BEAUTIFUL DAYS
- DAY 1: We will meet at the airport of Cluj Napoca at the end of the afternoon. Since you may be tired from the trip to get here, we had better keep it simple: eat in a friendly place, sleep in a quiet place. Saving energy for the rest of the days. Immediately at the airport you will have seen what nice people join on events like these. And you’re one of them.
- DAY 2: Breakfast nearby in a bakery that we tested and approved of personally. At 9.30 AM we leave there for a road trip with beautiful stops, always illustrating an aspect of the theme of the week. So when we go into fabulous tourist mines, we also imagine to go to underground world, opening up for also the invisible. In all safety of course.
After the lunch we continue our journey until we reach a Medieval complex, full of corridors and viewpoints and details. There will also be a link to the week theme: one small gentle practice after the other.
On the way to our sleeping place we visit a cathedral that nobody knows but that everyone should know: incredible Gothic beauty. Serenity, soberness, divine proportion: clearly intended for a higher and deeper purpose than just a visit.
We sleep in a peculiar campsite – not what you think! – with a superfriendly ‘simple hardworking family’ that runs it. Excellent breakfast, homemade dinner with Hungarian aspects: this used to be Hungarian territory! - DAY 3: After breakfast we always start with a Daily Saskia Talk: inspiration to keep in mind during the visits this day. We stay three nights here, and we do not travel far. The first short trip is to a colourful flowery monastery – an example of man-made beauty as opposed to the rugged beauty we will see in the next days – and its somewhat bewildering gift shop. Around lunch again we visit a places of not so rugged nature, just to say goodbye to such controlled beauty: we visit beautiful hot water waterfalls.
Later this day we see an underwater forest, as a first step in the process of turning our attention to things ‘under the surface of the visible’: matters we will explore in more detail later these days. In that discovery process we also have to wander, which we do in a beautiful narrow gorge, a first metaphorical passage deeper towards the mistery; the second passage is taking a little road ‘further away from civilization’, into nature, where we will be looking for openings in the rocks: our possible entrances into things possibly hidden here? This ‘bear valley’ is completely safe – people just live here – but it all feels as if some courage is needed, which is appropriate for a Fellowship, which indeed we are.
In nature valleys like these Saskia’s Pineal Gland-meditations work on a deeper level; one of the main purposes of the week indeed is the ‘opening’ of this mysterious gland that we all have, and that ancient cultures called our ‘cosmic antenna’. The idea is to use that antenna also on a deeper level: towards the underground, since the books of Radu Cinamar mention the existence of underground spaces and even tunnels also under the mountains that we visit now.
This will be our second of three nights in this authentic and still highly original venue, but tonight we dine elsewhere: a beautiful glass-walled place, boasting great views and holiday houses that we could be ‘using’ on a next edition. Yes, you will discover Romania perhaps also for your own private visit next time. As you will see, the country is perfectly safe, thanks to its friendly local people, that we prefer to sponsor directly by buying their local produce. We bring positivity too. - DAY 4: Again after breakfast Saskia talks about inspiring elements of the Radu Cinamar books, elements that we will keep present today. They refer to the possible multidimensionality of life, where the seen and also the unseen are part of reality. A Star Trek’s Starship Enterterprise resembling church is the right place to raise our awareness of that multidimensionality in a meditation, all the more because next to that church we see a wooden gate very much like Tibetan gates. And the Radu Cinamar books refer to Tibet, and to Romanian tunnels leading there. We are not only on some ‘nice’ spot, we may truly be on an important one. Our meditation is also a trance journey, a journey into… And Tibet is not the only direction. How about another portal to the underground: California’s Mount Shasta? We open ourselves to the possibility of many, many more ‘underground cities’ in the world, as mentioned in the Radu Cinamar books.
To keep grounded we go deeper into this beautiful valley, whose natural serenity helps to ‘go’ deeper into the Earth with our minds. Saskia had already talked about tales of ‘an inverted sphere in the center of the earth’. Will the trance journey give you insights, images, experiences? Every day we do a short round of sharing, and who knows what pieces of the puzzle will surface also thanks to you. To remain grounded we eat and sleep at ‘home’, leaving us extra time to do some packing for our next transfer, tomorrow after again a delicious breakfast. - DAY 5: Today we travel towards the highlight of our 10 day tour, also the highest point that we reach. The transfer will be interrupted with nice meaningful stops, the minivans are comfortable, everything is well organized. Halfway we stop at a Fortified Church, an impressive complex with details that remind us of what Saskia shared with us from the books.
