3 Day Contact Dance and Body Medicine Retreat

We invite you to spend three days in the mountains of Madeira, moving, listening and creating together.

Through contact improvisation, embodiment practice and nature immersion, we’ll slow down, rediscover the intelligence of the body, and become part of a temporary community rooted in the living world.

Contact improvisation is a way of moving with another person through touch, weight and shared momentum. There are no steps to learn and no experience required. Movement emerges in the moment, sometimes slow and gentle, sometimes playful, like a conversation without words.

Guided by Howard Sonenklar, one of the pioneers of Contact Improvisation in Portugal, the group moves through simple, well-paced exercises that gently dissolve the shame and cultural conditioning we carry around touch. With clear boundaries, curiosity over performance, and everyone moving at their own pace, trust grows naturally.