5RHYTHMS ® Easter Retreat
“FROM THE GROUND UP”
Waves and Heartbeat Level
led by Silvija Tomčik
with Thierry Francois
17.04.-21.04.2025
Friedrichshof in Zurndorf, AUSTRIA
“Perhaps the earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.”
Pablo Neruda
The invitation is to give ourselves enough time to spend down on the floor, offering our weight to the earth, letting our feet guide us into our dance.
Learning how to drop what we carry and let the ground hold us, nourish us, comfort us. Surrendering to the earth what holds us back, what holds us down, what keeps us separate. Resting in our inhale, rising on our exhale. It takes courage to feel that our being is enough. Coming back home to our own physical bodies more and more, we can start feeling more at home on this planet and extend loving attention and care from our own self love.
Rooted and centered we can soar, we can switch from me to we, from weight to weightless, from effort to effortless. We rise from the ground up, we dance from the feet up, we support and lift each other up, liberating our imagination, celebrating our maturity.
There will be a lot of dancing, singing (Kirtan and Sacred Cacao ritual), some tree planting, some creative expression and play.
“Spring is the doorway through which everything begins again. While we are finally coming to the end of the darker days of Winter, the gifts from that time are carried within us, composted through our many little deaths, and the stillness that followed. By moving into the season of renewal, we honour what has passed and allow it to inform our becoming.” Kristen Roderick
Silvija & Thierry:
Silvija was first introduced to 5Rhyhtms through Gabrielle Roth’s book Maps to Ecstasy many years ago. This led Silvija to start dancing and organising first workshops in 1998 with different 5R teachers in Croatia and Slovenia, and later to finish her own Teacher Trainings with Gabrielle (Waves and Heartbeat levels). She now teaches workshops and retreats internationally, combining clarity, imagination, humour and wisdom and using a great variety of music. Her passion for being in the body prompts everyone to discover their personal dance and healing movement.
Thierry has been dancing from a very early age, starting with ballet lessons as a kid, and in later years pursuing theater career with further exploration of dance, mime and clown work. He is also a certified and experienced Gestalt therapist. Decades ago, he came across 5Rhythms and was able to finally integrate body work into his practice. A certified teacher in Waves level by Gabrielle Roth, he is currently training for Heartbeat level with Jonathan Horan. He also works as a facilitator with men’s groups on ManKind Project. He brings his love of music as well as all different aspects of his career into his teachings, with enthusiasm, creativity and lots of humour.
“The workshops by Silvija and Thierry open up a space into the mystery which profoundly transforms us from the inside out. I was very impressed to witness how they both hold space in deep humility, grace, openness, clarity and authenticity. This allowed me to touch into a depth of the subtle power of dance and body awareness that I had not experience before. It moved me… in every way… body, mind, soul…“
Claus
Prerequisites: minimum 15 Waves hours or 1 weekend workshop. This workshop counts towards future 5Rhythms® trainings as 2 days of Waves and 2 days of Heartbeat.
Prices: Full price is 380 Euro. Early booking price before 7th of March is 340 Euro. Working price is 200 Euro. 5Rhythms Teachers and Space Holders price is 290 Euro.
We begin at 17:30 on the first day and we end at 13h on the last day with the lunch.
Location:
Friedrichshof
Römerstraße 2
2424 Zurndorf
https://goo.gl/maps/ALCt7Vs2q5F2
The Friedrichshof hotel and dancing space is located in the midst of a beautiful 25ha area, 60 km south east of Vienna and 6 km from famous Lake Neusiedl. We will enjoy high level standard accommodation, delicious food, sauna and rich nature around. We will organize a shuttle from Vienna Airport and there are taxis from the closest train stations.
Hotel prices:
All prices include full board, per person, per night.
Due to logistical reasons half board is not available. The nearest town with shops or restaurants is 7 km away.
big single room € 480
small single room € 440
2-bed/double bed room € 432
3-bed-room € 388
camping with van on request
extra night, any category €69
tourist tax per person and night €2,50
I stay somewhere else, but would like to eat lunch and dinner € 228
I stay somewhere else, but would like to eat lunch € 152
I stay somewhere else and will not eat any meals at Friedrichshof – 100€
The hotel does not have a public restaurant; the kitchen exclusively caters to seminar guests.
Travel:
BY PUBLIC TRANSPORT
We do not recommend taking the public bus—it’s complicated to get there, and there is no return bus.
Taxis from train stations Zurndorf or Gattendorf cost around 40€ and need to be ordered in advance:
Taxi Laimer +43 664/30 19 191
Taxi Blue Moon +43 699/10 660 500
Taxi Alex +43 664/14 74 195
SHUTTLE
Please mark in the registration form if you’d like a shuttle spot. Departure: Vienna Main Station 15:00, Vienna Airport 15:30. Cost: €20–€35 per ride, depending on the number of passengers.
Contact: Irene, vienna@plesritmova.net, +43 664 2552441
