10.00h - 10.15h

Opening

10.15h - 11.45h
5Rhythms®
Samar Linn
 
12.15h - 13.45h
Dance Alchemy
Dhyana Vargas
 
15.00h - 15.30h
After-lunch concert
Rittik Wystup
 
15.45h - 17.15h
Ecstatic Dance
Goranji
 
17.45h - 19.30h
Sufi Whirling with Live Music
Dhyana Vargas
Music by Yazdan Jamshidi and Dogukan Karakus 

19.30h - 20.30h

Closing

Trance Dance Ritual is an ancient neo-shamanic ritual which invites the dancer into a deep melting inner journey supported by rhythm, music, transformational breathing technique –Breath of Fire– and a bandana to cover the physical eyes in order to tap into the inner world and energy. We also work with the power of an intention in Trance Dance Ritual. We breath and dance through an intention. The more we dance the more we dissolve boundaries, we let go of control and feel more in tune with the energy of Existence. 

Passionate about dance and movement as medicine, as pathways towards totality, healing and self love, Kiran (Romania) has been exploring and working with Trance Dance Ritual since 2007. She trained as a Trance Dance Ritual Facilitator with Wilbert Alix (Trance Dance International) in 2010. Since then on she has been actively involved in supporting and building the Trance Dance Ritual community in Romania and also facilitating Trance Dance Ritual events in different meditation and dance festivals or centres in Spain, Italy, Russia, Bali, Greece and Germany. Kiran is the co- creator and co-leader of the annual Trance Dance & Ecstatic Shaking Facilitator Training.
Kiran is also a bodyworker trained in Balinese Massage, Watsu, Tantra, Humaniversity AUM, OSHO Meditations and OSHO Meditative Therapies.
 
‘Since the beginning of time people from different cultures all over the earth have been using dancing as a way to connect with Spirit, with the Divine, with Existence. I love this ancient neo-shamanic ritual which is always a new reveling inner adventure, bringing us closer and closer to our essence as energy and love.’ – Kiran  
 
www.oshocamp.ro

Rio Abierto (Open River in Spanish) is a fascinating, creative and playful method of psycho-corporal techniques originated in South America and with worldwide presence. With imitative but also free dance, in a circle and in couples, with massage, voice and different breathing techniques we relax and expand our consciousness. We establish a deep connection with ourselves, with others, with the physical and the etheric. Let’s discover a new form of embodied spirituality!

Gabriela is originally from Mexico City, based nowadays in Munich where she has been teaching classes, workshops and massage therapy for more than 10 years. Throughout these years she has completed her training in movement and acupuncture, as well as a training in neurosciences. Gabriela is passionate about self-discovery and the understanding of pain as a step towards inner evolution.

www.rioabierto.de

5Rhythms is an exploration of how five essential rhythms move through us. Gabrielle Roth created this beautiful map as she witnessed these energies both on and off the dancefloor. As we become more available to these different rhythms in movement, we become more available when they show up in our lives – or even how to call on specific rhythms when needed. Together, we’ll uncover how these energies move through us. We’ll express, feel and connect with ourselves and others through the 5Rhythms. There is no wrong or right on this x-dance floor. There is simply the infinity of what is.

Samar Linn has a promiscuous love affair with music, is enamored by dance and is a curious investigator of freedom of expression. She is a certified 5Rhythms® teacher, a trained Integrative Counselor and Bodyworker.
Samar runs a range of workshops, private events and weekly classes to bring more curiosity to ourselves, openness to our uniqueness and permission to embrace the magic in daily life. Her raw attitude, vulnerability, and artistic ways to embody aliveness provide an electric, creative and safe environment. Wherever you might meet.


www.samarlinn.com

Whirling is an ancient Sufi technique, where you whirl on the spot with your arms outstretched. Accompanied by musicians playing traditional Sufi music, Dhyana will share a space for you to learn and experience this active meditation that helps the mind to relax, moving you into a soft, and silent space – the very center of your being.

Dance Alchemy is an opportunity to explore life issues and transform the emotions behind it. With movement and presence we allow things that are hidden in the unconscious mind to be revealed, expressed and felt. Allowing ourselves to feel, we become more grounded in our bodies. Our sensitivity, resilience, and capacity to be more present in daily life expands, no matter the situation.


This workshop supports you with a guided exploration of your inner world through dance, presence and acceptance. A way to transform and to free blocked energy into aliveness and celebration.

In a light trance, combining let go with alertness, explore and befriend your bodymind‘s creative and self-healing energies. Sitting or lying down, you will be guided into a space of relaxed awareness using gentle soothing music and spaces of silence.

The session is based on the meditative therapy OSHO Reminding Yourself of the Forgotten Language of Talking to Your BodyMind.

