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 DANCE HOLLIDAY SLOVENIA

 

DANCE - CELEBRATION OF LIFE - NATURE - CAMPING

 

This journey is for people who appreciate active holidays, living in nature with a group of

like minded people and specially for those who love movement and dance.

 

It is a unique opportunity for sharing transformational dancing, curiosities, discussions

 and having fun with creativity.

Fico Dance Journey Slovenia, https://www.holisticretreats.net

You will have a chance to explore development of your own presence, physicality, expression and creation through various body - mind and spirit, dance and contact improvisation practices led by workshop mentors

accompanied with live music.

And yes, you don't have to be a dancer to join.

Program is designed for all level of dancing experience.

Through Fičo Dance Journey Slovenia you will have a chance to explore and develop your own presence, physicality, expression and creation through various body - mind - spirit, dance and contact improvisation practices led by workshop mentors accompanied with live music.

 

And yes, you don’t have to be a dancer to join us:)

Program is designed for all levels of dancing experience.
 

Benefits

Our program is a new-old  way of active holidays and personal growth. We learn from mentors, we share, we learn from each other. We can enjoy the simple life in nature with a great food prepared by our chef.

Sustainable way of living, creative sharing, cooperation, learning and solidarity are essential for our temporary established community.

In this frame you can reach your full potential and purely enjoy nature.

It is about dropping ambitions and replacing them with curiosity.

Fico Dance Journey Slovenia, https://www.holisticretreats.net
Fico Dance Journey Slovenia, https://www.holisticretreats.net

You can enjoy a full set of different workshops from Contact to Dance Improvisation, Whirling, Gong & Healing Sounds, Live music and at the same time, you can also enjoy alone. As you feel, as you need. The only rule in the journey is that we all meet in the evening for meeting after dinner, reflecting the day and making a plan for tomorrow. 

 

We invite singles, couples, families, dancers & non- dancers

and all who wants to meet self and spend some time

with like minded people. 

 

You can sign up for all 9 days

or you can also visit just for few days or just for a workshop. 

 

If this call resonates with you, organize your time and join us!

DAY 1

 

15:00 Meeting  place - TOLMIN

transfer to Hum

setting up a camp

Opening of a Dance Journey

Introduction workshop

Ritual by waterfall

dinner

DAY 2

 

breakfast

Workshop Dance Improvisation

lunch

free time

Workshop Whirling

dinner

Gong Sound bath

THE PROGRAM - ITINERARY

Itinerary

DAY 3

 

breakfast

Workshop Contact Improvisation

lunch

free time

Workshop Whirling

dinner

Jam session

DAY 4

 

breakfast

Workshop Dance Improvisation

lunch

free time

Workshop Whirling

dinner

DAY 5

 

breakfast

Workshop Dance Improvisation

lunch

free time

Workshop Whirling

dinner

Jam session

DAY 6

 

breakfast

transfer to Babna cave

Workshop Sound & Movement

lunch

free time

Swimming in Soča river

Rafting (optional-self-paid)

Paragliding (optional self-paid)

transfer back to Hum

DAY 7

 

breakfast

Workshop Dance 

lunch

free time

DAY 8

 

Excursion to nearby natural attraction

lunch

free time

Closing of a Dance Journey

dinner

Farewell party

DAY 9

 

breakfast

packing and cleaning the camp

11h transfer to TOLMIN

* Organizers have the right to change the locations and program activities in itinerary
* we do not support alcohol and other substances - any kind of use is on your own responsibility

Venue

VENUE

We are located 8km from Tolmin. The nearest village is called Hum.

Venue is in the private ground surrounded by nature, forest, meadows, spring water, waterfall, forest animals... ... In the ground we will build a camp where you can set up your own tent and dancing floor is in the open on the meadow. There is a house in the property where we have a kitchen, showers, toilets and where you can charge your electronic devices. 

Alternative venue is Glamping area in the middle of Slovenia (20min from Ljubljana), in Bled or in Savinjska valley. We'll organize this according to a large number of demands.

HOW TO GET THERE

We will meet in Tolmin!

Nearest airports are: Ljubljana, Venice, Trieste, Klangefurt ...

Ljubljana - Tolmin: 93km

Venice - Tolmin: 184 km

Trieste - Tolmin: 106 km

Klangerfurt - Tolmin: 141 km

If you need information about buses, airport shuttles ...

we will be happy to help you.

