Embodied Movement – Dance Workshop / 07.10. – 09.10.2022

Embodied Movement – Dance Workshop

with Frank Lee Döllinger          Community Sulzbrunn – Sulzberg / Allgäu

Friday 07. – Sunday 09. October 2022

Dance is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. A good dancer lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. It is about to not intervene and interfere movement that spontaneously arises from the inside and wants to happen. In order to connect to the inborn wisdom of our body we have to learn to let go.

In the Beauty in Movement Dance Workshop, Frank will introduce you to a method which is an approach to allow the mystery of aesthetics to be experienced in one’s own body. In this field of study, the potential of creativity which you can draw from, is simply beyond imagination. It is pure art in motion.

Frank Lee will show you something that lives inside you. A dance and a beauty in movement which is beyond yourself. The exercises that he teaches are interpreted individually. The difficulty level is defined individually. Everyone goes to his own limit and beyond. He will connect you to your source of inborn movement intelligence. He shows you how to shift your attention from thinking to pure body awareness and how to stay there undistractedly.

For this training you need strong focus and braveness, because you will surrender to something higher. If you manage to let go of all concepts, you don’t have to move purposely. Something inside you will move you. If you go beyond exhaustion, you can reach ecstasy and trance. The more you surrender, the more soul, the more aesthetics and beauty will come into every little movement. With your eyes closed, you try to immerse yourself in your innermost, as deeply as possible. This state of mind is one of the most powerful things humans can experience. This is the direct path to immortality in a Taoist sense. This training will change your relation to your body and the way you move forever.

Please be aware that this group will be facilitated in German. The booking form will be in German as well.

• An introduction to deep transformational knowledge of dance, which is rather felt than understood
• Various movement exercises and a lot of dancing
• A deeper understanding of different movement techniques
• Getting to know and evolving out of your movement patterns
• A free and creative exploration of your own body and you as a dancer
• Singing Circle
• Loads of dance & fun
• Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner – all vegetarian (vegan optional), organic and/or local (most of the food is grown within the community Sulzbrunn)
• Fresh and healthy spring water from one of the oldest iodine medicinal springs in Europe
• Nice and cosy shared accommodations
• A heart-warming energy within a conscious community surrounded by beautiful nature

Please be aware that this group will be facilitated in German. The booking form will be in German as well.

Community Sulzbrunn is a conscious community with a colourful mix of about 35 people from all ages. They all following a common goal, developing as well as exploring sustainable life models in which people can discover and develop their full potential and actual purpose. Models of life in which they are careful and aware – with themselves and their environment.

Their vision is to be aware and respectful to themselves, other people, animals and plants. They are seeing the good in the other and support and encourage each other. Sharing the awareness that everything is interconnected and that there is a spiritual reality greater than our personal one. Friendship, joy of life, personal growth, overcoming crises and creativity is their expression of a successful community life.

It is a research project in which knowledge and experience will be gathered, tested and passed on. They are working on self-sufficiency in areas such as community-based organic agriculture and permaculture, herbal biotopes, workshops for wood, metal, art and other fields. They already established several gardens, growing and harvesting almost all year long thanks to the two huge heated greenhouses.

In the economical field, they seek a system where the individual serves not only himself but the common good. Building a sustainable, ecological and resource-efficient way of life and cooperate with similarly motivated projects in the region is another big part of their vision. They participating in regional solutions for energy, electricity, water, ecological construction and ecologically sustainable solutions for transport. Besides to the ecological expansion of existing houses, they thrive towards an implementation of more innovative forms of living such as Earthships.

The property of the community covers an area of ​​15.5 hectares, half of which consists of forest and meadows. Next to it are – like a small village – seven buildings with a usable area of ​​around 5,000 square meters. On top of that is it connected to one of the oldest iodine medicinal springs in Europe, which is providing the community with fresh, healthy, and mineral rich spring water.

We will be accommodated in nice, bright and cosy rooms with different themes. Each room will be shared with 1 to 3 people.  Please contact us for further details.

Full price € 250,-

Early bird price until 07.08.2022 – € 222,-

SPECIAL DISCOUNT – if you’ve attended one of Franks Workshops already € 199,-

-excluding food & accommodation-

Full board (from € 134,- in a dorm) can directly be booked with Sulzbrunn and is subject to availability.

Also feel free to contact us for support.

In case you are not staying in Sulzbrunn, you will have to pay a minimum of € 62,- for the whole weekend. This includes the daily fee of € 15,- per day and lunch € 16,-. (Breakfast € 11,- and or Dinner € 12,-will be extra.)

The seminar house has 15 rooms all together! (9 triple rooms, 2 quadruple room, 3 double rooms, 1 single room). Dorms can also be booked as double or single room. (upon availability)

Cancellation agreement: Reservation Fee to safe your spot is € 150,- (non-refundable)  /  If the retreat does not take place, all payments will be refunded.

We will all start the workshop, after we all come together for dinner on Friday night. Dinner is at 6 pm. Please try to arrive early enough so you will have some time for yourself and settle into the space. The workshop will end on Sunday late afternoon, after a closing circle.

If you have any further question, please contact us.

Please be aware that this group will be facilitated in German. The booking form will be in German as well.

Frank Lees childhood vision was to become a break dancer with an unique movement signature. The search for his own style became a deep dive into consciousness and its relation to the body. In Berlin he had the chance to study movement from various perspectives, from Feldenkrais to contemporary dance and the inner world motion. He found out that true movement is not willingly done, it’s a happening.

For more than 17 now has he been researching on unconsciously initiated movement such as reflexes and the body’s immanent desire to move especially when music is played. “I explored countless approaches to move, from dancing to therapy and extracted their essences. I have merged everything together to form a bigger picture.” He found out that there is something in us alive beyond our consciousness, which has it’s own will and character. He says, the more we let “it” take over our body, the more aesthetics, complexity and ease will come into our movement. What he discovered, is a method to directly reconnect to our ancient inborn movement intelligence.

In his contrasting life between artistic avant-garde of metropolitan nightlife and therapeutic work with consciousness and movement, he always manages the balancing act between seemingly opposing worlds. Frank Lee is part of international artistic collaboratives, such as the Birdmilk Collective and Taet Vrämya. He is one of the few people who have elaborated and can teach movement from both, artistic and therapeutic perspectives.