5-day Somatic Retreat | 15-19 October, 2024 | Bali
OCEAN TOUCH
A training for facilitators, bodyworkers, and therapists, who use or consider using water as a supportive environment for human development and healing.
Are you facing challenges in your work as a facilitator or in your personal life of supporting others while navigating your own journey?

We created this retreat to help you build effortless & nourishing connections with yourself and others in your role as a facilitator.

You will be exploring:

  • Nourishing Touch: Discover how touch can be a support for both you and those you work with.
  • Somatic Healing: Learn how attuned attention can unlock deep healing processes.
  • Boundaries and Safety: Strengthen your ability to create safe environments and how to hold a space of transformation for others.
  • Voice and Breathing: Enhance your work with touch and movement through the power of voice and breath.
  • Trauma Awareness: Learn to recognize the surfacing of the traumatic imprints
  • and effective ways to offer support.



11- 13 OCT The first module will take place in UBUD.
For those who sign up for the retreat participation is required.

You can attend this Course for $250 USD without participation in the 5-day Retreat.

We will share different approaches from Somatics and Water Therapy, such as:
  • Water as a Healing Medium
    Introducing the therapeutic applications of water and its potential to
    create a healing presence and foster relaxation, love, and support.
  • Transformative Power
    of Mindful Touch
    Somatic touch - a form of contact that awakens vitality in the body's systems, enhances the self-perception.
  • Body-Mind Connection
    Exploring the body systems satisfaction cycle, developmental movement patterns, & the sensory-motor loop principle.
The Facilitators
  • Žan Perko
    Žan is interdisciplinary artist, somatic therapist, Contact Improvisation teacher, Ocean dance teacher, bodyworker, and water therapist.

    He is a founder and developer of H.E.A.R.T.: Holistic Embodiment and Resonance Therapy, specializing in the embodiment of emotions and processing them through the framework of the body, voice, and movement.
  • Sasha Bezrodnova
    Sasha is a social psychologist, trainer, certified body facilitator (EFC), certified Bodymind Gestalt therapist, international teacher of contact improvisation and body awareness, guide of retreats about emotional freedom, connection to Nature, nurturing touch, and conscious sexuality.

    Interpreter of somatic literature.
    Author of underwater dance teaching method “Ocean Dance” and therapeutic approach “Ocean Touch”, author of the blog "Body My Home".
  • Natalia Ivanova
    Natalia is an artist, dance teacher, performer, somatic researcher, bodyworker on land and in water, and an explorer of Chinese medicine. Natalia holds two artistic diplomas in directing (from Saint-Petersburg University of Culture and Arts) and dance (from the Royal Professional Dance Conservatory Mariemma).

    She has completed a two-year training in Contact Improvisation (Formación Contact Improvisation) and somatic courses in repatterning and embryology on land and in water.
LOCATION
Our retreat takes place in a private center with 9 villas, a spacious common area, a saltwater swimming pool, and a large shala for sessions on land.

Delicious meals will be served 2 times a day,
with a new set of dishes daily.
$899
Includes a 3-day intro course in Ubud,
a 5-day retreat in Amed with accommodation for 5 nights & 2 meals daily
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