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.
๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐๐๐ง๐๐?
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.
๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ’๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ๐:
• 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
๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐ฃ๐จ๐ข๐ง ๐ฎ๐ฌ! 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.
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• 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**.
๐ญ๐ฌ% ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐ป๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐น๐ ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฑ ๐ฏ๐ผ๐ผ๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ณ๐๐น๐น ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฐ๐๐ผ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฎ.
• 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 ๐๐ฐ๐๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ฐ ๐๐ป๐๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ: ๐ฏ-๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฒ๐ and also register to participate in ๐ง๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐๐น๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ๐บ๐: ๐ง๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฐ ๐๐๐น๐น ๐๐ผ๐ฑ๐ ๐๐ป๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ด๐ ๐ข๐ฟ๐ด๐ฎ๐๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ 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!
๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ฌ๐ ๐๐จ๐ญ๐:
• 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.
