Moving with Ancestors: Residential Retreat in Slovenia

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Movement practice of Gabrielle Roth's 5Rhythms®Led by Martina Motl, certified 5Rhythms® teacher

and Anže Bertoncelj, Family Constellations Facilitator

MOVING WITH ANCESTORS - RESIDENTIAL RETREAT

We arrive in this world through a lineage. Our bodies carry stories that began long before us. Stories of love and loss, resilience and sacrifice, belonging and exclusion.

In this workshop, we bring together the embodied practice of 5Rhythms and the systemic wisdom of Family Constellations. Movement becomes a gateway to what words alone cannot reach, while constellation work reveals the hidden dynamics that shape our lives.

Through dance, presence, and experiential constellation processes, we explore our relationship with those who came before us. We honour the gifts we have inherited, acknowledge what belongs to the past, and create space for new possibilities to emerge.

This is not about changing our ancestors. It is about finding our rightful place within the larger family system, so that life can move more freely through us.

No previous experience with either 5Rhythms or Family Constellations is necessary. All that is needed is a willingness to listen, to move, and to be moved.

13th November - 15th November 2026

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Friday, 13th November, 17:30 - 20:00

Saturday, 14th November, 11:00 - 18:00*

Sunday, 15th November, 10:30 - 16:30*

* 1,5 - 2 hours lunch break

LOCATION: Homestead Tešnak, Hotavlje 17, 4224 Gorenja vas, Slovenia - https://homestead-tesnak.com/?lang=en

REGISTRATION: https://forms.gle/jxUFJjiaDE1A8QzZ7

INFORMATIONS: [email protected], +38640 210 440 (also on Whatsapp)

WORKSHOP PRICE: full - 225 €

Early birds until 13th October - 195 €

ACCOMODATION PRICE INDLUDING MEALS

80-85 € per person per night

Accommodation is available in double, triple, and shared rooms. All meals will be provided, prepared from organic ingredients and thoughtfully prepared by our hosts.

Testimonials from participants of previous workshops combining 5Rhythms and Family Constellations:

“Taking part in a workshop that weaves together Family Constellations and 5Rhythms was a profound inner experience for me. In a safe space, I was able to see my patterns, experience them in a new way and look at them from a distance that we often cannot find in everyday life. As both an observer and a participant in other people’s constellations, I came to understand how deeply connected we are, even when there is no personal story between us.

The movement between the different parts of the workshop became a space of liberation. Through movement, I was able to express the emotions that arose, move them through my body and gradually release the weight I had been carrying. With each movement, I felt lighter, more present and more connected to myself.

Under the professional and heartfelt guidance of Anže and Martina, I gained valuable insights into myself and discovered new ways of working through old patterns. The most beautiful part of the experience was the feeling of inner joy and peace that I left with, as if I had created space within myself for something new, more alive and loving.

Grateful for this experience, I step towards new challenges feeling more open, softer and more trusting of life.” Mojca Orel

"This has been one of the most profound and powerful workshops i have ever participated in.

Anže is deeply and genuinely connected to his work as a family constellator. He has the rare ability to perceive the entire field, to trust the natural unfolding of the process, and to intervene or adjust with precision only when it is truly needed. His level of presence and commitment is impeccable.

In combination with Martina's natural intuition in the field, and the depth of experience she brings from many years of deep emotional work, a truly safe, grounded, and spacious container is created – the kind of container where real magic can happen.

The integration of 5Rhythms as a way to release, embody, and let go of whatever emerged in the constellations is simply invaluable. Moment allows the work to land not only in the mind, but deeply in the body and nervous system.

An exceptional experience. If you feel the call, this is a workshop you should not miss." Lil

"Dear Anže, dear Martina,

your workshop was the best thing that happend to me.

I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Family Constellation changed my life (and my families life) completely. You did it in such a great way! My compliments!

I want to say thank you in as many ways as it is possible.

First that it was possible for me to join your workshop without speaking slovene.

The group: I felt so safe and sheltered the whole weekend. I felt them so close.

5Rhythms and Familiy Constellation is a great combination. I was surprised how patterns driven by old hurt don´t go away but healing doesn´t have a time limit.

I knew I was on a new path when I started with 5Rhythms a few years ago.

Now, after this weekend, I´m starting to feel trust, safety and peace in situations when I would normally feel tension, helplessness or stress.

I met 5Rhythms after a long period of different kinds of therapies (20 years with psychoanalisis, hypnotherapy, bioenergetics, osteopathy, Feldenkrais, MBSR, …). Of course it was a time of growth and healing. But I was not satisfied.

I believe that people can change when they are ready. I was ready to come to this workshop without sharing this with any friends. I had to do this alone, on my own. I can´t express all my feelings during the weekend and since that weekend. But I know: I am changed. You and your workshop helped me to embrace my change without any fear.

Thank you for supporting my transformation.

Sending love and a big hug to you.” S. Z.

MARTINA & ANŽE: Martina and Anže are accredited active members of the international 5Rhythms Teacher Association.

Martina has been dancing since 1997. She has been teaching 5Rhythms since 2014 at the Waves level and since 2022 at the Heartbeat level. She is a dancer, vocalist, and artist with a deep love for theatre. She is passionate about teaching, books, cats, and travel. The words of Gabrielle Roth, “I love your fire,” changed her life. Her teaching style is respectful and sensitive to the group body, while at the same time playful and full of joy. Participants in her workshops often report a sense of being held within a deeper process of healing on a social level.

Anže has been dancing 5Rhythms for over thirteen years and has been leading regular weekly classes in Ljubljana for eight consecutive years. In 2021, he completed the 5Rhythms teacher training at the Waves level. By profession, he is a social worker with a degree in Family Constellations. He is in love with football, mountains, and travel.

Together with Martina, they are devoted explorers of the 5Rhythms and Family Constellation method and deeply in love with life.

5Rhythms is a movement practice developed by American dancer and teacher Gabrielle Roth. It is based on five fundamental rhythms of movement: Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness.

At the heart of 5Rhythms is the invitation to surrender to movement and allow the body to lead. Movement can be a pathway to change. When we move the body, we can also begin to move emotions, tensions and energies that have become stuck. Through movement, we reconnect with our natural flow, presence and inner strength. We do not need to know how to move. We simply begin to listen to the body and trust it.

Family Constellations is an experiential method developed by German therapist Bert Hellinger. It explores our family bonds, relationships and patterns that can be passed down through generations and influence our lives in different ways.

Through constellation work, embodied awareness and direct experience, we can look at our family and relationships from a different perspective. At times, connections emerge that are difficult to recognize through the mind alone, opening the possibility for greater understanding, acceptance and inner freedom.

LANGUAGE: English

The workshop accepts maximum 15 participants.