Come to an exciting Contact improvisation dance retreat by the sea over the May bank holiday, as we welcome the energies of the summer.
Enjoy three days of CI dance and movement practices, workshops and jams.
CI Somatic Touch and Play retreat aims to explore and blend fluidity, balance, embodiment, touch, pleasure, play, sensuality, somatic sensual movement, yoga, tantra, massage, bodywork and heartfelt connections.
If the sun shines, we may dance in the sea close by. Explore water CI, ground our bodies in the sandy earth, absorb the healthy sea water minerals, enjoy the healing sun on our skins and breathe the high negative ion healing fresh sea air.
Venue: Rossetti Lodge, Birchington, Kent
A beautiful unique house by the sea, located just 50 min drive from Dartford tunnel.
There is a main dance space, gym area, a hot tub and sauna, a private courtyard sun trap garden, several relaxing lounge spaces.
Minnis bay and other beaches close by
Tasty, nutritious meals provided.
Sleeping is in shared 2, 3 or 4 bed rooms.
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Suitability and Experience
Retreat would suit persons with some experience of somatic work, CI, or who are comfortable with touch and partner dance.
You will be sent a questionnaire when you RSVP.
Workshop Offerings and Invitations
1. CI core skills, somatic touch and movement
2. Tango Fusion with CI
3. CI Jams and free dancing
4. Breath, Mind-Body Cantering and Embodiment Practices
5. Martial Arts based warm ups
6. Beach and coastal walks, swims, dance
If the sun shines: swimming, sunbathing and dancing on the beach and in the sea.
7. Singing and Chanting Circles
8. Massage and Bodywork
Call for Volunteers/Crew for the Retreat
I’m offering this event at short notice and am seeking help. If you would like help in addition to the mandatory house care, that would be great.
General volunteers – space setup, cleaning, welcoming
General volunteers will need to come a day before and leave a day after paying guests leave.
Workshop facilitators
Somatic practice facilitators
Massage and body work teachers
Chefs – to prepare healthy, nutritious food catering for all tastes vegetarian, meat/protein
Photographers – to make the event memorable for all.
Please Email or WhatsApp me if you wish to volunteer.
Those accepted will get a reduction on the event fee.
Other Practical Details
1. Dates
Friday 3rd May, 17:00 – Monday 6th May 16:00
2. Cost
£250. Include food, dormitory accommodation, workshops.
If you want to come, but cost is an issue, please contact me.
3. Payment
Pay by PayPal to: info@detoxifynow.com.
You can also pay by bank transfer.
4. Sleeping and Bedrooms
You will stay at my house in Birchington on Sea in shared 2-4 bed rooms.
Bring ear plugs with you.
5. Food
We will together prepare healthy and delicious food to share, including Indian style vegetarian and meat dishes, raw foods, salads, juices and fruit.
If you have special dietary needs, please let us know.
6. Registration and Booking
Please RSVP Yes, and send me a email/message with a contact email and tel number. I will then send you a questionnaire.
7. House Care - mandatory
8, House Rules
"This is a house of love, not the house of your aunt - all who enter must remove their own shackles and chains"
You are supported on your own personal journey to pleasure, ecstasy, love, liberation, overcoming any conditioning of guilt and shame towards the body.
“My son, be content with the body, for the bodily substance is the palace of divinity”
The body is sacred, the house or temple of the spirit.
Treat everyone with love, kindness and respect.
Follow the Buddhist precepts of loving kindness and the Sufi concept of Universal love towards all.
Rossetti Lodge is an inclusive, sex positive space, that respects the value of everyone’s pleasure and supports persons of all gender identities in their journey to liberation and the pursuance and fulfilment of their own desires.
9. Travel to Rossetti Lodge:
a) Trains
The house is a short walk from Birchington on Sea train station, with regular fast trains to London Victoria and Kings Cross.
Cost around £35 return, time around 1:40 minutes. Advance tickets from £10 each way.
b) Buses
There are regular National Express buses from Victoria. Cost £15 each way, time over 2 hours.
c) By Car and car share
It is about an hour and half's drive from London, There is plenty of free parking along the house and on the side streets.
Please mention how you will travel and maybe offer or share a ride with someone.
We will have an additional whatsapp ride share group if it helps,
10. Your Host and Facilitator: James Khan
https://detoxifynow.com/james-khan/
Contact: James, WhatsApp/Mobile: 07986 250 223
"Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it" Rumi
