Private somatic dance retreat for women

Reclaim your Inner Freedom

Stop living on the brakes… Create a beautiful life from who you are!

How do you feel… really?

Pause a moment, listen…​​​​​​​ What is actually alive inside, right now?

This private 7-day / 6-night Somatic Dance and Quantum Human Design retreat is journey back home for women who have learned to brace, to hold, to stay guarded — and who feel that undeniable pull to return to themselves.

A space where you are wholly welcome — exactly as you are.

Where your body can remember how to feel safe, alive, and vividly present in the here and now.

Where you can awaken Your Wild, Sensuous Wise Self

You are guided to:

• Reconnect with your Sensual Wild Wise Feminine Self

• Shift those perception patterns that keep you stuck in states that don’t feel alive, present, and spirited

• Re-align with the truth of your Wild Wise Heart and Sensuous Body Wise

• Transform beliefs and interfering physical-emotional habits that keep you from being fully you

• Rewrite the stuck stories you tell yourself about yourself — and the world around you

• Re-embody and rekindle that Inner Sparkle

Rekindle your Inner Sparkle

Let Somatic Dance and Movement, Embodied Creativity, and Quantum Human Design guide you to unravel what is moving you — and flow into trust and clarity.

With a refined sensitivity to feel into your undertow and read your body language, I guide you into gentle contact with what is alive in you — and how it is ready to move, express, and transform.

This is a playful, honest journey.

A space where real change happens.

Where you consciously choose pleasure over pain.

Where your Sensuous Body Wise becomes your inner compass — shifting you from protection to authentic connection, from pain to joy.

Where your story can move into a grounded, embodied “yes” to yourself.

You leave with a living blueprint to create a beautiful life from who you are — guided by your Wild Wise Heart and Sensuous Body Wise, rooted in self-trust, vitality, pleasure, and a strong sense of inner safety and connection.

Caring and loving retreat

I needed a retreat because of mental load due to divorce, stress and recovering from a hard disease. I chose this offering to reconnect to myself, and healing. After the retreat I feel more inner peace and wisdom. The food was super delicious and nutritious.

Jacky Krell

Dancer, actress, singer/songwriter, Germany

In this private retreat, you will discover how you can bring your attention back to yourself and listen. Your inner wise, sensuous, feminine self has a lot to say.

  1. Learn how to transform your critical inner voice into a source of information and support.
  2. Change your self-image and perception of yourself.
  3. Discover a new, healthier relationship with your feelings and sensations.
  4. Learn how to fine-tune your inner barometer.
  5. Learn how to improve your relationship with yourself from the inside out so you can feel more of your true self.
  6. Explore how to feel whole by Integrating body, mind, and soul.
  7. Get access to the power, wisdom, and energy that resides within you
  8. Realign your soul with its original blueprint and re-ignite that inner sparkle.

Create beauty with who you are and what you have by cleaning up your inner world, removing the hidden sabotaging patterns, and by wholeheartedly welcoming yourself

I will help you to become aware of the dynamics of deep sabotaging beliefs, and vows. How these have formed a self-image that is inconsistent with who you really are and affects your perception of the world, and how you respond. 

What is moving you?

The channels through which we experience: sensing, feeling, intuition, thinking, moving, and imagining, are all inextricably linked. How we feel affects how we think and act. How we perceive the world affects how we feel. They are the driving force behind the way you behave and move, and how you feel when you let them have their way.

Awareness, being present in your body and with your senses and sensations, and connecting and moving with your playful mind are the keys to transforming patterns of perception and start the process of healing.

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 activated.

The creative dance processes and somatic movement practices will take you into this self-healing zone. 

What keeps you from fully being yourself and embracing all of who you are wholeheartedly?

I created the retreat Reclaim Your Inner Freedom to support and help women who feel the constant undercurrent of holding… bracing… staying alert.

Who sense there is more of them available — but can’t quite land in it, trust it, live it.

In this retreat, the energetic wisdom of your Quantum Human Design meets the sensuous, body-led intelligence unfolding through Somatic Dance, Movement and Embodied Creativity.

