A 7 day immersive retreat | September 28 - October 5 2025 | Southern France

ARE YOU CURIOUS TO STEP MORE FULLY INTO YOUR OWN STREAM OF LIGHT AND WISDOM?

  • Do you feel a calling to have more meaningful impact in your life?
  • To contribute to personal and global healing in these times of turmoil?
  • And to take a next step in expressing your personal souls mission?

Join us for this in-depth 7-day retreat in Southern France!

During these seven days, we will be gathering in Southern France, near the famous hilltop of Montségur, where the last stronghold of the Cathars resided. Throughout the centuries, many have reported and experienced this land of Occidental France to hold a specific connection to Mary Magdalene. According to local tales she and Yeshua visited the area often during their extensive travels. The Essene community, in whose tradition they were deeply embedded, is also known to have inhibited this region. A vivid anchor of ancient wisdom traditions still remains here today as well an incredibly lush and vibrant natural area!

We will be working with embodying our personal stream of light, becoming not only a vessel but also a transmitter of wisdom. If our light is hidden from ourselves, it is also hidden from the world and as a result an important part of the intelligence of life is turned off. And this collective human intelligence is needed now more than ever! In this week we consciously choose to become a part of the collective nervous system and actively contribute to personal and collective healing.

In this retreat we will explore our relationship to universal consciousness, working with the restoration of our own connection as well as our collective connection to mystical inner wisdom.

The LOGOS mission

In the Logos retreats we are inviting the highest wisdom to move through each of us, illuminating the possibility for what our lives might look and feel like if this energy of Christ Consciousness were to be more and more a part of our reality. We are inspired by Yeshua and the Magdalenes as avatars, representing the connection to a specific field of intelligence that is very deeply rooted in the spiritual DNA of humankind, and therefore available for all to connect to. Together we will take a next step in our commitments to embody a higher consciousness, thereby translating our deep remembrance into a living transmission.

We will facilitate a deep field of safety, support, inspiration and guidance to connect to the next possible evolutionary step, both for the individual and for the whole. We work with meditation, sound, movement and relational excercises and a fluid, playful way of expanding our conscious being in the world.

You are heartily invited to join us on this special trip and we would be delighted to have you join us! With love, Gary & Milou

Guiding principles of this week:

In each of our offerings we are guided by the underlying intentions of the week as a whole and of the days. We offer excersises and practices as well as a meditative and contemplative space. Each day has one central intention, by which the activities take shape.

Sunday: Gathering. We open the week by gathering ourselves in a circle and clarifying our personal and collective intentions

Monday: Activating. By connecting deeply to the group field and weaving a safe space together, we activate the community potential

Tuesday: Listening. On this day we will lean into the whispers of divine wisdom and deepen our inner listening practice

Wednesday: Cleansing. We dedicate this day to cleansing and recalibrating our inner channels so that we become more open vessels.

Thursday: Receiving. We open ourselves deeper to receive the specific light that is ours to express and to restore our personal intelligence.

Friday:  Linking. We link our individual nervous systems to the collective nervous system, thereby restoring collective intelligence

Saturday: Transmitting. As a collective system we will receive and transmit an energy of evolution and bring it consciously into our meeting with the external world.

Sunday: Walking. We depart by walking wisely into the world.

About the LOGOS offerings

The LOGOS retreats and offers are for everyone who feels it is time to take the next step, as an individual but also as a collective. The times in our world are full of turmoil, conflict and broken connection with our mother Gaia. It is time we create communities that are dedicated to restoring the connection: with the earth, with each other and with the divine blueprint of life itself. All of us carry a unique frequency and unique gifts with which we can contribute to this restoration of sacredness.

In each of our retreats we bring our attention to this collective shift and each of our individual contributions to it. We focus less on the personal process (although the personal is always deeply respected and related to) and more on the parts of our inner world that are being called to be of service to the collective. If we surrender to that calling, our healing will be accelerated and we will be able to contribute to the healing of the world at large!

Experiences of participants in Logos Retreats

This LOGOS rertreat has allowed many movements from my life to unfold and integrate, thereby opening myself more fully to the essence of my connection with God. All of this thanks to a safe container, mindful preparation and guidance, like-minded travelers and the dedication, experience and inspiration of Gary & Milou.

Veronika

I came to LOGOS with questions. They were answered in the most unexpected ways. Sometimes in exercises. Sometimes in what Gary and Milou said. Sometimes in what the co-LOGOS’ers shared. And sometimes in silence. I take those answers with me into the world. Thank you.

Martin

I am so grateful for joining this retreat, moving through resistance, peeling of layers by deeply connecting within myself. I am immensely grateful for Gary and Milou who put this retreat together with so much love and integrity. They are strongly connected in creating a group field and attune to what that field needs, which created such a healing vessel for me. I wish for more people to join this retreat and bath in such healing community, to eventually bath in their own essence!

Sarah

Milou and Gary are very deep loving souls and leaders, providing a space to grow in safety into the all-encompassing light of the Beloved. They created a lovely energetic room of beauty, so that our souls can sing. I highly recommend their retreat. It was for all of us a deep transformation that will change our lives forever.

Eva-Maria Franke- von Selzam

It has been an almost indescribable experience that is still unfolding. The way in which Milou, Gary, Kim and Simon led this process is Masterful. I can’t find any other words for it. And knowing that, the waves of this consciousness are touched in everyone, in you, with you and around you. AHO.

