BESCHRIJVING

5Rhythms® dance, breathing, resting and nature are key ingredients in the recipe for blissful being. Each day we’ll be dancing waves, with special attention given to one rhythm each day, with the intention of exploring how that rhythm offers its unique perspective and pathway into bliss. In between dancing, there’s plenty of time for resting and digesting, and soaking yourself in the beautiful surroundings. Nourishing and delicious food and sauna every day offer their own earthly delights.

Each day is devoted to exploring one of the rhythms of the 5Rhythms® practice in depth. We'll be exploring how that rhythm offers a unique gateway into bliss:

• Flowing teaches us to nourish, soften and ground ourselves in our bodies, open the senses

• Staccato connects us to the pulse of life within us, empowers us into expression, wakes up our passion and gives it direction. 

• Chaos empties us out, teaches us to let go and surrender

• Lyrical invites curiosity, possibility, play, light-heartedness

• Stillness brings us into a deeper source of presence and breath, into the wisdom within our bodies and a mysterious, sacred well of silence and peace

Our beautiful dance space is right next to a big lake, and the walls open up on both sides so it's possible to dance indoors as well as outside.

☀️ READ MORE AND REGISTER:

valontaival.com/bliss-2026

(Click on buttons for info & registration in English)

☀️ SCHEDULES

5 days, Tues - Sat 21 -25 July 2026

It's possible (and recommended) to arrive the night before (Mon 20 July)

Program begins on Tues 21 July at 11 am and ends Sat 25 July at 3.30 pm

☀️ RETREAT TUITION:

395€ early bird price (until 30 April 2026)

445€ full price

Prices include VAT

It is possible to pay in parts. Please contact me for more information.

☀️ VENUE, ACCOMMODATION & MEALS:

Labbnäs is a wonderful venue in the countryside, on the island in the archipelago called Kemiönsaari.

Labbnäs is easy to reach with public transport from Helsinki. 

Accommodation is in single or double rooms, all meals included.

PRICES:

Single room & all meals 500€ / person

Shared double room & all meals 440€ / person

Extra night (Mon 20 July), includes breakfast 60€ / person

Price includes: accommodation in beautiful rooms, sheets and towel, divinely delicious food (3 meals per day, plus afternoon and evening snack and tea/coffee), sauna option every evening.

Accommodation booked directly and separately from Labbnäs (labbnas@labbnas.fi)

☀️ ABOUT THE TEACHER:

Karoliina Valontaival is the first accredited 5Rhythms® teacher in Finland. She's danced 5Rhythms since 2005, brought 5Rhythms® to Finland in 2012, began offering classes as a Spaceholder in 2016, and graduated as a teacher in 2018.

Karoliina is a wise, heartful, grounded, playful, sensitive, and intuitive 5Rhythms® teacher. Her clear and gentle guidance, inspiring music, and exercises invite you into a deeper presence, embodied creativity and transformational experience in your own body. She creates a safe, accepting, and compassionate space, where you are welcome just as you are. 

In her teaching, Karoliina draws on her many years of working with different groups and her educational background in sciences, the arts, embodied practices, and meditation. She is studying psychology at the University of Helsinki and has also studied other therapeutic modalities.

This workshop counts as 5 days of Waves towards the teacher training prerequisites.

GETTING THERE:

The venue is easily reached by public transport from Helsinki (about 2 hours) and workshop start and end times are planned according to the bus schedules.

• Fly to Helsinki

• Train or bus to the centre

• Bus to Kemiönsaari