HOLISTIC RETREATS
AND JOURNEYS
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Radomlje - Slovenia
EMBODIMENT OF ARCHETYPES IN PRESENCE OF HORSES
Embrace the Silence Within &
Enhance your Creativity
Looking for fresh inspiration to enhance your creativity by learning about your personal archetypes ?
By the side of herd that always gives you accurate and honest feedback?
Want to learn in encouraging way how to be more present, how to work with energy and how to be more emotionally vital in your body movement?
Photo by Špela Kaplja
Why Horses?
Horses are catalysts for creativity, they keep you stay alert in present and have highly emotional resonance - they get the message behind emotion without judgment and are mirrors and catalysts of human consciousness
Imagine Yourself moving in your body and dancing in near presence of horses, bare feet, playing on soft sand in an open air riding area and deepening your creative potentials...
Eating healthy vegetarian food, taken directly from organic garden just in front of your eyes, surrounded with pristine nature just a few minutes walk away from the venue...
Perhaps sleeping in the hayloft, just by the herd, deeply sensing their spirit....
Embracing the silence within, spending nights looking into the stars above, having enlightening conversations by the fire …
THE MYTH OF CHIRON
In Greek mythology, Chiron was held to be the superlative centaur, notable for his youth-nurturing nature. With many exceptional personal skills: medicine, music, archery & prophecy.
He was known for his knowledge and skill with medicine.A great healer, astrologer, and respected oracle, Chiron was said to be the first among centaurs and highly revered as a teacher and tutor. Among his pupils were many culture heroes: Asclepius, Aristaeus, Ajax, Aeneas, Actaeon, Caeneus, Theseus, Achilles, Jason, Peleus, Telamon, Perseus, sometimes Heracles, Oileus, Phoenix, and in one Byzantine tradition, even Dionysus: according to Ptolemaeus Chennus of Alexandria.
Association for deep ecology - TERRA ANIMA - is dedicated to spread awareness of how important is our connection with nature and ancient soul wisdom. Established and runned by three women, who are taking care of herd with 4 horses, 5 cats, 2 dogs and a donkey. They are also cultivating and producing their own organic garden.
CENTER KIRON deals with an innovative, natural and holistic approach to horses, as well as exploring the power of the horse as an assistant in human development, personal growth and creativity. Kiron aims to raise the awareness about urgent and necessary descent of a man from a position of domination and enslavement of horses to the position of a student who learns from these powerful and unique creatures. Horses bring to man essentially needed tools for transformation in these times of apocalyptic changes on personal and spiritual level.
And in such atmosphere we will run our retreat.
THE VENUE ... TERRA ANIMA & CENTER KIRON
"Dionysus was loved by Chiron, from whom he learned chants and dances, the bacchic rites and initiations"
WE WILL NOT RIDE AND WE WILL NOT WALK AND CARESS HORSES...
INSTEAD...
We will aim to become
SILENT OBSERVERS AND STUDENTS,
humble to learn and truly listen to
WHAT THESE AMAZING ANIMALS ARE WHISPERING AND WHAT THEY CAN TEACH US
And then we will use this power and transform it in our own creations.
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Horses teach us that every move is just an information and every emotion is like conversation, but all together is choreographed energy that has its source deep inside of ourselves and is guided with fully present consciousness.
Neja Meta - Center Kiron
CREATIVITY ...
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To balance and harmonize your body - mind & spirit, we will start each morning with Kundalini Meditation and continue with Contact Dance to truly awaken, engage,open and arouse all your senses.
Afternoons we will guide you to enhance your personal Creativity through working with Archetypes as a tool for developing your own movement language and your own dance in a group improvisation.
You will be able to propose your creative ideas and test them within a group of like-minded people.
Venue offers plenty of opportunities also for site specific exploration.
Surrounding nature: magical woods, lakes, nearby botanical garden and river will offer you an opportunity for chilled evening walks and support you in reflecting the material gained throughout the working day.
BENEFITS!
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Through daily body-mind-spirit exercises of meditative presence in movement, you will be learning and training your highly sensorial perception - beyond the usual perception of our six senses
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During this retreat you will gain awareness of body and its wordless messages. You will experience the power of silence and sounds that come from our bodies or from nature around us and how to establish harmonizing dialogues in this way
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Through guided exercises of contact dance you will be working with weight - why and where is the core of your gravitation and how does your movement become lighter with clear actions and without much effort
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The presence of horses and working outdoors in a fresh air will heighten your perception and arouse your senses and that will enable you to work with your emotional body
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Through movement with stimulation of touch, you will learn how to prepare space to set personal boundaries -to identify where you are threatened and where to go beyond, when you block your development
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Working with archetypes will definitely inspire and enhance your creative process and unleash the diversity of organic movement styles within you. You will train subtle and mindful movement and that will lead you to more defined articulations.
