Joyful Dance of the Wild Soul dans retraite

During this retreat, you are invited to reconnect with the dance that lives deep within you — the joy of your dream, the wild soul longing to move through you. Nature offers a nourishing and grateful womb in which your dream can come alive again, or even more fully. Through silence, yoga, dance, and direct nature experience, this retreat offers a refreshing holiday, shared time, and space for yourself. Together, we connect with the wild nature around us in the Ardennes and the wild nature within.

This yoga, dance, and nature retreat is designed to help you replenish, slow down, and enjoy. It offers time to connect with nature, delicious food, warm community by the campfire, and much more. At the heart of the experience are:

• connecting with nature

• connecting with the primal elements

• experiencing deep peace, silence, and love

• movement, yoga, dance, and walking

• recharging and restoring your energy

• coming home in a joyful community of people

Daily Rhythm

• Morning silence

• Morning: movement meditation, Tibetan Tantrayana yoga, sharing circle

• Afternoon: nature, walking, connection, rest, simply being, relaxing, doing nothing, dancing

• Evening: mantra wisdom, vision dance, freedom dance, Sufi initiation

You are warmly welcome to the birth of all that is new within you.

Accommodation

During the retreat, you will stay at Chamai, in the Old Rectory of the small village of Hodister in the Ardennes. The retreat center and house are located in a quiet village surrounded by forests and meadows. Delicious vegetarian meals are included. You will sleep in a spacious room shared by two or three people. Private rooms may be available for a limited number of registrations and with an additional supplement. Staying in a tent in the beautiful garden is also possible. During the day, we will be indoors or in the surrounding forests.

Registration and Prices

• Standard price: 590 euro

• Supporter & business price: 590 euro + VAT, if you would like an invoice for your business

• Social rate: on request by email, 490 euro

Your registration is complete once you have filled in the registration form and transferred the full amount to the account of BE – Sophie Vandenkerchove, with mention of Joyful Dance retreat 2025. By registering, you commit to participating in the weekend. If the weekend must be cancelled by the organizing team, a different date will be arranged in consultation with the group. If, due to circumstances, you can no longer participate, the full retreat fee remains due unless you find a replacement participant yourself.

Guidance

Gert Daniels is a warm-hearted man who, as a dance and yoga teacher, delights in life and invites others to live from the heart and from feeling. He is director and all-round helper of the non-profit We See You, which works with dance, song, and martial arts for vulnerable children and young people, as well as schools. Through many teachers around the world, he shares countless inner treasures with those who need them, by being present with gentleness and deep listening. His specialities include Sacred Sufi Dervish Dance and the Sword Dance (Tog Chöd Wisdom Sword). For years, he has co-organized men’s gatherings to guide men more into heart and feeling, and to inspire both younger and older men. He is also co-creator of the Tribe of the Heart, where every heart is needed in this time of great change.

Sophie Vandenkerchove feels deeply connected to inner and outer wild nature. She trained as a Wilderness Rites of Passage Guide at the School of Lost Borders in California. For many years, she has practiced Zen meditation in the Korean tradition and has received several initiations in Druidism and local Celtic shamanism. Her favorite place is the forest, or the pilgrim paths in the Ardennes, where she has received some of her most profound insights about life. Sophie grew up in the forests of the Belgian Ardennes, where, as a child, she felt a strong bond with the land of her ancestors. After wandering through wild places in the cities, she returned to her ancestral village. There she founded Chamai, a retreat center where she guides trainings, Vision Quests, and nature weekends.