"Grounding in Gratitude"

Dates: Sept. 3-5
Number of participants: ​8 women
Conditions: Open for all women
Accommodation: Traditional low-tech cottage (no internet) in Balatonalmádi (HU), 5 minutes walk from the beach with 2 shared bedrooms (2 bed + 2 mattress / room), shared bathroom, terrace, fruit garden...
Food: Continental breakfast + Indian vegetarian food (lunch, dinner)
Price:
  • "Early bird" (Registration before the 15.08) - 70 000 HUF (200 €) including shared accommodation, indian vegetarian food and all classes, lectures, workshops, activities
  • "Regular price" (Registration after the 25.08) - 90 000 HUF (250 €) including shared accommodation, indian vegetarian food and all classes, lectures, workshops, activities​
Keywords: serenity, gratitude, roots, nature, self-liberation, self-esteem, self-love, body, dance, movement

mindset

A week-end of simplicity, humility and generosity.
Let’s forget the outside, everyday pressure, frustration, hyper-connectivity and stress.
Let’s connect with nature, with ourselves, with our body, mind, spirit and soul.
Let’s love ourselves, take care of ourselves, get back to ourselves.
Let’s meditate in a peaceful garden.
Let’s learn to cook Indian food and eat dal with our fingers on a carpet. Let's be simple.
Let’s practice yoga by a lake, swim together at sunrise.
Let’s liberate ourselves around a fire, feel the community and get inspired by the collective energy.
Let’s dance, let’s play, let’s celebrate nature.
"Let’s give life a chance."

description

Composed of unique experiences, rituals, celebrations, community activities together with creative time, during this week-end you will focus on gratitude, serenity and peace.
In the middle of a garden of delights, in contact with lush green leaves, vivid flowers, nourishing fruits, fertile soil, purifying fire, fresh water, and tender wind, the camp's activities will be organized around four fields:​
  • BODY (yoga, meditation, relaxation, dance, free-movement, stretching...)
  • MIND (creation, self-expression...)
  • SPIRIT (self-confidence, self-esteem, courage...)
  • SOUL (ritual, celebration, purification, blessings, divination, spiritual rejuvenation, community activities...)

activities

  • "​Introspection Workshop": Yoga, meditation, relaxation, self-expression, cooking with Tinu from Goa (India)
We spend a monumental amount of energy ruminating about our past, brooding over our future, judging ourselves and comparing ourselves to others. What if we can take all that heavy energy and learn to move it out of our system through introspection and meditation? Through mindfulness, we learn to be kind to ourselves and to allow for the universe to fill us with its abundant energy which is full of life and light. I would like to guide you through my practice of mindfulness and as a community, we will cook together simple Indian vegetarian food on an open fire in the garden; that will nourish your body and light up your digestive fire.
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  • "Opening Workshop": Performance, dance, acting, narrating and composing through structured-improvisation and movement; discussions; developing scores for solo and group choreographies; creative writing in different form (poetry, manifest, comics, diary...) with Anna from Budapest (Hungary)
​During my “Opening” workshop, I will encourage you to dare to be yourself, fearlessly follow your own path, and be proudly and confidently yourself! Through the regular practice of moving freely, dancing and revolting, you will quickly liberate yourself from your anger and fears, transgress your boundaries, go beyond your limits and push yourself out of your comfort zone. Challenging conventions and stereotypes, confronting standards, beauty norms, disobeying rules and conformism, will allow you to acquire the ability to think and act freely and critically without worrying about others' gaze, judgment and expectations.

schedule

Friday
  • Evening: Arrival
  • Dinner
  • Relaxation in the garden, meditation under the stars

Saturday
  • 09-12h : Introspection / Myself (relaxation, meditation, yoga, self-expression…)
  • 12h-14h30 : Lunch - Cooking Indian food with Tinu
  • 15h30-18h30 : Opening / Others (experimenting, playing, discovering, trying, failing, winning, progressing, stepping out of the comfort zone…)
  • 19h30 : Dinner - Cooking Indian food with Tinu

Sunday
  • 09-12h : Opening / Others (experimenting, playing, discovering, trying, failing, winning, progressing, stepping out of the comfort zone…)
  • 12h-14h30 : Lunch - Cooking Indian food with Tinu
  • 15h-17h : Introspection / Myself (relaxation, meditation, yoga, self-expression…)
  • 17h-19h : Feedback, Simple dinner
  • 19h30 : Departure

unlearning facilitators

Tinu Verghis (Goa, India)
I am a rice farmer and a performance artist from India. As an artist, I work with rice that I grow and I am interested in performances that challenge the body and mind. Using rice as my medium, I have the opportunity to delve deeper exploring my subjectivity; where my body is presented not as a bearer of meaning but as a maker of meaning. The hard work, the patience, the optimism, the wealth of traditional knowledge and the risks of growing rice, translates into my life and my performances.
www.tinuverghis.com

Anna Adam (Budapest, Hungary)
I am a Paris-based performance maker and visual artist. My work blurs the boundaries between choreography, image and object, with the body and movement as central elements of expression. I also consider education and community building activities as part of my main artistic medium. I create non-judgmental and non-hierarchical soft-spaces where women rehearse for an upcoming revolution and practice physical and political resistance. I have also a significant teaching experience in art and performance education (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT), Conservatory of Dance and Choreography (AM), University of Artois (FR), University of Novi Sad (SRB), ZfinMalta National Dance Company (MT), Mediterranean Dance Center (HT), Dance City Theater Newcastle (GB)...).
www.annaadam.net