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title: "Mountain Ritual: 3 Days 1:1 in the Swiss Alps | Bagtun"
description: "Three days 1:1 in the Swiss mountains: walking, breath, fire and silence, personally guided by Timo Schaffeld. A ritual for your turning point."
url: https://bagtun.ch/en/ceremonies/mountain-ritual/
lang: en
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# Your Mountain Ritual

Three days in the mountains, just you and me. A transition that does not happen in your head, but while walking, by the fire and in silence.

At some point you notice that functioning and living are not the same thing. You have a full calendar, good reasons, and still this quiet pull towards stillness.

The Mountain Ritual gives you three days outside the familiar. Accompanied by someone who does not walk ahead of you, but with you. I guide you through whatever wants to surface. You discover what has long been ready inside you.

## Three days, one transition

- **Day 1: Arriving.** We set off with no goal other than the path. While walking, what has no room in everyday life sorts itself out. In the evening you say out loud what you came for.
- **Day 2: Letting go.** Up early, towards the light. Breath, silence and body lead you to where thinking no longer helps. In the evening you hand over to the fire what may leave.
- **Day 3: Returning.** Sound by the water, a last walk and a ritual that marks your new beginning. You take something home that stays.

This is an example. Your path takes shape with you, from your question and at your pace.

## What your path is made of

The Mountain Ritual is 1:1: you, me and the mountain. There is no fixed programme you have to complete. Your path grows from these building blocks:

- **Hiking**, because decisions ripen while walking
- **Breathwork**, to let the mind grow quieter
- **Bodywork**, so that what has no language can also speak
- **Fire**, as a place for what may leave
- **Sound**, to become still
- **Yoga**, to arrive

## Where the Mountain Ritual takes place

We choose the place together, to suit your question, your fitness and the season. Three places are particularly well suited:

- **Val Fex, Engadine.** A car-free high valley near Sils Maria with the historic Hotel Fex and a glacier at the end of the valley. Quiet, bright and wide.
- **Riederfurka, Aletsch.** Pro Natura's Villa Cassel stands at the edge of the Aletsch forest, above the largest glacier in the Alps.
- **Faulhorn, Bernese Oberland.** A mountain hotel at over 2600 metres, open since 1830, a two-hour walk from First past the Bachalpsee lake.

I show what three days in Val Fex can look like in the [showcase PDF](https://bagtun.ch/assets/berg-ritual-val-fex.pdf) (in German).

## Where you sleep

You have your own room, in a quiet mountain hotel or, if you like it simpler, in a mountain hut. We plan accommodation and meals together, they are paid separately.

The Mountain Ritual takes place from June to October, when paths and houses are open. We set the date together.

## When a Mountain Ritual makes sense

When you are at a turning point. When a decision is ripening. When you sense that a new chapter is waiting but you do not yet know how it begins. On a birthday, after a big milestone, in the middle of a quiet crisis or simply because you know: now is the moment.

## Good to know

The Mountain Ritual is personal guidance and does not replace therapy or medical treatment. If you have health questions, we talk about them in the first conversation. We only light fires where it is allowed. Why a mountain of all things helps is in the note [What a mountain does to a decision](https://bagtun.ch/en/notes/mountain-retreat-decision/).

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