Do you feel as if you are living on autopilot, somewhat disconnected from a sense of genuine pleasure and joy in your body, mind, and soul?

Take some time to pause, look inside, and reconnect with yourself. Treat yourself to an intimate somatic dance/movement retreat where you have all the space you need to give all your attention to yourself, where you come home to your body and recharge your soul.

Activate your body’s natural desire to heal itself with this 7-day private, transformative somatic coaching retreat.

• Learn how to engage in a dialogue with your nervous system and change long-term inhibiting physical, emotional, mental, and attention/perception habits that are at the root of anxiety, many physical stresses, and psychosomatic pain symptoms.
• Increase your emotional and physical well-being, gain deep self-awareness, and feel more pleasure in important and meaningful activities, whether playing with your children, walking, dancing, meditating, or simply experiencing ease and joy in everyday activities.
• Embrace your life as art. Reconnect with your senses and sensations to feel better and move better in many areas of your life.

This somatic coaching retreat offers a gentle and profound holistic, neuro-somatic approach to start releasing long-term stress and tension, stuck emotional energy, persistent limiting core beliefs, emotional overwhelm, and anxiety in body and mind. It will guide you to find greater awareness, ease, peace, self-connection, self-empowerment, joy, and quality in your life, and reconnect you with your playful, uninhibited infant mind space.

Through the Feldenkrais neuro-somatic movement sessions, NIA Move to Heal somatic dance play sessions, and Organic Intelligence coaching moments in this retreat, you meet yourself a little differently each time. Each session is a renewed and wonderful introduction to yourself, prompting new learning, a deepening understanding of yourself, and new opportunities to make choices that rekindle your inner sparkle and connect you with your innate inner wisdom and potential. 

In the somatic-energetic bodywork session that is part of this 7-day retreat, we dive deep into the underlying limiting patterns that maintain chronic tension patterns in your body

All in all, this retreat offers powerful movement and somatic-energetic sessions with everything in them to help transform neuro-physical movement patterns and mental and emotional habits that limit mobility, ease, release, a sense of joy, and vitality.

In addition, our cook provides meals carefully prepared to restore gut health and digestive well-being.

“Pingel is an incredible person with so much knowledge that I am very grateful for. She helped to calm my nervous system and feel a connection with my body, it was incredibly profound to feel this after so many years.” Natalie Rose Roberts

Activate your body’s natural desire to heal itself

Healing can be very joyful. You don’t have to go to the bottom of the well to find release. Our body and nervous system have a built-in and self-regulating self-healing program that only needs to be acknowledged and trusted.

From the moment you are born, your central nervous system develops itself through movement, play, curiosity, and discovery.

This organic neuro-physical learning is the foundation of the Feldenkrais method and the NIA holistic dance movement practice that I offer in this retreat.

Instead of imposing movements and postures, I invite you to play with movement ideas arising from everyday activities, sensations, emotions, thoughts, visualizations, nature, and energetic qualities.

We engage with your nervous system and strengthen your sense of self through imagination, exploration, sensory awareness, and movement creativity.

As a result, you develop a fuller understanding of yourself. This helps you recognize underlying limiting emotional, mental, and physical habits and create new powerful ways to move through life effortlessly, resiliently, and full of energy.

You will regain profound insight into how your nervous system programs itself and how to change limiting physical, emotional, and mental patterns through compassionate attention, self-awareness, and sensory-based and mindful movement exercises that harness the plasticity of the nervous system.

Combining self-awareness, movement, exploration, expressive arts, mindfulness, curiosity, and playfulness, we will tap into the nervous system’s capacity for endless learning, growth, and rewiring.

By growing our awareness, curiosity, and playful explorer spirit, we open ourselves up to possibilities. Curiosity is known as the opening of our heart intuition. It brings us into a ventral vagal state, where the options and outcomes are boundless. In this state, our system finds space for organising itself, tapping into resources, reciprocity, reconnection, repatterning, and transformation of our narrative!

Usually the more dynamic, heart-opening NIA dance movement sessions take place in the morning, followed by a somatic, energetic bodywork session that grounds you firmly in your being, regulates your nervous system, and transforms limiting neurophysical patterns. These sessions furthermore guide you to release emotional charge.

The energetic- somatic creative coaching sessions that are part of this retreat, guide you to explore your inner landscape and examine limiting attention and behavioral habits as well as the restrictive core beliefs that underlie your patterns in feeling, emotion, sensing, thinking, making meaning, and moving (through life). Expressive art self-inquiry is woven throughout most sessions.

This retreat offers a unique and personalized body-centered self-healing program in a welcoming, relaxed atmosphere.