The River Beneath
all Rivers
A four-day immersion designed to deepen the cadence of your inner tempo.
To leave you more settled, less easily recruited by the shiny things and more available for what actually matters.
Community → Solitude → Community
Why This Retreat, Why Now?
It is glaringly obvious that we are at a crossroads as a collective.
And there is no shortage of advice on doing our part: Stay informed. Heal your lineage. Regulate your nervous system. Don’t lose hope. Show up.
Our relationship with what’s real, what’s important, and what we can and cannot do about it is… complicated.
And the question isn’t, what do I do?
It’s…
How present am I to what is actually important, not just what is pulling at my attention, and how do I become available to tend to that?
If we cannot discern what we truly need to do and sustain access to enough of ourselves to do it, we will either slip into collapse, or leap into overdrive.
The world needs you wholly here and deeply alive.
Meditation as a natural capacity rather than a skill to perfect
So let’s commit to the truest practice of meditation, which is cultivating aliveness in such a way that it is available to you at any time and useful in all things.
There is a difference between doing the work, having a practice, and simply and honestly inhabiting your experience.
Meditation as a natural capacity rather than a skill to perfect. You learn to recognise awareness as your primary ground. Stable, present, already here.
And then the practice begins to move beyond the meditation cushion.
How can we be silence in motion?
How can we be mindfully, presently, consciously awake, alert, and aware in the way that we move in the world?
How can we move from that place, speak from that place, think from that place, act from that place?
The River Beneath All Rivers
The River we’re pointing to deserves its own place as a teacher here.
The River Beneath All Rivers is the substratum, the foundation that all things rest upon.
How can we return to that place of true restfulness?
Listen from that place. Be in contact, in communion with that space, and realise that it is right here with us. Right here, breathing with us, moving with us in the rhythm of our heartbeat, in the tone of our voice, in the silence that lingers in the air and the space in between.
You already have. You already are.
Let us journey together. Let us walk together in this good way.
How The River Beneath All Rivers Flows
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How The River Beneath All Rivers Flows •
You encounter something rather than merely understand it.
Four days give us enough time to move beyond ideas about meditation and into direct experience. You begin to recognise the River by feel.
Urgency, ambition, appetite and all the things constantly recruiting your attention have less pull. They’re still about; they’re not the pace setter quite so much.
In a nutshell, you become harder to hurry.
Some things lose their grip.
You bring it back with you.
This immersion is the live version of Meditation as a Way of Being.
Four days in resonance with such a gentle state lets it gain legs. Aka, go home with you.
You recover something.
People often locate something of great worth that had become difficult to feel: a sense of enoughness, a pleasant weight to their presence, their attention, their relationship with mystery.
We don’t manufacture this. We’re more like banks to the River, tending the conditions in which something already there can become perceptible again.
Venue and Location
EcoView Retreat, Gold Coast Hinterland (Tallebudgera Valley, 15 minutes from the airport).
The retreat will be held on Kombumerri Country, Tallebudgera Valley, set on 70 acres of rainforest, where we’ll hold vigils and encourage you to explore in solitude.
Private eco-villas and decks, dedicated practice spaces, infrared saunas, hot and cold plunge pools, hot tubs, fireplaces, and plenty of natural walking tracks to explore.
Your Teachers
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Your Teachers •
The River we’re pointing to deserves it’s own place as a teacher here. Hand on heart, if it doesn’t make sense now, it will after the retreat. Just like a mountain exposes your injuries, this down below all things terrain has the knack for both holding and humbling.
Kurt is your essential guide of this territory that requires subtle handling, and Amber points the torch back to the path home.
If you want to venture into the deep waters, it’s smart to have guides who have themselves ‘touched the bottom’ and also know how to recognise and work with what comes back.
The River Beneath all Rivers is the lived expression of more than two decades Kurt has spent in sustained practice and direct encounter. Thousands upon thousands of hours in meditation, ceremony and contemplation.
His teaching comes from having stayed close to these waters for a very long time. Kurt has 20+ years of meditation and contemplative practice and 15+ years guiding groups. He is a Certified Melchizedek Method Trainer, ceremonial facilitator, sound practitioner and multi-instrumentalist, with extensive experience in rites of passage, ceremony, prayer, devotional practice and intuitive + energetic work.
Amber will be sitting at the right hand and tending the human terrain around meeting this space, bringing more than 15 years of experience facilitation Rites of Passage immersions and retreats.
