Retreats & Travel
Here you will find offerings at healing places that allow you to withdraw from your everyday life and dive deeper into your practice. To experience your practice more deeply. To become your own practice more and more.
“devotion”
“Devotion is the simple yet profound wisdom of entrusting yourself to the flow of life instead of resisting it.”
Eckhart Tolle
This weekend we will focus our dance on the power of devotion. It is a power that brings us closer to trusting life again, a power, a source that lives within us.
Devotion invites us to accept life completely, unconditionally and acceptingly and to dissolve completely into our actions, to disappear into them in a way. We melt into our existence, letting go of limitations that prevent us from doing so. Our frequency of being tunes into what is there, the rhythm of the river flowing next to us, the song of the bird that has just reached us, the dance space in which we are currently participating.
In a safe space, on this weekend, alone and together, we can nurture our trust to listen to the source within us and follow the natural organisation.
Once we have arrived, our dance will be filled with lightness, pleasure, simplicity and love.
This weekend we will use the dance practice Soul Motion and Zazen (silent sitting).
No previous dance experience is necessary.
Teacher. Doreen Tönjes
Assistance. Melanie Bubelach
Times. 6 to 8 December 2024
We start on Friday with dinner (6:30pm) and the weekend ends on Sunday with lunch (approx. 2pm).
Where. Seminarhof Oberlethe
You can find more information about the costs for accommodation and food here.
Contribution. Euro 220
Discounts are possible, please contact me.
The number of participants for this event is limited.
Previous dance experience is not necessary.
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Teacher. Doreen Tönjes
Times. 4 January 2025 / 10 am to 5 pm
Where.
Contribution. Euro 115
Discounts are possible, please contact me.
Previous dance experience is not necessary.
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“The preciousness of the moment”
„Experience is the ground. Awareness is the path. Expression is the fruition.“
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
This weekend creates a space for you and us where we can slow down, land and open up.
Slowing down is necessary within us to make real experience possible, to receive experience, to expand our consciousness and to give expression to the moment in dance.
To give ourselves to the moment.
Together we create a space in which we can come into harmony with the world, alone and held in community, encountering empty moments without seeking or trying anything.
These are moments that become sacred within us in a way.
Moments in which we meet, move and dance with a gentle heart and a clear mind.
These are the moments in which we rediscover ourselves and move into the world deeply connected with a new clarity.
Gentleness takes its place within us and we become softer at our edges.
The Soul Motion practice forms a powerful, subtle foundation for our encounters and relationships with ourselves and the world. With its support, we can practice nurturing peace within ourselves, in the small and the challenging moments. With their support, we can practice finding our way back to ourselves again and again, deepening our attention and giving our own actions a deeper meaning.
In this space, our appreciation for the moment, its untouchable preciousness, becomes tangible within us.
Teacher. Doreen Tönjes
Assistance. Anja Schneebeli
Producer. Chantal Gagnebin
Venue.
Culture in the Trafo
Nymphenburger Str. 171a
80634 Munich
Times.
Friday. 19:30 to 21:30
Saturday. 11 am to 6 pm
Sunday. 10 am to 2 pm
Contribution.
Euro 240
Reduced fees are possible.
Previous dance experience is not necessary.
Registration via Chantal Gagnebin
return & reconnect
„In this time when everyone is separated to one degree or another from each other,
in this time when many people are feeling the deep splits within themselves,
what is needed is not simply an accumulation of more information,
what is needed is a descent to interior places of wisdom.“
Michael Meade
returning and reconnecting
This journey invites women to return to a tangible connection with themselves and life. Immersed in the beauty of Croatian nature, the journey together enables a turning point where we allow our bodies and minds to slow down, explore our inner medicine and heal from within.
slow down – find peace – land gently – take place – let go – reconnect – feel – receive – be
We will experience practice sessions together each day, filled with dance and stillness. The Soul Motion practice, breathwork and guided meditations will support us and enable us to offer a range of activities that we can adapt to the needs of the group. A practice space is created for each woman individually and for the whole group.
This journey is not a step away from, but towards.
A restoration of our access to the inner places of wisdom.
Teacher. Doreen Tönjes
Assistance. Anja Blume & Sigrun Spikofsky
Venue.
We are welcome for a whole week in the “Hotel Balatura” Tribalj / Croatia. If you would like to get an impression of this warmly decorated place, you will find some impressions here.
Times.
We will start on Saturday (17 May 2025) at 7 pm with dinner and will also have our first dance session afterwards. The week together will end on Saturday (24 May 2025) with breakfast together at 9 am.
Participants.
This journey opens a space for women. Dance and meditation experience is not necessary and the group size is limited to 24 dancers and the team (3).
Travelling expenses.
Arrival and departure: The organisation and costs for arrival and departure are the responsibility of each woman.
The address of the hotel is: Hotel Balatura, Mali Sušik 2, HR 51243 Tribalj / Croatia. The airport is Rijeka. Flights from Germany to Rijeka cost approx. 170 euros (return flight).
A taxi can be organised from the airport to the Hotel Balatura. The cost is between 40 and 60 euros one way.
Accommodation & Food.
The following prices include the room and breakfast.
Room without balcony: single room 85 Euro / double room per person 55 Euro
Room with balcony: single room 110 Euro / double room per person 70 Euro
Suite: Single room 145 / double room per person 95
Dinner: vegetarian / vegan / 3 courses / day / person / Euro 40
Lunch can be booked optionally. Just pre-book at breakfast. The costs are 13 to 15 euros / day / person.
Dance contribution.
We have a 100 square meter dance room and a rooftop available for our dance and meditation sessions. A room fee of Euro 40 (one-off) will be passed on to each dancer with the A & F invoice. During this week we will mainly have practice sessions in the mornings and afternoons. We will also alternate between evening and morning sessions before breakfast. On one day (Wednesday) we will go on an excursion into the surrounding area. I will decide the exact programme on the spot with a fine feeling for the group that has formed. The dance fee for the week is 360 euros.