WILD EMBRACE - NATURE EMBODIMENT RETREAT | ALGARVE PORTUGAL - April 14 - 19, 2025
WILD EMBRACE - NATURE EMBODIMENT RETREAT | ALGARVE PORTUGAL - April 14 - 19, 2025 Book
Mon Apr 14, 2025 at 03:00 PM to Sat Apr 19, 2025 at 02:00 PM
2025-04-14 15:00:00 2025-04-19 14:00:00 Europe/Paris WILD EMBRACE - NATURE EMBODIMENT RETREAT | ALGARVE PORTUGAL - April 14 - 19, 2025 Reservations on : http://www.guillaumelaplane.com -- Welcome to the WILD EMBRACE - NATURE MOVEMENT LAB RETREAT.   Myself and my team of musicians and caretakers are very much looking forward to sharing this special journey with you. 5 days & nights of immersion in movement connected with the stunning nature of Algarve.  An invitation to dive into the love relationship between nature landscapes and movement.   A space to practice, to reunite and celebrate, to gather and take a privileged time for oneself empowered by the goodness of a caring collective.   DATES: April 14th (3PM) - 19th (2PM) 2025    PRACTICES: 5RHYTHMS® WAVES, NATURE EXPLORATION, LIVE MUSIC, CONTACT IMPROVISATION, THAI MASSAGE, ECSTATIC DANCE, SAUNA, LIGHT YOGA   LOCATION: Conscious community & retreat center in Aljezur area - South Portugal. 20 minutes away from stunning beaches surrounded by forest with an open view to the landscapes around. The studio has a full open view on the forest. The dance floor is perfect for the dance, wood and flexible.  Photos here: http:/… Aljezur, Portugal Guillaume Laplane EI
Timezone : Europe/Paris
Welcome to the WILD EMBRACE - NATURE MOVEMENT LAB RETREAT.
 
Myself and my team of musicians and caretakers are very much looking forward to sharing this special journey with you.
5 days & nights of immersion in movement connected with the stunning nature of Algarve. 
An invitation to dive into the love relationship between nature landscapes and movement.
 
A space to practice, to reunite and celebrate, to gather and take a privileged time for oneself empowered by the goodness of a caring collective.
 
DATES: April 14th (3PM) - 19th (2PM) 2025 
 
PRACTICES:
5RHYTHMS® WAVES, NATURE EXPLORATION, LIVE MUSIC, CONTACT IMPROVISATION, THAI MASSAGE, ECSTATIC DANCE, SAUNA, LIGHT YOGA
 
LOCATION: Conscious community & retreat center in Aljezur area - South Portugal. 20 minutes away from stunning beaches surrounded by forest with an open view to the landscapes around.
The studio has a full open view on the forest. The dance floor is perfect for the dance, wood and flexible. 
 
TOTAL PRICE = 1 (WORKSHOP) + 2 (ACCOMODATION) +3 (MEALS) + 4 (CARS)
 
=1. Workshop contributions Organisation + Facilitation + Musicians
 
We offer a scale of contributions to support access to all for this retreat :
- 300€ "Super reduced Happy contribution under 30yo" for participants under 30 years old or locals owning law income in Portugal
- 400€ "Super reduced DUO* Happy contribution" until March 30th (book with a friend,your partner, your sibling etc. simply tell us who while booking) Price per person
- from 500€ to 800€ "Happy contribution"
 
The balance of contributions will make this event sustainable, please value your contribution according to your financial possibilities.
Two scholarships can be offered to students with lower contribution, please address a specific request at guillaume.laplane@gmail.com
 
After your booking, you'll receive a form to fill up with your details in which you'll mention the final "happy contribution" that you decide to pay.
(contact us if you wish to set up a paiement plan)
 
+2. ACCOMODATION FOR 5 NIGHTS
* HOUSE: 
Private bathroom and toilets and view on the garden and wide open landscape. 
- Triple room: 250 €/person 
- Double or Twin room: 300 € /person 
- Single room: 500€/person 
 
* Glamping tents, private tents and Vans:
Located in the valley with shared outdoor toilets and showers.
- Glamping tent Shared: 200 €/person 
- Glamping Tent Single: 300 € /person 
- Tent or Van, If you join with your own material:  75 €/person 
 
+3. MEALS : 275€
Plant based Vegan food 5 days, 3 meals a day prepared by our chef and her team
 
+4. CAR : 70
Contribution for a shared car during the week if you don't have yours.
 
For example you choose 
Happy contribution 500€ 
Twin room 300 € 
Meals 275 €
Car 70 €
TOTAL PRICE = 1145 € 
 
To register please follow these steps:
- Proceed to your deposit of 210€ here (including 10€ for billetweb)
(IBAN or paypal also available)
- Select your accommodation choice.
- The complement of payment will be done at the start of the retreat.
 
Once registered you'll receive a fully detailed documentation one month previous to the retreat to support the preparation of your journey.
 