A deeply personal, fully tailored experience — attuned to your body, your nervous system, and your unique life journey.

Together, we unwind the patterns of efforting, hyper-alertness, and inner holding — physically, emotionally, neurologically.

Not by pushing, but by meeting what is ready to shift in this moment​​​​​​​… and allowing your system to reorganize from within.

As these layers loosen, something begins to resurface:

…Your Sensuous Body Wise.

…Your intuitive, soul-led knowing.

…Your natural capacity to feel, sense, and move through life with sensuality, receptivity, and your unique touch.

We create the conditions — like rich, living soil — for your inner world to expand and bloom. So you can create a beautiful life from who you are, flowing with what truly calls to you.

My approach

This retreat weaves together:

  • Organic Intelligence® Post-Trauma Growth Coaching
  • Feldenkrais Functional Integration & Awareness Through Movement
  • NIA Move to Heal
  • Embodied Creativity
  • Chakradance

 At its heart is MAMA — Map, Anchor, Move, Align — A soul-led somatic pathway I created, rooted in the innate intelligence of your biology

Through MAMA, you will:

Map yourself in the here-and-now

Anchor safely in your Sensuous Wise Body

Move from your body’s wisdom, shifting tension into fluidity

Align your inner compass to ease, joy, and meaning

Everything is adapted to you — your pace, your sensitivity, your unfolding.

What this opens for you

  • Releasing patterns of holding, bracing, and hyper-alertness
  • Expanding your capacity to feel — without fear or overwhelm
  • Reconnecting with your senses, and sensations
  • Moving through life with more ease, grace, and self-trust
  • Awakening your natural creativity, intuition, and aliveness
  • Deepening connection with the longings of your Wildly Wise Heart

Freeing who you have always been — beneath the holding.

Alive. Open. Sensuous. Playful, Free

Are you ready to feel how you want to feel?

All bookings go through Bookretreats.com where you can enjoy early-bird rates, free gifts and more exciting extras

Deeply personal experience: body-centered, soul-led, and fully tailored to you.

This is a fully private 1:1 retreat, held in a warm, spacious, and grounded environment.

Every session and practice is adapted to meet you where you are

Here, you can meet yourself fully, gently, and on your terms.

Your journey is yours alone, guided by me with care, presence, and deep listening to your system.

A few practical notes

No prior movement experience is needed—just a willingness to move, dance, explore, and play.

I ask that you come with a heart-forward, open mind.

Before booking, I recommend a short call with me to ensure the retreat is fully aligned with your needs and goals.

Information about our accommodation possibilities, daily program, prices and food can be found on our bookretreats page

All retreats include:

  • Breakfast, Lunch, dinner, drinks & snacks
  • All  sessions mentioned in the program of the retreat
  • Accommodation at Jardin de Luz
  • The trips mentioned in the program

Not included are:

  • Your travel expenses
  • Transport to and from the airport
  • Accommodation other than in Jardin de Luz
  • Travel insurance
  • Additional 1-1 sessions
  • Trips not mentioned in the program

Testimonial by Elitsa Tilkidzhieva

Amazing! This retreat was the most intense and transformative self-awareness I have ever experienced. I am a therapist myself and have gone through years of personal therapy and training, but the depth and the immersive experience Pingel offered was something very...

Testimonial by Deborah

As I transitioned through my 60th birthday into the third age of my life, I wanted to honor this rite of passage and spend time deepening into my whole self and what is arising in and through me at this time. I was drawn to Pingel and her solo retreat because of the...

Testimonial by Federica Fornara

Expect the unexpected! I wanted to improve the body/mind connection.  I experienced a rich, accurate and flexible program, thanks to Pingel's multidisciplinary skills. She is able to approach with great sensitivity, respect, intelligence and a joyful attitude, the...

Testimonial by Nina Kirstina Ravn

The atmosphere at Jardin de Luz was very heart-warming, and I truly enjoyed my stay at Peter's and Pingel's sanctuary.The place is so full of life-force energy, and I can only recommend it. Pingel is one of the most inspiring people I've met, and she works her magic...

