Event Type : Residential Retreat

Contact Improvisation New Years Retreat

I am so grateful for the combination of focussed moving and connecting through the dance in the studio and sharing more life together in the beautiful nature of the Hillier Retreat during very long lunch breaks with the option to camp.

Again in this special time of the year! The gap after the Christmas and New Year’s busyness, before normal life kicks in again.
It will be a nourishing , grounding and inspiring start into the New Year.

What do we get in touch with when we allow time to arrive … in the body, the dance, the connection to others and in the group?

Contact Improvisation will be our main language. Basic techniques and principles of the form around leading & following, sharing weight and some lifts will anchor our journey.
I might propose a more specific theme closer to the Retreat or it might emerge through our dancing.

If you are new to Contact Improvisation, please get in touch with me.

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TIMES
Thu 3-6pm (arrival from 11 am onwards)
Fri & Sat 9am-6pm (looong lunch & chillout time)
Sun 10am-1:30pm + lunch & clean up
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WORKSHOP COST
$360 concession
$420 normal
$480 support others ((Paying this higher price makes it possible for us to offer cheaper tickets for those in need)
— The fee includes a WARM LUNCH per day
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ACCOMODATION
There is the option to camp at the nearby, extremely beautiful Hillier Retreat for $20 per night.
It has an outdoor kitchen, a big dam for swimming, non-heated showers, composting toilets …
Hillier Retreat, 236 Arthys rd, Cooran, QLD 4569.
https://www.facebook.com/hillierretreat
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BOOKINGS
via Trybooking https://www.trybooking.com/CVMBX
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DANCE LOCATION
Cooran Hall
14 King St, Cooran QLD 4569
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Please be aware that for attending the workshop you need to accept the following RESPONSIBILITY AGREEMENT:
“In attending this workshop I take full responsibility of my own health and wellbeing. I acknowledge the nature of this workshop involves proposals to participate in exercises and movements that may be new to me. I recognise that the proposals are simply offers to try, and I take full responsibility to participate only within my own capacity as I see fit at the time. I acknowledge that the workshop facilitator and event organiser has no liability for any injuries which may occur during this workshop”
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CANCELLATION POLICY
Cancellation more than two weeks prior to commencement of workshop will incur a 10% non-refundable processing fee.
Cancellation less than two weeks prior to commencement of workshop, will incur a 50% non-refundable processing fee.

Residential CI Retreat on the Chiemsee near Munich

I am very happy to come back to the Frauenkloster Chiemsee after this wonderful Weekend Retreat we had in December 2023. I loved the spaciousness and also the depth of inquiries and connections that emerged. Next year, February 13-16th 2025, we want to expand the sense of journeying together for another day.

The theme is still forming and will be announced once it has matured.
My general approach won’t change though. It has a strong somatic base including developmental movement patterns, work with the elasticity of the fascia and bringing awareness to the regulation of the nervous system.

We’ll have moments to indulge into delicious details, befriend awkwardnesses, nibble at the edges of our comfort zone, and again and again move into open spaces to journey through in unpredictable ways. I am realising more and more strongly that the depth of our individual experiences is dependent on how we invest in the connections that make us feel part of group. My work will support that.
And a promise, as always: We will dance a lot!

Participants should be solidly familiar with Contact Improvisation principles and technique (intermediate- advanced level); and find their way in an open workshop structure. In case of doubt, check in with us.

Participants are responsible for their own insurance & liability.

Times: Thursday, 5 pm-7 pm, Friday & Saturday 10 am- 5.30 pm, Sunday, 10 am – 4 pm

Place: Monastery Frauenwörth, 83256 Fraueninsel, Chiemsee, Germany

Fee: €270-310 (depending on financial possibility) when applying until 13.12.24; thereafter €290-350
If you struggle to pay the fee, contact us, we will have a few spaces on a lower fee.

Accommodation in the monastery:

· Category A, room with shower/toilet, lake view, single room 65 € per night, double room 55 € per person and night.

· Category B, room with shower/toilet, courtyard view, single room 55 € per night, double room 45 € per person and night.

· Category C, room with shared shower/toilet, single room 40 € per night, double room 35 € per person and night.

We have booked a kitchen for self-catering. Please bring along, what you want to eat or share.

Questions to Schirin: [email protected], +49-177-3365754, +49-8051-6403698