Opening to the Open – Dzogchen Summer Retreat with James Low and Sangha

Learning, reflecting and meditating as active participation in dharma

Retreat | James Low

Saturday 4. July until Saturday 11. July 2026

The retreat will start on Saturday 4th July 2026 at 6 pm and will end at 1 pm on Saturday 11th July, followed by lunch and cleaning up the retreat house together.

This is a time of transition and unpredictability. Not only does the world change politically, economically and ecologically, but we as a group of James’ students face a new stage, a new beginning. Given the state of his health, James asked the organisers of this retreat to look into new ways of meeting together: the Dharma teacher as the central figure recedes into the background, while the students are given more space to explore different facets of practice and explore possibilities to facilitate a common growth in Dharma. 

With this, we invite you to a retreat offering a range of different practices and exercises designed to help entering into dialogue with ourselves, others, and the world. Experiencing ourselves through body, voice and mind, we want to look directly how our understanding of Dharma impacts us individually: What methods have I learned that help me to open and relax? How do I notice that I close myself off? How do I experience insecurity? And how can I create a bridge from my conceptual knowledge of Dharma to actual lived experience. To put it a different way, we want to explore the factors that turn our Dharma knowledge into wisdom and connectivity.

James is planning to come to the retreat. Depending on his health, he would like to teach up to two sessions a day. This will allow plenty of time for activities, led by experienced students, in which we will have the opportunity to engage in bodywork, be in nature, open up inner spaces through using sound, explore Dzogchen texts and come closer to the primordial nature of our mind in meditation. So everyone is invited into active participation and all of this will allow us to see and act differently in our everyday lives.

James cannot guarantee whether and to what extent he will be able to be present and teach at this retreat – of course, we all hope, he will be! But whatever the situation may be in the summer, there will be time and space for practice, teaching, and exchange.

The teaching of James Low will be only in english.

Course fee| 224 € regular  |  154 € members of Retreathaus Berghof  |  112 € social price  –  plus accomodation and meals

In addition to this Retreathaus Berghof course fee there will be the possibility to offer a dana to James Low to express your gratitude for the teachings.
 

The rooms are allocated in the order in which they are registered. We ask for your understanding that rooms can only be booked for the entire period of the retreat. For registration do not send Emails to the Berghof office.

Here you’ll find all retreat informations for download: