HOME IS NOT A LOCATION WE OWN,
BUT A STATE WE CULTIVATE IN THE BODY THAT REMEMBERS

Over the past fifteen years, I have moved more times than I can easily count.

With children, partners, between two countries, between identities & between beginnings and endings.

I have lived as a single mother, inside a blended family, inside borrowed apartments, inherited homes, temporary arrangements, remote houses, and tropical jungles.

I have rebuilt “home” again and again while navigating grief, financial instability, relocation, illness, motherhood, artistic work, and the emotional labor of holding children through change.

Again and again, life asked me the same question:

What if home is not something outside us — but something we must learn to cultivate within?
...something we carry, remember and can return to...

This retreat was born from that inquiry.

Not from theory alone, but from lived experience.

And also from more than twenty years of professional work in movement, embodiment, archetypal psychology, dance facilitation, nervous-system awareness, ritual practice, and cross-cultural exploration.

THIS IS NOT JUST ANOTHER BALI & MOVEMENT RETREAT

Bali is not being used here as an exotic backdrop or spiritual fantasy.

What deeply shaped me during years of returning to Bali was its relationship to ritual, community, grief, ancestry, and the unseen dimensions of life — what Balinese cosmology calls sekala and niskala:
the visible and invisible worlds constantly shaping one another.

In Bali, I began understanding something I had never fully learned in Europe:

That belonging is not simply psychological.
It is embodied, relational, and ritualized.

And that without meaningful ways of processing transition, grief, displacement, and change, the nervous system quietly loses its sense of home.

THIS IS WHY MOVEMENT AND DANCE
ARE AT THE CENTER OF THIS RETREAT

Not as performance, choreography or another “self-expressive modality”, but as tools for listening.

For metabolizing experience.
For moving what words alone cannot reach.
For understanding grief, belonging, identity, ancestry, and transition through the intelligence of the body itself.

Sometimes we understand something mentally for years — yet the body still carries fear, contraction, hypervigilance, adaptation, or unresolved grief beneath the surface.

Movement allows these deeper layers to become visible.

To move grief instead of storing it.
To explore boundaries through sensation instead of theory.
To experience belonging not as an idea, but as a felt state inside the nervous system.

Throughout the retreat, we will work with structured movement explorations, archetypes, breath, astrology, ritual, journaling, and reflective practices that help participants gently reconnect fragmented parts of themselves into a more grounded inner home.

This is not about becoming someone else.

It is about slowly remembering:
how to inhabit yourself again.

WHAT WE WILL EXPLORE

The Homecoming Body is an 8-day embodied journey about what the body taught me about belonging, weaving together:

Dance Alchemy movement sessions & somatic exploration
Archetypal Inquiry
Astrology-inspired self exploration
Nervous system awareness
Ritual practice
Journaling & reflection
Balinese-inspired ceremonial work
Meditation & integration
Silence, rest, and nature

This retreat is not about becoming someone else. It is about returning to yourself.

This retreat grows from both my lived experience across Europe and Bali and more than twenty years of professional work with movement, embodiment, archetypes, and cross-cultural ritual practice.

As a dance mentor, facilitator, certified archetype consultant (CMED / Sacred Contracts), and founder of Archetypes in Motion, I’ve spent years exploring how the body carries memory, adaptation, grief, identity, and belonging.

We will not only talk about belonging, grief, transition, or home as ideas.
We will move through them.

Through movement, breath, reflection, ritual, and relational space, we begin listening to the deeper stories the body carries — and gently reconnecting to a more grounded sense of self, home, and belonging.

So above all, this retreat is experiential.

“Dance became my soul map — a deeply personal way to embody and remember who I truly am.”

I realized a new dimension of personal perception of this sacred world around us. It was the first time I systematically went into exploring my personality traits in a very useful way and I think I now have an immediate“soul” map that I can turn to in the moment when I need orientation. For the most part, I find that the greatest value of your program lies in the use of dance that really comes across archetypes. In this way, everything has touched me in more and more personal way. A unique and easier way to internalize and remember than if you just stuck your head in the paper.

Nana Žargi
Designer and hypnotherapist - Ljubljana

CORE THEMES

Belonging Without Possession

Exploring home beyond ownership, status, or permanence.

The Body as the First Temple

Rebuilding trust with the body as a place of grounding, intuition, and belonging.

Belonging After Constant Relocation

For those who have moved repeatedly between homes, countries, relationships, or identities.

Grief as Homecoming

Learning to move grief instead of storing it and experience itnot as failure, but as intelligence and transformation.