Some of the more official qualifications held in, Ancestral Healing (Ancestral Medicine, Daniel Foor) Initiation and Ritual, Death Walker Training (Zenith Virago) Process Orientated Facilitation (David Bedrick), Somatic Therapy and Bachelor of Medical Science with mentorship and experience in Gestalt Therapy, Attachment and Development. Currently in study under Lee Tree for Holistic Psychotherapy.
investment
$3,400 AUD
Four days, three nights at EcoView Retreat, including accommodation, all meals + snacks, retreat practices, teachings, vigils, ceremony + experiences, and full use of the retreat facilities.
Private room upgrade: $500+
Inclusions
Four-day, three-night retreat at EcoView Retreat in the Gold Coast Hinterland
Accommodation in the eco-villas
Private room upgrade available for $500+All meals + snacks, prepared by our in-house chef
All retreat practices, teachings, vigils, ceremony + experiences
Full use of the retreat facilities, including infrared saunas, hot + cold plunge pools, hot tubs + the surrounding 70 acres
Daily Workings
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Daily Workings •
DAY 1
Arrive 9:30am, settle in, opening practice, Sweat Lodge, dinner + evening together.
DAY 2
Morning practice, meditation + teachings, vigil + solitude, embodied practice, simple ceremony, fire, song + prayer.
DAY 3
Morning practice, meditation + teachings, time on the land, embodied practice, rest + solitude, 5Rhythms in the evening.
DAY 4
Closing practice, Sweat Lodge, breakfast together + depart 10am.
Days two + three are our full practice days, roughly 9am–4pm with a lunch break. The shape is intentional, the particulars remain responsive to the group.
PAST EXPERIENCE AND SUCCESS
“Kurt is a masterful weaver. One who brings light to the veil almost without trying. He has a unique way of illuminating what is unseen while also revealing a quiet remembering. It often feels as though he is sharing from beyond the veil while simultaneously being a warm, steady light within it.
And Amber is right there beside him, creating the safety to stay even in the most confusing or void like spaces. There is something indescribable about the permission they create together. They don’t simply guide you into the unseen; they help you feel, experience, and integrate what you find there in a way that can be carried with you beyond the event or container itself.
Together, they create a rare space where the unseen can become something felt, known, and transferable.”
AMANDA CURRY, Somatic Inner Child Healing and Breathwork
BEN GROVER, Men’s Work
AND MORE…
“Amber and Kurt are the lighthouses. They help us to recall what it is we know in our bones. What we can’t put words too but feel deeply. For helping us to remember who we are in the simplest of ways, that deeply excavate our core. Amber is a fierce lioness, poignant to the point but soft, and a loving safe place to land. Mother Nature rolls through her veins. Kurt, an elder who shows the way without always using many words. Other world drifter with deep listening and presence. His ability to help us enquire around all things is glorious.
Anything that these two facilitate, it is life changing, if you are willing to surrender yourself to finding your own light, your North Star. You will be loved unconditionally, held, challenged and will become more you and far more expansive. You will only gain from this experience. They are the absolute real deal and I’m so grateful I have been on many light finding missions with them and journeys of remembering.
EMMA RENNIE-HYNES
“This is the kind of retreat where, when you know, you know. Kurt and Amber meet you in that place, and just seem to know exactly what threads to weave or pull on.
Listen for the call, you’ll know if this is for you and if so, they will walk with you in the most beautiful of ways with deep care, love and respect 🧡”
HANNAH, Counsellor
“Kurt and Amber are deeply embodied facilitators. They’re both genuine, kind, real, humble and deeply devoted to the path of truth and service in the way they walk and this is evident when in their presence.
It’s a blessing to have found teachers that truly walk their talk, reflect in an honest way and guide you back to YOUR own inner wisdom.”
Jaz Taylor, Sound Healer, Women’s Circle Holder
“I would absolutely recommend doing any retreat work or any type of work with Kurt and his team. He's always genuine, always hones in on his people, his clients, and those around him. What you get out of the experience of time with Kurt, one on one or as a group at a retreat, in a breathwork session, or a meditation, it's always extremely valuable and beneficial. The value for money is great and just the humanness and genuineness. I'd recommend Kurt to anyone, because he's amazing and what he has to offer is amazing”
Gavin Mathieson, Student
“What's shifted for me in that time… is that image of myself of having to be perfect in all of the subconscious ways that I held that image of myself as being perfect and doing the right things and being a good girl and being a good human, and being a good citizen in this world, and helping others… I had to get really honest with myself and take a whole lot of responsibility and kind of really shatter that image of perfection and realise the depths of the humanness in me and in the shadow of that, that you find your true brilliance.”
JESS SMITH, Physiotherapist & Energy Healer
One day we realise we are no longer moving between two separated shores.
We are simply carrying the ground of stillness as we walk.
This is magic. You are magic.
So let us come back to that place. Back to that space. Back home again.
Let us journey together. Let us walk together in this good way.
