and guidance on how we can heal our relationship and commune with the natural world

• Teachings and guidance on how to open to feel and respond to the global crisis without being overwhelmed

• Group sharing circles based on vulnerability, authenticity, and honesty

• Teachings and guidance on how to how to heal your trauma as part of your soul work

• Teachings and meditation guidance on how to connect to and embody your soul and your soul purpose

• Teachings and guidance to support you on the path of soul initiation

• Teachings on the seven rays and guidance to work out your rays

• Teachings and practices that plug us into a truly kosmocentric spirituality that is as psychoactive and filled with wonder and awe as it is grounded, applied, and intellectually rigorous

• Teachings and practices to open us from ‘me to we’ as we tune into the group soul field

• Heart-centred community that is dedicated to awakening, soul initiation, and embodiment

• Teachings and guidance on opening to your dark monadic core

• Teachings and personal guidance on radical awakening as the one ultimate reality

• Support and opportunities to continue your path after the event connected to a field of transformational projects and change-makers

LOCATION AND ACCOMMODATION

Location: Ater Tumti, SP142, 33, 95017 Piedimonte etneo CT
Sicily, Italy

A luxurious yet rural venue on the gentle slopes of Mt. Etna, the biggest volcano in Europe, overlooking the Ionian Sea, home of endless mythological tales, beauty and cultures.

WHO THIS EVENT IS FOR

This event is not for beginners on the path, but is for those who are dedicated to truly wake up to the ground of being, to say a full yes to integrating who they truly are in embodiment, soul, and spirit; who are ready to take their place as part of the group soul that is humanity; and to find their place to participate in our collective evolution.

Specifically, applicants should already have some foundation in their emotional healing journey, soul work, er0tic integration, trauma work, shadow work, and embodiment.

EVENT TIMES

We will start at 3pm CET on the 22nd and finish at 1pm lunchtime on the 27th.

TO REGISTER OR APPLY

If you have attended one of our events before, just send a message to Jon via FB messenger or email at: jonathan@synergyforum.org

If you haven’t joined one of our events before, please fill out this form and we’ll be back to you: https://forms.gle/ktT9CBrzQi3jsy1Y6

INVESTMENT

€1100 - These costs are for sleeping in a dorm, plus your food and a contribution to the facilitator.

*If you want other accommodation options the following is available:

- Shared Room Ensuite €225 extra for the whole retreat
- Single Room Ensuite €425 extra for the whole retreat

Scholarships: In AVATARA we understand that various forms of privilege (racial, gender identity, physiological, socio-economic, financial, generational) can play a role in financial access to our containers. We believe that making our containers accessible is an important aspect of building a transformational journey and we desire to find ways to support people to access our containers who otherwise would struggle todo so. To this end, we are providing some partial scholarships for people who may not otherwise be able to afford the full ticket price. If you would like to apply for a partial scholarship, please fill in the below form:

https://forms.gle/ZhCcUR6u8uw1VsXm7

FACILITATOR

Jon Eden Khan is a transformational leader, mentor, and facilitator, living in his beloved home city of Berlin.

Jon is initiator of Singularity, a transnational political party dedicated to global governance working towards global governance sourced in the one Earth, the one humanity, and the power in the heart of every being by 2050.

He is founder of AVATARA, which is dedicated to the mystery of what it truly means to be human, awakening together at this extraordinary time of global initiation.

And he mentors soul-driven leaders, from top corporate business leaders and FinTech trailblazers, to LGBT rights activists in the Middle East, to some of the most respected facilitators of transformational self-development work in the world.

Between 2016-2018 Jon worked as European Director of the Global Purpose Movement, and in 2014, he co-founded Synergy Forum, an initiative focussed on the integration of spiritual awakening, social innovation and systems transformation.

Between 2012-2015 he worked as part of the leadership team of Zero Point Six in Interlaken, Switzerland, bringing together leaders from government, economics, spirituality, education, culture and the environment from around the world to explore how awakening to our inherent unity can inform efforts toward global transformation.

Jon’s path has allowed him to experience a wide spectrum of the human experience. From dropping out of school at age 13 to attend a centre for troubled youths, to 5 years of homelessness and heroin addiction in his early 20’s to getting clean alone in a room over 6 months. From re-entering education and going on to turn down a PhD with one of the foremost universities in the world, to dedicating himself fully to self-development, healing his traumas and service, to co-leading international projects dedicated to humanity’s collective awakening through new approaches to leadership, power, and purpose.

Learn more about his work at: jonedenkhan.com