An extreme seminar on exploring your hidden resources and on self-development, “Me and the Summit”

A 10-day tour with a training programme and a climb of Mount Kazbek, designed for beginners and seasoned climbers alike. Kazbek is your plan “B”, say the mountaineers who have climbed or tried to climb Elbrus (5642 m). Plan “B” means that a beginner is more likely to reach the top there: the summit lets you in. Kazbek is a more tolerant five-thousander than the haughty, two-headed Elbrus, capricious with its weather.

When life spins its wheels and your actions bring no result – look at it from above, from your own inner summit. From the meta-level it is easier to see how to lay a path around dangerous and hard-to-pass places. 10 days of practices, of dialogue with yourself, of dates with your soul, of discovering new sides of yourself, of revising values and beliefs, of the birth of your own meanings.

What the programme includes:

• the practice of the Name (to find a connection with your Essential Self, to learn to live life at the point of contact with the event); a personal silent retreat (periods of complete silence to reach inner quiet, in order to see your non-adaptive strategies and find destructive deep-seated beliefs);
• the practice of Inner Vision (“blind” living through the events of the day to awaken sleeping resources);
• the Tantra of Ascent (a practice of unpacking your inner reserves); practices for stopping the inner dialogue (what reveals and strengthens your personal inner resources);
• diagnostics of your inner supports (how far what I look to for support really does support me);
• the practice of Big Resources (looking for sources of Power outside the personal psychic system);
• the mystery Voice of the Stones (looking for your very own Heart of the Mountains – a stone taken from an ancient glacier. The practice will take place at a deposit of beautiful pyrites at an altitude of 3200 m).

The climbing programme, day by day:

Day 1. Meeting in the village of Stepantsminda (Kazbegi). Getting acquainted, equipment check, equipment rental, distribution of group gear, packing rucksacks. Ascent to the meadow by the Tsminda Sameba church (2200 m). Evening power circle, the practices of the first day, a visit to the church. Overnight stay.

Day 2. Morning and evening power circle. The practices of the second day. Lessons on using the equipment and moving in the mountains. Hike to the Sobertse pass (2700 m). Overnight stay beyond the pass.
Day 3. Morning and evening power circle. The practices of the third day. Lessons on using the equipment and moving in the mountains. Hike to the Orttsveri glacier (3200 m). Overnight stay before the glacier.
Day 4. Morning and evening power circle. The practices of the fourth day. Lessons on using the equipment and moving in the mountains. Hike to the upper reaches of the Orttsveri glacier (3700 m). Setting up base camp. Overnight stay.

Day 5. Morning and evening power circle. The practices of the fifth day. Lessons on using the equipment and moving in the mountains. Acclimatisation trip to the Kazbek plateau (4200 m). Preparation for the climb. Overnight stay at base camp.
Day 6. Morning and evening power circle. The practices of the sixth day. Preparation for the climb or the climb to the summit (5033 m) – depending on the weather. Overnight stay at base camp. Day 7. Morning and evening power circle. The practices of the seventh day. Preparation for the climb or the climb to the summit (5033 m) – depending on the weather. Overnight stay at base camp.
Day 8. Morning and evening power circle. The practices of the eighth day. Preparation for the climb or the climb to the summit (5033 m) – depending on the weather. Overnight stay at base camp.
Day 9. Morning and evening power circle. The practices of the ninth day. Descent to the meadow by the Tsminda Sameba church (2200 m). Overnight stay in the meadow.
Day 10. Morning power circle. The practices of the tenth day. Descent to the village of Stepantsminda. Departure.

To arrange a winter for yourself in summer. To give yourself the fairy tale of the twelve months in 10 days, and your heart to the mountain – that is something only a person who has matured to be fully alive on Earth can do. Alive with a capital A – experiencing the landscape of the planet with your whole self, feeling it with your whole being, with every cell of your body. Coming to know yourself in movement across the landscapes of the Earth, and so realising the meanings of all that lives.
You cannot become a human being the way an animal does, simply by growing bigger and one day maturing sexually; you have to become a human being all the time, every day winning back anew the knowledge of your own nature, going to meet the unknown with your whole self: your body, feelings and thoughts – in one movement, in one whole impulse, stepping beyond your limits, outer and inner.
This is how evolution happens. The study of human nature has proved that in our world only children and extreme athletes truly develop evolutionarily.
The trip is designed for those who have loved the mountains for a long time and for those who have only dreamed of it, believing that only superhumans and gods can get so high. Instructors will lead you to the summit as a team: seasoned mountaineers and mountain hikers, who will initiate you into all the subtleties and tricks of survival in a winter and glacier climb along the whole way. The leaders will advise and help with questions of equipment and physical preparation from the moment you decide to take part in the expedition.

An interview is required before taking part: skype natavalitskaya

Natalia Valitskaya +380963377199

Details and registration by phone and at asya20055@rambler.ruAnna Dobrovolskaya +380502233725