PRICE FOR 9 DAYS

695 EUR (with your tent and sleeping bag)/ EARLY BIRDS, until 15. May 2018

1255 EUR (shared accomodation in GLAMPING) / EARLY BIRDS, until 15. May 2018

*790 EUR (if you rent our tent and sleeping bag) / EARLY BIRDS, until 15. May 2018

875 EUR (with your tent and sleeping bag) / REGULAR PRICE

1495 EUR  (shared accomodation in GLAMPING) / REGULAR PRICE

*970 EUR (if you rent our tent and sleeping bag) / REGULAR PRICE

*KIDS UNDER 3 YEARS OLD FREE /135 EUR KIDS OVER 3 YEARS OLD  

 

DISCOUNTS:

10% IF 2 PEOPLE APPLYING - ADULTS

25% IF GROUP APPLYING - MORE THAN 4 PEOPLE - ADULTS

 PRICE FOR SHORTER ATTENDANCE 

95 EUR PER DAY / early birds

125 EUR PER DAY / regular price

 

Price
Price includes:
- All workshops and activities in the itinerary
- camping ground for  accommodation in your own tent / or shared accomodation in Glamping
- tent and sleeping bag (if you don't have your own)*
3 meals per day /  vegetarian 
- transportation from  Airport (Slovenia)- Hum - Airport (Slovenia) (or other venue and all transportations during Journey)

Price does not include:
- Flight tickets; Your round trip airfare from home
- Transport from airport to and from Tolmin
- Slovenian entry Visa if needed
- Personal one-to-one sessions with facilitators
- Personal, medical or trip cancellation insurance
- Other non-included items would include, extra drinks and food, souvenir shopping, personal phone calls, wifi ...
- Rafting 45 EUR and Paragliding 120 EUR

BOOKING DEPOSIT

To secure your space all we require is a €100 registration deposit.

The remaining balance can be paid in installments or fully 2 weeks before the start of the Journey latest.

 

CANCELLATION & PAYMENT POLICY

It is your responsibility to read and understand our cancellation policy.

No one books a journey with the intention of canceling it, but unexpected events do occur and we encourage you to purchase Travel Cancellation Insurance to cover any unfortunate eventualities.
Please note that because this journey has limited numbers, it allows for a more personable, intimate experience.
Our nonrefundable cancellation policy is in place to ensure the highest quality of service and experience for all.

Exceptions cannot be made for any reason, including weather, injury/illness, or personal emergencies.

No refunds for arriving late or leaving early is available.
Deposits are non-refundable, unless Journey is canceled from our side.
We reserve the right to cancel the Journey if it is not meeting the Journey minimum.

If we do so, your deposit and payments will be fully refunded.

Although deposit can be applied to another trip within a one year period.

Contact us for any further inquires about our policy.

PLEASE NOTICE

If you are to participate in this journey , it should NOT be confused with professional therapy or counseling for specific conditions in your personal or professional life. As a trip participant, you shall agree to be mindful and personally responsible for your own wellbeing during the journey and if needed,  to seek professional & licensed medical treatment  in your state/country. We do not provide medical, therapy, or psychotherapy services.

What we do is to facilitate conditions and space for your personal growth.

Registration
Workshops

ABOUT  WORKSHOPS

WHIRLING

 

“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.” —Rumi

 

Workshops provide the participants with an opportunity to get to know their bodies, their boundaries, their fears, in short, themselves. Whirling is not the main objective of these studies but a mere means to reach it. Whirls help unfold the true energy of the participants by shaking their physical and mental states that they have so far been accustomed to.

“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.” —Rumi.

 

CONTACT IMPROVISATION

Contact Improvisation is offering a training of perception (of self, others, group) on physical, mental and emotional level, by translating informations gathered through opening the senses into movement and dance. It offers open space for experiental learning and understanding of non- verbal communication and direct confrontation with others.
 
Instead of repeating steps and form, with improvisation you will learn how to find creativity in free expression and fluidity of your body and in connection to your partner and group.
 
With entering into the unknown, you will sharpen your intuition and ability of spontaneous decision-making. Contact Improvisation demands instant presence, mindfulness and curiosity and awakens unconsciousness.  It immediately confronts you with body sensations in way that you shut down your mind and surrender to intuitive guidance of inner impulses.
 
You will question your personal perspective and vision of what means human contact today.

