From Fear to a Loving Life
From fear to trust. From contraction to freedom. From survival to a vibrant, loving life.
Dates: 2027-05-11 — 2027-05-21
Location: Çıralı, Turkey
Samudro’s first-chakra retreat: bodywork, breath, meditation and exploration of three root fears through Muladhara. 11–21 May 2027, Çıralı, Turkey. Tahtalı trip on 22 May.
Programme
What helps us feel truly alive? Where does inner stability come from when life becomes unpredictable? What happens to our energy when we encounter fear?
We can become so used to holding ourselves back and controlling our reactions that we stop noticing how much vitality is consumed by inner tension. Even while achieving goals and managing circumstances, we may miss freedom, spontaneity and joy.
“From Fear to a Loving Life” is Samudro’s retreat devoted to exploring the energy of the first chakra, Muladhara. It is a practical journey towards the roots of our vitality: an opportunity to explore basic fears, recognise habitual protective responses and discover new ways of relating to ourselves, our bodies and life.
Rather than trying to defeat fear through willpower, we explore what lies behind it, how it appears in the body and behaviour, and what changes when awareness replaces an automatic reaction.
In the traditional chakra system, Muladhara is the root energy centre at the base of the spine, associated with survival, the physical body, grounding, sexual energy and basic trust in life.
As roots support a tree, our inner stability is connected with feeling at home in the body and meeting the unknown. When fear drives our decisions, we may try to control everything, suppress desires or act impulsively. Overactivity can alternate with withdrawal.
Exploring Muladhara invites us to understand these protective patterns, reconnect with the body and recognise the difference between an automatic defensive reaction and an aware response.
What happens if I stop controlling everything? Can I allow feelings, emotional expression and spontaneity without constantly maintaining a familiar image of myself?
Control can support a sense of safety. When it becomes our only way of relating to life, it can limit naturalness and trust in experience. We explore the boundary between awareness and excessive control, between inner support and fear of letting go.
Sexual energy here is understood more broadly than sexuality alone: as instinctive vitality, sensuality, spontaneity and the capacity to feel alive.
How freely do we express desires, emotions and bodily impulses? What makes us restrain our strength or feel ashamed of our intensity? We explore our relationship with this energy, recognise inner prohibitions and discover more conscious ways of connecting with the body.
This is a deep human fear of finitude, loss and the unknown. It may appear as trying to anticipate everything, avoiding risk, postponing important decisions or hesitating to open to life.
We explore how acknowledging vulnerability can change our relationship with the present. What does it mean to stop postponing life? Can we come closer to what matters without seeing every unexpected turn as a threat?
All three fears are explored through embodied experience, emotions, energy and meditation, as well as understanding.
The retreat brings together embodied experience, emotional exploration, psychotherapeutic work and meditation in one process.
- Bodywork and grounding: sensations, breath and inner support.
- Breath and energy practices: exploring vitality, tension and habitual restraint.
- Intensive therapeutic processes: recognising emotional responses, limitations and protective patterns.
- Meditations in the Osho tradition: contact with the present moment.
- Movement, dance and expression: spontaneity and freedom of expression.
- Awareness practices: making room for conscious choice.
Some practices involve intensive physical and emotional engagement. Presence, sincerity and willingness to explore matter; each person’s experience is individual.
The programme draws on Awakening Psychology — International Multiversity of Awakening Psychology (IMAP) — integrating psychotherapeutic methods, bodywork and meditation.
Samudro created his first chakra energy transformation workshop in 2000 while working at Osho Multiversity in India. The programme has developed through years of practice with participants from different countries. More than 1,400 people have taken part in the first-chakra programme.
The emphasis is on direct experience through body, feelings, movement, energy and awareness, alongside understanding and reflection. The intention is to know yourself more deeply and make room for your own vitality, rather than conform to an ideal.
Each participant will have their own experience and discoveries. The retreat offers space to reconnect with the body and the present; recognise fear and protective reactions; explore control, sexuality and vulnerability; discover inner resources; allow more spontaneity and expression; and meet uncertainty with greater awareness.
Transformation does not mean fears will disappear forever or life will become predictable. It begins as we identify less completely with fear and find more freedom in how we respond. This can open space for love, sensuality, trust and the joy of being yourself.
For those who want to explore themselves more deeply, reconnect with natural vitality and understand what lies behind familiar fears.
For those who want to feel life, find inner support, meet the unknown with more openness and make room for freedom, sensuality and joy, without waiting for a perfect moment to begin.
About the location
Çıralı is a small settlement on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, surrounded by mountains, greenery and sea. It offers space to step away from the usual pace, feel the rhythm of day and evening, and listen to the body.
Sea, mountain air and natural landscapes provide a setting for slowing down and allowing nature to become part of your experience.
Pricing and registration
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