Founder and organizer of the Conscious Dance Festival®, Dhyana (born in Colombia, based in Berlin) is a passionate meditator and dancer with a vast experience in different meditation techniques, therapy and somatic work as well as movement practices. She is a certified practitioner of the body-based therapy Dance Alchemy, trainer and facilitator for OSHO Active Meditations and OSHO Meditative Therapies, and facilitates Whirling workshops, initiating others in this ancient tradition.

Dhyana is as well the creator of Whirling in Berlin, and OSHO Colombia. She travels the world offering spaces and courses for those who wish to have an experience of meditation in movement.

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This evocative journey will be based around the core concept of improvisation, getting in touch with yourself through your breath, movement and opening up your voice.

Joris will lead you through your senses, utilising softness and playfulness to reveal your inner movements to yourself – to dance yourself out, from the inside. This interaction with your own being in this space and time creates the conditions for enhanced connection, sharing and interaction with others. Falling into dance, falling into the moment, meeting the self, meeting others…

Joris Camelin is a dancer, performer and improviser from France, now based in Berlin. He has collaborated with leading choreographers such as Meg Stuart, Laurent Chetouane, Constanza Macras and Mark Tompkins.

He is currently offering workshops and coaching sessions at academies, festivals and other locations around Europe, working with people from many different fields such as dancers, actors, musicians, architects and visual artists.

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This class is an introduction to contact improvisation, viewed and experienced through the lens of four types of embodiment, or ways of being in the world: playfulness, flow (intuition and endless exploration), structure-form, drive (strength/clarity/ willpower). In the process we will explore different ways of relating to others, as well as, the earth and gravity.

Contact improvisation is an improvised dance form in which, at its highest level of consciousness, we remain in a state of constant presence, creating and interacting playfully with the emerging moment. Due to its interactive nature, it is quick to mirror to us the ways in which we interact with others in our daily lives. The various techniques of CI, which have evolved, allow us to gracefully roll, fall, slide our way through space and time while in contact with another body. Essential to the dance is learning to surrender control of our own weight and connect to the earth‘s gravity.

Liz Erber has been a joyful mover and dancer her entire life. She discovered contact improvisation in 2000 and began teaching the following year while living in South America. Her practice and teaching of CI has continued, and afforded her the opportunity to meet and dance with people from many corners of the world. She has especially enjoyed teaching in India, Brazil and Turkey and has developed methodologies for working with beginners and people of all abilities. Liz now lives in Oderberg, Brandenburg where she has founded the non-profit, KuNaKu- Haus für Kunst, Natur und Kultur, a place of retreat for artists and others to connect with themselves, nature and one another. And a place for local residents and refugees to participate in the arts.

Liz also teaches somatic movement, contemporary dance, writing and moving, movement improvisation and yoga. She leads dance-theater projects and performances; the next one being, “Quelle des Lebens” in June 2025 - a tour of Oderberg’s many natural springs, accompanied by dance and music.

www.lizerber.com / www.KuNaKu.org

Experience a whole dance ritual. You are invited to start from the bottom, totally relaxed. Your inside is gonna increase to flow slowly. Adapting to the first tender rhythms, which will build up increasingly. An eclectic downbeat journey begins that will take you to peaks and turns, making your ears taste the world's flavours. From medicine music inspired atmosphere, worldbeat, percussion, afrobeat, nu Latin grooves and experimental organic music up to psychedelic explorations. Expect nothing, experience yourself fully. You will be smoothly landed by your spaceship captain, who cares that each of your body's 75 billion cells was moved in this 90min! Safe travels!

goranji was born and raised in a socialist Germany. Music was his first love due to his father's personal LP collection, which let him dive into otherworldly realms, emotions and energies. Bars, parties and Festivals followed. As the founder of The Orgasm Workshop, he used music extensively and connected it with people's motions and emotions. During that time, he discovered his love for Ecstatic Dance. Travelling the world brings more and more influences into his eclectic style. Berlin´s club vibes meet world music, oriental melody, African rhythms dance Latin ways of hip-moving, riding along wild rhythmic experiments.

He starts playing 2016 and dedicating himself more and more. Besides his ambitions on the dance-floor, goranji is a passionate (large group) facilitator and consultant in the realm of creativity, communication and innovation and also for conscious sexuality, which expresses his holistic mission: Making people move. Physically, mentally and, above all: Emotionally.

www.göran.de

Performing music live, especially in the realms of improvisation, is an innate way to awareness. Being in the present, and cherishing the moment, becomes very powerful, when fingers glide across keyboards and sliders, and the distance between listeners and performer disappears.

Rittik Wystup was born to an Indian mother and a German father. Growing up in the Taunus forest of Germany, he quickly discovered the piano as his instrument, as his father would play piano every night. During his youth, he delved into the Frankfurt club scene, and after a parent’s friend gave him a cracked version of Logic 9, he started producing electronic music. After his studies in Creative Music Technology, he realised the potential of connecting his two passions: piano and electronics. By now, Rittik performs various kinds of music, be it for performance art, collaborations, live scoring, or concerts.

www.rittikwystup.com