TRANSPORT:
Our retreat place in 20 minutes drive from Lagos
1h10 from Faro Airport
3 hours South of Lisbon or 3 hours west of Sevilla
 
CAR : We recommend renting a car as it will be useful to move from our retreat place to the different locations and beaches.
BUS : You'll find buses to Lagos from Lisbon, Faro, Sevilla
PICK UP from Faro Airport : 40€, from Lagos : 20€
We will connect all participants 2 weeks before the retreat for you to be able to organise convenient car sharing or travels together and share your costs.
 
 
MORE DETAILS : 
PRACTICE : 
We will dive deeper into the 5Rhythms map from Gabrielle Roth. Nature explorations will open up the raw and sensitive ressources of our poetics into movement with sensual and experiential connections with the elements on amazing natural sites. 
Practice the tools of contact improvisation to open up the multidimensional aspect of relating through the dance and pamper with massage and Thaï massage.

Our grounds are the wooden dance studio, the garden and forest, the sand, rocks and waves of the wild beaches and ocean.
Our sessions will be in live and mixed music and sometimes in silence.
We will also have time to relax, witness Sunrise and/or Sunset and enjoy walks in beautiful Nature.
 
DAILY SCHEDULE :
*8:30 Breakfast
* 10:00-12:30 Movement session
13:00 Lunch break
* 16:00-18:30 Movement session
19:30 Dinner
* Extra sessions
 
Plenty of time to relax around the tiny lac, go swim in the ocean (20 min drive) and share music jams
Delicious vegetarian meals prepared by our chef with local products
Private massage sessions can be booked as extras with our best practitioners on site.
Digital detox : You can even take it to the next level by quitting your emails, phone, watch and social media for 5 days... It is the best setting for that and one of the most powerful medicines we can offer to ourselves in these times.
My personal phone will be available for your families to be reachable in case of need to reach you.
Schedule and clock detox: No need to set your alarm, we will create a little ritual to wake you up gently in the morning and set new ways to make you be informed before and when the session starts.
 
ABOUT Guillaume Laplane:
Guillaume Laplane is a 5Rhythms® accredited teacher since 2007, member of the 5RTA Global. Being trained as an architect, his approach of movement finds resources into an accurate relationship to places, textures, natural, urban and collective dynamics.
Guillaume collaborated with the dancers and mentors Marie Motais and Anna Halprin, training with Gabrielle Roth, his life journey gently moved toward sharing the dance worldwide.
With a large experience in movement practices and somatics, Guillaume creates workshops and containers to embrace movement as a resource for self expression and quality of connection with others and our various life environments. 
Guillaume's guidance is known for being clear and creative, expanding the conception of dance to discover new personal landscapes of movement and embrace all aspects of our existence, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
 
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Each retreat counts as 5 days of Waves® prerequisites to the 5Rhythms teacher training path.
 
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Looking forward to sharing the dance with you very soon.
Guillaume & Team
 
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Guillaume Laplane EI
Mas de Blanquefort, 30770, Arrigas, France
Cancellation policy:
- Participation in a scheduled Retreat may be canceled only in writing. This can be done by sending an email to guillaume.laplane@gmail.com
- For cancellation until 30 days before the start of the Retreat, You can ask to report the non-refundable booking fee of € 200, to a future retreat.
- For cancellation between 30 and 15 days before the retreat, the non-refundable booking fee of € 200 are kept.
-Less than 15 days before the retreat, no refund will be possible and the full Retreat & Accomodation price is charged.
- The Retreat organization reserves the right to cancel the Retreat 30 days in advance if there are insufficient participants. In this case, the registration fee already paid by the Participants is refunded immediately. The participant is responsible for expenses for personal travel tickets and logistics.
- The Retreat organization reserved the right to cancel the Retreat in case of local political reasons or extreme weather conditions, 80% registration fee will be paid back to the participants and 20% kept for organization expenses.
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Conditions d'annulation:
- votre participation au stage peut être annulée par demande écrite uniquement adressée à guillaume.laplane@gmail.com.
- En cas d'annulation, jusqu'à 30 jours avant le début du stage, vous pouvez demander le report de vos frais d'inscription non-remboursables de 200€ pour un autre stage.  
- En cas d'annulation entre 30 et 15 jours avant le début du stage, les frais d'inscription de 200€ ne pourront pas être reportés.
- En cas d'annulation moins de 15 jours avant le début du stage, la totalité des frais de stage et d'hébergement sont dûs. 
- Les organisateurs se réservent le droit d'annuler un stage 30 jours avant le début dans le cas d'un nombre de participants insuffisant. Dans ce cas les frais d'inscriptions seront remboursés intégralement. Les participants gardent à leur charge les frais engagés pour leur organisation personnelle, billets d'avion ou autre logistique.
- Les organisateurs se réservent le droit d'annuler un stage en cas de situation politiques ou climatiques rendant le déroulement du stage fortement déconseillé par le ministère français ou suisse des affaires étrangères, 80% des arrhes versés pourront vous être remboursés, 20% seront conservés pour frais d’organisation.
- En cas d'annulation de la part des organisateurs pour des raisons personnelles: la totalité des frais d'inscription versés seront remboursés, Les participants gardent à leur charge les frais engagés pour leur organisation personnelle, billets d'avion ou autre logistique.