On to the super touristy village east of the Sphinx, which we will visit tomorrow. Good to visit the large supermarket here, before we disappear from tourist civilisation for some time. And still we visit a nice little forest with a beautiful Eastern Orthodox church here, a hidden gem. Yes, also in touristy villages we know places in tune with the theme of the week, deepening the energy of our group.
Today and tomorrow we sleep in a monastery in such beautiful nature and… near a special cave. Deep inside its bowels is a spring so pure and acoustics so impressive: a great place to get at one with the mountain that we are going to go UP to tomorrow, to meet the famous Sphinx, and it’s possibly even more interesting neighbor Sphinxs.
We have dinner in a beautiful spa complex, also tested on our previous occasions. We know where to go and why. We sleep in the serene tranquility of the monastery, Brother Maccarius only speaks Romanian, but his friendliness tears down all walls. - DAY 6: This is a great environment to get up for a walk before breakfast, beautiful trees, rocks, streams. After breakfast in a guesthouse nearby we have our Daily Saskia Talk, before we enter the skilift that takes us beautifully up the mountain. This is the place where Radu Cinamar is certain of underground spaces and we are going to meditate on them, and on that. There are multiple places of interest, we visit and feel them all. Excellent places also to receive a channeling. The veil with the unseen is thin here.
We have lunch on the mountain in one of the venues, dine in a local little restaurant and sleep again in the monastery. There is some time to enter the cave again, on your own: see what you feel on your own.
- DAY 7: After breakfast and the Daily Saskia Talk our roadmovie continues, interrupted by a stop in a beautiful wooden restaurant with gorgeous terrace. We are heading for one of the nicest Dacian fortresses in Romania. The guards here are a bit suspicious, but of course that’s because they see that ‘we are on to something’ :). We do a meditation here, a trance journey ‘following’ the remarkeable Dacians into the ground. Any connection? We will exchange amongst each other at least.
We stay and eat in a nice hotel in the nearby village, after a well-deserved rest on yet another day full of impressions and possibilities. By now we have become a real group of new ‘old’ friends. - DAY 8: After breakfast and our Daily Saskia Talk we head for a beautiful fortified town, including cathedral and other impressive buildings. But our attention also goes to the details that matter for the theme of our week: rediscovering and expanding our perhaps forgotten abilities, opening our minds, absorbing new insights. We wander and wonder back to all that we have picked up this week. We wander and wonder in beauty in this fortified town. We enjoy the hotel and its food. We know that we’re only a short ride away from our last place to stay on this unique road trip through Romania. What an experience it has been, and it’s not even over.
- DAG 9: After breakfast and the Daily Saskia Talk a short transfer takes us back to Cluj Napoca, a town in full development and full of remarkeable unique places that we know: from traditional to historic to hip to creative. From Soviet café to Che Guevara café, from eatery with hanging gardens to Steam Punk museum to venues where weddings are held. Or shall we go to the REAL farmer’s market, with super friendly people that do need the money, because still not everyone in Cluj is hip and happening. We can also visit the place where ley lines converge, overlooked by everyone next to a basilica; we know, consider, feel, meditate. We stay in a nice hotel with old-fashioned details and might eat in a surprisingly good Italian restaurant. But there are many options, also spontaneous ones.
- DAG 10: At 12 o’clock we have to be back at the airport for the first people that return home. Before that we will have had a farewell ceremony amongst a splendid group of trees in a park where Romanians do like to get married, apparently! There is this special energy, perfectly fitting on our grand Romania tour along special energy.
We personally know from previous trips what a wonderful heart and soul and mind opening adventure it will be. If the above resonates with you, then do fill in the provisional registration form.
SECRETS OF ROMANIA, Revealing the Treasures Within Yourself
What is Romania hiding among its majestic mountain ranges and across the plains of Transylvania? Now that this former communist country has opened up to the world, you can discover its hidden treasures as a member of a compact group of strangers as first but soon dear companions.Why Romania? Just to start somewhere: Romania offers breathtaking natural beauty: majestic mountains and vast forests that are home to an incredible diversity of wildlife, as well as pristine rivers, waterfalls, and caves. Extra ‘dimension’: guided by Saskia Bosman’s deeply relaxing meditations and our group sharing sessions, you will explore your own inner nature, reflected in the nature that surrounds you.