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Embodiment of archetypes also enhances theatricality and the way of balancing inner emotional states, as well as it sharpens the use and recognition of non - verbal communication
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You will establish greater awareness of universal archetypes we all live and how to use this knowledge in every day life and this will improve your power of expression as well as widen your perception. You will gain greater understanding of psychological processes through direct embodied experience
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Through playful daily improvisational dance practice that bind with specific abilities, desires and expectations of the individual, you will develop a conscious body. You will get tools to push your boundaries of what is possible. By receiving insights and learning how to positively influence the energies of your body, you will sense yourself more deeply.
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You will experience ritual dance with drums to recall of what you want to revive in your live
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ITINERARY
ARRIVAL DAY IS ONE DAY PRIOR TO DAY 1!
MEETING POINT
We will pick you up at the hotel or you can arrive to Terra Anima until 6pm latest to catch the Opening Meeting of this retreat
DAY 1
KUNDALINI MEDITATION
Breakfast
BODY - MIND - SPIRIT & CONTACT DANCE
Lunch
FREE TIME for reflection, meditation
VIDEO LECTURE ARCHETYPES
ENHANCING PERSONAL CREATIVITY - Embodying Universal Archetypes
Dinner
PERSONAL COSMOLOGY - by the fire
DAY 2
KUNDALINI MEDITATION
Breakfast
BODY - MIND - SPIRIT & CONTACT DANCE
Lunch
Free Time for reflection, meditation
VIDEO LECTURE ARCHETYPES
ENHANCING PERSONAL CREATIVITY - Embodying Universal Archetypes
Dinner
FREE JAM SESSION
DAY 3
KUNDALINI MEDITATION
Breakfast
BODY - MIND - SPIRIT & CONTACT DANCE
Lunch
VISITING BOTANICAL GARDEN
site specific exploration
VIDEO LECTURE ARCHETYPES
ENHANCING PERSONAL CREATIVITY - Embodying Personal Archetypes
Dinner
PERSONAL COSMOLOGY
DAY 4
KUNDALINI MEDITATION
Breakfast
BODY - MIND - SPIRIT & CONTACT DANCE
Lunch
FREE TIME for reflection, meditation
VIDEO LECTURE ARCHETYPES
ENHANCING PERSONAL CREATIVITY - Embodying Personal Archetypes
Dinner
PERSONAL COSMOLOGY
DAY 5
KUNDALINI MEDITATION
Breakfast
BODY - MIND - SPIRIT & CONTACT DANCE
Lunch
FREE TIME for reflection, meditation
VIDEO LECTURE ARCHETYPES
ENHANCING PERSONAL CREATIVITY - Embodying Personal Archetypes // site specific exploration
Dinner
RITUAL DANCE WITH A DRUM
* Organizers have the right to change the locations and program activities according to a group dynamics and other unpredictable circumstances
*Participants have to send one chosen archetype on which they wish to work prior the starting of this retreat
* in case of bad weather, we will work in a nearby outdoor studio with roof
* we do not support alcohol and other substances - any kind of use is on your own responsibility
VIP DAY
Breakfast
INDIVIDUAL CONSULTATIONS
Lunch
INDIVIDUAL CONSULTATIONS
Dinner
PRICE
This retreat can be organized also upon your request for groups of minimum 8 to maximum 15 people.
