Dance Forward Retreat · Costa Rica

✺ Travel to the Jungle of Uvita, Costa Rica, home of the world famous Envision Festival, to dance, connect & dive deep into a transformative process with the Dance the Medicine Team as we present our first IN PERSON offering since May 2019! We gather February 13th to 16th at the stunning AWAKE Retreat Centre, host of Uvita’s popular Ecstatic Dance Church, to embark on a somatic journey. Over the course of 4 days and 3 nights we will travel together through 5 Ecstatic Dances, each building on a central theme designed to help you tap into your subconscious/unconscious self using dance as medicine. ✺ We will weave ART & RITUAL between each DANCE taking you first ― Inward, to discover what lives inside you and yet has not been expressed, with an opportunity to release what you discover in a gentle and contained way. From this new perspective we move ― Outward, into a celebration of who we are now. We will celebrate, feast and of course, dance together in preparation to move ― Onward as we emerge at retreats end dancing together one last time in a way which will help you to decide "What Next?" >>>🔥 REGISTER HERE 🔥<<< 👉 https://tri.ps/u37KX You will be facilitated using the foundations of Relational Somatic Therapy, Movement Based Expressive Art Therapy and Conscious Dance while harnessing the power of the group field. You only need to bring your dance clothes and an offering to the group (more on this once you have signed up). We will take care of the rest. ✺ This retreat will be capped at 40 participants to keep it well contained and intimate. You will bask in the glorious Costa Rican jungle, swim in sacred waters, dance under the stars (and inside too), eat delicious & healthy locally prepared foods, all while being with other dancers! ✤ 5 Ecstatic Dances ✤ 4 Days ✤ 3 Wholesome Meals/Day ✤ 2 Choices ✤ 1 Somatic Journey ✤ Part of our process will be to create a tight container. This means that for these 4 days we will spend our time dedicated to the process and present with one another. We will leave our phones in our rooms and stay on-site for the duration of this immersive experience. ✺ Our hope is that you leave the retreat changed, ready to take action and with purposeful direction to move forward in your life... or better yet, to dance forward! ◐ OUR LOCATION & RETREAT CENTRE ◐ 🍃 Awake Uvita - Costa Rica Relate · Realize · Release Founded at the end of 2019, Awake is a community and transformation center in the town of Uvita, in front of the famous “Whale Tail” portal. Awake was designed to offer a beautiful environment conducive to introspection and inspiration. The perfect retreat space for personal growth, expansion and liberation. 🍃 Food will be fresh, healthy and robust, to feed our dancing bodies. "We serve plant-based, gluten-free, organic, homemade delicious food. We buy most of it from local farmers and prepare it with devotion and love! Our meals include a mix of fresh raw salad greens, raw vegetables, herbs and raw dressings and a raw coconut based sauce as well as a flavourful cooked section. We typically avoid grains for starches and prefer to serve starchy vegetables recipes based on sweet potatoes, yucca, potatoes or squash. We also occasionally serve quinoa, buckwheat or rice. Typical protein dishes served involve lentils, beans, chickpeas, nuts or mushrooms. We soak lentils, beans and nuts to make them more easily digestible or we ferment the beans and make soy-free tempeh or chickpea based soy-free tofu. We love to steam vegetables to preserve more of their vitamins and we use coconut oil to fry." ◐ YOUR RETREAT TEAM ◐ ✤ BERNICE RAABIS ✤ Facilitator and DJ (Founder of Dance the Medicine) 🤲🏼 Bernice is on a mission to infect the world with conscious dance. She is a DJ, a conscious dance facilitator, an expressive arts therapist, a teacher and the mother of 4 daughters. Her Ecstatic Dance career began in 2011 when she founded Dance Church, a beloved weekly dance in Nelson, BC, Canada. While Bernice loves to DJ and plan transformative events, facilitating profound processes is the true work of her heart; using dance, art and ritual to connect and liberate dancers is most definitely her happy place! ✤ ALEX SEVILLA ✤ DJ and Host (DJ/ Organiser/ Facilitator Ecstatic Dance Madrid) 🤲🏼 With more than two decades in the music industry, Alex first came across the conscious dance scene 5 years ago and has since developed his own style and built himself a name amongst the international ED community. Alex takes his influences from sounds around the world. Led by his ability to empathize with and feel the dancers, he guides and helps them connect with their most instinctive selves: each in their own reality, yet vibrating to the wave of a collective rhythm. ✤ CRISTINA CIOBANU ✤ Host (Unicorn at Dance the Medicine) 🤲🏼 Cristina is a passion-led event organizer and dancer by default. She’s been an art and circus teacher, a fire dance performer, a restaurant-bar and hostels manager and a very dedicated Earth and Human activist. After encountering the spiritual community on the shores of Lake Atitlan in Guatemala, she decided to serve the world as an event producer assistant and on-site manager in retreat centers that focus on well-being and movement therapies. ✤ Other Facilitators and DJs to be announced! ✤ 🔹WHEN? 13-16 February 2023 (Monday 4PM to Thursday 4PM) 🔹WHERE? Awake Retreat Centre, Uvita - Costa Rica 🔹HOW MUCH? €925 - €1490 *depending on your accommodation choice: · Tenting w/Communal Bathrooms · Shared w/Communal Bathrooms · Shared w/Shared Bathroom · Private w/ Shared Bathroom · Private Room w/Private Bathroom 🔹All accommodation is basic but charming 🔹All prices include the workshops, meals, snacks and accommodation 🔹No previous experience needed >>> 🔥 SIGN-UP HERE 🔥<<< 👉 https://tri.ps/u37KX 🪶For any question or additional information, do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected] See you on the dancefloor, in Costa Rica! #dance #music #community #art #ritual #nature #transformation #connection #celebration