Artistico: A New 3-Day Kodaikanal Retreat Wellness in Surya Holidays Inn by FLUX Bangalore

Artistico: A New 3-Day Kodaikanal Retreat Wellness by FLUX Bangalore

Move. Express. Connect

FLUX offers Artistico: A 3-Day Kodaikanal Retreat Wellness in Surya Holidays Inn on 14, 15, 16 February 2025.

We are inviting 20 adults who are curious to explore movement and expressive arts for wellness. Prior experience in dance/movement is not required. We would love for you to connect, through this retreat, to yourself, to each other and to nature at large.

Want to join the retreat? Give us a call on 9606555607 and we will take things further from there.

Why We Need Artistico: A 3-Day Kodaikanal Retreat Wellness?

Let’s begin by asking ourselves some important questions. When was the last time we took time for ourselves from our busy schedules? When was the last time we saw the clear sky or looked out of our cubicles and gazed the sky.

Do you know how it feels to be a free bird? Don’t you feel to go out of the cubicles and gaze at the sky, while lying on the grass. Hearing the birds chirping!

We need connecting with nature to rejuvenate ourselves so that we feel full of passion and energy.

Taking a break from our daily routine is a must for our well being. We, Homo sapiens, are meant to live with nature, surrounded by trees, mountains and lakes. There we get to breathe fresh air and take direct sunlight. Looking at the mountains, we get to realize that we are a tiny speck on the vast expanse of earth.

We should be grateful that we are born on this planet where life exists. Here we have the privilege to feel, sense and see the beauty of nature around us. However, in today’s world, we have distanced ourselves from nature and have started living in high-rise buildings.

There we don’t get the opportunity to connect with nature, which is an essential element of life. The reason our ancestors used to live a healthy life without lifestyle diseases was their proximity to nature. They woke up with nature’s clock by hearing birds chirping or the rooster crowing. What we wake up today with are our alarms set in our mobile phone!

Our lifestyle has become so complex that we have surrounded ourselves with technology and gadgets. We have forgotten how to live our life in natural ways. This is impacting our ability to be spontaneous and creative.

Unknowingly, it is impacting our creativity and restricting us from our journey to explore ourselves. In order to live a healthy and joyful life, it is important that we are connected with our inner selves. To do so, we need to live close to our natural habitat which is an environment close to nature. Now, the question that arises is where on earth? Where can we find a place to get the community vibes close to nature in a safe environment? It’s because the journey of self exploration requires being surrounded by like-minded people with similar priorities in life.

Artistico: A 3-Day Kodaikanal Retreat Wellness – Community Feeling

The answer to all of these questions is to be at a conducive place. A place that believes in community and where people are appreciated for being themselves is the answer.

At FLUX, we believe that in community art everyone is an artist. All we need is to have a space where we could explore ourselves and our creative side.

The best way to explore our creative side and connect to nature is to take time from our busy schedule and go on a journey of self exploration.

In today’s world, the most exciting way to do this is to join a retreat. There we find favorable atmosphere and like minded individuals  willing to share and listen to our thoughts and feelings. Take a trip away from the hustle and bustle of the city life. A retreat helps you to get close to nature where you would like to connect with yourself.

The journey of self exploration becomes interesting and exciting in a retreat planned in consideration of each and every individual.

The different activities performed help us to tap into the elements of earth, water, air, fire and space. These are the key elements that our bodies are made of. The activities when performed in a group of like-minded individuals. They are also on the same path of exploring the inner self! It creates an energy that helps us to understand our body in a better way.

We resonate each other’s energy, emotions and thoughts. It helps us to regulate ourselves in a positive manner. The beauty of a retreat is that it helps us to get away from distractions and fear of being judged. People around us are constantly trying to tap into their own thoughts and emotions to explore their true selves.

The journey becomes more interesting and exciting as we get to start knowing others from being strangers to becoming friends.

Artistico: A 3-Day Kodaikanal Retreat Wellness – Partner Work

The different activities like partner work deal with the understanding of each other’s body. They teach us how to communicate and interact without speaking a word. We start listening to each other’s body language and reciprocating accordingly. It helps to create a bond between the individuals who are open to receiving and resonating.

Artistico: A 3-Day Kodaikanal Retreat Wellness – Improv Movement

Improv movement covers the individual aspects of oneself through tapping into the elements of fire, earth, water and air. It helps us to explore different movements and break through the patterns. Improv moves, opens up a world of exploration through body movements. This leads us to understand our bodies and takes us one step closer to our journey of self exploration.

