THE ART OF THE HEART
5 Days
5RHYTHMS Heartbeat Level
Residential Retreat
29. April – 03. May 2026
with Silvija Tomčik
Info & Anmeldung
dance@deepdance.net
+49 171 3468708
“THE ART OF THE HEART”
5Rhythms® Residential Retreat
5 Days of Heartbeat level
29.04.-03.05.2026.
„We’re all artists, creating our lives and the worlds we live in, and the optimum choice is for the full palette of the emotional range. To befriend our feelings we can dance them, sing them, act them, write them, and paint them; we can creatively explore and celebrate them.“
Gabrielle Roth
In „THE ART OF THE HEART“ workshop, we will explore the powerful connection between our body and the emotions that move through us. Through a variety of creative and healing practices, including dance and movement, voice work, drawing, painting, ritual theatre, writing, and massage, we’ll cultivate greater tolerance for our emotional landscape and discover diverse ways to express and communicate our feelings.
My intention is to guide you in developing greater tolerance for your emotional experience and to empower you with diverse tools for emotional expression and communication.
Drawing on Gabrielle Roth’s 5 Rhythms, we will journey through five core emotions, understanding their gifts: Fear (protection), Anger (defense), Sadness (release), Joy (upliftment), and Compassion (unity).
Here’s how the rhythms support our emotional journey:
Flowing: Grounding emotions through physical awareness and movement.
Staccato: Shaping, expressing, and communicating the heart’s many voices.
Chaos: Navigating emotional waves and releasing them into something larger than ourselves.
Lyrical: Finding perspective and spaciousness within, remembering that all emotions are transient.
Stillness: Embracing the wisdom of acceptance and our deep interconnectedness.“
„Art has the power to render sorrow beautiful, make loneliness a shared experience, and transform despair into hope.“
Brene Brown
Silvija Tomčik
was introduced 30 years ago to Gabrielle Roth’s teachings through her book Maps to Ecstasy. It was a powerful encounter, which motivated Silvija to begin searching for teachers of the 5Rhythms to begin her dancing path. Since then she has been organizing 5Rhythms workshops in Croatia bringing it for the first time to this part of the world. At the time she was working in the Center for Peace Studies and leading workshops on gender issues. She has finished Waves Teacher Training with Gabrielle in 2001., and in 2010 the Heartbeat Teacher Training.
Silvija has been a part of the Teacher Training Staff with Jonathan Horan 2013-2020. Silvija published her book WAVES: Voice and Vision, in collaboration with 20 artists. She teaches workshops using her imagination, great variety of music, her grounded way of dancing and her love for the freedom of being in the body to prompt people to discover their personal dance and healing movement.
Prerequisites: minimum 15 Waves hours or 1 weekend workshop.
This workshop counts towards future 5Rhythms® Teacher Training as a 5 days of Heartbeat.
Schedule:
29.04.26 Wednesday 17-20h
30.04.26 Thursday 10-13h , 16-19h
01.05.26 Friday 10-13h, 16-19h
02.05.26 Saturday 10-13h, 16-19h
03.05.26 Sunday 10-12:30, 14:30-16h
Workshop Prices:
Super Early Bird price until 1st of Feb is 375 Euro. Early Bird price until 1st of March is 395 Euro. Full price after 1st of March is 425 Euro. Helpers price is 200 Euro. There is 20% discount (from full price) for 5Rhythms Teachers and Sweat SpaceHolders. Bookings with non-refundable deposit of 100 Euro.
Hotel costs for your lodging and food are not included in this price and needs to be paid to the hotel upon your arrival.
Location:
Nature Community
St.-Hubertus-Weg 1,
92539 Schönsee, Deutschland
+49 9674 92290
info@nature-community.de
https://nature-community.de/veranstaltungsort/
Accommodation:
Prices are per person / night – including
Full board & seminar house flat rate with use of sauna,
Single from: 107€
Double from: 92€
Triple from: 92€
Multi shared from: 82€
Tent/Camper from: 67€
Registration form:
Contact and information:
Oliver Common,
dance@deepdance.net,