On the cultural level, you will experience the vibrant life of Romanian cities and villages—from colorful markets and traditional and contemporary music to outdoor dancing and (indoor) opera. Throughout the country, you will encounter a remarkable variety of churches, each with its own character and history.
You can also experience Romania’s history in abandoned industrial sites, restaurants, and cafés that evoke memories of the communist era. Then there are the much more ancient fortresses of the Dacians, a mysterious people who seem to have disappeared without a trace. Where did they go? And deep beneath the earth lies a vast salt mine, revealing layers of sediment tens of meters thick—remnants of an ancient ocean that vanished millions of years ago.
What will you feel and experience as you visit these places? What will they awaken within you?
Romania is also a land of mystery! You may have heard of the seven books by Romanian author Radu Cinamar, whether you have read them or not. Cinamar describes himself as a diplomat who became involved in the discovery of underground spaces in Romania—from holographic libraries and inhabited subterranean cities to Inner Earth: a vast, hollow space within our planet that, according to his accounts, can be accessed from various locations around the world, including Romania. He also connects these realms with the legendary Shambhala, known from Tibetan tradition.
According to Radu Cinamar, the Dacians still live in some of these underground cities. Physical entrances to these mysterious spaces are difficult to find, but the energy associated with certain locations is said to allow us to enter them energetically and through consciousness. During the journey, we will explore these possibilities through guided inner journeys and meditations.
How about the people of Romania? They are a delight to meet. Most are exceptionally helpful and hospitable, regardless of their financial circumstances. Because large parts of present-day Romania were historically part of Hungary, the country is home to people of many different backgrounds, including Romanian, Hungarian, and Roma communities.
The Roma culture is particularly fascinating, with its beautiful wrought-iron fences and gates, handmade ceramic and copper cookware, and wooden art and household objects. The Roma are skilled craftspeople with a rich heritage of music and dance.
What can you learn from all these wonderful people—and from the many different cultures that come together in Romania?
Discovering Romania you discover Yourself. As you explore this magical country, you will also discover the rich inner world within yourself—even if some parts of it have become covered in dust over the years.
Romania invites you to excavate your primordial code: your original, infinite potential. You will also discover that humanity is at the beginning of an extraordinary leap in consciousness and evolution. As Homo sapiens, we are evolving toward Homo cosmicus. Some Romanian researchers are already aware of this. And perhaps, by the end of the journey, you will not return home quite the same person who left.
Everything is well arranged, we did our home-work, tried out twice, and now it all comes together. We lovingly guide and coach you, and we offer you an online Zoom-meeting on Romania and this unique 10-day adventure well before departure.
Send an email to Saskia via inspiradiance@gmail.com if you want to ask about Radu Cinamar-related matters. And to Samuele for your logistical question: info@keepalivetours.com. In case you want to check with an American from her personal experience: contact Ashley Gray: ashleygray72@gmail.com. And then… we hope you will fill in the provisional registration form, which you will find when you scroll down this page.
We know our classics :)! We are all quick to see meaningful and also odd playful things. We are your three sparkling guides, from left to right: Ashley, Samuele and Saskia, all full of sense of wonder, and eye for beautiful detail. And logistical detail.
For instance: we will show you some of the finest incredible colourful Romanian churches, inspired by Eastern Orthodoxy. (They appear to have a Star Wars-version of Archangel Michael: come and see!)
Organiser and designer Samuele Pitzalis (61) is member of the high quality tour operator-society VvKR: https://www.vvkr.nl/reisorganisatie/keep-alive-tours. He has designed and organized and personally guided over 90 group weeks, of which 12Sardinia weeks for and together with Saskia. ‘All my tours have an eye for personal development, so my weeks are indeed useful fun. We tend to attract life experienced people with sense of humour and openness for the things of the right brain hemisphere. I am too.’ He lives in the Netherlands and Sardinia, and does presentations also together with Saskia. He re-designed Saskia’s extensive 14 day edition into this shorter 10 day edition, together with his American partner Ashley, who joins us again on our adventure. His favorite quote: ‘Synchronicity is God’s attempt to remain anonymous; observe and see!’ (Yes, his favorite binge-series is Sherlock, with Benedict Cumberbatch.) Samuele is indeed living his life mission also by leading this 10 day Romania Fellowship: ‘My work and life mission and gift to the world are indeed ONE; how lucky am I!!!’
