🔥 Ignite Your Dancing Avatar:3-Day Healing Dance Retreat

🔥 Ignite Your Dancing Spirit: 3-Day The Hague Dance Retreat🔥

Hosted by Jerome aka Dancing Monk Wizard, ex NDT and Batsheva dancer, for dancers of all levels, this immersive experience invites you to explore a diverse range of techniques, including Release Technique, Contact Improvisation, Flow Fusion, SOMA Breathwork, ILM somatic bodywork and Nidra Yoga.

Join us as we embark on a journey of self-expression, connection, and artistic growth in a supportive and vibrant environment.

📅 Dates and Venue: September 6-8, 2024 at CLOUD/Danslab 📅
Mark your calendars for an unforgettable experience! The "Ignite Your Dancing Spirit" with a 3-day dance retreat.

We are thrilled to announce that the event will be held at CLOUD/Danslab, known as the best dance studio in town, located in the heart of The Hague.

🌐 Hosted by Jérôme aka the Dancing Monk Wizard and hosts.
With over 20 years of teaching experience and 30 years of professional dancer experience , Jérôme brings a unique approach that combines breath forms, contemporary dance, yoga, and martial arts. Join us as we delve into new dimensions of movement, optimizing health, hacking energy and unlocking your life force potential.

Special guest teacher will be Isabelle Chaffaud and Ady Elzam.
All together they will create magic with you.

📅 Program day 1 Friday
✨ Flow Fusion Movement, Soma Breathe Technique ® (10:30-12:00) With Jérôme tap into your inner flow and unlock your creative potential through a fusion of yoga, contemporary dance, soma movement, and martial arts. Explore the fluidity of contemporary dance, the vibrancy of flow, and the grounding principles of somatic practices.
Engage in energetic shaking exercises to release tension and unlock stagnant energy within your body. Dive into breathwork techniques that enhance your physicality, presence, and emotional connection to movement. Dance with passion, authenticity, and self-expression as you leave no stone unturned. More info here

✨ Intentional-Efficiency Method (13:00-14:30) With Isabelle Chaffaud. Developed by Isabelle, this practice delves into the profound understanding that clear inner intention gives rise to diverse qualities and textures of movement. This method places a strong emphasis on cultivating awareness and recognizing the vital role of the body's efficiency and articulation in supporting and effectively conveying intention. It embraces an approach that allows for the individual exploration and development of each aspect—intention and efficiency—while highlighting their interconnectedness.

✨ Connect and Create with Flow Contact Improvisation (14:45-16:00) Experience the joy of spontaneous connection through the practice of Contact Improvisation and group Improvisation.
Explore the principles of shared weight, balance, and trust as you engage in dynamic duets, trio and group exercises. Deepening your non-verbal communication and the art of listening through touch you will develop your partnering skills, enhance spatial awareness, and embrace the exhilaration magic of dancing in the present moment.

✨Ilan Lev Method: Welcome to the somatic world of ILM (16:15-17:15)
In this one-hour workshop you will get a taste of the ILM movement. We will work with our body to promote rest-in-motion by vibrating and trampulating, and apply this in partner bodywork as well. Led by Ady Elzam, an ILM practitioner, dancer and experience-designer.
you can find more info about ILM here: ilanlevmethod.nl
✨ Unwind with thee and cakes(17:15-18:00)

📅 Program day 2 Saturday
✨ Flow Fusion, Shake, and SOMA Breathe Technique ® (10:30-12:00)
✨ Intentional-Efficiency Method (13:00-14:30) T
✨ Connect and Create with Flow Contact Improvisation (15:00-16:30)
✨ Unwind with thee and cakes(16:30-17:00)

📅 Program day 3 Sunday
✨ Flow Fusion, Soma Breathe (12:00-13:15)
✨ Togetherness Focus (13:15-13:45)
✨ Compose Connect and Create Ecstatic dance session (14:00-15:30)
✨ Food and drinks Potluck (15:40-17:00)
✨ Benefits:
• Expand your movement vocabulary and enhance your technical skills. • Cultivate body awareness, fluidity, and a sense of release in your dancing. • Deepen your understanding of connection and communication through contact improvisation. • Develop improvisational and partnering skills for increased versatility and creativity. • Explore the power of breath, flow, and shaking to unlock new dimensions of movement. • Nurture your artistic growth in a supportive and collaborative online community. • Connect with like-minded dancers from around the world and build lasting friendships.