PRICE FOR PROGRAM + FOOD // 300 €
possible 1 day visit (just 1st and 2nd day) // 70 € per day
PRICE FOR : PROGRAM , FOOD + ACCOMMODATION
EARLY BIRD
440€ // sleeping in hay bed in near presence of horses
690€ // double occupancy in near by GLAMPING, 10 minutes walk from the venue
REGULAR PRICE
530€ // sleeping in hay bed in near presence of horses
780€ // double occupancy in near by GLAMPING, 10 minutes walk from the venue
POSSIBLE PAYMENT IN 4* (or less) INSTALLMENTS
PRICE INCLUDES:
- 6 nights lodging at nearby glamping or hotel (double occupancy) or in a hayloft (shared accommodation for 6-8 people)
– 3 meals per day / organic vegetarian //tea, coffee on constant disposal
- 5 morning Kundalini Meditations - group movement sessions (1h)
- 5 Body-Mind-Spirit & Contact Dance - group movement sessions (2,5h)
- 5 Video Lectures on Archetypes (1h)
- 5 Enhancing Personal Creativity - Embodying Archetypes - guided group movement sessions (2h)
- 3 Personal Cosmology - guided group conversations (1h)
- Visiting nearby botanical garden - Volčji Potok
- 1 last evening : Ritual dance with drums (3 hours)
- free Wi-Fi (only for hotel visitors)
- Health Insurance
PRICE DOES NOT INCLUDE:
- Flight tickets; Your round trip airfare from home to Slovenia (nearest airports Trieste, Venice, Zagreb)
- Transport from airport to Kiron if you fly to other airports than Slovenia
- Personal, medical or trip cancellation insurance
- Other non-included items would include souvenir shopping, personal phone calls, laundry
OTHER PRIVATE (individual) SESSIONS with retreat facilitators upon request:
- Sacred Riding with Neja Meta - 30 eur per session /contact Neja directly for booking (neja.meta@gmail.com)
- AstroDance & Storytelling with Sandra Anais - http://sandraanaisvidim.wixsite.com/dance-ecology/astrodance-storytelling
*Individual sessions are provided upon request, for extra payment and are not included in a price of a retreat
Natal Chart Interpretation
session (2h) & Written PDF / 60 EUR
Natal Chart & Solar Return Chart Interpretation
session (2h) & Written PDF / 80 EUR
Natal Chart with Movement Session
Written PDF & 1,5h practice / 100 EUR
Natal Chart & Solar Return Chart with Movement Session
Written PDF & 1,5 h practice/ 120 EUR
BOOKING DEPOSIT
To secure your space for this retreat all we require is a €150 registration deposit.
The remaining balance can be paid in installments or in full 2 weeks prior the beginning of program
CANCELLATION & PAYMENT POLICY
It is your responsibility to read and understand our cancellation policy.
No one books a retreat 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 retreat 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 Retreat is canceled from our side.
We reserve the right to cancel the trip if it is not meeting the trip minimum. If we do so, your deposit and payments will be 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 retreat , 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 retreat 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 and space for your personal growth.
ABOUT SANDRA ANAIS - FACILITATOR
SANDRA ANAIS - founder of DANCE ECOLOGY
Dance ecology, in addition to build a bridge between nature and culture through dance, also aims to expand the perception of contemporary dance practices in spiritual and emotional sense and encourages to revitalize forgotten wisdom of sacred traditions and bring them back in to dance education. It also raises the awareness of the need to transform the man through body work and through revival of poetic discourse and interdisciplinarity (interconnection) within different artistic practices.
Sandra Anais, the culturologist and slovenianartist with status of Ministry of Culture,works, researches and develops programs in the field of dance, which she understands as an interdisciplinary field of artistic, scientific and spiritual practice. She is active as a dancer, teacher, organizer and coordinator of the festivals. She is currently interested in exploring the physical practices of other cultures, embodiment, contemporary performative practices and nomadism in relation with urban rituals, new age practices and creation of urban communities / tribes. In the field of dance and somatic practices, she studied with renowned pedagogues in Slovenia, Great Britain, China, Austria and Georgia. Her teaching methods are synthesis of dance techniques (from modern to contemporary dance), contact and theatre improvisation, active meditation techniques, pilates and martial arts.
She is applying extraordinary approach in teaching dance and that will guide you in a way, that you will most likely be able to express introverted aspects of yourself. By translating emotions into movement you will learn to cherish yourself and feel more confident to trust your body intelligence. In her sessions you will show off your true and blissful dancing self through direct and honest communication, sense of humor and acute sensitivity to fragile aspects of your character.
ABOUT GORAN BOGDANOVSKI - FACILITATOR
GORAN BOGDANOVSKI - founder of DANCE ALCHEMY -DANCE IMPROVISATION TEACHER TRAINING
Has lived and breathed dance professionally since 1990.
He has danced for more than seventy different choreographers and directors in the field of performing arts,
moving from classical ballet to martial arts,
from modern to contemporary dance and contact improvisation,
from physical theatre to film and from meditation to improvisation.
With his own dance company, he choreographed performances and toured extensively in 23 countries.
He ran dance studios, festivals, platforms and networks.
For the last twelve years, he has been teaching dance improvisation worldwide
in the form of trainings, classes, master classes, workshops, research projects, coaching, mentoring, retreats and journeys.
IN THIS RETREAT HE WILL TAKE OVER BODY-MIND-SPIRIT & CONTACT DANCE SESSIONS.
