Latest Newsletter
Spiritual Shortfilms:
Teachings, Inspirations, Motivations
by John David
Kommende Events:
Weekly Zoom Meetings
Start again in Autumn 2025
Public Live Satsang
Start again in Autumn 2025
New Book
about Self Realisation
Mantra Music
with the Open Sky Band
Darkness Retreat
Centre for Inner Transformation
between Cologne & Düsseldorf
at Open Sky House – a Place for Consciousness, Meeting, and inner growth directly at the banks of the river Rhein between Cologne and Düsseldorf.
Upcoming Retreats, Workshops and Seminars at Open Sky House near Cologne ( DE ), at Open Sky Oasis in Denia, Spain ( ES ) and in India ( IN )
Weekly Satsang at Open Sky House:
Friday 8pm
>> Information and Registration
Weekly Online Meetings with John David
Tuesdays 8pm
>>Information and Registration
5 – 21 Sept. ・ Summer Retreat ( ES )
3 – 5 Oct ・ Outer Sangha Weekend (DE)
10 – 30 Jan. 2026 ・ Arunachala Retreat ( IN )
26 – 28 Sept • Vipassana Island ( DE )
6 – 12 Oct • Transformation Week
17 – 19 Oct • Tantra Touch Weekend
24 – 26 Oct • Meditation Weekend ( DE )
“The next Buddha may take the form of a community — a community practicing understanding, mindfulness, and loving-kindness. That may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the Earth.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Open Sky House
An Oasis of Conscious Living That Radiates into the World
Our international center for inner transformation in Germany, located between Cologne and Düsseldorf, is a creative space for living awareness and offers a retreat to find peace within yourself. For over 19 years, a powerful field of love, stillness, and creativity has grown here around John David.
Right on the banks of the Rhine in Hitdorf, a small village between Cologne and Düsseldorf, a community has formed in a picturesque 17th-century mansion. Here, people of all ages and from many countries can find stillness in the midst of a hectic society, cultivate mindfulness together, and connect with that which lies beyond thoughts and emotions: their essence.
Awareness and Planet Earth
This center is for those who recognize that mindfulness is the foundation of true transformation.
Inner peace is an essential contribution to the protection of nature and peace on planet Earth.
Because only by bringing awareness into our everyday lives can we discover that we are, in truth, one with everything — not separate. And when we begin to live from this realization, it can increasingly radiate out into the world.
The question “Who am I?” is, for us, the most important question in life. John David, the spiritual teacher of the community, stands in the lineage of the Indian sage Sri Ramana Maharshi and his direct disciple, the Advaita master Papaji — both of whom taught Self-Inquiry using this central question.
Meditation and shared focus support this process of becoming conscious, helping us to fall deeply into stillness and integrate it into everyday life. This brings about a profound healing process through which we can increasingly live from our essence — the love and peace that already dwell within us.
India Retreat
Aftermovie
Open Weekend
Aftermovie
The Illusion of the Self
John David
Finding Happiness
Short Film with words of Papaji
Breaking Free from the Conditioned Mind
Frequency
how we are influenced by our surroundings