🎭 "Ignite Your Summer Spirit" invites you to embark on a transformative 3-day dance intensive where you'll explore the realms of Release Technique, Contact Improvisation, Flow, Shake, and Breathwork with a team of amazing teachers. Unleash your creativity, connect with fellow dancers, and discover new layers of expression within yourself. Join us on this incredible journey of self-discovery, growth, and artistic exploration. Let your spirit soar and dance like never before this September! 🌞🌈

Spaces are limited, so reserve your spot now! Click the link here for registration details and secure your place in this incredible journey of self-discovery and artistic exploration.

Testimonials
🔥 Embrace Your Spring Renewal: 3-Day Dance Retreat
It’s a kind of magic! It blew me away in so many ways: I thought it would be scary, but I felt safe. I recovered and rediscovered my energy source without even knowing it was lost that much. Met wonderful and really lovely people (incl. the other teachers) and learned some beautiful life lessons along the way. Don’t think, just join the next time this event is available.
Thom

My pleasure to share love with you beautiful people, thanks a lot Jérôme for the opportunity to get this so special safe space, it mean so much to me ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Sandra

A wonderful playground where I can (re)discover my movability. Not doing, just being. Being danced. No work, just play! Freedom. ❤️
Ellen

I totally support what you've moved within me, because that is the gift I gave myself.
Roger

What Jerôme's class brings me is a place of transformation and recycling of my emotions, through the body. I'm more self-aware in relationship as a result. It also strengthens my faith in human connection, because of the fun and kindness that develops.
Tamara

In this space I can safely practice how to bring the relationship between my body and my mind into one of More equal and Playful cooperation, rather than one of discipline and domination. I become aware - can notice how - my Body/mind are always in dialogue, never static, and I am encouraged to move in the flow - yin/yang - without judgement or resistance. At least, that’s the goal 😉🙏💛
Michelle

Getting over mental boundaries about being close to others
Interacting with others on a different level also helps me deal with daily social interaction
Chronic pain management, making it easier for my body to return to a natural flow state
And feeling more at ease in my own body
Julia

Magical, just magical. The space: created by beautiful souls and their energies 💫The body is indeed sore today! 😆 and the emotional body allows some soreness too, some sadness to sit along with the amazement of receiving love 💛🚿💦
MiMi

Yes. And yesterday’s ending ceremony was the cherry on top. How important it is to be invited and to invite ourselves to connect and treat each other with kindness, love and care. We all know that as human beings and the mamals we are that this helps us thrive. 🙏 to the soul (I don’t know her name) who thought of inviting us to do this process.
Kim

I can’t tell you how much I have enjoyed and appreciated the class - the community the safe space the JOY in the body! 💫 you have (co) created something special 💛
Michelle
So what really helps me as a musician is first the connection with my body, which i believe is integral in a performance, being musical or not, beyond that you also explore communication with your colleagues in a different way, as the same you would do in a improvisation in music, you would explore the movements and geometry of your own body in relation to another, counterpoint... so for me is also an ludic way of doing the same i would do in musical dialogue, but without all the self judgments and technical struggles with instruments
Last but not least, connecting your breathing to your movement is an excellent way of connecting better my breathing in my playing, in my case since i play wind instruments is even more, but for a string player or whatever would still be important and healthy, usually we tend to create unnecessary tension and disconnection with our breath when playing
Nitai
Musician student

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