Gut Saunstorf Monastery

What is a modern monastery? The modern monastery is a sacred place of spiritual tradition and an enlightened place of modernity.

It bows to the monastic tradition and carries it on. Get out of the alienated religion. Into the core of every religion: its eternal core, the mysticism. Lived spirituality is the heart of every culture.

When the monastery enters the enlightened modern age as a temple, as a place of silence, as a place of preservation and transmission of spiritual knowledge, then the transmission of the living flame of the heart is taken care of.

The modern, non-denominational monastery is open to all people who seek retreat and want to meet themselves - regardless of whether they belong to a denomination or a spiritual direction. It offers you a framework that supports you to contemplate, become still and listen to your heart.

"Being together here serves as nourishment for the soul and the truthfulness in you, because there is not much left in this world that we call life that directly nourishes the soul. What is the food that serves the soul in you? Finding this nourishment in yourself supports the heart's desire for liberation." OM C. Parkin

OM C. Parkin is the initiator and founder of the modern monastery. He is a wisdom teacher, mystic and inner scientist and teaches at Gut Saunstorf, among other places.