Embodied Transpersonal Journey
October 26-31, 2026 (Spain)
Availability: 30 spots · a few already taken
Price: Tuition €1,170 · Accommodation €500
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
C.G. Jung
There’s a whisper that prompts us to explore beyond our personality, beyond the ordinary. We hear it in moments of ecstasy or agony, after great failure or success. It’s a wise, ancient voice, one that tells us that “there is more to life than this.”
It’s the voice of the collective unconscious, talking to us in an arcane language.
ARKHÈ is an invitation to follow it.
What is ARKHÈ?
Arkhè is a ritual immersion into the world of archetypes — the universal patterns that shape our dreams, our stories, our choices, and ultimately our destiny.
Every masterful work of art, every far-reaching idea, every passion that goes beyond our limited life span, drinks from that world.
The word archetype itself is a map: Arkhè (origin, beginning) + Typos (form, pattern). We’re looking at what’s there before personality. Before biography. Before opinion.
C.G. Jung was the first to posit the existence of archetypes and present his conclusions to Western, “scientific” psychology.
His understanding of the transpersonal realm and the collective unconscious ushered in an era of studies of a dimension of our psyche that was relegated to mysticism and folklore: our collective unconscious, the land of myths and fables, legends and deities.
ARKHÈ is an embodied transpersonal journey.
We can study archetypes and the transpersonal—but the real access portal is through ritual and ceremony. In ARKHÈ, we go there together, in body, not just in mind.
The Journey
ARKHÈ is a six-day, five-night journey in the mountains of Andalusia, Spain.
We will co-create rituals that open the threshold between the ordinary and the archetypal world. We will embody archetypes — let them move through us, speak through us, reveal what they have to say.
The journey of ARKHÈ starts in the ordinary world, the Village. After navigating the transpersonal, we will be back in the Village: this is where every shamanic journey needs to land.
And yet, between leaving and returning, a lot will happen.
Temple nights. Oracles. Soul work. Land journeys. Embodied Jungian studies. Gods and goddesses, myths and legends. Ceremonies that do the deep work that words alone cannot.
Ultimately, we will listen to the pulsating mystery at the core of our group being.
We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
William James
The Setting
ARKHÈ happens in the Alpujarra region of Andalusia, in southern Spain — on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada, where Greeks, Phoenicians, Romans, Visigoths, and Arabs all left their mark.
Mythologically, Andalusia was the seat of the Pillars of Hercules, near modern Gibraltar. In Roman and Greek antiquity, these were considered a gateway to the unknown vastness that lay westward, into the Atlantic Ocean and the mysterious land of Atlantis.
Our venue is located on the southern slopes of the Sierra Nevada, at a mild altitude. It is blessed with fruit trees, pure water, nature views, and two beautiful group rooms. Accommodation is simple and comfortable. There are two natural swimming pools.
Arkhè is an immersive experience. Everything you need — accommodation, food, all materials — is provided on-site.
Is this for You?
Arkhè is for those who have already heard the call of the transpersonal and are ready to travel into it in an embodied way.
As a minimum requirement, you have completed ISTA Level 1, or an equivalent training that offers a solid, embodied grounding in boundaries, emotional processing, and holistic self-understanding. Similar programs will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
If you feel the call, fill in the application. We will help you discern whether this is the right offering for you, and the right time.
The archetypes are already shaping your life. They always have been.
The question is whether you will meet them consciously.
October 26–31, 2026. Andalusia, Spain.
Questions? Write to maggie@raffaello.life