Testimonial by Melissa Levebvre

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Testimonial by Cristal

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Testimonial by Margrietje

A life changing experience ! This retreat has taught me to feel and connect with my body, down to earth so I can feel the connection with others again and bring more joy in my life. Thank you so much, Pingel and Peter!

Testimonial by Natalie Rose Roberts

An amazing transformative retreat! I felt really stressed, over-whelmed and disconnected to myself and my loved ones.  I wanted to specifically do a somatic retreat using dance and movement to reconnect with myself. When I saw that this was a Personal 1:1 retreat;...

Testimonial by Eline

Dear Pingel and Peter, My private retreat at your center was such a great experience! What I recall the most is the transformative power of intuitive dance. Pingel has a lot of knowledge of different types of somatic dance. She knows exactly what to use for your...

Testimonial by Lori Briscoe

What a beautiful experience I was blessed with. Thank you so much. I look forward to the creation of my new life and can embrace I have lived my dreams. Your retreat has and wil continue to have a profound effect in my life moving forward. Thank you for helping me...

Testimonial by Hollie

I was very very depressed following some difficult situations, losing my job and a break up from a very toxic relationship. This retreat offered something different from the usual yoga offering. This experience was probably the single best investment I have ever made....

Testimonial by Claire Bentley

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Testimonial by Taima Sunde

10/10 retreat! I had been feeling very low and had been struggling for a very long time with my self-image and self-esteem. When winter arrives my struggles usually intensify so this year I decided to do something active about it. It is also the last month of the year...

Testimonial by Christie

I Am so glad that I chose this retreat I had been in a state of high anxiety for months, with serious doubts over my relationship and my life choices. I felt completely stuck in life and needed help finding a way forward. I was originally looking for a yoga retreat to...

Testimonial by Elizabeth

Incredibly Grateful Aged 66 my 40 year marriage had ended and had featured traumas for me. Historically I had felt 'not good enough' and lacked confidence socially. In the past I'd had repeated episodes of talking therapies which were an outlet but didn't help to...

Testimonial by Charlotte Campbell

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Testimonial by Michelle Wigmans

Ready to get to know your body and take a deep dive. I needed some time for myself, a break from work and daily life.  The dancing part of the retreat attracted me.  It was a deep dive in personal development. For me it opened up some patterns and things that are...

Testimonial by Sintija Kazaka

Me is real Me I was just a bypasser of my own life. I needed to start to feel and be me again.  I chose this offering as it was a 1:1 retreat with the word 'freedom' in a description of what I wanted, and it didn't matter that it involved dancing. The resistance in...

Testimonial by Donna Mattingley

Reward yourself with this retreat! What initially appealed to me was the dance element in the description but I had no idea that NIA and the Feldenkrais method would give me a different perspective in my healing journey.  Pingel and Peter have the ability to make you...

Testimonial by Sharon de Boer

Inward journey surrounded by love and beauty 😍 My 6-day Retreat with Pingel (& Peter, cats, Noah the dog & chicken ladies ;)) was absolutely wonderful. I chose this Retreat to do some soul-searching and work on trauma-related issues and wanted a 1:1 setting....

Testimonial by Debi

I Am Deeply Thankful for this Experience! I had panic attacks and felt stuck, and have chronic pain issues. I love to move and knew that that kind of somatic dance work would fit best for me, and it did. Found new perspectives. Tools to listen to my body and set some...

Testimonial by Katelijjn

A Joyful Change of Perspective I wanted to change my perspective in order to transform detrimental personal programs into helpful personal programs. The dance part made me choose this retreat, together with the presence of cats... A change of perspective, where...

Testimonial by Angelica Escoto

Dear Pingel, I just wanted to take a moment to express my deepest gratitude for the amazing dancing retreat that I attended recently. Your guidance and instruction were truly transformative for me. Your big heart and warm personality made me feel safe and supported...