Like previous groups we will be as a group of ‘new’ old friends. We enjoy nature so much, that she starts appreciating us to: extra energy and sheer luck is created, comes on our path. Deepening places, lovely places, impressive places. And us feeling and knowing that life is good indeed, this way.[\SAM_HOOGTEPUNT] [SAM_HOOGTEPUNT]
Saskia Bosman (65) is also quite an adventurer and also member of the VvKR, https://www.vvkr.nl/reisorganisatie/inspiradiance. Saskia is a biologist, independent researcher, tour operator, artist and awareness trainer. She loves to guide tours for inner growth. She has been studying nature including humans, especially DNA, cells, the brain, consciousness and evolution, in the context of the environment (Earth and Cosmos) for 45 years. Saskia also offers her work during the journey where applicable from her scientific interest, knowledge and experience as a biologist and intuitive in the relationship between body and mind, deliberately making connections between matter and consciousness. She therefore has the life mission and social goal of reuniting science, art and spirituality and contributing to conscious human evolution. Websites https://inspiradiance.nl/ and Inspilab.
See the Tibetan Gate? Next to a church with a roof like Star Trek’s USS Starship Enterprise? Great place to meditate – in fact we do – on the possibility of ‘other dimensions’ that some people speak of: one murmurs that there are underground tunnels all the way to Tibet, and to other sacred accesses to underground life, for example Mount Shasta in California.
The food is rural local Romanian, simple, their dishes, their country, their energy, not necessarily meant to be sophisticated, but simply authentic. And right after that suddenly very very good indeed.
We don’t visit peculiar rock fomations just because they are peculiar: they have an interesting story, legend, myth that we use un an inspirational way. And in a way we add also our love to it: ‘we assembled some rocks and added the heart. So, sure, it’s gorgeous indeed to take the cable car up the mountains to Romania’s most famous Sphinx, that you see on the right on the picture. But there is more than the eye can see. Literally. The myth written in the books of Radu Cinamar is taken as inspiration to indeed consider and even make contact with grand underearth spaces here: portals? We safely experiment and it’s great to exchange about our experiences.
We become a group of friends with hours, all member of our Fellowships are open-minded, intelligent, sweet, well-travelled. They prefer not-standard tours and can participate actively. We get know each other quite well and there are never ever quarrels. On this picture we are waiting for more than our lunch: for the next special place and adventure.
When after the daily Saskia’s Theory session we venture out for the day, we know what to look out for and we help each other with that, creating a shared adventure, in complete safety of course.
When we enter a mountain, symbolic for what for instance an ancient people did, locally – you will hear theur fascinating story – we mostrly get special beauty, inspiring form, great health and sound, and great exchanges afterwards. High level water, high level nature, high level company.
We tend to keep the venues where we sleep a mistery, so to keep them from the masses. You could sleep in a sweet monastery in a gorgeous forest, or in the big central house of an original campsite. You always sleep in your own bed of cours, unless you are a couple. No more than two persons per room, singel rooms only on request. All venues have character! And they may have such cute/ferocious guard dogs!
They say there are bears in Romania, but we have neve seen one, because we know where and how to move: keep it safe. This photo, made by a bear, was a bit of a risk. 🙂
This is the kind of nature beauty that you will see too, on our way to other grotto’s with an inspiring story. It is never off the beaten track and still adventurous. Not many foreign tourists!
You will also see one of the finest classical Gothic cathedrals in Europe, in a tiny village, completely hidden, but not for us. It is on an inspiring European walking route, all very inspirational. You will return home full of new ideas!
The awe that we search for and create will open our minds for certain frequencies that we may consider: those of the right brain hemisphere, the realm of magic, creativity, the divine, flash insights, telepathy, remote viewing, within reason of course, but still, open-minded.
Be most welcome to join us in case you are able and willing to open up and participate to the process, on indeed not just a touristic tour in a country that also still wears the marks of a decades long Communist past.
One of those traces in which we will wander amused: a Soviet Café full of this kind of murals. 🙂
We will help you connect with ‘real’ Romanian people, that have gone through a lot in their life time; amongst all new richness there are quite ‘impressively desolate remains of communist days gone by, such as the next picture. Some things we see on this 10 day may indeed humble us.
Like to be part of a radiant group of people too? We hope you will fill out the preliminary registration form below and that you will choose to be part of our Romania Fellowship too!
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