Events - Blissdance Weekend Retreat

Celebrating the new year with conscious abandon to this present moment.

We are delighted to announce our first BlissDance celebration weekend away. Imagine a whole weekend - Friday evening to Sunday afternoon - filled with the delight of dance and our company shared. Imagine starting the year in deep, blissful contact with your own body, exploring the dance that wants to unfold in you in this year coming. Imagine feeling your connection with the flow of love through all of us one weekend long dance, interspersed by Tantric meditations, sensual meals together and much loving. The time has come to dance beloveds!

About BlissDance

Bliss
is the balance that happens
When we fully embrace
Both our shadow and our light
And come to rest
In love

Blissdance is an expression of Tantra, the art of integrating the sacred and sexual, and using this as a force for awakening. In a Blissdance session, you explore your inner and outer worlds through movement and stillness, music and silence. The dance is free and not stylized, though guided by me through the progression of a theme. I introduce the dance, show you how I interpret it, and then you find our own response.

Blissdance draws on the wisdom of Biodanza and various other dance,movement and meditation traditions.

One of the first principles of Tantra is presence – being present in the here and now, in your body, in your senses. Another is the connection between our passion, our sexuality and our hearts. Blissdance is a space where you can come rest into the simple beauty of moving in a body, with other bodies, in the dance of life.

As this happens, you get to experience and confront some of the patterns that keep us from being intimate with life:

Body armoring: We hold our bodies rigid in an attempt to protect ourselves from feeling too much - or feeling what we have been suppressing. Sometimes that is laughter or ecstasy, sometimes that is sadness. fear or anger. All these states are welcome in the dance.

Associations: Over a lifetime of suppessions, we have started to build up meaning through associations. When someone touches you, what does it mean to you? When you enjoy the touch, what fears come up? Do they relate to past experiences or future projections? In BlissDance, these subconscious processes will become conscious for you. In awareness lies the liberation.

One of the keys of BlissDance is that the dance moves you out of your habits and stuck ways. We act out some of the drama's of everyday life - like having a couple's fight - but do that in a conscious way, as a celebration of the body, and as an act of freedom. In doing that, something gives way, more space gets created, and we can celebrate our freedom more. Sometimes I use ancient shamanic techniques to help shake up the nervous system so that you can slip into this moment with no mind. Sometimes we dance wild and crazy with little structure and limitation, to let that energy be expressed and accessed in the body. Eventually, as Rumi says:

something opens up
I taste only sacredness

The moment softens. We get to feel everything intimately. We welcome what is, no longer resist, and in that we can meet the beloved, in the dance, in this moment. In the first place, that beloved is my very own being. Then I can meet him/her in the other, the group, my life, existence.

BlissDance is for those who are yearning for presence, freedom and truth. It is for the brave spiritual warriors who are not scared to dance their ridiculousness and to let their vulnerability be felt in the dance as well.

All it takes is a little willingness. The music, the facilitation and the group will carry you along into what you really want: A deep opening into this present precious moment.Blissdance is free-form dance guided by the progression of a theme and the music itself. Each dance is introduced with an interpretation but in it you find our own response as the music moves you.

This deeply transforming dance allows you to explore your inner and outer worlds in the ranges between movement and stillness, music and silence. It encourages you to bringing embodied presence into every moment, finding the willingness and openness to connect in a way that 'me' and 'other' dissolve.

Cost

R1 500 - R1 700 pp sharing depending on choice of accommodation (see accommodation options attached. This includes facilitation and accommodation, not meals which we will divide and prepare amongst the participants.

Bookings

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