The Phoenix Workshop is one of the core practices of Movement Medicine. It is designed as a transformational process that turns the suffering that weighs on your life into inspiration, vitality, and a deep sense of belonging. This is a powerful methodology that weaves together the wisdom of the body, somatic knowledge, modern psychology, and neuroscience. It invites you to fully understand, feel, embrace, and transform deeply rooted patterns that affect the way you live your life.
At the heart of this process stands the figure of the Phoenix – a symbol of rising from the ashes of pain and rewriting your story. This is the alchemy of transformation: reclaiming the life energy trapped in past experience and releasing it into the present. The workshop unfolds as a step-by-step journey culminating in a transformational ceremony – the alchemical cauldron.
Throughout this process, you will gather the inner resources, understanding, and emotional capacity that allow you to fully receive the gift of transformation – the power of the Phoenix.
The essential ingredient of any deep transformation is the materia prima – the raw, unpolished core of our experience, which we often try to reject, avoid, or label as a mistake. And yet it is exactly in this primal material – in our emotions, memories, and unconscious imprints – that the potential for rebirth lies. The Phoenix teaches us that only through fully experiencing and compassionately accompanying ourselves in this process can transformation take root and become a real part of our lives.
During the workshop, we will work with beliefs, habitual reactions, and behavioural patterns – shaped by the complexity of our life stories – that keep us disconnected from our vital energy and potential. Many of these mechanisms once played a key role in helping us survive difficult moments and protect our tenderness. But in adult life, they often become unconscious barriers that hold us back from what is truly alive within us.
The Phoenix is the guardian of the fire of life. It reminds us that we are not condemned to remain trapped in the narratives of the past. Its energy teaches that every moment holds the possibility of a new beginning – if we allow the fire of transformation to burn away what is no longer needed, leaving the clear essence of our being.
A central part of the workshop will be a Sweat Lodge Ceremony – one of the oldest known rituals for purification and renewal. It is a communal meeting in the language of the heart.
Just as the Phoenix is reborn through fire, so we are invited to sit together in the darkness of the lodge, to burn away what no longer serves – old patterns, pain, illusions. In contact with the elements and the spirit of the ancestors, we will be guided toward renewal and rebirth, emerging like the Phoenix from the ashes – stronger and more awake.
Participation Requirements
To join the Phoenix workshop, you need to have:• At least 25 hours of conscious dance or movement practice – Movement Medicine or similar (can be online or in-person, with teachers from Poland or abroad)• You will receive preparatory tasks before the workshop – take time to reflect on them as they are doorways into your unique transformational journey
Dates & Location
August 13–17, 2025Retreat Centre “W Polu”Gajrowskie 12a, 11-510 Wydminy, Poland
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Contribution – Phoenix Workshop
4 workshop days + Sweat Lodge Ceremony
Early Bird (until June 30, 2025)• Workshop: 1500 PLN• Accommodation + Food: 1000 PLN
Body Space Tribe Discount:• Workshop: 1300 PLN• Accommodation + Food: 1000 PLN(Limited number of discounted spaces available)
Regular Price:• Workshop: 1750 PLN• Accommodation + Food: 1000 PLN
• We offer 3 scholarship places (not applicable to Apprenticeship participants)• It’s possible to set up an individual payment plan – please email: [email protected]• If you need an invoice, Polish VAT (23%) will be added to the workshop fee
Contraindications
This workshop is not recommended for people currently:• Undergoing treatment with psychiatric medications• Experiencing psychosis• Pregnant or in early postpartum• In an acute or subacute medical condition (due to injury or infection)
Relative contraindications:• Breastfeeding• Chronic progressive illness• Severe physical depletion• Pharmacological treatment• Epilepsy• Glaucoma