Sekala / Niskala — The Seen & Unseen

A gentle exploration of the visible and invisible dimensions of belonging through Balinese cultural perspective.

Blended Family & Ancestral Patterns

Exploring the emotional architecture we inherit — and what becomes possible when we relate to it consciously.

THIS IS NOT TRANSFORMATION THROUGH FORCE.
THIS IS TRANSFORMATION THROUGH PRESENCE.

“Seeing archetypes come alive through dance was like magic — a powerful way to truly know yourself.”
The most important insight that I gained through the process was overall insight of existence of the archetypes in us and seeing others dance different archetypes. Like magic. I think this is an interesting approach to getting to know yourself.

Samuli Rasanen

Scientist, Finland

THIS RETREAT MAY BE FOR YOU IF…

You have moved many times and no longer fully know where “home” is.
You are navigating grief or transition that never had proper space or ritual.
You are part of a blended, unconventional, or evolving family structure and are trying to create belonging differently than what you inherited.
You have done years of personal or spiritual work but still do not fully feel safe, grounded, or at home inside yourself.
You feel emotionally exhausted from constant adaptation and long for deeper inner anchoring.
You are asking: “Who am I becoming now?”

REQUEST YOUR PLACE

A DIFFERENT PACE
What you’ll experience is not built around intensity, performance, or constant stimulation.

We will create a space to slow down, listen more deeply, and reconnect with what often gets lost beneath adaptation, movement, and noise.

Rather than chasing transformation as an experience, we’ll focus on creating enough safety, rhythm, and presence for something more honest to emerge.

Through Movement, Astrology & Archetypes

This journey gently moves through the symbolic landscape of the 12 astrological houses — not as predictive astrology, but as an embodied exploration of belonging.

Each day opens a different doorway into the many ways we experience “home”: through the body, relationships, family patterns, creativity, grief, ancestry, community, and the unseen dimensions of life.

Through these doorways participants are invited into a deeper conversation with themselves and the stories they carry.

No dance experience is needed — only curiosity, openness, and a willingness to listen to the body in a new way.

“Your sessions revealed dance as a true source of power and transformation — not just beauty.”
I go back to your sessions to help me learn the real power of dance and move away from looking at dance merely as an aesthetic and beautifying medium, which it is.

Just felt like saying thank you! I still practice the shaking u made us do in your sessions!

Atmica R.Reddy

Master's in Dance Movement Psychotherapy at Derby, UK.

WHAT BECOMES POSSIBLE

By the end of this retreat, you may begin to:

feel more grounded in the body as home
experience grief as movement rather than stagnation
reconnect to lineage with more awareness and choice
create meaningful personal rituals for transition
regulate the nervous system more consciously
soften patterns of constant over-adaptation
develop a deeper sense of belonging beyond place or identity

“Sharing my vulnerability through movement became deeply healing, empowering, and freeing.”
The most important insight that I gained through the process was how important, empowering and healing it is to show and share my vulnerability,my flaws, my, doubts and fears, my strength, my light and weirdness with others and in front of others. Though being quite a lone wolf, it was important for me to be in a safe, and secure open environment with like hearted people who mirror you, give you honest and constructive feedback, where you can be yourself and are not being judged- introduce yourself through your body and your movement first - Trust! Its a wonderful and revealing blend of embodying and working with your personal astrology background and Archetypes which are placeholders for certain Characteristics that can support you on your journey, your understanding of yourself and life - of how´s and why´s. Expressing it through our body and the wisdom gives you the chance to cast off being stuck in the mind and overthinking or even directing from there.

Anja Zehetrguber

Yoga Facilitator, Austria

WHAT THIS RETREAT OPENS

Perhaps, slowly, you begin relating to yourself differently.

Less like someone constantly adapting to survive.
More like someone who can finally exhale.

You may discover that grief does not only live as heaviness, but also as movement. That belonging cannot always be found externally. That some inherited stories loosen when they are finally witnessed with honesty, compassion, and embodiment.

And maybe, somewhere along the way, home stops feeling like a place you are endlessly searching for — and becomes something quieter, steadier, and more intimate:

something you carry within yourself.

FACILITATION

Sandra Anais — Archetypal Embodiment

Sandra’s work weaves together: archetypal psychology, movement, contemporary dance, feminine embodiment, experiential inner work, creative expression, reflection.

Her facilitation opens subtle spaces for self-discovery, emotional integration and meaning-making through embodied experience.

Accessible for both dancers and non-dancers.

“Through your guidance, I felt deeply seen, supported, and made whole again — with honesty, heart, and transformative presence.”

Sandra,

You have no idea what you have done. The exact things that went "off the plan", were the things keeping me honest, safe, yet in the process. With all the distances, disturbances, dancing through and with distractions, it was the exact transmission. Life Indeed. Showing me my "faults" In Life as well. And mending them, you were a companion, a friend, a sister, I wish I had in my life everyday. She went away of the path, and see me as an obstacle, distraction to her image, regardless of the love, we might feel for one another still. So thank you for being that. There were instructions, tasks, challenges. Hard ones, given the feelings I carried and burdenous, yet visionary and very exciting responsibility, that I am honoured to carry. But the invitations to them carried no unneeded weight or pressure. Just enough steam and passion, for making me feel Whole again. For those moments, you were a heart, which in this world, in this time on EARTH, is an ART, art form on its own. Thank you.

Peter Blatnik, Dancer of Life, Slovenia

Bali as Living Teacher

This retreat also honors Bali itself:

its rhythms,
offerings,
water temples,
ritual culture,
relationship to ancestors,
and understanding that life exists simultaneously in the visible and invisible worlds.

Not as consumption.

But as respectful encounter.

EXPERIENCE FLOW

DAY 1 — Arrival: The Threshold - 16th November
Themes: Crossing into sacred space • Arriving into the body • The beginning of belonging

Opening day speaks especially to the archetype of The Rootless Seeker — the part of us that has adapted to many places, identities, and transitions, yet still longs for inner ground.

Welcome mandala + snacks & drinks
Opening circle
Shared Welcome Dinner - Carefully Curated Culinary Experience
Balinese-inspired Home Blessing Ritual
Gentle embodiment journey

DAY 2 — The Body as Home -17th November
Themes : Identity • Roots • Conditioning • The emotional architecture of belonging

This day resonates strongly with the archetype of The Pattern Observer — the one who senses that some emotional responses, fears, or longings may not have begun with them alone.

Slow morning with Shared Nourishing Breakfast
Morning Exploration: Houses 1 & 2 - Identity, the body, self-image & the ways we learned to belong
Snack Break
Core session: House 4 - Emotional Home, conditioning & roots
Moments of integration over Lunch
Guided Journaling: House 3 - Neighborhoods, environments & early influences
Optional shared dinner and evening integration

DAY 3 — Creativity as Home - 18th November
Themes: Expression • Pleasure • Daily rituals • Reclaiming aliveness

This day speaks to the archetype of The Conscious Creator of Home — the one longing to create a life that feels more alive, authentic, and emotionally aligned.

Slow morning with Shared Nourishing Breakfast
Gentle Morning Yoga Session
Morning Exploration: House 6 - Rituals, rhythms & the habits that shape daily life
Snack Break
Core session: House 5 - Creativity, self-expression & the courage to take up space
Shared Lunch Experience
Open space for journaling, rest or optional individual sessions
Optional Evening Gathering over Dinner

DAY 4 — Descent into the Underworld - 19th November
Themes: Relationships • Shadow • Ancestral patterns • The grief beneath adaptation

This day may resonate deeply with the archetypes of The Griever Without Ritual and The Conscious Creator / Parent — especially those navigating relationship transitions, blended family dynamics, or inherited emotional patterns.

Slow morning with Shared Nourishing Breakfast
Morning Exploration: House 7 - Relationships, attachment & the longing to belong
Snack Break
Shared authentic lunch & integration time
Core session: House 8 - Ancestry, inherited patterns & the emotional shadows we carry
Open space for rest
Optional Evening Gathering over Dinner
Evening fire ritual

DAY 5 — Grief as Homecoming - 20th November
Themes: Culture • Meaning • Letting grief move • Honoring what was never fully mourned

Slow morning with Shared Nourishing Breakfast
Morning Session: House 9 - Cultural belonging, worldview & the search for meaning
Snack Break
Core session: House 10: Legacy, responsibility & what we leave behind
Shared Lunch Experience
Balinese-inspired Grief Ritual + Ancestor Altar
Deep integration space for rest, silence, or journaling
Dinner
Gentle Sound Healing Session

DAY 6 - Community & Chosen Belonging - 21st November
Themes: Friendship • Community • Shared space • New ways of belonging

This day speaks especially to the archetype of The Spiritual-but-Ungrounded Explorer — the one who has gathered many experiences, teachings, or retreats, yet still longs for deeper inner anchoring and authentic community.

Slow morning with Shared Nourishing Breakfast
Gentle Morning Yoga Session
Snack Break
Core session: House 11- Community, shared belonging & relational boundaries
Shared authentic lunch and moments of integration
Free space for rest, reflection, or creative preparation
Optional Evening Gathering over Dinner

DAY 7 — The Unseen & Collective Field - 22nd November
Themes: Sekala & Niskala • Dreams • The invisible dimensions of belonging

Slow morning with Shared Nourishing Breakfast
Gentle Morning Yoga Session
Core session: House 12 - The unseen, dreams, intuition & the collective field
Shared authentic lunch in local warung and integration time
Traditional Balinese Purification Ceremony (Melukat)in a serene water temple setting
Shared dinner in one of Ubud’s atmospheric spaces
Gentle closing circle

DAY 8 — Return: Becoming Home - 23rd November
Theme: Integration • Embodiment • Returning to life differently

Slow morning with Shared Nourishing Breakfast
Closing embodiment journey & Integration circle
Shared authentic lunch and final moments of reflection
Creative studio space for movement, writing and personal expression
Closing ceremony

“Your unique blend of archetypes and movement helps people safely uncover and release deep unconscious blockages.”

“Your work awakens hidden potential, builds confidence, and creates deep self-awareness through embodied transformation.”

You have a very good capability to emphatise with others and you know clearly how to structure the workshop, so that people are not overwhelmed but at the same time not bored. You provide your personal experiences and implement that into your work. You successfully integrated archetypes with movement, which is a very unique practice and makes a person bring into awareness unconscious blockages and release them.

Through body, people also bring into awareness their potentials and can develop them. Through reflection you give in oral or written form, participants can bring into awareness everything. You give enough space to decide if someone will use a new strategy and change something, regardless uncomfortable feelings. Your approach is very similar to gestalt, so you are a natural talent for psychotherapy. Your program was very satisfying and i felt very confident afterwards. It also revealed my dormant potentials and helped me develop them.

Rosanda Meško, Personal Somatic Coach

NO DANCE BACKGROUND IS REQUIRED. ONLY OPENESS.

PRACTICAL DETAILS

Dates

November 16–23, 2026

Location & Accommodation

AZADI RETREAT

Group Size

To preserve intimacy and depth, the group is intentionally kept small.

Maximum: 15 participants

Food & Culinary Experience

MEALS

Participants staying at Azadi Retreat:
✔ Daily breakfast included with accommodation

For other meals, we recommend planning approximately:

👉 €20–40 per day for food, depending on personal preferences and restaurant choices.

PRICING & APPLICATION

TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON!

*If you already have accommodation in Ubud or prefer to organize your own stay independently, simply mention this in your application and we will explore alternative pricing options together.

✔ WHAT’S INCLUDED

✔ 7 nights accommodation with breakfast at Azadi Retreat
✔ Archetypes in Motion movement sessions
✔ Gentle yoga & integration practices
✔ Cultural experiences
✔ Balinese ceremonies
✔ Sound healing, fire ritual
✔ Selected transportation during group activities
✔ Airport pick-up on arrival day
✔ Ongoing support & guidance throughout the retreat

❌ WHAT’S NOT INCLUDED

✘ International flights

✘ Travel & health insurance

✘ Visa costs

✘ Personal transportation outside the program

✘ Optional 1:1 sessions with facilitators

✘ Massages, healing sessions, spa treatments & personal wellness services

✘ Shopping, laundry & personal expenses

✘ Additional snacks, drinks & café visits outside group activities

APPLICATION & GROUP SIZE

Homecomin Body is intentionally intimate.

To preserve the depth, connection and quality of the experience, the group is limited to a small number of participants.
After applying, some participants may be invited to a short discovery call before confirmation.

👉 Early Bird places are limited and usually fill first.

PAYMENT & RESERVATION
To reserve your place:

Apply for the retreat (we review and confirm participants)

Secure your place with a 500€ deposit (non-refundable and confirms your participation)

Remaining Payment
The remaining immersion balance is due 30 days before the retreat begins.
If applying within 30 days of the start date, full payment is required upon confirmation.
Payment plans are available — simply reach out and we will find a solution that works for you.

BEGIN YOUR APPLICATION
16-23 November 2026

If this retreat resonates with you, we invite you to apply.

Because the group is intentionally small, applications are reviewed personally to help ensure the right atmosphere, depth and group connection for everyone involved.

✨ Limited group size

✨ Early Bird places available

✨ Discovery calls for selected participants

If You Feel Called Toward a More Personal Journey

Private solo retreats or retreats for small groups traveling together are also available for those who desire a more intimate and personally curated retreat experience.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Do I need dance experience?

No. This retreta is designed for both dancers and non-dancers.

The focus is not on performance or technique, but on presence, exploration and embodied experience.

Is this physically intense?

