'Handpan & Fluentbody' Retreat - Jan/Feb 2024
UPDATE: The Date for our next retreat is set! 30th Jan - 4th Feb 2024!
Join this beautiful immersive workshop - combining the transformative power of handpan music & movement.
I will guide you to play handpan music from your heart, led by emotions&intuition and supported by your body.
The wonderful Jette Schwarz will lead you on a journey to your inner self when you explore the natural movements of your body.
The Hard Facts
Date: 30th January 5pm - 4th February 1pm, 2024
Place: Neu Darchau - 'Seminarhaus Sophia', Northern Germany
Language: English
Cost: 360€ Accommodation & Food
PLUS 350€ to 900€ Workshop Fee (Sliding Scale, normal price 625€)
(Makes a total of 710€ to 1260€)
!all levels welcome!
handpan can be provided, if needed
The Details
Fluentbody
Jette Schwarz
Being a professional and full hearted dancer for all of her life Florencia Lamarca developed 'Fluentbody' to guide you into a deep movement meditation where you will have the chance to experience your body and be immersed in your emotional world.
'Fluentbody is for people who want to take charge of their lives and move out of the limitations of others’ expectations and how they are supposed to be and look. Fluentbody helps people to be generous to their body and mind, to develop a sense of what they want and don’t want, and to gain more of their own strengths and possibilities.'
In our Winter Edition, Jette Schwarz - who has been Florencia's student and assistant from day 1 - will again lead us through this wonderful, heart-touching practice.
Handpan
Alexander Mercks
Handpan is my passion - but above that, it's music. Through music I learn to paint my emotions on the canvas of this world. I'm allowed to dive deeper and deeper into the world of music in order to paint and express an even more precise picture of what I can't find the words for.
I want to support you to give a voice to your inner self. I will show you how to transform your emotions into handpan sounds and music, how to feel yourself better and how to connect more deeply with yourself and your surroundings.
I will be teaching you techniques that give you direct access to the handpan in a very pragmatic way.
I'll offer you general and individual tips on how you can refine your play so that you can gradually take advantage of all the colorful possibilities of the handpan.
On the one hand, the focus is on improvised music-making, your emotions and, of course, the joy of playing.
On the other hand, I will also provide you with many practical tips and a little theoretical knowledge.
Why Handpan and Fluent Body?
When we talked about our visions of what we each do, we realized that we are pretty much doing the same thing with different tools.
Our shared mission is to enable people to feel and accept themselves as they are.
We want to create connection in sound, movement and souls.
The place
Located in the North of Germany - somewhere between Hamburg, Berlin and Hannover, lies this almost forgotten village that consists just of few houses that tell stories from ancient times. Just few footsteps away you can walk along the Elbe river and you are sure to meet more animals than people. The house itself is very spacious yet cosy, offering us one big seminar room and another one which is even bigger where we will be able to move freely and explore our bodies.
You will be sharing a room with one to three other people. Optionally you can also sleep in your camper van or bring a tent to sleep in the beautiful natural garden.