Welcome to the Jungle

This retreat is a journey into our primordial, instinctual selves, into our uncharted bodily wilderness, into the joy of life. We tend to see our bodies as useful allies or tools to help us achieve our goals. Our bodies have physical strength, so they can work, they can perform complex movements, so we can use them to thumb the phone, plant flowers or play football. And sometimes we may forget that our bodies are simply alive. We are beautiful living organisms that deserve our attention and are a limitless treasure trove of joy. Our bodies are sentient, breathing, soft, warm creatures that need to be cared for, that love to play, that love to connect with other creatures.

We dedicate this retreat to the process of descending from the “heights” of our minds to the “depths” of our bodies. We descend into the living animate jungle that is our living body, and through movement we explore the various patterns of instinctual natural existence.

We slow down, awaken our senses, connect to the beating of our heart, the breath of our lungs, the steps of our feet.

Everybody is welcome. No previous experience in 5Rhythms or any other dance is necessary. Bring yourself as you are and give yourself a chance to enter the wonderful jungle of your own body…

"HEARTBEAT"

 Heartbeat work is a gateway to our emotional world which we dive into with the instincts of a dancer, the mindfulness of a meditator, the courage of a warrior, and the compassion of a best friend. 

In this work we don’t solve our feelings as if they were problems, rather we explore our emotions as energy, as power, as part of being human. Through physical movement and awareness, old feelings that have been locked in our limbs or caged in our chest begin to shake loose; we give ourselves space and time to consciously embody them and allow them to move as waves of energy through our body . As we get comfortable with our vulnerability and feelings, neither hanging onto them nor pushing them away, we discover a treasure (in the) chest, which, once unlocked, offers a world rich with opportunities: a real connection with ourselves and others, a freshness of response, a spontaneity seasoned with wisdom and experience, and above all, a freedom to fully become a loving force of life itself.