Rainbow Tribe
immersive camp for families in nature
We are inviting you.
To be. To rest. To share. To play.
With everything that you are and more.
Together, we step out of our everyday lives and roles as grandparents, uncles, aunts, parents, and kids to listen and connect to the Nature we are and to move, eat, and create as equals. To connect to the elements and leave behind what is ready to be shed. Empowered, we can move into the new with a sense of vision and belonging. Easily, we re-member how to co-create as a tribe, beyond our personal family system, and to feel how we can all hold each other.
We sleep together in a tipi or in separate tents. We cook nourishing food over the fire. We move, we dance, we sing, we play, we co-create, we dream. We listen to the sounds of the drum and the sounds of our voices. We notice how they resonate and play with the silence and the stories told at the campfire. We experience life within and beyond the family circle, creating connections, memories and lots of joy.
Life is simple but we sometimes tend to make it overly complicated. This is an invitation to come back to that simplicity.
We sleep nestled between two forests.
Every member of the family is invited to grow and contribute to the tribe. Some will be cooks, some will be fire tenders, some will be singers and joy bringers and everyone from youngest to oldest will have a part to play.
This is a call to rest. To be. To experience belonging to something greater than you do in your everyday life.
To play. To have time. To have life. To have energy.
So you can create that, what you have always dreamt of.
Program
Day 1
14:00-15:00 Arrival
15:00-16:00 Opening ceremony
16:00-18:00 Family circle
18:30-20:00 Dinner
20:00-21:00 Ancient story telling
Day 3
08:00-10:00 Breakfast
10:00-12:00 Family circle - what is needed today?
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Playful learning - voice opening
16:00-18:00 Creative doing - we work on crafting an object
18:00-20:00 Dinner
20:30-21:00 Singing
Day 2
08:00-10:00 Breakfast
10:00-12:00 Family circle - Family symbol and ritual
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Playful learning - Playfight
16:00-18:00 Dance your totem animal
18:00-20:00 Dinner
20:30-21:00 Dream travel with the drum
Day 4
09:00-10:30 Brunch
10:30-12:00 Closing circle
12:30-14:00 Departure
Our camps range from 2 to 5 days. The above program is detailed for a stay of 4 days.
Our program is subject to spontaneous changes depending on what is beneficial for all during the camp.
Where?
We sleep in a charming wooden house in a beautiful and sunny location with a view of the Kaltbrunnen valley with two dormitories with 12 and 14 beds, a lounge, a toilet, a shower, a kitchen, and a fireplace in front of the house.
The address is Schindelboden 267, 4204 Himmelried. The tipi site is accessible by Postauto and a twenty-minute walk or by bike or car. We can also organize a shuttle to pick up your luggage. Parking spaces for 5.- per day at the nearby restaurant.
What to bring?
Please bring your own sleeping mat, linen, lamp and anything you need to feel warm and comfortable outdoors.
Bring a meal to share for the first night's buffet (no refined sugar).
What we provide
We provide wood, water, 3 meals on full days, 1 meal on the last day, and anything necessary for the workshops.
Our food is local, seasonal, biological, and vegan.
Impressions from our last camp
“When the earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds and who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again. They will be known as the warriors of the rainbow."
Hopi Prophecy
The team
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Anouk Schutzbach
I have been a joyful part of the Rainbow Tribe team since Fall 23 because for me it is about coming home to the community and finding more of myself. My time at the camp reminds me of the simplicity of life. That we nourish and heal ourselves by being together. With sounds, movement and play, we find our way back to our true primal nature. Mother Earth reminds us.
I love to enrich the camp with my wild imagination, which takes the children into mythical worlds with dragons, fairies and dwarves.
I also enjoy playing with each other, the children and the adults, to remind us of the pure essence within us.
I originally trained as a childcare specialist and today I have a strong vision of creating spaces for individual soul development for children and adults.
Privately and professionally, you can find me doing Ecstatic Dance, my great passion, which has shaped me a lot in my development. I love being in nature and connecting with its forces. It makes me feel alive and I wish that for all of us!
Alexandra Choutko
I coach, teach and heal using elements from science, business, painting, movement, sounds and indigenous wisdom. I am the mother of four children, three of whom still walk this earth. l spent many years living in the material world, studying, making a phd, working on my career, as I was told this was what you ought to do in life to be happy and and integrated into society. At the same time raising my children who range from 5 to 17 years old. After many years running in the hamster will, I broke free, quit my job and discovered an amazing world and was lucky to be guided by shamans and wisdom keepers from around the world.
My heart beats for our world, our children, our companies, our society, our future. I believe we can dream our world into being by starting with asking ourselves
"What if everything was possible? What would I create? How would I like to work? to Live? And where do I start?"
Variations in the team as well as aditional instructors participations are possible.