Breaking News

  • 16.02.24 Coming to the festival: Rastal & Eric Unger.
  • 18.02.24 Media-Cooperation agreed with “The Max Hug Podcast”
  • 24.02.24 Pernilla Kannapinn will perform at the festival.
    See this Youtube video.
  • 5.03.24 Secured: a mobile sauna is waiting for you.
  • 10.03.24 Early Bird Ticket sale launched!
  • 21.03.24 New Cooperation: “Perfectly Okay” endorses the Festival.
  • 08.04.24 SANJAY MANCHANDA coming to the Festival!
  • 23.05.24 We have scheduled a common Q&A session via Zoom for Tuesday, June 4th at 10:00 a.m. PDT / 1:00 p.m. EDT / 7:00 p.m. CEST. You will receive the access data via our newsletter.

What you can expect

Enjoy the spacious atmosphere and surroundings of a 15th-century castle and the experience of coming together and practice with Finders from all over the world. Turbo-charge your awakening.  Create your own personal Finders community. Join in, sink in—Thrive.

Just buy a ticket.

Tickets include:

    • Five days of The Sinking In Festival
    • Two healthy vegetarian meals a day
    • Basic accommodation: Right outside the castle for your tent, van or caravan—or a clean indoor space for your mat or hammock.
    • Access to toilets and showers.

Click/tap the [ACCOMMODATION] button to book upgraded accommodations (bed or mattress & bedding onsite or hotel and guesthouse offsite).

An interview with Sanjay and Rastal

Florian, your host, talks to Sanjay and Rastal about their different approaches and their first joint appearance at the festival.

The Art of Sinking in

Sinking in is the most effective way to switch your brain to happiness—and so beautifully simple! Possibly it is “the greatest secret of all“.

We will use Sinking in from different angles and in different, often quite fanciful ways. There will be guided sessions and group work as well as talks, conversations, ceremonies and enough space for everything that wants to unfold spontaneously.

As a merry multitude of singularities we want to progress along the awakened continuum—sinking deeper into our bodies and into no-thingness, into sunlight and the night, into music, stillness and our dreams, into the surrounding trees, into poetry, fire and the stars.

The Sinking in Bell

Our overall aim is to develop a near permanent dynamic of Sinking in over the days and nights of the festival.

Therefore we will install the Sinking in Bell. It shall be heard at random times throughout the buildings and the festival grounds. Whenever the bell rings, all activity—whether mental, emotional or physical—comes to a gentle halt. The whole festival sinks into itself.

Joining the Festival ...

Florian Kirner

(Weitersroda Castle)

Our Host

Sanjay Manchanda

(Arizona, USA)

Integration Therapist & Researcher

Rastal

(Louisiana, USA)

Researcher & Entrepreneur

Rike Fischer

(Munich, Germany)

Meditation Mentor

YOU

(Worldwide)

Finder

Erik Unger

(Vienna, Austria)

Late Location Explorer

Patrick Palucki

Owner of Palucki Coaching & Research Institute Owner of Holistic Training

Pernilla Kannapinn

(On the road)

Musician & Yoga-Teacher & Vagabond

Max Hug

(Switzerland)

Podcast Host

Steffen Lohrer

(Mallorca, Spain)

Buddhist Therapist & Healer & Philanthropist

Partners & Cooperations

The Castle

Weitersroda Castle is a Renaissance castle situated in the geographical centre of Germany. It was first mentioned in records in 1478. Over the centuries it has been owned by counts, dukes, duchesses, princes and entrepreneurs – until it was (mis)managed as ‘public property’ during the East German socialist era.

In 2008, Weitersroda Castle was bought in a neglected and dilapidated state by Florian Kirner.

Since then, the Renaissance castle has been saved from destruction, rebuilt and developed.

The three-storey main building, set in stone and timber, contains 36 rooms. The stable, with its huge attic, will also be used for the event. The courtyard is dominated by a 300-year-old lime tree and offers a full infrastructure for events. Our temple grove invites you to immerse yourself in the beauty of nature.

Weitersroda Castle has excellent internet access thanks to two fibre optic lines. It is a hub for various networks and communities.

How to reach us

Schloss Weitersroda
Schlossstrasse 8
98646 Hildburghausen
Germany

Located at the southern slope of the enchanted Thuringian Forest, we are far away from any big city. Relax into “The Green Heart of Germany”.

Slow down.

By car:
Ask Google-Maps for “Schloss Weitersroda” and the good old German Autobahn will bring you here.

By train:
Coming in from North, East or South, you want to reach the highspeed train (ICE) running between Berlin and Munich.
The station you want to reach is “Hildburghausen”, there we can pick you up.
Coming in from the South, “Coburg” is also an option.
Coming in from the West you aim for “Eisenach” and from there a train will take you to Hildburghausen.

By plane:
Should it be possible for you, to get a transfer flight to the Airports of Nuremberg or Erfurt this would be the most convenient option, just 1 hour away from Hildburghausen or Coburg by train.
From the German main airports—Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin and Leipzig—it will take you 3 to 4 hours by train to come to Hildburghausen—or slightly less by rental car.

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