A full-day retreat programme awaits you: In nature and indoors; with you alone, with music, as a couple and in a group. The programme includes a variety of high-quality dance classes and relaxation activities. You can find introductory information on all the content here. The content of the specific programmes will follow in the course of the summer in the schedule.

Feeling good allowed!

On this weekend, all offers are first and foremost one thing: offers. We invite you to try everything out. If your body needs something different, then look for it and do it. This could be different movements or, for example, creating the framework you need - sometimes on the edge, in nature or in your room. This weekend is for you, not against you.

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Early/Later Bird

This is where you can start the day with mindful physical exercises before breakfast. If the weather is fine, Early and Later Bird take place outside.

Dance for 2

This class focuses on technique, connection and breathwork in a partnered dancing couple. There are also special offers with blind folds.

We will explore the different facets of blues and fusion dance with Afro-American and cross-genre couple dance principles.

Don't worry if this is new territory for you: you will receive invitations and appropriate impulses to help you find your feet.

A special emphasis is placed on mindful connection in the dance couple: Pleasant dance for two is like a good, non-verbal conversation. We experience this intensive connection, physical communication and the skills required for this in a variety of exercises.

Solo

You are the centre of attention here. Arrive, feel, become open: Relax and get in touch with yourself and your body through breathing and stretching techniques as well as various dance experiences. In a range of indoor and outdoor activities, you can experience your body and your needs intensively with music. This involves practices from dance therapy, breathing and bodywork.

Musicality, flexibility and creativity are given a range of opportunities to learn, develop and play. 

Social Dance

Every evening there is a cosy social dance. Here you can indulge in blues and fusion dance and relax together. The social dance has a fixed end each day, which is determined according to the needs of the group. This way we all find time for a good night's sleep and you don't have to worry about missing out.  

Fancy Social Dance

On the last evening, you are warmly invited to make yourself fancy - whatever that means for you. Feel beautiful and express this in a fitting outfit. Let's make the last evening a very special one!

Solo relax

Dancing as a couple can sometimes be quite intense, so your body won't be able to settle down immediately afterwards. At the end of each day, we offer you the opportunity to get in touch with yourself and relax.

Double room+ with private bathroom

Own bathroom, bring your own towels and bed linen: € 115

Single room with shared bathroom

Own washbasin, bring your own towels and bed linen: € 120

Double room with shared bathroom

Own washbasin, towels and bed linen : 100 €

Triple room with shared bathroom 

Own washbasin, only bookable as a group of three, bring your own towels and bed linen : 90 €

Important:

• If you want to be sure who you are in a double room with, book a single room or register with friends. The triple room can only be booked for a group of three.
• There is no WLAN.

The high-quality vegan and vegetarian full board is included. Our chef Matti mainly uses seasonal organic ingredients.

• Friday: Welcome snack & dinner
• Saturday: Breakfast, lunch & dinner
• Sunday: Brunch
• Drinks are available throughout the day and you can help yourself at the tea and snack bar (fruit and pastries).

Important:

Please note that the event is intoxicant-free. This also applies to alcohol.

All inclusive!

There are fixed prices for the programme and meals and various options for accommodation. Depending on the room category, the total cost is €420 - €445, or €370 - €395 with the Early Bird ticket.

Save money

You can save money with Bring a friend and for financial emergencies TanzBildung offers prices according to a solidarity principle.

Payment in instalments is also possible with a deposit of €150. Feel free to write to me.

• Bring a friend

Book together with friends and save money. If you book in pairs, you save €20 per person. 

• Early Bird

Register by 1 August and save €50!

• Price according to the solidarity principle

There are situations in life when financial resources are severely limited. Taking part in a healing retreat can be an important way to relax during such phases, but it can be beyond your budget.

Are you in a financially comfortable situation and would like to support others?

Then pay a small or large sponsorship amount (€20 or €40) in addition to your chosen package.

If you are on a tight budget, you can apply for a small or large discount (€20 or €40 less of your chosen package). Feel warmly invited, to approach me, if needed!

Important: 

For every discounted soli place a supporter person is required. This is the only way to secure a place at a reduced price.

Friederike Reif (Frida)

Frida has explored around 20 couple dances since 1998 - from the world dance programme to other Latin and Afro-American and contemporary couple dances. Her great love is the Afro-American blues dance and fusion dance. 

As the founder of TanzBildung, she has 18 years of experience as a couple dance teacher in modern dance didactics, offering mindful and joyful approaches to couple dance.

In Blues Dance, an intensive, consensual connection in the dance couple, musicality and authentic expression are particularly important to her.

You can find detailed information about her career and her teaching concept here.

You can find Friederike on Instagram and Facebook here:

Instagram: tanz.bildung

Facebook: TanzBildung

Sarah

Sarah has been a passionate dancer since childhood. She has learnt a whole range of dances, from belly dancing and ballroom dancing to Lindy Hop. The Afro-American blues dances finally captured her heart and her dancing legs. It felt like coming home, because she grew up with blues and soul music. 

Sarah has danced her way through countless international festivals and workshop formats and has been teaching in Cologne since 2018. In 2019, she continued her professionalisation at the Blues Teacher Training of the international blues greats Adamo and Vicci.

Sarah prepares her teaching content meticulously and places particular emphasis on the connection to the African-American roots of the blues.

In her classes she invites you to discover and curiously explore your own body and your own expression of dance.

Address:

Tagungshaus Op de Hardt, Hardter Str. 9, 57632 Kescheid

By car:

Coming from Cologne / Düsseldorf:

A3 motorway exit Bad Honnef / Linz

Direction Asbach > Flammersfeld > Kescheid/Püscheid > Hardt

From the direction of Frankfurt:

A3 motorway exit Neuwied / Altenkirchen

Direction Flammersfeld > Kescheid/Püscheid > Hardt

We will endeavour to arrange carpooling for you.

By public transport:

By train: Altenkirchen railway station (bus station and taxi in front of the station)

By bus: Flammersfeld bus station

We can pick up a maximum of three people from Eitorf station (40 minutes from Cologne) or Altenkirchen.

This weekend is also suitable for people who are visually impaired or physically challenged, but generally mobile (post Covid/Vac, MS, ME/CFS, etc.). 

The programme is kept very open (see note under ‘Programme’) and includes many rest phases. 

The sessions focus primarily on physical awareness, for which no visual skills are required.

The single rooms are on the ground floor, the double and triple rooms are on the first floor and the double rooms+ are on the second floor (without lift).

There are 4 steps to the dance room.

With your registration you agree to these event regulations:

• House rules of the seminar house: Street shoes are not allowed in the house. Please bring your own slippers. Please bring your own bed linen (covers and sheets) and towels; they are not included in the daily rate. The house is a non-smoking house. Pets are not allowed in the house. Drums and loud music are only permitted in the group room and only with the windows and doors closed. Generally not allowed outside. Fires are not permitted on the premises.  
• Tickets are non-refundable. With confirmation from TanzBildung, tickets are transferable to another person. Instructions and confirmations for ticket transfer will be issued by TanzBildung (kontakt@tanzbildung.info).
• General provisions to be observed: Code of conduct, data protection provisions and general provisions