Ecstatic Intuitive Dance: 3-Day Retreat with Andrew Barnes

Date: 20 - 23 February 2023

BURST INTO BLISS

Do you want to discover how to do Intuitive Dance and connect with your ecstasy? Are you ready to meet your evolutionary edge and transform what’s been holding you back from birthing your deepest inspirations into form?

Be held in an Ecstatic Intuitive Dance container to purify stagnant energy that’s been blocking the free flow of your creative life force energy. Embody breath, sound and movement practices that will cultivate ecstatic energy flow in your body/mind and support you to open energy pathways and expand higher consciousness. Move beyond the confines of your egoic self and tap into your higher evolutionary creative potential.

Be supported to experience your relationships, love, creativity, vocation and sexuality in new and inspirational ways.

Evolution is created through raising vibration and increasing vitality. The essential ingredients are breath practices, joyousness, dance, play, togetherness, authenticity, nutrition, ceremony, sensuality, sexuality, living in the now, music, and exploring wisdom pragmatically.

By reconnecting to our felt senses through dance, we experience greater intuition and flow in our day-to-day experiences, as well as greater depth in our sensuality, sexuality and relationships. You have an opportunity for the direct experience of transforming your relationships and capacity for bliss states in the entire body. This becomes a gateway to discovering what you want in life.

This will be a fun dance experience for anyone that wants to expand in their life or for practitioners in the health and well-being fields wanting to gain new skills.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐄𝐜𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞?

Music, dance, breath, ecstasy and spirituality are intimately bound. Moving intuitively can create altered states of consciousness and contribute to our well-being.

Ecstatic Intuitive Dance lets go of needing a particular style of movement or choreography. Rather, it becomes a spontaneous dynamic meditation making it possible to unlock your body’s intuitive desire to express itself uniquely and creatively. Magic happens with dynamic meditation, and often people discover ways of being that they didn’t know existed.

Intuition can be described as being guided by what emanates from the body without needing conscious reasoning. Everyone has this intuitive nature - an inner knowing - not only in life but within the movement. During this event, you’ll learn how to connect with and express this deeper sense of knowing.

Our magical human body holds epigenetic memories of over 10,000 years of spiritual and transcendent dance experience. These transpersonal states can emerge during Ecstatic Intuitive Dance to form the underlying structure for wonder-filled self-expression coming through as a celebration of your personal dance.

𝐃𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞:

• Ecstatic intuitive dance

• Heartbeat dance

• Blindfold dance

• Sensual dance

• Cacao orgastic breath dance meditation

• Tantric breathwork sessions to release emotional and physical tension and raise vibration

• Re-patterning your nervous system to build your capacity for greater pleasure

• Liberating your capacity to experience bliss states throughout all body cells

• Learning keys to cultivate your intuition and inner life force

𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐬! Shake off the shackles that have bound you to a limited sense and expression of yourself. Discover the dynamic creative power within your sacred, sexy, boundless being.

We start with dinner at 18:00 on Monday 20 February.

We complete with lunch at 13:00 on Thursday 23 February.

𝐂𝐎𝐒𝐓:

• Cloister Rooms - R8,550 per person

Single with shared bathroom.

• Courtyard Rooms - R8,850 per person sharing

Twin with en-suite bathroom**.

• Garden Rooms - R9,450 per person sharing

Double with en-suite bathroom**.

𝟭𝟬% 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝟯𝟭 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮.

• Includes all facilitation, delicious vegan meals and accommodation

• Single supplement applies. Please inquire for single rates - limited single rooms available

• More details and pictures here.

Cancellation Policy:

• Cancellation up to and inc. 30 November 2022: Full refund (less 5% admin/banking fees)

• Cancellation up to and inc. 19 January 2023: 50% refund

• Should you cancel after 19 January 2023: no refund will be due to you and you will forfeit any deposit/ payment made

If you register to participate in 𝗘𝗰𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲: 𝟯-𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘄 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀 and also register to participate in 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗹𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝘆: 𝗧𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗕𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗘𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝘀𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 from 24 February - 3 March also at Bodhi Khaya, then you qualify for a ZAR1000 discount on your retreat fees. We invite you to join us for both events!

𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞:

• At the beginning of our event, we will establish trauma-informed guidelines and boundaries so that every participant feels fully honoured and supported in moving only as fast and as far as their sense of safety permits.

• No one is required to do anything they do not want to do. We will create a social group without peer pressure. Each person decides their level of involvement.

• We are not qualified in the specialised training and accreditation required to ‘heal trauma’. We are trained in trauma-informed care and trauma-informed consent. For trauma, we recommend that you seek support from a qualified trauma therapist or medical practitioner.

• There will be no trauma therapists or medical practitioners at this event. It is for education and entertainment purposes only. If you are unsure, it’s advised that you seek guidance from a qualified medical practitioner to ascertain your readiness to attend this event.

• During some exercises there may be optional levels of nudity. Your limits and your boundaries will be highly respected at all times. You determine your level of involvement, so you can remain fully clothed at all times if you prefer. It’s totally ok.

MEET YOUR FACILITATOR: ANDREW BARNES

Drawing from his wide-ranging experiences, Andrew brings a distinctive presence, clarity, and approach to a broad range of topics including sexuality, pleasure, relationships, love, communication, behavioural patterns, consent, power dynamics, accountability, vocation, and health. He generously shares his insights with sensitivity, warmth, irreverence & humour.

Andrew has a Master of Health Science (Sexual Health) from the University of Sydney and five diplomas in different styles of bodywork and energy healing. Since 1997 Andrew has facilitated sexuality courses and retreats, tantric bodywork and de-armouring, dance events - including BlissDance, contact improve and intuitive dance - and coaching sessions in 49 countries. He is the author of the Relationship Guidebook and co-author of Heart of the Flower - the book of yonis.

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