Teaching Topics

- developing conscious body, trust  and confidence for contact

- how to listen, feel and invite partner into dance without using force, push & pull

- basic principles and tools for contact improvisation (weight transfer and work with gravity)

- flow of actions

- interplay of control and surrender

- improvisation and creativity in every day life
 
You will learn how to be present and wide awake enough to let go, so creation can happen through you and your partner in dance.

BODY-MIND-SPIRIT & DANCE IMPROVISATION 

 

In the sessions we are working on awareness of the body, mind and emotions through breathing, on power and softness of movements, flow and the usage of the energy and on focusing the attention and awareness.

 

By traveling in an imaginary world and with will pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We are providing participants with a set of tools for improvisation that they can implement in their own creations and in daily life.

 

Before my first inhale and after my last exhale everything already exists.

I only have to be.

To move from point A to point B with acceptance, understanding, and sincerity.

And sometimes it happens that dance is happening through us.

 

SOUND AND MOVEMENT 

We will explore different sound scapes with healing instruments of different cultures: tibetan singing bowls, gong, koshi chimes, shakers, bells, rain sticks, frame drum and various percussion. Along with the sound we will cultivate movement practice and explore our bodies through the full potential of dance.
 
Sound and movement are means by which we expand our consciousness, awareness and mindfullness.

With Gong we will allow contact between the physical and the spiritual part of one's inner landscapes to happen.

Our inner self is reflected in symbols, feelings, visions, imagination ...
 
Lets unlock that!

LIVE MUSIC!

All workshops will be accompanied by live music.


 
 

VEGETARIAN MEALS!
 


 
 

Our promise to sustain our environment:

Venue
We are located 8km from Tolmin. The nearest village is called Hum.
Venue is in the private ground surrounded by nature, forest, meadows, spring water, waterfall, forest animals. In the ground we will build a camp where participants can set up their own tent and dancing floor is in the open on the meadow. There is a house in the property where we have a kitchen, showers, toilets and where you can charge your electronic devices.

We reduce the use of energy by setting up a campfire every evening and just by sleeping outside in tents instead of sleeping in a house.

Regarding the campfire we first consider:
-Is this an appropriate and safe environment to have a campfire? Is the local area very dry and therefore a fire risk?
-Is the fuel from a renewable resource or not? Wood collected should be dead and collected from the ground, not from living vegetation and remember that charcoal is unlikely to come from a sustainable source
-Cooking can be done more efficiently and quickly on gas camping stoves provided on the expedition vehicle
-Do not burn anything made of plastic as this can emit toxic fumes – this includes cigarette butts, bags and wrappers
-Bury the fire after it’s no longer wanted to ensure that it’s out and does not leave an unsightly blemish on the local area
-Do not leave any glass bottles or cans behind and pick up any other non-biodegradable objects such as cigarette butts and papers.
-We always assign one member of our team as a firekeeper to take care of the fire from beginning till the end

The land around our camp is well conserved and we encourage our guests to keep it that way, so no rubbish, no pollution.There is a river, so clean that you can still find crabs inside and we educate our guests to keep it that way.We also encourage guests to bathe in a river (without any soaps, only with clay). There is also a device for storing rain water in a property. The surrounding water in a river is so clean that it is drinkable.

We aim to leave only "footprints" wherever we camp and we:
-Try to avoid damaging the pristine environment
-Do not uproot plants or trees
-Carry all waste out – do not leave any plastics, cans, bottles, bottle tops or cigarette ends behind

Our promise to support our community:

Friends & Neighbours
As part of a program we take our guests to visit Babna Cave, the oldest pagan sanctuary in Slovenia. In 1920 it was the last pagan ceremony there. It is completely hidden and out of beaten tourist tracks and exceptionally powerful energetic place. We also ask our guests to leave no litter or graffiti behind and to only take photographs there as well as to not attempt to bring home any rocks or stones or other souvenirs of the location.

A fair deal
We offer local artists good working conditions, a fair wage, and empower them with training opportunities. They lead professional workshops and at the same time they are able to work and exchange with international artists to enrich their training and practice. Our chef of the kitchen is working with local operators and suppliers, sourcing food from locally-owned stores and cooking vegetarian meals for all our journey (to avoid wild animal eating) as well ask guests to not purchase deer meat from vendors as this can encourage the ongoing wild hunting in local areas of interest.
This journey (this time 3rd edition) employs 2 local dancers, 1 local musician and 2 local organization assistants to take care of the guests and environment and to support the temporary established community. We also take care to recycle cans, paper and plastics.

 

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