The retreta is accessible for participants in normal healthy physical condition.

No advanced physical abilities are required.

If you have injuries or health concerns, we are happy to discuss whether the experience is suitable and how it may be adapted to your needs.

Is this a spiritual retreat?

Homecoming Body includes ritual, embodiment and authentic cultural experiences, but it is grounded in lived experience rather than performance or spiritual theatrics.

Can I join alone?

Absolutely.

Many participants come alone and often experience deep connection and meaningful friendships throughout the retreat.

Is accommodation included?

yes

What about travel and arrival?

The retreat takes place in Ubud, Bali.
The nearest airport is Ngurah Rai International Airport (Denpasar).

From the airport, it’s about 1.5–2 hours to Ubud.

You can take a taxi, private driver, or use ride apps like Grab.

We can also help organize a transfer for you. It costs around €25 from the airport to Ubud.

“Through archetypes, movement, and Sandra’s guidance, I opened up, let go of inner barriers, and felt truly alive again.”

On my path of self-discovery, I reconnected with my passion - dancing. And walking this path led me to Sandra. By discovering my own archetypes and their place in my astrological natal chart, I was able to gain a deeper insight into myself. And when we connected all this knowledge with the movement, something clicked inside me - I opened up and let go and let go of the inner “guards”. It used to be a challenge, but with Sandra’s support and guidance, every hurdle seemed to be reduced. With each session, I felt more connected to myself, more open, and more alive.

Saša Ješe

YOU DO NOT COME HERE TO ESCAPE LIFE

You come here to feel more fully alive within it.

To move again.
To feel again.
To reconnect with beauty, creativity, presence and embodied aliveness.

To experience Bali not only as a destination —

but as something that moves through you.

OTHER WAYS TO EXPERIENCE HOMECOMING BODY

Available year-round based on availability.

Pricing is customized depending on the duration and curation of the experience.

Private 1:1 Personalized Journey

For those who desire a more intimate, flexible and individually curated experience, HOMECOMING BODY is also available as a private personalized journey.

These custom immersions are designed around your unique interests, rhythm and intentions — weaving together movement, embodiment, culture, nature, ritual, creativity and carefully selected Bali experiences.

“Through your archetypal work, I felt deeply transformed, opened, and empowered with new insight and lightness.”

You are truly a master of holistic archetypal workshops. I have already embodied 4 goddesses and they all addressed me. Most of all, Aphrodite, who made me light and open and I gained many insights. I like your open, honest and humorous approach to also serious and difficult things you have to deal with in life.

Maša Tiselj, performer, Slovenia

“I transformed from feeling empty and depleted to discovering an overflowing inner source of life, purpose, and vitality.”

It was fun, terrifying, at times frustrating but overall exhilarating. I started out feeling like an empty desert land — barren and parched; but finished off feeling full of resources as though I had found a hidden magical spring that always overflowed with water serving a multitude of purposes and existences — a reason for thriving life.

Rhea Naomi Aranha, dancer, India

“Through embodying archetypes, I discovered the power of being fully myself — wild, free, courageous, and whole.”

The most important contribution of this process we have had to my life is the experience of being - to be whole, with all your being. Know that the right judgments and decisions come from this state. It was so sweet and beautiful to me - there was no particularly difficult moment. Perhaps the most difficult moment (but not really) was to accept that my decisions sometimes or many times more than myself come from some insight into the environment, even when it may not need it at all. A special insight was: "In my essence, I am wild and free, strong and brave. Follow this, but do not neglect the intellect. Write it down. Read on. Go to the end." I can relate insight into the martyr to my everyday life. What I do is sometimes so wordless that I can't share it with others. The path I walk is a little lonely, yet worth my sacrifices. Just Go ahead. Scribe - I still wonder about him. He encouraged me to use my mind as a tool and not sweep it under the rug because of its general annoyance. A new perspective was encouragement to dance. An incentive to move myself, an incentive to invite others to do the same. Let me invite you. Let's get down to dancing. A process of embodying archetypes is a wonderful insight into yourself through breath and body and intuitive guidance.

Mina Kunstelj

Sound Therapist - Zvok Tišine (Sound of Silence)

Welcome to our programs!

We kindly request that you take

note of the following:

Our programs are not a substitute for professional therapy or counseling for specific conditions in your personal or professional life. By participating, you agree to take

responsibility for your own well-being during sessions and consultations, and to seek licensed medical treatment in your state/country if necessary.

We do not provide medical, therapy, or psychotherapy services. Our role is to create a supportive environment for personal growth and guide you in perceiving and understanding your life from a symbolic and archetypal perspective.

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