{"id":33603,"date":"2024-12-14T23:05:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T22:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kontemplation.dk\/?p=33603"},"modified":"2026-10-03T12:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T10:48:11","slug":"ritualer-og-overgange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/ritualer-og-overgange\/","title":{"rendered":"Rituals and transitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dear friends and acquaintances of Kontemplation<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWe are concerned with how we can best both enjoy and practice the rhythms and rituals that belong to Christmas and the turn of the year.<br \/>\nAnd at the same time, we must deal with the seriousness that characterizes the world in these years.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Christmas celebration doesn&#039;t have to be just a celebration of consumption. Christmas is also an invitation to stop and feel the contemplation, silence and possible peace of the holiday.<br \/>\nWhich also resonates in Christmas carols, and which is found in the special, almost mystical Christmas peace of Christmas days.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIt is our experience that both Christmas and the turn of the year can be made into a very special backdrop for practice.<br \/>\nTherefore, for several years now, we have marked this opportunity with two events:<br \/>\nA\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/kursus\/nytaarsretreat\/\"><strong>New Year&#039;s retreat at \u00d8ster L\u00f8kke<\/strong><\/a> which is led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/teamoversigt\/?p=peter-hoeeg\">Peter<\/a>, and where Kirsten and Charlotte from the team are hosts.<br \/>\nAnd our online annual event:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/kursus\/nytaarsevent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The turn of the year \u2013 a contemplative<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>approach<\/strong><\/a> seam <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/teamoversigt\/?p=martin-guldberg\">Martin<\/a> leader.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor us, these two initiatives have become recurring rituals.<br \/>\nWhich can provide important support for practice:\u00a0<br \/>\nRituals build energy, they contain a form that, because it recurs, can be explored and refined. They constitute something stable, something to hold onto.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn Norway we call the time between Christmas and New Year&#039;s Eve Romjulen, where &#039;rom&#039; means space.\u00a0<br \/>\nFor me, it has always felt as if a special space arises on those days when a\u00a0<em>spaciousness,\u00a0<\/em>a pause, a stop in the flow of time. As if the calendar stops \u2013 before it all starts again in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And then we are also approaching January \u2013 where we are now beginning the year for the fifth time with the January Practice, which is 31 invitations, or guided meditations, one each day as a way of welcoming the new year.\u00a0<br \/>\nThis time the headline is HOME.\u00a0<br \/>\nAnd since we know that December can also be challenging, we are already giving a preview of the theme with the meditation.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/exercise\/kom-hjem-hold-en-pause\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Come home \u2013 take a break<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0with Martin.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWarm December greetings,<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\non behalf of all of us in the Kontemplation team,<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHanneli\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K\u00e6re venner og bekendte af Kontemplation \u00a0 Vi er optaget af hvordan vi bedst kan b\u00e5de gl\u00e6de os over og praktisere med de rytmer og ritualer der h\u00f8rer til julen&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":[],"meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[467],"tags":[],"person":[338],"class_list":["post-33603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breve","person-hanneli-aagotsdatter"],"subtitle":"","embedded_audio":"","hasaudio":"0","hide_featured_image_on_post":"0","nobio":"0","infobox":"","quote":"","year_published":"2024","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33603"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33608,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33603\/revisions\/33608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33603"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=33603"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/format?post=33603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}