Merith

The LOGOS retreat offered a rich field, beyond religion, in which one can explore mystical ways to enrich one’s life in all manner of ways. There is so much care and attention for embodiment, that helps to realign and rephrase perceptions of life and living.

Marieke

Introduction webinar

Curious to explore more? Join us to learn everything about the retreat!

June 10thth, 20:00 (CET)


Meet Milou & Gary

Milou van Dueren den Hollander
Facilitator of the LOGOS retreat

Milou is trained as a holistic psychotherapist and energyhealer. Besides working in her own practice, she is leading workshops and in-depth trainings as a spiritual teacher and facilitator. She is also co-owner of School of Life, a school for multidimensional therapy in the Netherlands, operating there as CEO, mentor and teacher. Her passion lies in bringing the mystical closer to our daily lives and in gently giving words to the subtle realms, so that they can be experienced deeper.

Gary about Milou:

It is a great pleasure to be diving into the energetic realm of Christ Consciousness together with Milou. We share a deep passion for mystical spirituality, with a keen interest in exploring how one can live an alive and evolving spirituality within the context of the changing world we live in. As a gifted therapist and healer, she possesses a simultaneously calming and extremely clarifying manner in the experiential field she is creating. This opens a space for often hidden layers in her students to appear in a very organic and healing way. Her heightened ability to attune to very subtle energy fields and structures makes it possible for her to both connect in a very deep way and to also provide a soft, solid anchoring.

Gary Joplin
Facilitator of the LOGOS retreat

Gary Joplin is an international expert in somatic training and embodiment, as well as a professional choreographer and stage director. As a meditation and body-mind awareness specialist, Gary conducts training courses and workshops in Europe, Israel, China and the United States. He is a a contributing somatic facilitator and coach for Mobius Leadership, a Visiting Master in somatic practices for The Octave Institute in China, as well as a member of the faculty for the School of Life Therapists in the Netherlands and the Academy of Inner Science in Germany, where he has worked closely with Thomas Hübl in many international projects. Gary's work guides people into deeper states of inner awareness, opening doors to more expanded physical, emotional, and creative perception and expression.

Milou about Gary:

Gary is such a delight to work with! In his touch and his way of making contact, the other often feels deeply met from an unconditional place. As a facilitator he is fluent in combining a playful approach with a very deep transmission. Working with him in the field of Christ Consciousness feels completely natural: it is a frequency in which he is deeply rooted. Gary is as much a human as a cosmic being and both come forward strongly in his presence. His extensive experience with meditation gives him a clear connection to source and he has a special ability in translating the mystical realm into a physical experience.

Practical details

This retreat consists of:
  • Silence and sound meditation
  • Individual and collective process work
  • A healthy focus on the embodiment of our inner development
  • Trauma-sensitive bodywork & movement
  • Trips and meditations in the area (caves, rivers, hills)
  • Transmissions and relational excercises
  • A well-kept frequency field
  • A safe and joyful containment by the team
  • Beauty, joy and community!
Location

Our LOGOS week will be held at ‘Les Contes’, a beautiful retreat centre with a romantic French feeling, set amongst the mountains and caves near the Montségur in the foothills of the French Pyrenees.

 

Date and times

This retreat will start on September 28th at 2 pm and finishes on October 5th after lunch.

If you wish to stay at the location prior to or after the retreat, that is possible

Investment

The costs of this retreat include organizational costs and facilitation of the team. The costs of room and board are separate from this and can be paid directly to les Contes on departure.

Low income Regular Support
E 1150,- E 1350,- E 1550,-
Single room Double room Dorm
E 70,- / night E 42,50/ night E 38,-/ night
Food: 45 euro/day for lunch & dinner, breakfast is included in the room price.

Upon registration you can let us know your room preference and arrival- and departure date. All the food is vegetarian. Vegan, Glutenfree and sugarfree diets are accomodated. Other specific diet wishes can be communicated to us, we will try our best to arrange as much as we can with the local chef, depending on their options.

Application (note: before June 22nd) 

This retreat will happen if we have 12 registered participants. Because of the more complicated logistics of this location (both for us as for participants) we ask you kindly to register before June 22, after which we will decide if their are enough people joining to make it happen. We ask you to fill in our questionnaire with care so that we can attune to you as a person and have a sense of your intentions for this week. In case we have questions about your application, we might ask for a call to get to know you a bit better.

Questions? Send us a message!


The supporting team

Kim de Groot
Assistant-Facilitator

Kim de Groot is trained as a psychologist, energyhealer and life therapist. She works in her own practice, specializing in Pre- and Perinatal Psychology. As a therapist and healer she works with compassion, sensitivity, depth and safety. The subject of this retreat lies very close to Kim’s heart. She has a deep connection to the realm of the archangels and Christ Consciousness and a unique ability in assisting people to deeply remember their essence, original blueprint, Source and their own ability to rest in the field of love.

Simon Courtney
Assistant-Facilitator

Simon Courtney is a trauma-informed psychotherapist and coach, experienced at group facilitation. After a strong calling to pursue and integrate a spiritual path into his life it became very clear that including the deepest aspects of our humanity, and living this calling in daily life, was essential for an embodied spirituality (and humanity). He is passionate about how all parts of ourselves can be allowed to walk with and join us as we open up to higher and deeper possibilities in our lives.

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