Summer Retreat
Somatic Movement
2023 | June 30 – July 02

Price: €495,–
Early Bird: €425,- if booked and paid before June 1st
Location: Kura Waka, Roodeschool – Groningen

Somatic Movement is a gentle approach to movement to raise body awareness. We will use this way of moving to explore our bodies in space and in relation to the floor. As humans walking on two feet, a lot of us have lost our relationship to the earth because our bodies are in so little contact with it. That’s why we will focus this weekend on bringing our bodies back to the floor, back to the earth to explore how we can release tension and stress using this gentle way of movement.

Somatics is a field within bodywork and movement studies which emphasizes internal physical perception and experience. Focusing on your inner experience as you move and expand your internal awareness of your body. Not focussing on what your movements look like, but focussing on what it feels like. We will use this soft way of movement to release tension from the body, to relax our Psoas muscle, (which responds and holds on to stress) and to bring more softness and groundedness in our bodies and movement. Working with Somatic Yoga, Somatic Movement en TRE (Tension Release Exercises) we will guide you in finding new ways of connecting to your body.

This weekend is part of our Year Program
‘Stress Release through Body and Breath’
in which we will move through and with the Seasons.
You are welcome to join one or multiple weekends

Spring Retreat – Breathwork
Summer Retreat – Somatic Movement
Fall Retreat – Fascia Release
Winter Retreat – Breathwork, Somatic Movement & Sweatlodge
(Check out our agenda for dates and info and get €100,- discount on the total price if you join all four weekends)

Our Year Program consists of four weekend retreats at the beautiful retreat center Kura Waka in Roodeschool. Each weekend can be booked separately or you can join us for the whole program. Moving through each season we will work with the fact that we humans are part of nature and that we move and live in cycles and seasons. Every season has its own rhythm, qualities and intentions. If we are able to connect ourselves more into these natural cycles, we are able to let life flow through us even more fluid. 

Every weekend will have its own theme, where the overall focus will be on ways of bringing awareness into our stress and release levels to gain information and to be able to transform if necessary. Because a lot of us carry more stress and tension inside then is healthy for us, which can have a negative effect on our overall health and our ability to enjoy life.
In these weekends we will provide you with different tools to release stress from your system and to find more balance in everyday life.

Using body and breath we work with Breathwork, Somatic Yoga & Movement and Fascia Release. All of these are different methods that we can use to lower our stresslevels, optimize our breathing, to release tension from the body, create more mobility and freedom to move, to connect to our bodies more deeply, feel more at home in our bodies and support our overall health and wellbeing.
Join us in this journey through the seasons?



Summer Retreat
Schedule
(may be subject to change)

Friday
17.00 Arrival
18.00 Diner
20.00 Somatic Movement

Saturday
07.00 Morning Flow
08.30 Breakfast
10.00 Tension Release Exercises
12.30 Lunch
16.00 Somatic Floorwork
18.00 Diner
20.00 Yin Yoga

Sunday
07.00 Morning Flow
08.30 Breakfast
10.00 Somatic Movement & Closing Session
12.30 Lunch



Would you like to join us for this Retreat? Then fill out the form below:
For questions: info@themovementsessions.nl

Once we received your registration, we will send you an e-mail with the payment details.
Please check your inbox (and spam) for our confirmation email.

Did you know that? 
– It is possible to pay the full amount in installments. Please let us know so we can arrange a payment plan.
– You can ask your employer if she/he can support you in your self-development.

Cancellation conditions:
– If for any reason you want to cancel your registration, you will get a full refund (minus an administration fee of 25,- euros)
if you cancel before June 1st.
– If you cancel your registration between June 01 and June 15 you will get a 50% refund.
– We will not be able to give you a refund if you cancel after June 15 due to the reservations costs for the location.