Artistico: A 3-Day Kodaikanal Retreat Wellness – Balancing Techniques

Balancing techniques aim at understanding the importance of grounding and tapping into one’s axis. These help us to identify the flow of energy within our bodies. They also lead us to focus on the different aspects of body movements. If we look at the lifestyle of our ancestors, we would find that their daily routine included these activities. They connected them with the ground and helped them to understand the importance of the earth element.

For example, eating food while sitting on ground and sleeping on floor helped to keep their spine in natural shape. So did walking to commute from one place to another. However, when we look at our lifestyle today, we see a different story altogether.

We can clearly see that we have created a distance from the ground. We eat food sitting on dinning chairs. We work in our cubicles for long hours which compresses our spines. Traveling by vehicles to commute adds up to this compression of the spine.

Therefore, it becomes important for us to practice activities that help us to decompress our spines. They bring us closer to the earth element.

Artistico: A 3-Day Kodaikanal Retreat Wellness – Floor Technique

This is where floor technique becomes important to be performed, consistently.

It could be as simple as having our food while squatting on the ground to decompress the spine. Floor techniques help us to tap into  the joint movements. A better understanding of moving efficiently may be it as simple as sitting on the floor or getting up. It helps to regulate our spine and builds a connection between us and the ground.

Artistico: A 3-Day Kodaikanal Retreat Wellness – Dynamic Flexibility

While we explore the fundamental elements of nature. It is also important that we pay attention to the flexibility and mobility of the joints. It’s because the better the mobility, the more efficiently we could perform our daily tasks.

Now we know how important it is to connect with ourselves. Let’s take a sneak peak into how FLUX can help us in this journey of self exploration. FLUX is coming up with a 3-day residential retreat in Kodaikanal. A haven far away from hustle and bustle of city life, taking us closer to nature surrounded by beautiful mountains! Happening on 14th to 16th of February 2025.

The retreat will be conducted by Sahiba Singh and assisted by our fellow teachers Yashu M. and Yash Chauhan. It is going to be a lifetime experience that you would cherish lifelong. You will surprise yourself by tapping into your inner self through practices revolving around body movements.

One does not need to have any prior experience in dancing. The movements are beginner-friendly and focus on understanding oneself.

Artistico: A 3-Day Kodaikanal Retreat Wellness – Praxis

The 3-day retreat includes activities like Praxis, a blend of release technique and partner work focusing on body movements.

Artistico: A 3-Day Kodaikanal Retreat Wellness – Extempore

Praxis is followed by Extemprov, an elemental exploration through improv moves.

Artistico: A 3-Day Kodaikanal Retreat Wellness – Axis-Align

Then, we tap into the understanding of upward flow of energy in order to strengthen our balancing through Axis-Align.

Artistico: A 3-Day Kodaikanal Retreat Wellness – Fluid Flow

After that we move to Fluid Flow – A blend of release technique through floor work.

Artistico: A 3-Day Kodaikanal Retreat Wellness – Dynamic Flex

As we get familiar with the body movements. We tap into circularity training to achieve dynamic flexibility through Dynamic-Flex.

Artistico: A 3-Day Kodaikanal Retreat Wellness – Creatica

Now, it’s time to put all our learnings together to create an expressive movement installation through Creatica.

Artistico: A 3-Day Kodaikanal Retreat Wellness – Somatose

Then we move to Somatose, a blend of somatic work and breath followed by journaling our thoughts, emotions and feelings in our journey of self exploration.

As we understand to channelize our thoughts, we share our experiences with the fellow participants over bonfire while sipping coffee.

In order to perform the activities we follow a vegetarian diet so that we feel light and the food is digested easily.

This 3-day retreat is going to be an experience that will leave you with lifelong memories and experiences. Where you would meet individuals with diverse perspectives and experiences.

Artistico: A 3-Day Kodaikanal Retreat Wellness – Body Awareness

At FLUX, we believe that body movement is not a luxury, it’s a necessity. As individuals, we should make sure that we take time from our busy schedules and practice body movements. Our vision is to spread awareness around the importance of body movement and make it accessible to every individual. It’s because moving helps us to regulate our emotions and channelize our thoughts.

When we start our journey of movement, we step into the world of endless possibilities. It opens up a new dimension for us which we have been neglecting due to our busy schedules.

Body movement helps us to understand this beautiful and complex machine that the nature has blessed us with. The more we tap into its trajectory, the better we get in understanding its complexities. When we move, we start understanding how each joint has its own significant role in supporting this machine.

Artistico: A 3-Day Kodaikanal Retreat Wellness – Techniques Performed

The techniques performed in retreat help us in identifying and assessing the importance of circularity and moving around the axis. The understanding of these two elements makes our movement efficient and joyous. We start seeing how each move we do revolves around our axis.

When we tap into the circularity of the movements, we develop a new insight. We come to understand how the flow of energy moves across our body from one end to the other.

The word Soma derived from the Greek means body and somatic means of the body. The techniques practiced in Somatose helps us to look inside us and sense the surroundings.

Extemprov takes us on the journey of exploring body movements. We do it through tapping into oneself and understanding the fundamental elements of the nature within us.

Dynamic-Flex helps us to dive deep in understanding circularity in order to achieve flexibility in our bodies.

The Axis-Align includes the techniques around understanding the movement of the spine and the flow of energy. It helps us to enhance body balancing while moving.

Artistico aims at bringing out the inner artist and creating art which showcases individual’s perspectives. We believe that through movement we can express and connect with ourself and resonate with our surroundings. Movement gives us the ability to identify and focus on our areas of improvement.

When we start our movement journey, we start to see the extreme potential our bodies have. This potential manifests when the body is put into the state of action. Our body is meant to be in constant state of movement to live a healthy life. The lack of movement results in the loss of flexibility and mobility in our bodies.

The more we move, the better range of motion we have. For longevity , it is important that we make movement one of our priorities and practice it on a daily basis.

Artistico: A 3-Day Kodaikanal Retreat Wellness – Importance of Movement

At FLUX, we believe that each and every one of us should move on a daily basis. However, our current lifestyle makes it difficult for us to take time from our work schedules. As a result, we end up being in our cubicles for long hours which is impacting our health.

Therefore it becomes even more important for us to look out for opportunities which includes practices revolving around body movements. And what’s better than a retreat purely based on body movements and helps us to understand ourselves deeper?

Going on a retreat takes us away from our busy schedules. It also helps us to rejuvenate ourselves and brings us close to ourself. When the journey of self exploration is combined with body movements, it acts as cherry on the cake.

One does not need to be a dancer to practice body movements. It is a journey of understanding one’s bod. Depending on our lifestyle, we are at different levels in regard to flexibility and mobility. However, the beauty of our body is that it easily recalls what it had forgotten.

So when we put our bodies into action, it remembers how easily we could do things involving body movements. We start moving like a  youthful child without any restriction or hardship. So when we start exploring body movements, our body starts doing everything that we could only do as a kid.

Artistico: A 3-Day Kodaikanal Retreat Wellness – An Exploring Journey

It comes as a surprise because we always think we wouldn’t be able to perform the same things ever again. However, our body remembers every aspect of it unconsciously. And when put into action, our body can do wonders. It’s then that we realize how little we know about our body and underestimate its potential.

In fact, body is a very complex machine. It outperforms when put into action, provided it feels safe and not judged. What’s better than a retreat which consists of participants on the similar path of self exploration like you.

The journey becomes more interesting and exciting when you have the company of like-minded individuals on the same path. This feeling of being surrounded by like-minded people makes the journey of self-exploration more fun and exciting. It’s because we feel safe and comfortable to share our thoughts, feelings and emotions with people who wouldn’t judge us. They rather appreciate us for being ourselves!

Exploring Body movements is a journey filled with surprises and endless possibilities. We need to have a firsthand experience of it in order to understand its importance in our daily life.

Artistico: A 3-Day Kodaikanal Retreat Wellness – Endless Possibilities

Therefore we invite every individual who would like to go on this journey of exploring endless possibilities and opportunities. It is going to be a fun and frolic ride accompanied by individuals coming from different backgrounds. However, they all have similar goals like you do. Because when we create together, we grow together.

And as they if you wanna to go fast, go alone. However, if you would like to go far, go with your tribe. The journey of self-exploration requires to be surrounded by individuals who hold your hand when you feel lost.

Are you interested in being a part of Artistico: A 3-Day Kodaikanal Retreat Wellness by FLUX Bangalore?

Give us a call on 9606555607 and we will take things further from there.

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